Disclaimer: I do not own Neji, Hinata…or anybody else in the Nauto universe…I sure wish I did, but I don't…

Chapter 1

"Umm… I don't know what to say, Hinata. It's just I never think of that, you know… I never think that you love me or anything like that," he said with shock apparent in his face about her confession of love earlier.

"I-is that so, Naruto-kun… then… so…" she said ever so slowly, trying her best to keep her voice and face straight showing no sign of weakness to him. She stopped when she heard him say…

"I always think of you as a nice fri- um…girl… I like you, I like talking with you. I really do. We've known each other for years, but I never… you know, think that you… I'm sorry, Hinata" he said in a low voice.

"T-That's okay, Naruto-kun. I can understand" she smiled at him, blinking the tears away from her milky eyes. She got to be strong now.

"Hey, but we still can be friends, right?" his voice was back to his usual cheerful mode and he smiled at her cheekily. Obviosly trying to lighten up the atmosphere.

"S-sure. Of course, we can still be friend, Naruto-kun" she replied faintly, her lips were struggling to give another smile at him, but it failed miserably. "By the way, I-I have to go now. I have some other things to do… umm I'll see you later, Naruto-kun" she bit her lips to stop it from quivering and walked away from the clearing in the edge of the forest.

"Hinata…wait. Let me walk you back to the village. It's getting dark now." He said and walked to her direction.

"It's okay, Naruto-kun. I'm fine, I can go by myself" she gave another faint smile to him. "I'm fine."

"But, Hinata…"

"Bye, Naruto-kun" with that she quickened her pace and left that place.

Naruto stood there still not knowing what to do, he wanted to walk with her back to the village but he didn't want to coerce her either. All he could do was watched her back disappeard in the distance.

She leaped from roof to roof, avoiding her usual path. She really didn't want to meet anyone right now. Not when she was like this. Every time her tears run down to her cheek, she wiped it with her sleeve but it kept flowing. She hated it. She hated to be weak. Well, they said that tears is the evidence of weakness. But she couldn't help it now. All that she wanted to do now was just curl up in her bed and crying all night.

As she was near to her house, she slowed her pace. She entered the house from a smaller covert gate, not her usual main-gate-route, and sneaked to her room quietly, hoping that no one would she her like this. She was just too tired to even say hello if she met someone.

Lucky for her, she came into her rom safely. Then she could finally do what she had in mind after she left the clearing, after her talk with Naruto. She crawled into her bed not bothering to take off her clothes, too exhausted to do that, cuddling her soft pillow tightly to her chest. She buried her face in the pillow and cried.

Some knocks in her door woke her up from her sleep. She was surprised that she could fall asleep in the first place. Maybe her emotional pain was too much to bear with. She felt too drowsy to answer, so she pretended not to hear anything, hoping that the knocking-person will leave quickly. But then,

"Hinata-sama are you there?" then another knock was heard.

No wonder the knock was persistent. It was her cousin. She had no other choice but to answer him. However before she could say anything she heard him again.

"It's your father. He asked you to come for dinner" he said impatiently.

"Im sorry, Neji-niisan… but I'm not feeling too well right now. I-I think I just have dinner in my room" she said sitting her bed now, taking this situation more seriously. Maybe her father was going to ask her about her absence tonight, but she could worry about that tommorow.

"If you say so, Hinata-sama" he speak shortly then leave her door.

She sighed, stood up reluctanly and walked to the bathroom removing all her clothes and turned the hot water. She liked the sensation of hot water pouring on her cold skin. A nice soothing shower to wash away all her tears and fatigue. She felt like she could shower forever, maybe that's too much, but it really did help her to get into the mood. She continued shower for a little bit longer before she stepped out of the bathroom in her bathrobe and a towel to dry her hair.

She looked at her reflection in the mirror, convinced that she looked much better than a few hours ago. But her eyes was still all red and puffy. Anyway its not like she was going to meet someone right now. So she ignored it.

Another knock on her door today brought her back to her senses.

"Yes?"

"Hinata-sama, I'm here to bring your dinner" it was one of the Hyuuga maid. She told her to come in and put the dinner on her bedside table, her back facing her. She didn't want to be seen in her condition now, cause it would be embarassing and every one would start asking what had happened to her. And that was the last thing she wanted to talk about right now. She said "thank you" before the maid closed her door and leaving her to herself again.

She didn't feel like eating so she just let it there on the bedside table and crawled in her bed once again. But this time she was more relaxed, big thanks to the shower. But once again, her mind was wandering to Naruto again. She should have known that he would never feel the same way about her, maybe deep down in her heart she knew but she chose to ignored it. And now the consequence was this pain in her her chest she had been feeling for the past few hour.

"At least… now I know…" she whispered to herself.

She blinked tears away from her eyes. See, this was what happen when she thought about it all over again. She knew that she should stop thinking of it, but she couldn't do it. It was like a movie clip that running in her head over and over again. Getting iritated with the way her mind was working, she blinked her eyes again, hoping that she could get rid of that awful movie. She covered one pillow to her head and closed her eyes. After a few minutes she was finally asleep.

tbc…

Hi, this is my second fic, hope you guys like it. It's only the first chapter so nothing much happened, so read and review! If you find any error, this was unBeta, feel free to tell me. I'd love to hear them!

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