Chapter 8 A Dangerous Encounter
Hinata exhaled loudly as she let her body fall carelessly on her bed. She reveled in the feeling and texture of her cottony sheets underneath her soft and silky skin. After a few minutes of calm and serenity, she let herself exit her dream world and took a quick glance at her beside clock; the time read 5:30. She gasped at the clock as she realized she was already on her way to being late for her meeting with Ten-Ten and Suuki. She flew out of bed and straight to her closet. She immediately began rummaging through her wardrobe.
After a good 20 minutes she carried her chosen attire to her bed. She quickly shed her bathrobe and dawn her underwear. She then pulled on her mini navy blue skirt and slipped into her black mesh tank top. She styled her hair in a neatly caught pony tail, grabbed her purse and grey mini sweater, slipped her feet into her black three inch heel wedges and was out the door and down the stairs.
She made her way quickly into the kitchen, where she saw her father sitting around the kitchen counter eating, alone.
"Huh… where's Neji?" she asked with a confused look on her face.
"He left just about a minute ago. He got a call while we were about to sit down to have dinner. He dashed out of here as fast as a wild dog. He told me to tell you tomorrow." He answered boringly.
"Uh, ok. Well enjoy your dinner am off" she said as she turned to leave the kitchen.
"And where are you going?" he asked with out much interest. It's not like she ever asked permission to go any where lately. He understood quite well that his baby girl was growing up and he would never stop her from enjoying her child hood. He knew too well how that could turn out.
"No where interesting. Ten-Ten invited me to get ice cream with her sister and her. I'll be back around …" she paused as she took a glance at the kitchen clock. She mentally registered the time in her head, taking notice that she was already one hour late.
"… Ten. Am late so am off now" she started to leave.
"Sister huh, when last have you called yours?"
He asked with much interest.
"Dad I don't have the time for this. I'll call her later I promise. Now bye" she rushed over to kiss him on his forehead, then dashed out the kitchen and through the front door.
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"Hey guys!" Hinata shouted breathlessly as she stormed into the Teriyaki Ice-Cream place and towards the booth that Ten-Ten and Suuki was sitting at.
"Sorry I'm late, I just got caught up in things back home" she explained as she took a seat beside Suuki.
"Hope you guys didn't start without me?"
"Nuh uhn…" replied Suuki has she shook her dark tresses. "Onee-chan insisted that we wait until you got here before we started.
"Well thanks Ten"
"No need to, I just thought it wouldn't be as much fun with out you". Hinata responded with a smile so bright it seemed to light up the whole room.
"Can we begin, Can we?!" shouted Suuki, she was jumping up and down in her seat with impatience.
"Big sister Hinata-san is here now so can we begin" she added the last part with a toothy grin.
"Ok then" replied Ten-Ten as she swiveled back and forth in her seat searching for an available waiter; spotting one she lifted her and waved vigorously at him to come over.
"Good evening ladies, little one. What will you be having tonight?"
"We'll have the birthday special and three double scoops sundaes with every topping" Ten-Ten ordered.
"Anything else Hinata" she asked in addition.
"Nope that's ok"
"Well that'll be all" she told the waiter.
"I'll be back in a jiff with your orders madam" with this he scurried off towards the huge doors leading towards the kitchen.
"So Suuki, how does it feel finally turning 6?" asked Hinata, just trying to pass the time.
"It's not really much, I still don't get to go out by myself and I still need Onee-chan to help me get dressed in the mornings so……"
"I get what you mean. I felt the same way back then when I turned six, not much of a big difference from being five"
"Man it sucks!"
"Suuki! Watch your mouth" scolded Ten-Ten at her sister. She then returned to what she was doing; watching the activities of the other customers and staring at the individuals exiting and entering the shop.
"I can't wait to be your age, where I can go wherever and do whatever" suuki added after being reprimanded.
"Being 17 isn't all that it seems to be, you have a ton of responsibilities, the school work gets way harder and you get unwanted attention from the opposite sex. Man being 17 is hard work…"
"I don't care. It's better than being 6" Suuki insisted.
"Isn't it Onee-chan?" questioned suuki but her question was met with deafening silence.
"Onee-chan?" still she was met with silence.
