Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, Sasuke would have kidnapped Hinata in Shippuden by now.
Chapter 9
Temari
"Hinata wouldn't tell us anything till you came, Ten-chan!" Ino groaned.
"Well, I'm back aren't I?" Tenten smirked, out of her formal dress and into a baby blue tank top with a matching bottom.
"Who goes first?" Hinata asked.
"Hinata," I automatically answered. "It was her first date, after all. Who with?"
"Uh…um…"
"Well?" I prodded. Silence.
Okay. Now I'm suspicious.
"Is there something I should know?" I asked, suspicion coloring my tone.
"Besides the fact that she went out with a twenty year old, um, not much," Ino suddenly blurted.
"INO!" Tenten shouted.
"Fuck…" Hinata muttered, her head hanging low.
"You went out with an adult?!" I fumed.
"Tema –"
"No! You could have gotten hurt, you dimwit!"
"Temari!" Tenten whacked me upside the head. "Don't worry. It was Itachi-sensei."
"NO WAY!"
She went out with that hottie for a semsei?! No freaking way!
"Yes way," Hinata corrected.
"A teacher?! You know that could get you and him in trouble!"
The Inner Me was inwardly cheering, however. Damn it.
"Temari, can I please explain?" Hinata asked pleadingly before continuing.
"He asked me out to a dinner party, Tema-chan," She took a deep breath, "With the Hyuuga Inc."
"Former family?" She only nodded.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Hina-chan," I suddenly felt cruel for calling her a dimwit.
"You don't know the half of it," Tenten muttered lowly.
I caught it.
"Okay, seriously. What the hell happened?" I asked again.
Hinata took a deep breath. Again. My eye twitched. Something told me I was not gonna like the news.
"When we were waiting in the waiting room," She began, "Everyone left. Hanabi – my former sister and the new heiress – Neji, Tenten, and Itachi were wanted in Hiashi's office with Uchiha Fugaku and Uchiha Mikoto."
Well, atleast her date was supervised. I guess there wasn't any funny business after all.
"And that left me with Sasuke Uchiha. Alone."
"Damn it. I spoke too soon," I muttered.
Ino looked at me funnily.
"Oh, did I say that out loud?" I blushed, "Sorry. Keep going, Hina-chan."
"I mocked him for only being able to say 'Hn' and…and…" I noticed she was blushing heavily. I noted if she got any redder she'd explode…
"And he pushed me against the wall and made out with me!" She said quickly, shutting her eyes as if she was a little girl waiting for her punishment.
…
"I'm sorry, but I think I heard wrong," I cocked my head to the side, "I thought I just heard you say he pushed you against the wall and made out with you."
"That's what she said, smart one," Ino said, seemingly amazed as well, "Are you serious?"
Hinata proceeded to explain second by second what happened.
"GO HINATA!" Ino suddenly cheered. Hinata whacked her with a pillow.
"And you didn't yell out 'RAPE'?" I asked incredulously.
Who would? The Inner Me asked, Making out with a hot guy is enough to deter anyone. Even Hina-chan.
"She probably liked it." Ino guessed.
"I…uh, I did," Hinata coughed. "I feel so dirty."
Tenten sighed. "Hinata, for the second time. It's good that you liked it. You're supposed to like making out with hot guys."
"But he's not a hot guy! He's the Emo Duckbutt!" She whined.
"Yeah, the hot Emo Duckbutt," Ino retorted.
"I'm…I'm gonna have to agree with Tenten," I said, "But if he ever does that again, you will kick him where the sun don't shine, got it?"
"Got it."
"You know something I don't understand?" Ino asked curiously.
"Besides the whole world?" I smirked.
Ino chose to ignore me. "Sasuke said 'See if you remember that night'. Doesn't that mean he did that once before?"
Silence.
"Huh, our little Ino-chan has a point…" Tenten agreed.
"But the only other social thing we've gone to was Sakura's party and…" Hinata trailed off, then jumped up, "OH, MY FUCKING KAMI! THE EMO DUCKBUTT GAVE ME THE HICKEY!"
Followed by a low thud.
"I think she died," Ino proceeded to poke her in the side curiously.
I rolled my eyes.
"Should we wait till she wakes up or just keep going?" I asked.
"Let's keep going," Tenten shrugged, "Knowing her, she might not wake up anytime soon."
"It's your turn, Ino-chan." I stated.
"It's not that big of a deal," She shrugged, "We went to the movies. He was really sweet and funny. He has a cute dog named Akamaru! He's so adorable!"
"Aw, he's an animal lover!" Tenten cooed.
"Heh, yeah," Ino nodded, "He's so nice. Perverted, but nice. In the end he asked me to go out with him again."
"What'd you say?" I asked.
"Told him yes, duh," She rolled her eyes.
"Sweet," Hinata popped out of nowhere.
"AH! Where'd you come from?!" Tenten and I exclaimed.
"Holy shit! Hinata came back from the dead to eat our brains!" Ino yelled.
We all turned to look at her.
"Uh…sorry. We were watching a zombie movie," She said sheepishly.
"Really, Hina. Don't do that," I breathed in deeply.
"Sorry…" She mumbled. "Tenten, is it your turn now?"
"My date wasn't really that interesting," She shrugged. "I met your father. He seemed nice enough –"
"Yeah, right," Ino and I retorted.
"You didn't let me finish," Tenten said, "But, something's fishy about him. He was faking the niceness thing, I think."
