CC Note: well here's chapter 3! I didn't reach 10 reviews like I wanted but I appreciate all the people that did review! This chapter is dedicated to ya'll!
Chapter Three: Delightful
Was he the only one who noticed that something was wrong? Was he the only one that knew she was falling? With a class a full and as rowdy as this one why was it that no one seemed to notice a fellow student fall limp like a rag doll in her chair? Sasuke sprang up from his chair and caught Hinata before she hit the floor. Everyone in the room noticed what was going on now since Sasuke Uchiha was doing something about it. Apparently anything involving the brooding raven was noteworthy. Sasuke moved some hair out of her face pale to feel her forehead which was abnormally warm.
"Kakashi, Hinata needs the nurse." Sasuke stated as he picked Hinata up bridal style and walked out of the silent walked quickly down the halls, ignoring the strange stares that he was getting from his classmates.
He knew the people in the hall were whispering and gossiping, seeing him walk down the halls with a girl in his arms was causing quite the stir. But Sasuke had tunnel vision and all he could hear were the sounds of the small girl's labored breathing and his own footsteps. Both sounds echoed in his ears as he rushed Hinata to the nurse's office. When he finally reached their destination he was greeted by an odd look from the bespectacled male nurse Kabuto.
"Lay her down on the table." Kabuto informed.
As soon as the girl was laying prone on the table he quickly and clinically went to work on her. After about five minutes, Kabuto tsked and shook his head, what he'd observed in just a few short minutes wasn't good.
"She's terribly over heated from this hoodie and it looks like she's been skipping meals...What happened to her? Do you know?" Kabuto inquired.
"I don't. She was just listening to music with me and then class started and she just fainted." Sasuke said blankly.
"Hmm. I'll give her some medicine along with a few vitamins she can take home with her when she wakes up. In the meantime I suggest that you go back to class." Sasuke only scoffed at Kabuto and put his earphones on.
He made himself comfortable in Kabuto's chair. The male nurse shook his head knowing from experience with Uchihas that making them do anything they didn't want to do was a futile attempt. The door to the room shut and Sasuke watched Hinata as she slept on the table and he couldn't shake the eerie feeling that she looked strangely familiar. In fact, she looked a lot like the girl he stopped from committing suicide the other night. Or at least he thought it was a girl. In another time he could probably be certain that it was a girl but these days you can't really be sure.
He furrowed his brow as her white knuckled grip on the stiff linen sheets lessened and tightened...almost like she was trying to grasp for something. After a few minutes of frantic gasps of air she started talking in her sleep.
"No, mother! I don't wanna die yet!" Hinata cried and Sasuke went over to the bed to see what was of the corner of her eyes were fresh tears that were soon cascading down her face.
Sasuke wiped one away and rubbed the moisture away between his fingers. Odd.
"I'll be a good girl, momma. I promise! Please don't kill me!" Hinata pleaded with an imaginary person. "I promise I won't cry anymore momma! I'll be a big girl!"
Hinata caught Sasuke's hand in a vice grip and didn't let go. Sasuke knew that he could easily pry her fingers away but for some reason he felt compelled to let her hand stay where it was.
"I promise I will do whatever daddy wants and I won't cry about it! I promise!" Hinata cried harder, with her other hand she grabbed onto his shirt and she looked up at him with wide lifeless eyes.
Then her mouth opened and she spoke barely above a whisper.
"Don't kill me."
With those last words Hinata passed out, leaving a very confused Sasuke to hold her limp body. Sasuke gently laid her down and took a sheet and tucked her in. What was wrong with her? He never really noticed her before and he probably never would have if she hadn't reminded him of that girl on the always seems so quiet and happy but now he saw how much pain she was hiding inside of her. Probably as much as he had. He wanted to help her, he never wanted to help anyone before but this girl just seemed to make something inside of him want to help. Weird. If it will make her happy, he will do it. For some reason he knew that she would look beautiful if she smiled. He just knew it. Sasuke put his ear buds back into his ears and got comfortable in the chair beside her bed, something told him he'd be here for a while.
