I Naruto
„Hand me a beer, dobe." Annoying teme was once again, here, in my apartment. Every time he got fed up with his new girl, he invaded my home to tell me in the end that I was the most annoying person he could think of.
"Go and get it yourself. I'm not your wife."
"You wish, you were." He smirked and finally stood up to grab it himself.
"So, why wouldn't you stop smiling, dude? Did you fuck?" I heard him say from the kitchen.
"Not everybody needs to fuck to be in a good mood, idiot." I mumbled.
"But it's helpful." He opened the can and took a sip from it, after making himself comfortable on my couch. It's not that I was unhappy about his presence, I mean, I had someone to play on my console with, so it wasn't this unpleasant to have him here.
"So, won't you tell me what makes you grin like a stupid fool in love? Not that I'm interested. Just asking for my personal fun." I just rolled my eyes and threw him the controller over.
"Why won't you stop talking today, teme. I like you much better when you're mute."
"Hn." That's the Sasuke I know!
"But if you really wanna know, why I'm in such a good mood, I'll tell you." It was his turn to roll his eyes but took the controller I handed him and choose his character for the game.
"You know, I told you about that girl. The girl who I like a lot, with big boobs and great ass." That's the only thing he would remember when I told him about Hinata.
"Yeah, what about her? Did you two fuck?" God, teme, shut up!
"Yeah, no, I didn't sleep with her, but I slept at her home, and we spent the evening together."
"Wow, so bad? Must have been cruel." Indeed. It was a personal torture, but I would be crazy to complain about it.
"Dude, she's worth it. She's not like any other girl." Hinata was special. In every aspect. From her personality to her appearance. Nobody could ever get close to her.
"I know that she's worth it, you won't shut up about how great she is, every time we talk about her. But what's with Shion?"
"What's with her?"
"Dobe, you should stop fucking her if you really love the girl."
"I didn't know you were that concerned about Shion. I'll stop everything with her once I get Hinata. She'll understand, she knows we're just fuck buddies."
"So, that's her name. Hinata. Interesting." I watched his reaction from the corner of my eyes and didn't like the way he said her name.
"Yeah, that's her name. Anyway, we got closer." I snapped.
"I'm truly happy, Naruto." Sasuke stopped playing and turned towards me. I arched a brow, not knowing why he's being weird and serious.
"Really, I'm happy for you, dobe. After all this mess and everything, it's nice seeing you smile for once and being serious with a girl." He paused, trying to say something less cheesy I suppose. He's still good old Sasuke, who has a reputation for being cold like an ice cube. "I couldn't stand anymore the crying girls at parties with their heart broken because of you."
"Stop it, I'm not that bad. Just took over your bad habits."
"Hn. But seriously, Kushina would be proud of you." He glanced at me one last time, before giving all his attention to the game.
"Yeah, I hope so." I mumbled, before turning to the game.
II Hinata
Fuck. I'm not a person who normally swears but I think I messed up, big times. Standing here, in my study, I found a bouquet of carnations, the flower which symbolize fascination, distinction and love.
It was a mix of light red, pink and purple. I don't exactly know the meaning of each color, but purple carnations are given on funerals, here in France, that was for sure. So, the person, who sent me this, wishes my death or just didn't know what it represents.
And considering it was probably Naruto, who was so nice sending me this present, I'll just assume he wasn't aware of the deeper meaning.
I don't know if I should cry or laugh. Damn, Naruto. Always making me confused. When was the last time someone gave me flowers as a gift? I couldn't remember. But I must say, I think it's cute, knowing he was thinking about me.
Not wanting to think about it any longer, I just put them aside on the coffee table near the sofas. If I keep seeing them, I will probably not be able to concentrate or worse I'll text him. And this just couldn't happen. Why did I even say he could have a chance if he starts to change? What I'm doing is so horrible.
I wasn't thinking at that moment. Once again, he totally enchanted me with his pretty words. I mean, I know he's being honest telling me about his feelings towards me, but it just seems so unreal. I feel like I'm in a movie right now and I hate it. I hate being the mean one and breaking his heart.
