Hinata walked down the steps of the school, in her own little world. She didn't notice the people staring at her, glares and leers. No, after a while, you learn to ignore all that. It's like when animals adapt, or when a Chameleon changes its colors to blend in. She didn't change her colors. She simply learned how to 'not listen'. She walked down the street from the school and leaned against the bus stop sign.
Where is the moment we needed the most
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
You tell me your blue skies fade to grey
She knew the rumors well. She could still hear their whispers, tickling at the back of her head.
I hear her dad had to pay her friends in her old school.
*Scoff* Her dad doesn't even like her!
Who would?
Have you seen those creepy eyes?
Neji has the same kind!!
No, no, it looks cool on Neji, Tenten. On her it looks…
Innocent
No! It looks creepy.
Whatever, Sakura, you're just jealous.
Of what?! At least I have friends, Ino.
*Cruel laughter* True,
You tell me your passion's gone away
And I don't need no carrying' on
Hinata sighed and if possible her head hung lower. The bus rumbled to a halt in front of her. She got on, dropping her money into the bin without even studying the bus driver. She sat at the back, pressing her forehead against the window. She wasn't aware of the weight dropping next to her. She hesitantly looked up and cringed at what she saw.
You stand in the line just to hit a new low
You're faking a smile with the coffee to go
You tell me your life's been way off line
"Konnichiwa," He said smirking.
You're falling to pieces every time
And I don't need no carrying' on
She never liked Pein. He was just one of those guys—what did her nii-san call them?—playboys. She remembered what he said about playboys.
Flashback
"Demons straight from hell, their goal, you might be wondering about that."
She really wasn't. Neji and her had this conversation after her father struggled through 'the talk' with her. Poor man nearly had a stroke at the questions she had. She just didn't get it!
"Their goal is to ruin angels like you, okay Hina-sama?"
"O-Okay, Neji-nii-san," She replied, even though she wasn't quite sure what 'ruining' meant.
Well, it must have been bad.
End Flashback
"Hn," She replied and turned back to the window to hide her wide, frightened eyes.
"I'm Pein."
Because you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
She almost rolled her eyes. Didn't he have a car? She was sure he did. She remembered seeing him leaning against the hood, his hands in his pockets, waiting for his newest girlfriend or his on-and-off girlfriend Konan.
"H-Hyuuga Hinata," She said automatically, out of practiced politeness. She inwardly groaned. It was her father's fault. He'd drilled manners so hard into her that it'd become second nature.
She didn't notice his deep brown eyes flash red.
"Hey, do you go to Fourth Academy?"
She nodded.
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
"What a coincidence, me too."
"I-I know." She replied.
He raised an eyebrow behind her. Her lower lip was trembling with fear. She really didn't like Pein. That was another thing she didn't get, nearly all the playboys were scary! Gaara, Sasuke, Itachi, Sasori…and Pein, even her cousin Neji! Since when was 'scary' the new 'hot'?! I mean, have you ever looked at their faces? Like, really looked? She has. Gaara's cold eyes and eyeliner freaked her out. The Uchiha's….why would they wear red contacts? How retarded was that? And then there was Pein, who had to be the scariest out of all of them. All those piercings, and those cruel, judgmental eyes….she shuddered. Do you want to know what the wackiest thing is? He has the most fan girls. The only two vaguely normal ones were Naruto and Sai, and they were complete jerks.
"You know?" He asked smirking.
She weighed whether to sigh or reply.
"H-Hai,"
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day
You had a bad day
Another thing, all of them—except for her beloved, godlike cousin—were in gangs. Gangs! How scary can you get? Fourth Academy had always been a dangerous school, prone to shootings and fights breaking out for the dumbest things, like who was top in their class. Perhaps she shouldn't have gone. Perhaps she should have listened to her best friend Emi and went to the second best school. Though, that wouldn't do, not for her father. No, who cares if she got caught in one of their shootings? His first born needed to go to the very best.
"Not very chatty, are you?" He finally asked impassively.
She shrugged. "Otou-sama s-says that talking leaves l-less t-time f-for thinking." It had to be the best thing her father ever told her, she hated talking! Talking led to awkward situations. I mean, there were all these rules. You can't talk too much. You can't talk too little. It was like walking on egg shells.
Well, you need a blue sky holiday
The point is they laugh at what you say
And I don't need no carrying' on
He chuckled, "You know what's weird?"
"N-Nani?"
"I've never seen you at school."
She glanced at me out of the corner of her eye. Was he serious? Everyone knew her. Everyone needed to know her to hate her.
