Hello everyone! Sorry for the long wait, I'm gonna try to make this an extra long chapter full of fluffy and sensual moments to make up for the wait. Also, just to let you guys know, I have a poll up for one of my other stories. If you guys could vote on one of the answers, it would really help a sister out and be greatly appreciated. Also, thank you for the reviews for last chapter. Really awesome. Anyway, that's all that I needed to say for now. Now on with the story!

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"So~."

"So..?"

"Ugh!" Karin rolls her magenta eyes and practically slams her hands down on the bed in the upstairs part of the store. Turning to her shy companion, she leans in closer to the startled girl.

"Come on Hinata! You know what I'm talking about!" Exclaims the redhead, getting more and more into the blushing bluenette's face.

Leaning back, Hinata puts her hands up between her and her overly excited friend. A bead of sweat drips down her cheek as she smiles nervously at the girl.

"I-I have n-no idea what you're t-talking about, ho-honest!"

Rolling her eyes once more, Karin flips her hair back and sits straight. "Oh please. You're oblivious act ain't fooling no one."

"B-But I swear-" Hinata tries to defend, but is quickly cut off by a painted finger to her lip. Her pale eyes look down at the finger, making her appear cross-eyed.

"Save it!" Karin smirks. "I don't want to hear another pointless word unless it's about your date with Sasori."

"D-D-D-DATE?!" Hinata squeaks, gently pushing Karin's hand away from her mouth. She instantly places her hands on her burning face, shaking her head furiously.

"No, no, no! I-It wasn't a-a d-d-d-date!" Hinata pleads. "I-I already have a b-boyfriend!"

While Hinata sits having a mini panic attack on the bed, Karin is beside her laughing to her heart's content. The glasses wearing girl is slapping her knee, holding onto her stomach, and rocking back and forth from how hard she was laughing.

After about a minute of just letting Hinata ramble on about it not being a date, Karin heaves in a big breath as she wipes her eyes under her glasses. Placing her glasses back into place, she turns towards her stuttering friend.

"Ho, ho. You are funny, I'll give you that." She starts, causing Hinata to stop her mumbling and look at the redhead with an equally red face. "No, but seriously, I wanna hear how it went with Sasori. I wanna know if he was a complete jackass, or if it was just as awkward as I pictured it to be."

Hinata blinks. "You thought it would be awkward?" She asks in a quiet voice, causing Karin to cringe, knowing that she may have just upset the girl.

Laughing nervously, Karin waves her off. "T-That's besides the point, Hinata. I need you to tell me how the meet up was. Gossip with me. Be a real girl." The redhead raises her fist slightly, speaking in a gruffer tone towards the end.

Hinata gasp and her eyes widen at Karin's statement. "I-I am a real girl!"

Leaning forward again, Karin offers up a sly grin. "Then prove it."

"F-Fine!"

For the next ten minutes, Hinata spends her time enlightening Karin on her "date" with Sasori, up until the point where he called her intriguing. By the end of it, her cheeks were tinted a light pink and her hand was pressed close to her chest, her eyes giving off a dazed look. Karin sat there, her eyes blinking in surprise, never thinking that something like that would be said by the redheaded male.

Suddenly a smile reaches the girl's face. "So, did it end there, or did you guys do something else? Please tell me you did more, otherwise this would have been so boring."

Peering back up at Karin, Hinata starts to twirl her fingers together. "To be honest, I thought that things were going to end there, but surprisingly, he wanted to do more with me."

"Oh really?" Karin's eyes widened once more. "What else did you guys do?"

"Well..."

Flashback to the previous day...

"In fact, you are quite intriguing."

Hinata's eyes grow wide and her cheeks burn the brightest shade of red ever. Her pale orbs linger on Sasori's calm features as he, too, stares at her. It was almost like she was in a trance staring into his hazel gaze. But then suddenly, her trance was broken by the sound of her company's smooth laughter.

"You're really something else, you know that?" Sasori states, taking a big bite out of his ham and cheese croissant.

