"You can't be serious." Hinata looked at him ludicrously.

Sasuke already looked ridiculous with his bangs pinned to the tops of his head with a bright-colored clip she used to keep her bangs back when she washed her face and his shirt soaked from his mishap washing the bathtub earlier, wearing the only slippers she had that was his size that had a bunny face on them she had bought as a joke for when Neji came round, but now he was being ridiculous.

"I think you have the core muscles for it. I've seen you lift yourself out of that thing." He excused. "And it's not that different than how you lift the front to get up onto a curb."

"I'm not trying to do a wheelie." She frowned at him.

"Come on." He laughed as she picked up the end of a carrot and tossed it at him. "Hey! I just cleaned the floors." He scrambled to catch the piece of carrot with his only hand.

Sasuke unloaded their usual drinks to her desk. "You got a haircut." He mentioned.

Hinata touched the ends of her hair. "I'm surprised you noticed. It's just a trim. Was it that bad before?"

He chuckled. "No, your bangs aren't in your eyes anymore."

"Oh." She handed him his open lunch.

"Do you know anything about plants?" He asked, digging into his food.

"Like what about them?" She wondered.

"I live next to this little old woman, she's like completely deaf or maybe she just chooses not to listen to me. She doesn't understand a thing I say. She just smiles and waves you off when you try to talk to her. She gave me a plant in a pot and won't take it back. I don't know what it is, and I don't know how to take care of it."

"Bring it over this weekend. I can try to identify it. Most of the time, plants just need sunlight and water. Make sure they aren't getting too much sunlight and water." She explained.

He frowned. "So don't give it enough. I'll kill it. Give it too much, I'll kill it."

She giggled. "It's alive. You give a person too little or too much of something. They will die."

"How much ramen does it take to kill a person?" He asked idly. "I feel like that is something Naruto should know."

She laughed.

When Saturday came around, Sasuke set the plant on the counter and turned around, and Hinata was gone. He wasn't sure how she managed to sneak around in that chair.

She came back with her hair tucked behind her ears as she dug into a box on her lap.

"I know I have a..." The box slipped from her lap, and the items scattered across the floor, a book flipping open after it slid into the wall. "Book on gardening." She huffed, waving her hand at it.

Sasuke chuckled, picking up the miscellaneous items. They looked like trinkets. He put them all back and the box and set it aside, and handed her the book.

"I thought you could use it. I got it as a birthday gift before the chair, but I'm not really going to be doing any gardening now." She told him to brush the book off and set it on her lap.

"Have to know what the plant is first." He took the plant off the counter and held it down to her height. It was lightly tied to a stick with some twine. It was getting tall and had a few leaves, with two flowers that were starting to turn down.

When he looked up, he met a look he wasn't expecting.

Hinata had her eyebrows raised at him. "Are you serious?" She looked like Sakura did right before she smacked her Naruto.

Now he was confused. "What?"

"What do you eat more than anything?" She asked.

"Rice?" He asked carefully.

"It's a tomato plant." Hinata snapped. "How do you not know what a tomato plant is?"

Oh. He had never really paid attention to how they grow.

Hinata started laughing. "I thought if there was one plant you would know about, it would be a tomato plant."

Sasuke scrunched his face at her. "How do I keep it alive?"

She continued to giggle at him as she flipped through her book. She opened to a page and held it out to him. "Just do some reading."

He took the book.

She rolled her eyes. "I would think you would be able to identify a tomato plant by smell by now."

He grumbled. "I get them at the store. I don't go tomato picking."

*** The Unstable Liz ***

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