"Ten-Ten, what are you staring at?" asked Hinata; who was now becoming worried at her silence. As if Hinata's questioned has finally dragged her out of her wonder land, Ten-Ten pointed towards the figure that held her gaze captivated. Hinata's gaze travelled to the spot where Ten-Ten was pointing, and the sight her eyes fell on sent her blood throbbing through her veins and her heart ready to explode.
"What the hell is he doing here?!" she hissed aloud, not meaning for her respond to be shared.
"Hinata is something wrong?" at this, her eyes left their resting place, to settle on Ten-Ten, who now wore a worried look upon her face.
"Oh nothing Ten-san" she waved away Ten-Ten's worried look.
"I was just preoccupied with my thoughts. Nothing for you to worry about" she added with a nervous giggle, trying to assure Ten-Ten she was in a sane state of mind. When Ten-Ten looked away accepting her explanation, Hinata's mind began to torment itself with reason that could explain, why the person she most did not want to meet on a night out in this world was sitting two tables away from her, talking nonchalantly to his posse.
"Why the hell is he here? Of all the nights to go out, why this one? I hope he hasn't seen me yet, things could turn out bad, real bad seeing that Ten-Ten is here. Hopes he keeps his distance. I don't wanna have to explain to anything to any one tomorrow. Please Kami, please don't let him see me……" she was abruptly dragged from her thoughts by the approach of merry singing inching closer to her table. She looked up to see the waiter followed by to older gentlemen walking, more like skipping towards her table with a small cake in hand and singing the 'Happy Birthday' song. At this Suuki squealed and clapped with delight. Both she and Ten-Ten joined in the singing with out really thinking about it.
The waiters placed the cake on the table before Suuki and at the ending of the song; she eagerly leaned forward to blow out the one candle that stood on top of the cake. In a few minutes the whole scene was clear, leaving an excited Suuki digging into her slice of black forest cake, Hinata delicately forking through her slice not sure if she was hunger with all that as on her 'plate' already and Ten-Ten about to cut a slice for herself. As if by psychic ability Hinata sensed a gnawing at the forefront of her consciousness, the uneasy feeling became so annoying that she dared to find out the cause. As if sensing from where it was coming, she lifted her glare from the mush before her that was her slice of cake and let her gaze follow the uneasy feeling.
Her gaze faltered then steadied as the sight with which they met seemed to suck the very breath out from her. She gasped in shorts spurs as she tried to keep consciousness. The deep blue eyes that held her prisoner contained a tumult of motions as they usually did. They bore deep into her soul as if searching. Yes they were searching, but for what? Hinata's mind struggled against this blatant assault, as she tried feverishly to escape from the hold this person had on her. Her mind screamed for release.
"Naruto! Please Naruto-kun, stop. I can't take it any more. You're hurting me. I don't wanna feel what you're feeling. Please release me. It hurts. It hurts me here" her body in accordance with her mind reacted to her last statement. Her hand slowly drifted upwards to the place over her chest were her heart is supposed to be and clutched frantically at the garments that enclosed her heart from the outside world.
As if hearing her pain filled pleas. Naruto quickly looked away. Hinata showed her relief by exhaling deeply but she continued to clutch her chest as she leaned back against her chair with her eyes close. All of this went unnoticed to the two girls around her as they were busy enjoying the taste of the cake.
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"Hey man, what was that" asked a very interested Kiba.
"What?" retorted Naruto innocently.
"What were you staring at just a minute ago?"
"Nothing" he added with a carefree shrug.
"It didn't seem like nothing to me. Whatever you were staring at definitely had your full attention. You were so out of it or into it that you were dead to this world. It's like you left this plane and drifted off to another. You haven't each touched your ice-cream yet" stated Kiba proudly as his apparent interest in what Naruto was staring at, made Naruto obviously uneasy.
"Kiba shut it! Mind your God damn own business" Naruto stated tartly as he took up his spoon and dipped it into his sundae, getting ready to spoon some out.
"Whatever man" replied Kiba as he turned to join in the convo that was taking place between Shikamaru and Sasuke, leaving Naruto to his own thoughts. As Naruto brought his ice-cream filled spoon to his lips. Sasuke stole a quick glance in his direction. Even though he didn't say it, he was worried about his friend.
