Chapter 2: Rejection

Recap

"Night Neji-saaan…"

"Night." Neji said as he walked out of her room and closed the door, leaving Shihana thinking in deep thoughts…

"I wish I could ask Neji to go with me…maybe I'll ask him tomorrow."

End Recap

Shihana woke up the next morning, with another knock on her door.

"Who is it?"

"I-I-It's me…" said a very shy voice.

"Come in, Hinata"

The door opened revealing a girl with dark short purple hair, beige jacket and dark capris on, and with the same milky gaze as Neji. She stood there with a tiny smile on her face.

"What are you so happy about Hinata?"

"I-I h-have to talk to y-you…" Shihana nodded, making a signal for Hinata to come in.

"So…what's up?"

"I-I w-want to ask N-naruto to the f-festival…" Hinata looked down in embarrassment. Shihana chuckled slightly making Hinata lift up her head and look into Shihana's dark crimson eyes.

"Hinata… if you really want to ask him out then go for it! I know he'll say yes to you."

Hinata's milky gaze widen, and smiled bigger then before.

"Arigatou Shihana-chan!" She said before running out the door.

'Oh… that reminds me… I have to ask Neji today…'

Shihana walked nervously to Neji's bedroom door. Shihana knocked and the door opened slightly to reveal Neji.

"Um… Neji… mind if you want to take a walk with me?"

'Oops… that came out wrong. Grr… Wait! I can ask him while we're walking!'

"Yea, sure let's go."

While the both of them were walking, Shihana wanted to start a conversation.

"So… Neji are you going with anyone to the festival?" Shihana said with a bit of 'hint' in her voice.

"Nope, are you?"

'Heck yeah!' Shihana thought in her mind happily, but left an emotionless face.

"Well Neji… can I ask you something?"

"Uh… yeah sure…" Neji said as the both of them stopped walking.

"Will you go with me to the Sakura Festival? Well as a date kinda—thing…

"Uh… Well…" Neji looked down in a bit of shame, but lifted up his head to see Shihana waiting for the answer. "… Well… I kinda think of us as friends…ONLY… nothing more. I'm sorry" Neji said waiting for Shihana to react.

Shihana was crushed inside, but she kept a smile on her face.

"U-uhh that's okay… I c-can ask someone e-else then." Shihana said as she tried to stop her voice from cracking.

Shihana gave Neji a warm smile before running off. While she ran, she tried to fight back tears that seemed to want to come out so badly. Unfortunately, she failed. So she ran off with tears streaming down her delicate cheeks. While she ran she hit something, causing her to fall back. Shihana looked up to see a guy with raven-like hair; he was standing there with his hand out. Shihana grabbed onto his hand and he helped Shihana lift herself up.

"Uh… thanks Sasuke-san."

"No problem. Hey… uh... Shihana."

"Yea?"

"I've been meaning to ask you… and I think it's the right time to ask. Will you go to the Sakura Festival with me?"

Shihana looked at him thinking whether or not she should go.

'Should I? Or should I not? I asked Neji and he said no… and now Sasuke wants to ask me… I guess there's only one thing to say at a time like this…"

"So... Will you?"

Shihana gave him a warm smile which seemed to melt Sasuke inside.

"I…"