Theme and Variation
Pairing: Sasuke x Hinata
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: There would definitely be more Sasu/Hina in the series if I did. XD
Momo-kun-chan: YAY! (Hugs) You guys are awesome! =D Thankies for your suggestions and I will try my best to apply your ideas.
Hehe, I don't think it's the best Sasu/Hina fic but I am trying hard to keep you guys interested.
Now, I would like to say before we move on any further, that there is a method to my madness. Any parts you may come across and go "WTF!?", I'll explain. Just be patient, 'key? Not that it was a big issue, but I wanted to make that as clear as possible.
KYAAAA! One more thing! I figured out the perfect theme song to this fic. "She Will Be Loved" by Maroon 5. Check it out! You'll see what I mean! XD
Thanks all. Read on. XD
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"Man, there is nothing like a hard day of training, ne Hinata?"
She smiled her reply while folding the thick coat in her arms.
Today was beyond hot and it had only gotten warmer while working out. Team Eight had the afternoon off as Kurenai had a mission of her own, but she hadn't said until the morning of there usual meeting time. Shino had let everyone know the day before of his own mission with his father, so he hadn't come at all.
Since Kiba and Hinata were already up for the day, they decided to train with each other. Surprisingly, Hinata was the one that suggested it before Kiba had a chance to ask. He had still agreed of course. He had seen her train more often anyway, and with the Jounin Exams coming up, what better was there to do with spare time.
As Kiba had sensed, Hinata was sure putting a lot more effort into her technique. She even managed to put him and Akamaru down. Twice. Kiba had still won, with a secretly mangled side, but he congratulated Hinata on a good job done.
Finally, the day was almost over, judging by the way the sun was laying back peacefully on the horizon, and the streetlights began to glow dimly in the fading daylight. Hinata and Kiba, and Akamaru too, had trained past lunch, so they thought it best to stop for the day. There was no need for a heat stroke today.
"Hey Hinata, where did you want to go eat? I'm starving."
"Um, anywhere you want to go is fine." She replied meekly and wiped her forehead with the back of her free hand.
"Alright. Oh wait, I have to pick something up in here for a second. Do you mind waiting for me?" Kiba motioned toward a supply store that was a building or two away.
Hinata shook her head. "Not at all. Go ahead Kiba-kun."
"Thanks Hinata. It will only be a minute, and then I'll take you to… a late lunch. My treat."
Hinata nodded and watched as Kiba jogged up a block into the little shop on the corner.
Turning around to admire the different assortment objects in the large display windows, she looked at a few things she had might want to pick up. Not that she'd needed anything right away, but the store was new and she'd heard they had some good deals. Walking over to further examine the newly marked down price on some medicinal cream, Hinata bumped into an exiting customer. Their package fell, as did her coat.
Hinata flushed with embarrassment. "Sasuke-senpai, I'm so sorry. I wasn't paying any attention.
"It's fine." He bent over to grab the fallen things.
Hinata bit her bottom lip and stooped down. "Let me help you."
Sasuke moved forward as Hinata did the same. They collided. Hinata looked mortified as they both rubbed the fresh lumps on their heads. "Sorry."
"No, its okay." He said through clinched teeth, but he didn't sound as mad as his expression. "Hey… I was looking for you earlier."
Hinata appeared puzzled as they stood, seemingly the only pair of people on the entire street. "…What for…?"
"About our last mission."
Hinata felt herself become nervous. "I-I'm sorry about that. I know sometimes I-"
"No. I was going to say…" Sasuke paused and turned a bit so that his lengthy bangs covered most of his face, shadowing his eyes. "That I was… You're not that bad a shinobi, okay?"
Hinata had went speechless with surprise, her mouth in the form of a small 'o'.
He smirked softly as his face shone from behind his long hair. "Just do better next time. Its Naruto's job to be dead-last, not you."