Her breath hitches in her throat before she faintly mumbles, "No...", earning her another chuckle from the male.

"So, you said that the whole purpose of you asking me and Gaara out was so that you could get to know us better, right?" He asks, earning him a faint nod. "Well then how about we start with a topic that isn't so depressing this time, neh?"

Gulping down the sudden lump in her throat, Hinata grasps for her tea and sips it to distract herself from her sudden nervousness. "O-Okay."

"I promise that I will answer as honestly as possible, but only to the things that I want to reveal, got it?"

Placing her cup back down, Hinata nods and rubs her clammy hands on her skirt. "R-Right. So... What do you want t-to talk about first?"

Not removing his eyes from her for even a second, he rest his head in the palm of his hand. "How about we stick with the topic of family, only the ones that are alive this time though." He smirks when she releases a small giggle. "So, do you have any siblings?"

Raising a brow at him, Hinata starts to loosen up a bit and smiles softly. "I thought I was the one that was going to be asking the questions." She jokes, taking a bite of her cinnamon roll.

"It can go both ways." He taps his finger against his cheek. "How about you answer, then I will. Deal?" The redhead extends his other hand out to the blushing teen. Hinata stares at his hand for a moment before hesitantly shaking it.

His grip is firm, causing her to blush for reasons unknown to her. "Deal."

Taking his hand back, Sasori sips at his coffee. "So now you need to answer my question. Do you have any siblings?"

"Yes. I have two... well technically one, a little sister, but my older cousin is like a brother to me, so I consider him to be my brother." She chuckles and looks the redhead in the eyes. "How about you, Sasori-san? Do you have any siblings?"

"Nope. Was an only child all my life." He states simply.

"Oh, I see." Hinata mumbles, placing a finger to her lip in thought. "Okay, this may seem like a silly question, but I don't really know how old you and Gaara-san are." Sasori blinks. "So, um, how old are you?"

"This may come as a surprise to you, but I'm twenty-two and Gaara is twenty-one. Now how old are you, Hinata?" For some strange reason, Hinata felt a sudden shiver run up and down her spine as soon as he said her name.

"O-Oh, um, I'm actually nineteen." Sasori's eyes slightly widen at this.

"You're nineteen?" She nods meekly. "Holy shit, I at least thought for sure that you were Gaara's age or something." He snickers to himself, peering into her stunning eyes. "Looks like you're too young for me. Sorry, Hinata, but I only go for women twenty and up." He winks at her. "Don't want to risk any angry dads, you know."

She didn't know why she had the sudden urge to blurt this fact out, but it just seemed to happen.

"I'll be twenty in a few weeks!" She shouted softly, her face the same color of his hair.

His eyes widen once more at her spontaneous outburst. A sly grin then comes to his face as he leans closer to her.

"Oh? When is your birthday, Hinata? Maybe I could gift you with something," He then leans back and crosses his arms over his broad chest. "Or perhaps your boyfriend is going to be taking you out?"

All of a sudden, Hinata's eyes downcast and she offers Sasori a sad smile. His expression becomes serious.

"Actually, my boyfriend is going to be busy on my birthday. This will be the second time that he's missed it, but it's okay. I mean after all, my birthday is just two days after Christmas."

"Hn."

Feeling the sudden tension in the air, Hinata chuckles nervously and waves him off. "B-But don't worry about it! I usually just spend the day with my friends and family anyway. They always go all out for me, so there never is that much room for him."

"..." Sasori's expression is still as he blankly stares at her. Feeling the heat rise up her neck yet again, Hinata averts her eyes.

"So w-when is your-"

"You wanna go do something else?" The redhead abruptly asks, causing Hinata's eyes to snap towards his. He was giving her bored look, but something in his eyes told her a different story. She didn't quite know what was hidden in his hazel orbs, but all she knew was that it was something surprisingly gentle.

She finishes off the rest of her order, just as he does. "What d-did you have in mind?"

He shrugs. "Mini golf is a start." He peers out the window, not noticing her awed look. "The weather seems nice enough today."

