Title: Vertigo
Type: Naruto Fanfiction
Genre: Romance/Adventure
Pairing: Sasuke x Hinata SasuHina
Characters: Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuuga Hinata
Story Placement: Alternate Storyline fanfiction
Background: It's in a different time and place, the plot is actually the background.
Plot: Once upon time, there was a girl who lived in a tall tower. All she'd ever know was the circular stone walls, the worn silk sheets of her canopy bed, and the man who kept her locked away from the world. But when a clumsy boy literally falls through the roof, Hinata is exposed to a world she'd only seen from the tiny window at the top of the tower and feelings only expressed in story books she read late at night.
Warnings: I will not attempt to attack certain Naruto characters though there is a little anti-Sakura and anti-Ino in the beginning and middle of the story. I do apologize but things do get better for them. I don't even bash my own villains! I can not predict the future of this story but there maybe a yaoi if you squint and turn your head to the left.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything; I was simply inspired by other works and embellished a simple love story.
Author Note: Sigh, alright everyone I'm officially back because it's back to classes as well (I'm an idiot, I took summer classes) then this chapter isn't going to be as long as I planned. I'm back to updating weekly and now we're at part 2! Yay! Once I start getting close to the end, I'll start posting some other stories. So far I have a Shugo Chara!, another Sasuke and Hinata (I'm really excited for this one, it's not an AU!), and I'm going to try my hand at some yaoi again (I tried once but then I went through some things and lost interest). It won't be hard core, hinting at a relationship really…hopefully.
Ah, I'm sure you've noticed that the same song was used over the course of the last three chapters. I really wanted it to be one chapter but it just set the mood for this trilogy that I couldn't resist using it for all three. It's "Ordinary Day" by Vanessa Carlton, a truly beautiful song. I recommend checking it out but I'm not promoting illegal downloading.
OKAY SO.........ENJOY!
Vertigo
By Heaven is Drunk
Chapter Eleven.
Just a dream just an ordinary dream
As I wake in bed
And that boy, that ordinary boy
Was it all in my head?
Didn't he ask if I would come along
It all seemed so real, but as I looked to the door
I saw that boy standing there with a deal, and he said
"Saving her now will start a war. I have to protect the people of Konoha. It's my duty."
"As you wish, Prince Charming."
"Shut the hell up."
"You're a bastard! Go say goodbye! Tell her what's going on."
"I can't, I'm bound by my duty. I'm a prince and I have to do what is best for my people."
"This is ridiculous."
"That's all for now, Hinata-chan. You're 17, aren't you."
She nodded, "Yes."
"And you're my Hinata-chan, right?"
"Yes."
"And someday you'll be my wife."
"Yes."
"And there's no way you can escape."
"Yes."
"I'm concerned about Lady Hinata," Karin sighed deeply, fixing her read hair away from her thick glasses. She stood confidently in front of Kabuto as he stared at the thick book before him. The silver haired lackey shifted his quizzical dark eyes from the book filled with equations and body parts to the red headed maid standing close enough to the door to run. He grinned darkly, closing the book and standing, immediately the maid tensed and glared.
"Is she throwing fits again?" Kabuto turned to a table filled with flasks, "Should she be given medicine now?"
Karin frowned, "You've been giving her that medication for two weeks now, I think its enough." Kabuto paused, staring at a purple sedative bottle. He removed it from the shelf and fingered the label gently. Karin felt her arms shake, "She promised she would throw her fits anymore and I even leave the door unlocked. I think your medicine works too well…"
He was across the room in seconds and shoved the pill down Karin's open mouth. She gagged before her eyes turned glassy and she collapsed to the floor. Kabuto fixed his glasses rightly before stepping over her collapsed body and leaving with the sedatives in hand.
Sasuke stared out the window, sighing audibly for at least the hundredth time that day. His father glared at him from across the room while his mother simply chuckled at her obviously love-struck son.
"Honestly, what kind of sons do I have?" Sasuke's father bemoaned as he angrily plucked rice from his gold bowl, "My eldest refused the crown and my youngest is exhaling his life."
"Father," Itachi began, elegantly removing stray sauce from around his mouth, "I told you before, I prefer my life outside of the castle."
"Yes, yes, Itachi," He groaned, "Roam the lands with the beast of a swordsmen from Kiriga."
Itachi glared at his father and the two began a civilly heated debate over Itachi's destined duties. Sasuke's mother sighed with a soft smile and turned to her youngest who'd left his meal untouched and slumped uncharacteristically in his wood chair, "Is something the matter, Sasuke?"
Sasuke glanced at her, really think if he should explain but decided against it, "I haven't heard anything from Orochimaru."
His mother smiled sadly, detecting the half truth in the statement. How'd she manage to raise such stubborn children? She decided to play along, "It has only been two weeks, I'm sure Orochimaru-san will give a letter to Naruto when he passes through again."
Sasuke sat up; he'd forgotten the blonde soldier was still on some mission that General Tsunade had sent him on. And the quickest path back was through Orochimaru's Otogakure. Sasuke couldn't believe that Naruto would disobey orders but the self-righteous boy wasn't above ignoring commands. He wouldn't go after Hinata would he?
