Chapter 1

Hinata sighed as she looked around the airport. "It's been awhile, hasn't it?" But before she could take a step out the doors, there were fans screaming her name and trying to get her attention. With a slight smile that was forced, she nodded at them, but most of her attention was focused on getting out of there. I'm famous even here? This famous? Through the crowds, she could spot the all-too-familiar car of Asuma, and the smile wasn't as forced now. I'm actually back.

One her own, Hinata placed her bag in the trunk before hopping into the front seat. "You didn't tell them I was coming, right?"

"Nice to see you again too, Hinata." Asuma chuckled a little, but started driving off. "No, they don't know."

"Good." Hinata leaned back in the seat, staring at the scenery of Japan like she missed it. And she did.

"Where's your manager?"

"Talking to him." Hinata gave a little smile and propped her Converse-clad feet onto the dashboard, ignoring the look from Asuma at it.

"Did you get one in Korea?"

"Yep." Hinata said it curtly, and Asuma could tell just from her voice more was coming "Seven. None have stayed with me after a month. I eventually told the company to just stop wasting money and I'd be my own manager. I even got an assistant."

Asuma shook his head at that. "What type of hell do you put them through?"

"None." Hinata gave a little laugh, obviously remembering something. "It's that I'm too independent. I like to manage myself. But how is Kitsune doing?" Asuma's expression at the question gave Hinata the answer, and she sighed as she turned on the radio. On stations where Kitsune used to be the main was all new rookie bands. "They've lost popularity in the past few years. My band's duet with them is not to gain more fans over here for us, but to bring their popularity back up." She didn't even have to ask it as a question, knowing it was the reason. "That's why I'm here for so long."

"Yeah…" Asuma didn't know what else to say to it, so he left it at that. "Are you angry?"

"No. I just wish I was told ahead of time." Hinata fell silent as they pulled into a mall area. "Why are we at a mall?"

"They have a signing event…" Hinata sighed, but turned around to reach for something in the backseat. "What are you doing?"

"The whole point in you not telling them I was coming was to surprise them. You think I came not prepared for that?" She grabbed a purse from inside a backpack, clothes and a wig stuffed into it. "Come on, I have to change." Hinata stepped out of the car carrying the purse and the backpack. As soon as Asuma was by her, Hinata shoved the pack to Asuma. "Carry that, please."

"At least your manners have gotten better," Asuma muttered under his breath, but Hinata heard.

"That was one of my few classes in training before my debut. I just ignore a lot of it though." Hinata shrugged a little. "Not much about me has changed. Not even my style." That part was definitely right. She was still wearing jeans and a t-shirt, just like when she left three years ago, and her hair was still cut in a boy's cut. "I'm the boyish image of my group. Main reason why it won't be considered a scandal for me to be hanging around a bunch of guys older than me. If anyone else from my band came alone, all of Korea would be in an uproar." Hinata chuckled a little at that. They reached a girls' bathroom and Hinata grabbed the backpack from Asuma before heading inside.

After a few minutes, she came back out, and Asuma barely recognized her. The short hair was replaced with a long wig of the same color, and instead of the jeans and t-shirt, she wore pair of short white shorts and a white tank-top with a loose mesh lavender shirt over that, the sleeves falling off her shoulders and going down past her elbows. "Don't you dare say anything." But the Converse stayed. Hinata handed the backpack that had her original clothes back to Asuma and pulled a picture of Kitsune out of her purse.

"Ready now?" Hinata nodded to Asuma before straightening her wig once again, and they set off to where Kitsune was supposed to be. Although there was still noise as they got close, it was nowhere where it would have been when Hinata had been with Kitsune. She had to bite back a sigh at how small the lines are. "I have to go back to them; you don't leave here."

"I have no way to!" But Asuma was already too busy trying to push back towards the boys, and Hinata actually sighed as she got on the end of the line for autographs.

After a half-hour of waiting, Hinata was up there. That was way too short. Keeping her head down to act shy, Hinata held out the picture, and Sai grabbed it first to sign. "What's your name?"

"Hinata." She couldn't help the small smile when the four exchanged a glance at her name, but quickly schooled her expression back to the way it was before.

The others signed it quickly, and Sasuke handed it back to Hinata. "Here you go, Hinata."

"Thank you." Hinata couldn't believe none of the recognized her after only three years and went to walk away, only to be tripped by another fan, who only sneered at her when she fell to the ground. Still playing the shy girl act, tears pricked in Hinata's eyes and she went to stand on her own, only to actually grab her ankle in pain. I'm going to KILL her.

