This couple has been my favorite lately; so I needed to get this out of my system. Might add more, might not. Not sure! But, you know not my characters, blah.
Everything was white. White floors. White ceilings. White walls. Even the blasted nurses wore white dresses with white tights. It was beginning to give me a headache. 'Who even decided that it would be a good idea to wear white while working in a hospital?' I thought to myself as I adjusted myself in the uncomfortable plastic waiting room chair.
"Stop pacing, dobe. It won't help anything," I looked over at Sasuke with his arms crossed over his chest, leaning against one of those forsaken white walls, glaring at Naruto – who was indeed pacing in front of the double doors they had taken Hinata through hours ago. 'Almost six hours actually.' I counted after a quick glance at my watch.
I saw anger...no fury, flash across Naruto's normally smiling face before spinning at an alarmingly fast rate and practically lunging at the indifferent Uchiha.
"Don't you forget it was your stupid wife that put Hinata-chan here in the first place! How did she just "miss" a red light?! They had to take her to surgery Sasuke." I could see spit flying from Naruto's mouth and into Sasuke's face. The Uchiha had barely even risen an eyebrow and I even felt my chest bubble with anger. Naruto was right, Sasuke's wife Karin had guilt-tripped Hinata into going to the store with her and Karin had run a red light and an oncoming car t-boned them – the impact was on Hinata's side. Karin was fine, checking her appearance in her phone at the moment actually, but Hinata was in bad shape. We didn't know what exactly had happened to her but it was bad enough to send her into emergency surgery.
Naruto was still yelling at Sasuke and from the looks we were getting I decided to intervene. I stood and grabbed Naruto's hand before he could poke the Uchiha in the chest again.
"Naruto. Stop this." He snatched his hand away and turned away, storming down the hallway.
"I'm going to go get a coffee. I need as much energy as possible for when Hinata-chan gets out of surgery." He growled, his hands in his pockets and his head hung low.
I turned to look at Sasuke, who still remained as impassive as ever. It was beginning to irritate me as well.
"Hyuga I..I do feel bad about Hinata. That's why we're still here." He said, so low I barely caught it. It sounded like it pained him and from the look on his face I figured it might have.
At the loud click of heels on the linoleum floor we both turned and found no one but the woman who caused this whole ordeal. Karin Uchiha was Naruto's cousin who had gotten her claws into Sasuke through a strategic business deal Sasuke's father made with hers. It was for the best I suppose, it's not like Sasuke ever made a move on a female before in the almost 20 years I've known him.
"Sasuke-kuuuuuuun! I'm tired and my feet hurt. Can we go now?" She squealed, wrapping her arms around his neck. She regarded me with one of her crimson eyes , arms still wrapped around his neck, and sighed. "I'm sorry about your cousin. I swear I didn't see the red light!"
"Probably because you were texting. If I were to take a wild guess." I replied. She paled and turned back to her husband. He sighed and looked at me, the look in his eye apologetic and asking for my blessing to leave. Truth be told I wanted his wife gone as soon as possible and if that meant him being gone as well so be it.
"Go ahead and leave. It's not like I want you here when she wakes up anyway." Naruto said his mouth full of chips.
"Naruto don't be so mean to your co-" Karin was cut off by the double doors swinging open. One of the doctors walked through the doors with a clipboard in their hand. 'They had been the one of the doctor's assisting in the surgery,' I assumed by their scrubs – which were covered in blood. They pulled the white mask from their face and let it hang around their neck. They looked around quickly and their eyes settled on Naruto and they basically ran to him and grabbed his hand. 'Strange.' I thought.
The way his eyes widened and the way the chips and coffee he had in his hands went all over the floor made something in my chest restrict and I knew something bad was going to happen.
"Sakura..chan? You did Hinata-chan's surgery? You're back? When did tha- wait please how is she?!" At the mention of the familiar name my heart stopped and I swear everything was going in slow motion. By the way the Uchiha had promptly removed his wife from his neck and joined Naruto in two fluid steps I could tell he was shocked too.
She looked down and shook her head, "Ano. She is lucky the paramedics were able to stabilize her the way they did on the way here. Her right arm and leg are shattered, she needed the surgery because her femur broke through the skin and some bone managed to nick an artery. She has some nasty scratches on her face but she will make a complete recovery. I am going to have her stay for a week or two for observation but she will be in recovery soon and open for visitors." She smiled weakly at Naruto and patted his hand. "She's strong Naruto, she always has been."
I wasn't prepared for the way he scooped her up and spun her around while laughing, "Kami sure knows how to plan a reunion! Teme! Neji! It's Sakura-chan! She saved my Hinata-chan!" She smiled when he put her down and took off the hat that kept her hair hidden from the world. Her signature pastel pink hair was up in a neat bun, slick with sweat from what I was sure was concentration.
"Sasuke! How are you!" She looked at him and lightly swatted him with her clipboard. He smirked, rolled his eyes, and swept her up in a hug as well. Though not as exaggerated as Naruto's of course. She looked around, her viridian eyes darting from person to person until they landed on me. I wasn't prepared for the feelings I would have when they did. It felt like I was frozen in place and my heart beat almost painfully against my ribcage. The small smile on her lips never left, even as she stepped in the forgotten puddle of Naruto's mess and made her way to me. She was so close the slightest twitch and I would've touched her. I wanted to faint. "Oh Neji.." she whispered.
Her small, yet so powerful, hands caressed my left cheek and the flurry of emotions I was feeling 'Nervousness. Excitement. Love…Regret.' made me feel like I wanted to vomit. I was so busy trying to maintain my poker face I barely registered the slap that sent me stumbling backwards and right onto my ass.
"That should teach you to break-up with a girl through a letter and having your Uncle tell me I was banned from your estate and charges would be pressed if I called again! Baka." She huffed, turned on her heel, and snatched up both Naruto and Sasuke's hands, taking them through the double doors. Presumably to see Hinata.
The same click of heels from earlier went on until a red pointed-toe shoe was in my vision. "If it makes you feel better I didn't like her back then either." Karin said offhandedly, scurrying past the double doors to find her husband.
'I deserved that.' I inwardly sighed, because Hyuga's do not sigh, and heaved myself up onto my feet and followed after Karin.
Welll….I'm pretty happy with it! Let me know what you think!