Gray Pearl

by Jasmine Starlight

Full summary: Black- adj. opposite of white, dark; without light. White- adj. innocence, opposite of black, absence of color. To Hyuuga Hinata, the world couldn't be painted in two different colors. But she didn't mind, she knew where she stood, she was white and he black. But when black and white mix, no one can go back, no matter how hard they try. Sasu/Hina

My second Naruto fic, I love this anime, go easy on me.

Inspired by The Logical Conclusion.

CHAPTER FIVE

NOSE BLEEDS AND RIVALRIES

Sasuke didn't really know where he was dragging Hinata, just that he wanted to get away from people staring and laughing, and in Lee's case making youthful exclamations of approval. "Yosh! From this day onward I shall find true love in the hearts of youth!"

To which Neji responded with: "NOOO!"

Neji needed therapy.

Hinata was afraid of having a major nose bleed, like Ebisu-sensei did.

Really, the amount of blood the man hemorrhaged every day was frightening.

Hinata made a mental note to research blood replenishing medicines, and then continued to let Sasuke drag her off to where ever the hell he was going.

Eventually Sasuke stopped, and Hinata jerked forward, bumping into Sasuke's back, the crimson and white fan symbol was the last she thing she saw.

Rubbing her head, she turned to him, "Ano, Sasuke-san?" she asked quietly.

"Hai?" Sasuke responded distractedly, running a hand through his hair (Hinata felt slightly woozy).

"I'm sorry about before." She said, bowing neatly at the waist.

"Er…it's alright." What was the procedure for a situation of this magnitude?

"Arigato." Hinata said politely.

Why did she just thank me? Sasuke thought confusedly.

And then there was an awkward silence.

Chirp. Chirp. Chirp.

Wait a minute, wasn't it the afternoon?

Sasuke turned around to glare at the bushes, and the chirping stopped.

Suspicious.

More silence, Sasuke was regretting glaring at the bush, at least with the bush there had been something breaking the oppressive silence that hung between them.

"Sasuke-san--"

"Just, Sasuke. Just call me Sasuke."

"Gomen--"

"And stop apologizing so much, you never do anything wrong."

"I'm sorry--"

"You did it again." Sasuke said accusingly.

Hinata made a move to speak, most likely to apologize, again, but Sasuke put a finger to her lips.

"Breathe in. Breathe out. And talk and no apologizing. And say my name." he instructed.

"Sasuke…eh…w-what-t h-happened-d-d at the d-dango s-shop?"

Sasuke remained silent in ponderment. (A/N: my spell check loves that word)

Hinata waited.

And waited.

She was getting really tired of waiting.

"Sasuke--"

Sasuke cut her off with the swift application of his lips to hers.

Hinata forgot what she had been talking about.

"That was what happened."

Hinata felt her face glow with a flush and then she lay back down on the soft grass.

It was a good thing they lived in Konoha, really the surrounding forest was ideal for privacy. Not that they were doing anything that required privacy.

Unless they were?

Were they?

Was she supposed to do something?

Hinata felt a surge of panic rise in her, what the hell was she supposed to do now?

Sasuke amusedly watched as Hinata's emotions fled across her face, really what did she think he was going to do? Jump her?

Maybe that wasn't such a bad idea…

"Hinata, are you alright?" he asked.

"H-hai!" she exclaimed softly.

"Honto?" he asked lazily.

"Hai!"

"So, you're alright." He said once more.

"Hai!"

"Then you wouldn't mind if I kissed you again?" he queried smugly.

Hinata felt the flush she had fought so valiantly to ward off coming back again, "Don't worry, I won't if you don't want to." He said as he laid down next to her.

"Oh."

And then there was more silence.

Sasuke was irritated with so much silence, after all causing uncomfortable silences was his job.

He made a move to start talking but Hinata started instead, "Ano, Sasuke what's the Sharingan like?"

"The Sharingan?"

"Hai." This time there was no stuttering! We are making progress!

"I don't how to answer; really, it's sort of like having the cheat sheet for every jutsu you'll ever have to learn."

"Oh." She said softly.

"So, what is the Byakugan like?" he inquired lazily.

"I don't really like using it." Hinata confessed.

"Naze?"

"It feels like I'm cheating everyone else because I have a bloodline limit that I can't even use properly."

Sasuke's brows furrowed, "And I'm not even the best at utilizing it, I mean Neji-niisan c-can use it-t m-much better than anyone else in the Main house and he c-can never become a-an h-heir because of t-their stupid house politics." She sniffed.

Sasuke handed her a handkerchief, "So, change the rules."

Hinata looked up at him through teary pearl eyes, "I left, I can't change anything."

"But they never named a new heir."

Hinata's eyes brightened, she could change the way the clan worked, if not that she could help Hanabi in doing so.

Hinata turned to face Sasuke, who was idly toying with a kunai, and then she planted one on him, Sasuke's eyes briefly widened in surprise but then he remembered that he should be kissing back.

Breaking apart for air was just too troublesome.

That was how the rest of the day was spent, Sasuke had taken off his shirt because it was getting unseasonably hot (Hinata only colored slightly), and was not laying his head in her lap, because, just because.

Hinata was slowly finger combing his hair as they talked.

Really, wasting all those years hiding from Sakura was pointless when he could have just pestered Hinata into scaring her off for him.

Maybe laziness was catching.

Eh, what was he going to do?

Staying with Hinata seemed appealing.

They stayed like that until the afternoon whittled away into dusk, and Hinata dimly remembered that she should go home, as she had a shift at the hospital in the morning.

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Shizune sighed as she walked along the deserted streets, another day working for Tsunade-sama; another day spent cleaning blood off the floor.

Shizune despised going home to her sparse apartment, which was why she spent so much time at the hospital.

So she didn't have to go home.

She yawned distractedly, what was that sound?

"Yosh! Only 66 more times to go! My youthful stamina must be improving!"

And then silence.

"Yosh! Yosh!"

More silence.

"YOSH! My marathon of youth is striving!"

Shizune frowned, she knew that voice…

Turning around, she came face to face with Maito Gai.

"Ahh!" she shrieked jumping back several feet.

"Shizune-san! I'm very sorry to have frightened you but this striving stamina of mine refuses to be tamed!" Gai exclaimed loudly.

Shizune gave him a 'WTF!' look.

Gai sighed, his breath coming out in exaggerated puffs, "Alas, the stamina of this beast is a large responsibility."

Shizune: O.o

END

Oops, I was supposed to be writing Gai/Shizune for Unmei…hehehehehehehe…………………

And there we have it, almost an entire chapter dedicated to fluff…would anyone be interested in reading Sasu/Hina one-shots?

I feel like writing some…

Frosted shadowz- Yes he does.

Hokai Amplifier- woo!

shikaruTo- I'm sorry to say I can't fill you as I am not equipped to do so. But I can slap you! Eh, maybe I should try writing smut…

SGL- Loony? Who's loony?

mUcHaChAnGiStAriRaY- Never? Not even once? It's hard to spell. I am thinking of making him the next Kakashi in the sequel for this. Yes I am thinking of a sequel already.

candy44- hi.

Noname- I never really thought about it…