Hey guys, and welcome back to another chapter of Demonic Love. Sorry it's been so long, but it's the usual of me getting distracted easily, playing games like the Fate Extella and Dreamfall Chapters and Injustice 2, so on and so fourth. Plus I still get a lot of writers block so I need to stop every now and again.

But I do want you to know that even though I don't update often now, I'm not going to abandon this story or Kunoichi's Stolen Heart (that is currently on hiatus). I AM going to finish these stories so there is no need to worry on that end. And if you hav stuck by me and this story so far then I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart.

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Like always, I apologise in advance for any grammar mistakes, repetitiveness and poor writing. And I also don't own Naruto or it's characters. I'm just using them for the story. And any OCs that you see in this story are mine.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: While you read this, if you see anything that regards a character talking in the first person (excluding speech and thoughts) then I'll apologies for that also. It's because I write it all first in the 1st person perspective before go over it and rewrite it in the 3rd person.

"Alright everyone," Hatake Kakashi began, addressing the students of his class of 2-B. Today was the last day of school before summer vacation began and all the girls were excited. They had been talking about their plans for what they were doing, like either going away with families, spending time with boyfriends, and other things. So when their homeroom teacher spoke up, the girl's had stopped talking immediately, like they all had the same off switch.

"As you all know, tomorrow will be the start of your summer," he continued. The mask that was on the white haired man's face covered his expression, but his one open eye showed all. "And, by the looks on your faces, you are all excited. But before that all happens, there a few things I need to say and do first." Saying that, Kakashi lifted up a few papers from the podium stand that was in front of him. The smile in his eye now had a glint in it. "And one of the things is: the results of exams."

The groans of all the girls echoed in the room, as the teacher placed a stack of papers at the front of one desk before doing the same to the others. The papers were then passed back, until they were all given out. Hinata held her breath, the sound of her heart pounding loudly in her ears. It was only when the ravenette saw what her scores were, did she let out a long sigh of relief.

The girl had passed, barely. Her scores were just above the required amount needed to pass. And if she was honest, Hinata was even surprised that she did. After all that has been happening in the last couple of days, studying had been last thing on her mind. She even had to pull an all nighter one time she was that far behind. But it was all worth it in the end. Besides the homework they had over the time off, this meant she didn't have to attend summer school.

The sound of subtle groans reached her ears and that brought Hinata back. That's right she thought as realization hit her. Just because she passed, didn't mean that everyone else would. Thinking that, the ravenette turned her white gaze to her best friend. From the angle she was at, Hinata couldn't see the expression on her face. But, by the way she held the sheets of paper tightly, Hinata could only come to the conclusion that she had either passed or failed. I hope its the former. She then shifted her gaze away from Tenten, to look behind her.

Sakura's emerald eye was staring intently at the sheets of paper in her hands. Unlike Tenten, Hinata could clearly see the pinkette's face, but her expression was neutral. The ravenette's face quickly flushed red when the pinkette's one eye suddenly looked up into Hinata's white pools, probably knowing that she was being watched, and when she was caught staring, she turned her head back around. Her heart was now pounding hard in her chest and the blush on the girl's face intensified. It took all she had to listen to the rest of what her homeroom teacher was saying.

"Has everyone got their results?" the masked man asked rhetorically, his own one eye scanning the room. "Good. For the people that have passed, I hope you enjoy your summer and have fun. But not too much. As for the people who didn't..." The glint in his eye returned. "I guess I'll see you in August." And with those words, Kakashi told us that homeroom was over and we could leave after the bell goes, before taking off himself.

When he was finally gone, everyone started to speak at once. Some were happy with what they got and some were upset. And Hinata knew that it was harsh to think, but she didn't really care what the girl's got. The only one she cared about was Sakura's test score. So with that thought in mind, the ravenette made her way towards her desk and she saw that Sakura was still looking at her results.

"Sakura-chan?" Hinata called out to her. There was a long pause, but she didn't get an answer. She was still staring intently at the paper. Curiosity got the best of the white eyed girl and so she made her way behind the younger girl. The scent of shampoo that Sakura had used assaulted her nose and it was hard not to breath it in. But when she saw her score from her tests, Hinata nearly forgot how to breathe all together.

