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The sound of your violin
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Chapter fourteen: Is this how it ends?
Frustration was a perfect word to describe Hinata´s feelings at that moment. For the last half an hour she had been trying to figure out how to tell Deidara her news. Hinata had decided to write a letter to him. She just couldn´t tell him face to face. She knew it was pathetic to tell him with a help of a letter, but Hinata was just too scared to see Deidara´s reaction.
But now she had no idea how to put the words on the paper. She couldn´t just put Hello Deidara, guess what, I´m pregnant with your baby. No, that definitely wasn´t the way to give the news.
Hinata took a deep breath and tried to concentrate. It couldn´t be so hard, could it? She cried out in annoyance, tugging her hair. She needed help, and Shizune would be perfect for the job. Without further thought Hinata grabbed her phone and dialed the number of the hospital since she knew that Shizune was working.
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Shizune sighed in exhaustion as she walked down the halls of the hospital. Her day had been hectic. Patients kept coming and it felt like she needed to be everywhere at the same time. The fact that her boss Tsunade was demanding more sake didn´t help much either.
"Shizune-san!" someone called her and Shizune turned around to see on of the nurses waving at her to come closer.
"What is it Namiko-san?" Shizune asked, laying her clipboard down on the receptionist´s counter
"Hinata-san is on the phone and she´s asking for you"
"Okay, thank you" Shizune took the phone from the nurse. "Hi Hinata-chan! What´s the matter?" she asked with a slightly concerned tone. She hoped everything was okay with her friend and the baby.
"I found a way to tell Deidara my n-news" Shizune´s eyebrows shot up in surprise.
"You did? That´s great Hinata-chan! How are you going to do it?"
"Umm... I decided to write him a letter. I k-know it´s q-quite cowardly w-way, b-but..."
"I think that´s the best way", Shizune interrupted the younger woman gently, "after all, it must be hard for you to face him" she continued.
"Thank y-you Shizune-neechan, f-for everything" Hinata said softly.
"No problem Hinata-chan. I´m glad I could help you" they exchanged goodbyes and Shizune hung up the phone, only to be pulled back to work again.
"Shizune-san, there´s a patient waiting in room 116" Shizune nodded and made her way to the room 116. She was surprised when she recognized the patient as the redheaded man she had bumped into.
It seemed like the man recognized her too.
"Hey! You are the lady I bumped into that other day" he said and gave Shizune a small smirk. Shizune smiled back.
"Yes, I remember" only now Shizune noticed Sasori´s (badly) bandaged hand . His blood had stained the white material and it looked like he was bleeding quite heavily. "Oh my, what happened to your hand, sir?" Shizune asked and rushed to examine Sasori´s hand. She carefully peeled off the bloodied bandage, revealing a large cut starting from the end of his thumb and going all the way to the palm side of the hand.
"I just had a small accident with a knife, and please just call me Sasori" the redheaded male said smirking, completely dismissing the fact that he was bleeding. He was more interested in watching Shizune.
"This doesn´t seem like a small accident. You´ll need stitches" Shizune said, and went to get all needed equipment for the stitching operation.
Sasori observed closely as Shizune´s skillful hands patched up his thumb. Soon he had seven neat stitches decorating his calloused hand. Shizune carefully wiped the dried blood with a wet towel and wrapped a clean bandage around Sasori´s hand.
"There. Try not to wet the wound and come back after two weeks and I´ll see if the wound has healed completely. If there´s any problems or the wound shows signs of infection, please come back here" Shizune said professionally and collected the medical stuff she had used.
"Okay. Thank you Shizune-chan" Sasori said and smirked when Shizune blushed as he called her Shizune-chan.
"I.. Uh, y-you´re welcome" Shizune mentally smacked herself. She was stuttering like a 14-year-old school girl who was talking with her crush!
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"Okay, this is it" Hinata thought, clutching the letter in her hand nervously. It had been hard to write it, but eventually she had been able to say everything she wanted, in a way she wanted the news to be told.
