Hinata almost had a myocardial infarction right then and there. She was on the verge of hyperventilating and had to repeat to herself mentally that she was not crazy, as images of the previous night flashed through her mind.
"H-Hina-chan. He's even dreamier than I thought." Ino told Hinata, completely unaware that her best friend was spazzing out.
"I know right. I'd totally tap that," came a voice from behind the two.
Ino whipped around to see bright, glowing green eyes, short, pale pink hair and a smirk so wide, it made her want to go ballistic. "You're such a slut, Sakura."
"Whatever, don't tell me you weren't thinking the same thing," the bubblegum hair tramp sneered while looking at her perfectly manicured nails and admiring her tanned skin.
"Actually, I wasn't," Ino started, anger beginning to boil her blood. "I'm not like you. I am not a whore who always has sex on the brain. So go sit your going-into-heat self, or whatever they call it when female dogs are ready to hump something, down somewhere," she spat. By this time everyone in the class was looking in their direction.
"Hey! Look here you little bi-,"
"Haruno-san. Can you please take your seat, while I finish introducing our new student," the silver-haired professor demanded.
"Hai Kaka-sensei," Sakura reluctantly acquiesced, still a quite peeved.
"Good. Now-hey Hyuuga-chan, are you okay?" Kakashi asked his ideal student.
Hinata was whiter than a sheet and still having difficulty breathing.
"H-Hina-chan?" Ino asked worriedly, lifting her hand to put it flat on Hinata's forehead.
But Hinata shook her head gently and reassured her.
"I-I'm okay. Really." She gave Ino a small smile and turned back to the teacher at the front of the class. "Please c-continue."
"Okay, arigato. Alright Uchiha-san, please tell us a little bit about yourself."
He grunted and tore his eyes from the frightened Hyuuga. "Watashi wa Sasuke desu. I'm 17, just moved here from Romania, and come from a dysfunctional family."
When she felt the new Uchiha's eyes leave her body she could all of the sudden breathe much easier.
Once again whispers shot through the room and it took Kakashi a few moments to get them settled again.
"Ok class, here's what we're going to do for the rest of the period," he started to explain, "Today is going to be study hall and-"
"YAY!" the whole class cheered, excluding a few including the new student.
Sigh. "I give up." Kakashi said to himself and sat down, picking up an orange book that was quite inappropriate for his current environment. "Hey! You guys do know that study hall means be quiet and do some work, right?"
"Yeah, yeah. Shove it old man," replied a rude young lady with disheveled, dark pink hair.
'Whatever. I'm so glad this is not one of my real classes. I'd have to strangle a punk,' was Kakashi's last thought as he walked out of the classroom door.
'Hmm. If the teacher can walk out, so can I," thought Sakura, 'I should totally go to the office and see if I can get into all the classes that Sasuke's taking. I am sooo outta here.' So the cherry blossom girl stood up, grabbed her stuff, and headed to the door.
"Hey! Forehead!" Sakura merely half-turned her upper body to see who called her even though she already knew.
"What Pig?"
"Where's your skankiness going?" Sakura's response was a rude gesture including her middle finger, and she walked out the door.
"The evil wench. Hey Hinata-chan, I'll catch you later ok, but if you don't see me last class, it's cause I totally whooped someone's flat butt. I'll tell TenTen-chan to give you all the details."
"W-Wait. Don't leave m-me!" Ino stared down at Hinata, "Look, it's going to be ok. No one here is going to bite you," Then she snuck a look behind her and added, "But I sure as heck would like to bite him! Mmmm."
"I-Ino-chan, y-you're s-scaring me." Hinata's best friend just patted her dark hair and took off.
Not long after realizing the teacher wasn't coming back, the rest of the class slowly emptied the room until there were just two students left.
Hinata had been diligently working on her homework which would not be due for another month. When she was finished, she was startled to look up and find not only was she in the room alone with Sasuke, but also the fact that he was staring at her.
She became very nervous and blushed madly. She turned to garner all of her work and chanced a peek behind her. Unfortunately he was still staring at her, which caused her blush to be heavier.
As she stared, her eyes wandered to his and for a moment thought she saw them flash, but soon realized that the light above him was flickering. 'I really need to get out of here.'
After she was completely packed up, she tried to walk quickly down the aisle and toward the door. But due to her inability to move fast yet gracefully, her knee, the same one that she had injured a little more than 24 hours ago, hit a desk in the second row.
"Sssssssst," she hissed loudly in pain.
She looked down at the formerly pristine bandages that wrapped her knee. They were turning red, starting from various spots in the center and quickly spreading to overtake the pure white cotton. She whimpered slightly and noticed a shadow looming over her. She slowly looked up and met Sasuke's eyes again. They seemed to flash again and poor Hinata was seriously about to lose it because he was really freaking her out.
"Here. Let me help you out," came his deep, smooth voice to her ears.
"Huh?" This freaky, creepy boy was about to help her? She just wanted to get as far away from him as possible.
"Can you sit in this desk?"
'Hmm. He wants me to sit in the desk that has caused my current pain. I don't think so.'
She shook her head which caused Sasuke to lift her up gently, but quickly and set her on top of the desk.
"You smell nice," he muttered under his breath.
Hinata thought she heard him mumble and turned to him, "Did y-you say s-something?"
"No." Then he took out his bag and started digging for something.
'What if he's going to kill me? He looks so scary and a lot like the kid I saw I in the window yesterday. Way too creepy.'
Hinata took this time to observe his looks unabashedly. He had thick, sable hair with bangs that framed his delicate, but attractive face, and the back of it spiked up in the hot punk style that was raging in the United States. He had one small silver stud in his left ear and the darkest eyes that she had ever seen in her life.
