Betting for Sweetness

Chapter Two

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For the whole entire day, it seemed impossible for her to get that annoying arrogant man out of her head! It wasn't in a crush kind of way though. She'd be horrified if she'd ever got a crush on him, instead it was more of a 'I can't believe he said that' kind of thing. Was it even possible for a man as prideful and cocky as him to even know the word 'sorry'? For him to even mutter it out? She couldn't stop herself from playing the scene over and over in her head. It didn't seem right. That'd couldn't have been him. Just couldn't.

"Geez girl, this is the third time you spaced out in class, get your head out of there already. What, you can't wait for school to end that badly?"

Hinata quickly snapped out of her thoughts and she turned her attention to the blond female senior. By the sharpness of her tongue, she already knew who it was. A faint smile spread its way across her face as she met her older friend's gaze.

"G-Gomen, Temari-senpai," she apologized, hanging her head down in slight shame.

Temari, who was a teacher's aid for Hinata's algebra class, folded her arms across her chest. The female was around the age of eighteen. She had an usual hairstyle that had her blond hair swept up in four ponytails. Two at the bottom of her head, two on the top. Although it was a bit odd, Temari's natural beauty allowed her to pull it off easily. That and if anyone dared to tell her otherwise, they were going to regret it in every way possible. Despite all that, Hinata and the teacher's aid got along nicely. Truth be told, Temari got along easily with all the other girls. At least most of Hinata's friends. Ino, however, was a different story.

"What's been going on in that head of your's?" A slow smirk spread across the blond's face. "Thinking of that knucklehead that my little brother seems to waste his time with?"

Those pale lavender eyes widen at the mention of "that knucklehead". It was no surprise Temari knew about her crush. Everyone did. Well, everyone but the guy she had a crush on. It was sad. What could she do to be more obvious? She winced as the answer came to her. There was no way she was going to be that obvious. Even though she knew for a fact no real relationship could bloom, unless she confessed, she couldn't do that.

Twiddling with her fingers, an annoying habit of hers, she said, "N-No…nothing like that."

Temari, suddenly growing interest, grabbed a seat from an abandoned desk, pulled it right next to Hinata's desk and sat down next to the younger girl. Her smile widened. "Care to explain then?" she asked curiously, a bit of mischief in the older girl's eyes.

The only thing that Hinata could say in her head was 'oh no'. If she didn't tell Temari the truth now or if she got caught lying to her, who knew what the girl would do to her. After all she already saw what she could do and she didn't want to take that chance.

For a moment she didn't say a thing. Instead she repeated what the blond said in her head. Finally after taking notice of the impatience in Temari's eyes, she spoke up.

"W-Well, someone…f-from the Akatsuki's m-might, you know…uh, yeah…" she finished lamely. Hinata wouldn't have been surprised if Temari had no idea what she was talking about. She didn't even know what she was talking about. Heck! She didn't even know what the heck was going on to begin with.

However, Temari surprised her. "You mean Hidan? The guy that tried to hit on you?" she asked as a slow smirk slipped across her face. "But it backfired so badly that you ran into the knucklehead which caused both of your foods to splash onto each other and made you two tumble on each other?" As she was saying this, her smirk seemed to spread wider and wider.

Hinata's eyes had been spreading wider and wider too. How did she know all of this!? It only happened yesterday! Had she been there when it happened or did she hear about it?

As if Temari had read her mind, she answered her unasked question, "Well, everyone knows about it Hinata, and I gotta say, I would have never imagine that Hidan, Mr. Gotta Say Fuckin' in Ever Sentence, would want you, Ms. I'm to Innocence for my Own Good. Now that's hilarious!"

"T-Temari-senpai! That's so…mean!"

She, however, merely laughed. Hinata puffed out her cheeks in annoyance. Not only was the older teenager making fun of her but she was causing attention from the other students. Her face flushed terribly which only caused the blond to laugh harder.

" B - I - N - G "

Finally! Hinata thought as she pushed away from her desk and pulled herself to her feet. She gave Temari her best glare, which probably turned out to be more adorable then scary, and walked away.

It didn't take long before Sakura, Ino, and Tenten caught up to her. She kept her fingers crossed, praying they wouldn't say anything. Please don't say anything.

At last, luck wasn't on her side today. "Oh. My. God! Hinata, everybody is talking about you!" Ino nearly screamed out.

