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The clouds were still soaked in honey brunt colors of sunset. Hinata's heavy breathing fogged the air around her. As soon as she returned home, Hinata pulled what ever was left in the fridge, her violet hair was pulled back in a loose bun, she ran her hands through the cold water before she began making onigiri. She had to prepare everything else while waiting for the rice to cook. Within a minutes, the rice was finally cooked, when she lifed the lid up, a burst of hot steam fogged up her face. Time's wasting.

"Sorry Shin-chan, but I have to hurry." she quickly fed Shin and left the house in a hurry. As fast as she could run to the place she was suppose to meet Sasuke. Around this time of the day, teens would love to shop around after school, especially since sales were coming up. Hinata sat and waited on the bench. Patiently as people walked past her, some giggled at how silly she looked. Her hair was messed up, the loosely tied bun hung almost half way down her shoulder from it's previous position, still in her school uniform, she only managed to slip on a pair of slippers. But all that might seemed to go to waste. Almost 30 minutes had pasted and no sign of Sasuke...people began to comment about being bailed on and so on.

"Yo." a hand dug into her hair and the hair-tie slipped off her loose bun. Hinata looked up, behind her stood a boy in a waiter's uniform, his sleeves were pulled back and an apron was tied around his hip. It was Sasuke with a smile on his face.

"Sasuke!" She stood up with feelings of overjoyed.

"Y-You're working as a waiter?" Hinata looked around her. Sasuke pointed to a cafe behind him with his thumb over his shoulder.

"That one, I was there at the right time when they needed someone." Sasuke took a seat next to her, and Hinata sat back down.

"What did you make this time?" he lifted the lid up.

"I-I didn't have much time, a-and I didn't know what else to make..." without a second thought, without saying 'Ittadakimasu', he started nibbling on the rolled onigiri. Faster and Hinata expected, Sasuke finished the last bite and licked the rice off his thumb.

"Gochisosama." Hinata smiled to herself, but something caught her attention.

"Sasuke." she pointed to her lip. Sasuke placed the lid back and stared back.

"What?" he tilted his head slightly.

"there's something on your mouth." Hinata pointed to her right side of her lip. Sasuke brushed his left.

"Here." she brushed it off his face with her finger.

"That should do it." she smiled back. Sasuke's face flushed and his body froze into a statue.

"What's wrong?" she wiped her finger with a tissue. Sasuke stayed frozen as he was. His thoughts were blank, nothing that he could even hear his own thought echoing the sound of silence. He dust off some crumbs off his shirt as he stood up and returned back into the cafe. Hinata sat there confused, just as she thought, what was she thinking anyways, all he asked was for her to bring him some lunch, and she even treated him like a child in public. She bit her bottom lip from the dejected feeling left in her. She packed the lunch box back into it's bag. Just as she was about to leave, Sasuke returned in his school uniform.

"Why do you look so surprised? I have an hour break time." he grinned back. Hinata stared back with a blank look on her face.

"Let's go." he offered her a hand. Hinata felt delighted the fact that Sasuke was acting friendly, but then again unease about the sudden change in Sasuke's character.

"what?" Hinata paused and stood back.

"Who are you and what have you done to Sasuke?" she looked at him with pearls of tears in her eyes, her lips dried up into a worm, she looked like she was about to burst into tears.

"Stop! don't you dare cry in public! Just as I thought, acting nice to you is impossible!" Sasuke's voice changed back into his aggressive-self. Hinata looked deeply into his eyes and hiccuped.

"Geez..." He pulled her to a seat next to him as he sat down.

"Why are you acting so strange today...you scared me." her tears dried up quickly.

"I...I just...wanted to act different...I-It's nothing. Let's just go." he retreated his hands, shove them into his pockets. The truth was, Sasuke wanted to be nice to her, he wanted Hinata to see the 'gentle' side of him, he didn't know what he wanted her to feel that way, but he just wanted to.

"Sasuke, you should just act the way you are." Hinata stood next to him, close enough for their hand to brush by. The journey to the nearby convenient store felt like eternity for both of them, with the sky nearly inked in blackness, still hinted with the colors of twilight, but the atmosphere around them was the least dark and cold.

"I'll get back to work now...I'll see you at home." it was about time Sasuke returned back to work. Hinata stood there by the entrance and nodded.

"Don't work yourself too hard." Hinata smiled back, she waved farewell to him, but he stopped her.

"Hinata." she turned around.

"What happened to your shoes?" he asked. The question pierced through her, Hinata hesitated for a while, but kept a smile on her face.

"Oh, I-I was in a hurry, so I just put on what ever I had with me...I-I better get back home now, or else dinner will be made late." and off she went. Sasuke grew curious, from the time he spent with Hinata, she doesn't seemed to be the person who would be in such a hurry that she would dishonor her school uniform, especially since he remembered she told him how she loved her school uniform once. For now, Sasuke could only shrugged the suspicion away.

