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She tried her best to bestow the warmth she’d received from their mother on her little sister as they grew, but was no match for her father’s teaching methods. While when it was just the two of them they would get along wonderfully, the moment her father was around her little sister would be his mimic. Instead of becoming jealous of the praise her sister received and attempting to put her down to best her, she instead was happy that she was getting positive attention – even at Hinata’s expense. As they grew older, both became increasingly aware of their father’s motivations for the praise, but unaware of any way to change it and so quietly kept on. Hinata was grateful when they began to grow closer in those times they were not under their father’s eye – which was thankfully relatively often, given his work.

During her teenage years, Hinata had a small bout of rebellion. However, as most children go from avidly attempting to impress their parents to doing what they’re not supposed to, she was somewhat the opposite. She became determined to prove herself in her own way and to succeed in every way she was expected to fail. She might not be male, no, but she would prove to her family that she was just as qualified to be the heir. Despite natural genius, she endeavored to study hard and quietly received the best marks in her classes. She practiced her family’s martial arts style diligently and would sometimes enter into local competitions. She volunteered in the community, helping out at shelters for everyone from the homeless to orphans to runaways, and shelters for animals as well. She took dance classes since she knew she might need them someday, from the way she’d watched people at the business partner parties her family had hosted(she discovered a secret love of it, and even sought to teach herself the types of dance you can learn from formal classes). She learned how to speak multiple languages, play piano and violin, cook, and garden and worked hard to develop an exceptional knowledge of etiquette and manners. She was the only girl in the math club, and satisfied her love of math by helping to arrange the school fundraisers and serving as student government treasurer. A slight bit of perfectionism earned her a place as the school newspaper’s editor, and she placed in a county-wide short story contest. She was still incredibly shy, and her multitude of extracurricular activities only further inhibited her ability to make friends. She gave up on having more than acquaintances or being ‘that girl who’s good with math’ to her peers in order to try to groom herself to be the best heir she could be for her family.

They never noticed. Or, if they did, they still didn’t care.

Despite this, she decided she liked the things she did and that she had done her best and would continue to do so. She graduated high school at 16 and moved on with full scholarships to a nearby Ivy League school. Her father’s distance and coldness – as well as the continuance of his harsh criticisms still weighed on her, though. The fact that she was developing into a rather curvaceous young woman weighed on her too, as it was even more of a reminder to her that she was exactly what he didn’t want for his heir.