Well it's me again and here is chapter 10 like I've promised some of you ! I'm thinking thais story is shaping up to be a pretty long one. Maybe as long as Beautiful Lie...which I will be working on as soon as this one is over having found the right song to inspire me for the sequel. But I'm gonna keep that to myself for now. So on with the story!

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Is It Any Wonder?-KEANE

"No Naruto…I just need…some time alone right now." Hinata said through her tears as she entered the elevator alone.

Naruto watched the doors slide shut with his friend behind them with a feeling of deep regret. Sighing he headed back to Sasuke's apartment. Where he was confronted with the sight of his best friend sitting on his couch with his elbows on his knees and his face inhis hands. Karin was trying to rub his back comfortingly when the handsome young man looked up at her with emotionless eyes.

"Karin you better go." It was said with such finality that the redhead just scooped up her backpack and walked out of the apartment giving the blond wide berth sensing the disapproval of her radiating off him in heated waves. "Naruto you should leave too. You can come back if you have some alcohol with you."

Naruto understood this side of Sasuke. It was one he hadn't seen in so long. Not since Sasuke and Hinata had become serious with each other. Nodding he too exited the apartment determined to obtain the requested liquor. Because that's what best friends do. Help each other get shitfaced in the face of emotional distruction.

Earlier

Hinata pressed Sasuke's doorbell determined to work things out between them. The latest kiss she shared with Kakashi had really shaken her up and she was just so confused! Kakashi returned to his normal self pretending nothing had happened by the time they reached Sarutobi's store. The ride back was a long and awkward one. By the time they had reached her house he gave her a small smile but didn't say anything after she had gotten off the back of his bike. Instead he rode off leaving her standing on the sidewalk feeling strangely bereft.

She knew it was wrong to go around kissing Kakashi when she was still Sasuke's girl. It compounded the crime knowing that she enjoyed the kiss immensely. Her hormones went haywire when he was kissing her. She could've honestly let herself get carried away and given herself to him in that tunnel where anyone could've seen! She felt so guilty and ashamed at her own behavior.

'What was taking Sasuke so long?' she wondered as she rang the doorbell over and over. He had to be home. He just had to!

So it was a shock to come face to face with Karin. 'I should've known' Hinata thought to herself as she pushed pass the other girl.

"Hinata! Sasuke didn't tell me that you were coming over today." Karin said in an overly surprised tone.

"Since when does he have to clear it with you who comes over?! " Hinata growled at the redhead. Karin blushed but closed the door behind her as Hinata took a seat on the couch.

"Well he'll be back here soon. He and Naruto went to pick up some food." Karin said playing the part of hostess. Hinata narrowed her eyes at the girl.

"What are you wearing?!" Hinata practically screamed. Karin was standing there wearing a button up shirt that Hinata had bought Sasuke for Christmas! It was very distinguishable by it's design and Hinata had paid alot of money for it. And now this bitch was standing there in HER boyfriend's apartment wearing HIS shirt! Anger boiled up to the forefront and Hianta jumped up from the couch to stand nose to nose with the taller girl. "Take it off! Right Now!!" She demanded with acid in her voice.

"No! Sasuke said I could wear it and I'm going to!" Karin spat back her. Standing her ground. Ofcourse she was lying. She had put the shirt on after Sasuke had left with Naruto. She was gonna claim that she was cold when he got back.

"Take it off before I make you take it off." Hinata threatened quietly rage making her voice tremble imperceptively. When Karin made no move to do any such thing Hinata grabbed the shirt and ripped it open intending to tear the shirt off of her if she had to. She was tired of Karin usurping everything that was hers. Karin needed to get her own life and stop trying to steal Hinata's place in Sasuke's life!

Karin screeched loudly and grabbed handfulls of Hinata's long abundant hair. Hinata ignored the pain in her scalp and started punching Karin in the stomach and just everywhere else she could reach. Hinata never really fought anyone before. But Neji had instilled in her that if she ever did...not to resort to petty girly hair pulling and to fight like a man. Often going as far as ambushing here out of nowhere so that she would know how to adapt to surprise attacks and act accordingly. He stopped doing that as soon as he was satisfied in her proficiency to protect herself. Hinata was not going to sink to Karin's pathetic level of fighting. Pretty soon both girls were on the floor rolling around knocking things over and trying to cause the other as much damage as possible.

That was what Sasuke and Naruto walked into with bags filled with chinese takeout. Reacting immediately to the scene before them, Sasuke turned to Nauto dropping his bags unceremoniously on the floor. "Get Karin and I'll get Hinata." He ordered.

"No way! That's your friend! Get your friend and I'll get mine!" Naruto answered as he pulled Hinata off of Karin. Sasuke had no other choice than to grab the girl in question. Karin immediately started crying into his arms. Sasuke felt disgust at this display seeing as she only now had tears in her eyes when just moments before she was screaming the foulest obscenities at Hinata who continued to pummel her as much as she could. He let his arms drop from the hysterical girl.