Hinata awoke to an unfamiliar room that smelled of antiseptic and quickly started to panic. If she had been kidnapped, her father would be angry with her about how weak she was to get into this situation. Hinata sat up slowly to survey surroundings. She took note of a mahogany desk accompanied by a matching straight backed chair, a white medicine cabinet with silver knobs, white tiled flooring, off-white walls, and a window draped in gauzy white curtains. Hinata sighed and leaned back down on the cot. She must be in the school infirmary. But who would be kind enough to take her? She recalled how one time, she had fallen out of a tree on the school grounds and passed out. She woke up hours later under the same tree, her leg covered in blood. No one noticed her. No one cared.
The door to the back room of the infirmary opened and in walked the boy who she had listened to music with earlier. Sasuke Uchiha. He took one look at her and the pulled something out of his hoodie flinched, expecting a weapon, but instead he pulled out a bottle of water, two little blue pills, and a small container of multicolored tablets. He looked at her expectantly and Hinata, shaking, took the objects from him. Was he trying to poison her?
"Those are for your fever. And these are vitamins the nurse wants you to take later" Sasuke gruffly informed her before taking a seat at the edge of her bed and leaning his head on the wall behind them.
Hinata hesitantly took the one of the blue pills and gulped down a little of the cold water. When nothing happened, she took the other one. They sat in an awkward silence for a moment before Hinata spoke.
"W-why? Why did you br-bring me h-h-here? Why d-d-didn't you just i-ignore m-me and leave like, like everyone else?" Hinata asked softly as she looked at her lap.
"Did you want me to leave you?" Sasuke asked.
"N-no." She said softly.
"Then I won't leave you." Sasuke said bluntly, jerking her head up to look him in the eye.
Hinata didn't know if he meant that he wasn't going to leave her ever or if it was a one-time deal. But whatever the deal was it provided her with a sense of contentment for the moment.
"T-thank y-y-you." Hinata stammered.
"Hn. Let's go eat." Sasuke said stuffing his hands into his pockets and walking out of the room.
Hinata scurried as fast as she could after him. When they reached the outside of the school, Hinata frowned. Why was the sky a russet color? She couldn't have been out for that long. If Sasuke had stayed with her the whole time then he must've missed a full day of school. He was probably angry with her so the least she could do was apologize.
"Sa-sasuke, I, I, I'm sorry." Hinata said which made Sasuke stop in his tracks and Hinata to bumped into him clumsily into his back.
"Why are you apologizing?" Sasuke asked, not looking at her.
"I, I made y-you miss sc-school be-because I am w-weak." Hinata stammered softly.
"I wanted to miss school. And you are not weak unless you allow yourself to be. Now come on." Sasuke said gruffly and started walking again.
Hinata stared blankly at his retreating back for a moment before catching up to him. No one had ever said something like that to her before. Why was he being so nice to her anyway? She barely knew anything about him. All she knew was his name, that he was a genius, handsome, had hoards of fan girls, and decent taste in music. Most of that was common knowledge, anyway. He probably knew even less about her. Hinata shook her head furiously as she fell into step behind Sasuke. She was going to ride this niceness out for as long as she could.
Sasuke opened the door to a familiar smelling restaurant. Salty fries, ketchup, and grease filled the air; they were in McDonald's. She didn't know that Sasuke liked fast food. Well you learn something new every day. She followed him up to the front counter and was surprised to see Sakura Haruno working the register. Sakura was wearing the employee uniform: a red polo with a small yellow 'M' on it and its top four buttons undone, a pair of crisp black dress pants, her name tag, and a little McDonald's hat. Sakura was surprised to see Sasuke at the restaurant and leaned over the counter, in what she hoped was a sensual way, to show him what little cleavage she had.
"Sasuke! What a surprise! Are you coming to pay me a visit?" Sakura asked as she batted her eyelashes. Sasuke rolled his eyes.