Hinata kept turning back to see if Sasuke returned into the cafe, as soon as he did, she slowed down her pace. She was surprised on how Sasuke could notice her in detailed ways, it made her feel happy, but not enough to erase the feeling she had about what happened to her shoes. The scanned around the area, it was luck on her side that she found a store nearby.

I absolutely must not tell Sasuke... when the new pair of shoe slid perfectly onto her foot, Hinata kept telling herself to never tell anyone about that incident.

"Does that fit miss?" a voice called out to her.

"A-ah, yes, I-I'll have this pair please." Hinata snapped out from her chanting and nodded back.

"Oh course, i'll wrap it up for you." Hinata was left alone again. It took her awhile to search for the exact same shoe as her previous one.

"Um, e-excuse me." the employee paused.

"I-I would like 2 pairs please." the employee nodded, but looked at her with a strange expression before returning back to the counter. She paid for them and left the store. Along the way, Hinata let out long and heavy sighs. Both of her hand were the bags of ingredients she bought for tonight's dinner and her shoe in her other hand. She tried tried to hold back the fear in her, she knew what it was like to be bullied.

"Hinata?" a voice called out to her.

"K-Kiba-kun?" Kiba was behind her, he was still in his school uniform, his shirt was not tucked in, but it suits his wild theme.

"What a co-incident, on your way home from shopping?" he caught up to her with one hand in his pocket. She nodded.

"W-What about you Kiba-kun?" she asked, Kiba grinned.

"I was just on my way back from the store nearby, to get some of akamaru's favorite treats." he lifted a small bag up slightly.

"Where's that guy?" Kiba scanned their surroundings.

"S-Sasuke? H-he's got a part-time job, and working now."She sounded unease. Kiba returned his gaze at her.

"Is that so...those look heavy, let me help." he swiftly lifted the bags full of grocery off her hand, before Hinata could protest and he insisted.

"you guys seemed kind of close..." There was a tone of boldness in his tone.

"Y-ya...h-he-" Sasuke...what is he to her anyways? She never thought of it.

"he what?"

"H-he's a distant relative of mine." she managed to answer.

"Oh." somehow, Kiba sounded relieved. There was a silence for awhile, until Kiba broke it.

"How's Shin? Is he doing well?" he asked.

"Y-yes, b-but I felt guilty for a while, I couldn't spend more time with him...K-Kiba-kun, would you like to visit Shin?" Kiba nodded with excitement, partly because he wanted to see the puppy again and the other reason was so spend some alone time with Hinata.

"My house is this way."

"Thank you for helping me with the bags Kiba-kun." Hinata placed her shoe nicely back into the cabinet.

"No problem...Sorry for the intrusion." and he entered the house.

"Shin-chan!" Hinata called out to him, soft thumping noises approached them, and there was Shin, running towards them in high speed. Hinata bent down and caught him just in time.

"As you can see, he's quite energetic." Shin was licking every angle of Hinata's face.

"haha, Akamaru was once like that when he was a puppy." Kiba chuckled along.

"Kiba-kun, why don't you play with Shin while I prepare, would you like to stay for dinner?" she offered.

"N-No, it's alright! I don't want to be a burden." Kiba shyly declined.

"No need to worry, think of it as thank you for helping me with the bags."

"W-Well, in that case, I'll be staying..." he replied. Hinata smiled back and returned to the kitchen. Shin was wagging his tail when he saw Kiba, he had grew a little since the last time he saw Shin in Sasuke's arms a few days ago. He grabbed a handful of biscuits out of the package of Akamaru's favorite trat, Shin started jumping with excitement with the smell tickling his nose.

"Ok Shin, sit." Shin ignored Kiba's word and continued to jump on him.

"Shin, sit." Kiba hid his hand behind his back, with his other hand gently pushed Shin back away from him. And again, he commanded him to sit. But he didn't, Shin just stood there with his tail wagged behind his tail. Kiba's hands reached out to him, he pushed the puppy's back down, just forcefully enough for him to be in his sitting position. Shin sat there with his tail still wagging.

"Good boy." Kiba fed him a small bone-shaped biscuit, and patted his head. What seemed like minuted was hours past, one by one, dishes were set on the table, the delighted aroma filled the room.

"Kiba-kun, dinner's ready-" Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"Yes?" she answered the door, it was Sasuke, back in his school uniform.

"Yo." was all he said.

"Sasuke, welcome home." she opend the door for him, but headed back to the kitched instantly. Sasuke was about to slip on his slippers, but found none at the moment, and an pair of sneakers that doesn't look like what Hinata would wear.

"Hinata, who was it?" the deep voice triggered his senses, the heavy foot steps, Kiba reveled himself, with Shin in his arms.