Now that the letter was written, Hinata only had to wait for Deidara´s response. If he didn´t care about the fact Hinata was bearing his baby, Hinata would leave and start living with her cousin. And if Deidara did care, well, Hinata wasn´t sure what would happen next. Only time could tell.
But, according to Deidara´s recent behavior, the latter option was quite unlikely.
With shaking hands Hinata stepped out of her apartment, checked that there was no one around and took a few quick steps to reach Deidara´s door. She quickly dropped her letter through the mail slot and hurried back to her home.
Hinata had decided to wait for a couple days to see what Deidara´s reaction was, but it still wouldn´t hurt to start packing a few of her things. After all, the faster she left the better.
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"Oh God how I hate shopping" Deidara thought as he grimly made his way to his apartment. The whole day he had been running around after Ino, going to the shops and buying things he didn´t know even existed. He wasn´t sure if they needed half of the stuff they had bought. But oh well, it didn´t matter that much anyway.
Sighing tiredly Deidara fumbled with his keys and opened the door. He noticed a pile of mail behind it and picked the letters and advertisements from the floor. He dumped them on the top of a bureau, not paying any particular attention.
And of course, the most important letter fell under the piece of furniture, staying completely unnoticed to a certain violinist.
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Hinata was crying. It had been three days since she had dropped the letter trough Deidara´s mail slot and she hadn´t even seen Deidara. Surely he had read the letter, hadn´t he? Or was this his way to tell Hinata to stay away from him?
Whatever it was, Hinata´s only choice was to leave Tokyo for Nagoya. There was no reason to stay anymore so Hinata had gotten tickets for the next train. In next two hours she would be on her way to a new life, without Deidara.
Hinata wasn´t sure why she was so broken for the fact that Deidara hadn´t contacted her. Maybe because deep inside her heart she wished Deidara would choose her? No matter how much Hinata had tried to prepare for the pain, it didn´t help now when it was real.
Deidara would never be hers.
Silently Hinata picked her two bags and Tobi´s cage. With one last look of her apartment, she turned off the lights and left. The cab was waiting for her and she quietly told the driver to take her to the railway station, while trying to hold back tears.
"So this is how it ends..."
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Deidara stumbled through his living room, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He had been under a lot of stress during the past few days. He had a big concert coming and all that wedding fuss didn´t help at all.
"Shit!"Deidara cursed loudly when he hit his toe against the coffee table. He hopped on one leg, trying to ease the searing pain on his foot, but he lost his balance and fell face first to the floor.
He groaned in pain and lifted his head, attempting to get up when something white caught his eye. There, under the bureau was a piece of paper. Frowning Deidara reached for it. His eyes widened in surprise when he realized it was a letter.
Curiously he ripped it open and quickly scanned the words. As the words and their meaning made their way to his brain, all the color drained from his face.
"Holy fucking shit, what have I done?" he whispered to himself and grabbed his keys, exiting his apartment and rushing over to the door of Hinata´s apartment.
"Hinata!" he called in slight panic and knocked the door. He needed to find her. Was she really carrying his baby? According to the letter, they had slept together that night when Deidara had taken her to his concert. But why didn´t he remember it?
"Because I was too drunk to remember..." realization hit Deidara like a ton of bricks. He couldn´t even imagine how bad Hinata must have felt after that night.
"I´m such a shit!" he growled angrily.
When there was no answer, Deidara read the letter once more.
Your baby... I understand... love... cousin... Nagoya. The words spun around in his head until he finally understood what he needed to do.
"I have to get to the railway station. And fast!" Deidara didn´t wait for another moment. He could only hope he would be in time.
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AN: Ehheh... Don´t we all love cliffhangers? The next chapter will be the last one and then this story is over. I am so sorry for the lack of updates! I can´t give you guys a reason good enough to explain my passivity in writing. I try, I really will, to update faster. I know it´s not fair to keep you hanging like that for so long. Anyway, thank you guys so much for your support! Your comments make me smile like there´s no tomorrow.