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-please remember that paragraphs written in italics are flashbacks…and just to make it easier, especially for those who are using their phones in reading, I am going to mark every flashbacks with (f).
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Chapter Six: Within Eight Months (Part two)
(f) Hinata counted the months on the calendar that was hanging on her room wall; trying to pinpoint which date it was that Sasuke has started their relationship officially.
"Oh…It's been seven months already?" the heiress can't helped but be surprised at how fast the time was. It felt like some of the things that happened between them just happened yesterday. Dropping the calendar, Hinata started to remove her slightly wet and muddy Anbu uniform. It was raining outside when she came in from some work that she has been assigned to do. Neji was still out and Hanabi still on training session with Shikamaru, so she was alone at the Hyuuga mansion for now.
Quickly changing into a Kimono, she started to wipe her hair with a clean cloth to remove the excess rain water.
A sudden flicker of electric chakra made her head snapped to the window, face already expecting who it was. She was right… It was Sasuke, sitting on the window's wooden frame with one of his knees up, arm resting on it. He was drenched and his hair was dripping with rain water.
"Sasuke…It's raining...you should not have come here." She told him softly, rising up from her bed and walked to where he was. "Besides…how do you keep passing by the guards anyway?" She started to wipe the water off his face with the towel she was holding.
"Well…they sure know not to mess with me."
"Please tell me you did not hypnotize them again with your sharingan…" Hinata sighed, remembering the few times Sasuke has actually done that. "The elders would not be pleased."
Sasuke flicked his hair away from his face to see the heiress better."You did not tell me you are out on a mission with the Aburame heir."
"Oh Shino-kun? Do I have to?" She was puzzled. As far as she knew, both men were starting to be on good terms with each other after the past months.
"What do you think?" He asked her back, a snapped on his voice.
"Well…you don't have to wo—"
"He likes you."
Hinata frowned. "Of course he does. He considers me his sister and best friend…along with Kiba-kun"
Sasuke snorted, he shook his head in a picture of strained exasperation. Hinata knew then that the Uchiha was not on the mood—and every time he was not on good mood—he tend to snapped at everything he could get his eyes on.
"I see you still have that sand jar with you." Sasuke pointed above her cabinet, where Gaara's golden sand was resting on the top shelf near a bunch of old photographs.
"It's a gift. I can't just throw it away." She told him.
He snorted again and straightened himself up. "I just wanted to check on you…and it seems that you are getting along fine by yourself here." There was irritation in the way he said it, and Hinata wondered if something did go wrong with one of his missions or if he has another fight with Naruto. It was not the first time it has happened and she would not be surprised.
"I got to get going." He told her. "Lock your window after I leave…its cold outside." He told her like a father giving instructions to a child.
He then turned to leave.
She grabbed his sleeve with both hands.
Sasuke turned back and faced the heiress, his face has a questioning look as he eyed his girlfriend. He doesn't mean to be irritated before coming to see her; it was just by chance that he heard Naruto mention out loud that Shino and Hinata were on a B-class mission outside the village.
And she failed to mention it to him.
And for one whole bloody day, He has been looking for her like an idiot who—
Hinata suddenly pressed her warm lips on his cold ones.
For a second, his eyes widened in surprise at Hinata's sudden boldness, it was the first time his little Anbu did something so…brave—well brave in terms of intimate contact
And it was quite unexpected…
Hinata broke the kiss just as fast as she started it. She bowed her head, blushing like there was no tomorrow and peeked at him shyly beneath her long lashes. "Gomenasai…I should have mentioned it to you but I—"
He pulled her back and kissed her with a guttural grown deep in his throat.
"Where's your cousin?" He murmured after letting her warm lips go in order to let her breath properly. As the time passed by between them, Sasuke has learned how to stop every now and then to give Hinata some time to compose herself every time they have close encounters like this.
"On g-guard duty." Hinata took a large gulp of air.
"And Hanabi?"
"Not here."
He smiled deviously. "Good."
In a swift movement, Sasuke has the heiress in his arms, startling her in the process. He dropped her into the bed and before she could ward him away or try to stand up, he pinned her with his body, holding both of her wrists hostage on his strong grip. He could feel her heartbeat begin to quicken and her breathing stopped. "Breath." He reminded her.
"Sasuke…you're wet with rain." She told him, her voice small.
Sasuke's eyes trailed on his dark shirt that was damp and his long bangs that were dripping rainwater straight to Hinata's neck and the skin above her chest. Somehow, looking at her glistening skin that was also illuminated by the lamp beside the bed, Sasuke felt his body burn with sexual excitement.
"Sasuke…"
"We could take care of that." The Uchiha removed his shirt and threw it on the floor. "See…not wet anymore."
She gasped when the cold feeling from his rain-soaked shirt was suddenly replaced with warm, burning skin. Hinata has no time to ponder about it though, because he started to kiss her neck and down on her collar bone.
She shivered.
Good heavens…
Sasuke felt Hinata squirm when his lips started to go deeper, feeling the soft skin of her cleavage. "Sasuke-kun…"
Returning up to catch her lips, he muffled her protest when he licked the inside of her lips with his tongue. He has never done this to Hinata before, because he knew how shy and innocent his girlfriend was, but right now, feeling her soft, delicious body pressed beneath him, he could not help himself.
