Chapter 8
Hinata made her way upstairs to her room. She opened the door and threw herself onto her bed and got on her stomach. She started at a red blinking light across the room.
Hinata got up and grabbed her cell phone, staring at the blinking light emitting from it once more.
"Oh! Naruto!" She laughed, remembering he was supposed to call, and opened the phone.
A
message opened up. "47 New Voice Mail Messages"
"holy
shit…" Hinata whispered. She pressed the call button and made
her way down stairs to the kitchen. Might as well get a snack.
"Forty-seven New messages" the automatic voice teller said from Hinata's ear piece.
"First New Message:"
"….Hey, Hinata! It's me.. uhh.. Naruto. laughter in back ground Uh… you gave me your number and here I am. …Calling you. Alright. Uhmm..Call me back, please?"
BEEP
"Next message"
"Yo… Hinata. Naruto again. Heh. It's 4:30 annnd…you haven't called. …Call me back."
BEEP
"Next message"
Hinata sighed and grabbed a bag of cookies. "This may take a while…" She leaned on the table and listened to the next message.
"Naruto again. It's 4:45 and you still haven't called me …? What's up? Are you mad? I- SHUT UP SHIKAMARU! ahem …Uh..call me back, okay? in background LISTEN! IF YOU-"
BEEP
Hinata blinked a few times and nibbled on her cookie. "…oookay.."
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"There are no more messages."
Hinata
perked up and looked at the clock in the dark kitchen as she closed
the cell phone. All of those messaged were from Naruto?
She
laughed and headed upstairs. It was now two in the morning and she
was sleepy. "I
wonder if Naruto is still up…"
Hinata jumped back on her bed and dialed Naruto's cell phone number. After hearing all those messages, she already managed to memorize it. When she heard the first few dial tones, she felt her heart beat racing.
"He-hello?" A drowsy voice was heard from the other line.
"N-Naruto?" Hinata was surprised he even picked up so late at night.
"…Who is this? If Shikamaru put you up to this, I swear I'll-"
"..It's Hinata, Naruto." She giggled. Hinata grabbed a pillow and squeezed it in her arms.
"Oh! Hi, Hinata" Naruto's bright cheery voice said quickly, not sounding so drowsy anymore.
Hinata smiled. "Y-you called?"
"Only like a million times."
Hinata laughed nervously. "S-sorry…" She heard a faint laugh from Naruto's end.
"I was starting to get worried."
Hinata laid down and snuggled in the fluffy pillows on her bed. "Don't be."
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Three hours later, Hinata got up quickly as she heard someone banging loudly on her door. She got out of bed and opened the door, and was staring back at a very tired, very upset looking Hanabi.
"Hey, Hanabi, can you stop making so much noise? I'm kinda on the phone." Hinata said, raising her index finger and pointing to her cell phone.
Hanabi
looked up at her older sister with tired eyes and grabbed the phone,
breaking it in half. She threw the two pieces into the hallways and
crossed her arms.
"It's five in the morning, Hinata! Go to
sleep!"
Hinata watched her younger sister stomp back to her room, slamming the door behind her. Hinata made her way across her own room and opened the middle drawer in her dresser. She took out a cell phone and turned it on. "I sure am glad dad let me get this cell phone drawer in case of emergencies." Hinata mumbled. She admired the pink sparkles on the phone.
"Maybe it is late…" Hinata thought as she stared at the clock. The phone lit up suddenly.
"New text message" She read.
Hinata clicked on the text message icon and smiled after reading the message Naruto sent her.
"So… is that a 'yes' or a 'no'?" Hinata read aloud. He must be referring to the comment earlier, about becoming his girlfriend that is.
She typed in her answer and crawled into bed, smiling just before she fell asleep.
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"Hey, Sasuke." Naruto waved as Sasuke passed by him in the hallway. Sasuke turned to the unusually happy blonde boy and nodded. He kept on walking, not bothering to ask what the Uzamaki boy was so happy about.
He didn't want to know. It was Monday. Sasuke wasn't supposed to care about any of the things that were going on around him in school. His mind was somewhere else. His mind was still on the Farris wheel.
He
yawned as he turned a corner, heading towards the library for the
second time. The only reason he came so early was to meet up with
Hinata.
He smiled. The thought of Hinata on the Farris wheel
played back in his head.
"Sasuke."
Sasuke reeled around and tried to hide the smile on his face as he looked at the pale girl. "He-Hey, Hinata-chan." He absent mindedly fixed his hair as she ran up towards him, pulling Sakura and Tenten with her.
Hinata smiled up at Sasuke. She readjusted her heavy back pack. "What are you doing here so early, Sasuke-kun?"
Sasuke shrugged and eyed Sakura who was staring at him starry-eyed.
Hinata looked around and pulled her hair back. "H-have you seen Naruto-kun? He said he'd meet me at the foyer, but he wasn't there."
Sasuke nodded. "I saw him over there." He pointed to the corner, near the art rooms.
