I admit that I have been lazy to write, but it's not my fault I have other things to do! So yeah, here you go to my precious readers who are patient with me.

Note- I do not own Naruto.


"It has been 2 weeks and Sasuke has been avoiding me ever since that kiss," Hinata thought. "What is wrong with him?"

She decided to clear things up between him and her after working at the pet shop today.


(Pet shop: 3:14 p.m.)

Hinata was at the counter with her right elbow on the counter and her chin resting on her right hand. She let out a sigh and looked at her watch for the 13th time of the day. Her three friends took notice of her actions and came up to her.

Temari was the first one to speak, "Hinata, you seem to be excited for something after work."

Kiba and Ten-ten nodded in agreement with Temari's conclusion of Hinata.

The pale-eyed Hyuuga sighed once more and rested both her elbows on the counter.

"I need to talk to Sasuke-san today. It's pretty important, well, to me it is," she explained.

The brown-haired Inuzuka boy started to reply to her statement.

"Ey Hinata, what happened?"

Ten-ten also asked the same question. The Hyuuga girl shook her head, "It's something a bit personal."

"Hinata-chan, if you need to talk to him so badly, I'll let you off work today early," Kiba offered.

Hinata brightened, "Thank you Kiba-kun."

She took off her apron, grabbed her backpack, gave quick hugs to each of her friends, and ran out of the shop.

While power walking outside, she dialed Sasuke's number on her Silver L6.

Bring! Bring! Bring! It rang while she was calling him.

You have reached Sasuke Uchiha's voicemail. Please leave a message a beep or try calling again later. Beep!

"Sasuke? It's me, Hinata. I need to talk to you. Please call me to tell me where you are. I'll be waiting at the beach. Bye-bye."

So with that said, Hinata took the bus to arrive at her destination, which took 15 minutes. It was the beginning of January, so the beach was pretty chilly. The sun was out, but the wind was strong.


Hinata found a rock by the shore and decided to sit there. As the wind kept blowing, she would tighten her scarf around her neck and hug herself.

"Where is he? It's already 4:25. I think I should call him again."

Once again, the indigo-haired girl called the youngest Uchiha. Yet, he still did not answer. Hinata decided to call his brother.

"Hello?" A deep voice spoke into the speaker of the phone.

"Itachi-san?" Hinata voiced shyly.

"Yes."

"Oh, this is Hinata. I was wondering if, well, you know where Sasuke is."

"Uhm, he told me he was going to take a walk around the park nearby."

"Thank you Itachi-san!"

"No problem."

The two hung up and Hinata dashed towards the bus stop. After waiting for 5 minutes, she was getting a bit impatient, so, Hinata decided to run towards the park.

With all her energy, she made it to the park in an hour and a half. Looking left and right, she spotted the raven-haired boy. A smile graced her lips and she ran towards the Uchiha with the sudden burst of energy.

"Sasuke! Sasuke!"

The said boy turned to see that Hinata was calling him. Instead of having a calm look upon his face, Uchiha Sasuke gave her a cold glare, which Hinata decided to ignore.

Coming close to him, she stopped and panted for oxygen.

Hinata panted out her words, "Sasuke… I… have been… waiting at the beach for about an hour. Didn't… you… get… my message?"

Sasuke did get her message, but he didn't want her to know. Sasuke wanted her to leave. He wanted her to get away from his sight. The Uchiha boy thought that this would be the only way to protect his friend from Orochimaru.

Coldly, he lied, "No."

One word filled with the most emotionless tone Hinata had ever heard.

"N-no?"

"No," the boy repeated with the same amount of coldness.

"O-oh. Well I need to talk to you. It's about that kiss. I-,"

Sasuke interrupted, "It was the most horrid experience I've ever had. I hated it."

Hinata froze. He hated it with so much passion? True, Hinata didn't really enjoy it, but she didn't exactly hate it. It was meaningless to her, well, she thought it was.

"W-well, i-it w-was an accident. I-it didn't r-really have any m-meaning to m-me."

"Shut up."

