There were two things Sasuke was overly picky about. One of them was how neat and tidy he kept his dorm room at Fire Country University. Every Sunday was cleaning day, no matter how much shit he had to do that following week. He vacuumed every inch of the carpet, bleached every little tile on the floor and counter in the bathroom and in the mini kitchenette, windexed every glass surface, dusted every little nook and cranny, and threw every piece of dirty laundry lying around on the floor into the washer and dryer, whether it was his or not. He was the perfect little housewife, which was a plus for his roommate, lazy Nara Shikamaru, who never had to lift a finger.
The other was who he let in the vicinity of his car. His car had been a present from his father for his birthday, thanks to his older brother's talents of convincing. It was a matte black BMW 2016 M4 Coupe with 425 horsepower, black leather interior, black turbine wheels, and black tinted windows (1). It was a sexy ass car. It was the love of his life. The only people he had ever driven in his car was his mother, father, and brother. He took it out only when he was traveling back home and used Itachi's hand-me-down bike for around the campus and campus town. He never, ever let anyone else touch its surface and he personally took the responsibility of washing, waxing, and buffing his baby.
So when Naruto asked Sasuke to drive his girlfriend with him on his way to visit him at College of Konoha over spring break, he had not been too happy about it.
"Pretty pleeeeeeeeease, you're already driving this way, temeeeee!" his best friend had whined to him over Skype. "It'll be the greatest thing ever! My best friend and my girlfriend!"
"I don't even know her like that!" Sasuke had growled, toweling his damp hair in one hand and holding his phone in the other. He could see Naruto playing Until Dawn (2) in the background with his own roommate, Inuzuka Kiba. "Do you know how fucking awkward this car ride is gonna be? It's gonna take one whole week to get there (3)."
Shikamaru meandered into the room at that moment. "Didn't your fathers know each other?"
"Well, yeah," he had responded after a quick, welcome back nod. "But that's all."
"No no no no no no-fucking hell!" Naruto cursed, throwing his controller at Kiba who crowed with laughter in response. Sasuke saw the blond reach for the laptop and turn it square towards his face. "You'll know her when you see her. She's clean and she's quiet; she won't be a bother! Oh, hey, Shikamaru!"
The Nara turned from grabbing a cold can of coffee in the fridge and waved. "Hey, Naruto."
Sasuke groaned. "Why am I visiting you again?"
"Cuz you looooove me!" Naruto had crooned with a cheeky grin.
Sasuke flipped him off. "Fuck you."
Naruto was in the middle of returning the favor when a new feminine, voice was heard. "Is that Sasuke-kun?" it asked hopefully.
Sasuke fought to suppress an eye-roll. A new face with pink hair pushed to obscure the screen. "Hi, Sasuke-kun!" Sakura squealed. Her green eyes glittered with excitement and she pressed her face against Naruto's, trying to get into the camera's view.
"Hi," he grunted.
"How are you-"
He gave a forced grin. "Alright, I gotta go. See ya."
Sakura's face fell. "But-"
"So are you gonna do it, teme?" Naruto blurted quickly before Sasuke could end the call.
"Whatever, just text me later." Sasuke pressed the red button on his phone quickly before throwing the phone on the couch. He sighed. He hadn't been home for a long time, since he had chosen to work over all his summer, winter, and spring vacations the past few years at the school. And whenever he was home, Naruto had been on vacations with his godfather, Jiraiya, so he hadn't seen much of his best friend in a while. They had finally planned to be off at the same time and promised to hang out, although he had grumbled a bit at first at Naruto's suggestion.
Shikamaru looked at his roommate sympathetically from his desk. "She's not bad."
"You've met her?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah," the other brunet nodded. "Although, I don't know how someone as chill as her ended up with someone like Naruto."
Sasuke snorted. "I honestly don't know."
And that's how Sasuke ended up parked in front of the girl's dorm cursing his luck as girls started swarming his car.
"Ohmygod, who is that?"
"Is it someone famous?"
"Let's go take a picture!"
"It's an Uchiha! Look at that family emblem on that decal!"
"Great. Just fucking great," he muttered angrily. He had just washed his car and now they were getting their greedy, thirsty little fingerprints all over it! "Goddammit." He shrunk lower in his seat, thankful that the swarm of girls couldn't see who he was through the tinted windows, and dialed the number Naruto had texted him. "Pick up, pick up, pick up..."
"H-hello?" a delicate voice answered.
"Uh, I'm here," he said, pushing his aviators up higher on his nose.
"Is that you? In the...car with all those girls?" the girl sounded a little panicked.
"Yeah, do you have a lot of stuff?" Sasuke asked, groaning inwardly at the fact that he might have to actually step out of the car to help put her shit inside.
"No, I just have one bag and my backpack." She paused. "What should I do?"
THUMP
"Fuck!" Sasuke jumped as one of the girls pressed their face against the driver's side window, trying to get a glimpse of who was inside. He fumbled with his car keys, trying to start the car.
"S-Sasuke-kun? Um, there's a back entrance. If you want to start driving there, I'll just hop in real quick so that no one-"
"Let's do it," Sasuke revved his engine. "Go now." He smirked a little as the girls backed off in surprise at the car's roar. "I'm heading there."
He heard her squeak in surprise and then sounds of rustling as he imagined her throwing her phone in a purse or pocket and running. He glanced outside and grimaced as the girls were keeping pace with his slow crawl. Sasuke didn't want to be caught in a lawsuit for injuring one of these rich girls. As he neared the back entrance, he picked up his speed, breaking free from the crowd. He saw a dark head sprinting towards the car and, concluding it to be Naruto's girlfriend, unlocked the car. "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon," he chanted, eyeing the closeness of those girls behind him.
The door flew open and a petite body threw itself into the car. As soon as he heard her skin touch the leather seat, Sasuke re-locked the car doors and sped off.
He let out a long sigh, silently congratulating himself. Then he noticed that body in his periphery was still frozen so he finally turned his attention to her. Her bright, opal eyes were as wide as a deer caught in the headlights, accentuated by thick, dark lashes that matched the color of her long, midnight-blue hair. He could see strands that were stuck to her lip and pink cheeks from her frenzied run, and her pale, white skin was even whiter at the knuckles where she was clutching at her bags. Overall, she wasn't bad to look at.
"What's wrong?"
Then he noticed that he was going about 120 miles per hour. Oh. He eased his foot off the gas a little. "Sorry."
"I-t's o-okay," she responded with a strained voice, loosening her grip on her duffel bag.
"You can put that on the floor. I'll stop in a bit so you can put your stuff in the trunk."
She let out a shaky breath. "Okay, thanks." She moved to place her bags on the floor in front of her.
"Anyway. I'm Uchiha Sasuke," he said with a shrug. "But you already know that."
"Hinata. Hyuuga Hinata." she gave him a shy smile. "Thank you so much for driving me, Sasuke-kun." Hinata reached up to grab her seatbelt.
"Don't mention it," Sasuke muttered. He grabbed his phone and starting thumbing through his Spotify playlists, glancing up to check the road now and again as the Hyuuga settled in comfortably in her seat. "So what kind of music do you not like?"
She bit her lip thoughtfully. "Um, country, I guess?"
And so it began.
(1) Looool I know nothing about cars X) sorry
(2) Or video games haha
(3) I'm imagining Sasuke's and Naruto's hometown/College of Konoha to be in Konoha's actual village. Fire Country University is somewhere far, far away across the country where the daimyo lives in actual Naruto universe. idk bear with me here lol. It's supposed to be a week-long road trip so that this story is actually a story, okay? Gotta make it work somehow.