Chapter 5

Hinata's POV

"Hanabi seems to like Naruto." Dad stated. Hana and Naruto were in the living room connected to the dining room doing my little sister's homework while I and dad were in the kitchen cooking our famous Mexican beef & rice. Believe it or not we found this masterpiece on Pinterest.

"I guess you can say that." I said focused on chopping the cucumber for the Greek salad I was making.

"Did something happen between you two, sweetheart? You're usually kinder nevertheless you are being bitter with him."

"No, absolutely nothing happened. If I tell you I like another boy will you, please, stop shipping me with Naruto?"

"Shipping?" Dad was obviously confused.

"It doesn't matter." I giggled.

"So who is the lucky guy?" Father inquired.

"Kiba, but it's still nothing. Well, actually it's just a date."

"Kiba from school? When is this date?" He questioned.

"No, daddy, Kiba the drug dealer." I rolled my eyes. "Of course it's Kiba from school. This Friday. And correct me if I'm wrong but you don't sound very pleased."

"Is it that obvious?"

"Yes. But why are you acting like this?"

"I call it 'the dad instinct'. It's not that I don't like him, I don't even know him."

"I'm sure you'll like him if we go far enough to introducing him to you." I patted him on the back and left the room. "Dinner's ready!" I announced after entering the living room where my sister and my 'student' were.

"We just need to finish this exercise." Naruto said.

"You want help?" I offered.

"No need of it." He rejected.

"Okay, then I'll just go and prepare the table I guess."

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"Itadakimasu!" I exclaimed happily.

"Thanks for the food." Naruto said after me.

"You are so lucky. You get to eat from Hina and daddy's Mexican beef and rice."

"Really?" He asked not waiting for an answer. "And I already thought I'm blessed sitting next to you."

"And just how much other girls have heard that line too?"

"With you and your sister that makes exactly two." He replayed calmly.

"Naruto. That's an interesting name. It reminds me of Minato, an old friend of mine."

"That's my father. Minato Namikaze."

"The Minato Namikaze is your father?" I asked in surprise.

"If by that you mean that he's the owner of 'Yellow Flash Records' music company, then yes." He answered with slight annoyance.

"But I didn't know he has a son." I was confused. I love YLR and have always dreamed to get signed by them. A dream I gave up years ago.

"They didn't want to put any pressure on me so they kept me a secret." He responded.

"This explains a lot." I spoke. He seemed a bit offended or mad for some unknown reason.

"Say hi to your parents for me. How are they doing by the way?" Dad interrupted.

"They're great...but busy." He smiled at dad but I could see that there was something bothering him.

"Hina...What should I do if the boy I like said that another girl's pretty to his friends?" Hanabi asked me with tears in her eyes. So that's why she was so atypically quiet this whole time.

"Ooh Hana, you know, he maybe thought this girl is pretty but it doesn't necessarily mean that he likes her like something more than a friend." I assured her with a delicate smile. "He maybe likes you, you can never know what's going on inside a boy's head. Man, they're strange." I looked at Hanabi hoping to see her cheered but she was still sad and in her head.

"Should I feel offended?" Naruto raised a brow.

"I would pretty much like you to but it wasn't directed to you." Dad gave me a look before focusing on his dish again.

"Boys your age don't want relationships." He laughed. "We like girls to like us and the attention but when it comes to any kind of commitment we're scared or not interested at least. So my advice to you as a boy is to not waste your energy on people that don't actually want it. You should focus on your dreams and yourself in general. You can do that for me, right?" He winked at my sister that was listening carefully to him. My job was about to drop but I snapped out of my amazement. "What do you want to become in the future?" He questioned.

"A dancer." She sobbed. "Just like my mom was." She whispered and I turned to dad who smiled sadly at me.

"A dancer? Will you invite me to your performances?"

"Only if you bring me lavenders." She replayed playfully.

"Anything for you, princess." Hana was smiling.

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"Goodbye, princess." Naruto smirked and walked away. I was in front of our front door.

"Naruto!" I called and he turned with a questionable look.

"Thank you!" I said. "For comforting Hinata for me when she was sad."

"I didn't do it for you." He said walking away. I stood there perplexed for a while.

It's Friday. This means today's our first acting class. Plus, it's my date with Kiba. Can this day get any better...that was a dare, Universe!

As I was staring at the clothes in my closet I remembered that Tenten still hasn't told me how in the world she and Naruto got together so I put it in my imaginary to-do list to ask her.

