helloo~!! its me again! wow, after a month long or so i havent been publishing any stories. hehe im sorry. its my last year of JHS and its been a very hectic year. ive been goin on courses and my school is having try-outs non-stop! (seriously). well, lets get the story going on peoples!

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Sunday Morning Rain Is Falling

Chapter 2 The Meeting.

Sunday, 20 December 2009

08.13

Uchiha Sasuke, Sally Muffins Café

I waited impatiently at the Café while eating my peach yogurt. What was taking her so long? Or is it just me hearing and seeing my watch ticking way too slow than it should be? Or, it was me feeling the planet earth turns slowly. My fingers played along with the spoon I was holding. The yogurt was empty, so I had to get a new cup of yogurt from Sally. Anyways, she finally came riding her bicycle. A smile followed her white fair face. Her front right and left side of her face were braided neatly then pulled till each end met, and tied with a red ribbon. The rest were left loose swaying onto the air. She was wearing a plain turquoise long sleeved shirt, and a bouncy polka dot red and white skirt, and turquoise wedges, accessorized by a dark blue baret. In other words, she was perfect. It was fall season after all. The trees falls its leaves beautifully and some still hanging on the branches and not willing to let go of its pretty orange-red color, kids singing and playing on the corner of the block, elders wearing old coats that smells like old people sat by the bench feeding birds bread crumbles while holding an ice cream that was starting to melt. It was like we were in some kind of school drama play, where everything combines and matches one another.

"Hey! Ready for some awesomeness?" said Hinata with an anxious intonation. Her cherry pink cheeks went blooming. Her words made me remember of an anime I used to watch when I was still a Junior High student. Yeah, poor Gilbert. Good thing Eliza kept you.

"Hn. Uh, do you want some sundae or maybe a yogurt like I am eating right now? I'll go get you some. Sally is giving some free foods right over that corner" One thing out of a bunch of reasons I like to chill out here at the Sally Muffins Café, free foods. And she usually would like to give me an extra toasted bread!

"Oh, no thanks. I'll just share some of your yogurt. That's okay, right?"

My eyes widened when that words came bursting out of her mouth and into my ears. Like my body usually reacts, it can't move. "You… You know, I'll just buy some myself if you don't want to share, though" she added.

"No! This… This is fine. I'll get an extra spoon for you. Stay still" I said. Good that I quickly said this. Otherwise, I'd regret to not share yogurts with her.

"Yes, Sir!" replied the girl, acting like a saluting soldier.

I tried to stand up off my seat. I couldn't move my feet. Then, I ended up tripping from the chair. Gosh, it was so embarrassing. "On the other hand, let's just share spoons" Hinata said while helping me to get on my feets. But hearing her saying that sentence made me fell down again.

"Hn" I responded with a weak voice. A simple nod followed the words.

"Who is Sally by the way?" She asked.

What? She doesn't know who Sally is? That is just, absurd. "Sally is the owner of this Café. She likes to give me some free foods just because I really like to hang out here with my friends. Or just maybe to have a cup of afternoon tea while reading a book or doing my homework. And also for the free Wi-Fi of course" a little laugh came out of my mouth. Her lips formed into a sweet candy smile.

"Oh, awesome!" she replied. Again she remembered me of Gilbert. Gilbert would likely say 'awesome' all the time.

We ate "our yogurt" and used the same spoon. She even offered to feed me. But of course I refused. It'll sound too desperate of me to do such thing. Though I regretted it. I couldn't let my cool self break out. It was too dangerous for an Uchiha like me. I locked our bicycle and head to the town park by riding my red Ferrari.

"I thought you were a type of guy who likes walk anywhere, since we often meet each other while walking down the streets. Who knows you have a Ferrari" said the girl with such enthusiasm.

"Well, let's just say my dad owns a business company, and he kindly gave this car as a birthday gift, okay?" I replied, trying not to appear as a show-off guy.