Sasuke placed the plush, beige coat into Hinata's hand after he'd taken his package from it. A gentle shade of blush danced over the short woman's cheeks.
"Sasuke…"
"Hinata!" She turned to see Kiba walking over with a small bag in his hand, the other slightly waving, but when she turned back, the brunette ninja had disappeared into thin air. Her pale eyes danced around searchingly but nothing except a few fireflies came into sight.
Was the heat making her delirious? The sun was beating very heavily this afternoon.
Kiba shook her shoulder after his calls went ignored. "Hey, you okay?"
Hinata was still a touch in shock, but she pulled herself out of the brief mental void enough to answer. "Yes… Yes, I'm fine."
She smiled and pulled her jacket closer to her chest. "Did you get everything you needed?"
"Yeah. Damn clerk tried to jip me though."
Hinata nodded along as her teammate rambled on about how the quality of stores were in Konoha, but her mind was once again elsewhere. As she'd once noticed sometime before, Sasuke was quite an enigma, one that would be interesting to solve, but if only she had the guts to do so, or the strength...
"Hinata." She fell back onto his chest as her limp body ceased from the drop.
Sasuke landed with a nearly soundless thud as his feet settled on the red-splotched grass of the forest floor.
"She should have known better than to use up that much chakra."Sasuke quietly scolded under his breath. He could see the dim line of chakra emanating from her petite form with his still activated Sharingan.
He then began to hunt for any type of apparent wounds, shifting so that he was crouched on one knee to supported Hinata's upper body. There was none that he could find so far. Despite his initial anger from shock, he at least was impressed that Hinata had held her own, much more so than he thought she would anyway.
Suddenly away from his thoughts, Sasuke had unexpectedly paused mid-search when he'd realized where his exploration had ended up. That comfortably smug smirk steadily dominated over his features, his hands were dangerously close to places that might have earned him a good slap.
Now, he wasn't going to prove his loud rival right by being a pervert and taking advantage of Hinata while she was unconscious; but honestly, she was such a sight to behold. Her head laid like a wilted flower over his forearm, the sapphire deep hair surrounded her finely soiled cheeks in a skewed fashion. Her fair, velvet like face looked at peace even though she'd blacked out after such an intense thing. Her supple lips slightly parted, they would be so nice to kiss.
They will be… Sasuke thought determinedly.
He was sure he would get an opportunity to do so, but not now. This wasn't the time or the place for that. There could be more enemy Nins on the way this very moment for all he knew.
With that conclusion, he moved Hinata around so he could place her on his back to carry. In that exact instant, his back pricked as if small spikes had stabbed into it. Sasuke brushed the tips of his fingers to around the area of his shoulder blade and under the flap of his torn shirt. He felt the moist, meaty tissue of an open abrasion under his graze. Judging by the width of it, it must have been a kunai he had unknowingly dodged that left such a rip. Adrenaline must have masked the stinging until he'd finally calmed down long enough to be aware of such an injury.
Nevertheless, worrying about that would have to wait. It was better to stay moving and catch up with the still traveling caravan. Hopefully, it had not been attacked.
With a blur of dark colors, Sasuke leapt from the earth into the towering trees ahead. It was best to stay above ground in this situation. With his arms full, he would have to avoid trouble for now, thus choosing to keep his Sharingan going for a little while longer.
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Crash!
Boot sandals hit the flooring inside of the caravan as Sasuke came to a stop. It wasn't loud enough to disturbed the driver up front, just loud enough to startle the snooty young man sitting within.
"Do you have to be that loud?! Honestly!" The Raikage's relative took a moment to shakily wipe the frightened bead of sweat from his brow while casting Sasuke a superior glare.
The Uchiha simply ignored him and moved over near the side of the transport. Arranging their backpacks out of the way, Sasuke positioned Hinata so that she was leaning back to the wall. The much frailer man leant closer to the pair while letting out a small chuckle.
"Oh ho. Its hard to believe such an elegant creature is a ruthless shinobi, don't you agree?" He smiled slyly.
