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What was this girl's problem?
It was the last week of school and the only thing between the students and their winter break was class finals. Sasuke sat in his history class as everyone around him rushed through the test. He had already finished his paper ten minutes ago and he still had more than an hour left so he took this time to observe the girl who was currently occupying his mind more than it was necessary.
Last week when Sasuke had met her in the library he had helped her and sure he was teasing her to the point that she fainted, but it was nothing too harsh to warrant such hostility that she displayed to him.
After she woke up from fainting, Sasuke decided to be nice and apologize. If he ever wanted her to relax around him then he had to start somewhere. But Hinata wasn't taking any of that. In her soft voice she had thanked him for helping her with studying and requested something absurd.
"T-thank you for helping me b-but please...do not t-talk to me again." And with that, Hinata had quickly gotten up, gathered her things and rushed off without a single glance towards him. That one surprised Sasuke since he didn't think that she would outright ask him to leave her alone. Surely he was not too inappropriate with her or pushed her too far, right?
Never one to comprise his pride, Sasuke concluded that this girl wasn't worth his time and decided on his own accord to never talk to her again. But even though things were back to the way it was before the whole encounter with Hinata, Sasuke couldn't stop thinking about her. He could tell that she was going out of her way to avoid him, and even though on the outside Sasuke seemed indifferent, on the inside it was irritating. Did she think so low of him that she couldn't even stand to be close to him. He would not admit it out loud but it kind of hurt to see someone try so hard just to evade his presence.
Looking out from the corner of his eyes, Sasuke saw Hinata scribbling on her desk two rows behind him. Her head was bent and her eyes focused on the paper. If she knew he could see her then he was sure that she would've moved even farther away from him.
A growl passed through his lips at the thought of the girl and how annoying she had become this past week. Finally Sasuke rose from his seat and walked up to the professor. He handed in his paper and walked out the door without a single glance to the class behind him. He was done with all his finals and now he couldn't wait for winter break.
Hinata couldn't believe she had gotten through all her finals without a single anxiety attack. Usually, when she studied she would worry herself to the point that she had to breathe into a paper bag. But not this time, and she was proud of herself for that.
Thinking of anxiety, Hinata remembered the raven-haired boy who had teased her last week. She knew that at some point he meant it as a harmless joke. The Hyuga in her that was raised to be proper winced at the fact that she had been very rude to him when she asked him to never talk to her, but school was the most important thing for her at the moment, and she had no time to waste on a boy, especially one like him.
Walking back to her dorm Hinata was excited to go back to her bed and sleep for the next two days. It was finally winter break and she just wanted to spend each day of it in her bed with a good book or a good show to binge on.
Four weeks later...
Winter break had been over for a week and by now students had settled back in but for some reason Sasuke didn't feel quite right.
During winter break, Sasuke had lost interest in a lot of things, including school. He didn't allow his grades to slip, but he wasn't interested in his classes anymore and that made it difficult to focus in class. He didn't know why this was happening, well he had a slight idea as to why, but he decided to ignore it and let his actions take its course. It wasn't like he cared much about what went on back home anyway.
It also didn't help that the girl was in one of his classes again. She was acting as normal as always he guessed, but he could not stop noticing her. No matter how hard he tried to ignore, he could never not see her, which was annoying because he did not want to think about that annoying girl and how she was probably the only person who wasn't fake around him.
Hinata on the other hand was feeling excited to start her new semester. When she had gone home for winter break, things had been drastically different than what they usually were in the Hyuga household. For one, her father had acknowledged her hard work when he saw her grades. Well, it was more of a grunt of approval from him, but that was enough. Now she felt like she could take on the world. At least she felt like it until she walked into her math class. Now she felt like she was drowning in numbers and weird symbols she hadn't even seen before. Her major was computer science goddammit, why did she have to take calculus?
No matter, she wouldn't let this class break her resolve. She was going to get all A's this semester as well.
"I see, so History isn't the only class where you like to fail your tests." Sasuke stood behind Hinata's desk, looking over her shoulder at the test she was holding.
Hinata yelped and jumped in her chair before turning around to see who had spoken even if she already knew.
