I Am You?! (NejiTen)

17- Quite not the girl I like

Neji was dressed in a formal attire for the occasion. His uncle had suddenly called him over to the main house for a mysterious reason. He did not feel too good about it thought.

Neji's uncle, Hyuga Hiashi, was a business tycoon and owner of a multibillionaire company. While it was natural that Hyuga Hinata, his first daughter inherit the company, she was not skilled enough for it and the next candidate for the heir was Neji.

Neji however shocked Hiashi when he refused his position and decided to get into entertainment and acting instead. He was allowed provided that his records were clean and no celebrity scandals and such. So far Neji had kept that standard and his reputation had even boosted the Hyugas so what was it that Hiashi wanted?

"Welcome home master Neji." The servants bowed in respect.

"Thank you." Neji nodded his appreciation as a servant took his coat away.

"Neji-niisan!" A yell resounded from up across the room and out came his littlest cousin, Hanabi, from another room. The poor girl was the heiress and so had to take many, many business lessons but she strangely enough liked it. Hanabi was a spunky eighteen year old with long brown hair and lavender eyes like him.

"Hello Hanabi." Neji greeted as she landed at his feet.

"Why are you here? Finally remember that you have a cute little sister somewhere in the universe? Did you get Sasuke's autograph? Did you get a girlfriend? Because you are shining..." Hanabi bombarded him with questions but Hinata was fortunately there to save him.

"Hello Neji-nii." The gentle woman greeted. She would move in with her boyfriend and soon to be fiance, Naruto, but Hiashi was a traditional man so there was no intimacy beyond kissing and cuddling between the two which included not moving in together. Spoiled Western culture, Hiashi would say, there was no purity in marriages these days.

"Hello Hinata. I have something to discuss with you later but could you tell me the whereabouts of lord Hiashi? I assume that he is in his study, am I right?" Neji asked.

"Yes." Hinata affirmed.

"Thank you." Neji made his way to Hiashi's study and knocked twice on the wooden frame of the sliding door before letting himself in. "Lord Hiashi." He greeted with a bow.

"Have a sit." Hiashi gestured.

Neji sat on the futon placed directly in front of Hiashi while a maid brought in some tea. As mentioned earlier, Hiashi was a traditional person and so his house and clothes were traditional. Neji poured some tea for Hiashi and then himself with perfect grace and etiquette. Some things never left despite being in the entertainment for quite a while.

"Do you remember Fuuma-san?" Hiashi began the conversation.

"Hai." Neji answered. The Fuumas were an influential and wealthy family from a foreign land far north from Konoha. The Hyugas had once had a business partnership with them but that was years ago.

"We plan for you to wed with his daughter, Fuuma Sasame." Hiashi was blunt and straightforward as usual.

Neji remained composed despite almost spit taking on Hiashi's face. "But lordess Hiashi, I assumed that you gave me the permission to stay in the acting industry?" He asked frantically albeit calmly.

Hiashi closed his eyes. "Yes I did but that was under the condition that you had no scandal." The man pushed forward a file that was removed from underneath his kimono. Neji took it and balked at the sight of what it contained. Of course, it had to be when Tenten made a mistake of entering the females toilet in his body.

He didn't resent Tenten for it, he just didn't expect her silly mistake to come back and bite him in the derrière in this manner.

"I would not accept any of these disgraceful acts. You have had enough fun in the acting field and are old enough to marry. This union would strengthen our international business bonds with the north."