"Bye Hinata-chan! Have fun with Uchiha-th- I mean Yurei!" yelled Kirei before shutting the door in her face in embarrassment. She grabbed her black slacks from her drawers and a black tank top from the closet in the guest bedroom while mumbling to herself, "His name isn't Uchiha-that's-almost-as-cute-as-Sasuke... I can't call him that or everybody will know I think Sasuke is cute... And then I'll have less of a chance at him than that stupid girl with the hair that looks like old bubblegum." Shaking her head at her own silliness she carefully strapped on her black sandals tightly and securely so they wouldn't fall off if she had to make a quick escape. Hinata wasn't stupid and the Uchiha-that's-almost-as-cute-as-Sasuke looked like he'd be scary when mad so she didn't have time for strappy heals or flats with bows on them, no matter how cute they were. She sighed softly to herself. To think, she had those exact shoes in the closet too.
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Sasuke was lying on his bed contemplating how dangerous Yurei was. It was frustrating not knowing what his cousin was like anymore. He had left an hour earlier with no explanation and had told him jokingly not to wait up for him. Sasuke knew Yurei was here on business and now would be a perfect time to do something. Annoyed, Sasuke closed his eyes and tried to remember everything he could about Yurei. He was always the fun one while Itachi was the serious one. He had to admit there was a very, very slight resemblance to Naruto there. It was a possibility he was just doing something stupid like stalking Hinata again though. But even that was bad, he never knew what he might end up doing.
Rolling his eyes, Sasuke rolled off his bed and grabbed his clothing. He should have started out sooner; he had no idea where Yurei was going. He pulled his shirt over head he mentally checked off places where he could and could not be. He had narrowed the list down to a helpful twenty locations by the time he was out of his room. Sighing to himself for wasting a perfectly good night being a stalker he strapped on his sandals. It was going to be a long night.
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Yurei leaned against the trunk of the old tree he had spent hours playing around when he was younger. He'd been on countless dates with countless girls to countless places but for some reason he had spent extra time preparing for this one. He had showed up early and even bought her a flower, a lily that matched her eyes. But then again, her eyes were much prettier. For the hundredth time he looked over at the park entrance, waiting for Hinata.
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Kirei pulled out the crumpled piece of paper where she had scribbled the directions to the stupid restaurant on for the millionth time. Hinata had told her just in case the apartment burned down or something. There were way too many dango shops, sushi bars, and ramen stands in Konoha. Fuming in frustration she turned to the opposite direction for the fifth time and started retracing her steps to the last place she was. She was ready to pull out her hair when she saw a flash of blonde. Smiling she ran to Naruto, waving at him. "Hi Kirei, what are you doing out here by yourself?" he asked curiously Kirei looked down sheepishly, silently cheering victory in her head. "Well you see I got lost, I was supposed to meet a friend at this really nice sushi restaurant they wanted to show me," she said, showing him the wrinkled paper she had in her fist. Sakura smiled, "Oh that place! It's really close, just walk up that street and turn left, walk two more blocks and your there!" "Thank you so much!" she said, turning around and skipping happily towards the restaurant.
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Sasuke was frustrated. He was honestly an inch away from just giving up and going home. He was outside the fifth building of the evening and no luck, no sign of his cousin. Just as he was about to head toward the next restaurant he saw a little girl skipping by. He looked at her curiously; it was a little late for little kids to be out. The girl froze and bent down to tie her shoe and Sasuke caught a glimpse of a deep blue eye shining in the dark. "Long black hair down to her knees with side bangs hiding one of her deep blue eyes," he whispered to himself, it was Hyuga's friend, Kirei. Strange she wasn't with Hinata. From what he knew Hinata didn't go out much except with Sakura and Ino. Sakura had been annoying him that day about how she and Ino were going shopping so he knew Hinata wasn't with them. He had a feeling he knew who she was with.
Sasuke jumped onto the roof of the restaurant and started following Kirei, she had stopped skipping and was walking leisurely, her hair swinging from side to side revealing her all black clothing. He could tell she knew she was being followed. She had subtly reached for her kunai pouch but had stopped and actually said aloud, "Whatever," and continued walking, a smirking Sasuke following her.
