Cover for Chap.

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Hinata and Ryaui entered the Sun and were faced with a cool building with gray concrete walls. Being released from Ryuai's grip Hinata looked around. She did not expect the place to be so cool, in fact when she heard that there were people living on and even in the Sun she thought that they were insane. Like, who lives on a star? But now looking at it she was amazed everything was so brought together an organized. She was surprised at how Ryaui described the place it was nothing like a wasteland at all. When she got over her awe, she got a closer an saw that there was an orb that showed Earth and the Moon, allowing the people to see what was happening over there. The screen suddenly changed to show what was happening on the surface and Hinata's view on the place changed like that. The people lived in shacks but most of them were homeless.There was a serious lack of crops and hundreds of guards. Before she could get a better look at the orb though, she was tackled, by something fast and...Yellow?

Crashing to the ground she got a better look at who was on top of her, it was a boy with shiny yellow hair that was bright like a sunflower, brighter than Naruto's even. He was smiling as he finally spoke.

"You must be Hina-chan!" He beamed with a bright smile on his face, "I'm Komeri Naturi Kunoku, but you can call me Komeri!" He gave her a tight hug and didn't seem like he would be getting off of her anytime soon.

Realizing the situation she was in Hinata blushed furiously. This kid was so vibrant.

"H-hi K-komeri-kun," Hinata barely replied.

Hearing this, Komeri's smile became wider than it was, of that was even possible and grabbed her cheeks. He was now in her face as he cheered.

"Kawaii!" He gushed, "She stutters! She even called me kun! She's adorable, can I keep her? What do you think Jenji-nii? Can I?"

Looking behind Komeri, Hinata saw three boys headed her way, one with bold red hair, another with a cool shade of dark blue hair, and the last one who had long brown hair tied into a ponytail toward the end.

"B-but, looooook at her, Jenji-nii! She's kawaii!"

The one with the red hair walked up to the two and picked up Komeri from his shoulders like he was as light as a doll. Komeri thrashed in his grip but it was useless, his grip was too strong. Giving up, Komeri's arms went limp as he was transferred from the redhead's grip to over the bluenette's shoulder.

The boy with brown hair walked up to Hinata as he helped her get up. Dusting herself off, Hinata saw that the boys were all looking at her trying, judging. The pressure was too much. Why did everyone look at her like that? Did they think she was weak? Bringing her hands to her chest holding back tears Hinata turned to walk away. But before she could do that she heard a thud.

All the boys were on their knees, head down, eyes still on her. In respect.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Princess,"

Hinata waited for all them to stand and when they didn't she realized they were waiting for her to do something. Becoming flustered she quickly shook her hands in disagreement.

"N-no! You can al s-stand up! Please, you're doing t-too much! Just do what you were doing before!"

The guys stood up at her command and went back to chatting. Letting out a breath of relief, Hinata went to go look for Ryaui. When he was finally in view she quickened her pace determined to get to him as soon as possible. Right when she was about to reach him though, four figures appeared in front of her, one with his hand sticking out. It was the boys from earlier.

"Hello, Hina-chan!" One of the voices said.

Following the hand up to its owner, Hinata saw the boy from earlier with the yellow hair and he wasn't alone. Behind him were the three from earlier. Now getting a closer look at them, she saw that the one in front of her had dazzling, light pink eyes to compliment his upbeat attitude. He wore tan khakis that had half a dozen pockets sewn on it and a short-sleeved white shirt with a yellow jacket tied around his waist. The one with the flaming red hair had piercing silver eyes and a responsible air around him, he wore a red shirt with black pants and a white jacket that had two red lines running from the shoulder to the wrist on each sleeve. The bluenette had bored, green eyes with a hint of mischievous and cunning in them, although it was very dull, he had white pants and a black, high-collar, no-sleeve shirt with white thread that made little patterns on it with a blue jacket tied around his waist that reached past his knees. Lastly, there was the one with the long hair and loose ponytail, he had a short-sleeved shirt with brown shorts and bandages on his right arm and leg and his eyes...His eyes. Hinata had to blink rapidly to make sure she wasn't seeing things and she still didn't believe it. He had eyes...just...like..hers.

The Byuakugan.

Before she could ask him about it though, she was interrupted by a throat being cleared. Looking at the source she remembered that she still hadn't taken...Komeri's? Yeah, Komeri's hand. Placing her hand in his she gave him a small smile. Returning the smile with a big one of his own, he shook their hands rapidly.

"Komeri," the red-head sighed," Leave the girl alone."

The blue haired male suddenly wrapped an arm around the redhead's shoulder, his eyes becoming more lively than before with cunning in them. "Come on bro, let the kid enjoy himself."

The brunette placed a hand on the bluenette and removed his arm from the 'bro'.

"First of all, he's the same age as all of you, second of all, he should learn to control himself," he retorted as he let go of his arm.

