Author's Note: For people who don't know, I'm not a fan of KibaHina but thought that it'd be fitting to the plot because Hinata is meek and she won't be able to tell Naruto off like Kiba and trust me, Kiba'll do just that...you'll just have to wait till he snaps.
Disclaimer: I don't.
Pairing: NaruSasu. KibaHina
Warning: Violence. Angst. Spoilers from Naruto manga. OOC. Curses.
A/N: If any of the scenes or character portrayals offend you, I'd suggest you to turn back but if not, continue on because this is actually very light-hearted angst. I don't tend to make it any more angsty than the normal amount. Just not among the top.
Author: Mabu
Rain
4. Sealed
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The door creaked open — blank grey eyes looked up to see a new presence enter the Hokage's office — it shut close as the figure fully entered the room.
Kakashi raised an eyebrow that disappeared over his gray hairs as Sasuke came up to sit in front of him, silently.
There was a stretch of silence as both stared at each other, one's eye was curious and calculating while raven-black eyes were filled with that nothingness that tended to make everything worse later.
The gray-haired Hokage sighed heavily before anything else could be started and looked down at his desk while scurrying away non-essential papers to the side of the table and searching for that one particular report that was around there somewhere.
"So, what did you want to talk to me about?" He said still preoccupied with searching as he skimmed his eyes over the wood before taking a glance at Sasuke's stoic expression. Now, that he noticed, he could see a gauze wrapped over Sasuke's pale neck and he met eyes with the Uchiha again as the one sitting in front of him averted his gaze from him, a hand placed gently over his cheek as he looked at the wall.
"What did Sakura say to you?" Sasuke's voice was deep, baritone as he kept it low and impersonal.
Though, the Uchiha tried to hide his obvious impediment, Kakashi saw through it all.
After all, he was this guy's former teacher.
"Did you get the report?" He asked instead of answering, slumping back on his chair as he coolly looked over the ticked raven.
Sasuke turned his hard gaze at him. When he spoke, his voice was steely, hard as metal "No. Obviously, I was too impatient and I let it drag on forever while she ran away to tell you the news"
Kakashi raised his two eyebrows in clear curiosity while Sasuke continued "First, she cried over it and then, Naruto burst in. Then, my team…" he shook his head as he grabbed his temples and gritted his teeth "They're all such fucking worry-warts that I had to use my glare to shut them up…most listened but as usual, the moron kept on whining and tearing my head apart"
"He was worried about you" Kakashi murmured, becoming aware of something else that he needed to tell to the Uchiha "Which reminds me of how reckless and stupid you made yourself to be just because your former team came out of nowhere"
Sasuke made a point to look up at the ceiling while pretending not to listen but he was. And even Kakashi didn't have to say it because Sasuke knew and he was pretending because he wanted others to think that he didn't care. Just like always.
"I know" Sasuke finally muttered when the tense silence seemed to overcome him "I didn't mean to get distracted"
"I know you didn't" said Kakashi, keeping one elbow over the table as he rested his chin against it "I hate when you get in trouble as much as you do, Sasuke. Once you get captured or injured, bloody hell turns over in the face of your team. And if Sakura and Naruto weren't enough, now those twerps too"
He sighed, why did he ever think that Sasuke taking in kids as his sub-ordinates would make him kinder? It was just a way for him to irritate the Jounin who seemed to never lose his professional attitude and another way to get Sasuke off his case about joining ANBU but that was just a bad move. Now, not only did he have to worry about Naruto complaining about the Uchiha's reckless actions but even those little kids who knew and understood nothing about politics or alliances. At least, Naruto understood some of it…
"Where's the report?" Sasuke asked, Kakashi looked at him for a moment before gesturing over his messy table "Somewhere around here"
Sasuke fixed him a glare as he looked over the mess himself before he leaned forward and reached for the stray papers from the table "I hate when you do this"
Kakashi yawned, turning away "Yor' fault"
Sasuke grumbled something about him being lazier than Shikamaru at which he snorted because gods forbid; Shikamaru was the laziest out there. He never stopped to prove others wrong of that statement.
