Hinata was always surprised when she found herself thinking about Yukki a little too often for a little too long. She wondered sometimes why that was, did she like him? That was silly. Yukki was her friend, sure, but liking him as anything more then that would have been stupid. Didn't he say that Yuno was his girlfriend? As if she could compete with that. She felt herself flushing as she thought about that; as if she needed to!? Thinking about this was starting to irritate her. She sighed heavily and rested her head on her desk, trying to go back to paying attention to the teacher's boring lecture.
Apparently she had been zoned out for longer than she'd realized, because suddenly class was over and everyone was getting ready to go home. 'Wow,' she thought to herself, 'Where did the time go?'
As if to answer her question, or at the very least as a way for the world to mock her, a surprising voice spoke up behind here, "Are you okay, Hinata? You looked sorta distant in class today."
"I uh…" Her face probably turned redder than she would have wanted it to, but fortunately, even the ever observant Yukiteru seemed not to notice. "Haha it's nothing! Just thinking about… Stuff!" Wow how transparent was that? She could almost feel Mao's eyes trying to figure out the situation from across the room.
'There's no way you have a crush on Yukki, Hinata. Stop being weird. He's a friend, but that's all!' She tried her best to tell herself that. 'Just a friend, just a friend.' She sighed and tried to change the subject, "Why don't we all hang out today?"
Yukki's eyes widened with delight and his cheeks flushed pink, not that this was an uncommon reaction for Yukki to have. Hinata caught herself thinking that he was actually really cute.
Kousaka, Mao, and Akise joined them as usual and of course they all had a good time. Still, Hinata felt more apprehensive around Yukki than usual, though she was pretty sure everyone BUT Yukki noticed… Well probably not Kousaka either… But still… Even if she did like Yukki, they were better off as friends. She was a bit sad, though. When they first met she did think that maybe Yukki could liked her and she never would have thought that she would like him. Who would have thought it would have ended up the other way around?
Regardless of his feelings or even of her own, she liked spending time with all of these people and she was sure that as long as she lived, she would do everything she could to protect her friends, now that they were all she had left. As long as she lived, she would take care of Akise, that idiot; Kousaka, Mao, and especially Yukiteru.