Darkness comes in many shades…
Summary: Pure, innocent and shy; these are the very words that everyone describe 20 year old Hinata. Dark, Mysterious and unpredictable are a few choice words used to describe Sasuke. What happens when the two polar opposites meet? What happens when the innocent Hinata finds out what kind of darkness Sasuke hides within himself?
Author's Note: This is a SasuHina story inspired by 50 shades of grey, I am still undecided whether or not there will actually be any smut/lemon but just to be safe it's rater for Mature readers. Read at your own risk and please review.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the book 50 shades of grey. I am merely inspired ...
Shout outs/ Thank you: I would like to thank KeeBee for being so kind to edit my fanfiction. I can't thank you enough for all your hard work 3 It truly means a lot to me.
A cup of blueberry iced tea, a comfortable, cream colored comforter and a textbook sporting several highlighted passages and pages awaited the indigo haired girl seated at a large mahogany desk. After waking up this morning, she was given a rather rude eye opener when she glanced at her calendar and realized that her "Baking and Pastry" final exam was scheduled for that very Tuesday. It wasn't exactly something to look forward to when you haven't been studying for the past two weeks like she hadn't been. Ever since she had gotten a job at the local bakery, she had been juggling several things from her near non-existent social life to her schooling to even helping out her cousin's girlfriend with her various and, rather random, tasks. One thing was for sure, it was not easy. But she somehow managed to make it work by neglecting studying for the biggest test in her whole life.
This test was simply a "You either know what you're doing or you don't." type test that she needed to pass with flying colors if she had any chance of getting her dream job working for the biggest country club in the state. Once she sat down in her comfortable desk chair and took a sip of her favorite tea, she flipped through pages trying to find the most troubling subjects in the book before finding the easier ones. If she knew her teacher, and she did, she knew that the hardest subjects would most likely be the ones on the test, rather than the ones that no one had trouble understanding. Pale lavender tinted eyes scanned the pages as she sipped her tea, creasing the corner of each page every time she found a hard subject. Hinata read each highlighted passage from each troubling page to try and gain a basic understanding of what she would have to review later.
Across the room,her phone began to ring, startling the girl due to the long term peace and quiet. The silence in the room gave the ringtone a seemingly louder volume. Gently,she placed her half empty cup of tea on the desk before walking to her nightstand checking the caller ID before she answered.
"Hello?" she answered as she walked back to her desk and grabbed her tea, leaning against the desk as she waited for a response.
"Hey Hinata" a nasally voice answered followed by a thick cough. "TenTen, are you sick?" Hinata asked concerned about cousin's girlfriend and childhood best friend.
"I have a cold and I need a favor. I promise to pay you back for this one. It's what's going to get me my dream job!" Tenten begged as she coughed out her lungs between every few words. The shy girl bit her lip feeling bad for her friend. Not only was she sick,but it had to be on the day of something big and, judging by how the chocolate brown haired girl was begging her, it must be huge. At the same time, she herself was stuck in a hard place since her test was on Tuesday and today it was Sunday. That hardly gave her enough time to properly review her problem areas for her test.
"It's an interview for my final; the youngest CEO to have ever lived hads agreed to let me interview him. Please, Hinata?!" Tenten begged, still coughing between words, in hopes of having her most trusted friend go and sacrifice her time to help her with her future.
"Alright. I'll do it." Hinata agreed. Maybe it was a bad choice on her end but being kind and compassionate was just her true nature and refusing to help her friend wouldn't sit well in her stomach if she stayed home and reviewed for her test while her friend's career hung in the balance. A loud cough was heard from the other side of the phone which worried Hinata for a while before the girl could respond without coughing her heart out again.
"Thank you! Come over and I'll give you my interview questions and my tape recorder. Thank you so much! You're a life saver!" Tenten shrieked with excitement and happiness knowing that she could trust the shy girl with this task.
A small smile spread across the pale girl's lips as she heard the pure joy in her friend's voice. It made her feel good to know that she had done the right thing even though it might cause her some trouble at the end of the day. After a quick shower and a few texts regarding how Hinata should dress, she was already on her way to TenTen's house. The drive didn't take very long since she lived a few blocks away; which was the main reason why it was easy for Hinata to do various favors and tasks for the chocolate haired girl.
Once at the door of her friend's house, she knocked. She had chosen to dress in dark dress pants, black close-toed flats, a black blazer and a white button up shirt. Personally, this was different from her usual wear; which consisted of numerous over sized jackets and comfortable washed out jeans but the change was good in this case,considering she was going to be face to face with the youngest CEO in the enough,the door opened revealing TenTen. Her nose was red from blowing it so many times, her usual tan skin looked ghostly pale while her brown eyes were dulled along with her beautiful chocolate brown hair, which was currently put into two messy buns on her head.
