Autor's Note : I really want to thank Darth-Taisha for her encouragement and advices. Here is also my new chapter. I hope you'll like it and please leave comments.
Flashback :
It had been raining the whole day. Hinata was sitting on a huge white arm-chair and was reading a book. Her hair was falling lightly on her cheeks and she was really preoccupied. Suddenly the girl heard the main door oppening. Her father was home again. She ran quickly to meet him.
"What happened, Father? Was the searching team able to find him?" - the girl asked worried.
"No trace of that boy. Just their house... nevermind... " -said Hiashi with a frown.
"What? What's the matter? What happened with the Uchiha mansion?" -Hinata wispered.
The elder Hyuga turned his face towards his daughter. His eyes were narrowed and his lips - pursed.
"The searching team found some strange things at the house. The Hokage thinks that the boy didn't dissapeared... it seems that he left on his own."
"I don't belive that. His not like that. He won't just ran away and left the village. At least he has friends here... right?" thought the indigo-haired girl. Tears started to form in the corners of her eyes.
"...and even if he ever came back..." -continued Hiashi. "I don't want you to meet him. At all! Do not get involved with him, Hinata! Am I clear?"
"Yes, Father." -a sad tone came out of her lips. "But please telll me... why do you want me not to do this?" almost cried the girl.
"Hyuga Hinata, listen to me very carefully. This boy is not your friend or even your acquaintance. I do not want you to see him again... ever. Do you think that you even know him that well?" -her father looked her hard.
"Yes. He's my friend." -answered the girl, trying to calm down.
"Well... maybe a few hours before he dissapeared... I mean left... he had done something horrible. I only know that when the searching team gave the report they said that in the house there were two corpses - his parents' bodies. Only the smaller son survived. We belive that his brother murdered them."
With the last sentance the tears were falling all over the girls face. That wasn't possible. It wasn't true. That was her friend. He'd never do such thing. He'd been careing about the people around him. He had protectet her so many times. He wasn't that horrible person who her father had discribed. She'd known him. Or at least she'd known one thing - Uchiha Itachi was everything but not a murder.
End Flashback
Hinata was breathing heavily. She had just finished another of her nightmares... again. Memories were stuck in her head and she had dreams about them since a couple of months. Actually since she'd heard that Itachi will finally stay in Konoha. It wasn't like she was afraid of him. Just his past was bothering her and she still didn't wanted to adimin its darkness. The girl had hat very long day and all she wanted to do is sleaping peacefully. However after the previous events that wasn't so possible. All Hinata could remember was that in one moment they were talking and in the other her body started to do things on its own. Finally frightened of rejection she'd left him infront of the door after giving him a kiss and locked herself in the Hyuga mansion and after that in her room. It had been four hours ago. She heard a small knock on the door.
"I know you're awake, Hinata. Please let me in." -a wisper came from the other side.
"Damn our Byakugan and bloodline sometimes." thought Hinata with irritation. "Come in, Neji-kun." -she finally said.
The Hyuga boy tip-toed and carefully closed the door behind him. He was wearing his night clothes and his hair down. He looked at the girl with concern.
"You had another nightmare, hadn't you?" -he asked quietly.
"Yes." -Hinata tried to made an unemotional expresion.
"Do you want to talk about it?" -offered Neji.
"No." -the girl's tone was now icy. However when she looked up, her cousin saw so much pain and desperate in her eyes. Suddenly she leaned closer and started to cry on his shoulder.
"I'm such a fool, Neji-kun." -sobbed the girl. "Why can't I make something normal? Why am I always acting as a coward?"
"You're not." -replied Neji hugging her. "You know... Luna told me everything. About you and Itachi."
"There is no "Me and Him together" anymore..." -sniffed the girl. "...thanks to me from now on it'll be just "Me" and "Him".
"What do you mean?"
"I kissed him, Neji... on the lips... when he walked me home." -Hinata said flatly.
The boy started to shake. Hinata lifted her hear and saw him chuckle.
"Go ahead... laught at me... that's what I deserve for being so stupid."
"I'm sorry..." -finaly the boy looked at her with a smile. "But come on, Hina-chan... that's not the end of the world. Besides it was just one kiss. Kisses are not such a bad things."
"Oh yea... you could say that... at least Luna return your feelings... " -added the girl with a shy blush.
"And what makes you think that Itachi doesn't do the same about you?"
"Don't be ridiculous." -Hinata said with a fake smile. "He doesn't feel me, look at me or even think about me in that way. We're just friends... and I don't even know if we still are."
"Luna and I were also friends... now we are too. Everybody start from something." -said the boy dryly. "And besides I think tomorrow he may look at you in a different way."
"I know. I just embaraced myself infront of him. Don't remind me that." -frowned Hinata.
"That was four hours ago. And I wasn't talking about that." -smirked her cousin.
"Then what..." -Hinata froze as she saw Neji's devilish smile. "Cousin, what had I missed? What happened after I falled asleep?"
