Aha! As of the moment, I am writing this slightly after I posted the last chapter, but then again, tomorrow (today?) is Christmas eve, and I will be so extremely busy until Friday, but I will continue to provide you with fluffy SasuHina goodness. I really like modern AU sort of things, and I am absolutely a fanatic of cliche fics, I think I suck at writing them, but I love them very much! They're the type of fics that you read when you're completely down, and you're having a shitty day and you need some shit to get your butterflies kicking. Yes. Anyway, so I have a feeling these next few chapters will be AU's and they will be crappy love stories. Nothing's set in concrete though, and if you have an idea or two, shoot me a PM and we can talk! I don't mind at all ~
Day 4: Confession.
So lets be sinners to be saints
And lets be winners by mistake
The world may disapprove
But my world is only you
And if we're sinners then it feels like heaven to me
You showed me feelings I've never felt before
We're making enemies, knocking on the devil's door
But how can you expect me not to eat,
When the forbidden fruit tastes so sweet?
Lauren Aquilina: Sinners
:~:
Sakura and Ino had dragged Hinata to the frat party, begging her to be their driver when they were far too smashed to do so. Of course, after much begging and pleading, Hinata had caved in and decided it couldn't hurt, right? All she had to do was not drink, which wasn't going to be much of a problem, what was going to be a problem, was all the very very drunk boys, and now she was a fool for wearing shorts. It was mid July, it was hot outside! Hinata groaned, sitting behind the wheel as she parked the car down the street from the house, cars were everywhere, and the music was too loud, and people were laughing and dancing in the front yard.
Ino and Sakura seemed to have been bursting at the seams, getting invited to a college party, with college boys, and alcohol, and Hinata did not see what was so great about this. They were seniors, sure yeah, and Sakura and Ino knew everyone, and maybe it was the fact that they were both so excited that Hinata had caved. How could she have denied them the happiness? They all piled out of the car, and Hinata made sure her purse was tight, crossing over her chest, and Sakura smiled so brightly. They were both dressed in too short summer dresses, blue for Sakura, and a pretty pink for Ino, flashing off their panties, and Hinata had to look away because these were girls she knew since they were kids, and she still did not understand how they could go out in public like that. She was very comfortable in her blue and green flannel, buttoned up almost all the way, and her shorts went down a comfortable length, about an inch past her fingertips, she liked wearing them to school when it got too hot outside.
The music was far too long, boys letting the three of them in easy enough, Hinata's hands clutching the front of her purse, hands shaking under the strap. Questionable things were happening in the corners, boys and girls lip locked with all genders, and those in between, and Hinata was red in the face. She could feel her heartbeat in her head, tripping over her converse, bangs ticking her face. When an unknown boy put his hand on her hip and tried to get her to dance, she gently pushed him off, not looking at him and muttering a quick 'I'm looking for my friend.' It didn't take long for her to lose him in the crowd.
The house was too hot, and there was too many people, and Ino had her tongue down a boys' throat, his hands slipping up her dress, and Hinata realized with horror, she knew these boys. Most had graduated last year, and that meant... She paled when she saw long brown hair, and ducked out of her cousin's sight, hiding back inside the crowd, breathing heavy. Oh god, she would never hear the end of it if Neji saw her here, she was under-age (he was too) and she shouldn't be at a college party (she didn't have much of a choice) and what would her father think if she was here (what would he think if Neji was here).
She finally lost him in the crowd, pale lilac eyes searching through the crowds, and as she caught the eye of the brunette girl, her face split into a bright grin. "Tenten!" She yelled, the older girl (her cousin's girlfriend) wrapped her arms around Hinata, and yanked her from the floor in a big hug. Even in a tank top with no sides and a pair of cut shorts and boots, she was just as much a girly girl as Hinata was, but she played sports.
"What are you doing here?" She had a beer in her hand, and Hinata smiled, hiding behind her as the crowd had her attention. "Does Neji know you're here?"
Hinata shook her head, feeling a sense of terror and excitement running through her veins. So this is what it felt like to do something bad, something she knew she shouldn't be doing, but was anyway. "N-No!" She laughed then, her smile bright, and she pressed her hand to her lips as Tenten offered the shy and timid girl a drink of her beer. "No, I can't drink. Sakura and Ino dragged me here, i'm their ride home."
