Chapter 4: I'm sorry… I'm sorry… I'm sorry…
Recap
"A-Arigatou hic Sasuke-san"
That was the last thing Shihana said until she went into a deep slumber. Sasuke just stayed awake and watched over Shihana.
'This must be Hyuuga's fault. He'll pay… Mark my words…'
End Recap
Shihana woke up to see Sasuke sitting on the chair next to the bed. Shihana looked at him warmly before placing a blanket over him.
"Sleep tight Sasuke-san…" Shihana whispered in his ear before walking out of the door and going to the designated area, where Gai and the other usually meet. Suddenly, last night events passed through Shihana's head, she stopped walking.
'I don't want to see him…'
Shihana slowly went to the training field anyway. When she got there she just saw Lee.
"Hey Shihana-chan!" Lee called out when he spotted her walking towards him.
"Hey Lee… You're here early" Shihana greeted back, with a little bit of depression in her voice.
"Well you can never train too much!" Lee said happily.
"Hey Lee… Can I ask you a BIG favor?" Shihana asked, hoping Lee would accept.
"Sure, anything for you!" Lee said.
"Can you tell Gai-sensei and the others I'll be going away for a few days?"
"Okay… but where are you going?" Lee asked.
"Um… something personal just came up and I feel like I wanted to be alone…" Shihana said looking down at the ground.
That's when Lee notices the red mark on her cheek.
"Shihana-chan! What happened to your chee-"Lee got cut off when he saw her crying. He gently hugged her.
"Thanks Lee… But I have to leave now before the others come." Shihana said before getting out of Lee's grasp.
"See you later then…" Shihana said before her whole body disappeared into shadows.
After that, Tenten, Neji, Rei, and Gai came and saw Lee looking down in sadness.
"Lee you're sad! That's not youthful!" Gai said out loud, as Rei's eyes began to twitch.
"What's wrong?" Tenten asked.
"Shihana was here… but now she's gone…" Lee quietly whispered, as he looked to where Shihana had left.
"What! She's gone?" Rei yelled out.
'This must be that stupid Hyuuga's fault. I can sense it. What a jerk' Rei said as she glared at Neji and huffed.
Neji just stood there in utter shock.
'It's my fault she ran away… Dammit! I shouldn't have yelled at her!' Neji mentally tortured himself.
"I'm gonna go look for her!" Neji yelled out before going into the forest, to find Shihana.
Shihana on the other hand, was just walking aimlessly around the forest as last night's events played over and over in her head.
"GET OUT HERE NOW, SHIHANA! DON'T MAKE ME FORCE YOU!"'
"Shihana… are you… crying?"
"Y-You only thought of us as best friends… nothing… m-more."
"N-Neji…"
"NO SHUT UP! I DON'T EVER WANT TO SEE YOU'RE FACE AGAIN! CONSIDER US DONE!"
"NO! RIGHT NOW, WE WERE NEVER FRIENDS!"
Shihana heard running sounds and she instantly went into hiding. Shihana peered out of her hiding spot to see…
'Neji…'
He quickly spotted her. Shihana knew he saw her, so she sprinted away from him, trying to get as far away as possible from him. Neji ran after Shihana, he kept catching up to Shihana, but she'd just run faster and faster.
"NEJI! PLEASE GO AWAY!" Shihana yelled.
"No! I'm not leaving you!" Neji yelled back as Shihana started to get more depressed.
Shihana couldn't run anymore so she stopped, Neji did the same and looked at Shihana. Once again, Shihana was crying and crying. Neji was also getting hurt while he watched Shihana cry. Neji couldn't hold it in anymore so he finally pulled Shihana into a tight hug.
"I'm sorry…I'm sorry… I'm sorry…." Neji kept saying those 2 words over and over into Shihana's ear.
Shihana was shocked but she slowly hugged him back. After a couple of minutes, they both slowly let go, and Neji held Shihana's injured cheek with his hand. Shihana winced from the pain, and Neji noticed. He felt worse that he actually did that to her.
"I'm sorry Shihana… I shouldn't have never yelled at you… or hit you." Neji said in a sincere voice.
"Neji... it's not your fault… If I knew you didn't want me to go with Sasuke-san I wouldn't have accepted his offer." Shihana said as her crimson eyes met his irresistible milky gaze.
Neji hugged Shihana again.
'What are these feelings? Every time I'm with her she makes me feel happy… b-but she's my best friend…' Neji thought as he let go of Shihana.
"Let's go home…" Neji said, and Shihana nodded.
As the both of them walked back, Shihana was a little scared for some reason so she put her hand on Neji's hand. Neji smiled back and held it tighter and Shihana just smiled at him, which seemed to make him melt inside.
When Shihana and Neji got back to the training grounds there was a note saying that they all left to go home. So Shihana and Neji walked back to the Hyuuga Compound. When Shihana and Neji were at the gates, they saw Sasuke standing there looking worried. Sasuke saw Shihana and ran to her and hugged her. Neji looked at Sasuke with anger in his eyes. Sasuke let go of Shihana and looked at Neji.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER HYUUGA!" Sasuke yelled angrily.
"Something that doesn't concern you" Neji said simply.
Shihana didn't want them to fight so she quickly said…
"Sasuke-san what are you doing here?"
"When I woke up you weren't there, so I got worried." Sasuke replied.
"Aww… that's sweet, but please don't worry, I'm fine." Shihana said sweetly.
"Come Shihana, It's getting late" Neji said, not wanting Sasuke around Shihana any longer.
"Okay!" Shihana replied. "Bye Sasuke-san!" Shihana said as she ran inside, leaving Neji and Sasuke outside of the Hyuuga Gates.
When Shihana got inside, she found Hinata sitting there looking worried like heck. She noticed Shihana walked in and she smiled and ran up to her and hugged her.
"We were worried about you!" Hinata said.
"Well don't worry about me Hinata-chan. So did Naruto-san agree?" Shihana asked.
"U-Uh w-well he said yes." Hinata said smiling brightly.
"That's great Hinata!"
"Y-Yes and I-I told Rei-chan too. She s-said s-she's going with Shikamaru-san."
"That's cool!" Shihana said happily.
-With Neji and Sasuke
"Uchiha, stay away from her." Neji said to Sasuke.
"Why should I, I mean you really have no chance with her anyway." Sasuke smirked.
"Well, better than you"