She tilts her head to the side. "I would love to go, Sasori-san, but what do you mean by, 'it's a start'?"

He graces her with a side glance. "We could always do something else after mini golf, unless you have other plans after this."

Blushing like mad, Hinata shakes her head vigorously and wrings her hands together. "No, no! This was honestly the only plan that I had for today. After this, I was just going to go home and do nothing, I guess."

"Great then." Sasori states as he slides himself out of the booth. "We can figure out something else for us to do once we finish golfing."

Sasori stands outside of the booth, waiting for Hinata to make her way out. Once she's out of the booth, he gestures her towards the door and watches as she gives polite farewell to the female workers.

"You should apply here if you don't already have a job." He states unexpectedly, in turn causing Hinata to jolt and face him with a flushed face. But before she could even utter a single word, he speaks again. "I think you'd make the outfits look good."

Hinata sputters out random sounds and brings her hands to her face at the random compliment. She didn't know whether to feel flattered or weirded out by it, and yet, she felt some odd form of pleasantness wash over her just from hearing him say it.

"So did you drive here, or walk here?" Asks Sasori as he holds the door open for her to leave. Once outside, Hinata takes in a deep, deep breath and turns towards the male.

With a soft sigh, she replies. "I walked here, since it's really not all that far from my neighborhood."

"I see." He says. Sasori then starts to walk off without another word. Stunned for a moment, Hinata quickly follows after him, only to run smack dab into his back.

Rubbing her nose, Hinata begins to mutter apologies as she walks around him, only to stop when she sees a large group of people huddled around an expensive looking red car. Many of the people were snapping pictures of it, while others were simply examining the nice looking vehicle. She then hears a low groan coming from her companion, and she looks up at him in question.

"Sasori-san? Is everything okay?" She asks gently.

The hazel eyed man simply runs his hand through his red locks and stares at the group of people with an annoyed glare.

"This happens all of the fucking time." He practically growls out, earning him a wince from the girl beside him. Suddenly, Hinata's eyes widen in realization. She points towards the expensive car.

"W-Wait! So t-that's your car?"

Sasori merely side glances at her before looking back at the group of people surrounding his ride. "Yeah. It's my twenty-fifteen Ferrari LaFerrari." Hinata's eyes widen even more.

She knew that she recognized the car from somewhere. It was the same car that her father had gifted her cousin in the summer. This car costed a little more than $1,400,000.00. How in the world could he have afforded it? He must have been saving his money for a long time in order to buy that car.

It was in that moment that she noticed that the redhead wasn't beside her anymore. Looking around, she found him scaring people away from his car. He either glared at the person, growled, threatened, or whatever. All she knew was that after this, she just wanted to stay on Sasori's good side.

She shivered.

Once all of the people were gone, Sasori opened his car door and motioned for her to come over. Hesitantly, she walked over the man and his fancy vehicle.

"Don't worry." He starts calmly. "I won't bite." Pause. He grins slyly. "Unless you want me to, that is."

For the umpteenth time that day, Hinata cheeks flush crimson, but she doesn't say a word. Instead, she just goes to the passenger side and hops in just as he does. Making sure to buckle her seat belt, Hinata watches as Sasori starts the engine and slowly starts to back out of the café. Once on the road, Sasori starts to drive off, leaving them in a quiet silence.

They drive for probably two minutes before Sasori turns on the radio. On the station, a rock song is in the middle of playing. Looking over at her, Sasori asks, "Do you like rock music?"

Looking back at him, Hinata drums her fingers to the beat of the song. "I listen to it from time to time. It all depends on my mood, y-you know."

"Hn." Sasori smirks and continues on driving. A few minutes later, they come onto an empty, long road. The redhead's smirk turns devious.

"Hey Hinata?" He calls.

"Yes?" She peers up at him with a quirked brow.

"Do you like to go fast?"

"Huh?" Hinata suddenly feels the need to tighten her grip on her seat belt.

