Edited 24/2/2014: No hugs, no kisses and no Hinata flippity-floppity moments. Things turned out differently.

A/N: I'll keep this short. I'm a newly converted NaruHina shipper. I used to ship GaaHina but not anymore. And this is my first NaruHina fanfic.

Chapter 2: It Gets Complicated

There was no meeting. It was just an excuse for him to get away from her. As cool as he could managed, Sasuke maintained his posture and walked up the stairs briskly. He pushed the door open and stepped out to the roof of the school. He let out his breath he didn't know he was holding and closed the door behind him. He leaned against it and slowly slid his back until his bum hit the ground.

"Stupid…" he muttered.

It was unusual for him to be speaking with himself but anything that had to do with her; unusual seems like a normal part of him.

He questioned himself many times how he had come to like her without them ever acknowledging each other. And the answer in his mind was always the same. A memory.

Her smile and soft touch was not the reason his heart skipped offbeat but her eyes. Her beautiful pearl grey eyes pulled him in. He liked her eyes. He liked her.

Sasuke set on a chair nearby with a huff as he gently massage his forearms, water dripping off his skin and drenched hair. Toweling himself dry was the least he cared at the moment. His muscles were aching!

"Anko-sensei really did us in! I can't feel my legs!" Naruto whined. "I think it's going to fall off any second."

"Hmph…"

Kiba held on to the blonde's shoulder as he tries to steady himself. Naruto, tiredly push the brunette away and walked to his locker. The rest of the boys grumbled as they dragged their shivering legs in. All they wanted was to take a shower and sleep through the next class.

Naruto slammed open his locker the same time Sasuke opened his albeit calmly. Both boys froze; confusion in their eyes. Behind them, a certain brunette snickered.

The raven haired blinked and checked the front of his locker before looking at the contents inside. All of it wasn't his. It was messy and it stinked of ramen and dirty socks. There were green molds here and there. It was definitely Naruto's locker.

"This is lame, Kiba,"he sighed. "Switching our locker numbers? Pfft."

Hearing the answer, Naruto glanced at the delinquent and gave him thumbs down before he pushed Sasuke aside to grab his towel in his locker. All the while grumbling as he head to the showers with the other boys.

Kiba tsked and followed suit leaving Sasuke alone.

His onyx eyes glued to a piece of white letter on the ground. It fell when Naruto took his smelly towel. Sasuke picked it up gently between his thumb and forefinger and examined it. He wasn't surprise that Naruto hadn't noticed it. It was sort of… small. Almost like a typical petite confession letter.

The only words written on top were 'Please Read! w' in a really feminine handwriting almost like—

Sasuke's eyes widen.

"Dude, what're you doing?"

He turned sharply at Naruto, carefully hiding the letter behind him. He looked at the blonde unblinkingly in the eye and said, "Nothing."

They stood staring at each other for a few seconds before Naruto shrugged. "Wierdo." He muttered loud enough for the other boy to hear. He grabbed a small bottle from his locker and slammed the door shut.

"C'mon, Sasuke! You're gonna miss the hot water!"

Sasuke watched the retreating blonde before placing the letter in his uniform pocket and grabbed his towel. He closed the door slowly and quietly.

"Sorry."

"Sorry."

He didn't know who he was sorry for. Naruto his best friend for, not being honest about the letter that was meant for him or Hinata his long time crush, for lying to her.

He wanted her for so long. Since the day his heart thump wildly in his chest for her, he had wanted to tell her how he felt. But then that would be creepy. They weren't even friends yet.

He was too nervous when around her that simple words like 'Hi' and 'Bye' stuck in his throat. So he settled with accidental actions.

He tried bumping into her but his body froze even when she was 20 feet away. Then he tried dropping his eraser or pencils near her desk but it never happened. He hated the thought.

In the end, he settled with just being near her and watching her from afar without making things obvious. And pray that Fate would bring them together or at least an accidental contact between them.

Of course, it never worked if he was aware of how close or far she was from him. Till this day, he hadn't made his move on her.

Until, of course, a few moments ago. He saw his opportunity and took it.

Sasuke knew that what he was doing was wrong but if he played his cards right, Hinata would fall for him and forget about the dobe. …Would she?

"You're not supposed to be here, Sasuke-kun."

The raven haired glanced behind him. He had moved from the ground and was standing over the ledge, feeling the breeze brushing against his cheek.

The person stood next to him and seemed to enjoy the breeze too. "You know, as prefect I could demerit you for this but I'll let this slide."

"Ever the goody-goody, Haruno."

Sakura scoffed but she smiled. She did a stretched and felt content when she heard a soft crack on her back. "I've come up here twice and you know what? This place is good for thinking. I see why you're almost always here."

Sasuke didn't reply her.

The pink haired prefect shift herself a little closer to the boy and with a slight blush, she asked, "Want to talk about it?"