Hinata felt a sinking feeling in her stomach and suddenly she had a killer headache. Everybody? She shook her head. Ino was a drama queen, she was probably making it bigger then it seemed.

Then Tenten had to speak. "Hinata, I feel sooo bad for you. I mean, this is Hidan were talking about! The whole school already knows you two went to McDonalds yesterday."

"Yeah, why didn't you tell me?" Sakura asked, hurt spread across her face.

Hinata didn't even know how to response. So many things flew into her head. Now that she thought about it, she had more then a few glances looking her way. But how did they know that!? Suddenly a large cocky grin of a silver haired man appeared in her head. She felt her blood boil.

That no good . . . no good cocky man! She thought angrily in her head. This was all his fault! It was always his fault! His fault that she flew on Naruto. His fault that she got kicked out of McDonalds. His fault for spreading this rumor! All. His. Fault!! And when she got her hands on him...

"Hey, Princess."

Speak of the devil.

Hinata spun around and at that very moment all she wanted to do was fly at him and ram her fist into that cocky face of his. But she didn't. For one thing, that was wrong and she couldn't do something that violent. Not to mention what would happen if Hidan tried to defend himself. Bad idea. Instead she stayed where she was and glared at him with all her might.

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Hidan had never seen a glare so adorable but so damn scary on a girl before. At that moment, he was relieved that looks couldn't kill. She looked like she was about ready to burst at him but he could guess why. He had to curse himself for his stupidity. The only people who knew about what happened yesterday had been his own group of " friends ". He was pretty sure the Akatsuki had leaked out the truth of what happened yesterday because he'd been getting comments about yesterday all day today.

He chuckled, "I see your still ignoring me."

Suddenly before he knew it, a fist came flying at him. However, he had quick reflects, and had caught the fist easily. He couldn't stop the impact of the fist and he winced ever so slightly. Now that was some punch. Wanting to know who threw the punch at him, Hidan gazed down before him. There stood in front of him was a very pissed off pink haired freshman. Now her glare, wasn't cute at all, just down right deadly and would have sent him to the grave in a second.

"I hope you realize who your messing with!"

Oh, boy. She didn't sound to happy. Now this was why he never liked girls like her. To demanding. And to hot-tempered. One little mistake and they fused on you.

He cocked an eyebrow and clenched her hand in his. He took the satisfaction on seeing her flinch.

"I believe the correct question is, do you realize who your dealing with, huh, bitch?"

He heard several gasps but that only made him smirk. He squeezed tighter on her fist until she let out a small yelp. Finally he released her fist and watched as she quickly drew it back. He returned her death glare with a cocky grin. Then turned his attention to Hinata.

Damn it! was the first thing that appeared in his head like a warning sign before he took in the hurt expression on her face.

"I…th-thought you were better then that H-Hidan-san!" And with that, she rushed off.

He cursed under his breath and began after her. However, he didn't go very far before three of Hinata's friend stepped in front of him. Angry expression seemed to be implanted on their faces but he didn't have time to deal with them. He pushed them aside, which they replied with a large union yelp. Not wasting a moment, he ran out of the school, looking for the dark haired female.

How could he have been so stupid? He was just making one mistake after another and she was just to damn fragile that she had to keep taking each mistake like a some damn bomb!

XxX

Hinata had to tell herself to calm down but she was having a hard time breathing. Mostly from the running probably. Bending down to catch her breath, she tried to recall what had happened a few moments ago. Sakura had gone and defended her but in the wrong way. After that, she grew upset at Hidan for…defending himself? Suddenly she felt horrible. He was only coming to say hi then Sakura had gone a little to far. She had to give him some credit at least. He hadn't thrown back a punch, just scared her a little.

She sighed as she realized her mistake. Sure Hidan shouldn't have had squeezed Sakura's hand and made her yelp but Sakura had started it first, even if she was only trying to defend her. At that moment, Hinata was confused on who was right and who was wrong. After all, it was his fault that all these rumors were flying around but it was Sakura's fault for punching at him. But...what if it wasn't him at all who started the rumors? Maybe someone else had saw them together? It was possible. Once again, she felt horrible.

Another sigh escaped her lips as she tried to think of the situation that had happened not to long ago. Sakura always had a temper, especially around Naruto but she never seen her snap around someone else. Then there was Hidan. Well, he was an Akatsuki member, so it was common knowledge not to mess with him.

"Princess!"

