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But yeah will things came up haha! But I crawled through this chapter as quickly as I can and I hope the quality is up to par with my other chapters.
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BOLD = Inner thoughts
Words = Conflicting Dialogue. Talking to yourself basically.
Sasuke woke up early that morning, feeling like he rested for more than half the day. He groaned and looked around slightly cursing that he and Hinata had spent the better part of the night sleeping on the pull out bed. This was not so accommodating to his aching muscles. But he was not complaining. Not when there's an equally beautiful girl in your arms, pain is overrated. He pulled her closer to his body, he readjusted their position so he was leaning up against the back of the couch, and cradling her so that her head would be on his chest with the blankets wrapped around her. And then he leaned back against the couch and well continued to stare at her. Okay well not stare but ADMIRE her. Kiba would definitely think that it would creepy for Sasuke to "admire" at Hinata while she was sleeping.
This is not creepy. It's studying your crush's face so you won't forget what she looks like. Sasuke thought as if he was arguing with Kiba about his "creepiness", Or like…telepathically guarding her from nightmares. Yeah that's not creepy at all...
While he was "staring", Sasuke also spent a better part of the time thinking of work and Orichimaru and the Akatsuki. He figured that the occurrences of these two different criminals were purely coincidental, merely because they do not seem to have any relation with each other besides causing terror in the city. Orichimaru(s? Because there could be more than one. Sasuke thought) seem to be working for their own needs, and same goes for the Akatsuki.
But having 2 separate mass murder cases is really tough to juggle. He didn't know which more of a priority was; much less he wasn't sure if his own work force had the moral to handle that. He knew he lost a lot of men, but…Sasuke trail of thought ended there at that point.
And he was pretty sure the higher ups like the mayor would be on his ass, about how he handled the Akatsuki. He just hoped that the city didn't give up on him.
Despite the brief fight that he had with Hinata the night before, and post cuddling, he felt really content.
He glanced down to see Hinata still curled against him, with her left hand under her chin, her chest rising up and down slowly, encased in deep slumber. Her other hand fisted Sasuke shirt, almost as if she was pushing the fabric to her nose to smell it. He raised his hand and placed it on the small of her back rubbing it ever so slowly. He even dared to slide his hands under her shirt a little still rubbing her lower back in slow circles. He could hear her rumble, like she was purring a little (which made him grin on how cute it sounded), but she remained asleep.
Now that he was awake, and well couldn't really move, all he had the time to do now was think a little.
First things first Sasuke: you gotta take care of yourself. You hate sitting down yes. You hate it when people take care of you yes. You hate seeing Hinata cry over you because of your stubbornness yes. Final verdict, dammnit Uchiha get your shit together and get better quick.
I just I don't know why I snapped. Maybe because I hate feeling useless. But she was so scared…for my life. God damn it Sasuke…you are really repeating history if you keep snapping at her…
Sasuke tensed up, feeling his jaw lock in recognition. If things got too far…who knows what I would've done…
"Mmm….You think too loud did you know that?"
He snapped his eyes to the sleepy face of Hinata who was rubbing her eyes. But she made no move to change her position. Instead she moved closer, (as if there wasn't any more space between them),and played with his other hand that was on his chest.
"Sorry." His cheeks heating up, at the statement, the position they were in was certainly wasn't helping since Hinata was so close to him touching him like it was second nature. "There were just a lot of things in my mind."
She didn't reply, Sasuke hoped it was because the matter would be too deep to get into early in the morning. They continue to lie in silence, embracing each other with their hands clasped together, listening to each other breathe. Sasuke thought surely that Hinata had fallen back asleep till she spoke softly, her lips moving, with his eyes staring at them with rapture.
Hinata leaned back against Sasuke's shoulder and sighed, "Mmm, how did you sleep?" She asked with her voice still thick with sleep. God…if I could right now, I can just make a move and-No Sasuke you can't do that yet…you nearly freaked her out the last time you tried.
Sasuke had to clear his throat, because of the sound of Hinata's raspy voice in the morning; it was making him swallow thickly, "I s-slept fine…No pain."
She looked at him, with hesitation in her eyes, she bit her lip, making Sasuke want to take it out and want to bite/nibble it himself, "You sure?"
Sasuke took her hand and kissed it, "I promise." Goddamn it's torture, having you this close to me and I can't do anything about it.
Hinata flushed, and stood from the couch and stretched, giving Sasuke a full view of her toned stomach, slightly giving Sasuke a mild heart attack. Sasuke bit back a blush at his blatant stare, and barely kept in a gasp when Hinata looked at him and gave him a knowing smile.