Telling him on last Friday that he would have a chance, was spontaneous, thinking it could make him take his meds and start focusing on his studies to have a great future. At that moment, I just thought it was a brilliant idea.
Now with some afterthoughts, I think it must have been the dumbest thing I could have said.
I won't lie, Naruto is physically the embodiment of a God. He's tall and thin but with muscles. His tousled golden hair seems like the softest thing on earth. His tan is just wow if you know what I mean. And his face, God, he looks like an angel. Manly but cute, at the same time with his freckles on his perfect button nose. His smile is just radiant and shining with his perfect white teeth.
To conclude all this, he's darn sexy for a 19-year-old boy. Sexier than most men my age.
Man, if I were 7 years younger, I would go for him but he's still a child!
Perhaps, I'm the one who should start medication for not wanting more with him or because I find him this attractive as a 19-year-old boy.
Perhaps I should just start medication, end of story.
First of all, I must talk to Temari. I must talk to someone about all this mess. Kiba is a no obviously. He's great but not for these things, besides we're sleeping with one another, so I won't talk with him about Naruto who's in love with me.
Shino, as much as I love him, it's also a no. I need time to prepare myself to tell him the whole story. He's making me crazy sometimes with his silence demeanor. And when he takes his glasses off, and he does this just when it's really serious, it sends shiver down my spine, even after knowing him for more than 20 years.
Family is clearly a big no-no. Sakura is in vacation, so it must wait.
So Temari, it is.
I heard my emergency number ringing. I took it out of my handbag, and seeing it was Naruto, I could only grimace. God, why must you be so harsh! I know why he's calling… What should I say to him?
"You're speaking with Hinata Hyuga." I picked it up, after the fifth ring.
"Hello Miss Hyuga, I hope you're doing well, today." Naruto said playfully. I could imagine his smile on his lips. I just could roll my eyes but grinned, because of his attitude.
"I'm doing well, how can I help you? You're doing fine?" I tried to stay professional, even if it was the most difficult thing to do right now.
"Stop being like this, Hinata…"
"How am I?" I played dumb. I just didn't know what to answer.
"You know what I mean." He stopped, certainly thinking about how to describe me. "Anyway, did you like the flowers?"
I took a glance at the vase on the coffee table, which was still beautiful. I sighed before answering.
"Do you want my death or why would you send them to me?" I asked him, giggling.
"What? What's the problem with them? Are you allergic to this type of flowers?" he panicked but I could just keep laughing.
"No, silly. Purple carnations are mostly given at funerals." The line fell silent, and I heard a "Fuck" on the other side of the phone.
"Shit. I'm so sorry, Miss Hinata. Fuck." I arched a brow, waiting for more. After having made enough fun of him, I just said that they were really beautiful and thanked him.
"Ino said that carnations stood for love and admiration, so I went to the flower shop and told the woman behind the desk to make me a bouquet of all the colors she had in store. Incompetent florist, I swear." I heard him mumble the last part.
"Anyway, thank you. Why are you calling, Naruto?" I wanted to stop all this, not knowing what else to talk about.
"Ehh…I don't know, I just wanted to know how you were doing and what you'll do this weekend." He spoke much too quickly for not showing his nervousness.
"Naruto…" I bit my inner cheek, to refrain me from saying no immediately.
"Let me speak first, ok?" I stayed silent just wanting to end this conversation.
"Okay, thanks, so, I have these tickets which my grandfather gave me. Ehm it's a festival near Nice (AN: city in France), yeah. There's a lot of food from different countries all over the world and you told me you liked cooking so I just thought you would like to go there. It's one and a half hour from here, so I could drive us back and forth or we could stay in one of those hotels there. Ehm, so what do you say?" he let out a puff, probably much more nervous than I felt.
This festival is great. It's all over the news and begins Thursday and ends Monday morning. I went there once with Neji, and seriously it was so nice. Neji ate everything like a pig, just because he was hungry and didn't really savor the different specialties. So, there was no way I would go with him one more time.
The tickets are so expensive, 340 euros (399 US dollars) to be exact, but you can try every sort of food and that for the whole weekend! The oriental kitchen is my favorite, just thinking about it, makes me drool.