Hinata felt hands on her shoulders as she was suddenly spun around. Her eyes widen to see Hidan in front of her. It wasn't that she was surprised that he came after her, she had figured out that much. It was merely the fact that he looked so out of breath. Did he really run just to find her? It, in some way, touched her that he actually cared enough. Maybe to apologize again? Now that would be interesting. She doubted anyone heard him apologize before.

Yet there was something that told her that he wasn't going to apologize at all. His face scrunched up in anger. She quickly looked away from him and found herself twiddling with her fingers.

"Hey, don't you play that cute act on me. Look up now, seriously," he snapped.

Confusion slipped across her face. Cute act? Did he really think this was all an act? Slowly she raised her head and met his gaze. She gulped, but didn't turn from his gaze.

A slow smirk pulled across his face, which surprised her. "Good, I got you to look. Now seriously, you gotta stop being like this."

Hinata's eyes widen in shock. Was he scolding her!? After what he'd done, he was telling her not to act like that? She folded her arms and gave him a stubborn look.

"Y-You're the one who started it with those rumors!" she fired back but she quickly covered her mouth. What was she doing? She'd only make things worse!

To her surprise, Hidan's smirk widen. "Now that's more like it," he chuckled. "And seriously, I didn't start that rumor."

Shock and disbelief slipped across her face . "You...didn't?" she asked. So her second option had been correct. She should have known instead of accusing him like that.

He shook his head and let out a small chuckle. "No, promise Princess."

Her face seemed to turn its infamous cherry red again and Hidan couldn't help but laugh. Which only caused the dark haired girl to blush even harder. She quickly turned away from him and pouted. Sometimes he confused her so much.

Suddenly she felt a large hand curl around her arms. Her head jerked in his direction and her confused expression deepened.

Smiling, or rather smirking, Hidan gave her a none to gentle tug and before she knew it was being dragged forward. An alarm look replaced her confused one. What was he doing? She didn't say anything but merely allowed him to pull her forward.

Finally after a while of just walking, he uncurled his hand from her arm, and slipped it in her hand. Pale lavender eyes widen at the sudden action and her first reaction was to pull away. She did, however, he already had a tight grip on her hand and it was proven unless. She heard him chuckle.

"What's the matter Princess? I'm not going to rape you, seriously," he said with amusement.

Her mouth gaped open. "I-I wasn't...!" She was lost for words.

Hidan shrugged his shoulders and just for the fun of it, began to rub his thumb up and down the back of her hand.

"St-Stop th-that!" she shrieked, her face once again turning back red.

"Awwww but Princess, its fun watching someone's face go from pale to bright red! I seriously find that amusing!" he answered back witha loose grin on his face. He had to admit, he was having fun with her. He had always thought she was one of those boring rich class snobs but...she wasn't half bad. She was certainly fun to tease.

Hinata bit down hard on her lower lip. He was just to much! And not only that but she had no idea where he was taking her! For all she knew he could be taking her to...well she really didn't want to know where he was taking her. For one thing, he was still a gang member. If her father ever found out she was even talking to a guy like him, she'd be in so much trouble. It wouldn't even be funny. She could already see the expression on her father's face. He'd probably scoff at her and say he'd knew she was a problem child all this time.

A sigh escaped her lips.

Hearing the sigh, Hidan glanced down at the girl beside him. For some reason, she looked beaten down all a sudden. That caused him to groan silently in his head. He had to figure out how to cheer her up. And that was why he was taking her to the candy store.

xXx

All she could do was blink as Hidan began to pull her into the small candy store at the end of the street. This was where he was taking her all along? This was the last place she ever expected him to take her. Her lips twitched up. Who knew bad boy Hidan liked candy?

"Well? Are you gonna just stare or are you going to pick out some candy?" Hidan asked, finally releasing her hand.

For a moment Hinata didn't answer. Finally, she smiled and rubbed her hand slightly against each other. One thing confused her. Why did her hands feel so cold when he released his hold on her hand? She was to afraid to answer that, so instead she focused on the candy. What kind of candy could she get? She didn't want to take to much, since he had offered her to buy something, he was probably paying and she didn't want him to pay more then he could.

Pausing for a moment, she slowly slid her gaze over the shelves of the candy store. When nothing caught her eyes so far, the younger girl turned to glance at Hidan. She could have sworn her heart might have stopped. Quickly she glanced away, her face darkened with red. Why was he watching her!? When she had turned to steal a quick glance, she met Hidan's intense gaze as if he had been watching her all this time. She could already imagine the slow smug smirk that was spreading across his face.