100%!?

"Are you okay, Hinata?" the pinkette asked her, Hinata being too much in shock about her score to realize that she had turned to look at her. Trying to gain back her composure, Hinata answered her with a steady voice... sort of.

"I-I'm fine," she told her. "I'm just a little surprised about the score you got."

"So, this is good?"

Good? She found myself thinking. Getting the top score meant that she would be the smartest in their class. If the other girls found out about this then no doubt that she would be asked to help them study. The jealous side of Hinata didn't like that. She know she didn't belong to anyone, Sakura was her own person. But the raven haired girl didn't want to share her with anyone else. But she obviously wasn't going to say anything out loud.

"It's really good," The older girl finally answered. "It means that you don't have to go to summer school."

"I see," Sakura replied nodding.

The bell soon rang through the school, signalling the end of the day and, to the students, the beginning of summer. Everyone began to file out of the room, some in high spirit, and some with their heads down, knowing that they would be attending summer school. Sakura grabbed her bag, stood up from her chair and she and Hinata, too, made their way towards the classroom's door. When she was near Tenten's desk, the girl stopped. The brunette was still sitting at her desk, the paper's clutched in her hands tightly.

"What's wrong Tenten," Sakura asked her. The older girl didn't answer straight away, there was a long pause. When she did finally speak, her voice sounded broken, laced with despair.

"My summer..." she moaned. "My summer... it's... it's..."

That was when Hinata realized what she meant. It looked like it was the latter after all.

Hinata's cell phone began to vibrate in her pocket as she, Sakura and Tenten were making their way back home from school. The brunette was still sulking about her test scores, muttering to herself that her summer was ruined, even though summer school was only for a couple of days. Seeing the caller ID, it belonged to her part-time job. She wasn't working tonight, so it whatever it was it must have been important. Without having to thing about it, the ravenette tapped the button and put it on her ear.

"Hello? Manager?"

"Hello, Hyūga-chan?" the voice of her boss, Jiraiya, the manager of the Sannin Café, spoke through the phone. She and the other girl's that Hinata worked with, didn't know his second name so they decided to call him boss or manager. He didn't like that and insisted that they'd call him by his name. But they all chose to ignore that and called him by the other names. He was also a writer, and had wrote the series that Hinata's homeroom teacher enjoys all too much.

"I'm sorry to call just after you've finished school and I know that you're not working tonight," he continued, his voice taking a grim tone. "But I've got bad news." Her heart began to pound hard and loud within her chest, the palm of her hands beginning to sweat. What was wrong? Did something happen to the café?

"It's terrible," he said. "One of the girl's, she..." One of the girls? Did he mean one of her colleagues? What had happened to her? The more questions that entered her head, the more Hinata began to worry. The girl held her breath, waiting to hear what her boss was going to say next. "...She has called in sick!"

". . . Huh?" Hinata made a noise. That was the terrible thing? That one of her friends from work was ill? Oh, that's right I thought. There was also something else about the girl's boss that she and the others had figured out. And that thing was the fact that her manager, Jiraiya, was also a...

"Isn't that horrible!" he cried. "Now I'm going to be one girl short tonight. And she looked good in that maid outfit too. The way her cleavage bounced every time she moved. The black, knee-length stockings wrapped around her perfect white skin..."

... a pervert.

"A-Anyway, I'm getting off track," he said, realizing what he was saying. "I called to ask if you would be able to cover her shift tonight?"

Hinata let out an inward sigh. It was amazing how he became manager of a popular café, with a bunch of female staff, without getting beating up like a pulp.

"That's fine," she replied, nodding even though he couldn't see it. Hinata wasn't planning on working tonight, but with the extra money in hand, it might come in handy. Jiraiya happily said thanks many times, before he hung up, saying that he would see her later.

"Who was that?" Sakura asked when she hung up.

"It was my manager," she told her. "One of my friends from work is ill, so he asked me to cover for her." Once told, Hinata gave Sakura an apologetic smile. "I'm sorry Sakura-chan, but you'll have to head home without me." But she just shook her head and told her that it was alright, giving the ravenette an understanding smile. She smiled back, gave her thanks and said goodbye to Sakura and Tenten, before making her way to the Sannin Café.