Sasuke flared his nostrils at the comment. He wasn't stupid; Sasuke knew what the other was getting at by his under laced tone. "She's taken."
"I see. I should have known." He cocked his head to the side, while smirking. "Too bad. I could have shown her the finer things in life. Much more than some anyway."
He twisted his lip at the Sasuke's partially soiled outfit before retreating hastily to the front from the Leaf Nin's warning scowl.
Sasuke snorted as he sat next to Hinata, one leg hanging off the edge of the opened end and the other rose to support his lazily slung arm. He laid back with caution, wincing at the pulls on his tender wound. He titled his gaze toward the sleeping kunoichi at his side.
It was obvious this character knew nothing of what Hinata was truly like. She wasn't shallow, and not in the least bit conceded. Funny, how her innocence seemed to have dwelled even after her adolescence had past.
Innocent.
Pure.
Gentle.
Everything that he was not.
Sasuke frowned disdainfully at the seal upon his shoulder; it was easily in view to his sight but well hidden behind his tall collar.
The wretched black mark was a symbol of his hidden darkness; the darkness that he still bore despite his return to Konoha, despite if return to the right side. It was still somewhere deep inside, that sometimes urged to spill out. Hopefully, it wouldn't in front of her. Sasuke had kept the seal suppressed without the aid of a binding seal for years now.
However, what would happen if he'd used up most of his chakra in a battle and lost control? What would she say? What would she do?
Sasuke could imagine a many range of scenarios from fainting to getting as far away from him as physically possible. Since the seal had reached its level two state, the transformation was... less than normal, one could say.
However, Hinata wasn't the type to shun. From what he could gather, she was one of the most understanding people he'd ever known. Of course, she might be initially afraid, but he would just have to explain it somehow before she could find out on her own.
Dark eyes fell upon her lax form as Hinata began to stir by his side. Her nose wrinkled a bit while she breathed a low yet sweet mumble. Sasuke only watched as she subconsciously slid over and rested her indigo head on his shoulder. Her heat immediately spread onto his arm. The pleasant smell of lavender filled his nose again, it even stronger by her closeness. The Uchiha didn't try to move. If she was fine, there was no need to change things.
Turning to the path they'd passed barely minutes ago, Sasuke noted the change in the scenery. The sky was no longer the clear, blue vast as it was back in Konoha, but instead turning gradually grey with thick, cotton like clouds that made it appear the day was later than what it truly was. The land was changing from grassy forests to more of a rugged stone terrain, like the road becoming a pebbled path rather than trampled greenery. Trees and shrubs became less clustered and more random by the roadside, leaving dew covered hills in their absence. The air smelled damper in the climbing altitude, and far cooler. Sasuke could mostly tell by the pockets of visible air as they breathed in and out.
By the gradual decreasing speed beneath the wheels, it was apparent the caravan was slowing down. Sasuke had looked up to the front just as they came to a complete stop.
The driver poked his head from up front, and around the caravan's covered side. "The horses need to take a rest, is that alright?"
Sasuke only nodded.
He was expecting some sort of extra stare by catching himself and Hinata in such a close position, but the driver simply hurried off to untie the horses with the small bunch of loaders that had traveled along with them.
What Sasuke didn't know was the older man didn't care just as long as he could have some time to get away for awhile. The "cargo" was becoming quite annoying after coming up front to complain about trivial things like the weather and his magnificence going unnoticed. He nearly strangled the boy with the reigns, but thankfully, they had reached another river before he could act out his thoughts.
Within minutes, the caravan was nearly silent; everyone including the Raikage's relative had left down to the riverbed, most likely filling up canteens and making sure the horses were well hydrated. The most one could hear now was their soft breathing and the faint trickle of running water in the distance.