After about two minutes into his ice-cream, Naruto had given up. His stomach couldn't hold it; too much was on his mind to give way for food. He gestured to the waiter to bring the receipt; he was ready to leave this God forsaken place. The waiter passed his receipt to him and collected the payment and his tip and strolled off to wait on another table. The whole gang rose from their seats and with Naruto in the lead they all left in a flurry.
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Over at Hinata's table, the gang was now just finishing up their sundaes. Pushing her empty ice-cream bowl away from her, Ten-Ten took a quick glance at her watch then stared in the direction of her younger sister, who had just finished licking her bowl clean of every last drop of ice-cream.
"Ahhh, that was fantastic! Thanks Nee-chan, and thanks Nata-chan" both girls smiled at the adorable little girl who grin at them as if they had just given her the world.
"Thanks for what exactly Suuki?" asked Hinata.
"For making this the best birthday ever. Everything was perfect; the cake, the food and definitely the ice-cream. Can we come back here for ice-cream every time nee-chan?" she asked as she stared up at her big sister.
"Of course" answered Ten-Ten. The scene before her made Hinata's heart fill up with joy and it reflected in the wide smile that was plastered across her face.
"Anyways it's almost 8:30, so it's time to leave" stated Ten-Ten calmly. At this Hinata nodded in agreement. She raised her and ushering the waiter over. Ten-Ten gladly paid for the meal and tipped their waiter generously, he left with a very pleased smile on his face after he repeatedly reminded them to come again. They all made their way to the outside of the shop, where they said their farewells and went their opposite ways. Singing silently to herself Hinata began on her not too long journey home.
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Hinata sighed with relief as she was now merely one block away from reaching her house. The extent of the loneliness of her surrounding was slowly sinking in; she quickened her pace in anticipation. Every now and then she would glance around her especially behind her as the nagging feeling that attacked her in the ice-cream shop earlier was slowly creeping into to her consciousness.
She rounded a corner and was stopped in her tracks at the sight before her. Under a street light just a few feet away from where she stood, stood a tall and very masculine figure, he leaned against the pole, head held down as if under a deep trance. Seemingly at the sound of her approach, he awakened from his deep slumber; his head flew up and turned towards her direction. Even though Hinata could not see his eyes, she could feel his stare, penetrating into her depths. She knew right away who this tall dark and dangerous individual was.
"Naruto…………"
Hinata laced her hands across her chest and timidly, she started to slowly take small steps backward, but for every step she took backwards, Naruto took two forward. His strides where long and quick and before Hinata's mind could fully calculate the extent of what could happen. He was just merely an inch from her, as if the fear she felt clogged her blood vessels; shutting off the flow of blood to her feet, she stopped suddenly, her knees felt weak and they shook terribly under her body's weight, threatening to betray her and let her fall. She wobbled forward, but before she could fall or regain her balance, arms with the grip of steel grabbed her around the waist and pull her up against a firm chest. She sighed with relief, not really thinking about the situation she was in.
Her head was resting on Naruto's chest, which means his face was just a mere inch from its top. He slowly brought his face down and with is nose slightly touching her hair, he took a whiff. She smelled of strawberries with a hint of kiwi; his favourite fruit. The scent of her hair sent shivers all over his body and as if sensing this, Hinata lifted her head to stare up at him.
Her eyes wavered and blinked continuously darting from his eyes, to his nose and then to his lips. The emotions they held where a mixture of fear, confusion and something else that Naruto couldn't place. They both stared at each other for so long without saying anything that time and place was forgotten and the silence was beginning to feel weird.
They both started to say something but stopped when they heard the other spoke. Hinata decided that she would go first, she started to speak but was again hindered when Naruto too started to say something, at this she released a small giggle but Naruto just sighed. Determination etched across his brow and he braced Hinata slightly away from him, I guess he needed breathing space, then he looked down at his feet and back up at Hinata then opened his mouth to speak.
"Uh………… Hinata this must seem weird with me here and all but am not stalking you or anything. I saw you at the shop and looked over and I could have sworn I felt this weird connection. So when I left to go home I didn't really. I decided that I needed to talk to you so I waited here" he looked down at her expectedly.