"I-I..." she frowned remembering that she was supposed to be ignoring this person, so she turned back around without giving an answer.
"God," Sasuke growled, "I get it. I probably disgust you so much that you can't even talk to me. That's fine," Sasuke said sarcastically as he shoved passed her desk to head out of the class. The girl was really annoying him.
"N-no, t-that's not it." She responded quietly but Sasuke heard it. Slowly he turned around to glare at her but did not say anything. "I-I just...y-your reputation," Sasuke growled again, "I m-mean, I just didn't want to get d-distracted by you!"
"What?" Sasuke was confused. What did she mean distracted?
"I-I really have to focus on school right n-now. I can't let my grades drop, o-or else...I just can't, and you always m-mess around with girls so I d-didn't want to get involved with you l-like that." Hinata blushed as Sasuke kept staring at her. She hadn't meant to make it seem that he disgusted her, and he sounded pretty annoyed at that fact so she wanted him to understand.
"What if I wasn't trying to get involved with you...like that?" He approached her desk and sat at the one next to hers.
"W-well...I still don't want any distractions..."
"Don't you have friends? What about them?"
"I don't have..." Hinata bowed her head in embarrassment.
"Look, this whole excuse isn't working for you since you're still failing the tests." Hinata wanted to protest but she knew he was right. "Why don't I help you?" She looked up at him with wide eyes.
"W-what?"
"I'll help you study." He shrugged as if it was no big deal. He wanted to seem like he was indifferent and didn't care much, but quite honestly he was hoping that she would agree. He didn't know why he was trying so hard with this girl. Maybe he was still working on his plan. Her tattoo, Sasuke thought as he remembered seeing some ink on her arm. It was still covered by the sleeve of her jacket, but just that thought of it renewed his efforts. There was something about the image of a girl as jumpy as Hinata sitting in a tattoo parlor getting something on her body permanently. What could it be?
"...A-are you sure?" Hinata finally relented after some debating in her head. He was right that she was just making excuses by now to avoid people and she did need help, but did it have to be him. Looking over him once more she blushed at the memory of the first time she saw him. "D-do you even know calculus?"
"Of course." He snapped. "And if you need help then I'm not gonna ask again."
"...OK"
"Good," Sasuke smirked and Hinata's face went up in flames. It never meant anything good whenever he smirked like that. "You finally accepted my offer."
"W-what, n-n-no that's not w-what-"
"Calm down. I was just joking." He reassured her but then winked at her heated face. "We'll go to the library after class tomorrow. You have a lot of catching up to do if you want to bring your grade back up."
Hinata was grateful for Sasuke's help, but did he have to be a calloused jerk. She was failing the tests for a reason and she was trying to get better, but it didn't help when he kept berating her for her mistakes. Sure they were stupid mistakes but she couldn't help it. She couldn't focus on her work when he kept staring at her so intently whenever he tutored her. Sooner or later her heart was going to jump out of her chest just in nervousness.
Sasuke on the other hand was quite proud of himself for helping Hinata. He felt like he was being a saint by tutoring her, and so far she had been improving, even if she didn't believe it.
"Look, it'll be fine," Sasuke rolled his eyes as the girl walking besides him kept going through her papers frantically.
"It's easy for you to say! If I don't pass this then I'm definitely f-f-failing this class." She nearly broke out in tears. Her bottom lip was quivering and her pout was so cute. Almost kissable.
"Hey, maybe I can help you relax and get your mind off of it." Sasuke smirked but the girl was too anxious to understand what he meant.
"I'm g-going to have an a-anxiety attack during the test. I know it."She bit her lip.
This girl was really antsy over a small quiz that was probably only worth five percent of their grade. How did she ever get through even one session for that tattoo? Sneaking a glance at her covered arm, Sasuke's hand twitched in attempt to just pull the sleeve back and see what she had tattooed there.
"Hey, look at me." He spun the girl around and pushed her against the closest wall. "Don't worry, okay?" He held her chin so that she could look into his eyes. He was standing close enough that she could feel his breath on her face. "You'll do...just...fine." He inched closer with each word as her eyelids began to droop, and just like that he was away from her and walking to their class.
What was that? Her heart was beating rapidly again but she wasn't thinking about the quiz anymore.
