Well No One Saw That Coming
Author's Note: I'm glad the rewrite of chapter six seems to have been better received. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. To the reviewer who asked, yes the story is going in a different direction than the original chapter six. Oh and to the guest reviewer who wanted more action in the massages, well you get a bit more this chapter. ^_-. (Still safe for the kiddies to read but we are getting there.)
Chapter Warning: Sasuke is rather…descriptive in his mind about how he'd like to get some revenge. There is a fairly graphic scene description. Oh and Hinata has a flavor system for Sasuke ^^. I also made up how many Hyugas there are. If anyone knows the real number, feel free to let me know.
Chapter 8
Sasuke currently was enjoying himself. He decides to forgo the massage oil. This was mostly because he was sliding his hands under Hinata's shirt. He didn't want to get the oil on her clothes. (See Sasuke was capable of being considerate!)
While she had done him shirtless, Sasuke knew that being shirtless was different for women. It didn't matter that she did have a bra on underneath. His future wife was a modest woman. (Which was why he was so shocked that she'd struck up a friendship with the more…adventurous Mei. Oh well stranger friendships had happened. Look at him and Naruto.)
"They seem to be settling in well," Sasuke murmurs as he slides his hands under her shirt.
"Most of them are just happy to be free," Hinata responds, pleased with the drastic transformation from the rage of earlier to Sasuke engaging in "small talk."
Sasuke marvels at how soft her skin was. He glides his hands over the smooth planes of her back. Judging by the soft, gentle sigh, he was doing something right. That was something of a relief. He was used to using his hands more for punching than caressing. He decided to try to get her to make that sound again. He liked it. Sasuke liked it A LOT.
"Does the seal still work on them," Sasuke asks and moves his hands to the spot between her shoulders and just under her neck. (It was one of HIS spots, so maybe it was one of hers.)
"For now it does. Once we are officially married, they will automatically deactivate if that is what you want. I'd say they are Uchiha Clan members now, but that's not legally accurate. They aren't closely related enough for it to count. But they are no longer Hyuga Clan. They can be formally brought into the clan when we meet the requirement of three members," Hinata answers.
"How closely do they have to be related for it to count," Sasuke asks and massages that spot.
"Nnhh f-irst cousins or closer," Hinata says arching back into that massage.
Sasuke was feeling pretty proud of himself. It looked like that was a spot they both shared. He'd have to remember that for later.
Of course that was a fairly big if. It was likely she'd faint before their marriage could be properly consummated. Hinata's shyness was adorable, but it could be quite awkward at times.
"Are there anymore technicalities, that I should be aware of," Sasuke scoffs, though Hinata knew it was the law and not her that had his annoyance.
"None that I know of," she murmurs enjoying the attention.
"Good. I'm glad that we are done with the nasty surprises," Sasuke says and continues the massage.
Hinata closes her eyes and was content to just enjoy it. Sasuke had large rough hands. His touch had started off almost shy, but it was growing firmer by the second.
Hinata decided that Sasuke had three flavors of touches. The first was vanilla. When he was in vanilla mode, he was extremely gentle. He seemed almost worried about breaking her. Still at least vanilla meant he was trying and was worried about how she'd react. The newest and current flavor strawberry. Strawberry firmer than vanilla. Strawberry had a plan. It was neither rough, nor gentle. Slow and sensual. Finally, there was cinnamon. Cinnamon was out of control. A cinnamon Sasuke was a desperate Sasuke, who held nothing back. Cinnamon was Sasuke at his least gentle. It was exhilarating and just a little terrifying.
"I like strawberries," Hinata mutters.
Sasuke blinks. He'd been giving Hinata a massage and then she'd said something about strawberries.
"I do too," he asks as much as said.
"… I said that out loud, didn't I," Hinata asks.
"Yes, you did. That your way of saying you are hungry," Sasuke asks in confusion.
"Oh um yes," Hinata decides to take that lifeline that Sasuke had unwittingly thrown her.
Sasuke slides his hands off of Hinata. He offers her his own, to help her off the bed. She takes it. Sasuke smiles and thinks his day was looking up, when he heard the explosion.
"What the," Sasuke and Hinata blink at the same time.
Both ninjas immediately rush outside towards the source of the explosion. That's when Sasuke saw it. It was a burning building.
"Is anyone hurt," he asks to the crowd of Hyugas, who had also gone to investigate.
"I don't think so, my lord," Akemi says.
"Good. We have to stop the fire from spreading," Sasuke says.