"Um…………" Hinata looked away from his stare then at her feet before she could place what she wanted to say in a logical order then looked back up at him. "I don't really know what to say about this, since we've never really had a conversation before……… but I'd just like to say th-that am, am glad your not stalking me, cause you almost gave me a heart attack not too long a go. So-so that's good to hear" as she said this she looked into his eyes and the sensation of being shocked by lightening coursed through her body. She quickly pulled out of his embrace. Shock written all over her face she looked up at him for an explanation.
He quickly turned his head away from her, not wanting to meet her questioning glare.
"Did you feel that?" Hinata asked him with fright laced through out her voice. Naruto shoved his hands into his front pockets and started to rock back and forth on the ball of his feet, all the while looking away from Hinata.
"Didn't you hear my question!" she shouted at him. Her voice was filled with emotion and it trembled with her speech, hearing the fear in her voice Naruto finally looked up to meet her gaze.
"I said did you feel that?" she repeated just for his benefit.
"Yes I did" he answered reluctantly
"So what was that?"
"I don't really know. It's never happened to me before. Well expect in the shop, well that was more of a feeling and hearing your thoughts, than the sensation of being shock" he said this as if it was something normal. The weirdness of what Hinata was hearing was blatantly etched across her face.
"What?" this seemed to be all she could manage to say at the moment.
"Um at the ice-cream place when I was looking at you, you were staring at me very hard and suddenly I could hear your thoughts, it was very weird and man did I look away quickly, and then I could here them no more. Plus what you were saying scared me"
"Wh-what?"
"Could you stop saying that and at least tell me am lying or something cause am freaked out just as much as you are by this" he said a little pissed at Hinata's one worded questions.
"uh-uh am, am sorry. It's just that I can't believe what am hearing and just felt."
"Well you better, because I need some answers"
"Well what did I say?" she asked with interest, referring to the question he had asked just a few minutes ago.
"What did you say?" Naruto asked with a confused look on his face.
"At the restaurant, silly" she said jokingly, wouldn't want to ruin a perfectly good going convo, plus when he's angry, he scares her.
"Oh, um…… you said something about, oh I remember. You said 'Naruto! Please Naruto-kun, stop. I can't take it any more. You're hurting me. I don't wanna feel what you're feeling. Please release me. It hurts. It hurts me here' then you started to clutch your chest and I looked away and I couldn't hear you any more"
"Wow………… wow, have this ever happened before?"
"What part of this as not happened before did you not understand when I said it a few minutes ago" he answered tartly. Hinata scared by his retort felt her lips glue shut and she could not respond.
"Well do you know anything about this?" he asked, but he was met with silence as Hinata could only stare up at him. His eyes flashed red as he began to become angry at her lack of response. Hinata fearing the look he now wore in his eyes started to back away from him. But this seemed to anger him more, with the speed of lightening his hand flashed out and caught her by the wrist, and then against her struggle he pulled her towards him. He then tightly held her by the shoulders as he stared down at her and repeated his question.
"… and don't ever try to run from me again, capiche or next time you might not like what I'll do. Now answer" he shook her lightly to emphasize his point. Hinata gulped with fright then shook her head in response to his question as she still hadn't found her tongue.
"Well I only have one theory for what is going on and it all leads back to why you should stay away from me" at this accusation Hinata outburst.
"Me stay away from you! That's what I've been doing all this time, until YOU showed up at the ice-cream place!" she shouted in her defense. This dragged a small stretch of laughter from Naruto. His hands started to glide down her sides and at this Hinata cringed and started to bite into her lips, his hands continued to travel until they finally rested on her derriere. He gripped her ass and pulled her roughly against the length of his body. Hinata gasped in surprise.
"Mmmmm……… curvaceous as ever. But that's not the meat of the matter, back to my theory. Remember what I told you the first time we kissed?" Hinata nodded her response, too afraid to talk.
