They Made Me
Kawaii Kabu
Woo! How's everyone's summer holidays going? Mine's been involving lots of sleeping fanfiction and avoiding the outside world... not feeling antisocail just that sleeping/writing... not really good for a socail life. Anyway, eight installment. I've noticed I'm either focusing on speech and emotions so much that the physical appearances have been neglected... So, I'ma work on that. Have fun reading you guys.
The following Monday, Hinata had a sunny disposition. She woke up half an hour earlier than everyone in the house and cooked a full English breakfast for four. Hanabi smelt it in her sleep and rushed down to get some grub before school. It was a good thing Hinata was still cooking when Hanabi decided to wolf down over half of the food on the table because she could easily just make a bit more.
"Ehh." Sighed the younger Hyuuga, "So what's the occasion Hina?"
"N-nothing..."
"Did something happen at the party? You've been awful chipper since you came back from there... Did you meet a boy?" Taking Hinata's blush as a yes Hanabi said no more. Hell, as long as Hinata was out of her room and happily cooking delicious food for the family, who was she do question it?
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Chouji knocked on the door of Hinata's home. Ino had mentioned that the girl would be coming into school for the first time since her embarrassing walk in issue involving Sasuke and Naruto. He lived close to her and decided that hey- he should be the nice guy and tell her what she was in for the moment they entered the gates.
"Hinata! There's a boy here! A fat one!" There was Hanabi... Ino told him about Hanabi, she was rude, loud... and kind of a lot like Ino, only smaller... and a lot more violent. Okay so Ino didn't say Hanabi was a smaller version of her; but it was obvious to everyone.
"Hanabi that's rude. Chouji is p-pleasantly p-plump!" There she was, in her school uniform with an apron over it. "Ah, Chouji do you want a-anything? Everyone h-has eaten a-and I cooked ah... too much." She scratched the side of her head nervously. Chouji's face lit up, Hinata food! Like Naruto, Chouji loved the food Hinata cooked. And he hardly ever got to taste it as she normally didn't invite anyone around or bring packed meals to school.
"Lets eat!" They had half an hour till the school gates opened anyway. He might get some grub in his belly.
"Okay, so the worst rumour going around is that Sasuke got you pregnant after he raped y-"
"A-ah... he told me a-about that o-on Fr-Friday night."
"Oh... So you two started hanging out?"
"H-he ah... h-he helped me w-when I wasn't feeling s-so good."
"Really? Sasuke was nice? That's a first."
"I-I didn't believe it e-either." They turned the corner of her road when someone pulled up besides them. The driver leaned over and wound down the window. It was Sasuke.
"Get in." He said to Hinata.
"O-only if C-Chouji can g-get a ride too." The Uchiha huffed.
"Fine. Get in hefty." The front door opened and Hinata got in, Chouji closed the door after her and got in the backseat. This was going to be weird, getting a lift from Sasuke. Hinata hurried to get her seatbelt on before Sasuke began driving, when he sped down the road Chouji knew why. Sasuke swerved into the nearest to the school parking space and ordered Chouji out. "I need to talk to her about something... alone." He shot Chouji a look that made the chubbier boy get out- not that he needed to be told twice, Sasuke's driving made the breakfast in his stomach churn.
"T-that wasn't v-very nice." she scolded the boy next to her.
"Few rules before I let you out of the car," he said locking the doors before she could leave him, "One: You're going to tell everyone the rumours aren't true. Two: Don't tell anyone about my room... and stuff... if you tell anyone about my teddy bear I might just attack you." Hinata stifled a giggle remembering the teddy bear that lay in the middle of his bed.
"A-anything e-else?"
"I want a kiss from you."
"Wha- what? Why?"
"I took care of you the other night, repayment. So you either kiss me here, in private or you do it in public. In front of the whole year." Hinata squeaked. Neither option was desirable. Her hands became very interesting to look at while she made her choice. If she kissed Sasuke now, she'd miss the feeling of probing eyes as she did so... but then she'd be kissing him. AGAIN! And if she kissed him later, the whole school would know by break. She sighed and made her choice of the two evils.
"A-ah... o-okay." He clearly hadn't expected her to answer. "B-but you h-have to close your e-eyes." He complied with her wishes and shut his eyes insanely fast. Her small hands gripped the sides of his blazer as she leant forward hesitantly. She stopped right before his face and swore she could feel him trembling with laughter... and she got the moment over with before it could drag out any further. When her lips pressed against his he laughed into her kiss while she 'eeped' in surprise. He pulled back after two moments.
