Third Time's A Charm
Beta'ed by Cookie-chi
Chapter One: First Christmas
The first time they shared Christmas together was years before Neji had tried to kill her, months before the Uchiha clan was massacred by Itachi, and only days before Hinata's eighth birthday. She was considered old enough to meet her betrothed and to understand the weight of her duty as his future wife. However, as Hinata hesitantly looked up at the much older boy she could feel her stomach tie itself into several knots and fought to keep her hands from poking each other. She always was scared to meet new people, and the age difference between them coupled with the arrogant aura around him did not help her nervousness either. She didn't even really know what a wife was supposed to do. She knew that when her mother was alive, she would cook for her father and then gave birth to Hinata and Hanabi. But how was a wife supposed to make babies?
Once the introductions were over, she wanted to stick with her father, scared to be by herself, but he shooed her away from him, telling her to mingle and get to know the future additions to her future family. Her small heart trembled at being left alone, large ivory eyes frantically searching for a friendly and familiar face. But the only other familiar face that wasn't an adult was Neji's, who no longer seemed to like her. She had spotted him once throughout the evening, but remembered to stay away from him. After a while of searching for naught she almost resorted to keeping herself in one of the corners of the giant room when she suddenly spotted another boy who looked her age. He was definitely from the Uchiha clan since he had black eyes instead of white along with black spiky hair. He looked around as if to make sure no one was watching him before cracking open the sliding door and slipping out.
Though she was hesitant and a little wary, she was also curious to find out where this Uchiha boy was going, plus she didn't want to be by herself. So, looking around to make sure that her father or anyone else from her clan wasn't watching her, she sneaked over to the sliding doors and slipped out only to meet a winter wonderland. Gasping with excited happiness, Hinata quickly put on her shoes and lifted her kimono to run over to a small clearing covered with snow, ignoring the cold. A giant smiled lit her face as she looked up towards the night sky, feeling the tiny snowflakes quickly melting on her cheeks. After enjoying the view of the snow falling gently down from the sky, she slowly lowered her face only to suddenly see a tightly packed snowball hit her smack in the forehead. With a cry she crumbled to the cold wet ground, covering her forehead in pain as tears fell from her eyes.
"Are you okay?" a concerned voice asked her. Looking up she saw the Uchiha boy she was following gazing at her with hesitancy. His black eyes lowered to the ground as an air of disappointment and regret grew around him.
"Sorry about the snowball…I thought you were that annoying Hyuuga boy." He murmured to her. Wiping her tears away, Hinata looked at him curiously.
"Y-you thought that…that I w-was Neji-nii-san?" she asked him unsure if she heard him correctly, her and Neji looked nothing alike. The Uchiha boy stuffed his hands into his pockets and looked at her defensively.
"Well he did say he could come out here to see if he could beat me in a snowball fight. How was I supposed to know that he would chicken out?" he said with a pout, a little angry that this new rival was such a disappointment. "So…sorry I hit you."
"Oh…w-well…it just mostly s-surprised me." She said, as she looked away and tried to get the snow off her face and out of her hair.
"Yeah…well…you could hit me back if you want." The boy murmured sadly. Hinata looked at him with a surprised expression, as he kept his face turned away from hers.
"W-why w-would I w-want t-to do that?" she asked him, stuttering horribly with the thought of actually hitting him back for no reason.
"Cause the only time I'm supposed to hit girls is if we're training. So…just…hit me already!" he said with frustration, looking at her with annoyance. A smile threatened to spread on her face as she continued to look at him. He was such a weird boy, why would he want her to hit him? Who wants to get hit? But as his black eyes bored into her pale ones, she felt that if she wasn't going to do what he said then he would yell at her. So she quickly bent down to pick up a pile of snow and with a giggle shoved the cold wet stuff into his face. She smiled and laughed as she watched him trying to wipe off the cold snow from his face. Then without thinking, she bent down again and threw another snowball at him, hitting him on his shoulder. He looked up at her with a surprised expression before a smirk appeared on his face.
"Oh you're going to get it now." He said as he slowly started to bend down. With a squeal of laughter, Hinata quickly turned and ran away from him.
"Hey!" he yelled as he ran after her picking up snow and throwing it at her. She gave off a soft cry every time it hit her, but she noticed that the snowballs weren't tightly packed and so never really hurt. But after a while, she too started picking up snow and then turning quickly to throw it behind her, smiling triumphantly when she would hear it smack off his chest or legs. Then she got lucky and the boy suddenly found his face being hit with another pack of snow. Growling in frustration at being hit in the face twice tonight, he quickly added more speed and when he was close enough lunged after her.
Hinata gasped when she suddenly felt his arms wrap around her small body, bringing her down with him into the cold snow. They both landed softly, and just lay there catching their breath. Looking at each other they smiled, their cheeks pink from the cold and their little game.
"What's your name?" the boy suddenly asked, wanting to know the name of the only girl he knew that didn't keep telling him how much she loved and adored him. The girls at school were always so annoying, being loud and obnoxious, but this girl seemed different. Her dark hair and small smile kind of reminded him of his mother.
"H-hinata, Hyuuga Hinata…w-what's yours?" she asked softly, still a little out of breath.
"Uchiha Sasuke." He said with pride. She happily smiled at him, glad that she seemed to make a new friend.
"I-it's nice to m-meet you Sasuke-kun." She said shyly.
"Hinata-chan." Sasuke said with a nod before falling back, looking up at the sky. Hinata followed suit, feeling the soft snowflakes land on her eyelashes. It was silent between them for a while before Sasuke turned his head to look at her.
"Have you ever made a snow angel before?" he asked her. She turned to look at him and shook her head no.