Hinata nodded. "Thanks, Sasuke-kun." She looked back tat her friends, and walked off, waving goodbye to Sasuke. Tenten and Sakura stayed staring back at Hinata for a few seconds and ran after her.
"Well… I guess coming early was a waste.." Sasuke thought as he threw his book back to the ground.
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"Did you hear? About that Naruto guy? You know the one who went out with Sakura? Yeah, he got a new girlfriend."
"No way! Already?"
"Someone told me that that Sakura girl was the one that actually set them up!"
"No way!" Some other girl interrupted. "I heard that Naruto just picked her at random!"
Sasuke listened quietly to the conversation coming from the girls in his home room. He leaned over, trying to listen better until the biology teacher, Asuma, told the girls to settle down and get back to work. Sasuke sighed and sat back down.
He turned to Shikamaru, his lab partner, who was sleeping on a text book. He poked his sleeping partner with a pen. "Shikamaru…wake up and do our work."
Shikamaru
turned and lazily opened one eye and stared at Sasuke who was leaning
on the table and staring at a blank page in silence.
"It's
too bothersome, Uchiha." Shikamaru said slowly, sleepily. He
turned his head to the side and began to sleep again.
Sasuke eyed his partner angrily. "Fuck you, then." He said, slightly annoyed. Out of all the people in his class, he had to get partnered with the lazy one. Sasuke sighed and listened to the girls gossip with one another again.
"relax" he told himself. He placed his hand under his chin. "it probably isn't Hinata, anyways. She likes me. She wouldn't have kissed me if she didn't. She isn't going out with that dobe…"
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Sasuke fought his way along the school hallway, all the while listening to the rush of students who walked and talked. He turned to the corner and bumped into Kiba.
"S-sorry." Kiba said quietly, slightly flustered. He walked the other way and turned the corner.
Sasuke shrugged and made his way to the home economics room.
Kurenai smiled at him as he walked inside and took his seat. Noticing he was the only one in class, (somehow, he had gotten there early. I guess everyone else decided to be late or something.) he took out a crumpled sheet of paper from his pocket and opened it. He re-read the words that he had carefully wrote there, just the day before.
The door opened, and Sasuke stuffed the note back into his pocket and watched Sakura and Rock Lee enter the room, hand in hand.
Before long, the class was bursting with laughter and talking.
"Where's Hinata?" Sasuke looked up and stared at the door, hoping that the next person that walked through that door was the person he'd been longing to talk to since Sunday.
He perked up when he saw the handle slowly turn, but then drooped back down in his seat when he sat it was only Kiba.
He watched Kiba make his way to the back of the class and sit down next to Sasuke. Sasuke eyed him suspiciously.
"This isn't your seat, Inuzuka…" Sasuke said, not turning to him.
Kiba shrugged and stared back down to his knees.
Sasuke turned to Kiba and glared at him. "I said this isn't you seat, dog-boy!" Sasuke said, slightly louder than he intended to say it.
Kiba looked up at Sasuke and placed his hands in his coat pocket. "Naruto told me I should sit here." He turned and watched Naruto and Hinata enter the room. "Hinata's gonna take mine."
Naruto pulled Hinata into the seat next to his in the middle of the classroom. He smiled at her and flashed a wink at Kiba.
Kiba sat still, and then leaned against the table and sighed, placing his hand under his chin.
Sasuke watched Naruto and Hinata as he clenched his fists. He turned back to Kiba and glared at him angrily, but said nothing. He turned back and watched Naruto play with Hinata's hair. Sasuke sighed.
"What he's doing isn't real…" Kiba sighed, staring sadly at the new couple.
Sasuke turned to Kiba with a puzzled look. "What the hell are you talking about, Inuzuka?"
Kiba stared up at Sasuke sadly. "He's just using her…" His eyes diverted to the ground. Kiba blinked a few times and shook his head, chuckling slightly. "I don't even know why I'm telling you this." He said. He turned back and leaned on the table, burying his face into his messenger bag that sat on the table top.
Without realizing what he was doing, Sasuke grabbed Kiba's arm and pulled him back. "How do you know about this?" Sasuke asked, his grip tightening on Kiba's arm.
Kiba eyed him. "Why do you want to know so bad?" He pulled Sasuke's hand off him arm and stared at him quietly. Interest sparked in his eyes.
Sasuke sighed and turned away. "Just forget it."
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Don't hurt me!!! X.x
Okay. This story needed a plot twist. Anyways, I know it isn't much, but I hope that answered some questions?
Hope so. Uhh..
Yeah. I'm not sure when I'll update next, but I can assure you, it will be soon. Maybe by Friday or Saturday, but I don't want to make any promises since I was practically killing myself trying to make this one.
Anyways, thanks for the lovely reviews. I really appreciate them. And I also want to thank –cHi-1000-SpRiNgS- and NotaPunk for helping me figure out what those basket type things were called.
Also, thank you NewRageInc for helping me figure out how I was gonna sort this thing out.
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