"I was joking about the kiss you know." He smirked. Hinata was mortified. She'd just allowed him to violate her mouth! How was she supposed to know he was joking! He had the comedic capacity of a rock.
"Y-you! Y-you!"
"You want me." He flicked the switch that unlocked the car and left her fuming inside. He threatened to lock her in through the window and she stepped out of there so fast. Chouji was waited a few meters closer to the school and she rushed to his side faster than Sasuke could say 'Stupid Itachi' with a red face, cursing him on her way.
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Chouji looked at his friend's bright red face and pulled her closer to his side. Ah, she's so cute.
"I k-k-kissed him!" She exclaimed in shock. He patted her head. Bless her, too innocent for her own good. If she's just blushing at a kiss, he just didn't want her to find out about what the others in their year were capable of doing.
"So... I guess you like Sasuke then?" He probed.
"N-no! He... h-he tricked me!" Hinata moved closer in to Chouji's side and he wrapped his arm around her shoulder in a friendly manner. Sure... Tricked. Hinata was in denial- at least Chouji thought she was. She was acting a little like Ino was before she and Shikamaru came out as a couple to him and Hinata. "H-how was I supposed t-to know he was jo-joking. He's so se-serious."
"You'd not have known. It's Sasuke. He's got the comic sense of a rock."
"T-that's what I thought t-too!" Hinata hugged his arm. She wasn't blushing so much but she was so happy that someone else thought that Sasuke was weird. "A-ah, I r-remember why we call you t-the 'big softy'." She murmured.
"Really? Ino always refers to me as 'The Big Sexy'- given that is when she's drunk..."
"A-ah... you get those calls t-too?"
"Yep. She's always on the floor too." Chouji smiled and scrunched up his face as he tried to get the perfect Ino impression Chouji- Chouji! I'm on the- I'm on the floor! The floor is my friend- she says hello to you Chouji. You there Chouji? You-ain't-saying-anything. I heart youuuu~'" Hinata chuckled for most of this impression... then she saw Ino approaching them and tried to muffle her laughter. Maybe she ought to have told Chouji that Ino was standing behind him with a vein bulging with anger on her forehead. When Chouji heard the cracking of Ino's fists he paled. "She's behind me isn't she?" Hinata mutely nodded trying to not look amused at her friends' predicament.
"Oh so you thought you could get away with mimicking me Chouji huh? Well the floor'll be YOUR new best friend!"
"Bye Hinata!" Chouji squeaked as he ran down the hallway from his blonde companion.
Hinata watched as the pair disappeared behind a corner. She really missed moments like that with her friends. She followed the route they had taken as it lead to her locker anyway. People were whispering again... did they really have nothing better to do? It had been two weeks since Sasuke declared in front of the whole lunch hall that he liked her... couldn't they find something else to talk about?
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"Ok, this week we're going to prepare for our Japanese interactive oral. The 16 of you will all be preparing a trip to an area of Japan from Tokyo. You will be students and the trip must be one night and two days." Ms Jestico told the class. Hinata smiled. She owned the oral aspect of the Japanese class. It was the only one she was the top scorer in, then again, this was Japanese for beginners and the other members of her class had never touched Japanese- minus trying to pick up words from subbed animes- as a language. It was just her and Sasuke who could easily pass the tests Ms Jestico set them easily. Thank god for Japanese heritage in passing this subject. Best class elective ever. "Now can you all get in pairs, the two of you will make a plan and present it to the class. Sasuke, Hinata, because the two of you are the fastest learning students I want the first draft of your oral by Friday. Is that clear?"
"Yes Ms Jestico." They both replied. One of the other students put up their hand.
"Do we get to pick any part of Japan?"
"Yes, because Japan has a very fruitful tourist economy. Many people in Japan often visit other areas in their holiday."
"So are we allowed to pick the same places?"
"No. Everyone has to pick a different place."
"Dibs on Nara." Sasuke announced. Hinata sighed. She was going to pick Nara. That's where she went every summer to visit her family. They always ended up visiting shrines and Nara Park... when she was younger, Naraland was still open and it used to be her favourite place. Much better than Disneyland Paris. She scowled. Somehow she'd get her revenge for stealing Nara away from her.