That's what I chose to wear, got dressed, and went down to have breakfast. Dad has served deliciously looking cinnamon rolls which happen to be my favorite. Good one, Universe. Wasn't running late so I had just enough time to put on some make-up and then finally got out of the house.

When I opened my locker a cute little heart-shaped paper fell in front of my legs. I picked up and unfolded it: 'Looking forward to seeing you tonight, wear something comfy. –Kiba <3' Aww, this guy is so sweet.

"What is this?" Tenten appeared next to me, almost got me screaming from the sudden surprise.

"Nothing. Just a note my date left for me." I teased her. She didn't tell me about Naruto so I returned the favor and haven't told her about Kiba asking me out.

"A date? Who?" Her jaw dropped.

"Don't act so surprised. There are guys that can possibly like me and this thing here" I waved the paper before her eyes "proves it."

"Yes, I am perfectly aware of that. A lot of guys liked you over the years." They did?! "It's just that you never gave anyone a chance because 'boys only want to use us for their pleasure'. Why the sudden change of heart?" It's true I've never dated anyone but it's not because I didn't want to or didn't like them, I just couldn't overcome the trauma...

"Kiba just doesn't seem like the kind of guy to screw you over or to be unserious about such thing. And we're more grown-up now, I thought I would give it a try."

"So it's Kiba!" She clapped. "Aww, he finally got the courage to ask you out."

"What do you mean?"

"This guy has been in love with you ever since sophomore year but you were just so oblivious about it this whole time." She explained grabbing me by the shoulders. "Promise me to not break his heart. He doesn't deserve it." All I could do was nod still processing the information I just received. "Good, now let's go because we have exactly two minutes!"

School passed by, all of the classes went as slow and boring as possible and it was now time to finally make the first step for my future. We were instructed the other day to go to the gym hall and when I entered there was a group of people waiting. Most of them I barely knew the names of or never met in my life. They were all different grades and seemed cool so I thought I would maybe like to make the attempt to get to know them. The ones I recognized were Sasuke, my best boy friend from childhood years who happens to be very close to Naruto as well, sadly he's in the other class, Suigetsu, a friend of Sasuke I met once or twice, and the annoying blonde.

"I am not late, right?" I asked approaching Sasuke and the other boys.

"You're actually early." The raven-haired boy answered after checking his watch. "You sick or something?" He laughed and I joined him.

"Wow, no sarcastic comeback! You really are sick." Naruto tried to get on my nerves.

"Today's too good to be wasted on talking to you." I simply responded. "Wait, Sasuke, you are aware this is an acting class, right?" I added.

"Yeah...and?"

"And you have never told me you wanted to have anything to do with acting. I thought you wanted to be a police officer. Just...what am I missing?"

"I still want to be officer, silly. But Itachi was good at acting at my age, I just want to beat him in that." He shrugged his shoulders.

"You competitive brat." I chuckled trying to keep a serious face while shaking my head.

"That comes from the one who was trying to be better than me in everything back then."

"I love a challenge, you know."

"Don't even get me started. You learned how to swim just to beat me. Despite the fact you were afraid of water because 'what if I drown' and were always just sunbathing." We were laughing at the memory when someone opened the door.

"Hello everybody, are you ready to become someone else and tell stories that would never happen in this reality?" The woman said looking at everyone with the warmest and loveliest smile I've ever seen. She was so beautiful with her brown hair and blue eyes, wearing floral overall combined with cute accessories.

"Someone pinch me because I'm dreaming." I said. "If I'm not and all of this is real then someone has to catch me cause I'm going to pass out." I added.

"Jolene Peters!" Naruto spoke.

"Jolene Peters." I whispered assuring myself this is really happening trying to stop myself from passing out in front of my idol and all time favorite actress.

"I didn'tquite expect it but I see some of you already recognized me. Yes, I am JolenePeters and am really excited to work with all of you and usher you into theworld of acting, television, and theater!" I hope we'll get along well." Thewalking angel declared. "If there are no questions, let's start with the introduction first, and then I'll give you a little fun exercise. When talkingabout yourselves I would like you to tell me your name, of course, television ortheater acting you prefer and if you have experience. You can feel free to addanother piece of information but please don't take too long because we have only onehour today. Okay, let's start with.... you" She pointed to a guy whose name as hesaid was Darui.

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Thank you again for a hundred reads. Posting Chapter 6 very soon (srry I'm not posting them together, I'm just tired rn but still wanted to give you another part).

Actually didn't expect this part to be so long (1 700 words) despite the fact I wrote half of it on the road haha. As usual, hope you enjoyed it and am sorry if you imagined the clothing differently.