I Wish You Were Straight
"You can't be serious Hinata."
"Yeah girl, you're only going to hurt yourself."
"You know he's not into us. He's never going to answer you."
Hinata closed the textbook she had in her hands and sighed.
Her friends had just listened to her talk about Naruto Uzumaki, her only crush since like forever. She confessed to him 3 days ago during their field trip in the mountains. He'd caught her falling from the side of the mountain during their class hike and rescued her. During that time he'd got seriously injured from breaking her fall and she couldn't forgive herself, so she professed her love to him the next day – the only way she could finally come clean to him.
"Yeah, like he already came out of the closet yesterday." Ino piped in, flipping the next page of her Lit. textbook.
"C-Came out of the c-closet, what d-do you m-mean?" Hinata asked curiously.
"You mean you haven't heard? Naruto and Sasuke are together now. If you ask me, it's about time to." Sakura whispered, eyebrows knitting together in seriousness as she looked around the library. "They were tight – tight best friends even when they were still in diapers, so is it really surprising they'll start liking each other?"
"S-So what…y-you're saying is t-that…Naruto is gay?" Hinata felt her heart collapse as she said it. No way in hell would she have her chance now.
"Um yeah pretty much" Sakura replied.
"Oh girls, here they come…" Ino murmured, hiding her lips in the folds of her textbook. Hinata couldn't help but look where Ino kept nudging.
Naruto and Sasuke released their intertwined hands upon entering the library. The librarian didn't tolerate any romantic gestures inside or near the library – hetero or homo sexually.
She felt her heart finally drop as they shared a kiss in the cheek secretly when they passed by their table, laughing and sitting together on one table. Naruto was holding Sasuke tightly, as if they couldn't get enough of each other.
"Oh gosh, just think of the beautiful babies we would have had if only Sasuke wasn't gay." Ino whined, pouting her lips. "What a waste I tell you."
Hinata's loneliness began to boil into something else as she watched Naruto and Sasuke mingle. T-This wasn't right! After waiting for him to answer her confession, after all that she's done for him to notice her…this was how he'll show up in front of her face?
A whole new personality overtook her as she stood up from her chair and stomped across the library to Naruto and Sasuke. The girls let out a squeal of delight. A showdown was coming.
She grabbed Naruto's shirt and pinned him up one of the book cases. "Why Naruto, why?" Hinata cried, clutching his loose collar tightly.
"Hinata…You were never the one…" Naruto glanced over at Sasuke, a look of suppressed desire glinting from within his crystal blue eyes. Naruto licked his lips.
"YOU HEARTLESS GAY FAGGOT!" Hinata screamed, her face exploding in red. Hinata swung her left fist into Naruto's face, hearing his jawbone crack as her knuckles collided into his chin. On cue, Sasuke immediately trampled her over, releasing her ferocious grip onto Naruto.
"LET GO OF ME UCHIHA! NARUTO'S MINE!" Hinata snarled, slapping his hands away.
"What is the meaning of this?" The angered Librarian exclaimed shrilly, placing the fallen books back atop the bookcase. "Hinata Hyuuga! Sasuke Uchiha! DETENTION BOTH OF YOU!"
*X*
Hinata walked behind the quiet Uchiha as they walked upstairs to Mrs. Sarutobi. Ok, so she might have overdone it with the 'gay faggot' remark, and the punch... Hinata cringed. But she was just so out of control of her emotions. Realizing Naruto's true sexual orientation after all these years was… Gah! She was fantasizing about him in her dreams, damn it! This thought frustrated her endless.
"Ah…who would have thought you two will be coming in on my doors? Well come in join the club, first-timers." Mrs. Sarutobi waved the two teens in, one hand wrapped around her bulging baby bump. "I'm not even going to ask…"
"Thank you Kurenai-sensei…" Hinata murmured quietly. She slouched down on a sit in the middle of the room, Uchiha sitting right behind her.
"Just stay put for the next 2 hours, and you can go. Nice, quiet detention wouldn't you say so yourself? Just nap and it will all be over."
Her first detention wasn't too bad as she imagined it, if only she wasn't spending it with her just-alleged enemy: Sasuke Uchiha. To be honest with herself, Hinata already knew Naruto couldn't love her back, the signs were there…but she blocked that possibility out too roughly for too long and now she's suffering for it.
'It's all because of the Uchiha…It's his fault!' Hinata murmured to herself angrily.
"Did you have your period today?" asked the quiet Uchiha from out of the blue, "I mean no offense, but you literally just went psycho chick on Naruto."
"LISTEN YOU!" Hinata whipped her hair back, and grabbed the Uchiha's collar.