"Thank you and come again!"

Hinata bowed her head and watched as another customer left the Sannin Café with a satisfied smile on their face. When they went through the door she let out a little sigh and turned on her heel. The sun was now setting below the horizon, making the sky an orange, purplish colour and thanks to that it gave the retro, modern café an nice glow.

There was still plenty of people inside the café. A few people using the booths next to the windows, cars passing by as couples or friends chattered to one another. Some where using the wooden tables that were spread about the room. And one, or two, were sitting at the counter, relaxing with their cup of coffees in hand. Hinata watched as her friends, the other waitresses, were either happily taking orders from customers, serving the food and drinks with skill and swiftness. And she could hear some of the girls from behind the counter which led to the kitchen.

"Good work, Hyūga-chan," the voice of her boss brought the girl to attention. When he stood next her, he continued. "Thanks for coming in today on your day off."

She shook her head at his thanks. "It's no problem, manager," Hinata replied honestly. Even though she couldn't fight demons, there were other things that she could do. And that was helping people when they needed it. Like the café for example. It had been extremely busy as soon as she came in, and if there had been even one person down, then the girl's would have struggled with it.

"It's a shame the other girl couldn't turn up," Jiraiya continued. "Oh how I would have loved to see..." The man's eyes widened, like he realized were was at the moment and closed his eyes before he coughed into a closed fist. "A-Anyway, it looks like someone else is coming in. Keep up the good work, Hyūga-chan." With that, Hinata's boss turned on his heel and walked away. She let out another sigh. The ravenette really did wonder how he managed to become a boss of a popular café.

Hearing the jingle of the door's bell, she also turned on her heel. She was about to greet the new customer with her natural smile until she saw familiar pink locks and an emerald gaze. "S-Sakura-chan?!" Hinata cried in surprise. "What are you doing here?" She didn't know where she had gone after the girl had left, but by the way she still had her school uniform on, that meant that she hasn't been home yet.

"I went with Tenten to Rāmen Ichiraku after you left. But after an hour, I couldn't stay there any longer," she explained, her eyes and posture looking completely exhausted. Hinata wondered why she looked so tired and began to worry. But when she finished her story, she understood completely. "She wouldn't stop going on about how her summer was ruined and everyone there began to stare at us."

Hearing that, the ravenette let out a nervous laugh. Was she still sulking about that? Summer school really was only on for a few days. When I eventually stopped laughing, it was time to carry on with the task at hand. The pinkette was now a customer, and she could talk to her all she liked back at home. With that thought, Hinata returned to work mode.

"Can I show you to a table?" she asked her.

She shook her head. "It's alright. I'll just head to the counter and be out of your way."

Hinata gave a nod in understanding, getting a nod back. Then, she made her way towards the counter, like she said she would, and ordered a coffee from the boss. Hinata had watched her make her way to her destination and when the raven haired girl realized that she was staring at her she blushed, hard. Shaking her head, she returned to work, but with great difficulty. Every once in a while, as she served customers, Hinata would turn her white gaze toward the counter. And every once in a while, as she drank the coffee, her one emerald gaze would meet her own and she would smile a gentle smile that would only be for her.

The girl's heart pounded in her chest, and her face flushed even more from that. She forced herself to look away and try to carry on with what she was doing. But to no avail. Because now she was completely aware of Sakura's presence. And once Hinata knew that, she started to make a few mistakes, such as giving a few customers the wrong order, or nearly ending up spilling the caffeinated beverages. The girl couldn't believe how much having Sakura at her work place affected me so much. It was probably because she had a crush on her, and knowing that her crush was there and sometimes watched her, made her feel anxious.

But, luckily or unluckily enough, that anxiety didn't last long. Because of what happened next.

The doors to the café were suddenly thrown open, the bell jingling violently against the force. Every one stopped what they were doing and just stared at the one location. Behind the now opened doors stood five men. They were all well built and they only wore a vest on their torso, showing off the muscles, and tattoos, on their arms and near their necks. They also wore, dark sunglasses, balaclavas around their faces so they couldn't see who they were, and had skinny blue jeans that had seen better days.

