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You Scratch My Back, I'll Scratch Yours – Chapter Four Let's Set Our Plan Into Action!
In The Market PlaceThe market place was full of people whom were shopping or just out for a lovely stroll. Gossip could be heard left and right because of the new couple that emerged from the street. Jealous glares and adoring eyes were directed at the new couple.
"Aren't they just adorable! Look at his raven hair! He is so cute!" One woman yelled out in the crowd.
"Oh, young love is absolutely fantastic! Isn't she lovely?" An elderly woman said to her elderly friend.
"I say that they are quite the handsome couple!" A man exclaimed as he held his wife around the waist.
"She is so not right for him!" Yelled a teenaged girl to her friends.
"I know! He could do so much better!" Another girl screamed.
"I don't know...they do look good together." One girl said nicely.
"Yeah! Don't get mad at her just because you have a crush on the guy. You guys are such sore losers!" One boy said to the other girls.
All around the couple, people were talking and pointing with either grins are glares.
The couple walked across the street to sit on the bench near a small garden. The girl held a bento box and opens the lid to surprise her boyfriend with a homemade meal. He gave her a small smile as he allowed her to feed him.
Two people can be seen hiding in the bush behind the couple, spying on them, stalking them to be precise. One person wore a pink cloak, while the other wore yellow. They whispered to one another and watched the couple for an hour. Finally tired of watching the two, they both left to another location.
"Did you see all that?" The one in the yellow cloak asked.
"Yes." The other replied.
"I never knew a guy like that would do something so "ROMANTIC" with that girl." The yellow cloak person said with disgust.
"Gu- guy like th- that?" The pink cloak person said as the shock of the scene before made her stutter.
"You know, the macho, quiet type." The other said.
"Oh, what n- now?" The pink cloak person said as the shock still hasn't worn off.
"I guess we need to copy them to pull this plan off. We can't let them outshine us. We need to be better then those two if we want this to work. Let's figure out the rest of our plan. Who's house should we go into first for this?" The other asked.
"Sasuke's." The other replied.
They didn't want to enter the Hyuuga mansion, since too many of the Hyuuga's were walking around the compound. Seeing them there would only irritate the white-eyed people. It was for the best to not irritate the Hyuugas if you want to survive till the age of twenty.
They both entered Sasuke's room and began to search for a few items.
"I can't find anything in here. If only I could open the windows, but the fan girls might see us and barge in here for no reason." The one with the yellow cloak said.
"Wouldn't that be good though? It might help us if they did see us here since our plan involves them." The one in the pink cloak said quietly.
The yellow-cloaked figure pulled down their hood to reveal shocked eyes.
"You didn't stutter." He said.
The pink-cloaked figure pulled down her hood to reveal pearl eyes and a face containing a smile.
"I know. I just image that you are Neji-niisan and the words seem to flow out of me without the annoying stutter." Hinata said.
Sasuke nodded. He notices that Neji was the only person Hinata was comfortable around with, conversation wise. He's glad that she wouldn't stutter from now on. Although he thought that the stutter was in a way, cute, he didn't think that it would help them much if she didn't speak comfortably with him in front of others.
"That's good to know. Are you still going to stutter with other people?" He asked her while he finally found his notepad and pen in which they were searching for earlier.
"Probably, Sasuke-san. It's already difficult now for me to talk to you without stuttering." She said honestly.
She walked to the front window and open the drapes just a tad to see if anyone was outside.
"Sasuke-san, I think that it's alright to open the drapes now. Your fan club are probably observing that new couple that we were collecting data from." Hinata said. She inwardly giggled because she remembered how Naruto would yell at a white haired man who was outside the hot springs a few weeks ago.
'What kind of data was that old man collecting?' Hinata thought.
She shook her head when she realizes that she was thinking of Naruto. She needed a clear mind today for her to perfect this fake relationship with Sasuke.
She looked towards Sasuke's outline and sees him glancing out the window through the drapes like she did.