Almost as soon as he said that, several Hyugas start hurling various water jutsus at the flames. It was rather effective. Soon the flames were put out. Hyugas were nothing, if not efficient.
That's when Sasuke saw the message. His Sharingan and Rinnegan activate in a rage. Dammit! This wouldn't end well.
"Sasuke, we don't know who did this. We have to keep calm and figure it out," Hinata says and reaches out to take hold of his hand.
Not again! He was not going to let this happen again! Why couldn't this damn village leave his family in peace? He was going to kill whoever was responsible for this.
When he got done with them they were going to beg for death. He's start by Tsukuyomi-ing them. Then if it was a man he'd Amaterasu their dick off. If it was a woman, he'd think of something! Then he'd slam his sword into every non vital spot on their body, slowly allowing them to bleed to death. When he finally allowed them the mercy of death, he'd mount their fucking head on a pike or something to send a message, Never attack the Uchihas again, unless you are suicidal.
"I'm going to speak with Kakashi," Sasuke says and turns to head off.
"Sasuke, wait! I'll go with you," Hinata calls out and follows.
Sasuke looks back, at the rapidly approaching Hinata. Did he want her to go with him? This was revenge. It was an ugly business. Ugly business had no business being anywhere near Hinata. But she had been threatened just as much as him.
"Alright," he says.
It was disturbing in a way. Sasuke was beginning to think that he'd agree to almost anything if Hinata asked. If the loser ever found out, he'd be accused of being whipped. In Sasuke's defense, Naruto had not experienced any of Hinata's massages.
He was unworthy of massage privileges due to him being an oblivious idiot. The fact that Naruto hadn't noticed Hinata liked him, meant to Sasuke that Naruto needed to head to the hospital for an evaluation. He had to have brain damage. Maybe Sasuke had hit the idiot too hard a few times.
"Thank you," she says and flits off to the Hokage Tower with him.
Oh don't get Sasuke wrong. He was still going to kill these motherfuckers who threatened his new family. He just was going to do it, when Hinata was around. No, he needed to inflict the most painful death possible. Hinata was too kind hearted to allow such a thing. (Clearly she needed his protection. She was too nice for her own.)
Kakashi blinks when Sasuke comes barreling in. Hinata was not far behind. To say the least, the last Uchiha did not look happy.
"Sasuke, what happened," Kakashi asks.
Kakashi was concerned to say the least. Both of Sasuke's eyes were activated. He looked like he was seriously considering lighting everything within his near vicinity on fire. Kakashi knew Sasuke well enough to realize this was a very real possibility.
"Someone decided to blow up one of the buildings in my," he looks at Hinata, "I mean OUR, district," he growls out.
"What? When did this happen? Was anyone hurt," Kakashi asks in shock.
Someone had attacked the Uchiha District. This was not good. Sasuke was just starting to settle back into village life. Hinata, Kakashi thought, was a good influence on Sasuke. But now he was likely to go on a rampage…again. Sasuke was good at rampages. (Too good at them, Kakashi thought.)
"Just now. No one was hurt. I think they wanted to scare us more than anything else. Someone doesn't want the Uchiha and Hyuga Clans to merge. I'm not letting this happen again Kakashi. So if you have any idea who is behind this, you better start talking now," Sasuke growls.
"Sasuke, I assure you that I would tell you if I knew what was going on. It could be anyone. I'm going to look into it. We'll find out who did this," Kakashi tries to calm the furious ninja down.
"Sasuke, Kakashi is our friend. He'll tell us. At least no one was hurt," Hinata tries to assist Kakashi in calming Sasuke down.
"No one was hurt THIS time Hinata. That note as good as says, they will do it again. Next time someone could get hurt or even killed. This damn village has always had it out for my clan," Sasuke growls out.
"We won't let there be a next time. I'm sure there are ways we can secure the district," Hinata offers.
"I'll set up some traps. But you are right, we WON'T let this happen again," Sasuke gives Kakashi a look that says I'll kill whoever is responsible for this.
"So when is the wedding," Kakashi asks trying to change the subject.
"Oh we haven't set a date yet," Hinata answers.
"I hear June is a wonderful time for a wedding," he offers helpfully.
"…," Sasuke couldn't believe they were trying to change the subject so blatantly on him.
"Well it would be warm enough to have it outside. Which we are going to need considering how large my clan is," Hinata says.
"How big is your clan," Sasuke couldn't help but ask.
"We have 386 members, including the 50 that father sent to live with us," Hinata responds helpfully.
"Hiashi, sent Hyugas to live in the Uchiha District," Kakashi asks and blinks in surprise.