There are musicals to also enjoy the food with some music and it's really hard to get these tickets. You must buy them months before it starts to get a chance to go there.
"It's really expensive and I have work on Thursday and Friday and you have school…" I tried more to convince myself than Naruto.
"They're already paid, it's a gift from my grandparents, so yeah, ehh… I can go with whomever I want, y'know and so I thought of you... We could only go for Friday and go home for Sundays or just stay the whole day on Saturday, then going home for the night… And my classes end already at noon on Fridays, so you don't have to worry, I will take it seriously now…" He made a pause, probably waiting for an answer from my part.
This guy, I swear…
"OK."
"Okay, what? You're coming?" I could feel him grinning over the phone.
"That's right."
"You're not playing with me, right?"
"Why should I?"
"I don't know, it was a little too easy to convince you but I'm happy, really happy." I closed my eyes, smiling, because he was just too adorable.
"Should I say no, so you could try to convince me with your prepared arguments to "Why you, Hinata Hyuga, should go with me to this festival?" I playfully asked.
"You're discovered me, I had four more arguments to why you should go. But I guess you'll never know what they were. Sorry…" he retorted with as much sarcasm as I.
"Hm. But I wanna hear them. What do they cost me?" my voice turned sensual.
"God, Hinata, don't say it like this because I absolutely know what it would cost you…" he groaned on the other line and this dark voice just turned me on. I already forget who it was on the other side.
"So, what is your price, mister?" I played with one of the pens, lying on my desk to distract myself.
Suddenly, I heard my workphone on my desk ring and I came back to myself. What was I doing flirting with Naruto? God, I must think about these yoga sessions Sakura told me about.
"Hold on, Naruto." I heard him mumble something.
"Hinata Hyuga. How can I help you?"
"Just your big bro." Neji said.
"Oh, what do you want?" I quickly said. And he's my twin. He just came out 12 minutes earlier than me.
"Why are you in such a bad mood, Hina? Can't your big bro call you?"
"I don't know, Neji. Most of the time you're calling, it's to come to my house or tell me to make your grocery shopping, so yeah. Tell me."
"God, stop being a bitch, Hina. You're getting old. I just called you to let you know that I'll be away for a week, next week. I need someone to water my plants. Hanabi will kill me if they die again."
"No problem. But Sakura is coming back next week. Why don't you ask her?"
"Because Sakura was the reason that they died last time. She watered them too much."
"Okay, okay. I'm on the phone with one of my patients, so I must hang up. See you soon, love ya!"
"Okay, love you sis. And stop eating cinnamon rolls, I noticed you gained some pounds." He laughed then hung up.
"This asshole…" I grunt. What a child, I swear…I heard someone cough and remembered Naruto was still on my emergency phone.
"Sorry, Naruto."
"So, I'm just a patient…" Here we go again.
"You're still my patient, Naruto. Anyway, thank you for inviting me to this street food festival. I'll give you the money when I see you. Hum… and sorry for just now. I don't know what took over me…"
"Ahh don't worry…" he laughed. "I liked you like this."
"Yeah, sorry… If we're going on Friday to this festival, we have to advance our session." I looked for my calendar where all my appointments were written down. I just heard him sigh.
"Is Wednesday working for you?" I asked him after a while.
"Yeah, it's working for me…"
"4pm? You would be my last session."
"Yeah, sure."
"Ok if there's nothing more, I would hang up now, Naruto."
"Yeah, yeah, I know… And don't worry for the money. I was the one inviting you. And I would be glad if you didn't try to insist on paying it. It's my gift, so y'know…"
"Okay…" I murmured, smiling. What a gentleman, he was. If only…
"Okay, so then till Wednesday…"
"Till Wednesday, Mister Uzumaki." He sneered and then hang up.
III Hinata
"And so, I told him if he changes, I will give him a chance…" I bit my inner lip.
"You're kidding, right? You can't be serious, Hina! The poor boy. You're just making him hope… Can you imagine what will happen if, once he changes, you can't give him what you promised him?"
"I know Temari, I know that I messed up… I'm telling you all this to help me, not to make me feel even more guilty…" My nervous habits made surface, and I just couldn't stop fiddling with my hands.