"Oh, okay. A Ferrari for a birthday gift? Somewhat hard to believe. My dad owns a business company too, but he never gave me any fancy stuffs like that. He said we should only use our own money to buy things not our parent's money. But whatever. It's your birthday after all. The best thing I got on my birthday is a DSLR camera. But that's my life, not yours so we're different in many ways. However, what else could I know about you? Since you've been playing oh-so cool right now. It's hard to figure out exactly what you're thinking about right now"

"Hn. Where should I start? I live in an apartment, 3 bedrooms in Forest Hills. I am currently in my last year of High School, and I don't live with my parents because I don't like depending on someone. Enough about me. Your turn"

"What? That short?"

"Yeah. It's your turn now" I said. Her eyes stared deeply into mine. I stared back.

"Fine. I'm in my second year of High School, which makes you my senior. I have a side job as an owner of an online shop so I make my own money. My mother died 2 years ago, just 1 month after I got in High School. My dad owns a business company—but you already know about that just a few minutes ago. He goes on his business trip a lot, so I don't see him very often. I decided to move to an apartment and pay my living cost all by myself so my dad only has to take care of my older boy cousin. He lives with us, because his family is at Japan and he just entered college at Harvard. If I have some extras, I'd give some to my dad, and some for myself. See? How easy is that? My story is way much longer than yours" teased Hinata. I responded in just a chuckle.

We opened my convertible top so we could feel the air rushing through our skin. We turned on the radio, and sang along crazily as if no one was watching.

"We're here! Finally. Come on! I'll teach you to ride a bicycle, so we could play along after that" Hinata said as she unbuckled her seat belt. Excited was the only word that could describe her feelings now. It was written all over her face.

"Can't wait" I replied with a lazy voice. I rolled my eyeballs and I walked as if I don't have any strength left. It vanished, since she will be laughing looking at me because I can't ride a bicycle. I'm dead. Shit.

"Hey, where's your spirit? Once we got here, your spirit vanished. Poof! Just like that" she said while demonstrating the "Poof" sound. Childish, yet cute. Her sweet smile lightened up my soul. "Unlock the bicycle holder!" She continued.

"Yeah, yeah" I unlocked the holder and carried down the bicycle one per one. Her's were yellow and mine was blue. My bicycle was brand new. Well, not brand new. I never used it. My brother gave that thing as a birthday present, just to insult me. He knew I couldn't ride a bicycle. He used to scream out "Chicken! Chicken!" and run around the house while acting like a chicken. We had a fight just for such nonsense. Don't know how her newly wedded wife can stand that moron. But freaky yet true, his attitude changes drastically when he's near her. Cool, calm, romantic, and gentle. But if she knew how he truly is, she'll be shocked to death. Too dramatic? I don't think so. Damn Itachi.

"The weather is terrific, and there's no one at the park! That's odd. But who cares?" she said. Actually, I booked the park. Yeah. It was open just for us. I thought it would be romantic. But now? It's kind of creepy. She'd look at me as if I was a psycho, if she knew that.

Sunday, 20 December 2009

09.43

Uchiha Sasuke and Hyuuga Hinata, Town Park

"Keep your balance. Your feet aren't moving! Come on! Steady… Steady…" and I fell down. She laughed sarcastically. I knew it. I knew she would act like that. I can't stand the humiliation I received just to be close to her.

"Hey! You said you won't laugh" I replied while trying to get up.

"Oh god. My stomach hurts. But, I can't help it! It's just too… too… Mmmfh hahah" she sat down holding her that was aching too much. Her feet kicking onto the ground. And she is still laughing, though not as hard as before.

As she calmed herself, she lied down to the soft green grass and sighed. I followed her actions just the same.

We had a break. We ate our picnic sandwiches that she made herself, and surprisingly it was delightfully delicious! We drank our juices, threw foods at each other, and played catch-it-with-your-mouth food throwing, and we also did guess-what-cloud-shape game too.

"Enough break. I'll teach you how to ride a bicycle properly. Its serious time" She said, putting the oh-so serious look on her face.

"No sarcastic laughs?"

"Mmm… I don't know. Maybe? No promises though!"

"What?"

"You want me to teach you or what? You choose"

"F… Fine! You leave me no choice"

It took a pretty long time for me to finally ride a bicycle. She was satisfied of my work, and her teaching. She even gave an A+.