"What are you doing here?" they both said at the same time. At this time, Shin wiggled away from Kiba and to Sasuke.

"Hinata invited me in...why are you here?" Kiba pointed out.

"I live here, got a problem with that?" 'live' isn't really an appropriate work to use, but that's all he could think off for now.

"Dinner's ready!" Hinata called out with her apron still on. The two exchanged glares. Even Shin could feel the wrath of the two.

Dinner was quiet, almost too quiet, Kiba and Sasuke had been glaring at each other, as the two sat the opposite direction.

"W-Would you like some more miso soup Kiba-kun?" Hinata asked as she stood up, Kiba's face turned to Hinata with a big bright smile.

"Yes please." and back into the glaring zone.

"I want seconds too." Sasuke held up his to her.

"O-Okay..." even Hinata didn't know what was up with those too, but at least Sasuke's making a guy friend...she thought. Time felt like it stopped to Hinata, the two had been going on for awhile...it's about time she put an end to it.

"W-Would you guys like some desserts? W-why don't you all wait in the living room and play with Shin." at this moment, Shin's head jerked back, he stared at Hinata with fear and the look saying 'wtf' to her.

"Yes, why don't we...shall we go... Kiba-kun." Sasuke pushed his chair back, Kiba did the same.

Oh boy... she lets out a sigh.

Both Kiba and Sasuke sat there on the couch, the TV was turned on , playing some comedy talk show, but none of them laughed.

"I heard you have a part time job." they stopped looking into each others eyes and wanting to tear their throats out.

"Aaa." Sasuke grunted back.

"why are you living here anyway, don't you live with your family or something." Kiba didn't move a muscle from his seat.

"it's complicated." Sasuke replied simply.

"not complicated enough for me to know you're living here to take advantage of Hinata."

"..."

"So I'm right!" he bounced off the couch, and pointed his finger at Sasuke with the 'you're the culprit' stance.

"No I'm not!" Sasuke's face flushed slightly, now that he thought about it, he is, in a way, taking advantage of Hinata. Living under the same roof...alone...one boy and one girl...Shin is exceptional.

"w-what are you guys talking about?" Hinata joined the conversation with a tray of dessert.

"I-I hope you like ice-cream, Kiba-kun." she placed a cup of ice-cream on the coffee table in front of him. Sasuke had something different, his was just a plate of sliced tomato with salt sprinkled on them.

"Sasuke doesn't like sweets." that explains his bitter attitude. They ate the dessert in awkward atmosphere, with the tv still turned on.

"Hey Hinata, look what I taught Shin." Kiba pushed his empty ice-cream cup aside.

"Shin, come here boy." Shin did as he was told.

"Sit." Shin jerked his head aside with confusion.

"You taught him sit was to look at people with a confused face? Great job you did there trainer." Sasuke sneered to himself.

"Sit, Shin." this time, Shin obeyed.

"you did it!" Kiba sneered back at Sasuke, who returned an annoyed look to him.

"Thank you for teaching Shin-chan Kiba-kun!" she complimented him.

"I-It was nothing..." Kiba blushed.

"Since he's so great and all, why don't we ask him to be Shin's trainer." Sasuke said with scarcasm.

"That's a great idea, Uchiwa-san, I'll be Shin's trainer." Sasuke looked back with a dumbfounded look.

"Say wha-"

"You're welcome here anytime Kiba-kun."

PUT MORE THOUGHT INTO IT WOMAN! Sasuke screamed in his head.

"Well, I better get going now, thank you very much for the meal."

"Anytime, thank you very much for today as well. I'll see you at school tomorrow." they waved goodbye.

"Why was he here." Sasuke asked when Hinata closed the door behind her.

"He helped me with the groceries on the way back. Isn't it great that he's training Shin." Sasuke wasn't pleased at all.

"What ever..." he dropped himself on the couch.

"I'll go prepare the bath." with a click on a sound, Hinata was gone. Sasuke was once again, alone. The phone next to him had been distracting for a while, the light had been blinking since he got home. He pressed the button and the voice mail started to play.

"You have 3 messages...*beep*..." there was silence at first, then a mumble.

"Hinata! It's me Ino. Why aren't you home? Hello? Tenten told me you left early for training so I thought something happened to you, please call me back as soon as possible! I'm worried, laters!*beep*." the first one ended. Nothing interesting...

"message 2... *beep*...Hinata! are you still not at home yet? Remember to call me back! *beep*..." Sasuke was getting frustrated with the voice of girls other than Hinatas...

"last message...*beep*..." Sasuke was about to switch it off.

"Um, h-hi, I'm calling for news about 'Sasuke'..." he stared at the blinking light, his body froze half way reached to the delete button.

"...my name is-"

I'm sorry about the cliff hanger, I have my reasons, xD and one of them was I couldn't think of a name OwO... hehe

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