"Do you want to go fast?" Hinata is silent as she stare with wide eyes at the male who was grinning a devilish smile towards her. "Do you want to see how fast this car of mine can really go?" She notices that his grip on the steering wheel tighten.

She's been driving with Neji in his car, but he's a law abiding man, meaning he follows speed limits. He never speeds, even down empty streets. She could feel her heart beat faster and faster in anticipation. She had a feeling that he would speed off no matter what she would say.

Closing her eyes and gripping her seat belt as tightly as humanly possible, she swallows the lump in her throat. She hears him chuckle at her, and that's when she feels it.

In an instant, Hinata feels her back press deep into the seat and the wind being knocked right out of her. She subconsciously bites her lip to keep from screaming, but when she feels him speed up even further, her voice burst from her lips and the entire car is filled with nothing but her girly screams and the loud rock music playing over the station. Her screams of both excitement and terror are soon accompanied by the boisterous laughter of the redhead next to her.

Suddenly, the car comes to a nearly abrupt halt, causing her to jut forward and then slam back into the seat. A deafening silence soon fills the car, the only thing being heard, other than the commercial break, are Hinata's attempts at catching her breath.

"Oh... My... Gosh..." Hinata pants out, still gripping onto the seat belt while looking over at the still tittering man.

Breathing in himself, Sasori gives her a side glance as he continues his drive to the golf course as if nothing had just happened. "So how was it, Hinata? How do you feel?"

Hinata just continues to gaze at him with wide lilac eyes, trying to catch all of the breath she had lost from screaming. All of a sudden, a cheeky grin graces her features, a hearty laugh escapes her lips.

"That was amazing! I feel amazing!" Hinata all but cheers, kicking her feet like a child. "Thank you, thank you, t-thank you Sasori-san!"

Hinata could hear Sasori laughing at her again, and she all but joined in.

About seven minutes later, they finally reached the golf course. Sasori quickly parks his car and the two of them exit the vehicle and make their way to the booth where you get your golf clubs.

After paying for the clubs, Sasori takes Hinata to the first hole. Sasori makes it in a hole in one. Hinata can just manage making it in three. While she loved mini golf, she still sucked at it. Sasori on the other hand, seems to be a master at it, despite him saying that he's only played a handful of times.

A couple of holes in, Hinata is lagging so far behind, while Sasori is hitting all these aces. They keep on going with Sasori cracking snide jokes at Hinata every now and then. Hinata would retaliate by blushing and trying to do better, only to fail miserably and end up kicking the ball into the hole.

Finally the two of them make it to the final hole. Almost immediately, Sasori makes the shot, earning him a perfect card. Utterly amazed, Hinata just stares with her mouth gaped open. Walking proudly over to the awed girl, Sasori shocks her by placing his hand under her chin and forcing her mouth closed, letting his fingers linger there for a moment.

"An open mouth like that isn't attractive unless you are doing one thing, and that one thing only, Hinata." He states with a suggesting wink.

Taking a while to try to figure out his meaning, Hinata goes to the perverse part of her mind, only to practically pop the top of her head off from how hot her face became. "O-O-Oh..."

Yet again, Sasori stands there laughing at her. Shaking her head to get rid of the naughty thought, Hinata humphs and stomps her way over to the beginning of the last hole and sets up her putt. Just as she's setting her aim to hit the ball, Hinata feels a sudden jolt surge through her body as she sees another's hands sliding down her arms, grasping the club over her own hands. The hands tighten slightly around her own, and that's when she feels the other's body being pressed closely to her back.

Face red, and heart racing, and body shivering from the close contact, Hinata turns her head to get a look at the perpetrator, only to literally come face to face with a smug, eyes half lidded looking Sasori. Literally, their noses were just barely touching each other as he rested his head upon her shoulder. The bluenette could feel the male's minty breath faintly touch her lips, and she could only hope that her breath doesn't smell bad.

Hinata feels like the two of them stood like that for forever. She thought that she was starting to go crazy from just how much she was staring at his lips. They looked smooth, just like the rest of him. When her eyes would briefly glance into his own, she could have sworn that he was looking at her lips as well.