"No shit, Sherlock," Hinata muttered. Tenten whacked her upside the head.
"What is it with you and hitting people today?!" Hinata groaned, "Kami, it hurts…"
"Serves you right," Tenten stuck her tongue out, "As I was saying, he wasn't being honest –"
"No shit –" Tenten whacked Hinata upside the head again.
"OW!"
"Stop interrupting me!" Tenten whined, "Or I'll tell the world your first hickey came from the Emo Duckbutt!"
With that, Hinata fainted. Again.
"That's great ammunition," Ino complimented.
"As I was saying – thank you, Ino-chan – I think Hiashi's probably thinking that Neji only wants me so he can have someone to screw. He did tell Neji not to get too serious, though that wasn't what you'd call a nice, crude joke."
"He thinks lowly of people who he thinks doesn't have as much money as him," Again, Hinata popped out of nowhere.
"WOULD YOU STOP DOING THAT?!" Ino exclaimed, "You're really scaring the shit outta me."
"Yeah, Hina," Tenten agreed, "Stop fainting and popping out of nowhere!"
"Meanie."
"All in all, I think Hiashi's a loser," I shrugged. "Now you may interrupt. Who's next?"
"Temari." Ino suddenly announced.
"What?" I asked, confused, "I didn't have a date!"
"You were with Shikamaru a few days ago. And…you were in a kinda…depressed mood," Ino explained.
I tensed. "Doesn't mean a thing."
"Tema-chan," Hinata began quietly, "You were really sad. I noticed. We all did."
"We want to help," Tenten continued just as solemnly, "We're sisters. You can trust us, right?"
I sat there in silence. I suddenly felt my eyes watering.
Ino suddenly wrapped her arm around my shoulders. Hinata and Tenten leaned over and silently enveloped me in a hug.
It was then that I let the tears flow freely.
And they let me. They let me cry, waiting patiently.
And yet I kept this secret from them. Even when they've told me everything before.
Kami, I really am a horrid sister.
"It's okay to cry, Tema," Hinata spoke, "We all do it."
"Heh, Hina-chan said 'do it'." Ino suddenly snickered.
That suddenly brought a small laugh from my lips; a small smile appeared despite the tears.
"You're such a perv, Ino!" Hinata rolled her eyes, going red.
"You guys really want to know?" I wiped the tears away. Tenten offered me a tissue from out of nowhere.
"Yeah, Tema. We do," She said.
I took a deep breath.
"First of all," I began, "I'm the oldest of three siblings. Triplets, to be specific."
"Triplets?!" Hinata exclaimed.
"You're parents must've been very busy," Ino whistled lowly.
"Ino!" We all hit her with a pillow.
"What are your siblings names?" Tenten asked curiously.
"Sabaku brothers." I whispered. "My former name was Temari no Sabaku."
They sat there in silence.
"My mom left us when we were three," I continued, fiddling with the hem of my pillow. "My dad became depressed and started drinking."
There was no more mirth in the air. It was almost too solemn to bear.
"He…he was a-abusive…"
"Asshole!" Hinata jumped in, "Stupid, fucking, asshole!"
It was her turn to be hit with pillows.
"And one day…when I was seven...he...he hurt me." I couldn't say that word, for fear of bursting into another fit of tears again. I could only hope they understood what I meant.
"HE RAPED YOU?!" They yelled loudly.
"That's it! Where's that stupid, fucking, asshole?!" Tenten said dangerously.
"Let us kick his ass. Let us at him! We can take him!" Ino chimed in.
Hinata was almost on the verge of tears, yet she remained quiet.
"That's…that's why you ran away, isn't it?" Hinata asked quietly, as if it suddenly dawned on her.
"After a year…I couldn't take it," I nodded. I burst into tears again. "I thought Gaara and Kankuro were strong enough together to not let him hurt them. But I was wrong. I'm a horrible, idiotic, sister!"
A slap to my face.
"Don't you dare say that, Tema," Hinata demanded, tears welling up deep in her eyes, "You are one of the best sisters a girl can ask for. You are the one whose motherly instincts take over when Kurenai isn't around."
"You are the one who wiped my tears away whenever a boy dumped me," Ino added, though muttering under her breath, "However rare that may be…"
"You're the one who taught us our self defense, Tema," Tenten looked me in the eye, "The one who kept us calm when we first got here. You're the reason Hinata hasn't gone insane in an all boy's school –"
"I resent that," She huffed quietly.
"And you're the one who takes care of Ino when she's being way too flirty," Tenten went on. "And…you make me want to be more like the sister I idolize. Even if you're the younger one."
Silence. I needed to register all that she said.
"You…you can't be serious…" I whispered, hugging my pillow tightly.
"Tema, how can we not be serious?!" Ino asked incredulously, "I mean, seriously! We may have short attention spans, but we're serious when we want to be – however rarely that may be."
This earned me a smile. Then a chuckle. It soon became full out laughter. I hugged my sisters tighter.
"Thank you," My voice was muffled as more tears poured out. "Thank you."
"No, Tema," Hinata said, "Thank you."
Author's Note: Short, I know. But I needed this filler chapter. There's so much drama in here, makes me wonder if I'm turning into a drama queen or something. Anyway, I felt like I was neglecting Temari a little, so I felt like this was needed to make everything clearer on her. (Now I feel like I'm neglecting Ino. Darn.) Ofcourse, no humor, and the little bits of funny-ness I put in made it a bit poorly written, in my opinion. Anywho, please review!