"Sasuke," His mother questioned worriedly but before he could respond, someone had entered their dinning hall. The servant bowed quickly, "My lords and lady, a man from Otogakure is here."
The four stood abruptly and followed the bristled servant back to the front entrance. Sasuke's first thought was that the man looked like a fish, razor sharp grin with glinting teeth beneath. He bore dull eyes as calm as the ocean and a variant of the same color, his grayed hair disguised his real age, "Lord Uchiha."
He offered with a boy and handed Sasuke's father a letter, "What is this?"
"A proposal to Lord Sasuke to travel to Suna within the week to begin negotiations, sent from My Lord Orochimaru," The man remained bowed but his eyes followed Sasuke's every movement. His mother and father quickly read the letter before handing it to Sasuke. He glanced over the letter, Orochimaru was leaving today for Suna with a lawyer and negotiator, Sasuke was advised to do the same. Sasuke could travel with Suigetsu, who must have been the servant, a lawyer and negotiator but nothing more.
Sasuke folded the letter and bowed to his father, "I am leaving, could you please have a servant inform Neji and Shikamaru to be ready within the hour to leave for Suna."
They nodded, Itachi escaping to pass on the news. His parents ushered Suigetsu into the a joining tea room while Sasuke went to pack. This was perfect timing, Orochimaru would bring Kabuto for sure so only the servants would be left and Sasuke would do his part to fight for her release during negotiations. If Naruto was dumb enough to steal Hinata away, by the time Orochimaru returned; he'd never know the difference.
Hinata would be free.
Invigorated by the new circumstances, he packed quickly and rushed out of the castle, Suigestu attempting to keep up the pace. He was pleased that his two allies were already packed and waiting for him. He nodded to both in the dim light of the setting sun and began walking in the direction of Suna. He would explain the mission on the way and his ulterior motives when Suigetsu was out of hearing distance.
The sun rose and set once every day. It would be up in the sky, shining through the small holes into her bare room for 9 hours; softening the intensity of the darkness she was forced to live in, before setting and leaving her in the utter night. Each day started a little earlier and ended a little later. Each day was a little warmer but the night remained the same. The endless darkness was all she knew and it left her numb and void of ambition comforted her through the waiting periods.
She, at first, plotted attacking servants, maids, and even Him just to get out but she never made it out the door. Kabuto always stopped her with his strange medicine and she would wake up hours later in a haze and tied to the bed. She stopped trying after a week.
She remained in her bed now, staring out the window and counting the seconds to the next minute. She said what was needed only to not get in trouble but otherwise, she held no passion for life. She wanted to say that her mind was just elsewhere, thinking of blondes and brunettes, hope and broken promises but she'd really just given up on life.
No one was going to save her and she was a fool to believe so.
"Oi!" She heard a soft whisper, "Hello?"
She turned to the door but it remained empty. No servant nor Orochimaru or Kabuto had entered, so where did the noise come from? She frowned and turned back to the window to see the silhouette of a shape outside. She frowned deeply, someone was outside her window.
"Oi?!" The voice, an edgy ball of sunshine filtered by the wood, enraptured Hinata. Something washed through her, convinced her to move her muscles to the window and peak through a hole. She spotted clear blue skies, it was just her imagination. Then, the cloudless sky blinked and grinned foxily, "Hello Princess."
She gasped audibly, falling backwards into the room and shaking. It was quiet for a moment before she heard his voice through the wood, "Get as far back as you can."
Hinata scurried to the bathroom and shut the door, holding her breath.
"Rasengan!" He seemed to scream and suddenly a rush of air and wind brushed through her entire body. She shuddered and fell to her knees, the walls shaking around her. She began to cry, shivering inside and out.
The door swung opened loudly and there he was, that same blonde that had entered her thoughts every time she thought of the sun, thought of the freedom…thought of Sasuke. He'd become the symbol of hope in her dreams, in her thoughts, and here he was saving her. She could trust this man and his promises, he was perfect.
He reached his hand out and took her into his arms, pulling her along quickly to the large hole in the wall, "Sorry I'm late, I had a mission to complete and then I had to wait for that stupid Snake-teme to get the hell out of the castle."
Hinata felt herself being dragged into the fresh summer air. Summer, she was almost at the time when Orochimaru was going to take her and now this blonde, grinning young man was taking her away. He jumped onto the window and took her by her waist, swooping her into his arms and then leaping from the Tower.
"Alright, we got to move fast before someone catches us!" He smiled broadly, "We'll have to get you dressed up so when you meet the queen, she won't throw you out of the castle."
She tried to respond, opening her mouth to form anything but only a squeak came out. She felt her face go hot from the sun, from the drop, or from his face in the sunlight, she didn't know. She did know that this was the same feeling the first time he'd saved her and she felt her heart to begin to race.
She'd read that somewhere before…no Orochimaru had read that to her. Blushing, too nervous to talk, faint in his arms, heart beating…this was love and he was her prince charming.
Author's Note: Alright, Part Two Chapter one complete! I noticed a spelling error in the last chapter, I apologize. I'll probably go and change that after this. Anyways, thank you everyone for your reviews and I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Don't get too sad! Sasuke and Hinata will see each other soon! Promise!
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