"I don't think so. They might be hiding in the trees or something." He said.
Hinata activated her byakugan to look around Sasuke's apartment.
"No one is out there, Sasuke-san." Hinata said to him as she releases her byakugan.
"Alright. I'll just turn on one light in the kitchen then." He said as he walked to said area.
"Why didn't you just turn on the light before?" She asked quietly.
He entered the kitchen and turned on the light. It was a modest kitchen for such a modest apartment. It had a white refrigerator, a white stove, a microwave, a sink, some cabinets, and a dining table surrounded by chairs.
They both sat down beside one another as Sasuke laid the notepad on top of the pine table.
"If I turned the lights on before, then those fan girls will know that I'm home and begin disturbing me again. By turning on one light in here, there is a better chance that they would not notice that I'm at home." He said knowingly.
"I understand, Sasuke-san." Hinata said politely.
"About the Sasuke-san business, I think that you have to address me differently so that we can be more convincing." He said.
"What should I call you then?" She asked as she looked at his face.
He turns to look at her. She looked meek and sweet so a nickname for him would have to be believable.
"I guess Sasuke-kun will do for now, but later on we will have to change that to Sasuke-koi." Sasuke said unbelievingly.
'I never thought that those words would come out of my mouth.' He thought.
She looked shocked.
'Sasuke-koi? That sounds so weird on my tongue yet so right in my head.' She thought as she looked down at the tabletop.
"What are you going to call me, Sasuke…kun?" She asked as she gazed at him again.
"I guess Hinata-chan will do. I will change the chan to koi later on." He said as if it was common sense.
"Okay." She said as she held the note pad in her hand.
She looked at the contents and notice Sakura's name crossed out, she then notice Ino's and Temari's name crossed out as well.
'So I wasn't the only one making a list of people for this.' She thought as she handed the notepad to Sasuke.
He began to write a few sentences on the note pad.
"So far, we have seen the girls and the guys holding hands with one another. That won't be hard to do. I also notice that when they stand together, that they are often close to each other's sides. That would be doable if we ever have joint mission with one another or something." He said as he leaned back on his chair to think of more ideas.
Hinata felt kind of hungry since she and Sasuke started collecting data on couples since this morning. It was two o'clock in the afternoon now and they still haven't eaten.
"Um, Sasuke-s- I mean, Sasuke-kun, do you mind if I left for a while?" Hinata asked.
He glanced at her and gave her a questioning look.
"Why?" He asked.
"I'm kind of hungry. I was thinking of getting us a little something to eat before we continue planning." She said nicely.
He got up from the chair and walked towards his fridge.
"We should stay here for now. I don't have much but I think I got some rice balls in here if you're hungry." He said as he looked into his fridge.
Hinata walked and stood behind Sasuke to gaze at the contents in his refrigerator. She saw some rice balls, milk, eggs, raw chicken, a few vegetables and some bottled water.
"Sasuke…kun. How about I cook us something to eat." She asked as she stood back from behind him.
He stood upright and looked at her. He then walked to the table and wrote another sentence on the note pad.
"That's another one we could use. Remember the last couple we observed? You know, the guy with the black hair and the red headed girl. They ate with one another and fed each other, remember. We can use that." He said as he walked back to Hinata.
"I guess so. So, can I cook in your home, Sasuke-kun?" She asked quietly.
"Sure. I have pans in the cabinet beside the sink if you need them. Don't bother with the rice, I already made some." He said to her as he watched her pull some vegetables and chicken from the fridge.
'I always have rice ready. The rice balls wouldn't be complete if I didn't have rice and since when did I buy chicken and vegetables?' He thought, as he couldn't remember ever going to the market place since a month ago.
"What's this?" Hinata asked as she pulled the white paper away from the packaged chicken.
"To Sasuke, from Kakashi. Hello Sasuke. Here is the chicken that you asked for me to buy for you. I hope that your party goes well and that they love the chicken that you will make for them. Make sure you save some chicken for your fantastic sensei!" Hinata read out loud.