In the end she'd settled for Mijiyama to visit. That meant she really had to do some investigation... maybe next summer she'd see if her grandparents wanted to go there afterwards. She had just typed in 'train fare Japan' to Google when the screen went blank.
"Huh?" She searched for the plug that her computer was attached to; someone had flicked the switch. She was in the corner and there was only one other person sitting next to her apart from Ms Jestico, and it's not like Ms Jestico walked around turning computers off while her students were working. "S-Sasuke!"
"You were ignoring me. Anyway, Nara's boring- let's switch places."
"Wh-wha? No! Y-you picked Nara... Y-you do you pr-preparation." She was angry. How dare he steal her home from her and then declare it boring! If Hinata was feeling bolder (and if Sasuke wasn't Ms Jestico's favourite pupil) she'd have slapped him then and there.
"You're no fun. Oh... and you're going with me to lunch today."
"W-why should I?"
"Because you like me."
"S-says who?"
"You said on Friday... So, it's sorted."
"I d-didn't say you were nice... I s-said... I-I said... that you could be f-funny."
"Funny... Liking me... It's all the same to me." he smirked.
"I-if you keep a-acting like a jerk... I-I'm not going to."
"So you'll go with me?"
"I said if you stop acting like a j-jerk." Sasuke stared at her. He appeared to be contemplating her proposal.
"All I have to do is be nice?" Hinata nodded, "And you will go out with me?"
"N-no. I'll g-go to lunch with y-you..."
"I can settle for that."
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He flashed a smile at a group of girls and they squealed with joy. This nice thing was in the bag. But why did flashing a few smiles and being what his mother called 'polite' to girls would get someone else to date him.
Where were these life lessons written down? Seriously. There was a lot of time and effort wasted doing the 'wrong' thing for years. Last Friday he had a revelation. Today confirmed it.
Hinata liked nice guys. She wasn't like every other girl who would die for the bad boy or the jerk. Maybe he should get her a gift? No, he was treating her to lunch already...
"Hinata, don't look now but Sasuke and co. are coming over." Ino whispered. Sure enough the Uchiha was striding across the playground accompanied by a small tight-knit group of his friends, they were all dark haired with the exception of Naruto. Hinata retreated into Chouji's shoulder as she waited for the anticipated meeting of two completely separate groups that normally didn't get on well at all. Ino put an arm protectively around her smaller friend and gave her shoulder a squeeze. She was unaware of what went down in Japanese so this occurrence made her slightly uneasy... "What do you want Sass-"
"Don't call me that Ino..." Sasuke sighed; "Anyway..." he turned to the side with pink on his cheeks while he addressed Hinata. "Hinata will you go to lunch with me today?" The three boys behind him all giggled at Sasuke's discomfort. It was so different for Sasuke to act this way. Especially to a girl. Ino was shocked.
"Did you just... ask Hinata out? Instead of like... ordering her to?"
"Yes Yamanaka I did."
"We'll think about i-" Ino started. Shikamaru put a hand over his girlfriend's mouth.
"It's Hinata's decision Ino." He motioned to Chouji and the boys behind Sasuke. "We should leave them to talk about it." Chouji patted Hinata on the head as he got up and Ino reluctantly let go of Hinata. Shikamaru moved his hand from her mouth and she exclaimed before he put it back in place:
"Hey! You still need to apologize to Forehead before you so much as get my approval to touch Hinata, Uchi-" Shikamaru sighed and continued to lead (forcefully drag) Ino away from the couple.
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"Ino says I have to go apologize to Sakura." Sasuke explained.
"W-well... y-you should." Hinata agreed. "I-it'd be n-nice of y-you..."
"But I don't get why. I'm not going to tell her I like her, it's just the truth."
"B-but... in front of the whole y-year?"
"She should've said something like that in private. She just set herself up for that one."
"B-but!" Hinata fidgeted with her fingers. Sasuke had a valid point but it was still a wrong thing to do. Even through Ino's persistence to go through with plan embarrass Sasuke Hinata couldn't bring herself to do so. It wasn't in her character...
"Do you want me to apologize to Sakura?" he asked suddenly.
"A-h... I t-think it would h-help her." Sasuke pulled his phone out of his pocket. He spent a minute going through it till he reached Sakura's number.
Hello? Sasuke?
"Sakura... Due to the insistence of two of your friends, it's come to my attention I did you wrong."
Really? So... you'll go out with-
"What I said still stands. The way I said it could have been less harsh."
