Disclaimer : I do not own Naruto. This is just a product of my boredom.
P.S : I am no professional writer and I don't have any editors. If my grammar offends you, you may stop reading. Thank you.
195 days before the incident.
It's been a week since our club room became Sasuke's hiding place. Every afternoon he would drop by and spent time there. Usually, he will just watch some movie then before six pm, he will be on his way.
We never talk with each other outside the club room. He spends his break time with his friends and I spend mine, alone in one corner. He will eat lunch with Sakura and Ino, and yet he will hide from them after class. I wonder why? Does Sakura change into a hideous monster after school that he is afraid of her?
He is about to drink when he sees me looking at him. Making sure that no one is looking but me, he gives me his smirk. Then I remember him calling me stalker.
I blush and look down at my half eaten food. I'm not a stalker but the way he is acting is something weird.It makes me interested, not with him but with his action.
"Hey, Hinata. Mind if I join?" I looked up and saw Sai carrying his tray.
"Yes, sure."
"Great." He said putting down his food and sat opposite me. "Did you catch the virus?"
"What virus?" I asked.
"The Sasuke Uchiha virus. Or the Naruto Uzumaki virus?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" I asked confuse.
"I saw you looking at them awhile ago. If I don't know you well, I will think you're like the other girls. Hopelessly dreaming to be with either of them."
"I'm not."
"You're not what? Staring at them or dreaming to hook up with them?"
"Both." I said turning red by the moment.
"I think, Naruto's hotter than Sasuke."
"What?"
"Naruto's hotter. Don't you see those biceps? "
"I don't know with you Sai."
"They're decent people you know. It's just a shame Ino's with them." He said and rolled his eyes.
I agree with him that they are decent people. Kiba and Naruto might be loud but I never heard them bully anyone.
"Hey, that's Tenten and Temari." He suddenly said and the two girls are walking towards us.
"Hi guys!" Tenten happily said as she sat beside me and Temari beside Sai.
"Hello." We managed to reply to her
"Are you going to eat that?" Temari asked looking at my onigiri.
"You can have it if you want. " I said.
"Thank you." She said as she picked my onigiri and take a huge bite.
"Really Temari senpai?" Asked Sai shaking his head.
"I'm hungry you know." She said while chewing.
Temari senpai is also a mystery to me. Like all of us, she doesn't share story about her self. We don't know anything about her family or if she still have one. All we know is that she's working hard to support herself.
"I told you, I could bring extra food for you if you want to." I told her.
"You would?" She said with her eyes shining.
"Yes."
"You make one for me too." Tenten said.
"I thought you like the food here in our cafeteria?" Sai asked.
"Yeah. But Hinata's a good cook."
"Uhmm. If you want, I will bring food for all of us every Wednesday?" I suggested.
"Really?" Tenten said and I nodded.
"You're a life saver Hinata!" Temari added and shook my hands.
"You're too kind you know." Sai commented.
"It's ok. I have plenty of time so it won't be a problem." I assured him.
"Don't be a kill joy Sai. If you do not want to, I'll happily eat your share." Temari said.
"I didn't say, I don't."
Just when Temari is about to say something, Ino passes by our table and mutters loud enough so half of the people in the cafeteria will hear.
"Losers."
"What did you say?" Temari, reacted so fast that before we knew it, she's standing in front of Ino. She's taller than her but Ino doesn't seem scared.
"I said losers."
"Oh really we are? So what do you call yourself, the girl who slept with half of the school's male population?"
"Are you implying I am slut?" Ino said red in the face.
"Well, you're the one who said that, not me."
"Enough Temari." Tenten said, pulling Temari's arm.
I looked over Sasuke's table, but it does not bother him. Sakura, is just watching Ino with a smile on her face. Shikamaru pays them no attention and so does Shino. Only Naruto, Kiba and Choji come over to the scene.
"You're just jealous no one wants to sleep with you."
"Really? But I heard the boys talking, you're hot but so dry in bed. Maybe that's the reason why Sai, never wanted you. "
Ino is about to slap Temari,but she is fast enough to stop her hand.