The raven-haired male just glared at him as he stood up and looked over the papers. Finally, after some search, he took out the report from the middle of the other papers. It was a packet of pages that contained about ten threads of paper overall, covering from his blood-pressure to other side-effects from the drugs induced on him.
He carefully skimmed through the paper on the front, knowing most of them already while he backed away to sit down again. As he read and flipped through the pages, Kakashi kept an eye on him, grief settling over his grey eyes.
He felt old all of a sudden.
Looking at his former student as the other squinted at the pages the longer he read on and how he looked back from his arms to the paper in confusion while hissing in pain as he bend it down, it was painful watching it all come apart right in front of his eyes.
Sasuke touched the base of his elbow with narrowed eyes as he bit his lip last minute before straightening up and looking at Kakashi straight in the eye.
"I fucking hate this shit" He spat as he pushed the offending packet away from his hold and let it fall on the ground in a rustle. His arms were straining and he looked annoyed as he looked at the ground with tight lips.
"Apparently, the shit just keeps getting worse, doesn't it?" Kakashi asked, leaning back and spreading his legs as he sat comfortably, studying Sasuke's expression as it turned from annoyed to one of blank nothingness again "Kabuto, or Orochimaru, whatever that was had obviously hated you so damn much that giving you scars wasn't enough but drugs and poison had to be added. One of those drugs were so dangerous that it could absorb its way through your chakra vessels and every time you tried to use your eyes, it stacked its way up to your eye-balls and caused immense harm. You may only have three or two days before you really lose your sight. By the medical report, the scars in your iris are ripping every time you strain them"
Sasuke's eyes hardened at that as he closed his eyes, taking out a breath before slumping back himself "I don't care anymore"
"You should" Kakashi simply advised knowing he would get a glare if not for Sasuke trying to close his eyes to ease the strains "You have to be careful since your arms and legs too are practically busted. The poison that his bites provided on your skin weren't just to rip you apart. No, they were for your bones that were bitten from the inside by the black poison induced in you; they were like small ants that chewed until only hurt remained. Though, Sakura took most of the poison out of you, it may still be within you and will hurt more of your body from the inside if you don't take your medicines properly"
A growl erupted from the Jounin as he stood "I know!"
Hands firmly slammed over his messy table as black eyes stared at him with the frustration he'd ever only seen five years ago, the time when the boy had been caused such mental harm that he couldn't stand the world anymore. He couldn't stand their laughs, couldn't stand their voices whispering his name, and couldn't take the concern or anger thrown at him. He had hated them all, he had been frustrated beyond comprehension and Kakashi felt fear for the child who was now an adult yet would always remain a child in his eyes.
Sasuke had gone through too much and he felt like a child. A small child that knew hiding its pain would make it less sufferable.
It concerned him but he never so much as spoke a word about it. Maybe, he should. But he didn't.
"I know" Sasuke whispered in a shaky voice before sitting back down, a straining hand holding his head as he closed his eyes again. After much silence, his cool voice was back but the words were anything but that "I'm weak"
Kakashi wanted to hold the lump in his throat and not swallow it down but it burned his throat. He looked away, not wanting to see the boy anymore.
"Yes" He drew in a breath before smiling up at the boy, crinkling his eyes up and trying to take a sarcastic turn but just as he opened his mouth, the words seem to get lost in his conscious "Funny. I just thought I had a sarcastic remark for that but I think I forgot" He rubbed the back of his head still smiling behind the cloth "Sorry, Sasuke. I'm too lazy to bring in a joke on right now" He laughed a little, but it sounded fake to his ears.
"Don't bother. I won't like it anyway" Sasuke said as he stood up with a finality in his words, turning away as he ambled back to the door.
Kakashi watched his back with a frown, wanting to say anything that could make the boy a little hopeful "Naruto would still want to spar with you" Sasuke stopped, his hands still on the door-knob "So, don't lose to him, Sasuke. Gambatte (Word hard)"
Sasuke averted his eyes from the door, his hold on the knob gripping tight as he turned to Kakashi "Tell Sai to take care of the kids for me"
And then, he was out.
