A/N: Oh my god! The third chapter is finally here! So sorry about taking so long to update! Oh, and thanks for all the reviews! Love you guys so much! Well, here's the third chapter! Hope you like it!
Hinata laid on her bed. She didn't feel like doing homework; she didn't feel like doing anything.
Hinata raised her left hand into the air. She spread her fingers and looked at the light that passed through them. She used her thumb to brush against her pointer. She brought her pointer close to face. There was no evidence of the cut from earlier.
Hinata frowned. She was upset with how Neji acted but she was disappointed with how she reacted. It was so childish. She mentally berated herself. She showed weakness.
If any enemy of the clan saw how she reacted to how Neji acted, then they would've instantly assumed that he was one of her weaknesses. He wasn't.
She was his weakness.
She had no weaknesses, she mentally spat out the word.
Hinata felt someone walking towards her room. A few seconds later, someone knocked on her door. Hinata stared at the door, trying to figure out who was on the other side of it.
It was her little sister. "Come in, Hanabi."
The door to her room opened and in walked her little sister.
"You know that I find that creepy, right?"
"Creepy? What's creepy?" Hinata raised and eyebrow at her little sister.
"How you know who's on the other side of a closed door." Hanabi walked over and sat down on her sister's bed.
"Why? You can do that, too."
"Yeah, but I don't." Hanabi played with Hinata's hair, which was splayed out on the bed.
"Why not?"
Hanabi shrugged. "I don't know, just don't feel like it."
Hinata stared at her little sister who didn't usually come to just talk to her. Hanabi avoided eye contact. Hinata sighed. "Okay, why are you here? What do you want?"
Hanabi acted offended. "How rude. Can't I just come to talk to my sister?"
"Other little sisters can do that, but you can't."
"How cruel. Why not?"
"Because it's just not normal."
"Sadist."
Hinata sat up and looked at her little sister. "What does that have to do with anything?"
"I don't know." Hanabi shrugged. "When I came home, I saw Neji coming out of your room like he was going through withdrawal or something. What happened?"
"Don't try to change the subject."
Hanabi sighed but didn't say anything.
Hinata took a guess. "Is it Satoshi?" Hanabi looked at her and then looked back down. "Did he do something? What happened?"
Hanabi shook her head. "Nothing happened. Nothing's wrong."
Hinata raised an eyebrow at her. She still wouldn't make eye contact.
"You know what? I don't even know why I came here." Hanabi stood up and walked over to the door. She opened the door and turned back to look at Hinata. She looked worried. Then she turned and left, closing the door behind her.
Hinata's eyebrows knit together. What happened to her little sister?
Hinata laid back down on her bed and looked up at the ceiling. Hinata thought about the Hanabi's expression right before she left. Why was she worried? What was she worried about? Was it Satoshi? Did something happen with him? Did he do something to her?
Hinata's anger spiked. If she found out that he did something to Hanabi, Hinata was going to make him sorry for it. Hanabi's match or not, Hinata was going to make him regret ever making Hanabi worried.
Tenten watched as Neji rushed out of class once the bell rang. Tenten raised an eyebrow at that. He was usually in a hurry after school to go pick his cousin up from her class, but today, he practically ran put of class.
Must be because his cousin was mad at him and he was trying to make it up to her.
Tenten wanted to bang her head on something when she remembered the embarrassing moment that went down during lunch. How could she do something like that? Maybe it was something she'd do for fun to a close friend, but not with someone who she just met! Much less someone who was definitely way out of her league. If she swung that way, that is. But she didn't.
It confuzzled the shit out of her!
It must be a dream! Yeah! That's it! Everything that happened today was just a figment of her subconscious.
Tenten pinched herself as she made her way out of the school. Ouch! Nope, much to her disappointment, it was not a dream. It was reality.
Tenten changed from her indoor slippers to her outdoor shoes and walked out of the school and towards the bike racks. She unlocked her bike and pulled it out from amongst the other bikes. She wheeled it down the front steps and up to the edge of the parking lot.
As Tenten swung her leg over the bike and straddled it, she spotted Hinata leaning against Neji's car; seems like Hinata was still mad and didn't wait for Neji to come pick her up from her classroom. Tenten saw that Hinata was looking at someone and looked around to see who she was looking realized that she was looking at Uchiha Sasuke and Haruno Sakura, who were a few cars down.