Hinata shivered and drew closer to the firm, warmth beside her. She began to break from her groggy mode; thought she was still trapped between sleep and consciousness, weariness still nailing her eyes shut. Hinata blindly reached, and wrapped her arms around the closest thing she was next to; coincidently, she was already leaning on it. Well, whatever it was, it sure was relaxing. Her 'pillow' was the only thing with warmth.
Was she back at home? In her nice, warm bed? Did she leave the window open again? Her back was strangely cool.
Wrapping her arms tighter, Hinata detected the long and odd shape of her pillow. Her head was craned in a strange angle too, as if she was sitting up right. It was covered with a something that didn't feel like the ordinary cottony fabric, it was more wrapped around the lengthy thing, but was more open near the top.
And what was that? Since when did pillows have…?
"…Fingers…?"
Her eyes snapped open but she didn't have the strength to lift her head as quickly as she would have liked.
Eyes focusing from the instant blur of opening, she suddenly became startling aware of everything that was around her. Hinata found that she wasn't at home, nor in her bed. Beneath her was hard floor and she had been sitting up. And her pillow wasn't a pillow at all, but…
"S-Sasuke…" Her voice muffled and wavering. Hinata wanted desperately to pull away, frightened that he would be upset for laying on him for who knows how long, but her body wouldn't move an inch.
All she could do was attempt to lift her head, but as soon as she'd tried, it fell lifelessly back into place, on her partner's shoulder.
Hinata closed her eyes in a poor effort to hide her awkwardness. She didn't dare have the courage to open them again, she could feel her face already on fire. Hinata felt it burn to the tops of her ears, all the way down to her shoulders. She honestly didn't think she could have been more embarrassed.
Hinata felt Sasuke pull her upright by the arms, clearing his throat. She was sure he was going to say something about it.
"You shouldn't move so much. You've used up a lot of your chakra."
Hinata blinked, looking a touch dumbfounded as he placed her back on the caravan side. Not a yell or frown at all. Maybe he wasn't mad.
Judging by his expression, Sasuke didn't seem to be. His voice was calm. Was it concerned too? Hinata could barely tell with her mind spinning in confused thought. It was better to make sure in any case.
"Sasuke…?" He looked in her direction, causing her to pause with contemplation for a moment. Her eyes cast to the floor while weakly poking her fingers together. "…I'm sorry. I didn't mean to… I mean… well…"
"Don't worry about it." It was short but nowhere close to annoyed as she was sure it would have been.
Hinata managed a simple nod after her brief gap of thought. A relieved sigh fled through her nose as the caravan fell silent again. Well, there was no need to dwell on something if it wasn't necessary.
She attempted to move again, this time making it far enough to where she was facing Sasuke near the exit. She looked outside and spotted the others not too far from them. Hinata had barely noticed they were alone until now, no wonder it was so quiet.
"…Sasuke, do you know how long I've been out? I can't seem to remember anything after I fell…" Hinata had suddenly remembered the battle in the forest as that bit of information came back to her mind. She would like to know what happened between the lapse of her memory, and nothing else seemed to be happening at that exact moment anyway.
"An hour or two. It hasn't been that long." He was still keeping a watch outside while talking to her; there was still a job to do after all.
"Then… you must have caught me…" She had pieced it together as Sasuke turned to look at her, nodding.
"I see. Thank you…"
Sasuke smirked to himself. "Eh, it was nothing."
Hinata poked her fingers together and reluctantly blushed. "Hm, well, thank you anyway."
With a tilt of the head to accept her offer, there was apparent no reason not to, he went back to his watch. He winced slightly as he lifted his back from the wall. Hinata blinked with a small gasp. There was a thick red on the spot where he had moved away from. The ruby liquid seemed too familiar not to know what it was.
How did that get there? From where...?
Her eyes immediately darted to the back of his shirt. Hinata had spotted the tear in the pale grey cloth, just to the right of his family symbol he always wore on his back. Blood, slightly smeared now from being rubbed, had seeped partway through the material.
"S-Sasuke, you're bleeding!"