"I'm so glad you came!" Tenten said along with her great smile; just about the only thing that brightened her sickness in a sense that now, her childhood friend had come to her rescue by sacrificing yet another few hours of her life to benefit hers. TenTen moved aside, giving the girl enough room to come inside the house.
"Glad to help." replied the indigo haired girl as she walked inside the house,noticing that the couch had become her friend's new bed. Several fluffy comforters along with a few pillows adorned the couch. At first it didn't make sense until she realized the coffee table had her laptop and scattered papers. A slight frown tugged at the girl's lips as she turned to TenTen who gave her an apologetic yet guilty smile.
"You are supposed to be sleeping and resting, not studying and working on your paper when you don't even have enough information about the guy." Hinata scolded flyer friend as she watched her make her way to her room, listening to drawers open and close as she looked for things.
"I know, I know but I got so excited I couldn't help myself!" the brown haired girl defended,making Hinata sigh and shake her head. Surely this girl was the only girl she had meet in her life that was this passionate about her major that she even worked through sickness. Eventually,TenTen returned handing Hinata a tape recorder and a small spiral notebook with various questions and highlighted in different colors to display their importance over the other questions.
"Yellow isn't that important, Blue is interesting questions and Pink is the most important" Tenten explained, gesturing to the coloring system before she explained how to use the tape recorder. Hinata nodded and listened,making sure she paid attention to every single detail her friend spoken. This was more than important to her, it was crucial to her career and Hinata knew it, so she couldn't mess this up no matter what.
"I can't thank you enough, Hinata. If you leave now, you can make it to the appointment a bit earlier then expected." Tenten said as she coughed in between every few words, using her first to cover her cough.
"Alright but I-I don't even know who I'm interviewing!" Hinata replied in a shy and nervous tone, which showed in her speech by her life long struggle in stuttering. The brown haired girl slapped her forehead in realization that this whole time she hadn't told the poor girl where she was going or who she was interviewing. She just assumed the other girl knew what she knew.
"Oh, that's right! The guy's name is Sasuke Uchiha. His company does a little of everything, from having a program to help orphans find loving families to making airplanes." Tenten explained while writing down the directions to his company's headquarters. Hinata nodded. She couldn't help but think that for a supposedly young CEO, he had a very wide variation of programs under his name. But still,the name never rang a bell to her. All she knew was the best chef's worldwide. Even some famed food scientist that changed their way of cooking but nothing about airplanes or even orphanages. Still, the man seemed nice and down to earth considering the information she just learned.
"Alright, here you go Hinata. Thank you and drive safely!" Tenten said as she nearly pushed Hinata out of the door with the slip of paper with directions, not giving the girl time to say her own good bye. But this was just routine whenever Tenten was excited about something. She could hardly wait for Hinata to get back with information or whatever she was sent out for. A small smile spread across her lips as she walked downstairs to head out on this mission.
She couldn't let her friend down. Especially not today. It took Hinata an hour, a full hour,to finally get to the building. But it was all for TenTen,so she couldn't really get upset about how long it took. Once she got to the building she walked inside to the front desk where she saw a young,beautiful woman typing away at the computer while the girl beside her was taking a call and making an appointment. Suddenly she got nervous. What was she supposed to do? What if she couldn't pull it off? What if he wasn't there? What if those girls wouldn't let her go up to see him? Dozens of scenarios ran through the girl's head and each one ended badly. But regardless of her current, extreme imagination, she walked to the front desk and waited for one of the girls notice her,which surprisingly didn't take long.
"Can I help you?" the blonde girl asked her putting on a warm genuine smile, noting how tense the girl was. Quickly Hinata nodded and bit her lip before speaking and mentally letting out a sigh of relief.
"I-I'm here to see Sasuke Uchiha." she spoke softly glancing down at her shoes every now and then to keep calm
"Do you have an appointment?" The woman asked as she began typing on her computer, again. Hinata quickly nodded.
"Under a the name TenTen." Hinata added quickly,realizing that they probably had all TenTen's information given that she was the one who scheduled the appointment in the first place.
"Oh alright, Here's a visitors pass and you can go up the elevator and press the 10th floor." the blonde woman said smiling warmly handing Hinata a visitors pass,to which she quickly pinned on her blazer and walked off smiling at the woman and going to the elevator. Finally a moment of peace. Her heart was nearly beating out of her chest from speaking to the front desk girl she could hardly imagine how she would be if she was speaking to the CEO; which she would be soon.