Tenten laughed, putting her forehead on the younger girl's, and grinned into pale eyes. Tenten was gorgeous, her long hair pulled back in a messy bun on top of her head, and the many rings and bracelets looked good on tan skin. "Listen bunbun, don't let Neji catch you here. if anything goes wrong, my room is the third door on the left side, upstairs. Go there if anything happens, got it? You'll be fine up there." Hinata could breath, nodding and hugging Tenten close once more before the crowd claimed her. She liked the nickname Tenten had given her when she first started dating Neji, when they were 15 and Hinata was thirteen, bunbun, because apparently she looked as cute a a bunny.
Hinata wouldn't mind having Tenten as her sister-in-law, she was good for Neji and she was wonderful all around.
Hinata was scared, she was so very scared. Her eyes were wide, and her locked arms kept the blonde boy away, blue eyes hazed over, and he was trying to kiss her, her back against the wall. His hands were on her hips, and she was scared, looking for a way out, wanting to scream as his fingers dipped under the hem of her shirt. She threw reason out of the window as she slammed her elbow into the centre of his chest, the boy letting go of her and stumbling back, and Hinata made a bolt for the stairs, taking them as fast as her tiny frame could carry her. She looked around, Tenten's room, she would be safe there. The second door on the left, right? Finding it, and navigating her way through the couples kissing and clothes on the floor, she slammed into it.
Opening the door, she rushed inside, slamming it shut and locking it before backing away slowly, letting out a long breath. Her heart was pounding so hard in her chest, she was sure she was going to have a heart attack, and her hand reached to her forehead, pressing the back of her hand to the skin, and breathing heavy. She didn't know why she had come, why had she agreed to come to this damn party? Sakura was still looking for someone, Ino was making out with Sai she believed that was his name, and Hinata was left to her own devices. She needed to calm down, she was safe in Tenten's room, she just needed to wait until Sakura called her and told her it was time to go.
"Any reason you're in my room?" She whipped around, seeing the shirtless boy, and she didn't even get a good look at his face before her eyes rolled into the back of her head, and she went limp.
The boy cursed under his breath as he caught the girl right before she hit the floor, one hand strong on his desk and the other wrapped around her. She was dead weight, and he snapped his eyes to her. "What the hell? Did you seriously faint?" He was about to yell at her until she woke up and could get the hell out of his room, but then he recognized her. This, what the hell was Hinata Hyuuga doing at a frat party?! he grunted as he picked her up, body completely limp against his own, and he set her down on his own bed his room mate's a complete and utter mess, a tangle of orange. He set her down, and sat back down at his desk chair, and on a last second thought, he grabbed a shirt and pulled it over his head, knowing that's probably what caused her to faint.
About ten or fifteen minutes later, she started to stir, and when her hands fisted the material of his sheets, her eyes snapped open and she bolted up into a sitting position, scooting all the way to the wall, staring at him with wide eyes. She grabbed something from her bag, and Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the pink device. That was, until she turned it on and he fell out of his chair because holy shit she had a taser. He held his hands up in front of him, a stupid headband keeping his bangs from his face because he was painting and it always got in the way. "Slow down Hyuuga, remember me? You cousin punched me in the face our sophomore year."
Her eyes flickered with recognition, and she curled her knees to her chest, checking herself over to make sure she was okay, the other hand still on the trigger to the taser. Slowly meeting his eyes, and lowered the self-defense weapon, and took a shaking breath. "Uchiha right? Sasuke Uchiha?"
He nodded, and narrowed his eyes at her. "What the hell are you doing at a frat party?" He took his seat back at his computer chair, and Hinata breathed in.
She took a moment to look around the room, swallowing hard. Several posters for local bands littered the walls, and she looked across the clean section to a very very messy part of a bedroom, covered in oranges and blues. It contrasted greatly against Sasuke's very modest white and black, undertones of red, and Hinata couldn't breathe. "T-This isn't Tenten's room?"
Her voice was so small and Sasuke could not help the laugh that escaped his mouth, staring at her ridiculously. "Reply? Her room is next door."