"It's easy, just spread you legs and arms out like this." He said, demonstrating for her. She lifted her head a little to watch him before spreading out her limbs like he said.
"Then just…" he stated shifting his arms and legs up and down against the snow, pushing it away in some spots while it gathered in others. Hinata did just as he instructed, before lowering her head back down feeling silly but having fun at the same time.
"Now lets see how you did." He said after a while, slowly standing up. Hinata looked down to find him lowering his arm to help her up. Grasping it, she softly squealed as she was yanked off the ground and fell onto her knees next to him.
"Oh, sorry…gosh you're tiny." He stated, surprised by how easy it was to lift her up.
"T-that's okay." Hinata said as she got back up and then turned around to gaze down at the figures they made in the snow.
"See, those are the wings, and that's the dress they wear." He said, pointing out to her.
"Wow." She breathed, looking at the beautiful creations, smiling. "T-this is so m-much more fun t-than the party." She admitted looking at him, her cheeks pink.
"Yeah, who cares about these stupid heirs getting married to each other?" Sasuke said with a laugh before looking at her downcast face. "Hey what's wrong?" he asked her, confused and feeling a little bad that he seemed to make her sad.
"W-well…I…I'm t-the H-Hyuuga heir." She said softly, sadly.
"What?!" Sasuke exclaimed with shock, "But Minoru-san is sixteen and you're…what…five?" Hinata suddenly pouted as she looked at him with frown, her arms crossed.
"I'm g-going to be eight in a c-couple of days." She said with a huff. Sasuke blinked a few times before he smiled and started to chuckle.
"Oh so you are my age." He said with laughter in his voice. Hinata continued to pout for a few moments before she too smiled. "In that case, I have something to show you." He said before he grasped her hand and started running back towards the house. Before long, they were standing at the edge of a small pond that was frozen due to the cold temperature.
"Have you ever gone ice skating before?" he asked her. When she shook her head, he smiled and then lifted his arms out into the air as if presenting the pond to her. "Then happy birthday Hinata-chan."
Grabbing her hand, he hesitantly stepped out into the ice, telling her to be careful since it was very slippery. Hinata smiled as she slowly followed him towards the middle of the pond. Once there he told her to hold onto his hands tightly, with their hands clasped, they slowly walked in a circle their pace increasing bit by bit until the next thing Hinata knew she didn't even have to pick up her feet as she was sliding on the hard surface.
"Okay, ready? I'm going to let go of you." Sasuke said with a smile. Hinata looked at him with an almost horrified expression but with excitement shining in her eyes.
"What? No!" she cried.
"Yeah, on three." Sasuke told her.
"No!" she cried again.
"One." Sasuke counted.
"No!" she exclaimed loudly.
"Two."
"No! Sasuke-kun!" she screamed, her grip on his hands tightening.
"Three!" Sasuke yelled, letting her hands go. But he didn't think she would really hold onto him. The next thing they knew they were practically flying across the pond before landing onto the hard surface and sliding all the way till they hit the snow again. Sasuke pried her hands away so he could clutch his throbbing shoulder where he landed on the ice.
"Ouch. What'd you do that for?!" he yelled at her, upset that she dragged him with her and got hurt in the process. Hinata flinched, as she got up, her hip hurting really bad.
"I w-was s-scared." She whined, tears starting to form in her eyes. Seeing them, Sasuke suddenly panicked.
"Hey don't cry." He urged her, as he patted her shoulder. "It was fun wasn't it?"
"It was s-acary." She argued as she tried to stop her tears.
"But it was fun too." He interjected, getting frustrated as her head continued to shake from side to side.
"N-no it wasn't." she said, sniffling.
"Yes it was. You had fun." Sasuke accused, "Come on say it. You had fun." But Hinata shut her mouth firmly as she shook her head no, glaring up at him. However he only glared back before reaching his hand out and grasping her chin.
"Yes…Sa…su…ke…kun…I…had…fun." He said in a high pitched voice, in an imitation of her as he opened and closed her mouth. They both started to laugh at their silly antics. When Hinata suddenly leaned forward and kissed him on his cheek. Sasuke's face flamed up matching her red cheeks.
"T-thank you Sasuke-kun." She said softly, looking at him shyly. Sasuke could only stare at her in shock.
"Hinata-sama!" a voice suddenly cried. Looking up, the two children got up as a Hyuuga Branch Member started to make their over to them. "Hinata-sama, look at you. You're soaked!" Hinata looked down at her wet kimono clinging to her small body and could feel herself well up with embarrassment.
"Oh what is Hiashi-sama going to say?" the branch member fretted. Hinata's face suddenly paled as she thought about her father getting mad at her. "Well come on, let's get you dressed. We're leaving in a few minutes anyways." The branch member said before holding out her hand to the young heir. Hinata grasped the warm, larger hand as she turned to look back at her new friend.
"Bye Sasuke-kun." She said sadly.
"Bye…Hinata-chan." Sasuke replied back, holding back the small sadness from his voice.
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AN: Yay, at least I have enough time to write a small Christmas ficcie. This is only going to be three chapters long, obviously a SasuHina. I hope you guys like it. Oh yeah, if you noticed, I didn't make Sasuke or Itachi the heir of the Uchiha clan because from what I understand, they weren't. It never says that they are except when Itachi kills everyone leaving only himself and Sasuke. So, yeah. I hope everyone likes it…I didn't get a chance to write a SasuHina Xmas fic last year and I don't have time to finish my NejiHina Xmas fic this year (so sad). Anyways this is only my second uploaded Xmas fic, so be nice and leave lovely reviews, thankies.