Slight panic overwhelmed her as the door opened revealing yet another woman at a desk taking calls and smiled warmly the second she saw Hinata,which motivated her to move out of the elevator before the doors closed on her.
"Can I help you?" the dark haired girl asked Hinata as she began typing much like the blonde had earlier. Hinata nodded to the woman before her.
"I-I'm here to see S-Sasuke Uchiha" she said in a whisper being too shy to speak louder than that. The woman smiled and nodded. "Sasuke has a visitor right now so if you could please take a seat, I'll go get you something to drink." the woman said as she got to her feet and walked off not giving Hinata a choice but to do what she was told to do. A loud laugh could be heard from the walls behind her. It was most likely the office of the CEO and to which she'd meet next.
Judging from the laugh he must be a really nice person which put off a lot of stress to rest. Soon enough the dark haired girl returned and gave her a glass of cold water before retuning to her desk. Hinata drank the water trying to relax; she could hear the hearty laugh behind the wall which somehow comforted her. Eventually the laughing grew louder and closer. She looked over to the office door to see that a blonde man with whisker like scars on his cheek walked out waving inside.
"See you later Sasuke!" the boy laughed while walking off and heading towards the elevator as he glanced at Hinata,waving at her as he walked off "Hey!" he said with a wide smile before he turned back to the elevator before going inside to answer a call as he pushed the button closing the doors leaving her breathless. The man was gorgeous, his smile and his warm blue eyes just hinted to his natural care free attitude which added to his infectious smile.
It took Hinata a few moments to realize that she herself was smiling right at the elevator doors where the gorgeous man previously stood. Bu along with his smile she then realized that if he was the loud, happy laugh that came from inside the office then her original fears had come to life. Maybe the man was mean. Maybe he wouldn't even let her do the interview. Maybe he would just glare at her the whole time. The possibilities ran through her mind until she heard the woman clear her throat to catch Hinata's attention.
Once she turned to face the woman she noticed that she was holding the door for Hinata. Quickly,she got to her feet and walked over smiling and thanking the girl before walking in the office with her heart nearly beating out of her chest. Inside the office, the walls and floors were dark, the walls painted a deep purple while the floors were dark wooden plans. In the middle of the room was a glass coffee table on top of a cream colored rug and two white tulip chairs with white cushions. A plain black desk was at the end of the room with a leather black rolling chair and behind that desk was what seemed like a giant window that made nearly the whole wall behind it but covered by a deep black curtain, if it weren't for the lights on the ceiling this whole room would be something you seem in a horror movie but despite its eerie atmosphere it was still a beautiful room.
"Can I help you?" a deep voice came from behind her followed by the click of the door being shut, quickly she turned around being startled by whoever it was. A man with dark charcoal eyes stood before her with one hand on the brass door knob and the other in his black suit pants pocket. A white dress shirt and a black tie finished off his simple yet handsome appearance, his dark jet black hair was brushed and framing his face perfectly. Shyly, Hinata bit her lip wondering where to start. Should she just start with the interview or introduce herself even though she wasn't the person who was originally supposed to be here?
"You're TenTen?" he spoke up again seeing that Hinata hadn't said a word none the less moved an inch from where she stood. Quickly she shook her head and tried to regain her equilibrium, she straighten out her posture and held out her hand to shake his as she introduced herself
"I'm H-Hinata Hyuga, I'll be f-filling in for T-TenTen today" she spoke softly and mentally wondering why her stuttering came back at full throttle when this morning it barely even sparked. Something about this man just set her off.
"Hn" was his only response as he walked by Hinata and to his desk where he sat down on his leather chair leaning onto his desk with both of his hands propped up hiding his lips. Somehow she understood his invitation to let her sit down and conduct the e shyly sat down and placed the tape recorder on the table along with the note pad from her small white purse. She couldn't help but feel that his eyes were just watching her every move. It made her nervous. She could barely manage to get the tape recorder to record with his it was up and running.
She then realized that one of the top rules of being a reporter was to ask if it was alright with the person she was interviewing if she was able to even record them. Hinata glanced up shyly as she moved a strand of hair in her face seeing his stoic expression, giving away little to no emotion put her at an uneasy feeling she couldn't describe.
"I-Is it okay I-If I record this?" she asked shyly. Finally,the stoic man lowered his hands revealing his amused smirk. He seemed like he was about to say something but thankfully, he showed her mercy and nodded.