Changing from innocent to sexy? Damn Hinata…
Sasuke wormed his way into the wheel chair, cursing to himself at the possible sexual frustrating day that was coming his way. Especially if Hinata is spending the day with him.
"Hey Sasuke… uh can I borrow some clothes?"
Correction today will be a sexually or not sexually frustrating day. Either way Hinata will look so sexy in my clothes.
"Second drawer in my bedroom."
"I made some food in the kitchen, if you want any. And I'll be down real quick."
"Alright but take your time." Hinata turned to leave the living room, but was stopped halfway, when she felt a hand grab hold of her wrist lightly. She looked over her shoulder to see Sasuke not giving her eye contact, but was looking at the floor with his shoulders slumped.
"Hey what's wr-
"I'm sorry about last night though Hinata." He said quietly, hoping that they were still okay despite their fight the night before. He didn't mean to ruin the happy light mood that they had, but his guilty conscious won't let him enjoy the peace that they are having. "It was uncalled for…and… if I scared you so much."
Hinata stared at Sasuke and heard how much he stressed the word, "scared" and she slowly realized that he wasn't referring to the bombing accident. He was referring to their initial break up where he had…hit her because she was offering help.
She leaned down and cupped his cheek, her thumb rubbing his strong jaw feeling his tense muscle. Sasuke still was avoiding her eyes, feeling tears prick his eyes. The words he said almost felt forced, and it felt so heavy admitting it to her. The only reason was because he had barely admitted it to himself that what he has with Hinata now was due to his stupid mistakes.
"I should've listened to you from the very beginning."
"You are forgiven Sasuke." She chided him, her voice softer and understanding, "I've forgiven you for a long time now."
Sasuke shook his head and breathed a ragged sigh, "I just…I realized what I did last night, and I remembered what I did to you that night, and how last night I would've and might've-" He trailed off.
"That you've might've hurt me again?" She said quietly. Sasuke then realized that Hinata was sitting on his lap, with her face so close to his, their eyes locked. He nodded slowly, his hands against his own will was now resting on her hips. She slowly placed her hands on his shoulder rubbing it, "You were different then. You've changed, and that's all that matters to me."
Sasuke shook his head, he felt unsatisfied with her answer. It just didn't sit right with him. It shouldn't be because that Sasuke went to rehab that everything was fine and fucking rainbows.
He took his hands, and placed it on her face, cupping it so their foreheads would touch. He knew that if he even he moved a little bit, their lips would touch.
"I don't want to have to see your face like that again. Fearing me, fearing of what I could've done to you. It killed me the first time, and I don't want to make that same mistake again. I-I love you too much, I care about you too much to put you through that misery again…I just feel like I have to prove myself… " Sasuke said, as if he wanted to say those words to himself, in his mind.
"And you did."
Sasuke looked up confused, his mouth opened but closed. Hinata looked at him seriously, "You did prove yourself. When you said that last night when we were yelling that, you stopped us from arguing and you wanted to sit down and talk about it like mature adults that we are. The old Sasuke would've told me to shut up and open another beer to forget we even had a fight. Do you see the difference? It may not seem much, but that change is enough for me. Baby steps Sasuke."
"Hinata-" Sasuke wasn't sure if he was done with the conversation, he felt that there was more to discuss, but he felt a finger press against his lips.
"Another time Sasuke, we'll have more time for that I promise." Hinata said with a soft smile, she stood up and patted his thighs, "Besides it's time for you're to drink your medicine."
In a way he was happy that Hinata decided to hold off on the heavy conversation, but he knew that it meant that there was a shift in their dynamic they were having. Sasuke jokingly rolled his eyes, giving Hinata a smile, "Yes Doctor."
Hinata was satisfied, and they continued their morning routine, of eating breakfast together.
After taking some stronger meds, Sasuke again took another nap, leaving Hinata wide awake and with nothing to do. She took the strands of her hair and started to play with it, while she was propped on another couch facing Sasuke. Although she trusted his word that he would be safe and alright, she felt scared leaving him alone to his own devices.
She figured she would stay a couple days till Sasuke was more mobile on his own.
She thought about him some more, and while replaying recent events in her mind, she nearly squealed out loud. Clamping her hands over her mouth she can feel her body grow hot in embarrassment.
Oh my god…what am I doing?!
Doing what you should've been doing a long time ago!
Oh no… I'm starting to have an inner dialogue in my head! Am I really going insane?!
No, this is the side you always wanted to show to Sasuke. And it's about time you got somewhere. And I gotta say Hinata, kissing him while he was asleep? You go girl.
Oh my god… SHUT UP! That was nothing!
