A/N: I stressed lots of words in this chapter (or one-shot?), and there were lots of interrupting-each-other's-dialogue kind of stuff in this, so . . . I hope you guys like it! :)

Alone

"Hinata-" Sasuke swallowed.

Hinata shook her head, tears evident in her white eyes as she mumbled, "No. P-please. Just n-no."

"But-" She shook her head vigorously, cutting him off effectively and clutching her suitcase closer to her chest. Hinata stepped back as Sasuke moved closer—just a bit. He didn't want to lose her, hell, he didn't even mean to kiss his secretary! Maybe he was just craving for human touch, but damn it, he's a guy who simply lost himself and-

"I didn't mean to," Sasuke whispered, his heart squeezing in his chest. "I didn't mean to," he repeated, watching her shake her head from side to side. He didn't mean to hurt her, he didn't mean to lose himself to that girl, he didn't mean to make her cry; he didn't . . . he really didn't . . .

"N-Neji was right, y-you know," Hinata quietly said, wiping the corners of her eyes and keeping her head down. She shifted away from him, and he didn't try to reduce their space this time.

Instead, Sasuke listened.

She sniffed, rubbing her eyes again while her warm tears openly fell and dripped down her cheeks. "K-Kami, he was right. I-I should've listened to h-him." Hinata whimpered, pressing herself to the door- the door that could lead her out of his life forever. "He's a-always right. I-I should've listened-"

"Hinata," Sasuke interjected gently, "he's not the one who leads your life-"

"D-don't tell me- don't-" Hinata didn't seem to know what to say, so she shook her head again. "I-I've heard this w-wasn't the first time-"

Rumors. Sasuke hated rumors as much as he hated every bastard in the whole world. So this time, he interrupted her. "Where the hell did you hear that?"

She appeared taken aback at the sharpness of his words, yet Hinata replied, "F-from the people from your b-building-"

"They don't know shit about me," Sasuke remarked, an angry tone in his voice.

Hinata raised her chin a bit and glared at him. "W-well, they know enough that they d-directed me to your o-office and showed me- showed me y-you and that- that-"

"That slut," he finished for her, clenching his jaw. "I didn't mean to do any of it-"

"Y-yeah?" Hinata retorted. "I t-thought that you love m-me, but-"

"I do!" Sasuke almost yelled. "God, I love you. You, Hinata!" He nearly added 'Why can't you understand that?' but opted against it.

Then she did the oddest thing.

Hinata laughed. She laughed without humor to it, she laughed bitterly- something so unlike her. Hell, it was so unlike her that his heart lurched even more. His stomach twisted and he knew he was done. "T-that's a great way of showing it, Sasuke," she commented sarcastically, livid tears in her eyes.

She was broken, and it was his entire fault. He wanted to comfort her; to kiss her tears away and promise to never, ever look at another female specie ever again- but Sasuke knew he couldn't. He knew he couldn't the moment Hinata turned her back on him, twisted the doorknob, and walked away. She even slammed the door for good measure.

Sasuke didn't know how he ended up kneeling on the floor, but he surely knows how he was feeling.

His fiancée just left him, and she was his everything, and now she's gone, and now he's alone. Yes, that's what he was feeling. And he didn't think he would stop feeling like this anytime soon.

A/N: Thank you so much guys for the reviews! Hoped y'all enjoyed this 582-worded chapter/one-shot! :) Review? (n_n)