And the last thing was... they all had guns.

"Good evening everyone!" the men spoke enthusiastically, probably the leader of the other four. "I'm very sorry to inform you that this peaceful time has turned into a robbery." Gasps could be heard, and eyes widened as the men entered the Sannin café and closed the doors behind them, making sure that no passer-by saw what was going on.

For an extra measure, as the leader continued to talk, one of the other goons made their way towards the windows and pulled down the blinds above, blocking any view and help from the outside. "Right then," the man said. "Ladies, why don't you have a seat, take a break?" But the girls and Hinata didn't move, all wondering if he was serious or not. "Take a fucking seat!"

He was serious. With the sudden shout, some of the girls jumped and they did what he ordered. The leader let out a sigh. "Now was that so hard?" he asked rhetorically. "Should have done that the first time I asked."

At that moment however, fate decided to make things much, much worse. Hinata suddenly began to hear breathing. Heavy breathing. When she turned to look from her seat, I noticed it was one of the waitresses doing the heavy breathing. Her hands were balled up into fists tight on her lap and sweat had started to slide down from her forehead, making her hair stick to her face, her eyes wide in fright. If the ravenette remember correctly, the girl's name was Saginomiya Chiharu and she was one year her junior.

This isn't good she thought to herself and the girl turned out to be right. My entire being, brain and heart, were urging me to go to her. To tell her that, even though it looked bad, everything would be all right. But unfortunately, the leader noticed the panicking girl and slowly started to make his way towards her.

"Oi, girl," he called out, but Saginomiya continued to do panic, her laboured breathing blocking out the leader's voice. The man only made it worse when he slammed a closed fist onto the table the girl was sitting at. "Hey you listening?!" She let out a short scream, her breathing now growing faster by the second, but she managed to look at the leader with her frightened eyes.

"So you can hear me?" he continued. "Good, now listen to me very carefully. I'm going to give you five seconds to calm yourself down. And you don't want to know what will happen if you don't."

"B-but, I-I c-c-can't..." she stuttered, tears slowly beginning to pour out from her eyes.

Hinata couldn't see his face, the glasses and balaclava blocking the man's features, but his body language gave him away. The veins in his neck began to pop and all of a sudden he stood up. "Try," was all he said, before he pointed his pistol at the girl's head. "Five... four..." Slowly counting down only made the girl panic even more, and for the love of god was she trying to do what he told her to do. But as the countdown nearly reached zero, Hinata could see the man's finger slowly pulling the trigger.

Narrowing her eyes, she did the only thing she could do. The raven haired girl stood up from her seat and made her way towards Saginomiya, ignoring the man holding the gun and knelt down in front of the panicked girl. "Chiharu-chan," she called her, using her first name and that honorific, hoping to calm her down some. When she still shook, she called out to her the same way and this time placed her hand on her tightened fists. That got her attention, and her tearful eyes were now looking at Hinata's white gaze.

"H-Hyūga..san..." she replied with a sob.

"It's alright, Chiharu-chan. I'm here."

"I-I'm scared, Hyūga-san," she told me. Hinata's heart broke seeing her like this. The ravenette was lucky. If it hadn't been for the demons, she'd be scared too. But the girl in front of her didn't know about them and the men with the guns would be the scariest thing she'd had ever seen in her life so far.

"Chiharu-chan, listen to me," Hinata said softly, the girl nodding telling her that she was. "I want you to close your eyes and take in a deep breath and let it out." The girl nodded again and did what was asked. Her chest moved in for the inhale and out for the exhale. "Now think about friends from school and your family that love you so much." There was a beat. But after a second or so it seemed to do the trick as the girl shivering form slowly stopped and a small smile started to form on her face. When Hinata asked her if she felt better she gave the older girl another small nod and the ravenette smiled. "Good girl," she told her stroking her hair.

"Well ain't that just sweet," the man said, breaking the nice moment between the girls. Hinata turned my white eyes to the leader of the other men and glared at him, hard. She couldn't see it, but she knew that he was smiling. "I like that look in your eye. You're a lucky girl sweetheart." Saying that he moved away from the her and Saginomiya, starting to address everyone that was in the room.