"That baka! Doesn't he do anything right!?" Sasuke yelled as he rolled his eyes.
"What do you mean, Sasuke-kun? Aren't you happy that Kakashi-sensei got you the chicken that you need for your party?" She ask as she gaze at him with a confuse look.
"Besides the fact that this chicken was needed a month ago, it was Sakura who needed it, not me. I would never have a party, especially a party with people in it." He said as he took the paper from her hands and threw it in the trash.
"Oh, okay." Hinata said as she open the packaged chicken and began washing them.
"Sasuke-kun, can you wash and cut the vegetables for me?" She asked while still cleaning the chicken.
"Alright." He said as he stood beside her and washed the vegetables. After finishing, he got the cutting board out and began cutting the carrots and celery into strips, while Hinata cut the chicken apart and marinated them in some spices she found in Sasuke's cabinet. She began to fry the chicken in a wok that she recently heated.
"Sasuke-kun, this plan of ours might do you some good." Said Hinata as she began to stir the chicken in the pan with a pair of chopsticks.
He looked up from cutting the vegetables to look at her.
"Why do you say that, Hinata…chan?" Said Sasuke.
Hinata put her finger to her chin as the other hand continued to stir the chicken. The aroma was making Sasuke drool inwardly.
"Well, once you do find that special someone, Sasuke-kun, you can use this experience to woo her and make her and yourself truly happy." She said as she turns her head to give him a warm smile.
He stared at her and couldn't help, but give her a small grin.
"Hmm, maybe…do you need the vegetables now?" He asked as he finishes cutting the vegetables.
"Yes, please." She spoke again as Sasuke gave her the vegetables.
"Thank you, Sasuke-kun." She said as she stir-fried the meat and vegetables together.
He smirked. He scooped out rice from the rice cooker into two small bowls and place one in front of one seat and the other to another.
"I see that you have gotten use to calling me Sasuke-kun already." He said as he sat in one of the chairs at the table that had one of the rice bowls.
She blushed when she realized that he was right. She didn't even notice how comfortable saying his name was to her.
"I see that this plan of ours will go smoothly because of your quick adaptation to our situation." He said as he grabbed the note pad and placed it on the counter behind him.
"You're right. This might not be as hard as I thought it would be." She said as she turned off the stove and scooped out the stir-fry into a two plates as she set them in front of Sasuke and herself.
She sat down and Sasuke and her began to eat their food. She looked up to see his reaction to her cooking. She never cooked for anyone before so she hope that the food taste at least a little good.
"Um, Sasuke-kun. How is the food?" She asked.
He looked at her and realized that this was probably the first time for her to cook for someone. To be honest, he never had anything this good since his mother died. Eating this reminds him of the family that he use to have.
"It's good. It's much better then that rice ball I eat everyday." He said honestly.
"Don't' you like rice balls? I thought you loved them the way Naruto loves ramen." She asked.
"No, I eat them because they're quick to make. I don't have time to cook." He said as he began to eat again.
She looked at him with sad eyes.
'You don't have time to cook, or you don't have anyone to cook for you.' She thought.
She knew that his fan girls gave him food, but they were probably just cookies or cakes. No one could live on that. She knew that Sasuke had it tough, just like Naruto. They both have to depend on themselves for survival.
She then got an idea.
"Um, Sasuke-kun. Since I am pretending to be your girlfriend, how about I cook your lunch and dinner for you for now on? It would make it look more believable that I'm your girlfriend and you get to eat some nutritious food for a change. No matter what others say, rice balls aren't going to keep your body healthy." She said as she gave him another of her warm smiles.
He felt a sudden warmth inside of him when she smiled, but he didn't know what this foreign feeling was.
'It's probably my bodies reaction to the new food." He thought as he gave her a nod to agree with her idea.
They both ate in silence, each actually enjoying the other's company. They knew that tomorrow is the day that they will start their plan and that they would be announced as an official couple, and for some reason, they both couldn't wait for tomorrow to appear.