Suddenly, her attention was brought – thankfully – away from the redhead's face and onto his hands, that had somehow interlaced with hers so that they both had a firm grasp on the golf club. Sasori had started to swing her arms gently, aiming carefully at the putt.

Drawing her gaze from between Sasori's face, their interlocked hands, and the putt, Hinata could hear Sasori's voice whisper in her ear. This caused her body to violently shiver, and she feared that Sasori could feel it too.

"Now, all that you want to do for this one, Hinata," Her body shook again upon hearing her name whispered by him. "Is tap it gently and let hill and corners do the rest of the work. Do you understand?"

Hinata couldn't answer him. Not when he's like this, and especially when her body is shuddering with every word being whispered into her ear. She had to bite her lip and turn her away from, just so that she could keep what little of her sanity that she had left. She could only make a mumbled noise of agreement as she felt the club hit the ball.

Turning her head to see where the ball was going to go, she realized that Sasori still hadn't released her, but instead was watching the ball just like she was. It was only when the ball went into the hole that Hinata forgot that she was being cradled by her companion.

She took in a deep breath and went to turn around to cheer with Sasori, only to come face to chest with his hands placed on her hips. Taking the risk of peeking up at him, her eyes meet his and she instantly regrets it. In his hazel eyes, she can see such an intensity swirling within them that actually drew her closer, rather than chase her away.

After about ten long seconds, Hinata uses all of her will power and the thought of her boyfriend to place her hand on Sasori's chest and push herself at an arms length away. Feeling and seeing no protest from the redhead, Hinata shyly smiles at him, her cheeks hued pink.

"I-I did i-it Sasori-san. T-Thank you." She says softly as she walks ahead of the male.

"Hn." Was his only response as he trailed behind her with their balls and his club in hand.

After handing in their clubs and putts, both Hinata and Sasori make their way back to his car. On the way there, Hinata turns to her new friend with her hands folded behind her back.

"I-Is there anything else t-that you would like to d-do, Sasori-san?"

Sparing her a glance, Sasori unlocks his car and both he and she hop in. While putting on her seat belt, Sasori finally responds.

"Bowling?"

Pulling out of the golf course, Hinata excitedly turns to her companion with a wide grin on her face. Sasori raises a brow at her behavior.

"So yes?" He asks her, only to receive a uncharacteristic smirk from her.

"Now this is something that I know I can beat you at this time, Sasori-san." Hinata replies confidently, earning a wide eyed smirk from the redhead.

"Oh really now?" Sasori starts to speed off towards their next destination, causing Hinata to grip her seat belt tighter. "We'll just see about that then."

"That we shall." The bluenette giggles.

The rest of the ride to the bowling center is filled with loud rock music and the occasional commercial break. In roughly ten minutes, they finally make it to the bowling place. Quickly parking his car, both Sasori and Hinata rush their way into the building, Hinata laughing the whole time.

After paying for their smelly shoes and finding a lane, Sasori starts to type in their names on the score board thing, whilst Hinata ties up her shoes. Once her shoes are tied, Hinata looks up to see that Sasori had actually spelled her name right. A light blush comes to her cheeks due to the happiness she felt at that.

"You actually spelled my name right, Sasori-san." She comments.

"Of course I did." He gently scoffs, not turning to look at her. "How could I not spell it right? It's one of the easiest names to spell."

Hinata softly chuckles at him as she watches him ties his own shoes. "You'd be surprised at how many people misspell my name." She then goes to grab her ball off of the racks.

"Some put an 'a' instead of an 'i'. Others put an 'm', not 'n'. And then there are those few that butcher my name completely." She shivers at the thought of it.

"Then those people are morons." Sasori comments as he comes to stand beside her, startling her a bit.

Giggling, she notices him pick up a heavy blue ball. Feeling the need to rush, Hinata picks up a light swirly pink and purple ball and makes her way over to her seat. She watches as Sasori carefully lines himself up. Just before he goes in for the strike, he turns to her with a devilish smirk.

