A Little Chemistry

Okay, just touch her and get this over with. You can do it Sasuke. He internally cheered for himself. He sat at his desk, a smirk on his face. He already checked his hair and clothes in the restroom. His hair wasn't as oily looking as usual and his glasses couldn't be changed, that would reveal too much of his looks if he took them off, plus he had really bad eyesight.

Homeroom didn't start yet and many of the students were just hanging around with their friends. Sasuke patiently waited for a particular classmate to come into the classroom and for once it wasn't Sakura.

He didn't know who that girl was and was planning to introduce himself to her to get her to shake his hand. He didn't care that she already knew his name, or that they've already been in the same class for a couple of weeks. All he knew was that it was the most casual thing he could think of to get some skin contact with her.

Just as he finished his train of thought a squeak of the chair next to him went to his ears. She set her books down and instantly began reading a small booklet. Sasuke wondered how he was going to interrupt her. He then got the idea to tap her arm. Nothing wrong with that, plus I can get a chance to touch her. Okay, even to me that sounds wrong.

He slowly, very slowly brought his hand up to her elbow, where her skin was showing passed her sleeve.

"Uchiha-san? Do you need something?" She had been staring at him that whole time, already quite aware of him.

"Ah I just want to introduce myself, since we're going to be sitting next to each other for a while. I'm Uchiha Sasuke…I'm pretty sure you knew that already." He rubbed the back of his neck nervously. It had been a long time since he talked to a real girl other than Ino.

She blushed; nobody had taken to such lengths as to greet themselves this formally before, even if he was nervous. She giggled involuntarily as the blush on his cheeks grew. What an interesting person.

"Hyuuga Hinata, it's very nice to meet you Uchiha-san." And surprisingly he brought his arm up in a gesture of a handshake. She was about to grab his hand when a very loud slam at the door grabbed their attention. Stuck in their pose they turned their heads to see who caused it.

"S-Sorry…I'm late class" he huffed. Iruka fixed his tie and jacket when he entered the room. He quickly looked at his watch. "13 minutes late, I hope I don't get in trouble for this." Sasuke shook from his frozen pose.

13…oh no…

He looked at Hinata and saw that she had already put her hand back and settled into the conversation Iruka was having with the class. She laughed quietly at Naruto's loud complaints on how Iruka didn't get in any trouble for being late.

Sasuke blushed, wow she gives off a different feeling when she laughs. He turned his head around, trying to ignore the feeling he had in his chest. Don't tell me I'm getting a reaction just from looking at her? He shook his head and the blush dimmed. Idiot, that shouldn't be possible.

Sasuke's perfect chance to touch her hand ended in failure. He needed to fix his condition as soon as possible if he wanted to get with the person he truly liked, Sakura.

Little did he know, but love can be evil at times.

Hinata didn't know what it was, but out of the corner of her eye there was something that felt ominous. Their class was over and her next class would be art. Grabbing her things she set out to go to the art studio. Sasuke followed her trying to look as casual as he could, all homeroom classmates would be having the same other classes as well.

The whole group of people left the room and herded in murmurs. Sasuke took this chance to speak to Hinata, taking a deep breath he popped out from beside her.

"Hey Hinata-chan, if it's not too much trouble is it okay if I sit next to you during art?" She smiled. Sasuke had just realized he had called out to her too casually and was about to apologize.

"Was that supposed to be a joke…Sasuke-kun...? You do know that we already sit next to each other don't you?" He felt relieved as she spoke his name just as casually, probably to ease his frustration. Though he did feel embarrassed to be called by his first name, he felt his chest aching.

Sasuke thought that it might have been a reaction, though he doubted it. More embarrassment hit him when he realized what she had just said.

"Of course it was, I don't usually tell jokes…was it that bad?" His acting wasn't the best, but Hinata was gullible and laughed sincerely.

"Don't worry I think you have a unique sense of humor…S-Sasuke-kun." She stammered on his name when Sakura walked up in stride next to her.

"Hey Hinata-chan! Can you help me out? Kurenai-sensei told me the other day that it was okay to change seats if the other person agreed, so could you please change seats with me?" Hinata gave a questioning look, but Sasuke was torn.

He could have his current crush sitting RIGHT next to him, but if he did that he wouldn't have a chance to get skin contact with Hinata.

"What's wrong with your seat? Don't you sit next to N-Naruto-kun?" They all noticed how Hinata blushed at his name.

"Well Naruto's been bugging me about doing something with him later, and he won't take no as an answer! I told him I had an appointment, and if I have to hear his constant pleas I'm afraid I might just go with him to make him be quiet!" Hinata grew wide eyed, and Sasuke stayed quiet. He didn't think Sakura was the type to run away from problems, but considering it was about Naruto…he understood.