"Here. Sit in front of me. I'll try to ride around the park" I said. I didn't know where those words came spilling out. I didn't care.

"You sure?" the girl replied.

"Yup" I held her close. Her scent was smelled by my nose. And no, it wasn't stinky or something like that. It was rather fresh. And as usual, her hair sways softly. Without her knowing, a weird smile came sticking its self to my face again.

While having some cheerful laughs, I was shocked. I couldn't believe what I saw. I landed both my feet onto the ground. My eyes widened. A dainty pink-colored haired girl walked towards us. Hinata didn't know what was going on. I could tell that she was confused of this sudden froze. Her face looked at me with a completely clueless look.

"Long time no see, Uchiha Sasuke"

Her name was Haruno Sakura. My very first love that ditched me and left 2 years ago. Yes, I still remember how I felt when she left. No explanations, nothing. It was like being stabbed by swords from every single direction. She was still the same. Green big eyes, long legs with pink soft middle length hair, middle sided hair, no bangs, and don't forget the branded clothes she always wore every now and then. And now, she popped out of nowhere and forcing to enter my life once again.

"What... What are you doing here?"

"Calm down. Aren't you happy I'm here to see you?" I didn't response.

"And who is this you're with?" she continued.

Noticing that this was quite awkward, Hinata braved herself to speak. Her hand faced to Sakura, waiting to shake her hands. "Hello! My name is Hinata. I'm a friend of Sasuke. Nice to me-"

Sakura cutted her words and said "Can't you see I'm asking Sasuke, not you? Dimwit" Hinata lowered her hands with face facing the ground.

I tried to melt up the cold conversation. "Um, Sakura this is my friend. She's teaching me how to ride a bike. Hinata this is Sakura. She's-"

The rich girl cutted the conversation, again. "I'm Sasuke's girlfriend. Nice to meet you Hinata" she smiled in disgust. I was terribly shocked of what Sakura just said.

"And Sasuke. If you want to ride a bicycle, you can always ask me. You don't have to be teached by this filthy human. Just look at her clothes. And something just smells fishy here. Euw" Sakura continued.

"I... I think I could just go home now. I'll grab my bike and walk home. Nice to meet you, S… Sakura. B... Bye" Hinata said stutteredly. Sakura replied her greetings with a fake small smile. Her hands shoo-ed Hinata.

"Wait. I'll drive you home" I said. My hands held tightly her upper arm.

13.34

Hyuuga Hinata, Town Park (Hinata's POV)

"No need to do that Sasuke. She's a big girl. She could walk home by herself. Right?" She said while holding off Sasuke's arm. I saw her hands squeezing hard enough to not let go of the boy. Her eyes stared at me as if I was a pest for her. I could hear her cursing beneath her breath. I shook off his hands off from mine and faked a smile.

"She's absolutely right. No need to do that. I'm… I'm perfectly fine" I replied. Words came out from my mouth spontaneously. His eyes relaxed, then he patted my head as an indication of a goodbye. I didn't know what to do. And I regretted my actions just then.

I walked home while carrying my yellow bike. I felt tears sliding down my cheeks slowly. I felt pain down through my blood. I felt my heart burned till bits and tore apart to pieces. A feeling I have never felt before. The day became cloudy as I cried.

I sat on a bench, my bike parked peacefully next to me. I stopped crying minutes ago. I stretched my legs that were exhausted. One more step, my feet will be able to be unattached to my hips. The reason was clear, the distance was far enough for a 16 year old girl to collapse, though once in awhile I rode my bike.

13.37

Uchiha Sasuke, Town Park

(Sasuke's POV)

She left. I shouldn't have let her go. The feeling of guilty wrapped my mind.

"What's with the frown? Come on. I'll drive you anywhere you want. My boys will take care of your Ferrari" Sakura said.

"Home. I want to get to my apartment. NOW" I replied.