But before anything could actually be done on Hinata's end, there was a hand in front of her face. Looking up, there stood Neji. "Come on, up you go." He grabbed Hinata's hand that was hesitantly in the middle of the air, helping Hinata get up without putting any more weight on the injured foot. "There you are."

"Thank you." She shook her head to get the hair out of her face before smiling and saw him freeze. Finally.

"Hinata?" She nodded a little, and Neji quickly wrapped his arms around her, ignoring looks from fans or anyone else. Glancing over his shoulder, Hinata saw the rest of the band looking at them curiously.

"Neji, you might want to explain before this becomes a scandal. I have an image to protect now." Hinata playfully tapped his shoulder until he let go, but Neji still kept his arm around her shoulders. With a smile still on her face, Hinata waved at the other members of the band, who weren't even bothering to hide their stares. "Hey guys."

"Hinata!" Naruto practically jumped the table to get over to them, hugging Hinata much like Neji had moments before. This time, Hinata didn't even wait before pushing him off. "You're back!"

"You guys should pay more attention to your fans. They came all this way to see and meet you guys, yet you are blowing them off for someone who will be here for a while. I'll come back when this is over." She patted both Neji and Naruto on the head before looking at the line of people and reporters, all taking pictures with them with whatever they had. "Take good care of my brother and his friends while I'm gone, will you?" And with one last smile and wave, she turned and walked away, not letting her ankle pain ruin her dramatic exit.

As soon as she passed Asuma, she grabbed the backpack from him and just continued to the bathroom, changing as quickly as she could. When she walked out once again, she was back to her normal self with short hair and jeans. But Hinata placed her things down on the counter and dug through her bag for a wrap before sitting right on the floor to take off her shoe and sock, wincing a little at the swelling ankle. Carefully, she wrapped her ankle before putting the shoe back on and left, cramming the purse into the backpack now.

It was much easier to walk, so Hinata went to the food court and got herself some food before finding a table that was able to see Kitsune. She was still surprised with how few fans came. Are they really not that popular anymore?

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Hinata had forgotten about the fact that people would recognize her as a big face in a popular group. Well, hadn't forgotten, just figured she wasn't that popular in Japan, since her group had yet to leave Korea. She was wrong. Dead wrong.

As if to prove her point, pictures of her with her brother and even sitting in the food court were all over the web before she had even left. She'd signed about as many napkins as Kitsune had signed pictures too, she figured. Which was kind of sad, since it was their signing event.

So she decided to hang out with the band to get them a few more people coming over to the check them out. Most who came just wanted a signature from her. "How about a picture from my brother's band?"

"We're good." The two girls walked away without even looking at Kitsune twice, and Hinata gave them a sheepish smile as the boys were looked over once again.

"Sorry… I didn't realize I was famous here too…" She felt a little bad stealing a lot of the attention of the event, but the boys weren't angry like she would have thought. Yet she still felt the need to make it up to them. "Do you guys have a guitar here? Or a keyboard?"

"Yeah, we were going to do a set later… why?" Hinata didn't answer as she grabbed the guitar from behind the whole setup and returned a minute later to sit on top of the table with it. "What are you doing?"

"Just sing your songs and look cool." And Hinata started playing, surprising most of them that she still remembered some songs from playing with the band. They were older ones, but Hinata still knew them word-for-word.

Sasuke joined her in the singing, while the others just did their background vocals, but the whole band was still confused with what Hinata was doing. Mall-goers, however, were stopping to record the whole thing, and Hinata smiled. Event helpers were rushing to set up microphones for all of them, but with how quiet the area went when the music started, they weren't really needed.

When the first song finished, applause broke from the people gathered, some not even knowing who either group was but still stopping. "Hello. I'm Hinata from Glow and these wonderful boys are Kitsune."

When none of the boys introduced themselves, Hinata kicked whoever was sitting behind her and heard a slight curse before Sasuke spoke. "I'm Sasuke."

"Sai." She just knew that he gave a little lazy wave with his greeting without even looking behind her, and a small smile grew on her face.

"I'm Naruto!" He was practically bouncing in his seat, which got a few chuckles from fans who knew Naruto and strange looks from those who didn't.

"And I'm Neji." Hinata knew he was using his signature killer smile just from the looks on the faces of a most of the girls in the crowd.

"So does anyone want an autograph?" Hinata laughed a little as long lines formed again and she hopped off the table to make room before looking for an empty place to sit. Seeing none, she pushed her brother over a little on his chair before sitting on it with him. Neji gave Hinata a little shove back, but did it playfully, knowing that if Hinata really wanted the chair, she very well could have just pushed him off.

Hinata joined in on the signing now, and the lines were much longer than before. You guys so owe me. This is only the start of my job.