"Plus, I know you have a crush on him Hinata-chan," Sakura playfully nudged her elbow against Hinata making her blush. This was news to Sasuke and was glad his invisibleness paid off in times like this so he could listen in.

"S-Sakura-c-chan! I don't think of h-him that w-way! So p-please keep your opinions to yourself!" She squeaked it out as fast as she could, her eyes squeezing shut. Sakura's cheeks turned pink matching her bubblegum hair.

"Hinata-chan you are just too cute! You're like a little mouse!" Sasuke wondered if that was a compliment or not as Sakura hugged Hinata tightly while entering the art studio.

"So is it okay with you if we switch Hinata-chan?" Hinata thought for a moment.

"I'm sorry, but Sasuke-kun already asked me to sit next to him today, oddly enough." Sasuke cringed at the word 'oddly', but found her gesture both kind and cruel as he saw Sakura hug Hinata goodbye and tried to change seats with someone else.

She turned quickly to Sasuke though, and grabbed his hands, Sasuke was in too much shock to turn away from her.

"Uchiha-san, could you PLEASE change your mind and let me sit next to Hinata-chan? You would be such a lifesaver if you did…" Her eyes bubbled and she batted her eyelashes.

The next thing he knew he was sitting next to Naruto, holding onto a pencil with his swollen red hands. He didn't think that Sakura would give him such a bad reaction; it's dangerous to ever be touched by a girl if he didn't know what sort of reaction he would get.

"Hey Uchiha, why are you sitting up here, and where's Sakura-chan at?" Naruto searched around the room for the pink girl and spotted her in the back. Sasuke adjusted his glasses to get a better look at them too.

Sakura clearly had eye contact with Naruto, but she shifted her gaze to Sasuke instead, making a 'please help me out' face. Sasuke sighed and found that her badgering for him to do what he wanted was slightly getting on his nerves. He still complied like the pushover he was.

"Sakura asked me to switch seats with her since she needs to talk to Hinata-chan about something."

"She needs to talk to Hinata-chan the whole class time?" Naruto asked suspicious.

"Yeah, the whole class time," Sasuke rolled his eyes behind his glasses and turned to the front of the room, "let's just get this over with." He began writing scribbles on his piece of sketch paper. Naruto stared at Sasuke's drawing with a confused look on his face.

"Um, Sasuke is that a dog or something?" Naruto cocked his head to the side trying to decipher the oh-so-brilliant drawing Sasuke was making. Sasuke sneered at the use of his first name, but ignored it seeing as to how he didn't really care if some guy said it to him.

"Of course it isn't, it's a cat." Naruto almost laughed, and cocked his head to the other side this time making his blonde bangs shift to his right side.

"I thought you were a good artist? I mean I saw you're landscaping pictures of the park on display one time... But this and that don't really match up." Sasuke frowned.

"I'm not that great…at free-styling. I'm more of the type to reference and draw still-life." Sasuke turned back to his drawing, feeling a bit out of place because of the conversation he was having with his currently least favorite person.

"Uh huh…if you say so." Naruto turned back to his own drawing, Sasuke was surprised to how Naruto was more tolerable than when he first met him. Naruto was drawing at a very fast pace, though most of it was just to make it seem he was putting some effort into it.

"Say Sasuke, you busy later? I wanted to go and see the awesome meteor shower with everyone, I said everyone, so don't go think I'm asking you out on a date or anything, got it?" He pointed a finger at him accusingly.

"I tried asking Sakura if she wanted to go there, but she didn't even let me tell her what we were doing. I've already got a couple of people going down to that big hill behind the school, perfect spot to star gaze and junk. So you in?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke took all of the information in. He didn't understand why Naruto was asking him in the first place and couldn't see a significant reason to reject him. Sasuke did like stars after all.

"Isn't it a school night Naruto? Most people would have curfews." Sasuke stated, finding it was the only reason he could find. Naruto smirked.

"Pssh, just sneak out! That's practically half the fun, plus we're planning to go running around in the school at night before we see the meteor shower…which should be around 2 o'clock, we're going to be at the school bout 12…"

"At 12 and 2 huh…How many people are going?" Sasuke whispered while still drawing his dog/tiger thing. The teacher passed by them quickly looking at their work and then went to go wake up Shikamaru from his deep slumber.

"Well I think Kiba asked Hinata-chan already, so with you that would be like 14 people, I think." Naruto stuck his fingers out and named the people in his head while counting out loud.

The numbers were against him, with so many even numbers he could tell that this may be his chance to find his cure to his stupid illness. With a bit of reluctance Sasuke agreed to go.

The sun had set long ago and Sasuke was surprised to see how little guilt he felt from sneaking out. His mother would be worried if he wasn't home in the morning, she seldom ever went into his room in the morning anyway, so he was sure he was fine.