"May I ask where TenTen is?" he asked as he sat back folding his arms across his chest,watching Hinata's every move. It made her feel like he was enjoying this. Seeing her squirm under his watch, she made an audible gulp before answering the raven before her. "
She's s-sick" Hinata said before she took in a deep breath and opened the little book to start the interview and get out of there as soon as she could manage. After clearing her throat and opening her mouth to speak,he decided to talk instead.
"Are you a co-worker?" he asked, seeming interested in knowing more about her than he was in the interview. Hinata glance up shaking her head. She then glanced down at the book looking for the pink highlighted questions. "
W-What inspired you to involve y-your company with helping out o-orphans?" Hinata asked being a bit clearer and louder then she normally would since she hadn't taken her eyes off of the paper. After asking the question,she glanced up at Sasuke who hadn't taken his eyes off of her, his hands were back to covering his lips using the arm rests for support.
"There are so many children in this world who have grown up with a parent or were even fortunate enough to grow up with both. The sad fact is that there are children who are growing up without knowing the love and warmth of a real family; that is what inspired me." he said in a monotone voice; not showing off any emotion. Hinata curtly nodded before continuing. She felt like she was being suffocated by his mere presence and it wasn't getting any better the longer she stayed in there. Quickly,she continued to the next pink highlighted question, she fixed her posture once more and read the question aloud.
"Why didn't you finish college?" she asked, being genuinely surprised that the youngest CEO didn't even finish college and here she was working through her last term of her own college.
"I personally didn't see the point." was all he said not giving as much detail as he did with the first answer. She didn't question it though she just stayed silent, nodding once again and moving on to the next question but before she could speak he did.
"You're not going to ask why I didn't see the point?" he asked her with a raised eyebrow, his hands hiding his amused smirk. Hinata glanced at him shaking her head, not really wanting to stay there longer then she had to."Why?" he asked her, not giving her time to ask another question for the interview. Hinata bit her lip and set the book on her lap before facing the raven. She released her lip taking in a deep breath before answering him.
"If y-you aren't comfortable w-with talking a-about something then I won't m-make you uncomfortable. I w-wouldn't like it i-if someone h-had questions me on a-and on about something I-I didn't want to talk about." she responded feeling as if he was reading her body language, watching how she moved and fidgeted when he spoke to her. After answering him,she picked up the book and moved on to the next question and this time not giving him time to intervene and ask another question about her.
"W-What did your company o-originally invest in?" she asked this time not meeting his eyes for the answer; the less she showed that she wanted to be here the better.
"My company originally invested in aircrafts, the making of the plane and assembling it" he replied, his eyes never leaving her. Hinata could feel his staring, it was making her uncomfortable but she needed to get through this for her best friend and she couldn't just leave with half of the questions unanswered.
"Do you always stutter?" he asked her catching her off guard. She had thought that they finished this unofficial game of 21 questions. Meekly,she looked at him wondering what in the world he had planned, or was it how he got his daily dose of kicks? Either way it wasn't something Hinata enjoyed. In fact it, was starting to bother her even more.
"C-Childhood struggle" she muttered before glancing down at the paper gripping it rather tightly not wanting to be there anymore. The man was young but he surely was toying with her for his amusement. After a few seconds she read off the next question and counted how many were left before she looked up and noticed he wasn't in his chair. It took her a moment to scan the area around her to realize he was behind her with a hand on the back of the chair. It made Hinata jump and stand to her feet turning to face him letting her purse fall to the floor along with the paper, her hand was clenched over her heart as she waited for his explanation.
"You aren't very aware of your surroundings." he pointed out,keeping his eye contact on hers, waiting for her own response while trying to suppress his amused smirk.
"I-I didn't expect y-you to move a-around during the interview." she replied honestly as she cautiously got to her knees and picked up her purse and notebook, this time making sure to hear his footsteps if he had moved. Thankfully he stayed put, taking off some of the edge she was feeling.
"How many more questions?" he asked her as he walked from behind the chair standing right in front of her with his hands stuffed in his pockets; making her take a step back in cautiousness.
"5 and two n-not so i-important ones" she replied softly as she glanced at the tape recorder thanking heaven that it was still recording so she'd have proof if he tried to do anything to her; she felt like an animal of prey under his gaze.
"How about I write out the rest of my answers in the book? I'll answer them all" he said holding out his hand to take the book but the whole thing didn't make sense, why would he voluntarily answer all the questions? Why did he want to get over with this so fast? Whatever the reasons he didn't hesitate, she nodded and handed him the book making sure there was more then enough room between their fingers when he grabbed the book and walked to his desk. In turn, she sat back down on the chair and waited as he produced a black pen from his drawer and began writing in the small book.