"Alright people, I'm only going to say this once," he ordered. "Place your, phones, wallets, purses, jewellery, anything that's important in front of you and put your hands flat on the table."

And not a moment after those words left his mouth did they do what he asked, less they suffered the same fate the girl had nearly ended up with. When everything looked to be on the tables, the leader indicated to his men. His goons then began to go around each table and gather the items laid out. When they picked up the phones, they looked through them, probably making sure no one was stupid enough to call the police.

"Is everything accounted for?" the man asked.

"We've got it all boss!" said one goon.

"Same here!" said another, the other two also said the same thing.

"Good. Let's get the money from the cashier and..." the leader began, before he stopped speaking all of a sudden. His gaze (even though Hinata really couldn't tell) were looking towards where the counter was. Wondering why he stopped, she turned to see what he was staring at.

The girl was surprised to see that he was staring at Sakura, who was still sitting on a stool, in front of the counter, holding a coffee mug near her lips. With what was happening so far, she had almost forgotten that the pinkette was still in the café, she was that quiet. He slowly made his way toward the girl with the pink locks, and as he did, Hinata started to feel sorry... for him that is.

He was about to make a huge mistake.

"Oi, girl..."

Just as Sakura was about to take another sip of her coffee that the master had given her, she heard a man's voice coming from right next to her. A rough voice that was, to her, trying to sound authoritative but failed completely in the pinkette's mind. When she turned her head to look, Sakura's one eye met pure black lenses. Was he the one calling out to her?

"Are you deaf?" she narrowed her brows, wondering why he was asking such a strange question. "From your expression, I guess you're not. So I'm going only going to say this once more; anything valuable you've got on you, place it on the counter. Now."

There was a long pause. The girl turned her head to look behind herself and her emerald eye saw that everyone that was still in the café was staring upon her and the man with wide terrified eyes. She had wondered why it went so quiet. It looked like whatever was going on with this guy, plus the other four around the room, was serious. How come she didn't know what was going on behind her?

No. I know exactly why. Damn Tenten.

"Hey, you fucking listening?" the man spoke, anger in his tone, which she found rather irritating. "Put you're valuables on the counter. Now."

"What sort of valuables?" Sakura asked.

"What sort of val-? Where you born somewhere far away?!" he rhetorically asked, though technically he was right. "Valuables, like your phone..."

Sakura was quick to answer. "Don't have one."

"Your purse, Jewellery..."

"Don't have any of them either."

The demon girl could hear the sound of the masked man's teeth gritting together in frustration. Without warning, he pulled the pistol that she noticed in his right hand and pointed it at her, the barrel an inch away from her forehead and his finger on the trigger. Sakura wanted to laugh at what he was doing, smile even, but she knew that if she did then he would fire from anger.

"You know?" he started, "I think you're lying. So this really will be the last time I say this; cough up whatever you've got and put it on the table before I blow your brains all over this place."

This time she let it happen. She smiled at his 'threat', the corner of her lips lifting and that pushed him over the edge. "You bitch! You're dead!" he roared out a curse, pulling the trigger at the same time. At the moment he pulled it all the way, Sakura raised her gauze wrapped hand and placed it in front of the barrel of the small weapon. The gun fired, the sound reverberating around the café, and she could feel the bullet hit her hand. But that was it. Smoke had started to come through the gaps of the girl's fingers. The glasses on the man's face nearly came off he was that surprised of what was happening.

Now, she had promised herself that she wouldn't hurt humans in anyway, shape or form, be these stupid humans deserved what they were getting. While the man was stunned, Sakura grasped the gun the man was holding and pushed it to the side. Then, placing the tip of her fingers of her right hand at the man's face, right between his eyes, she quickly made a fist, delivering a hard punch to his face. The pinkette made sure not to put in too much strength into the attack, but it was still strong enough to make a small shock-wave that blasted the man away.

Hinata watched, in amazement, as Sakura dispatched the leader of the goons with little effort. From the punch, his body landed onto one of the tables that was near the door, shattering it into pieces. The other goons called out to their fallen leader who wasn't moving a muscle. If it wasn't for the movement in his chest though, Hinata would have thought he was dead, but she knew Sakura would never do that. She held back. She didn't have to, but she did.