"Crap, your just to cute." She heard him say before she felt an arm slung around her neck. She could do nothing as he buried her head under his chin. "Lets see what your looking at shall we?"

Okay, now this was very uncomfortable. Why was he doing this to her? She squeezed her eyes shut before turning to look at the shelves filled with candy.

He chuckled, "How about a nice sweet kiss?"

"NO!" Hinata pressed her hand on his chest and pulled herself away from him. Which was easy because he allowed her to do so.

"Relax Princess, seriously. I meant the candy kiss." And just to prove his point, he picked up a sealed packet of the chocolate kisses.

With her hands to her chest, her heart was pounding rapidly. Of course that's what he meant but he was just so close... Was the room spinning? Her legs began to feel weakened as time passed and her knee buckled slightly.

A thick silver eyebrow rose ever so slightly as he stepped forward. "Hey, you okay Princess?" he asked. And if it weren't for her dizziness, she could have sworn she heard concern leeking through his voice.

She gave a small jerky nod. "H-Hai..." she responded but judging by the disbelief on his face, he didn't seem to believe her. She heard him cuss and he was by her side in a flash once again. His hand pressed against the middle of her back to keep herself from following backwards. An amusing smile spread across his already cocky face.

"Who knew I could make girls swoon for me this badly. Hell, I guess I'm that fuckin' amazing." With that said, he slipped his arm under her and scooped her up.

Hinata let out a gasp of surprise. "Wh-What are you d-doing!?" she asked in astonishment.

He gave her a lazy grin. "You need some fresh air," he said as a matter-of-factly.

"W-Well! I-I can walk on m-my own, you know!!" Hinata yelled at the top of her lungs. No response came from his though. Clinching her teeth together, she pulled her gaze in front of her. She refused to even look behind her. Who knew who was watching this event. Her face redden at the thought. She closed her eyes tightly. Her stomach was doing weird flip flops and her head was still pounding. How did she keep finding herself in this kind of situations?

Finally Hinata felt herself being lowered until her feet were back on the ground. However, she still felt an arm wrapped around her waist. She leaned onto it. It wasn't her intention to do that but she was still a little dizzy. For a while, she just stood there. To her surprise, it wasn't so bad being in Hidan's arms. Of course it would have been a lot better if it were Naruto's arms.

"Are we going to just stand here for the world to see or are we going to the park, seriously?" he said, cutting through the silence.

Confusion clouded Hinata's face. "The...park?" she asked as if she hadn't heard him right.

Hidan grinned widely. "Yeah, the park. You'll get a lot of fresh air there." Then before she could say anything else, most likely protest, he grasped her hand and began pulling her forward.

Hinata's eyes widen in alarm. She always liked going to the park but she wasn't sure if she could take another moment with this man. He was just so . . . overwhelming! Frowning, she gazed up to look at the man holding her hand. When she got home, she was going to take a long nice hot bath.

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Hidan had no idea what he was doing. Of course when was that any news? Ever since he took the stupid bet, he'd been busting his ass for this chick. And what was worse, he even went as far as to go to the park. God, he hated the park but it was the only place he could think of. He didn't know if she'd enjoy any of the stores he liked and there was no way in hell he was ever stepping into those God forbid feminine clothing stores.

"Hidan-san!"

Those violet orbs rose up to gaze at the younger girl. A wide smile was spread across her face. Somehow it made his sour look lighten up...just a bit. He jerked his head up and an eyebrow rose. However, he didn't bother to unfold his arms or pull away from the tree he was currently leaning against. He watched as a light blush spread across her face and her eyes moved to the side, avoiding his gaze. He chuckled lightly. She was fuckin' adorable.

Her hand rose from her side and she pointed to the empty swings. "C...Could you please p-push me?" she asked, clearly embarrassed.

Hidan laughed, which caused the girl to pale and shake her head. "A-Ah, nevermind then!" she squeaked out. But a large grin spread across his face and he finally moved away from the tree, walking towards her. He placed a hand on her head and ruffled it a bit. He heard a cry of dismay from her but it only made him laugh.

"Sure, why not?" he told her. He watched as those pale lavender orbs widen.

"R-Really?" she asked in disbelief.

