Warning: Foul language.
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MORNING
The bed bounces from the added weight of someone jumping onto the bed.
"Wake up!" a childish sort of glee exclaimed, as the girl kept bouncing on top of the covered figure. "Nee-sama~"
A small rustle was made from under the blankets, as the figure beneath the girl curled up. Her brown locks contrasted against the white blanket as she snuggled her face against the bundled up figure. "Nee-sama~ it's time to wake up."
A comfortable silence fell unto the two girls as they lay on the bed. A small puff of indigo hair popped out of the blankets. As two pairs of lavender eyes looked at each other. One with nervousness, the other with mischief twinkling in her eye.
"Hey, Hana." a small crack of voice, whispered out.
Hanabi was still snuggling her, so she had a bit of a hard time getting out of the blankets. Finally free she hugged her sister back as they just lay on Sasuke's bed.
Sasuke enters his room, wondering why it took so long to get Hinata. To see both girls snuggled in the bed sleeping. Now he was conflicted between leaving them alone or getting them to eat. He stood at the foot of the bed, pondering.
That's how Itachi found him, staring down at the two sisters with a pensive look on his face. He knocked on the open door which made three heads snap up towards him.
He chuckled at their reaction, and went by the bedside to check on Hinata. Taking a look at her bandaged arms if they had loosened, and a quick check on her other injuries. Hanabi and Sasuke were looking at the bruises solemnly. The whole room was quiet during the check up.
After a good night's rest her complexion seems much better than yesterday's, and her demeanor much brighter. But they'll still need to watch for her mental state, especially with the news he has. But first Hinata needs some energy, he'll talk to her once Kurenai comes over with the full results.
"Come children, eat your breakfast before they are gone." Walking out of the room, behind him were shouts of indignation of being called children. Itachi just smiles as he enters the living space. The trio followed behind him, two were grumbling under their breath.
It was a morning filled with lost laughter and vibrancy that seemed to never end. Naruto and Kiba smothered the two sisters when they woke up, at the same time trying to provoke the two brothers and failing.
"Don't worry Hinata-chan! Now that I'm here you can bet that bastard will be shitting his panties-ttebayo." Naruto puffs out his chest as he poses heroically, but got shoved in the face by Kiba.
"Nah, Hina. The one's shitting bricks will be these ass wipes. As for me! Those bastards won't even dare to come once they hear that I'm here. They'll be too pussy to even look here." Naruto tackles Kiba to the ground.
"Who the fuck you calling pussy?!"
"Not you idiot, unless the shoes fit!"
The two started brawling on the ground. Hanabi ignores them as she drags her sister to the counter bar.
"Let's give dumb and dumber their moment, nee-sama. I'm starving." Hinata looks back worriedly, but followed her sister.
Shikamaru slumps on the free couch ignoring the whole lot to get some sleep. Hinata giggles seeing the weird scene in the living room, as she and Hanabi shares a toasted sandwich and some hot chocolate.
Sasuke seeing all these happening sighs. It was like nothing had changed at all. His brother gives him coffee which he thanks, getting himself a sandwich from the bag in the middle of the counter.
He looks down at his phone and sees the last message from his girlfriend.
A nervous tick, as he fiddles the home button with his thumb. Reading her rage through each text.
You fucking asshole!
How dare you stand me up at the coffee shop?!
It's just at the fucking corner of your house!
You're fucking selfish to do this to me!
One after another, just filled with anger.
I'm your fucking girlfriend!
Treat me like one!!
Why do you hurt me like this??
Aware of his cold attitude towards her, he did feel guilty about ditching her like that. Although he has no deep feelings for Sakura, she was right. She is still his girlfriend and he should at least give more care towards her. Sakura had just become a convenient outlet for all his frustration and anger…...and it was unfair to her.
This also made him think about his relationship with her. The balance it was currently on. The way things are, this will not be the last time he'll treat her like trash. Sakura has placed him on a really high pedestal, that he had grown a big head of acting out without repercussions. This made him frown.
He looks up towards the group. Seeing all the people who are near and dear to him. Yet he couldn't see where Sakura could fit in this picture. She had a bigger mindset than the others, a different interest to pursue. Heck, he was the one busy trying to fit into Sakura's circle ever since they started dating, it took Hinata getting hurt to finally have a chance to see his friends.