Someone ran by Tenten and she turned to see who it was and saw that it was Neji. She watched as Neji ran to his car and nodded at the Uchiha. Hinata got into the car and Neji got in shortly after but not before sending a glare to the Uchiha.
Tenten was surprised to see the hostility between him and the Uchiha. She didn't even know that Neji knew him. She has never seen them talk before; never at school at least. But if they talked outside of school, then that meant that they were pretty close, right? Tenten will never know.
Uchiha and Haruno had their backs to her so she couldn't see their reactions. But she knew that Uchiha probably glared back; he just seemed like the type to do so.
Tenten watched as Neji's car backed out of its parking space and then pulled out of the parking lot. Her eyes followed the car until it turned around the corner and disappeared. For whatever reason, her eyes lingered on the spot at which the car disappeared. Tenten blinked once, twice, then thrice before she snapped out of whatever daze she was in and finally started riding her bike home.
Tenten biked home and when she got home, she saw that her mom wasn't home. She didn't have a dad. She never had a dad. Her dad left her mom when he found out that she was pregnant. They were high school sweethearts and they were young. Her mom was in college when she gave birth to Tenten alone.
Tenten's grandparents barely acknowledged her. To them, they didn't have any grandkids, much less a daughter. Tenten's mom was their only daughter and when they found out that she wasn't married, was still in school with no stable job, and was pregnant, they did nothing short of disowning their only daughter.
On paper, Tenten's mom was still her grandparents' daughter, but in person, they cut off all connections.
Tenten's stomach growled, reminding her that she didn't eat that much at lunch because she didn't have much of an appetite due to the awkwardness of the situation. And it didn't help that what happened after she tried to make conversation, made her lose her appetite completely.
Tenten put her stuff down on the dining table and then looked around the kitchen for something to eat. She looked in the cabinets, in the refrigerator, and anywhere else she could think of that could possibly have any food. But she couldn't find anything to eat. Yeah, there was food, but she didn't feel like eating any of it.
Tenten frowned. Should she go out and buy something to eat? Did she even have any money? She checked her pockets; she found a five in her front pocket. She checked her wallet; yes, she found a twenty. So yes, she did have money for food.
Now, where to go? Tenten thought about her choices. She could go to Micky D's; nah, she didn't feel like eating burgers. She could go to the super market and buy something to make; nope, too lazy. Or she could get some already prepared food at the supermarket; bleh, didn't feel like eating a rice bowl. Or noodles. Or a salad.
Hmmm, where could she go? Ooo, she knew what she wanted. She wanted chicken nuggets!
With her mind made up, Tenten took the twenty in her wallet and stuffed it in her pocket, grabbed her keys and iPod, and then went out the door. She mounted her bike and started towards the famous fast food chain.
Tenten stopped a little bit away from her house. She changed her mind, she didn't feel like taking her bike. So Tenten rode it back to her house, put it back inside, and started again on foot.
Once there, she got in line and looked at the menu. Was there anything else she wanted? Soda? Fries? Both? Yes.
Her phone vibrated in her butt pocket. She took it out and looked at it. She had a text message. She opened it and saw that it was her mom; her mom was doing overtime today so she'll be home late. Tenten silently groaned, that would mean that she had to make dinner for herself today. Should she buy dinner while she was already out? Nah, she'll just find something at home.
It was finally Tenten's turn as she walked up to the counter and ordered her food.
Once home, Tenten grabbed her messenger bag that she left on the dinner table earlier and hauled it up to her room. Her room was quite plain and messy. It had white walls with a few weapon posters stuck on them. There was her bed with dark green sheets that was pushed into a corner. She had a dresser, a closet, and a desk. Then she had a chair at the end of her bed that had clothes piled on top, both dirty and clean.
Tenten dumped her messenger bag down on the carpet next to her desk and set her food down on her desk. Before she chowed down, she pulled her laptop out of her bag and started it up. While it was starting up, Tenten went to the bathroom down the hall to wash her hands.
When she got back, she saw that someone had texted her; must be her mom again. Wrong. It was Neji who texted her out of boredom.