The crowd outside the school was quiet and many of the people just muffled their giggles like they haven't ever snuck out before.

Naruto was in the center of the group in a black hoodie trying to get them to shut up even more as he pulled out a key and opened the front gate to the school.

Some random person asked out loud, "Naruto where did you even get that key?" Naruto's Cheshire smile was the total opposite of his tone.

"I have my ways." He said deeply, the smile still plastered onto his face. Everyone gave a shiver to his cold exterior that only lasted for a couple seconds, even Sasuke felt a chill.

They all entered the school, not bothering to change their shoes to slippers since they found it too troublesome if they had to make a run for it. Sasuke spotted Hinata in the corner of the room while everyone else got situated.

He went up to her quietly, in fact he did it so quietly that she jumped a little when he said hi. She put a hand to her chest as if to slow down her heart beat, her face flushed with embarrassment.

"Sorry bout that." He apologized and nodded his head. He knew he was a jerk to guys, but he had to be polite to women. He was taught that way by his mother, he gave a dry smirk.

"It's o-okay S-S-Sasuke-kun." Her teeth chattered, she snuggled herself deeper into the fluffy white hood of her 2-row button up coat/jacket that reached to mid-thy, she also wore a pair of white Ugg boots that had three buttons on them.

Sasuke mentally smacked himself for thinking about numbers again. So what if she had 3 buttons on her boots, if you add them together it would equal 6. He felt his eyes unfurl from his worried expression and it turned calmer.

"You look um pretty cold there, Hinata-chan." She put her hands into her pockets, the white coat and everything made him think of a rabbit for some reason.

"Y-y-yeah, I-I get c-cold easily. M-my d-dad t-tells me I've g-got p-poor blood c-circulation and t-that I g-got it f-from my mother…" her teeth chattered even more now when her hood fell off due to her constant moving to keep herself warm.

Sasuke stared at her, her midnight hair contrasted perfectly with her white jacket and creamy skin. Her eyes also contributed to the contrast.

Though he may have been looking at her, he didn't take note of her looks. More like he was trying to find a way to actually touch her skin, she was dressed up from head to toe, and from the looks of it he could only see that her face and her hands were the only thing uncovered.

The fall nights were harsh and the heater was of course not on in the daytime (it wasn't that cold yet), much less in the night where no one was in school.

Sasuke concluded the best way of attack, by holding hands. Wouldn't she take it the wrong way? He thought about it for a moment, if she did take it the wrong way he knew she would just ignore it. He WAS a nerd, and girls like Hinata wouldn't go for Sasuke.

Sasuke straighten his thoughts out and was going for his attack as soon as he finished thinking.

But, as usual, Sasuke's luck took a turn for the worst.

"Oh! M-My g-gloves were in-in my p-pockets the w-whole time!" She grabbed them out of her left pocket and put them on quickly to keep her warmth. She put her hood back on and folded her arms.

Sasuke smacked his head with his palm accidently smashing his glasses even more into his face, Hinata gave a confused look.

Naruto gave a loud yell after he came back from his inspection of the school, this distracted the both of them enough to look at him.

"Okay you guys, no one else is here, and since it's still about two hours till we get outside and see the meteor shower, I suggest we play a game…like hide-and-go-seek!" He gave a peace sign and a huge smile, for a second there both Hinata and Sasuke thought he was going to yell a 'Believe it!'

"I second that! Waiting here for two hours isn't what I would call fun." Kiba huffed, a small white dog stuffed into his jacket, its head poking out between the zippers. The whole group agreed to play, though some complained about the number of people.

"We can just pair off, 'kay? So everybody grab a partner!" Sasuke was startled at the turn of events. Hide-and-go-seek? With people? In a dark school? PARTNER?! He was in a predicament.

Kiba looked like he was about to approach Hinata, but Naruto clenched onto his arm. "Kiba and I are going to be 'it', so hurry up and pair off so we can kick your butts!" They all laughed at him while the shuffle of people scurried to find a partner.

Sasuke thought of the only thing he could do, he turned towards Hinata only to find that she was already turned towards him. She gave a cute shivering smile, which he responded with a push of his glasses up the bridge of his nose, and he looked like he was trying to hide his embarrassment.

"C-Could we um" he paused as he pushed back his blush (which he did successfully), "be partners?"

She tilted her head to the side, her hair falling to frame her face, "O-Of c-course!" She gave a sweet smile, but suddenly gave two small sneezes. One would think that sneezes weren't normally cute, but in her case it was. "E-excuse me!" she squeaked.

Sasuke didn't think that someone could give him the impression of a bunny before. But Hinata's cute sneezes and white clothes proved him wrong. He didn't want to admit it, even to his brother, but he always had an odd fondness…for little bunny rabbits.

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