When was he hit? Was it when he came to save her? Did something else happen while she wasn't awake?
Hinata looked on fearfully as the Uchiha reached for the wound on his back. "Damn, it must have opened up again…"
"Please, let help you with that. It does look fairly deep from here." Hinata, somehow finding the strength to scoot over, slide up from behind, placing her hand upon his shoulder to signal that she would handle it.
The kunoichi blushed feverishly on contact but quickly busied herself with the task at hand; it was only a shoulder after all.
"Ah, thanks." She could hear him wincing although his back was turned.
"Its no trouble at all really." Hinata nodded with a little smile.
She was glad that Sasuke didn't try to protest. There was no way he could have that bandaged up himself anyhow. It could very well get infected, or worse.
Then out of nowhere, her mind ran in a strange direction and led her to wonder why he always said the kind things with his back turned. Maybe it was a pride thing.
She shook her head to scramble irrelevant thoughts and focused back to what her she was supposed to be doing. Her face just wound up flushing again as soon as she did.
Sasuke's injury was on his back, thus meaning under his clothes. Now, Hinata has touched his skin before, just last night in fact, she still didn't know what possessed her to do that, but this had nothing sensual to it. She was supposed to be professional about treating people, having studied in medical areas of jutsu, although, Hinata couldn't quite figure out why her face wouldn't stop burning and her heart sprinted like a race horse.
"What's wrong?" Sasuke looked over his shoulder, still wincing.
Hinata looked flustered. "Nothing... Ah except, I… Do you mind if I… I need to lift your shirt."
Hinata hoped she didn't sound like some kind of pervert; it wasn't every day she asked to look under someone's clothes.
Sasuke only smirked, closing his eyes. "Is that all? Go ahead."
Hinata nodded and grabbed the bottom of his shirt. Sasuke let a short laugh escape his nose. "I know you've got the magic touch..."
The Hyuuga's eyes went wide. "Huh?"
"The magic touch? I heard you're good at medicine, am I right?"
"Oh yes. Well, I think so. I haven't had any complaints…" Hinata blushed at her foolishness. She had thought he meant something else by that comment. The funny thing was, she was right on target, but Sasuke played along with her naivety.
Hinata cringed at the wound she'd unveiled. The fleshy, crimson stained gash was deep as she thought; it would need to be wrapped soon.
"How bad is it?" Sasuke asked, unwillingly flinching as Hinata poked at the raw cut.
"Just as I thought, but it shouldn't need any stitches." She replied and thought.
Hinata knew the perfect jutsu for this, but it wasn't wise to use any kind of chakra just yet. She could still feel the sluggishness in her body from using such advanced techniques. Then, her mind clicked.
Reaching over to her bag, she placed the sack between her legs and rummaged around. Finding what she was looking for near the bottom, she had produced the small jar with the long blue ribbon. Hinata had almost forgot about it, and oh what better time to try its effectiveness than now.
"Ah Sasuke?" She blushed as the man turned slightly. She ducked her head a bit and held the tiny container forward in both of her hands.
"I-I made this for you… I was going to give it to you earlier, but since we had this mission together, I didn't actually know when I should have." Hinata smiled blushing. "It… It's to say thank you for the dance… You left before I got the chance to tell you the same."
Sasuke took the jar in his free hand, the other presently holding up his shirt so Hinata could work better. Rubbing his thumb back and forth over the smooth glass, Sasuke stared at the neatly tied ribbon, and thought. Hinata went through all that trouble just to make him something?
It seems she enjoyed that too. Bah, Naruto, you idiot. You're going to lose something too good for even me and you don't even know it.
Sasuke outwardly snorted.
Hinata looked on with disappointment, letting her shoulders sag. "You… don't like it then."
The Uchiha looked up visibly puzzled. He didn't snort at her. "No. Its… great, Hinata." He placed the jar back in her hand. "Why don't you go ahead and use it?"