"You ready to lose again, princess?" Her face flushes pink at the nickname, but her expression turns challenging.

"Bring it on."

Not surprising in the least, Sasori makes his first strike, making Hinata roll her eyes at his cocky strut back to her. Placing his hand on her head, he ruffles her hair, making her shoo his hand away with a challenging stare and pout.

"Show me what you got now, Ha-na-ta." Sasori teases, earning him a gasp from the blushing girl.

"Y-You..." Hinata sputters at his purposeful mispronunciation of her name.

Now her game face is on. Going up on the lane, Hinata lines up her shot on the pins. Almost too girly, Hinata walks up to the start of the lane and throws the ball, her leg coming up behind her as the ball leaves her hand.

She can hear Sasori laughing behind her at her pose, but she merely turns around to face him with crossed arms and a victorious smile. When she hears the pins being knocked down and Sasori's sudden quietness, she knows that she had hit a..

"Strike!" The machine above her head calls out.

Walking over to her seat, Hinata plops herself down and crosses her legs and smirks back at an equally smirking Sasori.

"Not bad. Not bad at all." He states as he goes to get his ball. "But that was just lucky on your part. You're still gonna lose."

"We'll see about that." Hinata retorts.

Thirty minutes go by, and its the final shot for both of them. Each of them had managed to get strikes throughout the entire game. This garnered them a crowd of fellow bowlers, who were in awe of their amazing skills at bowling.

Sasori was up first. People around them were quiet as he lines himself up. Letting the ball go from his hand, yet again, he makes a strike, causing the crowd to go wild at his superiority of the game.

Seeing him walk back and remove his shoes, Hinata feels a sudden nervousness wash over her from all of the cheers from the other bowlers. Walking up to set herself up on the lane, Hinata can hear all of the cheers coming from everyone.

This causes her to almost falter, that is, until she hears him cheer for her as well. Turning around shakily, Hinata sees Sasori with his hands cupped around his mouth, calling her out and telling her that she can do it.

This shocked her because in the beginning, this was supposed to be a competition. But now he's cheering for her. For some reason, it made her feel really good inside.

With a nod of her head, Hinata turns back around and lines herself up. Letting the ball slip from her fingers, she and the crowd wait in anticipation as the ball rolls down the glossy lane. Biting her lip and closing her eyes, the whole thing seemed to move in slow motion.

The clapping and shouting of the crowd seemed low for all she could hear was the machine above her call out "Strike!". Turning around quickly and jumping up and down in pure joy, Hinata cheers for herself along with the crowd.

Without even thinking of her next move, Hinata rushes towards Sasori and leaps at him, wrapping her arms around his neck, forcing him to place his hands on her hips to keep her steady.

"I did it, Sasori-san!" Hinata exclaims, putting her feet back on the ground, and releasing the redhead from her hold. "I won!"

"Ahem, I think you mean 'we' won." Sasori corrects, putting his hands in his pockets as he stares down at a cheeky Hinata with his hazel eyes. "It's a tie."

Surprised by her own forgetfulness, Hinata's cheeks tint pink as she laughs. "Oh yeah. I'm s-sorry." And then as if just now realizing that she had just hung on the redhead like her life depended on it, her entire face changes red and she quickly puts some distance between she and him. "I-I'm so s-so-sorry about h-hugging you without y-your permission, Sasori-san!"

"It's fine." Sasori says, waving her off. He then looks around at all of the people still staring and recording them. "I think it's about time we leave this place. I don't want to be bombarded by idiots with no lives."

Hinata inwardly flinches at the redhead's harsh comment, but agrees with him anyway, surveying the crowd with her own eyes. Making swift of it, she takes off her shoes and puts on the ones she came in with.

Walking with him to the counter, the two give back their shoes and briskly exit the bowling center.

Practically running to the car due to them hearing shouts from people inside the building, they rush into the vehicle and immediately speed off to who knows where. This time, the car ride is filled with Hinata's muffled chuckles from her thinking to what had just transpired.