Hinata looked up at him, "E-excuse m-me?"

"Shut up!"

The shy teenager had her mouth gaped in disbelief. This boy, the boy that had helped her, just told her to shut up in a way no one would ever wanted to be spoken like.

Sasuke turned his back on her and stuffed his hands into his pockets.

"That's right. I told you to shut up. Your stuttering is annoying! The kiss was annoying! Crashing into you and your bike was annoying! You coming into my life was annoying!" he shouted.

Tears started to form from her eyes.

"You are annoying! The most annoying person I've ever met!"

That was it. She couldn't take it anymore so she started yelling at him back.

"If I was so annoying, why did you even bother to help me?! Why did you buy me my mother's dress?! Why did you offer me that job as a maid at your house?!"

"Because!"

"Because what?!" she demanded the reason. He turned and faced her.

"Because I felt nothing but pity for you! You were nothing to me! I just felt sorry that someone just had to go through something stupid because of her stupid father's mistake!"

It was silent as Hinata thought over the words that just came out of his lips.

She clenched her fists and tried to fight back the tears that were threatening to fall.

"Pity? Pity? Well, no one asked for you feeling any sympathy or pity for me!"

The emotionless boy turned his back on her, once again.

A bus screeched as it stopped at the bus stop near the park.

"If I'm so annoying, then I'll leave," Hinata bid farewell and ran to the bus.

Once she got in, Hinata turned to look outside the window and saw that his back was still turned with the emotionless pose of his. This fiasco hurt Hinata so much. She turned her head forward and rested her forehead on the back of the seat in front her. Hinata didn't care if anyone was looking, she cried. She cried all her sadness and anger out. Hinata had lost a good friend of hers. Even though they don't talk much, somehow, something was there. Something was there that connected her to him. He was a true friend to her because he had helped her so much. Hinata didn't need to know his favorite color or favorite food to consider him as a true friend. Helping her was the only thing needed for her to consider someone a friend.


Right when she had turned her head and cried, Sasuke turned his head to look at Hinata too see nothing but the back of her head. He didn't admit it, but, it hurt him to see only that back of Hinata's head.

"I'm sorry. But I don't want to endanger a friend's life. Hinata, you were my friend."

It was 7:24 when Sasuke arrived home. He was greeted by his mom.

"Sasuke honey, have you seen Hinata?"

He slowly walked passed his mom and in a heartless voice, he answered, "She left."

The door bell rang.

"Sasuke, please get that," Mikoto ordered and Sasuke obeyed.

He reached for the door knob, turned it and saw that it was Neji.

"What the hell did you do?" was the first thing Neji said.

"Something I do not want to say. Why are you here?"

Neji glared at him, "I'm here to get Hinata's things."

Sighing, Sasuke allowed Neji into his house.

About 10 minutes passed and Sasuke was downstairs with Hinata's bags in his hands. Aggressively, he handed them to Neji.

"Here you go, now get out," Sasuke demanded.

Neji tightened his grip on the bag and gritted his teeth. This was the boy that hurt his cousin. This was the boy who decided to help her and now want to destroy her.

The Hyuuga boy tried so hard not to tackle him because he knew that Hinata wouldn't want that. So, before he was out of control, he marched out of the door.


(Hyuuga Residence)

Hanabi was outside the bedroom door which Hinata was locked up in. The youngest Hyuuga had knocked on the door and begged her sister to get out for 7 minutes already.

"Hinata! You need to come out and eat something! And, it's also my room; I have to be able to get in there!"

Inside the bedroom, Hinata was sitting on her desk drawing in her sketchbook. Swiftly, her hand moved the pencil across the once blank page.

14 minutes later of ignoring her sister's words, she finished her picture. This picture portrayed a girl with short black hair sitting on the floor of her bedroom. The girl pictured had her head hung low which showed that she was probably depressed or crying. Her room was dark with nothing but the light shown from the moon through the window. There were pictures on the ground that was ripped in pieces. There was a broken glass and broken frames. It was a total mess in the girl's room.