In his defense, he was willing to leave when she started it.
"Sasuk-uhmph…" She started to speak again but failed, Lips against lips to suppress any words from getting out.
"Shut up." He murmured.
Hinata knew that any second and she would just burst into flames, her cheeks were so hot that it was starting to get painful. She could also feel her brain begin to dysfunction and her visions becoming blurry like she was witnessing everything that was happening from afar.
His hot kisses were making her giddy like she has been drinking sake.
She was starting to get scared for Sasuke has never been this…advanced before, but somehow…she just can't willed herself to move.
Then she felt him pressed his body on hers and gasped when she felt something hard pressed against her thigh.
She began to panic and started to squirm.
Sasuke stopped and looked at her, confused. "What?"
"S-Sasuke…" Hinata swore she just felt her blood rushed to her head as she started to break their contact. "I'm…scared."
"Of me?"
She shook her head. "No…of what we are…doing."
Groaning, Sasuke grimaced for he knew where the conversation was heading. Sighing, he gets off from Hinata and turned his back on her, hands on his face in an exasperated kind of way.
Now that was what he calls real torture.
"G-gomenasai…Sasuke…" Hinata started to shake. She was scared…but was more scared of disappointing him. Swallowing the lump that was starting to rise on her throat, Hinata bowed her head. "Please don't hate me…I'm just not …prepared and—"
"It's fine Hinata." Sasuke faced her slowly. "I can never hate you."
"But…"
"I'm not forcing you into anything."
"Sasuke…"
Seeing her torn expression, Sasuke ruffled her blue hair. "It's not the best feeling, but I'll live." (f)
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Hinata kneeled on the soft sand, gesturing for Kankuro and Temari to do so. She was showing them the technique of barrier strengthening and she was glad that the two Suna royals are very fast in catching up—but the technique was so complex that she has to guide them like the way Kakashi-sensei has done in order to perfect the jutsu— if performed wrong, the barrier might be weakened and it could drain ones chakra to an extent that it would disable the chakra flow.
She remembered fainting twice because of too much chakra use.
Hinata knew that she needs to teach them right…It was her mission after all, to bestow the secret knowledge of barrier strengthening. It was agreed that Konoha would share its barrier techniques to Suna in order to help the village protect its people from very strong sand storms and other beasts that roams the vast desserts in its territory. In exchange, Suna would also share some of its puppet controlling techniques which was a very popular skill for sand Shinobi.
Hinata knew the mission would take her mind off Sasuke…even just for a short time.
"Here…first, feel the roots where your invisible barriers are placed. You can do that by building your chakra on your fingertips, and try to find the right placement before performing the hand seals." She explained.
After a few tries from the two siblings, Temari grimaced. "Urgh…I can't get it right."
"It took me two months to perfect the technique." Hinata managed a faint smile. "So no worries."
Kankuro scratched his head, the violet markings on his face and hands were nowhere to be found at the moment and Hinata was surprised at how different he looked without his tattoos on.
"We can stop for today." The heiress covered her eyes as a strong breeze passed by them, bringing sand and dust. Blinking to ease her already irritated eyes, Hinata dusted herself. "Its chakra draining so we need to be careful and follow the limit."
Temari gritted her teeth. She was so used on learning jutsus and difficult techniques faster that most Shinobi her age since she was a kid and being slow in pace in learning this new technique was pissing her off big time. "One more." She snapped.
"Temari…" Kankuro started to protest.
"I said one more."
Hinata shrugged. "Alright...but I need to get on higher ground to see how the barriers would change." Looking around the place, she saw a tall tower-like structure a few meters away. "There." She pointed at the top. I would be watching in that building."
"Watch tower." Temari corrected with a smile.
When Hinata was perched high above the tower, she raise her kunai and brandished it, a sign that Temari and Kankuro could start. Activating her byakugan, Hinata waited…
Temari slowly run the proper placement of the barrier roots inside her mind. Kneeling on the sand, she performed the hand signs that Hinata has taught them a week ago. She was having a hard time looking for the barrier roots that she strained her chakra rashly.
Hinata watched with her byakugan as both siblings struggled. When she checked the barriers with her kekkei genkei, she gasped when a small portion of it weakened.
They are not building the barrier…they are sucking it down.
She needs to do damage control fast. Deactivating her byakugan, her hands moved in a rapid pace as she executed a series of hand signs. Looking below, she saw Temari and Kankuro stopped what they were doing and dropped to the ground in an exhausted heap.
"Haiken no Jutsu." Hinata muttered as she finished the last hand sign. As soon as she said the words, she felt her chakra drained from her body and her knees shook. Obviously, sand was harder to control compared to pure soil, and the sudden chakra use without proper ground footing was also not a good idea.
Hinata lost her balance and slipped.
Gaara was there just in time to save her.
He saw her form slipped from the watch tower she was standing, he saw how her hands groped in the air for anything she could use to prevent herself from falling, and he saw as she was about to hit the ground.
Raising his hand, sand came out from the clay jar attached behind his back and in a blur, the sand materialized into a hand like shape and grabbed the heiress in mid air, wrapping around her like a gritty shield.
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Oh…I was not able to make the chapter very long because of some "school matters" but as I said, no classed for a whole week…so I am going to update a lot.
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