The woman nodded. "Alright."
Blushing yet again, Hinata unscrewed the capped. She had to make sure the area was uncontaminated first, so she cleaned up the wound a little before applying the light green cream.
"This should be numbing the area. Is it working?"
"Yeah, it is. Thanks."
Hinata couldn't help but smile to herself. She was happy he liked it; she even found herself resisting poking her fingers together like she always did at times like this.
Within a few moments, her steady hands had patched up the injury. Sasuke stood in the caravan's opening, rotating the shoulder that was hurt; Hinata really did go a nice job.
"It should last for the rest of the day before it needs another changing." Hinata announced meekly as she put the rest of the medicine inside of Sasuke's bag instead of her own.
"That should be long enough. At the rate we're going, we should be in Thunder Country by daybreak, or late tonight if we don't make anymore stops." They had been moving a lot faster than he had originally calculated.
Sasuke noticed Hinata shiver out the corner of his eye. He turned saw her fruitlessly trying to huddle herself.
"Are you cold or something?" Sasuke raised a curious brow. Did it get that cold?
"Ah, no. I'm fine." Hinata plastered a feeble smile but its transparency didn't go unnoticed by her partner.
"Hm…"
There was something more to that which Hinata probably thought best not to share. Walking back to the side, Sasuke took a seat next to Hinata again, who had her knees drawn up to her chest. Her expression was worried and tired. The Uchiha knew why she was tired, but what she was worried about was still unclear. As for now, Sasuke decided to let it go. It was time to start moving again, he could see the others returning a few meters away. Sasuke had a feeling he would learn of its origin, one way or the other.
Quaint how it turns out that his cursed seal wasn't the only thing that would eventually brought into the light.
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As Sasuke had figured from earlier, the group had indeed reached Thunder Country by late that night, very late in fact. It was hard to tell exactly what time it was, but it was figured to be around three or four in the morning. One could usually see by the way the stars aligned in the sky, but the thick clouds blanketed the heavens in a fluffy abundance. The Hidden Cloud was indeed a good name for the village.
Along the way, Hinata had fallen asleep again after making sure Sasuke didn't need her stay awake. It had been a good while into the evening, so he really didn't mind. Sasuke was more of a night owl anyway, so he was still wide-awake even now. Although, he was secretly disappointed that Hinata made sure she had dozed off some space between each other so she would fall on him again.
Coming to the borders of the village, torches were lit up ahead and could be seen from their distance away. The horses slowed when they reached the large, sturdy doors of the guarding gate. It was similar to the ones in Konoha but it looked to be made more from steel than wood.
A couple of Cloud Nins, probably Jounin rank, came around to inspect the caravan. It wasn't truly necessary but they most likely just wanted to be nosey. Eyes landing upon the two Leaf Nins in the back, one man snorted and whispered something to his comrade, who laughed. Sasuke sent them a glare and narrowed his eyes. Damn Cloud shinobis, and people thought he was arrogant.
After the brief examination was over, they finally opened the gates to the village. Within, the town was quiet since it was so late, or so early, either way. The horses' trollops clacked echoingly, seemingly being the only noise on the street besides the stray garbage can turning over and a dog barking in the distance.
Sasuke made sure to note his surroundings since he'd never been to this village before. The buildings were high and towering, more so than most seen in other towns; even the houses were no less than three stories. Sasuke also made sure to take note of all the shadows and potential hiding spots there were by the tall structures all around. Who knows when and if someone might try something. Of course, the two villages had been allies for years, but tensions had always remained high.
Approaching the largest building near the back part of the village, Sasuke figured that must be their destination; no doubt, that's where the Raikage stayed. Pulling into what looked like a stable, the caravan stopped as everyone began to exit it. Sasuke shook Hinata awake by the arm, and grabbed his bag from the floor.
"Come on. We're here."