Her blush deepened when Sasuke turned to look at her before turning back to the view.

"I'm not having any problems or conflicts," he said. "I just like it up here."

Sakura hummed in response.

The two looked at the view in companionable silence until the bell rang.

=w=

Hinata trudged back to class unwillingly. She hadn't taken her lunch and therefore walking back from the girl's toilet and back to class was a hard task. Oh, and she was still shocked and puzzled as to how she could've mixed Sasuke's locker from Naruto's.

She sat on her chair and took out her chocolate mint from her bag. Still lost in thought, she unwrap the sweet and popped it into her mouth and swallowed it whole without chewing.

Choking, she slammed her fist on the table and the other on her chest. She was so in pain she hadn't thought of grabbing her bottled water.

At that thought, said object was in her line of vision with the cap opened. She grabbed it and drank the water greedily. Only when the pain was gone did she realize that someone was rubbing her back soothingly. Alarmed, the water she was drinking went down the wrong hole and she started coughing again.

The hand on her back started patting a little hard and the pain slowly faded away.

"Feeling better?"

Hinata froze at the voice. She turned her head sharply to look at Sasuke who still had his hand on her back. Her eyes widen at his act and the close proximity of their body. Her face turned red with embarrassment and avoided looking at him in the eye, which lead her to notice that the class was staring at them. Shocked or surprised, she didn't' know.

But knowing they were looking at her made her uncomfortable. Nobody gave her much attention before and it was a strange feeling that all her classmates' eyes were on her.

She was about to thank Sasuke when her eyes caught sight of Naruto looking at them from the doorway, with his mouth gaping and eyes on the verge of bulging out.

Hinata pushed Sasuke away and turned to stare at her desk with her head down. Her hair covering her reddened face and her hand gripped tightly around the bottle, slightly shaking. She missed the brief hurt look in Sasuke's eyes.

The class erupted into whispers when Naruto speed walked towards them. His eyes locked on Sasuke's.

Hinata could see the lower part of Naruto and decided to scratch her bottle with her forefinger. She was nervous.

Her small action didn't go unnoticed by Sasuke. He narrowed his eyes at the blonde.

"What's the meaning of this, teme?" Naruto spoke first. The class quieted down, watching the semi-drama.

Sasuke crossed his arms and stood closer to Hinata. His hips slightly touching Hinata's shoulders.

Hinata tensed. Why isn't she doing anything? She had to do something! She needed to clear up this misunderstanding before things get out of hand. She mustered up her courage and opened her mouth.

"We are—!"

"A couple. She's my girlfriend and you're ruining our moment, dobe."

Hinata was about to retort when an arm snaked around her shoulders. Making the girl froze and her heart beat just a little faster. Nobody had ever touched her this way before except for her mother of course.

Yet it felt electrifyingly wrong. The warm arm behind her was hard and soft but it was wrong. It wasn't nice. He smelled nice but, it's wrong. It doesn't matter if Sasuke was wearing expensive cologne and that he smelled good because of it. Him touching her was very wrong. This intimate action was only reserved for her Naruto-kun and no one else! Her heart was only for Naruto. She looked at all her classmates. They needed to know the truth.

"No! I'm not—"

"Well? You don't feel well, Hinata?" Sasuke interrupted. He placed his hand on her forehead. "Your temperature seems a little off. Maybe you should see the nurse?"

Immediately, Hinata stood and smacked his hand away carefully placing the bottle on her desk. A loud slap echoed. She brought her hands together as if to form a barrier between her and Sasuke and quickly stepped away from him. "I'm g-good, really…"

Everyone was silent. A few gasp but no action was taken. Nobody slaps Uchiha Sasuke away; especially, no girls.

Sasuke's eyes were wide. His hand was turning a little pink from the slap. He blinked slowly, still trying to catch what happened. He lowered his hands to his side and looked right at Hinata.

"Well," he said. "If you say so."

Hinata blushed in embarrassment. She glanced around, avoiding the Uchiha's stare before settling back at him. She was sweating and shaking slightly. She had never had this much attention on her before and it was driving her crazy all she wanted to do was faint and wake up in a different time where she never write her confession letter in the first place.

"Uchiha-san!" she begin. "I am so sorry! But I need to explain something to you."

Sasuke froze. He knew what was coming. "Alright." He did a quick glance at Naruto who apparently wasn't so sure what was going on.

Hinata took a deep breath. "That confession letter," she said. "It wasn't supposed to be for you. I-I made a mistake. It… It was meant for s-s-someone else." She did a 90 degrees bow. "I-I am so sorry for the misunderstanding!"

Everyone watched on. All eyes turned to Sasuke, waiting to see what he'll do.

He lowered his head and tucked his hands in his pockets. "I see." He replied somewhat calmly.

