A/N: Thank you everyone for the great reviews I had last chapter! I love reading your responses. I'm glad that everyone enjoyed it. A couple people had some questions, but I hope this chapter makes some things a bit more clear.

Thank you for our support, please enjoy this chapter.

What You Don't Know

By: DC

Chapter One

"Sasuke!!" The chipper girl would bubble over with excitement, "Today we're going on a mission together, isn't it so exciting! Of course, it's not very exciting since it's just catching that poor cat again but…"

Two years ago, that was what Sakura Haruno would be doing. But this day was different. Because Sakura had matured, or, according to her, "gotten way over that jerk".

Yes, because as Sasuke saw her walking down the street, and he knew she saw him too, she didn't slow down to walk beside him. In fact, she walked faster.

Yes, perhaps she was "completely over him".

But as she turned around, and fluttered long eyelashes at him for just a brief second before jogging down the street again, Sasuke couldn't help but feel a dark sense that she hadn't moved on.

She was just getting better at pretending she had.

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"Stand up." "Fight."

Those were the only words he released from his lips everyday, for those long hours they trained.

And she would try to comply, try to stand up, try to defend herself as he relentlessly attacked her.

So weak. She was so weak, so fragile, so pathetic, he felt sick looking at her. Because she had the face of an angel, so sweet and so innocent, that whenever he hit her he felt guilt.

But he hit her harder, and harder, because he wanted that porcelain angel face over her expression to break, to shatter, and when it did he would have the final laugh, and she would be the one guilty for not being good enough.

Because she was never good enough.

Coughing out blood, she shakily tried to stand on her feet. She couldn't.

"No more, Hinata-sama. You can't."

And as he walked away, she cried.

Because she was weak.

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Nightfall bought on an odd chill, and as Hinata plodded barefoot past her cousin's room, she wasn't sure if those moans and those creaks were imagined or real.

She wouldn't go to his apartment tonight. She didn't want to bother him.

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He lay there, feeling so cold even with the warm body beside him. The pink-haired beauty stirred, but did not wake.

He looked to the window and saw the Hyuuga compound, small in its distance, but still loomed over houses, its tall gates daring you to try to go in.

He wondered what Hinata would think if she saw him with Sakura. Would she be jealous? He snickered mentally at the impossible thought.

"Sasuke…?" Sakura's eyes fluttered open, and the dark haired man wished they hadn't. "What are you doing?" Sakura was much prettier when she was sleeping, mouth closed without endless words and curious, sometimes annoying, eyes closed.

"…nothing," Sasuke looked at her vibrant pink hair and suddenly wished it was midnight blue. "…go back to sleep."

She smiled and snuggled into his side.

Yes, her body was warm, but it made him feel cold inside.

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She never spoke to him in public. In front of everyone, she was the innocent tomboy who still wished to be a brutal, strong kunoichi.

In front of everyone, she was uptight and weird, because she wasn't like other girls who wished to marry a handsome man and was vain about her looks.

But with Neji, she felt beautiful. She felt feminine and seductive, and when he shivered under her caresses she could make herself imagine that she wasn't plain Tenten anymore, the girl who stood in the background.

"Hi." She gave him a strained smile and waved as he walked by.

"…Tenten." He acknowledged solemnly, before continuing his walk.

But in front of everyone, they were just friends.

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How did Hinata Hyuuga fall in love? Is she even in love?

Is it the way his sad eyes glistened with innocent fear when his father suffered, the green marks of confinement she head once traced with her finger, or how she knew that below those layers of prodigy and genius he had a warm human heart, beating just like hers?

But did it really matter?

To him they were separated by fate. He was so intent on hating her he couldn't see anymore.

But with every piece of breaking heart, she still cared for him, felt for him.

And one day, she decided, she was going to set him free.

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End Chapter 1.

A/N: Wow, I realize I haven't updated for such a long time. The real reason is, I have around 3 unfinished one-shots that I'd really like to complete before seriously spending time on What You Don't Know; not to say I won't be working on this story. However, the updates will slow for a while until I'm done with the other little fanfics I want to round up, and then I'll try to keep updates up for at least once a month.

 Thank you very much for being patient with me!