"Hey, w-wait up!" She ran after him.
It was easy to be around the girl afterwards now that he was tutoring her. She was always fun to tease and slowly Sasuke felt that she was becoming more comfortable around him. Maybe his plan was still in full affect.
On the side, he continued his "hobbies" but he only had the chance to do it once since he started tutoring Hinata. Slowly he found that he didn't want to go out like that anymore. Maybe he was just more busy this semester.
"Ok class, get into your discussion groups and discuss what you wrote so far for your assignment with each other. That's all we will do for today."
This semester Sasuke had decided to sign up for an english writing class. On the first day, his teacher had called out names to group people together. Sasuke hated working in groups. The others always dragged him and his grade down, but since this was mandatory he had to work it out this time.
His group had been the same four people this past week, but Sasuke could feel that something was different, or that something was about to change.
"Well, since you weren't here on the first day, I'm going to assign you to a group right now." Kurenai, his english professor spoke to a girl once everyone was in their groups.
Sasuke typically ignored what went around him in his class, but this time he couldn't help but stare at the girl standing by the professor. She wasn't very tall and her body was quite slim, but she held herself with a feminine grace. When she turned around to look for an empty seat, Sasuke couldn't deny that this girl was pretty, and everything about her seemed perfect, almost too perfect.
"Here, why don't you join that group over there."
Her eyes locked locked on with his and she held his gaze for a few seconds before walking towards the empty seat right next to him. Sasuke quirked an eyebrow at the slight blush on the girl's face as she took her seat.
"Hi, I'm Sakura Haruno," she said to him with a smile when she finally sat down.
Sasuke observed her for a few more seconds, and before he could reply everyone else in his group began to speak, each introducing themselves to her.
Usually it wouldn't matter to Sasuke whether some girl was paying attention to him or not, and sometimes he would even use that to his advantage, but for some reason, the way Sakura kept glancing his way was making him feel uncomfortable.
That was just the first day, but eventually with every day that passed in the new semester, Sasuke saw that Sakura was trying to get closer to him more and more, showing all the telltale signs of an emerging fangirl. She would talk to him to strike a conversation or sometimes she would ask him questions to get to know him better, and every time he would keep his replies short and terse hoping that she got the signal that he did not want to talk to her. It was making him uncomfortable and he didn't know why. Was it because this was the first girl he actually tried pushing away? By now he would've slept with Sakura and forgotten about her, but this time he had no such desire. Why was he even pushing her away? She was a pretty girl and seemed more than interested in him. What was going on?
"Sasuke, why are you huffing?" Hinata asked with a tilt to her head, her face contorted in one of confusion. Sasuke had abruptly walked into the study-room she had booked in the library, and immediately plopped down in his chair. "Did you run here? We still have time. You're early."
"I did not run here." Sasuke snapped with a glare quieting Hinata from saying anything further about it. "Let's just start on the homework." Sasuke sighed as he got his material out of his backpack.
In truth, he had basically just ran to the library after his english class. He seriously considered he was being paranoid but for some reason he thought he was being followed by a certain pink haired girl. He felt chills run down his spine at the thought of his classmate. Recently she had been getting aggressive in her approach, making unnecessary physical contact, or getting his attention in different ways. She had all but asked him out and every time he tried to stop her attempts, but it was to no avail. Why couldn't she just leave him alone?
"Thank you Sasuke for agreeing to help me." Sakura smiled at him as they walked side-by-side in the cold snow towards her dorm.
This was a stupid thing and Sasuke knew that, but somehow his pride had been on the line when he realized that he was basically avoiding this girl because he was afraid of something from her. So when Sakura asked him to help her with their essay assignment he agreed thinking that it would be a good step towards debunking this irrational thought-process of his. How could this girl do anything to him? This was all before he found out that he had to go with her to her dorm and now he wanted nothing more than to turn around and head the other way. But eventually he gave in and went ahead with her. If he ever wanted to get this over with and have her stop fangirling over him then he had to go through with it and make it clear to her that he was not interested.