Sasuke made a little grunt of satisfaction as he pulled out a roll of gauze and set it on the desk beside Hinata.
'Okay so maybe my imagination is getting the best of me.' She thought as he took a quick second to reevaluate her now thoroughly stained bandages. He looked up into her bland eyes and asked, "May I?"
She nodded hesitantly and allowed him to unwrap her bloody knee.
He was quick and nimble and acted a little odd when he saw her bare knee. Hinata thought she saw his eyes flash a bright mahogany. 'Yep, he freaks me out so much, he's making me go crazy.'
But the next thing that he did almost made her heart stop. She saw it all in slow motion, but at the same time it happened too fast for her to do anything about it; him bending his head low, his lips slightly puckered and totally headed for her knee. The feeling that she felt when his cool lips touched her warm joint was jolting.
She gasped and jerked suddenly, causing her to almost fall off of the evil desk. Luckily, or not so luckily, Sasuke grabbed her and pulled her, with maybe a little too much force, because she fell into his chest.
'Itai. His chest is so hard,' she thought and then blushed with realization. She pulled herself away and the amount of embarrassment was building up on her cheeks as Sasuke looked at her with a tinge of curiosity.
She was looking away from him and waited for him to get back to work on her knee. After a few seconds passed by and she realized that he was probably still staring at her since she didn't feel any of the pressure of gauze being wrapped around her injury. Since she really wanted him to hurry up so she could leave, but didn't want to say anything directly to him, she chanced a peek at his eyes, which were indeed fixated on her. Her eyes then traveled towards his hands, which still gripped the roll of gauze, and continued until they stopped at her knee.
He seemed to catch her subtle hint and went back to work. Whenever his cool fingers brushed against her skin, it would send a shiver down her neck.
When he finished, he placed his equipment up and helped her off the cursed desk.
'Such a gentleman. I wish there were more guys like that here.' He even carried her stuff to the door and held it open for her.
As soon as she stepped into the hallway, the bell rang and she saw her cousin coming up the hallway. She waved to him and saw a flicker of a smile pass on his countenance. But when he neared, she could tell something was not right. He seemed to stiffen and he tried to prevent his face from contorting due to the vast amount of disgust he was feeling right at the moment.
Sasuke was standing close to Hinata. In fact he was so close, she could feel his body vibrate next to hers. She turned to look at him and flinched in fear. His eyes were a deep blood red and he was shaking with anger. "Hinata-sama." Her head whipped around to face Neji.
"H-Hai?"
She started to hobble away from the boiling Uchiha, when she felt a strong grip on her thin wrist. She turned around and found him studying her face intently.
"Let. Her. Go." Neji growled, ready to beat the living snot out of some punk who thought they could touch his precious little cousin. Not only that, but the fact that it was this guy made it so much worse. Sasuke simply smirked and cocked his head arrogantly and pulled Hinata flush against his body. Neji, for the second time that day was ready to kick someone a new hole.
Just as Neji was about to do some cool moves and beat Sasuke to a bloody pulp, they saw the principal walking down the hall towards them screaming at people to get to class.
She was a tall blonde woman with two low pigtails. She wore black capris, a white button up shirt that seemed about to bust at the top three buttons, and a long green sweater.
"Hey! What are you kids doin-?" she stopped abruptly and realized who she was talking to, direct relatives of the biggest financially contributor of the school she ran. Her voice changed to sickly sweet. "Konbawa Neji-san and Hinata-chan."
Hinata smiled up at her even as the tension in the air grew thicker.
The boisterous principal looked over at the student she'd never seen before.
"Hmm. You must be the new student?" Sasuke nodded with Hinata still close to his side. "Well, I'm the principal here, my name's Tsunade." She stuck out her hand, which Sasuke stared at for a good four seconds before grunting rudely and taking it in a solid, firm shake.
"Now there's one thing you need to know." Sasuke merely raised a brow. "Yep it's the only rule that I have and we'll get along just fine." Sasuke nodded, starting to get impatient with this woman. "And that is…Don't. Piss. Me. Off. Don't do anything to get on my bad side and the world will be just peachy. Got that, Uchiha-san?"
Sasuke just stared at her with a blatant look that clearly read 'you-don't-scare-me' and nodded slowly.
"Good, hmm. It seems your making friends already." She added, eyeing his arm hung possessively over Hinata's shoulder.
At this Neji's deep guttural sound could be resonating through the near empty hall. "Or is it more than that?" She asked herself, thoroughly amused at Neji's immature actions. Out of the corner of her eyes she watched said prodigy's stance change into offensive. Sasuke slightly smirked and leaned down to put his head on Hinata's. The world was at a standstill.
That was it. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. Neji lunged in the air at Sasuke, but was grabbed by the back of his collar. "What the he-?"
Tsunade simply wagged a finger at him. "Tsk. Tsk. Neji-san. I expect better from you. You know there's no fighting on these grounds." She let him go and the ticked Hyuuga straightened himself out.
"Gomenasai Tsunade-sama." He bowed and took his leave, knowing that would be the best course of action if he wanted to keep his record clean; but not before giving one last threatening glare at the Uchiha who was totally going to get it later in a dark alley that was not 'on these grounds.'
"Good-bye Hinata-sama." Hinata looked at him with pity, but was soon brought back by Tsunade's voice. "Okay you two love lovebirds," she teased.
"W-Wait, what? W-We're not l-like th-" the heiress tried to protest but was cut off.
"Doesn't matter. You two get to class now."
"Yes ma'am," replied Sasuke as he dragged Hinata down the hall. 'How does he know where my next class is?' was Hinata's thought as he led her to AP World History.
"You must be wondering how I knew this was your next class?"
"Y-Yeah, just a little b-bit."