That just sounds wrong.
Shikamaru, Naruto, and his other gang all understood his mood, the way he bitches and his temper. They gave him space to breath, where his girlfriend didn't. It was just that easy to turn against her.
Another thing about dating Sakura is that instead of trying to put their lives together, she wants to mould him to fit into hers. It seems to be her ideal relationship. To be the one to fix up everything. To have her love only think of her and sees her as the only support system. To also put her on a pedestal as she has done to him.
But he wasn't like that.
He tried to be patient with she wants, but now he was just too tired.
He looks back down to his phone.
Do you even love me?
A simple question, that had him have an inner turmoil. Do I? I should. It's what I should feel. But...
With an answer filled with doubts, and thoughts filled with questions he looks up again, but this time focusing on the one girl that had always been his constant growing up.
Hinata laughs at something that was said by Kiba, covering her mouth with the hand. Showing her bandages. If you squint, you can also notice the dark bags under her eyes due to lack of sleep. The bruises littering her skin.
This girl has been through so much, yet not one sound came out of her. All she thought about are others, and how she shouldn't burden others. Which to a point is her flaw. Where Hinata is not able to confidently assert herself.
Deep down Sasuke always knew what his answer was, and this time he will not hesitate.
He clicked on the call button, and excused himself from the table
"Hey Sakura, are you still at the coffee shop?"
LATER THAT EVENING...
A body drops down to the floor. Pushing himself up, holding his injured jaw.
"I didn't raise a fucking bitch. You disappoint me Toshiyuki. You should have known better than to fuck at such a public place. We booked a fucking hotel for that shit. Your mother and I didn't plan all these years to get the Hyuuga heiress just for you to fuck it all up!"
Eyes ablaze. Danzo was fuming as he kicked his son in the ribs, who is now curled up in a fetal position. Shiori sat at the table stressing her hair over her son's recent blunder.
Toshi ignored the pain as he pushed himself back up to a seiza, as he took his parents' brunt. His head was throbbing from the pain of yesterday's beating, and now the beatings he is receiving from his father.
"What the fuck were you thinking? We have been planning to get the Hyuuga Clan's support for so long. It's why we decided on the eldest daughter."
He tuned out the shouting of his parents as they went back and forth in reprimanding him and thinking up a new plan to get the heiress back into their clutches.
It all started with his mother's idea of drugging the girl when she invited Hinata for a luncheon. Excusing it as indulging in too many drinks. Of course he protested when they had brought her into his room. It almost worked until his father stepped in. He suggested blackmail instead, by having her sleep with multiple people her reputation will be ruined unless they worked with them. It was turning for the worse, so he relented.
But now they were caught. Now Hinata has disappeared along with all his family's work files in his phone. Yet deep down, in the depths of his muddled brain, Toshi was elated.
His family is going to be ruined and he was laughing on the inside. Something snapped in him when he got punched in that classroom. It was something akin to relief, like he was free.
Toshi knows he is a coward. He sees it in Hinata's eyes when she cowers from him.
He knows he is hopeless. He sees it in the way his family disregards his opinion.
But he is not oblivious to the consequences of his actions. Toshi knows he made all the wrong turns to reach this point, so what is another wrong choice going to do? He'll still be the bad guy, but if that's what it takes to be heard. He'll forever be the bad guy.
A phone call cuts through the hectic household. The ringing stilled the air around them as no one moved a muscle to answer. After the fifth ring Danzo picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
There was silence on the other line. He was about to hang up when a soft whisper of a voice replied.
"H-hello….To-toshiyuki-kun?"
Warning: Cliffhanger :P
A/N:
Yea, i just did that. I like this length, even though there were supposed to be more scenes, it just felt right to stop the chapter there.
I have drafted this story till the end, but work consumed most of my juices so my draft cant seem to progress. Everything felt wrong.
Also I remember someone had commented why i made a new character to be the bad guy, instead of using Danzo. Well, this is why. I want to start from nothing when making a bad guy. From visualizing his first impression, naming them, and building up their story.
Thanks for having fun with my story.