"Honestly, I don't know either." -yawned the boy. "Luna explained me everything about your problems quite after you and Itachi left. She told me that she'll speak with him tonight."
"Oh,no." Hinata thought with panic. "Please, Kami, let everything be ok. Please let me at least keep his friendship."
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"So let's generalize...you think that Hinata may like me, but she's too shy to admin it."
"Finally you got my idea. Thank you, Kami-sama." -said Luna with relaxed face.
She was at home in the kitchen with Sasuke and Itachi on the table around her. Since a couple of hours she was trying to talk with Itachi, but after the first round the result were screams (because Itachi wasn't focused enough to listen carefully) and Sasuke who got awake. Now at round two she desided to be calmer and not to loose her temper again.
"So... I think that's all... now if you dont mind, gentelmen, I'm going to bed." -Luna raised from her chair.
"Wait, wait, wait! Hold on a second... WHAT?! Hinata likes Itachi. The HYUGA Hinata likes OUR brother." -Sasuke yelled. "But...why? They're just friends, right? I mean we all grow together... it's just not right for them to be a couple." he made a disgusted face.
"Maybe, it's just not right for you... ,Baby-chan." -mocked him Luna.
"Thank you, Sasuke, for making a comment about the situation." -said Itachi loudly as he felt that Sasuke will add something. "And, Luna... please come here... the debate is not over yet."
"Grrr... I'm tired." -the blond girl growled.
"It's not my problem that you and Neji prefer some other things instead of sleeping during the night." -smirked Itachi at his victory.
"I'll get you own back with a ve..." -colapsed Luna on the chair again. With those two boys around it would be a long, long night.
"So how many people know about that?" -asked Itachi.
"Well... Hinata, me, since couple of hours Neji and from now on you two." -counted the girl on her fingers.
"Wrong... I figured it out also a couple of hours ago." -smirked Itachi.
"What... so I realised that last." -Sasuke said disappointed.
"What do you mean you figured it out a couple of hours ago? Did Hinata told you?" -frowned Luna totally ignoring her younger cousin's comment.
"Nope... she showed me." -a smile formed at one of the corners of the Uchiha's lips. "She kissed me."
"She didn't colapsed after that, did she?" -asked Luna worried.
"No." -the raven-haired man raised an index funger when he saw her face lightening up. "She prefered to ran away."
"Oh." -said the girl disappointed. "Damn... next time I'll add the running away stiff in her list with tips about dates. Yeah... that's a great idea... under the note for fainting." thought she with amusement.
"That's what I thought at those momet... "Oh"..." -Itachi rubbed his eyes. "So what I'm supposed to do now? I've never been good in relations."
"You've never been able to understand women, too." -laughed Sasuke.
"Shut up!" -hissed his brother. "Should I remind you that your fanclub is bigger than mine?"
"Yes... but the girls are not so agressive and desperate as those in yours." -informed him Sasuke.
"Baka." -giggled Luna, looking at her younger cousin. "Hold you tongue behind your theet... you're taken."
"But Anni is sleeping now - she won't hear me." -Sasuke made a confident look.
"Don't underestimate her... she's a magician like me. Or I have to add that we can read minds , if we want to." -a sweet and innoncent grey eyes met Sasuke onix ones.
"You're right." -glumped the man. "I'll go to bed now." "Or Anni will get mad at me." thought he.
"So enough gossip for one night for me. Good night, guys." -Sasuke said, while rubbing his neck.
"Night." -smiled Luna. After that she turned again to her odled cousin. "What are you thinking now?" -she asked calm.
"I still don't know what to think. She's like my younger sister, but after that kiss..." -started Itachi tiredly.
"She hadn't changed, Itachi. She's still like your sister. And also she really liked you when we were younger."
"She did?" -the man looked up confused.
"You've never notised, haven't you? The way she looked at you. She admired you, bro." -Luna chuckled. "I guess that's just the new level of her feelings now."
"So she really like me, huh?" -Itachi yawned.
"The real question is do YOU feel the same?" -the blonde became serious. "Please, Onee-chan, don't play around with her and be honest. I don't like when someone to let my friends down."
"I won't let her down. I already told you... after the kiss something happened." -the boy said resignedly.
"You mean you... like her, too?!" -Luna couldn't belive.
"I mean that i feel something more than just friendship. Maybe it's a matter of time this feeling to grow." -Itachi cupped his head in his hands. "But I'm afraid that if I see her again that time will be really short."
Luna looked at him. She knew him really well. When he started to talk about his own feelings and became sentimental, that meaned that the things were serious. Even if he didn't admited them out loud. "Finally... a victory..." thought the girl with a smile. "Hinata, watch out... someone has a huge crush on you."
Autor's Note : I hope you like that chapter. I decided to add OC "Anni" as Sasuke's fiancee. I just couldn't deside which girl from the anime suits him best so I tried to make my own. I may let her figure more in the next chapters. And anyway... leave comments... :D
