Chapter 9 : Library Man
Creak…
Hinata opened the old school library door slowly and peered in.
"Why are you peeking?" Sasuke poked his cute little head out of Hinata's backpack.
Hot blood immediately rushed to her once pale face as she stammered for an answer.
"No, on second thought, don't answer it…' Sasuke said, getting tired of Hinata's stutter.
Sasuke had a hard time wondering what's going on in his cute… wait, scratch that, - 'weird' master's mind.
He had been staring at her odd behavior all the way on their journey from her classroom to the school library. She would space out one minute, then blushed hot red the next, and immediately shook her head to remain calm and composed.
Then the whole process would repeat after the next few seconds. On and on and on…
And when he asked her the reason she was acting like that, she would stutter and stumble for words like there's no tomorrow.
So he gave up and decided to shut his mouth up for good.
But right now he found it extremely hard to remain silent any longer. They had been standing in front of the library door for 7 minutes and 46 seconds and Hinata still had shown no sign of going in.
Thud
Thud
The sound of Hinata's heartbeat was getting louder and louder with each passing second.
'Okay, you can do this…' She convinced herself, as she balled her shaky fists.
As she was about to send impulses from her brain nerves to the muscles on her legs to move forward, Sasuke poked the back of her head giving her a start.
"What?" Hinata hissed, obviously annoyed that he disturbed her impulse-sending activity.
"If you don't get your sluggish (and cute) ass in the library for the next two seconds, you'll find your collection of lingerie at the worst possible of places," Sasuke smirked, a glint of evil glee apparent in his pair of little pitch-black eyes.
Gulp
Hearing the perverted threat of her nasty little doll, Hinata immediately ran into the library as fast as she could. There was absolutely no way she would let the world know about her fetish for collecting lacy little g-strings.
'I almost wished she never went inside the library,' Sasuke pouted, a bit disappointed.
Hinata was panting and gasping for air like a goldfish without water. She could only hope she didn't pass out for the second time that day.
But then again, if she did pass out here in the library, then it was most likely that he would notice her and carry her to the infirmary…
OR
Maybe he could even give her…
GASP!
…a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
With that wishful thought in her once-innocent mind, Hinata suddenly forgot how to breathe as her face turned almost as red as his hair.
"Is there something wrong?"
Hinata snapped her head to the source of the voice faster than the F1 racing cars.
What she saw made her went,
Oh. My. God.
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'What is her problem?' Sasuke's eyebrow twitched with extreme annoyance.
Hinata hadn't moved a single muscle for what seemed like forever. And what was with this guy? His hair was redder than tomato. Who was he?
"What do you need? I don't like to be kept waiting," the red-head asked, not sounding very pleased.
Mustering every ounce of energy left in her body, Hinata managed to gave a little squeak.
The red-head raised a sexy eyebrow up in response.
"I err, I w-want to return the b-books I borrowed…" Hinata couldn't believe she was actually talking to him!
"Come to the counter with me,"
"Hai!" Hinata replied with immeasurable happiness as Sasuke could only stare at the two of them with an unexplainable anger at her peculiar behaviour.
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"You have to pay the fine for not returning these books on time,"
"B-but, it said that the due date was today!"
"Exactly, that means you were supposed to return these books before today,"
"But I don't have enough money with me right now," Hinata pleaded, "Sasori-san!"
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AH-CHOO!
"Bless you,"
"Thanks," Hinata wiped her runny nose with a handkerchief and continued dusting the History books section.
"Why did you let him bully you?" Sasuke asked from his spot, where he was sitting cross-legged on top of a pile of old history books.
"He did not bully me, it was my fault for not returning the books on time," Hinata defended the stunning-looking librarian with a faraway look on her face.
Looking at her dazed look, Sasuke could feel the strange feeling of anger creeping into his soul. The dark-haired doll crossed his arms and ignored Hinata as she continued dusting the books as a punishment for not paying the fine.
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"That's enough Hinata. But next time make sure you return the books before the due date," Sasori handed Hinata a cloth of towel for her to wipe the sweat on her face.
"Thanks," She took the towel and held it like a mother holding her new-born baby. That only made Sasuke more pissed-off than ever. If he didn't have to remain rigid and act like a normal doll, he would have flicked her forehead or something. Heh, that would be really nice. He resisted the urge to smirk.
That was when he felt like he was being stared at. He hovered his eyeballs slowly and finally came into contact with Sasori's.
He was staring at him. Hard.
Shiver.
He wasn't gay, was he?
No way.
"S-Sasori-san?" Hinata asked when she noticed Sasori's blank face.
"That's a nice puppet you have there," Sasori stated monotonously.
Hinata blushed a pretty pink, "Thank you, but it's not a puppet, it's a doll. See?" Hinata said while holding Sasuke in front of Sasori.
Sasuke never felt so exposed in his life before as he was now. Feeling the intense gaze of the red-head librarian scrutinizing every inch of his body wasn't the best thing in the world.
Ugh.
Never before had he hated Hinata as much as he was hating her right now. Damn you Hinata!
"Do you want it?"
OH GOD! She did NOT just offered him to that puppet freak!
Sasori just stared at her face with an unreadable expression. But Hinata could tell he was having a hard time responding to her unexpected offer.
After a few seconds of awkward silence (or for Sasuke's part, it felt like an eternity), Hinata burst into fits of tiny giggles.
"I-I'm so sorry, I shouldn't say that. I can't give you the doll, the words just slipped my mouth," Hinata bowed in apology.
"Why are you laughing?" Sasori asked, a little annoyed that he was being made fun of.
Hinata stopped laughing immediately and flushed red in embarrassment. How rude of her to laugh at him!
"S-sorry, it was just that, you looked so c-cute just now…" Hinata's blush went deeper as she said the last words.
It was faint and brief but the petite girl thought she saw Sasori blushed a pretty pink when she said that.
'Ohmigod. What the hell is going on here?' Sasuke felt irritated that he was once again left out of the situation. Being a doll is so hard! OH!
"A-ano… I think I should go back now, it's getting late…" Hinata said, not looking at the attractive librarian's face.
"Okay, 'bye," And then he walked away, just like that.
"What an asshole!" Sasuke was glad he could finally express what was on his mind. Heh.
"Keep still Sasuke, he might be peeking through the shelves to look at you,"
That did the trick.
'Curse you Hinata,'
"Let's go home Sasuke,"
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Little did they know that Sasori was indeed peeking through the books to look at the delicate dark-haired puppet.
'That puppet… It was flawless.' He thought as he watched Hinata went through the exit door.
'It looked alive… Wait.' He backed off the bookshelf and analyzed what he had accidentally seen earlier when Hinata was doing her duty.
'It is alive!'
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To be continued…
shikaru : There you go. SASORI was introduced!! Nyahahahaha. Many more to come so be patient. Many errors in this one I bet. Ignore it!
The reason why Hinata loves the Library Librarian Sasori. (Just a small crush though. Nothing like it was with Naruto)
Sorry for the extremely late update. But I stayed at the campus dorms and I didn't bring my laptop so go figure.
I think from now on, I will update once every two weeks. That's the quickest update you'll get. Not less than that. Someone stated that Kankurou is at least a year older than Team Gai but I decided that they are the same age here. Thanks.
I would like to give you a BIG THANKS for reviewing my story.
Oh, and about the title of the story ; Sasuke Doll, it was not like I hadn't thought about it enough, but I like it like that. Period. It's short, simple and cute. The story's simple too. I don't like to complicate things is all. Thanks anyway KinKitsune01.
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