He could already imagine what Sakura had in mind. He had seen the way she would steal glances towards him in class and the way she would talk to him. She would also somehow find him out of class in random places like the coffee shop or the library, making him think that she was definitely following him. It was the worst of it all when she tried to constantly meet up with him outside of class. The confines of the classroom was a safe environment and once things went outside, he knew that she would take the opportunity to make it intimate, and he wanted none of that. Funny how last semester he would've been all for it.
But then why was he going to her dorm room now if he wanted to avoid those kinds of situations? Oh right, he wanted to put an end to this once and for all. Maybe he should just sleep with her once and be done with it.
"This is my room," she said as she opened the door. For some odd reason her dorm seemed very familiar but he shrugged it off since most of them did look the same. "Here you can sit on my bed. Let me get my laptop and then you can read what I wrote so far." She smiled at him before taking her laptop off her desk.
Sasuke hesitated before he sat down in her bed. Being on here always lead things to go in a certain direction, but this time he wanted to avoid it. What was it about this girl that made him act so out of character? Was she even the reason why he was acting so strange? Suddenly an image of pale, lavender eyes and a shy smile with pink dusted cheeks flashed through his mind. What the fuck was that?
"Here you go." Sakura sat right next to him a little too close and handed him her laptop that had her essay opened on it. "Let me know what you think."
Sasuke stared at the screen for a few seconds before he focused on the words and began reading her paper. After reading it for a few minutes, he turned his head to look at her and tell her what he thought, but words did not leave his mouth as she suddenly kissed him.
Her eyes were closed and she was clutching the front of his shirt as she kissed him with what he knew was passion and experience. She was kissing him and he could not respond for a few seconds, until he grabbed her shoulders and pushed her away.
"Sasuke...?" She looked at him confused. She didn't understand. She thought he wanted her, and knowing his reputation he should have been with her already. So why was he pushing her away?
"I need to go." He said, abruptly getting off her bed and all but ran out of her room. What the actual fuck is going on with me?
"M-m-maybe you l-like her...?" Hinata suggested in help. She honestly didn't know what to say but she thought she could do this much and listen to Sasuke's problems even if they were about him not being able to sleep with a girl.
"I just told you that I left the girl in her room instead of having sex with her, and you tell me I might like her? Don't you think I would sleep with her if I liked her." He scoffed as he ran his hands through his dark hair. They were back in the study-room which was like their regular meeting place now. He had come to tutor her but as soon as he walked in and looked into those giant orbs that she called eyes, he spilled everything that was bothering him since last night. He had refused to take an opportunity placed so nicely in front of him yesterday when Sakura had started kissing him on her bed. He hadn't even done anything and she was already willing to sleep with him, so then why had he hesitated?
"W-well," this was such an uncomfortable subject to talk about with a guy. Why couldn't he talk about normal things like the weather, or football? "Don't you usually s-s-sleep with girls and t-then ignore them?"
"What are you trying to say?" He glared at her, not liking the accusatory tone in her voice.
"I m-mean that you d-don't l-like l-like these girls that you s-sleep with in that sense. Y-you don't w-want to b-be in a r-relationship with them." She took a deep breath hoping she wouldn't have to talk anymore.
"Hm..." He stayed quiet for a while, his face in a frown as he was in deep thought. "So you think I want to be with this girl in that sort of way. Not just fuck her once and be done?" Hinata blushed ten thousands shades darker than what she already was. Did he have to say it so crudely? It made her cringe at the thought of how insensitive Sasuke could be when it came to girls and their feelings. Is that what it was for him all this time? Be with someone once and then forget about them no matter what the other person felt.
"S-s-s-sure, i-if y-you want to p-put it t-that w-way." She managed to get out.
"I don't know..." Sasuke didn't deny what she said but he was having a hard time accepting it. Did he really like that Haruno girl? Was that why he was hesitant because he didn't want it to be like the others with her? Sasuke hated when he couldn't understand what was going on, especially with his mind and his feelings, which was why he avoided emotional related crap. But if he ever wanted to figure this out then he had to talk to the girl, and it wasn't like he could avoid her forever, since she was in his class. What else could help him understand why he was acting so strange?
Sasuke looked up at the girl sitting across from him, and noticed a strange, flittering feeling pass through his stomach. I definitely need to figure this shit out.