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Yurei's breath caught when he saw her, her shoes clicking softly on the stone path and her hair lifting in the wind. She looked beautiful in her white dress and it brought out the purple tones in her eyes. He smiled, she looked like an angel. She walked towards him, blushing at his stare. "H-hello Uchiha-san." He smiled at her shyness and handed her the flower, making her blush even more. "Hi Hinata-chan, skip the formalities and call me Yurei. Are you hungry? We can go to the restaurant now if you want."
"Uhmm s-sure," she said, looking down at the ground. Hinata was relieved he wasn't acting like a creeper this time.
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Kirei was glad Sasuke was behind her and not in front because she was grinning from ear to ear. As soon as she had skipped by him she had frozen and bent down to get a closer look only to find he was looking at her too. She saw him jump onto the building and heard the small muffled sounds of him jumping from roof to roof. Once she had paused, wanting to throw a senbon at him but had decided she wanted to save it for later, instead muttering, "Whatever," to herself. Finally she saw Yurei and Hinata walking into the restaurant and quickly ducked into the dango shop across the street. The girl inside looked down at her and asked softly, "Can I help you little girl?" She rolled her eyes at that, "A cup of jasmine tea and a window seat please."
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Yurei opened the door for to the restaurant and let Hinata in, looking around the stores around them before walking in himself. For some reason he felt like he was being watched but he just shook his head, he was being paranoid.
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Sasuke stood on the roof, thinking about what to do. He couldn't stay there because the moon was right behind him, Yurei could look out the window and see his outline perfectly and he couldn't go to the roof of the sushi restaurant because then he couldn't see and Kirei would see him from the moons glow. Staying on the street would be dumb because there was nobody there and he's stick out like a sore thumb. He couldn't go into the sushi restaurant without looking like a baka and he couldn't go into the dango shop he was standing on because… Well that was the only option that made a slight amount of sense. Taking one last longing glace at the closed shops on either side of the dango shop he jumped down onto the street.
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After they ordered Hinata asked Yurei timidly, "Is Konoha r-really different from when you were y-younger?" He smiled and said, "Actually a lot of it is the same, there was even some boy painting the Hokage's like I used to do." Hinata giggled, "That was probably Naruto-kun.
"You know, Konoha is a lot nicer than The Village in the Mist; the weather there is all foggy and rainy. From what I remember it's almost always sunny and bright here, so much happier," he smiled again, "The girls are way cuter too!" Hinata turned bright red and asked quickly, "S-so what brought you h-her to Konoha again Y-Yurei?"
"Uhh," he started nervously, "Partly for work and partly to visit Sasuke." Before she could speak he blurted out, "You know when he was little he got electrocuted when I told him if he stuck a fork in an outlet he could absorb the electricity and be stronger. That's why his hair sticks up." Hinata laughed and Yurei breathed a sigh of relief, quickly launching into the story about Sasuke.
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Sasuke walked into the shop and was hit by the warm smell of jasmine tea and the nauseating smell of sugary dango. The waitress was batting her lashes at him when he heard a soft, "Uchiha-san," to his left. He turned and saw Kirei, her eyes glowing like she was silently laughing at a joke only she had heard. She motioned to the seat across from her and looked pointedly out the window straight at the sushi restaurant. Sighing he walked over to the table, wondering what to say.
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After they had finished eating Yurei and Hinata decided to take a walk in the nearby park. During dinner Hinata had slowly slipped out of her shell and was now much more relaxed and speaking freely with Yurei and laughing happily. "Oh," said Hinata, looking at an old oak tree not far from the path surrounded by a few flowers and boulders, "Neji-nii-san used to take me here when we were younger." She smiled softly at the memory.
"Really?" asked Yurei, "I came here with Itachi and Sasuke too," he laughed, "Small world." Suddenly he froze and turned to the trees, staring at them intently.
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"Move!" whispered Sasuke urgently and they quickly jumped through the trees away from Yurei's gaze. "What kind of ninja sneezes when they're spying?" he hissed into Kirei's ear, sending shivers down her back. "Oh whatever, we didn't get caught," she retorted, turning bright red. She hadn't really sneezed. Sasuke had been staring at the couple and she had taken the opportunity to check him out again but she had lost her balance and let out a little squeak and tossed a senbon on a chakra string to catch her balance. She didn't expect Yurei to hear, Hinata obviously didn't. Sighing she forced herself to pay more attention to where she was stepping. She didn't have a chance to grab her needle when Sasuke said to go and she was a little upset, it was her lucky set.