Hinata straightened back up and folded her hands in front her, eyes never meeting his. "Y-yes…"

Sasuke's heart ached. He was hoping she would play along, given the idea that dating with a popular guy would make any girl stay. Of course, Hinata wasn't just any girl. He smirked inwardly. I underestimated her.

At that moment, Naruto gave a shout startling everyone. "Wait!" he looked at Sasuke and pointed a finger at him. "Wouldn't it mean you like her?"

Everyone stopped.

Sasuke's face turned bright red. "Naruto—"

The blonde continued. "Even if the letter was wrongly sent to you, you still accept it. Doesn't it mean you like her?"

Naruto was gaping and resembled more like a fish, big eyes with open and close mouth but so was the rest of the class. How were they supposed to react when their school's heartthrob turned down all the pretty and popular girls in the school and from other schools which were usually well-known and high-class and then technically got rejected by a dull, plain, not popular girl who turned out to be their classmate?

Indeed, all they knew about Hyuuga Hinata was that she aced all her exams and does her homework. She never socializes with the class much and she was just so plain and boring and so uninteresting they just couldn't bring themselves to let her be with the in-group. They didn't dislike her it's just… she was boring.

Uchiha Sasuke, popular hot guy rejected by Hyuuga Hinata, plain boring girl?

Everyone couldn't quite believe it. There's someone who doesn't have the hots for Uchiha Sasuke. And it's a she!

Sasuke's face was burning. He looked at Hinata. She was staring wide-eyed at him, her small dainty hands covering her mouth. He cursed all kinds of curses at the blonde in his head. With clenched teeth, he muttered loud enough for all to hear.

"That's… true." I didn't think it'll turn out this way.

The whole class erupted into murmurs and loud whispering. Naruto glanced at the Hyuuga girl.

Hyuuga Hinata was still… very still. The blonde felt a tug in his chest, as he always did whenever he really looked at her. He didn't like the feeling, but it wasn't an unpleasant one.

"So, Hinata," The voices died down when Sasuke started.

Pearl eyes shyly met onyx ones. "Ye-yeah?"

His eyes met hers challengingly. "Who was the letter for than if not… for me?"

Right, a curious question, everyone would want to know.

"W-Who's it f-f-for?"

Hinata was having trouble answering. "I…! It's-It's…! It's f-for…!" Her eyes did a quick take at her blonde oblivious crush. Suddenly she felt really hot and sweating, hard. Should she tell? Was this how she would let Naruto know her feelings? Was this how she would confess to her crush?

She squeezed her eyes shut. "It's for… for!" No! I can't do this! My feelings, it was all supposed to be in that letter! Naruto-kun was supposed to know it through that letter! She opened her eyes.

Everyone was waiting patiently for her reply. Sasuke was looking at her daringly. Uchiha Sasuke… liked her. Hinata couldn't help but felt a little happy that someone like him was interested in someone like her yet, she felt bad for him too. I'm sorry, Uchiha-san. But I like Naruto-kun.

"I-I… I can't… tell you."

Sasuke grunted. "Why not?"

"I can't tell you." She repeated.

And then, he dared himself to asked her, even when he already knew the answer. This was the only time to do it. He didn't think he would have the balls to ask her in the future if he don't do it now. "Well, I like you. Would you give me a chance to date you?"

There he said it. It was out of his chest. No ounce of regret.

"I'm so sorry but no."

…Ouch.

Sasuke's eye twitched. No hesitation in answering. He was a little unsettled with her immediate rejection. This situation never happened before. Girls always go for him; but not this one. The one female he liked doesn't like him back. It was unusual.

He did the only thing he thought could resolve the conflicting emotions inside him. He turned on his heels and speed walked out of the classroom. Away from his classmates, away from Hinata and away from his stupid best friend that he reasoned himself was why he got rejected.

Apparently, as Sasuke walked out someone came in saying that their teacher was absent and they have a free lesson. No sub teacher either.

Once the young Uchiha locked himself in the boy's toilet, he banged his head against the door a few times. His hand clenched on where his heart beats frantically and in a second the air around him felt hot and he was sweating. He breathed out hot air and tried to steady himself.

Small tears formed at the corners of his eyes. Yes, he was hurt and he wasn't in denial that it hurt. Is this how all the girls I rejected felt? He chuckled, wiping a fallen tear. His chest ached so much he just wanted to scream and let it out like a brat.

But he wasn't one. He was an Uchiha so he held it in. He had never felt this way before in his entire life.

Sasuke leaned on the door and thought about what happened. He was able to touch (albeit briefly) the person he admired from afar for so long without letting her presence affect his coolness. And then that happened.

What made him think she would play along? That she could easily forget about the dobe and go out with him? Sasuke knew this would happen and wondered why he went along being dishonest. He really did underestimate her.

"Hey, teme."