Well what are you trying to say? I'm sorta confused.
"I'm not going to date you, but I guess I'm apologizing for embarrassing you... even if you did bring it on yourself."
"S-sasuke! T-that's not h-how you apologize!" Sasuke covered the speaker of the phone.
"Then you do it..." Hinata took the phone from Sasuke.
"S-Sakura?"
Hinata? Why are you on Sasuke's phone?
"I-I'm with him... um... Ino and I feel like he ought to apol- t-to say sorry for how he treated you... A-and... He s trying to be n-nice... I think..."
Are you guys outside?
"Y-yes..."
Okay, well I'm come out... I can't hear you properly over this noise.
"B-but... W-we're going out t-to eat..."
You are?
"Y-yes... Um... I'll see y-you after school."
Bye?
"We are?" he asked, Hinata shrugged.
"Y-you were trying t-to be nice... t-that's something."
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"So what's the real reason you agreed to lunch with me?" Sasuke asked taking a sip of Coke through the straw. They had decided on McDonald's and were walking back up the hill that separated the school from the shopping area below. "It's not like McDonald's is some expensive place you take girls to." Hinata was holding her own drink (Fanta Orange, just because) "And it was obvious you didn't approve of my Sakura apology." The straw twirled around in her mouth. How was she going to put this about? Was it a day of apologies? Did she just go 'Hey... I was going to use you to get someone else's attention but then I realized you're a human being so I'm sorry about treating you that way'?
"Ah...U-um... I-I wanted to a-apologize to you..."
"For what? The rumours?"
"P-partially... I," here it was. The moment when she was going to throw it all out into the open. "I w-was going t-to use you... a-and then h-hurt you."
"Are you still going to 'hurt' me? Because depending on the way you'd have 'used me... let's just say I'm enjoying a little fantasy in my head." Hinata blushed.
"A-are you a-always-"
"I have needs..." He grasped at her free hand and for once she didn't shy away from Sasuke physical contact. "But seriously... are you still going to 'use and hurt' me or do I have to give up on you?" Hinata didn't know how to respond to that. There was obviously no point in 'using' him to get to Naruto (as cleared up by Sakura). It did feel nice to have some form of attention from the opposite sex... and she appeared to be getting to know a different side of Sasuke as well...
"I-I don't k-know..."
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Sakura was the first to spot the pair walking up the hill, she didn't feel the need to contact her friends- well, Ino's friends, she wanted to talk to Hinata alone anyway... She was waiting at the front gates. Lunch wasn't over. She could still talk about that weird phone conversation she had with Hinata. Hinata going out to lunch with Sasuke? It wasn't right... She'd even said she wasn't romantically attached to him- and they didn't have anything in common (minus most of their lessons). Sakura knew; it had been the reason for her existence since age twelve to know everything Sasuke. At first it didn't look very threatening to her chances with Sasuke, then Sasuke linked hands with Hinata and the girl blushed.
What happened to 'You and Sasuke would make a good couple'? Surely Hinata wasn't stupid enough to follow through with Ino's plan. It was a horrible plan. It wouldn't work. From her space Ino could also see Ino getting onto the bus. Where was Ino going- it wasn't a half day. Just when she thought of going after Ino she got a text from the blonde.
'Going home. DW. Tell Hina 2 call me xxx :3.'
Well that gave her a plausible reason for her to approach Sasuke and Hinata.
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"Hey! Hinata! I've been looking everywhere for you!" Sakura yelled. The second Hinata heard shrill Sakura's voice she ripped her hand from mine. The pink haired annoying fluff ball came prancing up to us. I looked over to Hinata, she looked as though she'd just been caught doing something she really shouldn't be. I pulled her to my side, as usual she squeaked.
"What do you want with her Sakura?" The girl was already trembling.
"Nothing big... well~ I don't think it is."
"Then why were you 'looking everywhere' for her?"
"Ino just asked me to tell her to call her is all... she looked kinda down..." Sakura sounded like she was putting this sympathetic face on.
"I-Is she o-okay?"
"Well she didn't tell me about anything being wrong so I thought maybe you'd know or something." Hinata wriggled out of my arms and followed that pink fuzz ball towards the street.
Trust a fan girl to ruin the moment.
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"A-are you sure nothing's w-wrong with Ino?" Hinata asked for the fifth time since she left Sasuke in the middle of the road. Sakura had still not given her an answer.