Hinata blinked, and curried her red face in her knees, groaning in embarrassment. Not only had she barged into his room, she had seen him shirtless, and fainted on top of it. The gods must be laughing at her. "I'm Sakura and Ino's driver. I didn't want to come, but Sakura had been invited, and Ino begged to go..I don't know if you remember them-"
"Forehead and Inopig, yes I remember them well. They didn't leave me alone all through high school, how they're your friends, i'll never know." Hinata pursed her lips, and played with the taser in her hand. It was a gift from Neji when he graduated, which was odd because she was supposed to give him gifts, not the other way around. He said it was because now that he was in college, he wouldn't be able to look out for her as much, and she needed to learn to protect herself. Hinata always carried it with her, it made her feel safe.
"Someone named Suigetsu had invited them. I don't really want to be here, and there was a boy downstairs, and he was drunk, and I got scared." Sasuke piped up at this, eyes wide.
He remembered he distinctly told Suigetsu about the Hyuuga girl, because Sasuke had the biggest crush on her in high school, but her friends were too much for even him to handle. If Suigetsu had invited Sakura and Ino, he must have known that Hinata was bound to come. Damn him! That was why he told Sasuke he was going to regret it if he didn't leave his room! "What the guy look like?" His voice was hostile, and Hinata shook her head, humming softly to herself.
"No, I don't want him to get in trouble."
The exact reason he had liked her, she was far too kind and forgiving.
"I'm sorry." Her head snapped to him, it was rare for him to say he was sorry, to anyone for any reason. "I didn't mean to scare you and make you faint."
Hinata straightened, crossing her legs on his bed, then realizing she had her shoes on, and quickly took them off and put them down on the floor beside the bed. He watched the way her necklace swayed around her neck, and he remembered hearing in passing that Neji got it for her when she turned 13, a locket or something. "It's alright. I'm sorry for almost tasing you, I just...you startled me."
He hummed, and rolled back in the chair, away from her bed. "If you want, you can stay in here, I don't mind. You're usually quiet and shy, and i'm just painting. You can use my laptop if you want." He tossed the Mac in front of her, and her face was red as he turned back to his desk, and she seemed to be having trouble processing his words.
"A-Ano, I can't, not really..."
He sighed, crossing his arms over his chest while looking to the blank canvas in front of him. He had to do something colourful and cheery, and he had no idea how to do that. Uchiha's were not cheery, they were cold and impassive, they were assholes and massive dicks to people. "Listen, you can stay in here, because one, I don't think my roommate is coming back at all, and two, I know for a fact that Tenten has no lock on her door. None of these doors do, mine does because I put a lock on it. And it's fine, you're already comfortable here as is, i'm not going to jump you or anything."
"That's what all serial killers say." Her mutter was supposed to be unheard, but he caught it and Sasuke couldn't help the soft laugh that came from his mouth.
"I'm no serial killer, but I do know about the bet that I would snap and kill someone. Is it still going on?" He traced the corners of the canvas, and Hinata snapped her head to him, eyes wide.
She couldn't help but nod, and smile at the boy. "Yeah." He was valedictorian, and they were in a lot of the same courses last year, Hinata was more than set to be valedictorian this year, not to mention, both of them were on student council, and the photography club. They were even friends, okay maybe friends was pushing it, but he was always so nice to her when he was so cold to everyone else.
For example, she remembered one winter they had taken a field trip for their photography class into the forest to get some shots for a catalogue for the baked goods the band was selling, and Hinata had forgotten to wear a good pair of boots. She was crossing the frozen river, and slipped, nearly going crashing into the ice, but Sasuke had caught her, both of them landing in a heap on the other side of the bridge, Hinata pressed tightly to his chest and their arms around each other in fear.
Another time was when she had slipped on the bleachers during a football game, and smashed her head on the sousaphone, and Sasuke had rushed her to the nurse when she fainted at the sight of blood. He was there when she woke up, having told their teacher, she gave them both an A on the assignment.
Or for student council, one morning they had gotten locked out and it was early January, so they had to wait until the bell rang which was going to be about per hour and a half, and Sasuke had bought her hot cocoa from the student store.
He was kind to her.
