Chapter Two~ Mystery

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Chapter Two~ Mystery

Mesmerized by thoughts, wonders, mysteries. Enchanted by the slightest face of a person, can change all. Cherishing the moment spent together, could dramatically alter a relationship under the black clouds of despair, into a beautiful night sky littered with stars upon a wish.

Hinata's eyes were filled with horror watching the Uchiha man's smirk on his face. She had no idea what he was going to do with her inside the small, cozy cottage from the looks of it. Hinata struggled helplessly in his firm, stiff arms. She squinted her eyes and yelped.

"Let me go!" she cried, pounding her fists against his chest. Her glistening tears started to fill her lavender eyes. Sasuke winced, but that hardly affected him at all.

"You should really quit doing that," Sasuke scowled. He gave her a "death" glare. Hinata eyes widened, but she soon immediately shut her mouth and remained silent. More tears started flooding her innocent eyes. When Sasuke noticed that she was crying, he let out a big sigh, shutting his eyes for a brief moment obviously annoyed. Man, this girl is so emotional, he thought to himself. And annoying, he finally added. Once they reached the petite cottage, he knocked on the door three times. The house looked miniature, and really cozy. It was a wooden house with a bamboo roof. There were lots of flowers of a whole variety of colours surrounding the house within its area. The sign on the door read, "Ichi heia he deti" which means "One room left". The door swung open, and there came an old lady who was slightly shorter than Hinata. She looked very kind, and nurturing. She gave both Sasuke and Hinata a warm smile and said, "Hello,"

"We need a room," he replied sternly. The lady nodded, and gestured both of them welcoming into her home. Sasuke walked inside without saying anything, his face blank while Hinata has a very worried look on her face. The lady took off the sign on the door, and quietly shut the door behind them. Sasuke stopped in the middle of the hallway, looking for an available room. Inside the house was just plain, white walls with a few pictures hung on the wall, most of them were images of painted flowers. There was really only 2 rooms, one for the lady and one for the guests. Referring back to the sign of the door, it didn't really make sense since there was only one room available. He shot a harsh look at the old lady, his own cold way of saying,"Gimme a room.".

"Oh, I apologize. I'll show you to your room right away. Please follow me," the lady says with just a hint of fear on her face from Sasuke's expression. The lady walks right past Hinata and Sasuke, leading them into a room at the very end of the small hallway. Again, the lady gestured them to come in, holding the door with a smile on her face. Still, the cold Sasuke said nothing.

"I'll just have to wash-up and heal before leaving in a couple days," he started to say not looking at the lady, "and I'll just leave her under your care until you find somebody that could take her back her home to Konoha, I believe that is where she is from."

The lady nodded, but after that she was a little confused.

"So, you're just going to leave this young girl here?" she asked taking a glance at him, then Hinata.

"Yeah."

"But-"

"Just do it."

"Right, I'm sorry." the old lady replied looking sorry. She changed her view, now down to her slippers.

"Stop apologizing." Sasuke scowled glaring at her. She nodded. Sasuke walked over to the bed to lay the innocent Hinata down. Hinata didn't say anything, but once she was put down, her body relaxed, not tensing up anymore. He'd just left her there, with no blanket over top or anything comforting her when she was cold. He walked right pass the lady still not looking at her.

"Washroom?" he asked right outside the room.

"Second door on your left dear, if you are going to wash up, the towels are already placed in there for you," she replied still holding up a small smile. Before he started walking down the hallway, the lady had noticed the Uchiha crest on his shirt by the back of his neck. An Uchiha, she thought. She regained her focus on the helpless, ill girl on the bed. She walked over to her, and took a warm cotton blanket that was folded on the end of the bed, unfolded it, and placed it gently on Hinata. Once the blanket kept her warm, she had stopped trembling. While the old lady adjusted her pillow, Hinata started fluttering her eyes, and looked at the nice lady helping her.

"W-what's your name?" Hinata asked quietly. The lady stopped what she was doing and gave her a smile.

"My name is Metai Sendayo,"

Hinata didn't say anything for a moment. Then she slowly opened her mouth to say something. "Arigato Sendayo-sama," she gave her a faint smile, which then disappeared in her deep sleep.

After Sasuke took a exhilarating shower, he slipped on his pants, and draped a towel over his bare shoulders. Drips of water rolled its way down his chest. He opened the door, and made his way down the hallway towards their room. Ah, how am I suppose to share a room with her? he wondered, rubbing his temples. As soon as he reached the doorway, he saw the old lady comforting the lost girl. He just stood there staying quiet, which seems that both of them barely noticed him.

"Sleep, my dear," Metai said softly while gently patting her head to sleep. This brought back all the childhood memories she had. Hinata slowly started closing her eyes while the intimidating rays of sun beam down on her pale face. Sasuke stared at the young, beautiful girl absently clearly distracted. Gah! Why am I always so distracted when I look at her! Focus Sasuke! Finally, the old lady noticed Sasuke standing behind them, but Hinata already fallen asleep.

"She's beautiful isn't she?" Metai asked Sasuke pulling a warm smile on her face.

"Hn." he replied quickly without thinking, then had a thin layer of dark blush on his cheeks. What the hell? Why did I say that!? he clenched his fists. Metai let out a soft chuckle.