Standing up from her stool, the pink haired girl turned her neck, this way and that, the sound of bones snapping back into place echoing in the now silent café. Once finished, she looked at the remaining men who were just standing there, watching.

"Who's next?" she asked, and that brought them back. They raised their weapons up, and Sakura smiled, doing something that Hinata never thought that she would do. She took off her eyepatch that held the demonic eye. The moment she did the sound of gun fire from the other four men echoed, and at the same time Sakura opened her left eye, the golden-yellow, tomoe marked orb glowing. Then, everything was a blur in a literal sense.

The girl's arm was moving with lightning speed, this way and that, as the bullets flew towards her. When they finally stopped, most likely due to running out of ammunition, the only thing the ravenette could hear next was the ringing in her ears. But she didn't need her hearing to know what was going on. The pinkette stood there, her fist raised in front of her. The corner of her mouth went up as she loosened her fingers, the sound of metal clanking against wood multiple times.

The metal had turned out to be the didn't know how, but Sakura had managed to catch every single one. There was not a single hole or scratch on the pinkette, and it made the white eyed girl think that there was nothing that Sakura couldn't do.

"Third times the charm?"

There was a beat. Then, the sound of guns hitting the floor was the answer for the pinkette's question, before they all let out a yelp, saying "Let's get out of here!" or "I didn't sign up for this!" was heard from the four men. But if Hinata knew Sakura, and judging from the smirk on her pink lips suggested, she wasn't going to let this slide. With quick feet, Sakura got to the door first and with knowing that the men could only escape by going through her, they all let out a roar and charged at the demon girl.

The first thug went in with a hook, aiming for the side of Sakura's face. But with a with a quick crouch, the pinkette dodged it and when she stood back up, she chopped the man at the back of the neck, rendering unconscious as he fell to the floor. With her back turned, the second thug took this opportunity to strike, going at the pink haired girl with a fast jab with his right. But like the first attempt failed, this also got the same result.

She shifted her head to the left, caught the threatening, bulky appendage with both of her hands and threw the man over her shoulder, landing on the first man. The third chose a different approach. Grasping a flip knife from within his jean's pocket, he went to stab the girl in the back while she was crouched down. He went in fast like the second, but unfortunately for him, Sakura was much, much faster. Her elbow dug into the pit of the man's stomach, gurgling noises escaping his throat.

Then, the fourth and final man did what the others could not. He went in for a punch, shouting "I've gotcha!" before his fist landed on Sakura's cheek as she was standing up. Her head snapped to the side, the man's fist still present on the place he had hit her and smiled beneath his balaclava, knowing that he would be free.

But that spark of freedom had been snuffed out as his fist slowly started to move back, the pinkette's face moving so she was facing him once more. She grabbed his wrist, moved it away from her face. The demonic eyed girl then brought her right up toward the man's face, her thumb holding her middle finger back, before she smiled and released it, flicking underneath the man's chin. He fell back on the floor, his sunglasses coming off his face which showed his eyes had rolled at the back of his head.

All was silent once the final man had fallen. Everyone looked upon Sakura in awe as she took down five armed men with little to no effort. Hinata knew that, to Sakura, that this was just child's play to her. She had and still was facing tougher enemies than these robbers and Hinata was the only person here who knew that.

The silence was soon destroyed by the cheering and clapping from the people in the café. The pinkette looked around in confusion. She was most likely wondering why she was being clapped and cheered at and the ravenette smiled at that. She had no idea that she had helped these people and stopped their valuables from being stolen. Her dual coloured gaze turned to Hinata's white pools with a quizzical look, asking the question "What's going on?" with her eyes.

She smiled at her, telling her with her eyes not to worry about it. The confused expression never left her face but she gave a nod and with that, Hinata's night shift, that had went from busy to exciting had come to an end.

"Hey Sakura-chan? Was it alright to reveal yourself like that?"

She had asked the pinkette as she and Sakura made their way home from the Sannin Café. It had long since turned into the darkness of night and the cool evening chill of the wind was a pleasant feeling after what was a thrill of a shift. After Sakura had beaten up the five men that were robbing the café, Jiraiya had called the police, telling them what had transpired. Hinata wouldn't forget the moment when the thugs were dragged away without putting up a fight. That was only because they were knocked unconscious and the policemen were baffled as into why that was.