"Geez. What's with the crappy attitude? Fine I'll get you home. But before that, let's go somewhere! Let's see... ha! Let's go to a Café. There must be a lot going on since I've left""

"Yeah. Ever since you left, everything has changed. I mean—whatever. Just get me home immediately. I don't care whether you want me to go elsewhere" I said, not paying attention to a single word that came out. That incident at the park kept on repeating. I knew I did the wrong thing. But it's all over. She left. And I can't do anything about it. I wanted to be with Hinata. But at the same time, I wanted to be with Sakura. I can't risk losing her out of my sight again.

The streets were as busy as ever. Seems like spring season suddenly went off or something. Sakura kept on babbling about something -- I didn't pay attention to what she was saying. The entire time I spent sitting with her, my mind was completely empty. -- I was quite daunted of what I did back then. I looked through the clear sight of the window. I saw birds flying freely and chirping into a song-form. That second I saw a girl. A girl that was stretching her legs on a bench. Hinata, I said to myself. Her sweat was all over her face. She grabbed a mini towel out of her bag and wiped the sweat out. She drank some glugs of mineral water. Her face was red. Not blush red, but exhausted red. I felt ashamed of myself.

After Sakura left me 2 years ago, I felt emptiness in my heart. A hole craved itself in my heart to be exact. Then Hinata came. The hole that was in my heart, slowly closed. When my mind was filled with Hinata, Sakura came back. I was so happy, but at the same time, I felt pathetic. I was afraid of losing her again. I thought she was history, but no. She was just hiding. And now I found her when I already had someone in my heart. Nevertheless, I can't stop the fact that I was in love with two persons at one time. I am cruel. I blame myself for being so selfish.

"Sorry. I can't go to the Café with you. I have some things I have to do" I said.

"What? You can't!" she replied.

"I have more important things to do and to be thought of than being with you" I said as a response. A grin showed up. I didn't know why I did that. It naturally popped up. I relaxed my chin from grinning and listened to her reply.

"Oh! So some things are better and more important than me? Okay, if you think so. I wish you to get off this car immediately, because NOTHING is better and important as me" she defended herself. There goes her shitty attitude, I said to myself. The one and only thing I hate about her is her ego. Man, it's huge.

"That's not what I meant" I took a deep breath and continued "I need some things to be took care of. Not that you're not important. You are important, but I have to sort things out. My mind and feelings is acting crazy, and I can't do a damn about it. So please get me straight home" I said. The whole thing I said was true. I'm haunted by this feeling, and it just won't quit irritating me. Truthfully, right this moment, I can't think clearly near her. She always can find a way to create a fight. I have to clear things up. Things happened too much today. And besides, who wants to be dumped in the middle of this highway? Must be someone with an idiotic brain would do that.

She sighed. "Fine. But next time you have to go with me! Promise?"

"Yeah yeah" I responded lazily.

"Okay. Then I'll drive you straight home. But a promise is still a promise so don't you go and forget that."

13.54

Hyuuga Hinata, Room 102 Austin's Apartment

(Hinata's POV)

I arrived at my apartment. I texted my best friend, Ino. My fingers raced to push the keypads from my PDA phone. I didn't texted Temari and Tenten because I knew how they would react. Ino, on the other hand, would react less more grumpy than the other two would.

SOS. My apartment. Now.

I needed to tell her what happened. It was somewhat a thing I should inform right away. Besides, she always can calm my heart down. She is my life saver. Without known by me, a tear slided down my cheeks slowly. She was his girlfriend, huh? And I'm just a pest. My heart ached. What is this feeling? A feeling I have never felt before is torturing me so bad. From their eye contact, I could tell they were in love. She was (almost) perfect. Everything that a guy could ever dream of. Though her attitude was very snobbish, I could see that she was jealous of me by sticking close to Sasuke. But I didn't think I did anything wrong though. It was just a friendly picnic at the park. Alone. Just the two of us. It's normal for friends to do things like that, Right? (I think so?)

I heard my apartment door being shutted close. Ino. That's definitely her. She rushed down and sat with me on the couch.

14.21

Hyuuga Hinata and Yamanaka Ino, Room 102 Austin's Apartment

(Normal POV)

"So, what's the big SOS?" said her blonde haired best friend. Hinata didn't response.