"I-If you k-knew m-me you w-wouldn't be s-sitting by m-me I guess." She decided. She turned to him and gave him a fake smile, putting up her mask to cover up her flinch when he eyed her with disgust. "I'm H-Hyuuga Neji's c-cousin."
He mused, "Ah, the one the Haruno and Konan can't stop ranting about?"
She frowned when he didn't leave.
"Tell me, did your father really try to sell you as a sex slave?" He smirked.
She clenched her fist and her eyes widened, trembling with rage she hissed, "Go away, teme."
He blinked at her but didn't move. "You didn't stutter."
"Who told you that?"
"Told me what?"
"Who t-told you m-my father w-would d-do s-such a-a-a-a t-thing…" She gulped. Her stutter was getting worst. She cleared her throat. "Tell me."
"Yamanaka,"
You had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
Hinata sighed and her shoulders sagged. She turned back to the window, reaching into her bag and pulling out her mp3 player. Was it really even fair? They were always picking on her, her and her father and sister. She gritted her teeth. What did she even do? In the past life, had she really been so horrible. She was still a first year in high school too, two more years to go.
"Have you joined a gang?"
She closed her eyes in exasperation. Was this a new form of torture?
"Iie,"
"You have to."
"Iie."
"Iie?"
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
She put one headphone into her ear. "I-I'm not j-joining a g-gang."
"You need protection."
She furrowed her brow. Why would he want a weakling like her in his gang?
"You're fast." He said, as if reading her mind.
It was true. She was captain of the track team. Which was good, she could run away from all the bullies.
"I-I've Hana-nee-chan a-and Temari-nee-chan."
"They're in gangs." He pointed out, "My gang,"
She shrugged. "I-I d-don't like v-violence. N-Nii-san isn't in a g-gang."
He scoffed, "That's what you think."
"N-Nani?"
" Nothing," He quickly replied, "I'm not that bad a guy. You're friend Temari was my girlfriend, you know?" He leaned in.
"I-I know." She responded by pressing herself against the wall of the bus. "I-I was the o-one who h-had to en-endure her cursing y-you when you dumped h-her."
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day
He blinked. "What did she expect?"
"Y-You told h-her she was d-different."
"She believed me? She should've known better."
Hinata glared at him, turning from the window. "D-Do you get o-off on that?!"
"Nani?"
"Y-You like breaking g-girl's hearts d-don't you?" She said, her small voice growing louder.
Oh-no, she was a romantic.
"Love means n-nothing to you!" She hissed. "Nii-s-san's right. Men. Are. Pigs."
The bus stopped and she blinked, looking out the window past a startled Pein, she saw her house. She grabbed her stuff and pushed into the aisle past Pein.
"S-Sayonara, Pein-san,"
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(Oh.. What a horrible day...)
Hinata stepped into the schoolyard after saying good-bye to her sweet little sister Hanabi. If there was one thing Hinata wanted, it was this, that Hanabi wouldn't go through the hell she did.
"Hey, Ama,"
Speaking of hell,
Hinata looked up to see the 'Terrible Three' standing in front of her, scowling with their hands on their hips. It was the on-and-off girl friends of the three 'hottest' guys in the Academy. Sakura, Karin and Konan, Sakura was Gaara's and Karin was Sasuke's. Hinata sighed.
"Nani?" She said with the stoic look she'd use as her shield with them. Fake smiles wouldn't cut it.
Sometimes the system goes on the blink
And the whole thing turns out wrong
You might not make it back and you know
That you could be well oh that strong
And I'm not wrong (ahhh...)
"I saw you with Pein-kun yesterday." Konan hissed.
Hinata looked under her eyelids at them. "H-He was r-recruiting me."
She spat at her but Hinata, being used to this kind of thing, simply backed away, and letting the mucus slop in front of her. She looked dully at it.
"You? Why would he recruit a loser like you?" Sakura screeched.
Hinata shrugged, "I'm fast."
The three silently glowered at her. She was fast, almost inhumanly so. She watched them impassively under her bangs.
"Can I-I go n-now?"
Konan scowled and lounged at her but she jumped back, feinting to the right so that Sakura and Karin would go their but then sprinting to the left. Karin grabbed at her but she pulled back and sent a hook kick at the four eyes girl's face. The red head crumpled to the ground. Hinata didn't check to see if she was okay. In her eyes, these three girls were monsters, not teenage girls. She dashed into the main building and down the hall, racing around people and yelling apologies to those she hit. She received glares in returned. She bumped into somebody and tried to go to the other side but there was someone else there. She fell to the ground, looking up to see Ino, Tenten and Sai standing in front of her smirking.
So where is the passion when you need it the most?