Nodding his head, he made his way to the swings and placed his large hand on the chain part of the swing. "Yeah," he said, enjoying the way her face lit up just like that. Damn it, Hidan thought. How could anyone be so damn cute? Shaking his head a bit, he waited until she sat herself in the swing. Then lightly began to push her.

After a few swings, the Princess finally decided to speak up. "Thank you..." she said, gazing up at him.

He shrugged his shoulders. "Whatever, i'm only pushing you, ya know," he replied back, pushing the swing a bit more.

Hinata shook her head. "Not just that but thanks for taking me to the park. I...love going to the park," she said honestly, her eyes directed to the ground.

A groan escaped from him and he opened his mouth to reply back to her, he felt a small tug on his jeans. His eyes narrowed as he looked down. He had to resist the urge to growl. If he did, who knew what Hinata would do. For below him was a child around the age of six, tugging lightly on his jeans with an annoying pleading look spread across the kid's face. Fuck, he thought angrily. He hated children but he was pretty sure Hinata like them.

"Can you push me too, mister?" the little boy asked politely.

Bitting his tongue, he took a quick glance at Hinata. Shit...why did she have to look so damn worried? With the way she was looking at him, it felt like he was going to sacrifice the kid to some whacked up god. He cleared his throat and tightened his hold on the chains, bringing the pushing to a stop. His mouth went to open for the second time but just like last time, he was interrupted.

"A-Ah, why don't I p-push you instead?" Hinata's kind voice asked. The boy, however, shook his head and pointed towards Hidan.

"But...I want him to push me," he begged.

Hinata began to nibble nervously on her lips and shot a worried glance at Hidan. "But-"

"Get your fu- ... I mean, get over here then kid," he spit out. He didn't want to be swearing in front of a kid. Hinata would probably freak out. She was very good at doing that.

The child's face lit up and he hopped onto the swing. Winking at Hinata, he began to push the child. It took all his will-power not to fly the kid right off. Could you blame the man? He never liked children. No scratch that. He hated children. They were just a bunch of brats. Annoying fuckin' brats.

It didn't get better for the silver haired senior either. More children began to gather around him and Hinata. Oh hell no... Hidan thought to himself. This was the reason why he hated the park. Kids. They were always around no matter where you went.

Taking a quick glance at Hinata, he frowned a bit. She was getting that look again. The look that told him that she was rethinking everything. Damn, if only he hadn't threatened her friend, then maybe it'd be a bit easier for him. He could tell he was still on thin ice because of that and just because he took her to the candy shop and park, didn't mean she'd let that slid. Wasn't his fault either...

Shaking his head, he tried not to think about the children laughter surrounding him. It'd be done soon. Shit, he sure as hell hoped so.

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It was truly amazing. Watching Hidan swing the children back and forth had really surprised her. At first she had been worried but she had been wrong once again about Hidan. Why did she always have to make him out to be the bad guy? With a light sigh, she watched as the last child jumped off the swing and waved good bye to them. It didn't take long before the child ran off with his friend and they were alone again. Gazing down at her hands, Hinata began to twiddle with her fingers. What should she say to him now that they were alone? For some certain reason, she wanted to thank him. She knew how much he hadn't want to do that but he had handled it nicely.

Gazing back up, she took a deep breath. "Hidan-san?"

Hidan didn't bother to turn his head, only his eyes moved to her direction. "Hm?" he muttered.

"Thank you again..." she said shyly.

For a moment, Hidan didn't say anything. Slowly a smirk pulled its way across his face. "No problem," he replied. "Anything for my Princess."

Hinata blinked. His Princess? She had always heard him call her Princess but that was the first time he called her his Princess. Her face brightened with red as she quickly looked down. For some odd reason, she didn't seemed to be bothered with the fact at all. She felt almost happy. Shaking her head a bit, she looked back up. "I...I better get back home now, bye Hidan-kun!" she said, smiling before she turned around to walk down the steet to her house.

Once she was out of earshot, Hidan chuckled and shook his head. "Heh...Hidan-kun, huh?" he muttered. Leaning against the metal bar holding up the swing, he crossed his arm and slowly tilted his head up. "Like I said, she's to damn cute," he chuckled, shaking his head.


And that's the end of chapter two ! Hope it was good enough for the long wait . . . really sorry about that . Oh and thanks to all the people who reviewed ! You guys are the best ~!