"No." He said dully. He then turned to Hinata and grabbed her by her elbow so that she was standing next to him.
"What would you like to eat Hinata?" Sasuke asked while Sakura shot daggers at the lavender eyed girl.
"I, I w-would like a…a Southern Style Chicken Sandwich with a, a coke p-p-please." Hinata said softly.
Sakura grudgingly typed her order onto the machine and then turned to Sasuke, posing in a way that she was sure her tiny breasts would be exposed.
"And what would you like big boy?" Sakura asked.
"Double Cheese burger with fries. And don't spit in Hinata's food, I'll know if you do."
Sakura's face fell.
"Why would I do that Sasuke?" Sakura asked with false innocence.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and Sakura went to the back to make their food. Hinata just stared at the counter and wondered if Sakura would really spit in her food. It was then that Hinata realized that she didn't have any money on her meaning she couldn't pay for the food. She tugged on Sasuke's sleeve lightly to inform him of her predicament.
"Sa-Sasuke I, I don't have an-an-any m-money. C-could you t-t-tell Sakura not to, to m-make my food pl-please?" Hinata asked as she stared intently at the ground.
"I was going to pay for your food whether or not you had money." Sasuke shrugged and Hinata just stared at him, no one had been kind enough to pay for her meal before.
"I, I, I don't wa-wanna be a, a, a bother." Hinata said, blushing slightly from embarrassment.
"Hn." Sasuke said and turned his head away from her.
He didn't want to admit it but she had a cute blush. Sakura returned shortly with their orders. She put the food out on the counter and obnoxiously chewed her gum as she typed in the total of their orders. A lacey pink bra was clearly visible.
"That will be fifteen dollars and thirty-seven cents." Sakura said and Sasuke put a twenty on the counter.
He moodily grabbed their food and walked out of the restaurant with Hinata trailing nervously behind him. Sasuke then plopped down onto the sidewalk and took his burger out of the bag. Hinata stood there dumbly holding her right arm as Sasuke ate his food. Sasuke glanced up at her but decided to ignore her. If she wanted to eat she would have to come get it. After a while Sasuke was nearly done and Hinata was still standing there.
"Are you going to eat or not?" Sasuke asked, slightly frustrated as Hinata unconciously took a step back.
"Fine then." Sasuke shrugged and balled up the bag with her food inside.
Hinata opened her mouth to protest but no words came out. Sasuke got up off of the ground and walked towards a nearby trashcan. He looked at Hinata with a hard stare, but she did nothing but stare at him with those big watery eyes. Sasuke dropped the bag into the trash and then grabbed her wrist.
"Come on." Sasuke said gruffly and Hinata lamely followed.
After about fifteen minutes Hinata realized that he was walking her home. She heard her stomach growl loudly and wished that Sasuke hadn't crumpled up her food and thrown it away. She didn't notice it but Sasuke had looked back at her when her stomach growled and felt slightly guilty about throwing her food away. He reached into his hoodie pocket and pulled out a chocolate bar a fangirl had given him earlier. He hated sweets so he hadn't eaten it. He tossed it over his shoulder and to his surprise she caught it. Hinata stopped and stared wide eyed at the bar of chocolate and then at his back.
"Eat it." Sasuke said, stopping. He didn't resume walking until he heard the subtle rip of the chocolate wrapper.
Hinata sighed to herself as she stared at the chocolate wrapper on her desk. She was going to keep this so that she could look back and say that at least one person was kind to her. She took out some glue, a pen, and leather bound book with no words. She opened to the first page and neatly glued the wrapper in. Then she scribbled a few words at the bottom:
Sep. 1st 2008,
Uchiha Sasuke threw this at me after he crushed my food. Delightful.
CC Note: SOOOOOOOO there you have it folks chapter three! I'll update when I get 10 more reviews! I hope I reach that number soon! The sooner I get it the faster I update! Thanks soooooo much for reading my ficcie! Check out my profile for other things to read while you wait for this one to update! There's a little something there for everyone!
