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If Wishes Were...Foxes? ©2011 by Kei At 22 years old, Hyūga Hinata was living on her own for the first time, and her studio apartment was sparsely furnished. Her father, the CEO of an international corporate empire, had expressed an ardent desire to see her living in a posh penthouse, wanting for nothing, but Hinata had decided to try starting from scratch, instead of being the pampered princess all her life. To spruce up the decidedly dull décor, the young woman had visited a flea market that Saturday morning and picked up a garish orange lamp. Though Hinata was a lover of soothing pastel colors, she found the lamp's shape at

A Collaboration between Sunny and Sai ©2010 by embryonica Part the Second      After speaking diffidently as usual to her father during her weekly phone call home that night, Hinata requested to talk with her younger sister. When Hanabi picked up the extension, Hinata said, "D-do you th-think I'm s-spineless?"      Not missing a beat, the girl answered, "I think that's the first impression you probably give a lot of people, nee-chan. You stutter, you fidget, you rarely stand up for yourself, so I can see how someone might think so. Why? Was someone mean to you? Do me and Neji-nii need

A Collaboration between Sunny and Sai ©2010 by embryonica Part the First      Hinata supposed that, yes, it was rather strange to collaborate with someone on a major project without ever having met one's partner, but that was the very situation in which she found herself.      Hyuuga Hinata, penname Sunny, worked for publishing giant Konoha Inc. as a manga author. She had a bachelor's degree in creative writing, not to mention that her own father was a major shareholder in the company, the influence of which had played a major part in Hinata being hired in the first place. Because she