Sasuke was a little annoyed; he didn't expect Kirei to make a mistake like that. The last thing he needed was for Yurei to catch him spying. It would be even harder now because he'd be suspicious. Shaking his head he decided that he was going to have to go out of his way to stop her from doing anything stupid.
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"What?" Hinata asked worriedly, "Is something wrong?" she turned to the trees to try and see what was happening.
"No, it's nothing," he said with a smile, "I want to show you something, come on!" Yurei grabbed Hinata's hand and led her farther into the park. They reached a small sakura grove and Yurei led her to a small tree with a small stone bench at the base. "Come sit with me," he said, taking her hand and pulled her gently to the bench.
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"I can't see anything," Kirei whispered, Sasuke rolled his eyes at her; he was taller so he could see above the branch in front of them but Kirei couldn't. Sighing she quickly pinned her hair into a loose bun with two senbon as Sasuke watched her curiously, repositioning herself she swung upside-down so her face was peeking out under the massive branch of cherry blossoms in front of them. Without her hair tied up Hinata would be able to see a waterfall of black hair hanging out of the tree, which would be very, very bad. Smiling to herself she watched the scene unfold in front of her.
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"I came here almost every day when I was younger," Yurei said softly, looking up at the branches, "This place means so much to me." Hinata smiled and blushed,
"W-wow," she said quietly, "The flowers are so beautiful." He turned to her and smiled,
"I know I just met you but I've never felt like this before, I really like you Hinata," he said looking into her eyes.
"O-oh, Uhh I," she stuttered. He tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and whispered softly,
"Do you trust me Hinata?"
"U-uhmm,"
"Good," he said, and his lips met hers.
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"Oh Kami," Kirei whispered as she forgot about holding herself up. Quickly she pulled out a senbon from her hair and threw it up to hit the branch above her so she could pull herself up.
Sasuke was close to gawking at Yurei when out of the corner of his eyehe saw the girl next to him start to fall. Without thinking he reached out to grab her, his hand getting caught in something he couldn't see and then next thing he knew Kirei was screaming and they were both falling.
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"He's kissing me, again," thought Hinata, But this time… it feels different, like I was supposed to be there, it feels good to kiss Uchiha Yurei. His lips against mine, it's making me realize. I liked him all this time; I just didn't want to admit it."
A crash and a scream brought Hinata out of the haze and she turned to see Kirei, underneath Sasuke. Yurei laughed softly and got up from the bench. "Now, now, now," he said with a murderous smile. "Would one of you mind telling me why you kids have been following us the whole time?"
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Kirei was scared, the Uchiha-that's-almost-as-cute-as-Sasuke looked like a devil about to murder them so she did the only thing she saw reasonable. She grabbed Sasuke's hand, jumped in the nearest tree and half dragging, half pulling him, she ran away as fast as she could, Yurei's laughter and Sasuke's pleas to slow down speeding her on.
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When Hinata got home and finished yelling at Kirei she locked herself in her room and wrote in her diary.
"After being with Yurei on this date, I had seen a completely different side of him. He wasn't the weird, perverted stranger I met only yesterday, but a nice, sensitive, not to mention hot- wait, what was I thinking? It was Kirei that forced me into this date, but strangely when I spent more time with him, I began to really understand what kind of person he was… Maybe he wasn't that bad of a person to be with…"
Fin.
(A/N Time yay!)
Sapphire143: Oh my gosh I had a fangirl moment when I saw what Joker wrote about when they kissed ! I loved this chapter, I hope you do too ! Mm so it's been forever because we've had summer school but I hope you like it ! So review, review review ! (I seriously just wrote, comment, rate and subscribe! and had to go back and change it .) But lots of love and tomatoes for everybody who bothered reading this ! (:
XChromeJokerX: hi guys, sorry for posting so slow, i kinda procrastinate all the time! ^-^" Hope you guys like it and yeah, what she said, R&R please! Yup Lotsa love & dango for everybody... PEACE!
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