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Chapter One

Pool?

The Hyuuga household is almost like a fortress, with the maids and servants rushing about or standing in the halls awaiting their next call. If you listened closely you could here the scratch of pen on paper or the clicks of fingers dancing across keyboards.

The floors were always polished white and the furniture never a hair out of place, the kitchen was always tempting with its rich and exotic smells. The agriculture almost like smoothed marble and the windows like a clear veil.

You would think anyone living there would be proud and wouldn't dare think of causing any clutter, wouldn't dare try and slide across the floors because they seemed to beckon you with their gleaming.

That didn't stop her sister, nope not at all.

In fact she was sure she had just run down to the basement which even as a basement was luxurious, with the Pool table and the darts along with its multiple beanbags strewn about around a single flat screen T.V. Yes indeed her sister had certainly laid claim over the basement.

It was just as confusing that their father didn't seem to mind as strict as he was, it shocked her. But it didn't help her as of this moment, Hanabi her younger sister had drug her down to the basement with her friends. Temari and Ten-Ten.

Hinata bit her lip at the gleam in the three girls eyes something was amiss, but what?

As soon as she was down there Hanabi took the left side of her pool table, Ten-Ten the right and Temari at the end opposite to herself. The pony tailed blond at the other end interlaced her hands together and rested her chin over her folded hands.

Hanabi's snowy white eyes were twinkling and Ten-Ten had a grin that threatened to crack her face in half.

"Hinata…Can you play Pool?" Temari asked gesturing to the table and it contents, Hinata stammered slightly.

"P-pool? Y-yes I can play." It was a favorite past-time of hers actually, when she wasn't busy with The Hyuuga affairs she would play with Hanabi and occasionally some friends.

"How good are you?" Temari had picked up one of the pool sticks polishing it with her thumb lightly.

"Yeah you think you can beat us?" Hanabi said twirling her own stick. Hanabi was only three years younger then her after all she was seventeen now, making Hinata twenty.

Temari was Twenty One as was Ten-Ten and the three were quite the group of plotters, once they had gotten Kiba to streak across the football game in their graduation game.

"I d-don't know I-I've never played with Temari-Chan and Ten-Ten-Chan at the same time." She really hadn't but she wanted to, pool was a very passionate game to her.

She loved the challenges and how the angles were always twisting and turning about; no game was ever the same twice, even against the same person. It was a mind game really and she loved to figure out new things, it was refreshing every time.

She had once (caused by Hanabi of course) gone against her father, it was a narrow win. But a win none the less and against her father as well! She had been even if it hadn't shown prideful that she managed to beat him in something.

He had of course berated her and said she should use such passion for her work and not some silly game, which she tried to she really did. But the papers and the documents, they were either all the same or were too complicated for one such as her.

Needless to say she loathed paper work.

"Then how about we find out?" Ten-Ten replied her voice tinged with laughter as she set up the balls. Hinata out of habit turned a bit red in the face, she nodded all the same and walked over to the pool stick display.

Her fingers trailed lightly over the polished wood and she smiled at its smooth texture, of course they were all fine pieces of craftsmanship. But her favorite was the one below at the left, Kiba and Shino being the good Brother-like friends they were had gone out with Neji to hand make it themselves.

She adored it and was at first scared to play with it, afraid she would break it as it looked more of a show item then anything else. But once she had started with it, she never played without it again.

The wood was a dark rich oak color that Shino had come up with; Kiba being the whittler that he was in his spare time had carved the Hyuuga crest in the handle at the bottom just where her hand would be placed. Neji had been the one to shape it and had added his own designs, of course adding Kiba and Shino's Signatures.

White flames danced at the very bottom stopping midway allowing pale silver blue butterflies to fly from them, a small white dog had been painted in as well howling from the flames but never being burned. In its center in dark violet and blue letters was her name. Hinata Hyuuga.

No one could steal it from her without ruining its craftsmanship, and no one would want too.

Hinata picked up her pool stick with a slight trembling in her hands, she was eager to play. Temari started by breaking the small pyramid hitting three shots before missing.

"You're up Hanabi." Temari said clapping the younger girl on the back. Hanabi had grinned her long hair being thrown out of the way as she struck. The balls hit with sharp and resounding clicks as the game went on; no one had noticed good hour had passed between them.

Finally after some mild cursing from the blond and her younger sister, it was down to the eight ball. Ten-Ten's eyes glittered as she hit the white ball a bit forcefully, it connected with a sharp crack and the black eight ball had shot straight into the walls stopping dead in the center.

"Damn, I hit it too hard." Ten-Ten muttered Hinata placed a hand on her back comfortingly; it was only a game after all. Her frosty white eyes gleamed a game she had no intention of losing.

She walked over to the Pool Table not withdrawing into herself as she saw her friends were staring at her, wondering if she would hit. After all a dead-center shot was almost never a one hit in.

She leaned over the side her arm brushing the dark wood briefly as she aligned herself with her pool stick, occasionally twisting her angles so as to get a better look at the outcome.

She finally settled in the lower left corner and hit the white ball to the side, it smack into the left wall then the right before beaming the black ball into the upper right hole.

Hanabi wiped her forehead with her hand her eyes were like beacons of light, and Hinata hadn't the slightest clue as to why.

"Well that settles that." Temari said before Hanabi had ran up the stairs her feet slapping loudly on the floor. Hinata blinked in confusion.

"Settles what?" Before another word could be spoken a roar of frustration and anger could be heard from upstairs. Neji? It seemed to be so as he chased her younger sister down the stairs his usually pale face red.

"I will not have Hinata-Sama go to a BAR Hanabi!"

"A-a B-bar?" The girls grinned.

"But Neji~ you said ANYTHING we wanted! Plus it's her old Sensei's chain link bar!" Hanabi whined.

"Kurenai?" She didn't even know she had a chain-link bar! What else had gone on with her old teachers?

"Yeah let her go girly-boy!" Temari snickered; Hinata bit her lip to stop herself from laughing. She had to admit he did look a tad…feminine.

"I am not girly!" Neji shouted indignantly, this time Hinata did laugh. Since when was neji so… Childish?

"Oh sure~ your not what with the long flowing hair and those slacks, your every girls dream date." Ten-Ten said holding a hand to cover her giggling, though it didn't help much.

"Why! Why I should ban you from this household!" Neji cried. Hanabi looked up at their cousin fake tears brimming in her eyes.

"You wouldn't really wouldn't you?" she said her voice all cracked Neji quickly threw his hands up in a criss-cross motion back and forth rapidly trying to make amends.

"N-no not really! I was just joking I swear!" he shouted.

"C-can…w-we go t-to the B-bar t-tonight t-then?" a doom cloud seemed to form over Neji's head as he said yes muttering under his breath.

"It's not cute when you stammer…" he said lowly, Hanabi grinned cheekily before grabbing hold of one of Hinata's cheeks pinching it slightly.

"Your right Neji-Nii! Hinata's the cutest stammerer there is!" Hinata blushed all over again as the banter continued. Mostly involving her and her Blushing/Stammering Habits.

"Well as much as I wish I could see this continue we need to go shopping!" Temari shouted as Ten-Ten quickly snapped her phone shut.

"Why do you need to go shopping? There are plenty of clothes here!" Neji said baffled.

"You wouldn't get it Neji-Nii."

"It's a girl thing." Ten-Ten finished.