Ino's eyes saddened. "What's wrong? Your eyes are red, and your cheeks are soaked wet. There must be something going on. I know. Maybe a guy insulted you, or no. Even worse! You can't go to the big annual sale with me! Why-" she stopped babbling while wiping Hinata's soaked wet cheeks. "It's not about that, isn't it?"

Hinata nodded. "I... I don't know what's going on. I don't even know how to tell you" she answered.

Ino replied, "Then let's use Mr. A and Ms. B like we used to do! I'm sure you could explain things way more easy than it should be" Her hands holding tight her best friend's hands.

She started with a big inhale, and then her stories went on flowing through her best friend's ear.

Ino began to notice what was going on. Her heart pounded real hard as if she had heard great news. "So Mr. A is the boy, Ms. B is the main character, and Ms. C is the bitch. Did I have that right?"

Hinata nodded in response. "Who's Ms. C? I mean, the real Ms. C" She said again.

"She—err—um—she's"

"Don't say she's Sakura Haruno! Cause that would be like so weird. You remember Sakura, right? The meanie crazy oh-so famous and oh-so pretty large forehead girl at our junior high school, and then some agency picked her out and made her a model. And then now, BAM! She's famous. Gosh I still remember her squeaky voice and her disgusting pink hair. Oh! Do you remember that guys usually put gum on her hair, throw slurpees at her face? That was hilarious!!" Ino said as if she was an unstoppable talking machine.

"…" Hinata said nothing. Her face facing another way other than seeing Ino, and hiding her face beneath her straight bangs.

Then the blonde haired girl let put a little gasp, "Oh my god… What the fucking hell! It's her isn't it! Oh yes, I know the "she's the girl" look on your face" her best friend said furiously.

"Can't you just—never mind. Yes now you know the girl. So what? You're supposed to give me an advice. Not to comment on it" Hinata replied in a lazy toned voice.

"Oh. Yeah!" then Ino began to start her examination. "First of all, according to my point of view, Ms. B likes Mr. A. And Ms. C also likes Mr. A. And because of Ms. C's disappearance, Mr. A searched for another girl to fit his heart. And then, Ms. C came back and Mr. A's feeling towards Ms. C came back. Am I right?" explained Ino.

"I don't know. You should ask Mr. A for all the details. And I'm not going to go all I-know-everything acts. And then, about Ms. B's feeling? I don't think so. The feeling of like? I'm not sure" Hinata replied with a face of disbelief.

Ino's face showed up a grin. A few seconds later, her eyes widened, her jaws drop. She looked as if she just saw a ghost. "You love him don't you? Oh my god. My best friend, for the very first time fell in love! I… I've lost amount of words" Ino's eyes blinked a few times, her mouth moved in silence as if she was talking. Her eyes squinted sharply to Hinata's eyes.

"What? No... No! I... I don't think that... That is even possible!" Hinata shouted to her best friend. She took some deep breath to calm herself, though it didn't work.

"Girl, I think you should stand up for your feelings. Don't even care of that slut! Do what you think is best, and forget of what happened that time. It doesn't matter now. What does matter is how you feel. Don't let yourself be insulted by that girl! And some things are difficult to be transformed into words. So this is a problem that only you and your heart only can answer. When I meet you again, I hope you already have found your answer, that's your homework!" Ino replied.

"But. I don't think that I have feeling for-"

"I don't get buts for an answer, okay? And it's almost time for me to pick up Tenten and Temari. They should be waiting anytime soon. Sort your feeling out, sis! Bye!" Ino said as she rushed through out the door. Silence filled the room. Arabelle that was used to her awkwardness, and her rude words. She would just plainly say what she wants to say, and feel like saying. The girl that was still confused of what happened just earlier, calmly lied down on her couch as she tightly hugged the cushion pillows as she tried to relax. Her minds were completely puzzled by Ino's words. Was Ino's words were even true? She couldn't understand her feelings at all.

~End of Chapter 2~

phew... im already writing on the 3rd chapter yeaaay!! also gonna go on hiatus again. =3= yes, im so damn tired of those freakin damn exams. arrghh i need a break! R&R peoples! DO NOT FORGET.

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