"Don't you dare." Temari said slowly.
"Damn it losers." She said and walked away after Temari released her hand.
I look at Ino as she walks away irritated.
"Hey, we're sorry about what she had done." Naruto apologized.
"However, is not right to call her slut." Kiba said.
"But it's okay for her to call us losers?" Temari asked back with her eyebrow raised.
"Of course it is not." Naruto said. "Lunch is almost over, we gotta go."
I looked at my watch and he is right. Slowly, the students start to leave, but I know what happened today will be the topic for a week. It is rare that someone will stand up against Ino.
I give Sasuke one last look and he just shakes his head.
Inside the classroom, Ino is still mad and my phone does not stop vibrating. I have a shrewd idea who's sending me those messages. Aside from my family, there are very few people who know my number, those few includes the member of our club. They probably want to know if Ino is fine or not. And I am one hundred percent sure they want to hear she's not fine.
It is really obvious that Ino isn't fine. And a miserable Ino means,she's treating everyone harsher than she usually treats them. I become one of her targets. Well, it is not like I don't expect it. I am a member of Temari's group afterall.
"So how does it feel to be a loser?" She suddenly asked me.
I look at her, and said nothing. She stares back at me, and I know if I say something, she already has millions of insult underneath her tongue.
People say, my white eyes make them uncomfortable so to avoid unnecessary conflict, whenever someone's bullying me, I just stare at them. I stare with no hatred, no anger. I just stare my normal stare. If I stare long enough, they soon get bored and leave. This is one hundred percent effective based on experience.
"Ino." I heard Sasuke voice calling her.
In an instant, her mood shifts. Her once angry face is suddenly bright with dazzling smile as she turn to look at him.
"Yes Sasuke?" She said in overly sweet voice.
"May I borrow your notes in history?" He said and everyone in his group looked at him.
"You may always borrow my notes." Sakura told him.
"I can't understand Sakura's handwriting."
"Wait, what?" Sakura asked.
"Sure, just wait for a moment." Ino answered and happily left me.
I look at Sasuke with grateful eyes but he just turns his head away. I will thank him properly this afternoon when he drop by the club room.
Sure enough, he shows up again. He's in his usually mood, poker face and tired bored eyes.
"Thanks for helping me this afternoon." I said as he sat down opposite me.
"Thanks for what?"
"You saved me from Ino."
"Did I? I simply borrowed her notes."
"Really you just borrowed her notes? But Sasuke Uchiha has no need to borrow notes. You're the best in our class." I said completely not believing him.
"Who told you that?"
"Told me what? That you're the best in our class? Hmm let's see. Your GPA."
"So you're really stalking me?" He asked with his eyebrows raised.
"Everyone knows that. There's no point in trying to look modest. You're the smartest person in our year you know."
"Shikamaru exists you know."
"I know but still you're the one on top. Being modest doesn't suit you at all."
"That's odd. Naruto always reminds me to humble myself a bit and stop acting all mighty high."
"As I said it does not suit you."
"So I should not listen to Naruto?"
"Well, that's on you. That's your life. Beside it seems like many people admire the 'I'm untouchable' aura you're giving off."
"I'm untouchable, huh?" he said with a smirk.
"That's what you're showing the people around you. You are in a world that so far from normal people. That someone needs to be extraordinary to reach the place where you are."
There is silence before he speaks again.
"Is it good?"
"In a way it's good, you protect yourself from being harm and abuse by others. But, if you continue to be like that, then one day you may find yourself all alone."
I said and I looked him in the eyes. I don't know if it is only my imagination but at that moment Sasuke Uchiha looks so sad.
"I'm sorry. Forget what I said." I told him in a panic voice.
"I'm an Uchiha, no one abuses an Uchiha." He teased.
"And I so believe that." I said with a smile as I watch him getting ready to go.
"Do you like sweets?" He suddenly asked after standing up.
"Yes."
"I know a cafe you might like. If you have nothing to do tomorrow after school we may visit." He said and left me.
I can't believe what I heard. Is Sasuke Uchiha asking me out?