"Well you still make my blood boil every time I see you and you know what the sad thing is, I still hate that you have this effect on me. Why you of all person, why does it have to react to you. What do you have that all the other girls don't? that's the question I kept asking myself ever since that day, am yet to figure it out but I know that this reading your thoughts thing if you look at me hard enough and the electrocution thing, all have something to do with it and let me tell you honey I seriously don't want any part of it" his voice went up a notch to place emphasis on the last part. The coldness in his voice sent shivers down Hinata's spine. Naruto feeling the vibration through out her body drew her even closer. She looked up at him in confusion, her lips trembling. The way she looked at him and the way how her lips made her seem as if she was singing to him stole the cold from out of naruto's heart and he found himself leaning down towards her. The moment their lips touch it was ecstasy, his blood seem to ignite with a blast and it sent heat coursing at the speed of light all through his body, it warmed him from his head to his toe. He didn't want it to end.
Lights went off all over inside of Hinata, her blood popped like fireworks all through her. At the instant their lips met, she found herself questioning why he was doing this and she was frozen for the moment not reacting but the instance she felt his tongue flicker across her bottom lip, its was like the ground melted out from underneath her and she couldn't stop herself from indulging in his forbidden offer.
Even though she was caught up in the moment she couldn't help but feel the tug on her jacket. She shrugged, helping him get it off her, the moment it was off, she latched her hands around his neck pulling him closer to deepen the kiss. Naruto let his hands glide under what she wore as a shirt, but it didn't cover much since it was meshed. His hands found their way on the small of her back and he pulled her to him, he then let one hand slide down to her ass, where he cupped and squeezed it, relinquishing a moan from Hinata. Loving the sound of it Naruto stopped the kiss and licked his lips.
Without a mouth to kiss, Hinata turned to his neck. She licked, kissed and nipped, her administrations on his neck drew a hiss from Naruto and he brought his other hand from her back and to her bottom and with much force he drew her pelvic towards his. They were so close now that Hinata could feel his manhood bracing at his pants along her stomach. This realization seem to draw her out of the moment and back to reality as she suddenly broke away from Naruto and seeing her jacket on the ground, grabbed it up and held it against her chest as she slowly continued to back away.
Naruto, brought back to reality by Hinata's actions started to swear profusely.
"Damn it! Fuck! God damn it!" his reactions was scaring Hinata even more, in addition to her realization of what was just happening between them.
"Shit! Oh Kami, why does this always happen, your like a curse!" he shouted in her direction as his frantic pacing brought him to a stop facing her. Hinata's lips trembled as she tried very hard to hold beck the tears, what he said a while ago hurt her even though she tried not to take offense.
"It's not like I wanted this…" she used her hands to make gestures at both of them.
"I hate this as much as you do, you scare me, cause with you I never know wh-what i-it will be; an-angry Naruto or the side I saw at the beginning of this encounter. You're like a roller coaster!" she shouted the last part.
"Yeah, well, well you're like a weed, unwanted but always around and hard to get rid of. I want you stay away from me, as far as you can get!"
"Will do, it's the best thing for both of us anyways" she stated unsurely as she could no longer take the insults or hold the tears back.
"Why you? Why you of all persons, why does he have to chose you? This was more a question for himself than for her but Hinata responded anyways.
"Yes, why me... well, tell this who so ever who's making you do this, to choose someone else, cause am not bait and all this talk about stay away from you, that's bull shit! You are the one who needs to stay away from ME! Ok. Now good bye!" she quickly turned in the direction of her house and ran off.
"Well……… Keep your thoughts to yourself!" he shouted at her fleeing form. Hinata hearing his statement, stopped in her tracks turned and yelled at him;
"Well stop staring at me, if you can help it" the last part was laced with attitude. She turned back around and continued her run home.
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Naruto: Hey I wonder wat took you so long to post this chapter.
Kaylia: None of your bees wax Naruto!
Naruto: Hey, Hey BAKA……!!
Hinata: H-hey guys calm down, please. The readers are watching.
Naruto: Readers ma ass!! This idiot has had us sitting around on her computer for weeks, waiting on what?! We should have been posted centuries ago.
Kaylia: Naruto you Big Mou…
Hinata: Please, please no swear words.
Naruto: Fine (Bumbles profanities under his breath)
Kaylia: I heard that. Anyways to all my avid readers and reviewers I would just like to apologize for taking so long to update. I had this chappie written a while now but I was biz with school, studying and what not plus I do have a social life. Je suis tres désolée. I am very very sorry. Please bear with me. Am almost finished writing the next chap and I hope you keep reading and reviewing, S'il vous plait! Please!
Kaylia