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Hinata was tying her ebony hairs back with a rubber band when the bell to her home rang.
"Would you get that?" her husband's voice rumbled across the bathroom.
She turned to glance at the bathroom door before replying a loud "Okay" as she ran to the door, opening it without a problem.
As the door pushed back, a blond mop of hair popped into her line of sight at first before she let a pleasant smile grace her lips as she greeted the one at the door "Welcome, Naruto"
The blond smiled back at her "Hey, Hinata" She moved aside to let him pass but he didn't move. Instead, he kept rubbing his back nervously.
Hinata smiled knowingly "It's about that, right?" she asked.
He blinked before nodding, grateful that she guessed it without him telling her.
She looked back in the house for a moment before she turned to the blond "I'll tell Kiba that I'll be going with you for a while so wait here. I'm coming"
She left the door open as she rushed back to the bathroom direction but Kiba was already out, toweling his shaggy brown hairs as he shook his head off the wet.
"K-Kiba" She stammered, blushing as she took in his half-naked self where he only wore his boxers and a towel hung by his neck "U-um, Naruto's here for another 'talk' so I have to go and listen to him"
"Aw, and I was in the mood for some sex" Kiba pouted but grinned as Hinata blushed full on the face "Joking, joking" He came up to her as his tan arms held onto her lithe shoulders, leaning down so that their lips were inches apart "I heard Sasuke got a pretty big blow so I think I can risk some of our time for that idiot" He put a chaste kiss over her lips before moving away, leaving a flustered Hinata as she looked down at the ground "Besides, I'm a little worried too. With him forgetting all those things. You should really inquire him about it. Its like something is wrong with him"
Hinata turned from flustered to serious as she stared up at her brown-haired husband "Yes. I do want to know if he's acting or just purely not aware because if the latter is true, I might have to talk to Sakura"
"What would she know about it?" Kiba asked with a curious raise in the eyebrow.
"She may know more than me and this is really out of my hand. He's acting too dumb to realize tha—"
"Hinata! If you two are over making out, can you come quickly?" Naruto's voice sounded from the door.
She looked back as did Kiba before she bit her lip with a worried frown over her face.
"Just go" Kiba murmured "Listen to him and if he mentions anything relating to that, question him"
Hinata nodded but she wasn't sure if the outcome would be as good as she'd like it to be.
I really need to talk to Sakura…
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Sasuke raked a hand through his hairs, noticing the twitch in his elbow as he bended his arms a little extra hard. It didn't hurt as much as it put a restraint to them from moving completely without being stiff. He missed being flexible and right now, being stiff was just causing his nerves to strain themselves.
He brushed a hand over the silky black cloth on his lap and stared at it for a moment before taking in a deep breath, holding the silk and bringing it up to his eyes, watching the black come closer to his vision as he finally put them on, closing his eyes and seeing nothing but darkness behind them. He tied a knot behind his head, tightening it so it wouldn't come off before he stared into the darkness to see if he could see any strays of light to tell him where he was going.
When the darkness seemed to stay everywhere, he nodded to himself and got out of bed with firm, determined feets on the ground. He could feel the carpet on his feet, soft under the skin as he padded carefully down the direction where he thought his bedroom door was. As he thought he had reached it, he put a hand in front of him, touching the rough door and feeling it against his skin before pushing it apart.
The door opened with a creak and he stepped outside, to his living room. He could imagine it behind his eyes, the way his furniture's were located on the sides so he wouldn't have to worry about tripping over them. Not that this was any hard. He was just blind.
"…."
Now that he thought about it, what could he do with being blind? Was he supposed to just sit around here all day?
That sounded like he was wasting his time.
But what could he do? With the way his condition was, he hardly was in any position to accept mission, much less help anyone in trouble.
With the way everything seemed so dark and black, it all just came to him that this might be harder than he was expecting.
He couldn't see a thing.
Would it be like this? Only to depend on four senses alone.
It made him feel old somehow when he was only twenty. What a load. He raked a hand through his hairs again, feeling the rough threads with his fingers; he didn't have his forehead protector on today and it felt empty all of a sudden.