"It was Hinata's "dowry," Sasuke replies dryly.
"That's some dowry. Well I suppose you didn't need money," the silver haired Hokage states.
"Damn right I didn't need money. Thanks to this village, I'm the only Uchiha left. Since my reinstatement that means I get all the financial assets of my clan," Sasuke says and rolls his eyes.
He'd much rather have his clan alive, than the money. But he'd never have to be concerned about financial security. Not that he ever would be, in the worst case scenario he could live off the land.
"So you aren't marrying me, for my money," Hinata teases Sasuke with a small smile.
"Hinata," Sasuke just shakes his head at this "joke."
"Sasuke, is there a reason you aren't wearing a shirt and what is on your back? It's wet and…shiny," Kakashi asks.
"Kakashi, focus," Sasuke scowls.
Dammit. He'd reacted on instincts. He hadn't even bothered to throw on a shirt. The massage oil was still on his back.
He did not need Kakashi's "helpful" comments. It was amazing that Hinata was that bold. He wasn't going to let Kakashi embarrass her.
"Odd that the heat from the blast would cause only your back to sweat," Kakashi observes.
"…Kakashi drop it," Sasuke says and twitches.
"And you do smell nice today Sasuke, is that cinnamon I detect," Kakashi says and clearly was not dropping it.
"I went with the cinnamon scented oils," Hinata says.
"Scented oils," Kakashi inquires.
"Massage oils. A gift from Kurenai Sensei," Hinata smiles.
"HINATA," Sasuke yells in disbelief.
"I thought cinnamon wasn't too feminine. Plus it reminds me of you, Sasuke. There were lots of scents to choose from," Hinata smiles, seeming to ignore Sasuke's outrage.
"Cinnamon reminds you of me," Sasuke repeats and wasn't sure if that was supposed to be a compliment or not.
"Sometimes," Hinata confirms.
"What does that even mean," Sasuke asks.
"…," Hinata decided now was probably not a good time to tell him about the flavors.
"Well I see the engagement is going well. Sasuke rarely exposes his back to anyone," Kakashi says cheerfully.
"Oh fuck off Kakashi," Sasuke scoffs, forgetting about the cinnamon thing for now.
"It sounds more like you were about to get off," Kakashi teases.
"CHIDORI," Sasuke yells and charges at Kakashi.
Kakashi probably having expected this, managed to dodge. He couldn't help but chuckle. Subtly he slips something into Hinata's pocket.
Hinata feels a weight in her pocket. She looks down and sees a familiar orange book. She blushes deeply.
Sasuke notices Hinata's blush. His eyes follow hers. He sees the book. He twitches.
"You did NOT just give my wife your soft core erotica," Sasuke twitches.
"Now, now Sasuke it is a literary masterpiece written by Jirayia. Jirayia trained the Fourth Hokage himself," Kakashi defends the book.
"I don't care who he trained. He was still a pervert," Sasuke scoffs.
"And your wife? You two are only engaged. My, my that must have been some massage. I did not expect such possessiveness from you," Kakashi knew he was playing with fire, but Sasuke was just so fun to tease.
"Hinata, let's go before I kill my idiotic former Sensei," Sasuke grabs her hand.
"Al-right," she blushes and heads off with a fuming Sasuke.
"I can't believe he pulled that. Wait, yes, yes I can. We are talking about the man that reads that series while training Genin," Sasuke says.
"He really read that while training your team," Hinata asks in surprise.
"Yes, he did. I was the first to make him have to put the damn book down," Sasuke says smugly.
"Well that's good," Hinata says.
Hinata was reminded that she knew almost nothing about his time on Team Seven. She could however imagine a very pissed off younger Sasuke taking great offense that Kakashi would read that book instead of focusing on them.
Sasuke had probably known what it was about. Naruto had always been more innocent. Sakura, Hinata thought, probably was too busy panting after Sasuke to care about the book.
"Yeah. I'm tempted to have the wedding with all this going on, just to spite them. But it could be too easy of an opportunity for whoever attacked us." Sasuke says.
"We'll deal find out who did it first," Hinata says in agreement.
Just then Hiashi comes barreling through. It seemed that word must have gotten around somehow. He races over towards his daughter and future son-in-law.
"I heard of the explosion! Is everyone alright," He demands and looks at Hinata, as if trying to confirm that she was not blown to pieces.
"We are all fine. It was clearly designed as a warning, more than a kill shot," Sasuke says.