Right after Sasuke walked out, Naruto went after him. The class was in an uproar when he walked out. He couldn't care less. Right now, he needed to do what every best friend do when their best friend got rejected. Especially when said best friend was never rejected before.

"You alright in there?"

Sasuke sniffed. "I'm not giving up."

"What?"

"I'm not gonna lose to you."

"I'm not sure I understand…"

Sasuke never bothered to reply.

Naruto leaned on the locked door. He blew out a sigh. Words weren't needed to comfort the Uchiha. Just his company.

=w=

Despite what happened earlier, nobody approached her. That's fine with Hinata, she didn't feel like talking to anyone at the moment anyway. She felt kind of bad that she rejected him but nothing was supposed to happen between them in the first place. He didn't really give her a chance to tell him that the letter he got wasn't for him.

Hinata felt better after she explained the mistake. But a new heavy feeling was starting to settle in her mind. She lifted her head a little. The class had gotten back to doing their own business.

"So Sasuke likes Hyuuga-san."

"Yeah but she turned him down."

Almost everyone was looking at her curiously. Hinata pretended to read as she flipped a page of History text. Never had she had this much attention on her before; not even in her household family back at the country. It was unnerving.

"Why would she reject someone like Sasuke? I don't think there's anyone better than him."

"Why don't you ask her?"

"No way!"

Hinata flipped another page. Okay, just ignore everyone. Think about something else. Don't listen to them. She flipped from page to page mindlessly trying hard to drown the not-so-loud whispering around her.

And then, someone walked into class. Everyone looked up except her. She didn't want to see either Sasuke or Naruto's face. She was still coping with herself that the situation earlier actually happened. She flipped the pages back and forth.

"Did something happen while I was gone?"

It was a Haruno Sakura; one of the school's prefect and teacher's pet. Hinata's rival when it comes to acing test and exams. Of course the top two spots were Sasuke and a guy from a different class but the third spot was an uneven take between her and Sakura.

Although they never really talk with each other, there was an unspoken rivalry between them.

"Oh my gosh, Sakura! Where were you?" A girl dragged the strawberry colored haired girl to the side. "Something definitely happened while you were gone!"

"Well, tell me already!" Sakura bit her lip eagerly. She don't do gossip but hearing one was definitely her favorite past time.

Hinata decided that History was bad at distracting her so she kept the book and took out another one, a Japanese novel. She opened it and tried to actually focus on reading. Really, couldn't they take this somewhere else where she couldn't hear them? She's fine with them talking behind her back but in front of her was a little too inconsiderate.

Don't they have something else to complete and worry about besides what happened with her and Sasuke? At that moment, Hinata felt really lonely. It was how she felt almost everyday, she was used to it but right now, she really wished she had a friend.

It wasn't long until she felt someone standing in front of her. She lifted her head and her eyes met with forest green ones. It was Sakura. Hinata gulped.

The prefect dragged a chair (Naruto's: Hinata thought with a little jealousy) and sat, all the while never breaking eye contact with her shorter classmate.

"W-What is it, Haruno-san?"

Sakura smiled a little. "Just wanna know what actually happened. The girls tend to exaggerate things a little too much."

Hinata blinked. "Um…"

"Come on. What happened? All I know was that Sasuke likes you and you turned him down? Ugh, I knew being a prefect would make me miss the fun stuff but I needed the extra credits." Sakura complained. "So what happened between you guys?"

This was new. Hinata gaped awhile longer before explaining everything to her. Her fingers playing the paper's edge; fiddling it.

Sakura listened to her, interrupting at times but it felt nice.

"And t-that's what happened."

Sakura laughed a little. "How can the letter be mistakenly placed?"

"I-I don't know. I was sure I placed it —" Hinata stopped herself, almost revealing who the letter was meant for.

"So what happened to that letter?"

Hinata thought awhile. "I don't know,"she said. "Maybe it's still with Uchiha-san or he m-might have thrown it away."

"That's understandable," Sakura looked around the classroom as if searching for someone before turning back to Hinata. "Be right back."

Hinata nodded as the prefect stood up and walked away. She looked down at her forgotten novel. Maybe Haruno-san got bored of her already; she got what she wanted her from her anyway. Who would want to be friends with her, right?

A book landed in front of her eyes. She blinked.

Sakura combed through her hair briefly as she sat down. "Right." She then proceeded opening up the book. She glanced up to see Hinata looking at her somewhat confused. She smiled. "We have a quiz tomorrow, remember?"

"You… um…"

"Alright, I'll test you first." Sakura grinned.

Hinata didn't know what to say so she just took out the same book that Sakura was holding.

"Okay, so…"

This might not happen again tomorrow but, I can only give my best.

So, what do you think? Is it better this way? Or did I make everyone OOC again? Will post chapter 3 next week, I promise you there will be much NaruHina moments then. This part just had to be over and done with.