"It's fine Hinata," she told me, smiling. "Before we left, while everyone's attention was on me, I used my demonic eye to alter their minds."

"Altered their minds?" the older of the two repeated, finding that hard to grasp. But then again, ever since Sakura came into her life, nothing had ever been normal since. The demon girl gave a nod of her head.

"That's right. I made them forget about me and replaced their memories with something else. There's only a select few that can do this sort of thing and, depending on how many there are, it can be taxing on the person using it. Especially on someone who doesn't use it as much."

Hinata was surprised and amazed at the same time. By the way she was walking and acting, she would have never have thought the younger girl was tired right now. Then again, Sakura was rarely the one to wear her emotions on her sleeve. A pang went through Hinata at that moment. Even though she knew she was in love with this girl next to her, Hinata still didn't know her that much, a week or two at most. But that was going to change. She had an entire summer to get to know the girl better. And hopefully one day she could tell her her feelings... regardless if they were accepted or not.

"Are you alright, Hinata?"

The voice of Sakura brought the Hyūga girl back from her inner thoughts. She just shook her head and smiled. There was no need to think about that at the moment. The future was far off and what mattered was the here and now. "I'm alright. It's nothing," she told her and decided to best change the subject, less there be an awkward silence.

"Hey Sakura-chan. I was wondering," she began. "Why were you so quiet during the time the café was being robbed?" Hinata had found it strange that the girl didn't say or do anything, while the robbers had barged in, being loud as they could have been. When she asked, the younger girl's cheeks suddenly became pink.

"W-Well," she stuttered, averting her gaze away from her. Was she embarrassed to tell Hinata? "That's because I..." she started off saying but then mumble the last part. It looked like she was embarrassed.

"What was that?" she asked, urging her to repeat what she said at the end.

"I... zoned out."

"You zoned out?" Hinata repeated, and in return she gave her a nod. Her sweat dropped, the way she was making it sound was like it was something terrible.

"I was that tired from listening to Tenten's rambling about her summer being ruined back at Rāmen Ichiraku, that I tuned everything out in the café."

And you stared at me sometimes too, making me into a bumbling mess Hinata added in her thoughts but would never reveal, already feeling her face starting to become red. She was really thankful that it was night out.

"So anyway," Sakura carried on. "I was zoned out in the café, and I didn't realize what was happening until that guy in the glasses called out to me."

"I see." A beat. "Well it doesn't matter now. All that does is that you saved me, and everyone else and stopped the men from taking anything. So, thank you Sakura-chan." Hinata smiled at the end as she gave the girl, who had once called herself a monster, her gratitude. She saw a hint of pink on the the pinkette's cheeks as her one eye widened, before she faced the front.

The ravenette giggled at the sight, which only seem to fuel the redness more, before she went up close to Sakura, became slightly bold and took her left arm with her right and clasped her left hand with her own. Hinata could feel her face flush from the closeness and warmth of Sakura's body against her own. It was nice.

"H-Hinata?"

"Let's go home, Sakura-chan."

There was a short pause for a moment, and from the silence the Hyūga girl was beginning to think what she was doing now was either too much, too stupid or maybe both. But when a smile appeared on the demon girl's face, the older girl's heart swelled, knowing that she was alright with it and with a nod, she and Hinata made their way back to the Hyūga household, their home, arm in arm. Hand in hand.

Summer was only just beginning.

And that's the end of this chapter, but the beginning of summer vacation. Like I had said in the last chapter, if there is anything you would like to see happen during the summer vacation part, please let me know and I can try to come up with something.

For me I've got maybe 3 stories for this summer. One is Ino and Tenten's, one for Konan and another on for Hinata and Sakura (which at the end will link into the next arc and for another character to will be introduced). I'll probably give a few days and if there is no one that wants to say anything I'll make a start on the chapters I'm going to write.

Thanks for reading as always and please leave a review and tell me anything that can help improve the story or my writing. Also constructive criticism is also very appreciated.

See ya next chapter!