Soon, her laughter dies down and the car is once again filled with music from the radio. Without a destination in mind, Sasori just drives them around until he finds a gas station.

Parking by one of the pumps, Sasori gets out of the car, leaving Hinata to her own thoughts. She sits there, strumming her fingers to the beat of the song playing on the radio while she waits for the male to come back.

After a mere few minutes, Sasori comes back into the car, but his face is marred with a scowl and furrowed brows and narrowed eyes. She's tempted to ask what's wrong, but she has a feeling that even if she did, he would either snap at her, or he would just ignore her all together.

"Where do you live?" His voice suddenly breaks through her thoughts, causing her to jump slightly and turn to him.

Hesitantly she tells him her address, not wanting to upset him further.

"S-So... I take i-it that w-we're done h-hanging out n-now?" She stutters, playing with a fistful of her skirt.

"Yup." He replies somewhat coldly.

Hinata remains silent after that. Despite her never wanting to say aloud, she still wanted to do more with him. This is the most fun that she's had with a male that wasn't Naruto, Neji, Kiba, or Shino. She hasn't had this kind of fun with her own boyfriend, and that's saying something.

In fifteen minutes, they arrive at her family's apartment complex. It was one of those apartments that only the rich and well off could possibly afford to stay in. Most people say that it bears a very close resemblance to the Hilton Hotel. And lucky for her, she and her family live in the penthouse suite of this apartment complex, so it was very spacious for her and her siblings and father.

Pulling up to the front of the building, in front of this arch way looking thing, the two of them just sit there in silence for a moment.

Twiddling her thumbs, Hinata hesitantly unbuckles her seat belt and places her hand on the handle of the car door, readying herself to leave.

"Um, thank you for agreeing to come out with me, Sasori-san." She blushes. "I-I... I had a really great time with y-you." She gulps. "M-Maybe... Maybe w-we can do this a-again some other time?"

Sasori doesn't respond to her, which makes her mental curse at her blatant show of eagerness to hang out with him again. She feels stupid for even bothering to speak to him in such a happy tone when he is clearly anything but happy. With a sad smile, Hinata hurriedly opens the door and jumps out the car. But before she closes the door, she turns to him and mumbles out apologies.

"I-I'm sorry for asking Sasori-san. I-It's clear that y-you are upset, s-so I shouldn't bother you a-anymore. P-Please-"

"I would like that, Hinata."

Blinking away the tears in her eyes, Hinata stares at the redhead in shock due to his words.

"E-Excuse me?"

Turning to her, Sasori's expression softens as he offers her smirk. "I said I would like to chill with you again. No matter how hard I try to deny it, I really did enjoy myself."

He pauses and looks down at his lap, but Hinata can see a small tint of red grace his cheeks. She blushes herself at the sight of it. "You're not as bad a companion as you thought you'd be. You truly are intriguing."

Hinata was left speechless as she stands in the door of his car. What feels like minutes is really seconds as a small smile creeps onto her face and her pale eyes beam with relief and joy.

"Thank you, Sasori-san." She says in a breathy whisper. And before she can even rethink her decision, Hinata slips back into the car a places a quick peck on a shocked Sasori's cheek.

Before she can hear him say anything, Hinata instantly slips back out of the car and shuts his door and jets off to the entrance of her complex. Turning to wave at him, she can see through the car window his wide eyes and open with his hand placed on the cheek that she had kissed.

Not wanting to see him stare at her any longer encase some of the officials at the complex come out and tell him to move, Hinata rushes into the building, not even bothering to see if he leaved.

End of Flashback...

By the end of her tale, Hinata's cheeks were as red as a cherry and her heart was going a mile a minute. Although she wanted to say more, like her thoughts for example, she refrained herself from saying so, due to the fact that she felt like she had said too much already to her friend.