But how could he put it on when he was anything but useful?
"Naruto would still want to spar with you"
Sasuke blinked, his hand stopped half-way through his hairs.
"So, don't lose to him, Sasuke. Gambatte"
Sasuke scowled. That Kakashi really had the nerve. What the hell kind-of teacher was he to bring up the one subject he was sour about?
The fucking teacher betrayed him! He thought that at least Kakashi wouldn't be like them but turns out, he was a fucking worry-wart after all. And a sap at that!
The fucktard needed to die or get bruised up because his words marked right where it mattered.
"Fuck" He muttered as he clutched his hairs, wanting to rip them out as the bangs brushed against his cheeks, tickling them while dancing like fucking bananas.
Oh now look what I'm doing, comparing hairs to bananas!
The atrocity of it all just caused him a big, blind head-ache before he took his hands off his hairs and clenched his fist in angry determination.
"Fucking kill him" was the last thing he said as he went outside his house, forgetting all about his fear of the blindness that he just recently discovered and in his rage, decided to train without his eye-sight and without any fucktard's help.
No thank you, he was fine by himself.
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"And then, he was like 'It doesn't matter' and I'm like 'Shit, fuck you but it matters, you stupid retarded flow-bag!' and then, he does that whole 'Hn' like usual but this one was like 'Fuck you too' and I'm like 'Fuck you, Sasuke! Fuck the shitty ground that you live on' and he's like..." Naruto trailed off as he watched Hinata wince a little at the curses that were flowing off his mouth "Oh sorry" he mumbled, rubbing his head apologetically.
Well, he couldn't help the whole cursing thing cause' whenever it involved Sasuke, his anger would rise and even though Hinata was more than the innocent girl she used to be, to hear such obscenities must have been hard while listening to his speech.
"No, it's okay. I was just…"
"Not used to it?" Naruto supplied as she blushed, embarrassed and nodded.
There was silence as Naruto looked at his hands with thoughtful chagrin and Hinata fumbled with her fingers since she wanted to bring up the topic but she always backed down last minute like yesterday and day before that and day before that and that.
But really…God knows what hell might come over him if she mentioned that. If she was right about her guess which she wasn't sure of yet, than this topic must have been really sensitive for him to seal it in his sub-conscious.
"Naruto" she called but when he didn't answer right away, she looked at his glazed-over eyes— the blue in them was as hollow as the baseless sky, she couldn't help but feel bad about bringing it up at this time but maybe, it was a time better than any other.
After all… "Naruto"
He snapped back from his day-dreaming and looked at her with wide eyes before apologizing.
She shook her head and told him it didn't matter before she started again "Naruto. There was something I wanted to talk to you about" He looked curious as she started "I want you to be honest with me because honestly, this is not for me or for the world to know. It isn't about them but you and you only. And I want to be sure- to know if…"
"Yes, Hinata?" He cocked his head now, noticing how hesitant she seemed at voicing it out.
"If you're in love with Sasuke" she said quickly before averting her eyes away from his eyes or face.
There was dead-silence before she glanced warily at his face as it froze for a moment before a grin found his face.
Oh no, is he going to freak out?
But the grin wasn't there because he was mentally shattering like she feared but because he found the thought amusing. He told her that, patting her shoulders hard and laughing at the thought of it all while she kept on staring at him cynically.
He's not mad but definitely in denial or…maybe; he just doesn't realize it yet.
"Like hell I'd be in love with that guy. And Hinata, I'm straight. Like a scale. Like Jiraiya" He laughed at his own words as he babbled on "I don't swing that way! Sasuke's like a total asshole in my opinion so why in the hell would I--"
But what about that time? Hinata wondered in her mind, tuning out his voice as he continued to laugh at the utter idea of him and Sasuke together The time when you came to me and confessed that you were having weird thoughts about Sasuke. Weird as in attraction. As in, you fucking admitted out loud that you liked the Uchiha's body! Why have you forgotten that?
The ebony-haired girl winced as she realized that she had cursed under her own mind while trying to make sense of all that had happened.
For heaven's sake…
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TBC...