"That's enough Hinata! You're staying here for another hour after Sasuke leaves, understood?" Mrs. Sarutobi scolded, adding another hour in her timer. "I need to go home too, you know?"
Hinata begrudgingly let go of the unfazed Uchiha, she looked at him and she saw him smirk at her. "No…I don't think so…" Hinata whispered, looking down at her skirt…
'Crap…'
Sasuke shook his head, and stood up from his seat. "Hey, what do you think you're doing?" Hinata asked nervously.
Sasuke walked down the aisle, but with a limp on his left leg. He groaned a bit as he came up to Mrs. Sarutobi, leaning down to whisper something in her ears. Mrs. Sarutobi nodded and handed something to Sasuke.
'What the hell is he doing?' Hinata thought angrily.
"Here, you need this don't you?" Sasuke came up to Hinata and handed her a square wrapped pad. "For how long were you going to keep that in?"
"G-Give me that! You pervert!" Hinata swiped the pad from Sasuke's hands and blushed.
"Hey I'm gay right." Sasuke came up close to Hinata, sending his breath over her ears, "I promised I won't do anything to you."
Hinata's bit her lip in embarrassment as he pulled away and sent her a casual smile.
*X*
'He's gay, he's gay, and he's gay…' Hinata muttered to herself repeatedly. She sat back down her chair after excusing herself to the bathroom. He was right about one thing; the pad saved her from further humiliation for the day.
"Who's gay?" Mrs. Sarutobi asked, looking at Hinata with furrowed brows.
"Oh nothing… Hey, Kurenai-sensei… Where's Sasuke?" Hinata pointed at the empty chair behind her, checking her watch. "There's still an hour left of detention for him." As much as she hated it, she actually felt like thanking the Uchiha.
"He's excused; he was blasting out curses after you left."
"Huh, I don't understand…" Hinata replied.
"He's leg. It's swollen something awful, and it was broken for awhile. Sasuke was in no condition to walk, I don't know how he was able to even stand up, let alone walk."
"Oh…what was the reason?" Hinata couldn't believe it, the guy walked perfectly fine when they came over here.
"He told me it was from an accident. 3 days ago."
'3 days ago…Wasn't that the time I fell? How could he have been injured?' Hinata's brain was scrambling out incoherent thoughts.
"Anyway, the school nurse already came by and picked him. He's going to be alright, and umm…oh before I forget, he gave this to me too. It's for you." Mrs. Sarutobi pulled out a slip of paper from her desk and handed it to Hinata. Hinata gripped the paper shakily and squinted as she read:
In case you were wondering, you're cuter when you have your period. You're stronger than you look. If only you weren't sad that day, you might not have fallen. But as always I look out for you, so that's alright too. Keep falling and I'll always catch you.
W-What did she just read? Her grasp on the paper was sweaty, the ink blurring from the moist. Was this from Uchiha?
Hinata felt dizzy, her head was throbbing from thinking too much and her heart was pounding.
'So first of all… Sasuke was the one that caught me. B-But that's insane! It was Naruto; I saw Naruto's face when I opened my eyes! But that will explain for his leg, 3 days ago he… caught me.' Hinata burrowed her head deep into her arms in the table. She breathed out heavily onto the wooden surface; the tight darkness encircled by her arms felt hot and stifling.
"He isn't gay." She mumbled. The thought was somehow comforting.
*X*
Naruto didn't reply to her for the 10th time in her texts. It was stupid; she couldn't even send him more than 5 words. She tried to talk to him, but now he was giving her the cold shoulder.
'He's probably upset because of me…' Hinata thought miserably. She trudged up the steep incline slowly, clutching to a sprouting tree for support when she heard the branch snap. Her footing slipped on the wet soil and she felt her body tumbling down the mountain side, Hinata desperately grabbed at rocks to stop her descent but was futile.
At one point her head bumped to an edge of a rock and she passed out, unconscious as her rolling ragged body was caught by a worn-out Sasuke. "I hope I'm not too late…"
Sasuke tended to her dirty bloody cuts first and began to scrap up his surgical needles and thread from his medical kit. He made camp nearby and made sure the fire was up and running all night as Hinata rested on his sleeping bag. The next day, he saw Hinata stirring awake.
"N-Naruto" She mumbled, her eyes lifting. Sasuke closed his eyes, and sighed tiredly. "Yeah, yeah it's me…"
"I love you"
He stopped poking at the fire, and looked back to Hinata, already falling asleep again.
"I-I love you too."
*X*X*
a/n: So this is going to be a two-shot. I decided to break it up that way since I originally planned this out as a one-shot. Thank you for reading!