Hizashi could categorically state that his day had absolutely sucked. First had been the fight with his brother in the dining hall. Then training had been nothing short of torture that day, and not just because his brother had it in for him. Jiraiya-sensei had put the three of them through their paces and then some in order to see what he'd been saddled with and what he'd needed to work on. Since he and his brother had been limited to their Academy forms because they could not use their family's fighting style, this had been nothing short of a disaster.

Minato who'd expected him to be better at the Academy form hadn't meant to beat him so thoroughly during their spar. His brother however had. Training had finally ended after a thoroughly exhausted "Keiko" had sparred with a thoroughly exhausted Namikaze Minato, but that wasn't necessarily a good thing since all he had to look forward to this evening was the punishment for fighting with his brother which he would receive when he got home.

He'd been less than two blocks away from the Hyuuga clan's compound trailing after his brother who didn't appreciate how slow he was going and made his displeasure known through a number of dark looks when the red blur came out of nowhere and latched onto Hiashi who was still in his Keiko disguise. the red blur, now that it wasn't moving so quickly, revealed itself to be Tomato who was reminding "Keiko" of their girl's night out by physically dragging him off with her and ignoring any and all resistance.

He couldn't help but laugh while he watched his brother be dragged away by the bundle of energy that was Uzumaki Kushina.

It would be the last laugh he'd get that evening.

Hiashi grumbled sourly, cursing his fate as the Uzumaki girl dragged him half-way across the village, having apparently not forgotten about the fact that they were supposedly supposed to be hanging out. He'd been on the way to the compound and a quiet albeit strained dinner with family after a day of rather grueling training when Kushina had latched onto him, started nattering on about the "Girl's night out" she'd "invited" him to and hauled him away while the little traitor Hizashi stood by snickering at his misfortune.

If he hadn't had to be the girl for this little venture which had them disguised as two actual members of Class B who had moved away from the village because their families which were kin to each-other had gotten better jobs in the Capitol, this wouldn't have happened. People would probably wonder why he was the one wearing the headband, but it was brilliant really. If anyone aside from Jiraiya who was already in the know since he was their teacher cottoned on to the fact that he and his brother were in disguise and tried to prove it by pulling off his headband, there would be nothing there. This would of course have the person wondering if the information they'd received had been correct seeing as it was only logical that the one with the headband would be the one with the Caged Bird seal, and the other one obviously didn't have one. Hizashi whose makeup was carefully blended and applied in order to make his Caged Bird seal invisible was going without a headband for this very reason.

"Don't worry, it's going to be fun!" Kushina who was dragging him by his arm said, noting his relative silence and mistaking it for "shyness".

He'd tried to escape her several times, but since he had been unable to use the Jyuken while in his Keiko guise, that had proven to be impossible. Kushina was damned strong and damned stubborn when she wanted something, and right now she wanted her new "friend" to join in on her girl's night out. Eventually, after he'd finally resigned himself to his fate, Kushina had dragged him to a ramen stand that was nearly as old as the village. Waiting by the ramen stand which was staffed by an elderly couple were a couple of girls from his graduating class, a teenage Uchiha, and a small Inuzuka who looked too young to even be in the Academy.

"That's Hazuki, that's Momoko, that's Yuna, that's Mikoto, and that's Tsume." Kushina said by way of introduction as she pointed to their former classmates, the Uchiha teen, and the Inuzuka girl in turn.

After the introductions had been made, Kushina chivvied each of them into a seat at the stand, and he'd found himself seated between the Uchiha girl and Kushina, which meant that he couldn't just make his escape when she wasn't looking as he'd been half hoping he might. As soon as they were seated, all of the girls obediently ordered ramen.

"Just go with it." Mikoto said while Kushina ordered her ramen. "Besides, if we get into trouble, everyone already expects it of Kushina."

Sighing, he ordered himself a bowl of vegetarian tempura ramen and braced himself for the coming evening.

As it turned out, he'd needed that little bit of relative calm in order to prepare for the chaos which lay ahead. Rather than what he expected a girl's night out to be, which would be dinner then gossip, then going somewhere to braid each-other's hair this night had seen him being bailed out of jail by his laughing sensei who'd then delivered him to his irate father sometime around midnight. After the ramen had come the vandalism. Kushina had called it harmless pranking, but the property owners and the Uchiha had disagreed.

Aside from peer pressure and the fact that little Tsume had been unable to reach the top, he had absolutely no excuse for what he'd done, even though painting that "priceless work of art" green had made a definite improvement as far as everyone but the rich bastard who'd displayed it in his yard was concerned. The fact that it was the only act of vandalism he'd committed that evening didn't really matter to his father who had been rather unhappy to learn that he'd been one of the ones responsible for the swathe of destruction that ran through one of Konoha's wealthier neighborhoods. Of course, his family would be discreetly making restitution for the objet d'art alongside the Inuzuka, and all of it would be coming out of his future pay.

To top off the little crapfest he called his day, Hizashi hadn't been there to wish him a good night as he always did. But, that was to be expected considering the fact that they'd been on the outs all day, and the fact that Hizashi had been very severely punished for fighting with him outside of approved sparring and would need time to recover.