"God, sorry, but I'm just speechless. There's a reason why this guy is in therapy. You even said that he was the one in the car. He stalked you, and you're telling me you're going to a festival with him for the weekend!" Temari is right, but what's done is done. I can't return back in time.
"You wanna know, what I think?" Go for it, Temari…
"Do I have a choice?" I asked, already fed up with this situation.
"Not really. Don't forget you were the one inviting me over, girl. I'm just here to support you." Yeah, just doesn't feel like it…
"I think, you're not this opposed to all this. I know you have these bad tendencies to never say "no" but when it comes to men, you're always clear and never do something you don't want to. And don't try denying it. I know you long enough."
Once again, she's right. Why does it feel wrong but right at the same time?
"He's not that bad… I like him a lot, I don't wanna see him sad."
"Stop lying to yourself, Hina. You think he's hot and he gives you what you're looking for. He's not like other guys and doesn't want to just sleep with you. He wants something serious and mostly, he's the one running after you." Again, it's half true, but really, I don't want to reject him once again.
"Could you just please take me in your arms for a moment, and let me cry till I fall asleep? I don't know what to do." Temari stretched out her arms, signaling me that she's here for me.
"Come here. You're a big crybaby, Hina." She laughed and I could only nod, hiding myself in her arms.
"I know this whole story with Kakashi was sick. I know that he destroyed a part of your faith in men, but what you're doing now is just throwing yourself in the lion cage. What about Kiba?" Temari said while stroking my hair.
"Oh, he's the least problematic. Kiba just wants to have sex. Like me. We agreed. Nothing more, nothing less. Just my best friend who agreed to my wish. You know how long I didn't sleep with anyone after Kakashi, so it was beneficial for both of us."
"Kiba is a manwhore, I swear." Temari laughed and she was true, this guy flirts with everything that has two legs.
It seems weird to sleep with his best friend but it's just carnal desire. Till now, I couldn't have sex with any man after Kakashi, if I didn't trust them.
But I'm just human and one faithful evening, Kiba and I were way too drunk, and it ended in a contract. We love each other as friends but nothing more. Sex is sex. Love is way more complicated. We don't make love we literally just fuck and once it's over we're just friends, there are no feelings involved. And he told me this more than once, and I'm fine with it.
"Oh man, I wouldn't like to be in your shoes. There's always drama in the Hyuga family. Did you tell your brother?"
"What? Are you crazy? Absolutely not. And I won't do it, he will kill Naruto and afterwards he would kill me for not telling him. I don't wanna be accused of murder."
"Literally, I can picture Neji chasing after this guy with his knife, that he loves so much!" I sneered because it was just Neji and he's crazy sometimes when it concerns me.
After a while, Temari went home, and I found myself reminiscing the phone call with Naruto. The tension between us was exciting and seriously if Neji hadn't disturbed us, it could have turned into phone sex.
He went from the cute, handsome boy to the very masculine and sexy man. His voice was so dark, and I literally felt my panties soaked, after just a sentence of him.
Was it wrong to begin to think of Naruto more than just a 19-year-old boy? Probably. But damn it, he's hot and he wants me, and not just for my appearance. He loves me like I am and doesn't want to change something. He takes me like I am and seems to love everything about me. And that's a first for me, and it feels so good.
He had sent me some messages which I still didn't answered. Perhaps I should just call him. I don't know why, but I want to call him.
I'm so frustrated with myself. I'm starting to like the idea of Naruto and me. I don't wanna lose this "something" that he gives me, but it's so wrong on the other side. The more I think about it, the more I'm looking forward to this weekend.
He invited me as a friend, and I like talking to him and laughing about silly things. He makes me feel light. I'm not scared to be judged by him.
Now that I think about it, it's exactly what I mean by this "something".
The knocking on my door, woke me up out of my deep thoughts and without waiting I went straight to the entrance.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I mumbled after it knocked a second time.
I fixed my hair and looked down on me to see what I was wearing. Mom jeans and a simple white t-shirt were okay, so I opened the door, seeing Naruto, wet from the rain.
"What are you doing here?"
"I just couldn't wait till Wednesday."
And then he kissed me.