Girl you are lying if that's what you think it is. YOU LIKE HIM! Just go for it.
He was nearly blasted to bits, and he-
All the more reason to confess! What are you so afraid of! He practically said he would be there for you! He said he was willing to give this a second chance!
But-
Are you really going to deny yourself the happiness you have been waiting for? If you are willing to let this go, then I wonder who is the real idiot in this relationship.
Hinata still wasn't sure. But she knew for some reason deep down, the time wasn't really right to talk about this with Sasuke. So many things had happened. Maybe it's best to wait on it a little bit.
Temari
Temari entered her apartment, with a tired huff cursing silently as she kicked off her boots and her coat. She wanted nothing more than just to fall face first into her bed. But she knew that she still have to study her next case for the next surgery….which would commence in maybe 5 hours.
She grumbled at the feel of her muscles tensing after standing for 10 hours handling a difficult spinal realignment surgery. She didn't want to do another surgery so soon with so much fatigue coursing through her body.
But she couldn't help it. She set the date, and she had to complete it. Otherwise the patient named Kagura who was suffering from multiple organ failure, would die fairly soon.
And she didn't want to admit to herself: SHE NEEDED A DISTRACTION.
Anything to forget that Sasuke almost died. Anything to forget that she had been rejected over Hinata. Anything just to forget for a while.
If surgery is going to keep her occupied, she might as well go through with it. As she was studying her case, with her finger thrumming against her desk, she noticed the odd silence that filled the room.
It wasn't usually quiet in the apartment. Weird. Where's Hinata?
Her eyes glazed over to see there was a note on the fridge, to see the neat scrawl of Hinata's handwriting.
Tem,
I'm going over to the boy's apartment to drop off medication. I should be back soon! There's dinner in the fridge if you want some.
Xoxo Hinata.
Temari had to snort at Hinata's note. It was sweet that Hinata was still trying to cut the tension between them. But it was also good that Hinata wasn't in the house. Temari wanted a night to herself.
BING BING BING BING!
"Time for work again."
"Temari you did it again! It looks like she will recover well." One of the nurses responded after Temari finished up the female patient who was now getting wheeled to the ICU.
Temari cracked her neck and arms, finally satisfied that she would be done for the rest of the day. She went back to the staff locker to retrieve her things. She scanned her phone for new messages, most were from Hinata about her whereabouts, which Temari hastily replied not to upset her worrying friend. And the rest were from her brothers were pestered her to call them for a chat.
Kankuro the oldest brother is the current advisor or secretary for the mayor of the city, Gaara who was also her little brother. Her family was always known to be involved in politics, but for Temari it wasn't really her style. She didn't really like the life of a politician, taking in the stress of dealing with other political assholes that her little brothers have do to. And particularly she didn't like being in the spot light, knowing that her personal life would also be technically broadcasted throughout the city of Sunakagure. So medicine was the other option because well she was just good at it.
She didn't intentionally want to be separated from her brothers due to their career; it was just how her career was headed. They didn't mind, but they made sure they communicated as often as they can.
In the recent text message she received she was surprise to find out that her brothers were in town for a couple days for diplomat reasons which is classified even to her. B ut they wanted to have dinner and what not to catch up.
And there was a distraction that she was looking for. Well not really a distraction. She missed her brothers. And since a lot of things had been happening in 6 months or so, she lost track of keeping of with them.
So dinner sounds good. Temari thought, as she gave a hasty reply back.
Konohakagure Breaking News!
Recently there had been alleged sighting of the Akatsuki prowling around the outskirts of the city. Although there was a confrontation by our Police Lieutenant Uchiha, the bad guys had escaped instilling fear throughout the city! There had been a lot of relocation of citizens to nearby cities because of the fear of the violent gang.
Rumor has it that the gang has been increasing in its violent nature but that remains to be seen. And it even seems to grow more outrageous when these rumors make it seem that our very own protective services can't seem to even arrest one member. But with all this confusion in the air, we ask this question
Are the protective officers doing their jobs effectively?! Or do we need another means to ensure citizen safety?!
Is this escalating to a full out war between gang and officers?!
Stay tuned for more on the subject!
Temari cursed out load at the outrageous news that was going around. She couldn't believe that the media was giving a lot of shit to the Police Force. She mentally raged that without the Police, and without Sasuke's leadership the city would fall into utter chaos.
The nerve of these idiots!
But she didn't need the extra stress. Her brothers would be here for a couple of days, she just wants to spend time with family.
Author Note: So there you have it :D Some more Hinata and Sasuke interactions!
Next chapter: We will be looking into more of Temari's home life with GAARA and KANKURO yay!
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-Okaami-chin