"Good. Perhaps you should move back to the estate for the time being, Hinata," Hiashi says.
"She'll be a target there as well. Whoever did this is targeting both of our families. She'll be safer with me," Sasuke says.
"Targeting both of our families," he asks.
"Yes, the message said that the Leaf wouldn't allow the clans to merge. I'd suggest beefing up security around the Hyuga Estate. I'm going to make sure they can't get into the district again," Sasuke pronounces.
"I see. Sasuke, why aren't you wearing a shirt," Hiashi asks.
Sasuke gives Hinata a look like Go along with it. Bad enough Kakashi knows. The last Uchiha desperately searches for a suitable excuse.
"I was bathing when the explosion went off. I only had time to toss on a pair of pants," Sasuke says and shrugs it off.
"Ah well that makes sense. Perhaps you should throw one on though, you are attracting unwanted attention," the Hyuga patriarch states.
"Unwanted attention," Sasuke raises an eyebrow.
Hinata looks around. She was NOT a happy camper. The Hyuga wasn't stupid. She knew that when you had a shirtless male ninja walking around, women were going to look. But did they have to drool?
Sasuke sighs. Some things never changed. Well at least they weren't approaching. So they respected the engagement, in their own demented way it seemed.
"Are they always like that," Hinata asks him.
"No. Usually they are worse, much worse," Sasuke answers.
"Considering everything that happened, I don't think it's far to ask you to continue the sessions," Hinata says as she starts walking off with Sasuke, hand in hand. (It was her own personal Fuck you to his fan girls.)
"Really," Sasuke blinks, sounding relieved.
"Yes, but you tried. That's what is important," she smiles and uses her other hand to slide out of the jacket.
She decides to kill two birds in one stone. She tosses it straight at the fan girls. Perhaps she used more force than necessary because there was a loud SMACK and then some THUDS. The jacket had been hurled with such force, it knocked them all on their asses.
"Nice shot," Sasuke says with a smirk.
"It was an accident," Hinata says.
"Yes, it was an accident and I'm a natural blonde," Sasuke shakes his head in amusement.
"Really? A blonde Uchiha," Hinata asks.
"Hinata, we need to work on your sarcasm detection abilities," Sasuke responds.
Meanwhile, Juna meets with her father. She had to brief him after all. Oh how she hated playing the role of the dutiful daughter to the old coot. Her time would come though. She just had to be patient.
"I planted the explosive. Knowing Sasuke's temper, I expect that should plant more than a seed of doubt in his mind," she says to her father.
"You've done well. That may be all we require. However, I will notify you if more drastic measures are needed," he says.
"Of course father. I live to serve," she says with a bow.
"I know you do," was his reply.
Meanwhile back at the Uchiha District, the Hyuga's were cleaning up the remains of that building. It was a miracle no one was killed. Whoever had done it, must have been an expert.
"Kuno, do you believe Lord Sasuke will do something stupid," Akemi asks.
"He does have quite the temper. But Lady Hinata seems rather… persuasive. She'll keep him under control," he says as he helps Akemi sweep up some broken glass.
"I hope so. If the marriage happens, no more curse mark," she says conversationally.
"Yes, we will have our freedom at long last. I am surprised Hiashi would send us off," he says and sees what was left of the wood part of the building being picked up by other Hyugas.
"He knows that it's a gamble. Sasuke could challenge him later on. He wants to be on good terms with him, I think," she responds.
"More than likely. I think he might have finally bit off more than he could chew. I think Sasuke cares very little about proper clan protocol," Kuno answers.
"Do you think he was even taught it," she asks.
"He was young when the massacre happened. It would seem unlikely that he received much, if any formal instruction. Besides Itachi was the eldest. He would have been the one who was being groomed to be the Clan Head," Kuno responds thoughtfully.
"Perhaps we should check out the Uchiha Library. It would be good to learn the traditions of our new clan," she says.
"Hmm well he did say we could do as we wanted. Yes, let us go and do that," he says and walks off with the attendant.
The two walks into the Uchiha Library. It hadn't been touched in years. There were thousands of books. Akemi finds one about the Sharingan.
"Oh this is interesting," she murmurs.
"What is it," Kuno says, walking over to her.
"The Sharingan reacts to strong emotions. Usually this is rage, but it also includes arousal," she says cheerfully.
"….Akemi I am surprised at you," he says mortified.
"What it could be potentially useful information to Lady Hinata," she says with a smile.
"Women! Always so sneaky," he shakes his head.
"And you'd do well to remember that," she says with a smirk, walking off with the book.
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