Oh, you and I
You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost
"Yo, Forehead-chan, White-eyed freak is over here!" Ino called.
In any other situation Hinata would have given up, but she saw the blood-lust in Konan's eyes. Something stirred within Hinata and she leapt to her fit, sucker punching Tenten in the voice. The second year fell back to the floor. Before the other two could react, Hinata ran between them without stammering so much as an apology. The bell rang as she reached her homeroom. She halted inside there to be greeted by a smiling Kurenei.
She smiled back and said, "Ohayō gozaimasu, Kurenei-sensei."
"Ohayō gozaimasu, Hina-hime,"
'Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
Hinata sat in the middle of the classroom. No one sat by her unless they had to. She'd sit in a corner by the back so that there'd be few people who'd have to sit by her, but that was occupied by the scary gangs of the school.
"Psssh…Hina-hime…."
Must be another 'Hina'.
"Hinata!"
She turned around to see her two older, best friends Hana and Temari waving her over. She also saw a smirking Pein with a brooding Konan latched onto is arm. Hinata tilted her head to the side and blinked.
"Nani?"
"Hina-hime, come sit with us!" Temari demanded.
"I c-can't…not a m-member."
Hana scowled, "Yes. You. Are."
"Hn,"
Temari jumped from her seat and stomped to Hinata's desk. Everyone in the class except for Kurenei-sensei.
"Don't you dare go all Hyuuga on me!"
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
You've seen what you like
Hinata giggled. "W-What would y-you have me d-do, Tem-nee?"
Temari pulled her out of the seat. "Come, sit with us!"
Fourth Academy had school uniforms, but some people chose to break. Hinata wasn't one of those people. Her biggest defiance was wearing the girl's red bow tie around her neck too loose. The uniform consisted of a white t-shirt with a black or navy blue vest and blazer. The girl's uniform was a pleated black, navy blue or tan skirt with knee high socks. The boy's was black, navy blue or tan dress pants. It ended with black dress shoes. Hinata followed this, with a black blazer and a tan skirt.
And how does it feel for one more time
You had a bad day
You had a bad day
Temari wore the boy's uniform without the vest and her blazer was unbuttoned. She wore black combat boots instead of dress shoes. Hana were a cross between both. The top was the girl's uniform with boy trousers she borrowed from her brother's closet. Most of the guys followed Temari's example—or she followed theirs—and either wore no blazer, vest or both. One even went so far as to not bothering to button up his shirt. That's why this corner frightened her.
Hinata's hair was short like a boy's except for her bang and side bangs (like how it looks during the Chunin exams). Sakura and Konan were there with their on-and-off boyfriends. Girls like that weren't like Hinata who wore her skirt down to the knees. They wore it mid-thigh and their shirts were unbuttoned as far as to the third button. Unlike Hinata who had it all buttoned up, except if it came all the way to her neck, and then she'd just unbutton the very top one, and that was only once in a while. Today, it was buttoned all the way to her neck. She sat down in between Gaara and Hana. Sakura was on his other side. Sakura was alternating between sneering at Hinata and batting her eyelashes at Gaara.
"Hyuuga-san,"
She looked up at Itachi. He was copying down the class notes as he
spoke. "We saw the whole thing."
"N-Nani?"
He looked up at her, smirking, "We saw what you did to the Ama Squad."
"The Terrible Three…" Hana said.
Shikamaru scoffed from behind her, "More like Troublesome Three,"
Temari giggled, "And Sai, Tenten and Ino,"
(Oh, yeah, yeaaah, yeah)
Had a bad day
(Oh, had a bad day)
Had a bad day
(Oh, yeah, yeah, yeeeeah)
"Oh," Hinata replied.
"Nice job, hime-chan." Gaara congratulated.
"Gaara-kun!" Sakura whined.
He scoffed, "I've never liked you, Haruno."
She scowled at Hinata.
"Sabaku-san doesn't mean it!" Hinata cried desperately.
"Hime-chan," Gaara fake-whined. Oh, Kami-sama, he was not helping her. "I told you to call me Gaara-kun."
Sakura was twitching.
Hinata looked desperately back at Temari. Temari sighed and said, "Lay off Hina-hime,"
Gaara shrugged and went back to flirting with Sakura, who now smirked triumphantly. Hinata sighed with relief, setting her right hand where her racing heart was. Her heartbeat slowed down to a steady pace.
"Hime," A voice broke her out of her relief. She looked up at Pein and a twitching Konan. What was with red-heads and trying to get her killed?! "Meet us at the warehouse."
She nodded and looked back at what Kurenei-sensei was teaching.
Had a bad day
(Oh, had a bad day)
Had a bad day...
Had a bad day...