Hinata wanted to tell Karin that a small part of her had hoped that Sasori would run out his car and come up and kiss like how they do in the movies, but she knew that she shouldn't. She has a boyfriend for crying out loud. Plus, from the look on the glasses wearing girl's face, Hinata has a feeling that that tiny bit of information would keel the girl over.

"Holy SHIT!" Karin all but screeches, bouncing on the bed with her glasses fogging up. "Are you shitting me, Hinata!"

Landing back on the bed with a harsh jump, Karin pushes her face so close to Hinata's to the point where their noses are touching. "All of that really went down? Just like that?"

At a loss for words, Hinata simply nods.

Karin starts to freak out again.

"No freaking way!" She cries, pacing back and forth on the bed, causing Hinata to jump with each step she takes. "Who would have thought that that cold-hearted bastard could turn out to be so smooth and suave?"

Plopping back down next to the bluenette, Karin juts out her bottom lip and sighs longingly. "You are so lucky, Hinata. To have a hot guy like him act that way towards you, yet you don't even jump at the chance? I mean, I understand that he can be catty at times, but damn he sure is fine!"

Hinata can't help but to laugh at her friend's fawning over Sasori. "But Karin, I have a boyfriend, remember?"

Karin rolls her eyes as her gaze turns sharp. "Boyfriend, shmoyfriend. In my opinion, you don't even have one. Hidan is a worthless piece of crap. Sasori has managed to show you a way better time than your so called boyfriend has in the entire year and a half that you've been dating. When comes down to who's more boyfriend material between the two assholes, you can already tell who my pick would be." She flips her magenta hair over her shoulder. "Toss that boy in the trash."

"Karin," Hinata mumbles, to shocked to even speak due to the redhead's confession. She knew that Karin didn't like Hidan – none of her friends/family did – but to hear her say this aloud was mind opening to her. It's like it's completely different from knowing mentally how your love ones feel than from hearing them say their thought out in the open.

"Hidan's n-not all bad." Hinata tries to defend her man meekly, but is quickly shot down.

"Not all bad?" Karin presses, her eyes widening in disbelief. "Pff! Okay! And Naruto's not a complete idiot when it comes to the way women feel. Okay!"

"But-"

Hinata is silenced by a finger placed on her lips.

"No buts, Hinata." Sternly says Karin. "Ask anyone and they will tell you the same thing. Kick Hidan's muscly ass to the curb. Even auntie Kushina can't stand him. He doesn't deserve someone like you. And you certainly deserve better."

Hinata remains silent as she sinks deeper into her thoughts. Should she finally tell Hidan that it's over? What if he really did like her and by her telling him to hit the road, she'd really be breaking his heart? Sure he's never really been there for her when she needed it, and he's never really done anything special for her. As far as she remembers, he has only taken her out on one date, and may she say that it wasn't really a good one.

Thinking once more on how contrasting her day with Sasori was compared to how a whole year was with Hidan, maybe it was time to stop wearing the title of 'Hidan's girlfriend'. If someone she had just met a week ago can treat her to a better time than her own boyfriend can in the span of a year and a half, then maybe it is time to free herself from his burden.

"Karin, I... I think you may be right." Sputters Hinata, looking the redhead dead in the eye.

Karin's mouth gapes like a fish before she can return a response. "A-Are you for real?"

Hinata nods. "I-I just don't know how to b-break up with someone." Hinata's voice grows weaker. "Hidan is my first boyfriend after all."

"Was, Hinata dearest. Was."

Well I think this is a good enough stopping point than any. Plus I finally just want to put something out there, so here it is! ^^ Hope I made it long enough and juicy enough to fill in the long gap between the updates. I also hope that the relationship between Hinata and Sasori doesn't seem too, too rushed. While I do want to take things somewhat slow, I do want to get some romance in there too.

Anyway, enough of me yapping. Hope you all enjoyed this much longer chapter and all of it's SasoHina moments. Don't worry, Gaara will be getting some Hinata loving soon as well. And as a reminder, please don't forget to vote on one of the choices on my poll please. I put it up on my bio page so it's easy.

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