The redhead stepped next to Komeri as the others followed suit. He started to introduce them all as Komeri said the nicknames he gave them all.

"I'm Jenjin,"

"Jenji-nii,"

"That's Naduno," Jenjin replied pointing to the green-eyed one.

"Nadu-nii,"

"Komeri, even though I'm sure you've already met him,"

"That's me!"

"and lastly Neji Sayta."

"Neji, just Neji." Komeri finally stated matter-of-factly.

Hinata's eyes followed Jenjin's hands until they finally reached Neji. Ryaui said something earlier about her aunt, Queen Opal, having a son. So this was him. If he was a prince why did he bow? Royalty shouldn't bow! Especially when they were older than the person they were bowing to!

Running up to Neji, Hinata bowed multiple times saying, "G-gomen Prince Neji! Y-you d-didn't have to b-bow!"

It went silent as Hinata still had her head down. She suddenly heard chuckling as she dared to look up. It was Neji.

"Calm down," he said while patting her head, "Your my aunt's daughter making you my cousin, so treat me like one."

Hinata didn't have any cousins-or at least know that she had a cousin until now, but she was determined to learn how to be one.

"H-hai, Neji-nii!"

Hearing a yawn from the crowd, Hinata saw it was Komeri as he said, "I'm tired,"

Naduno walked up to him and gave him a smack on his head.

"Then go to sleep baka," he replied while sighing.

"S-so mean," Komeri sulked as he went to sit in a corner, muttering complete nonsense.

Naduno slowly made his way to Hinata and wrapped an arm around her shoulder, "Now why don't we let these children bicker as we get to know each other, eh Hi-na?" he said into her ear.

Shivering, Hinata gently pushed the boy off her as she went closer to Neji. Anger bubbling up inside of him Jenjin walked over to Naduno.

"We're the same exact age! And don't go calling us kids if your only thirteen yourself!"

"And 14!" Neji commented.

A vein popped up on Jenjin's forehead as he continued having a heated argument with Naduno until it turned out to a full out fight with Komeri in the middle holding his head and crying.

As Jenjin and Naduno were shamelessly chucking random objects at each other Neji pulled Hinata closer to him and Komeri tried his best to avoid the rapid projectiles. Before the two could move onto chucking furniture they all heard three solid thuds.

"You did it now," Neji said while looking at the two.

It was Ryaui. Of course, it was Ryaui, the only person who could quite such a mess.

"What's going on here? Jenjin! I trust you to be the most responsible when it comes to you three, but if I leave you and Naduno are in the same place for more than five minutes you start arguing and fighting like maniacs! And for some reason, Komeri ends up in the middle of it all with Neji having to break it up!"

Ryaui was now in front of them as Naduno and Jenjin bowed and said, "Sorry, Leader-sama,"

Lowering his voice he continued to talk but was now facing Hinata.

"Only we know who you truly are, so try to stay on the down-low. You will now be known as Hana, okay?"

"Hai!"

"Good," Ryaui replied then turned to face Hinata and Neji, "Neji, take your cousin to her room will you?"

"Yes, sir,"

As the two headed out, Hinata heard Naduno mutter 'suck up' under his breath but Neji just sighed at the comment as he continued walking.

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"Here's your room Lady Hinata,"

She felt him remove his arm from her back as he turned to walk away.

"W-wait!"

"Hm?" Neji said as he turned to face Hinata once more.

"If I have to g-get rid of the formalities then you should t-too. I mean i-if you want."

Smirking, Neji headed back towards the door as he simply replied, "Goodnight Hinata."

Smiling to herself, Hinata finally turned to face the room and her mouth dropped. It wasn't anything grand but it was still special. It was a little bit bigger than her old room, with pale purple walls to match her eyes, there were three stripes painted on her wall, one blue, one yellow, and one red. There were little cartoon drawings near the corner-personal painted by Komeri, a bed in the center, and lastly...a shrine.

It read,

Dedicated to Opal and Hikari Sayta, in honor of their camaraderie and bravery in the field of battle and rule. They shall be missed.

Dozens of pictures surrounded the marble tablet, pictures of Hikari and Opal playing around as kids with action figures and dolls, them picking up flowers in the garden, a picture of them at their first ball with...Wait. Is that? It was. There in the picture dancing with Hinata's aunt was Ryaui and he was...blushing? Quickly dismissing the thought Hinata continued to look at the pictures as her eyes fell onto one with Opal on the day of her coronation with Hikari at her side.

Just as Hinata was ready to go to bed she saw a picture of Opal holding a new-born Neji in her arms. Next to her was a small bedside table with a glass of miscolored water inside.

Peculiar.

Hinata thought but she couldn't dwell on it for she started a strict training regiment starting tomorrow. So, for now, she'll sleep and think about it later during her time here.

However long that is.

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