Hinata sighed for the umpteenth time today as she woke up from her little cat nap. She was just so tired of everything. At least tomorrow was Saturday. That means that she could sleep in. But it's not like she needed to sleep, it was just habit. She could go without sleep for as long as she wanted. But for a sense of normalcy, she slept at night.
Hinata looked at the alarm clock on her bedside table. It read 6:38. Dinner should be ready soon. But she didn't feel like eating any of that food. She wanted Neji. But she'll wait till later as a punishment for the both of them.
Hinata got up from her bed and walked over to her desk. She pulled her homework out and started on it.
About an hour passed since she started working on her homework when a knock came upon her door. Her father was home.
"Come in," Hinata closed out. She heard the door open and heard someone walk in before she heard the door close. "Hello, father," Hinata said as she finished the sentence she was writing and then swivled her chair around.
Hyuuga Hiashi was a tall, intimidating man whose presence was overwhelming. He could silence a whole room by just walking in. His pale lavender eyes saw everything. The trademark pale Hyuuga eyes were already intimidating enough because you could barely tell the iris and pupil from the white of the eye, but on Hyuuga Hiashi, they were ten times more intimidating.
Hinata stood up from her chair and stood on her tippy toes as her father bent down a bit so that she could kiss him on the cheek. Hinata was below average height so her father, who was above average height, towered over her. Hinata was the shortest in her family, even Hanabi, her little sister by three years, was taller than her.
Hinata was a junior, she was in her second year of high school and Hanabi was in eighth grade, she was in her second year of middle school.
Hinata stood at 5' 3" while Hanabi stood at 5' 7". Her father stood at 6' 1" while Neji stood at 6' 3". Satoshi, Hanabi's match, was pretty short compared to the other Hyuuga men in the house, but he was still growing so that was okay; he currently stood at 5' 10".
"Hinata," her father started.
"Yes, father?"
"Dinner is ready, come down to eat."
Hinata smiled at her father and shook her head. "I don't want that food tonight."
His father looked at her. "Then remember to take some from Neji tonight." He turned and started to leave.
Right before he closed the door, Hinata said, "Don't worry, father; I will." Hinata smiled as she felt Neji, who was in his room down the hall, shiver in anticipation as soon as the words left her mouth.
A few seconds after the door closed, it opened again and her father's head popped in. "Don't play with him too much.". Then he pulled it back out and closed the door again. Hinata smiled as she heard her father's step go down the hall, down the stairs, and then into the kitchen.
She sat back down in her chair at her desk and continued working on her homework. She finally finished everything around 10:00. She put everything away and got her bag ready for school on Monday. She had done her homework on a Friday night, forgetting that she had two days to do it.
Hinata sighed, it showed how distracted she was. She grabbed a towel and some pj's as she got ready to go take a shower and maybe take a soak in the bath.
Hinata went to the bathroom and started filling up the bathtub with water as she took a shower. Once out of the shower, she quickly got into the bath and relaxed as the hot water did wonders, relieving her stress.
After soaking in the bathtub for ten minutes, she got out and wrapped a towel around herself as she called out to Neji; not verbally but mentally. As Hinata waited for Neji to come, she unlocked the door, and brushed out her knotted hair and started blow drying it.
Neji didn't even knock as he opened the bathroom door and stepped in, closing and locking the door behind him. He stayed with his back against the door as Hinata finished up drying her hair.
"Put your stuff down," Hinata said as she combed through her now dry hair. Neji obeyed and put his showering things down on chair in the bathroom.
Hinata turned around and leaned against the bathroom counter. "Come here," Hinata said as she hoisted herself up onto the counter so that she could reach his neck easier. She spread her legs to let Neji stand between them. Her towel loosening a bit as she did so.
Hinata wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled his head down a bit. He put his hands on the counter on either side of her. She felt his pulse race as she moved his hair aside and kissed his neck, right over where his jugular vein was. She licked the same spot and then finally, after a few days of not taking any, she sunk her fangs in, piercing his strong neck, and slurped up the sweet nectar of life that poured out his punctured vein.
A/N: And here's the end of the third chapter! Did you guys like it? Once again, sorry for taking so long to update, I kept on forgetting ...
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Updated - 7/9/2011