It took a few times but Hinata was finally awoke enough to stand without stumbling. It was only a matter of minutes before her drowsiness wore off and that anxiety crept in again. She walked to the edge of the caravan, following Sasuke who had already jumped down, and paused. Hinata looked to her left and saw a few shinobis there, some talking, and some trying to help unload.
The heiress unintentionally trembled, her eyes closing with mild fear. They weren't doing anything to her, but the fact of being around them scared her. She couldn't stop thinking about when that Cloud shinobi tried to kidnap her. It was a very long time ago, but she could still remember everything so vividly.
"Hinata." Sasuke was frowning, looking up at her from the ground. What was it about this village that terrified her so much? He extended his hand. "Come on."
Hinata nodded and took his offer, leaping down to the ground beside him.
Just then, a woman wearing a bright pink kimono walked over after she was finished talking to one of her colleagues. She smiled at them, a mini fan between her folded hands, and bowed.
"Raikage-sama sends his gratitude for transporting his nephew safely. He also has instructed me to escort you to your living quarters until morning."
Living quarters? Sasuke raised a brow. Oh well, it was better than getting a hotel in the middle of the night. He then looked over to Hinata, who appeared that she was in a completely different place. Had she even noticed the girl?
Sasuke titled his head in the guide's direction and nudged his partner along to let her know they were moving again. Hinata only made a faint murmur for a reply and followed.
"If there's something bothering you, tell me okay?" Sasuke finally spoke up, after a few quiet minutes of walking.
Hinata looked up somewhat alarmed. It seemed that he had noticed her unease. Well, it wasn't like she was doing such a good job of hiding it. "Oh… I'll be fine... Thank you."
Hinata knew she would be at least. It was silly to dwell on something that happened such a long time ago. She wasn't even sure that it would happen again here. Anyway, she's much more stronger than a mere child now, and, Sasuke was there too. That had comforted her just a bit more than she had originally realized. Hinata blushed with a hidden smile. Speaking of which, it was nice of him to offer such a thing though.
Soon, they were lead to a fairly large compound, a good distance from the Raikage's mansion. It was made like the traditional Japanese style house, painted a pretty sky blue with beautiful stone pathways leading around the secluded land, trailing all the way to its entrance and swung around to the koi pond out back. They had to go quite a way up the concrete stairs just to reach the front door.
Upon entering, the entire downstairs looked as if it was only the beams holding up the rest of the house. There were no doors beside the front, and only a grand set of stairs lead to the second floor. The attendant didn't really start the small tour until they reached the second floor.
After walking down a small hallway and coming through the newly papered sliding doors, the actual apartment was laid before them. Solid cherry wood floors sat underneath a modest amount of furniture, just enough for guests to stay. There were more sliding doors all around and a few windows too. The young woman showed the pair of shinobis where the bathroom was, the kitchen, and told them where the hot spring were downstairs.
This seems to be a lot just to be staying here one night. Sasuke thought as he followed along.
The last stop was near the farthest end of the apartment. There were two sliding doors with beautifully painted, delicately drawn designs on them of ocean waves and clouds; it must have been a beach of some kind.
The woman smiled and grabbed the door handles in her hands. "And here is your room."
There was even more things inside the greatly accommodated bedroom. There was a TV, a bookshelf, another bathroom, some chairs and tables. It seemed large enough for two people, or one that happened to like a lot of space; it appeared to be almost two of everything there. However, one thing particular that had caught the Hyuuga's eye immediately.
"Ah… Excuse me?" Hinata's mouth went dry as she blushed beyond all belief, trying her best not to stammer with embarrassment. "There's… only one bed…"
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==; Was that good? I hope so. It was getting a bit too serious for me, so I had to throw in a lightly humorous ending.
Haha, one bed. I wonder what will happen? XD
Anyway, my B-Day's tomorrow, and I hope you can give me some nice gifts by reviewing for me. Oh and I also drew some Sasu/Hina fan art. If you want to see it, leave your e-mail address in the review. Thanks! Laterz!