Naruto took in the injuries both girls' had. Karin sported a busted lip and and a swollen eye that would surely turn purple in a few hours. Hinata had some scratches on her neck and chest and judging by the silky ebony tresses dangling from Karin's fingers...less hair. "That's my girl!" Naruto whispered to Hinata proudly. Sasuke gave him a dirty look.

Sasuke took Hinata into his bedroom, while Naruto put the food away in the refrigerator. Karin continued to sob on the couch.

When they were alone Sasuke took Hinata's shoulders in his grip firmly but not painfully. "What happened?" He asked grimly.

"I came over here to see you and she was wearing your shirt! The one I bought you!" Hinata told him angrily.

"So you decided to beat the crap out of her?" he asked incredulously. He couldn't believe his girlfriend would do such a thing. It was liek he didn't even know her anymore.

"I asked her to take it off and she refused!" Hinata yelled frustrated with the way Sasuke was looking at her. Liek she was the one that was to blame!

"I'm so disappointed in you Hina! What were you thinking?!" Sasuke replied in kind.

"I was thinking that another girl shouldn't be answering your door and acting like she lives here! I was thinking that another girl shouldn't be wearing your clothes! Especially the ones I bought you! I was thinking another girl should keep her hands off of you altogether and NOT be all over you in front of me! I was thinking you should have stopped her! I was thinking that you shouldn't let another girl touch you like she does especially in front of all our friends!" Hinata cried referring to the berbecue again.

Sasuke sat on his bed and looked at Hinata sadly. "I can't so this anymore..." he said softly "I can't deal with your jealousy and insecurities anymore. Why can't you trust me? I told you nothing was going on but you...you just can't believe it. You can't believe in me...and it hurts! I don't think we can go on like this. I want to believe you can change but this has been going on for months now! I think we need to take a break..."

"You're breaking up with me?!" Hinata whispered in disbelief. This was not what was supposed to happen. She was in shock. She came here to fix things between them instead things were worse and it was probably all her fault. She stared at Sasuke willing him to deny that her question. Instead he satred back at her with an indescribable emotion in his eyes. Almost as if he was the one whose heart was breaking.

Wiping the tears from her eyes Hinata took a moment to compose herself and looked him in the eyes. "Fine." And with that she opened the door to his bedroom and swept pass Naruto and Karin who undoubtedly heard the whole thing by the concern in Naruto's eyes and the veiled triumph in Karin's.

As she hit the button to call the elevator she heard Naruto rush out after her.

"Hinata! Do you want me to take you home? Or do you need to talk?" Naruto asked her concerned wanting to make sure she was alright.

'Naruto is really a good friend' Hinata thought to herself as she shook her head sadly. Sasuke needed him more she knew."No Naruto...I need...some time alone right now." She stepped into the elavator and gave him a small smile that looked more like a grimace as the doors slid shut.

Back to the present

Sasuke cradled his head again and cursed to himself. He didn't understand his girlfriend anymore! His ex-girlfirend now. Why didn't she trust him? Why was Karin such a threat? It was so stupid! He just pushed the person he loved the most in his life away. He had no other choice. Hinata's behavior was unacceptable. He felt so much pressure and she was the only one exhibiting reasons why his life was so chaotic and difficult. He didn't need this stress. He did what he had to. He had to believe that now. Because she was gone. And he could tell by the look in her eye when she spoke her last word to him that it was irrevocably over now. He sighed and stared at the destruction around him silently. "I really love her. Why did this happen to us?!" he said outloud to the empty room. Not knowing what else to do he stood up and methodically tried to pick up the mess that the girls caused in their scuffle.

Frustration got the better of him as he retieved an art deco handblown glass paperweight that had sat on his now overturned coffee table. This was so fucked! He was faithful! He loved her! He did everything he could to be a good person! So why was this happening?! In his mind he hadn't done anything wrong or deserving of Hinata's distrust.

Love seemed like such a farce to him now. The anger at this disillusionment boiled over within him and he threw the glass globe as hard as he could at the wall nearest his front door. It cracked and splintered into peices and left an ugly gash in the plaster of his wall. Love didn't seem real to him anymore now that the one he loved was gone.

Hinata rushed out of the building and into the sunny sidewalk outside. Wasting no time she ran to a txicab who was just letting off it's passengers at the next building. Her heart heavy with rejection and what she felt was betrayal she slid into the backseat after the previous passengers were already heading away from the cab. She gave the cabbie the address of her destination and watched the streets pass by as silent tears ran down her face.

A/N: Wonder where she's going...Anywayz I do have a POV for Kakashi about the incident under the bridge but it'll be in the next chapter. I felt this chapter was a necessary point in the story and I really wanted to see a girlfight! I picked Is it any wonder? by Keane because it was exactly what Sasuke was feeling. That and I lurve KEANE!!LOL. I have so many song inspirations for this story right now I don't foresee any writer's block!! YAY!! But updates will be erratic and probably slower due to lack of computer time! Sorry can't help it! But please bear with me and keep the faith...I am trying to work in all suggestions that I can and still make this story make some sort of sense! I love you all!! I'll love you more if you review!