"You should put on a shirt before you catch a cold, my dear." she advised before walking out the room. Sasuke said nothing while staring at the cold wooden floor. He walked over to the small cushion single-person couch. He slumped down, took the towel and rubbed it over his head to dry his wet, raven black hair. Geez, what am I gonna do with this stubborn girl. Just looking her gets me so distracted and distant from my goals. But yet, I've never seen any girl like her before. Her headband reads that she's from Konoha. I think she's that shy timid girl from the academy in my class... I haven't really noticed her before, strange, yet true. She's that Hyuuga girl, but I forgot her first name. Sasuke was having his "thinking" moment right now, apparently. Finally, he stood up and slowly crept to the door to shut it close.

Hinata was in fact, still awake. She has been pretending to sleep for the past ten minutes now. She tried so hard not to move her closed eyes, she was sweating, but also blushing a little bit with the presence of Sasuke Uchiha alone in the room with her.

W-why am I blushing? I shouldn't be. H-he's a killer, an Uchiha Avenger, a traitor of the village. Hinata shook her head very lightly, light enough so Sasuke couldn't notice. She was also very curious of what he was doing right now. I-I'm sure I c-could have a little peek of what he's doing right now, just to make sure. A light tint of red spread across her face. So, she did. She opened her eyes a very tiny bit. Then, she saw the Uchiha man discard his towel and tossed it onto the floor. She saw his bare, muscular chest, seeing a half-naked man really shown all the blush she could onto her face. Her face was flushed with different shades or red, from light to dark. Sasuke seemed to notice, then gave a smirk looking right at her.

"I'm not stupid you know," he began. Hinata's heart skipped a beat, and her eyes shot up at him, still looking like a red-as-ever, tomato. " I know you were awake the whole time, Hyuuga. Heh, it was obvious with that eye fluttering, and your intense blush."

Hinata layed there frozen, her lavender eyes wide open. Sasuke was standing right in front of her, with his bare chest. Hinata then regained her focus, and instantly turned her head towards the wall, completely embarrassed. Sasuke gave another smirk, and slipped on his shirt on the drawer. Hinata was sweating a lot now, but still ignoring the man. She was still afraid of him. Sasuke let out his usual sigh, then took his sword from the corner of the room and put on his shoes to head out to train in the forest. As he walked out the door, Metai spotted him.

"Where are you going?" she asked suspiciously.

"To train." he replied coldly. Before he could take another step, she asked him once more.

"Sasuke, are you hungry my dear?"

"No. And stop calling my 'my dear'."

That least bit shocked her, then her face saddened.

"Apologies. I just..." she began to explain, "I had a son who was about the same age as you and the girl. I used to always call him 'my dear' until he passed away on a mission. That's when I started living alone here in the forests, helping others on their journey if that ever happens to them I just... m-miss h-him so much," tears started to flood her eyes, falling onto her wrinkled face. Sasuke gave her a tiny sympathetic look, but then changed it back to his normal face and finally added, "I'm not your son," and walked out the door.

Metai rubbed her tears away with her sleeve and walked back to the kitchen, preparing some dinner.

Hinata layed in bed for about an hour now. She could smell Metai's delicious food from the kitchen. She inhaled it deeply, feeling a little bit hungry. Hinata stared at the ceiling, thinking. I-I'm scared, but I know Sendayo-sama is going to take care of me. I'm just not sure about Sasuke or what he is planning to do to me. I don't even know why he helped me in the first place, and just let me die in the forest. He's so hard to figure out. He doesn't open his true self to everybody. He's so... mysterious. Suddenly, Hinata heard some noise from outside the window. She slowly sat up, her body still sore and stiff, and took a peek out the window. She was quite shocked. There he was, Sasuke half naked-again, training outside. It was now warm outside so he must've been hot. He had his Sharingan activated, and seemed to be training very hard to have obtain lots of scratches on him. There were about two to three trees cut down, one with a hole in it that he has caused. After Sasuke finished that fourth tree off, he panted, and took a glance at the window thinking Hinata was probably sleeping in that room. Hinata quickly leaned back against the wall, no longer visible by the window. T-That was close... she thought to herself, with her right hand placed on her chest. She carefully sat back down with her back against the wall right beside the window. Hinata heard a couple of trees being cut down, a sign that he never saw her and went straight back to training. She then scootched herself towards the edge of the bed to get up. She winced in pain, feeling how sore her body was. When she stood up, she faced towards the bed and started folding the blanket, and placed it neatly overtop the pillow. She slowly started to begin heading out towards the room door. Each time she took a step, her legs, thighs and stomach was causing her pain. She tried to creep along as quietly as possible, so Metai wouldn't notice. She was in fact, quite hungry. When she walked closer to the kitchen, she could no longer smell the delightful scent. Instead, it smelled like burnt food. As she stepped in the room, she say Metai there, laying on the ground unconscious. Hinata was in total fear.

"Sendayo-Sama!"

I'm finished! Phew, this took me quite awhile to write. I had a writer's block for a bit. But then, I figured it out. I wanted to make it a cliffhanger at the end! But anyways, I promised you guys I would make it longer :) I was also hoping to release this chapter last night, but unfortunately I couldn't :(

I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and maybe there will be some SasuHina very,very soon. Who knows? ;)

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