A/N: This story is inspired by the song "The Twelve days after christmas." It is meant to be light hearted and funny, be warned Hinata will be way out of character for the duration of this story. I have given her RTN Hinata's personality with a few quirks, She does not hate Shikamaru she just hates the situation and is taking it out on him.

Enjoy!

-Ever

Marriage.

Hinata Hyuga had no plans on getting married any time soon, not with the state of the Hyuga hanging over her head constantly. Her father wanted her to prove herself but in order for Hinata to take over she would first have to be wed to another, Someone who could help her run the clan effortlessly.

Hiashi had orginally thought of allowing the match between his daughter and his newphew simply to keep the Byakugan within the family. That idea had been shot to hell by the elders stating that while Neji could help Hinata run the Hyuga as an advisor there was no way they would allow the two to be wed.

Purity of the Byakugan or not, Branch and Main never mixed because when they did chaos would ensue. Every branch memeber would see it as a chance to raise their station within the house and that was just not how the Hyuga worked. Hiashi then had to set to work finding someone else for Hinata to marry.

At first he had tired her Main House cousins, but when she Gentle Fisted one of them through his office door he figured that wouldn't work well either. Quite frankly if they couldn't give as good as they got when it came to battling Hinata they were of no use to him anyway.

It was soon that he realized he would have to go outside of the clan to make this work and so he made a list of the hopefuls. Inuzuka and Aburame were out of obvious reasons Tsume and Shibi had been on his team growing up and he had no intentions on welcoming either one of them into the family for good. He had been so happy when his mission days were over and he was rid of those to he would eat his own robe to keep them away.

The Uchiha would have been a fine option had Itachi not gone slightly insane and killed them all. He understood in the end that he was ordered to but still, there had to be a degree of insanity to do it at all order or not. He also had zero intentions of shackling his daughter to the youngest Uchiha either...

If Itachi was slightly insane, Sasuke himself had to be positively mad. The boy had deserted his village and caused all sorts of hell in the mean time. There was no way the Hyuga name would come near that shit show with a ten foot pole if Hiashi had anything to say about it.

The only other suitable male he could think of in Hinata's age range would be Shikaku's boy Shikamaru. Which was why he had sent the letter to the Nara compound without a second thought, Shikakau had a sister who had given birth to sons not long ago, they would not be lacking in an heir any time soon.

Hinata and Shikamaru would be a powerful match in leading the Hyuga and there was also the added bonus of mixing the Byakugan and the Shadow Possession. To see every chakra point in your enemy was one thing but to be able to do that as well as keep them in one spot while you take them out was nothing short of a leathal weapon.

Yes Hiashi knew that Hinata may be a tad bit annoyed but at the end of the day it didn't matter she and Shikamaru had 12 days to get this right.

He had not been expecting however that Hinata would show up at his door with Shikamaru in one hand and his father in the other. For one Hinata was just seventeen years old and two she did not display such strength whenever tested so Hiashi was rightfully confused.

His shy and normally terrified of her own shadow daughter had dragged a clan head as well as her future husband into his office by their collars and both men looked as shocked as he did when she dropped them to the floor.

Hiashi raised a brow at his daughter far too confused to reprimand such unlady like behavior, He wanted to know what was going on and he feared when he finally caught his daughter's eye it would not be good.

Raising her head to look her father straight in the eye Hinata squared her shoulders and gave the coldest Hyuga glare she could muster, Her face was nearly maroon with pent up rage and Hiashi could swear he saw a bt of Hisako in her.

"What, the actual Fuck?!" She seethed still holding on to the bewildered Nara men.

This was going to be a fun time.