Hinata signed the bottom portion of the picture and closed her sketchbook.


The seventeen-year old Hyuuga girl wasn't crying anymore, but she was sad. Hinata gathered her energy and walked towards the door where her sister was still knocking on the door. She took a deep breathe and looked at herself in the mirror. Hinata tried to put on a happy or serene look on her face. However, it was difficult for her. Finally, when she was able to put on a fake smile on her face, she opened the door and saw Hanabi outside of the door sitting on the floor.

When Hanabi saw her older sister open the door, she immediately got up from the floor and stood up to face her sister.

"Hinata! Are you okay? What were you doing in there?" Hanabi expressed her concerns.

Hinata let out a small smile.

"I'm fine Hanabi and I was drawing in my room. You know, to get my feelings out. Now, I'm fine."

What a lie. She wasn't feeling any better than when she was on the bus. Hinata never wanted to lose a good friend. She never ever wanted to lose any friends whether they were good or bad. This was the simple-minded nature of Hinata Hyuuga.

"Oh, well there's still some rice and soup. You should go eat."

Hinata nodded and walked into the kitchen. Her uncle saw how she was trying to be strong and was happy that she was, yet, he was sad because his niece, someone he treated like his own daughter, was depressed.

Hizashi decided to lighten up the atmosphere in the room.

"Hinata, I just got your report card today," Hizashi handed a white envelope to Hinata. The indigo-haired girl put down her chopsticks and took the envelope.

She opened the envelope and took out the report card.

Hyuuga Hinata:

Rank in class: 1/33

Rank in grade: 2/104

I, Tsunade, would like to congratulate you for ranking 1st in your class and ranking 2nd of your grade.

Hinata would be excited that she was one of the top students of her grade, but her latest incident stopped her from being so cheery. Instead, Hinata let out a fake laugh and smile.

"Uncle, I was ranked first in my class and second in my grade!"

"Hinata, I'm very proud of you." He patted her head and he continued to eat.


The next morning, Hinata realized that she left her bike at the Uchiha house so she would have to walk to school. She had gone through her daily routine and was now at the front gate of the school. Once she got near her locker, Ten-ten, Temari, and Kiba rushed towards her.

"Are you okay?"

"Hinata, are you alright?"

"Hinata, what happened with you and Sasuke?"

Those words, Hinata couldn't take it. She was sick of people asking if she was okay or not. Without a second thought, Hinata pushed through her friends and the crowd of students and ran to the school courtyard. She found a stone bench and sat on it.

A few minutes later, after being in deep thought, she felt a presence near her. She turned to see that it was Kiba, one of her closest friends.

"Hey," he said.

"Hi," she merely said.

Kiba took a seat next to her.

"I'm guessing your talk with Sasuke didn't turn out so well."

Hinata shook her head slowly.

Surprisingly, Kiba gave her a warm hug. Hinata was confused at his actions.

"Hinata, just cry! Let it all out! I'll be right here for you." he commanded.

Hinata, being touched, started to leak out tears and cried. At the beginning, it was a soft cry, then, it turned into loud sobs.

No matter how loud she was, Kiba remained hugging her and patted her back.


In the far off distance, two cold black eyes saw the two. He felt guilty about yelling at the innocent Hyuuga girl, but Sasuke knew he had to.

"Sasuke-kun, let's go," a certain pink-haired girl said.

Sasuke took a few seconds before walking with Sakura.


Okay, at this point, Sasuke and Hinata only think each other as friends but they don't really know that they were starting to like each other. And Hinata stuttered there because of the coldness Sasuke had.

Plans:

Okay, next Saturday I'll be on the plane waving bye bye to you all. I'll be gone for two weeks. So I'm planning to write a chapter every week after my vacation. This story should be done either on October 3rd or maybe earlier. October 3rd is when my new story "Reality" comes out. I have started to write the chapters for my new story. What is it about? Well, go on my profile and check out the first(don't remember if it comes first?) summary you see on my page or the summary for Reality. So buh byees for now! I'll miss you readers!