"I told you I didn't know already." Sakura whined. She whipped around when they were alone. "I thought you didn't like Sasuke? You said on Friday that you didn't and you're going out with him." Hinata avoided the piercing glare Sakura gave her skillfully. No doubt Sakura felt betrayed about the whole thing.
"B-but i-it was just lunch!" Hinata proclaimed.
"You were holding hands!" Sakura accused, "Why'd you do that if you didn't like him?"
"I-I... We- S-Sakura..."
"If you were my friend you wouldn't act like that."
Sasuke didn't know what happened but Hinata had started avoiding him, of course she did it in that sneaky girl way so that it appeared that she wasn't avoiding him at all. She'd smile back if he did first but if he ever wanted to start a conversation with her she'd always get 'pulled' away. Even so... he had a feeling Sakura was behind the whole thing. It got to the third week of Hinata's avoidance when he pulled Sakura to one side after school.
"Sasuke... what do you want?" she gasped, he hoped she wasn't getting ideas. "I mean- How can I help you? Is anything wrong?"
"Yeah actually there is Sakura." She stepped closer to him as though she was going to comfort him. "For some reason Hinata's avoiding me." He then glared at her, she shifted uneasily. No doubt she had something to do with it.
"Well... I can't help with that."
"That's funny because she only started avoiding me after you snatched her at lunch."
"Like I said Sasuke I can't help with that. Everyone knows Hinata likes Naruto... even if he rejected her maybe she likes him still."
"Then she's stupid for doing that- there's no point in liking someone who has told you they aren't interested."
"But I like you still-"
"And I wish you wouldn't. You were better off when we were seven and you just thought boys were annoying."
"What?"
"Forget it. Just tell me what you told Hinata." he ordered.
"I didn't-"
"Don't... Lie to me Sakura." The pink haired girl stepped further back at his growl, "Tell me what you said to her."
"I told her to back off... So that I could have a chance with you." Sakura whimpered. "She likes Naruto anyway! It's not fair."
"So... you're happiness is worth more than mine?"
"What-no! I just want you to be happy."
"And I'm 'happy' with Hinata."
"I-I... Sasuke I could make you happy."
"Somehow I doubt it Sakura."
"No- it's true! I really could!"
"Well it's not like I'm exactly jumping for joy at the moment." He sighed dramatically, "Forget it... I'm going home."
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Maybe she shouldn't have told Sasuke of her talk with Hinata. He was going to hate her forever. But why couldn't he give her a chance. Sakura didn't understand... What was wrong with her? What did Hinata have that she didn't? She was just this weird, quiet girl! She was weird because she was so quiet and she was quiet because that annoying stuttering got on everyone's nerves. Sakura didn't stutter. She was strong, proud, intelligent and popular. She had lots of friends! And she was a nice person too! The only thing she could say about Hinata was that she was nice, quiet and incredibly naive.
So er, that was the latest chapter. It feels SO wierd not updating on the Monday but at least I'm still sticking to my wee hours of the morning times right? Anyway, I wanted to introduce phones into it, the italics were the person on the other line of the phone- I just wanted to clear that up because well, what are teenagers without their phones? and well... I'll be using the technique a lot more in later chapters and I don't want to confuse anyone. And yeah- there's going to be a change in Ino's life. Major suckage- but she's had it so easily, there is no one who has life that easy and I'm trying to be realitic here.
Anyway, as for the stuff I wrote about their Japanese orals, what the teacher said is actually completely true. Again, trying to stick with reality, I'm basing any Japanese lessons off of my own, the information about both areas Mijiyama and Nara is totally legit, there used to be an amusement park called 'Naraland', it got closed down in the 90s which sucks because it was like the 'Disney World of Japan' according to the tourist sights. As for basing the Hyuuga in Nara, I don't know, I'm starting to think now that maybe they'd be better off in another part of Japan, but Hey; I've written it down now so its going to stick. Also about Sakura (or Suckura as I like to call her in my spare time), she's still going to be jealous about it, hell, I'm kind of jealous at a girl at the moment... allow some other girl saying she'll try and stop being overtly flirty with a guy so that he will stop being shy and ask you out when you asked for the first date but doesn't ask you for the second date and he ends up liking her instead(!). Hell, if anything you'd be more jealous of that girl because she was aware of how you felt about the issue. But I digres. This jealousy will play up in other chapters just so everyone knows. Constructive criticism please and do enjoy your summer holidays.