And so, with the party raging under them, they relived their three years of high school together, laughing and Sasuke had laughed so much, Hinata felt as if he had really changed since he graduated, maybe he wasn't so hard and cold to the world now, just..less stoic. When her phone rang, it scared her so much, she nearly fell off the bed, scrambling to get it. On the other end was Ino, who sounded so tired and giggly, and somewhere in the background, Sakura was throwing up. Hinata was disappointed to go, and she never would have believed that it was already four in the morning, it felt like only ten! Time flies when you're having fun, Sakura told her that once. Sasuke gave her a pained smile, the party still going, but so many people were passed out, and Sasuke only sighed. He walked her out to the car, Sakura gasping and trying to throw herself at Sasuke, a grin on her face. He simply gently put her in the back seat of Hinata's white mini cooper, slamming the door shut. With Ino beside her, and the car Started, Sasuke walked barefoot on the asphalt to lean on the driver's side window, a small smile on his face.
"Drive safe, get these two imbeciles home."
Hinata grinned, nodding and putting the car into drive. "Sure thing Sasuke, we should talk more. Photography isn't the same without you." She turned to him then, but his face was too close, and her eyes went wide as his lips brushed over her own, and she couldn't breathe, but she sighed somewhere along the way, and her hands found his shirt, his hands on her neck, pulling her back for more. They were both completely sober, and maybe it was a crazy streak, going to a party underage and kissing boys, Hinata never felt more alive than she did with him. With nothing more than a bite to her lip, Sasuke pulled back, and Hinata was left gasping, face flushed in embarrassment.
Sasuke reached out gently, arms and hands covered in paint, hair pushed back and wearing an old and worn shirt, a pair of blue gym shorts on, and he pinched her cheek lightly. She winced at the contact, but his smile was genuine as he looked to her eyes, those damn lilac eyes were going to be the death of him. "Always liked you Hyuuga, now I know what makes you so special." She went to ask what it was, but he had pulled away from her, cheek stinging, and he walked back towards the house, the night dark and cool. Hinata threw reason out the window, a quick glance at her sleeping friends, and she unbuckled her seat-belt, and jumped from the car.
"Sasuke!" He turned at the sound of footsteps, and Hinata stopped in front of him, a little too late and their chests brushed and she was a mess of pale red skin and shaking hands, and those pretty wide eyes. He couldn't just kiss her, confess, then walk away, the world didn't work like that. "What is it?" He raised an eyebrow, and she had her hands knotted in his shirt, stopping him from going. "That makes me special, what do you think is special about me, i'm ordinary."
He laughed then, bending down and capturing her lips again in a soft kiss, a kiss that probably should not be taking place. but her eyes drifted shut, and she held him close, and she allowed her first kiss to be taken by Sasuke Uchiha, because who else would kiss her this way, and say such kind things? Who else could make her laugh and smile, and who else clicked with her, one night together and it was like they were back in school, hadn't even been separated for a day. They always crashed back into each other, and Hinata supposed that was the way it always was.
So with the stars and moon looking down on them, under the street-light on Fourth Street on a hot summer morning, Hinata found comfort in the most unlikely person: Sasuke.
"The thing that makes you so special, is that you are ordinary. By being simple and humble, kind and nice above all else, you're already better than every other girl." He rested his forehead on her own, and he knew somewhere his brother woke up and is laughing hysterically, because Sasuke was being a sap and emotional. "You've always been special to me, maybe that's why I like you the way I do." She blushed awkwardly, and wound her eyes shut , hands clenched in a fist.
"I like you too Sasuke."
And he laughed, planted a quick kiss on her forehead, and walked away. "I'll be picking you up, Friday, seven o'clock. Wear something nice."
And Hinata couldn't breathe, her face red and she drove home in an unconscious daze. She had a date. Hinata Hyuuga had a date with Sasuke Uchiha. She didn't drink, but that didn't mean she wasn't drunk. His lips tasted like mint, they made her lips tingle and she couldn't breath.
She was drunk on the one boy at a frat party who didn't drink a single drop, and confessed his love for a simple minded girl with a heart too big for her own good.
She couldn't wait until Friday.
24/12/14
But how can you expect me not to eat,
When the forbidden fruit tastes so sweet?