"Where are you from?" he asked as he wrote never taking his eyes off of the book as he wrote. Hinata couldn't believe what just happened. He only took the book to answer all the questions so he could conduct his own little interview.
"I live near my best friend TenTen" she said not giving away much, she was sure he didn't know her address. It wasn't normal for companies to ask for an address when making appointments and she doubted he would have done any different. Still, as she answered,he didn't seem to mind the amount of information she gave as long as it was something.
"How old are you?, if you don't mind me asking" he continued, still writing in the book.
"20" she replied, she didn't understand what possessed this man to take such an interest in her but it surely didn't help her nervousness.
"Are you in college?" he went on, never taking his eyes off of the book.
"Yes" she answered, again not giving much information since she was sure he set up about 4 red flags of warning that he was creepy. Finally he set the black pen down and looked at her; the look of amusement was replaced with annoyance.
"Why don't you answer questions fully?" he asked her in an irritated tone. He obviously didn't like the way she was answering his questions. The irritation scared Hinata slightly, but she was determined not to let it show since he was the one who had started this.
"I-It's odd w-when I had c-came up here to conduct an interview b-but end up g-getting interviewed." she pointed out,wondering how long she could keep this strong front when she was clearly terrified. A few minutes passed before a smirk finally appeared on his face and he went back to writing in the book switching his gaze from her to the questions.
"Point well made." he stated as he finally closed the book and pushed it to the end of his desk but just out of reach for Hinata; he did it on purpose.
"Tell me Hinata, why would you go to great lengths for a friend?" he asked her interlocking his fingers on his desk as he waited for her answer.
"S-She's my best friend." was all she said hoping to end this as fast as she could but the more she tried, the more he prolonged her suffering.
"What's your major in college?" he asked being genuinely interested as he cocked his head to the side for a moment,just watching her.
"B-Baking and Pastry arts" she muttered looking at her hands in her lap, hoping he'd get the hint. She wanted to leave and fast!
"Oh a Baker, huh?" he continuing smirking as he leaned back into his chair "Well then, when do you graduate?" he asked keeping the conversation going for as much as he could manage.
" -" she began but only to be interrupted once again by the raven before her
"Sasuke, Call me Sasuke" he corrected keeping a smirk on his face as he watched her wring her fingers in her lap.
"S-Sasuke, I-I have a terribly l-long drive home. S-So i-if you could e-end this interview,I-I would be grateful" she said, not daring to look up as she bit her lip nervously.
"Where do you live?" he asked her making the poor girl nearly twitch an eyebrow in frustration; he already asked that! He's doing this on purpose and he surely wasn't having mercy on her now.
"A-An hour away" she replied,wanting to just leave everything and walk out of the office. But then again this interview was what TenTen needed,so she had to push on.
"I see." he said as he thought for a moment,glancing at his wrist watch and sighing. He got to his feet grabbing the small book and placing it on the coffee table.
"Before you go, maybe I could give you a tour of the company's head quarters? I promise it wont take long." he offered,watching as she grabbed the book and put it in her bag before grabbing the tape recorder and getting to her feet forgetting to turn it off as she walked with him to the door.
"N-No thank you, Mr. Uchiha" she said not daring to look at him in any way. Once at the door,he beat her to the door knob where he stood there keeping her prisoner for a moment, waiting for her to finally meet his eyes.
"It was nice to meet you, ." he said before he opened the door and stepped aside, "L-Likewise" she replied but feeling as if she hadn't meant it in anyway, since in reality it wasn't true.
Hinata glanced at the dark haired girl who was surprised to see Sasuke at the door of his office; maybe it didn't happen often? Hinata began walking but she noticed that there was two sets of footsteps heading towards the elevator, she looked over and saw Sasuke behind her giving her a small smile before reaching across from her and pressing the button to the first floor.
"Are you sure about the tour?" he asked her stuffing his hands in his pockets. Hinata nodded and stepped inside the second she heard the doors open.
"Good bye " he said before turning around just as the doors closed.
The dark haired woman eyes were wide with shock and her mouth had dropped before the doors finally closed. It scared Hinata. Maybe that CEO really was a creep? Whatever he was, she was just glad she didn't have to meet or see him ever again!
Author's Note: I would like to thank you for reading! Please review and give me honest opinions :) Once again I would like to thank KeeBee for editing my fanfiction! Please if you enjoyed my story then I recommend to read hers! Her stories are perfect and I can't get enough of them!
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