Homecoming
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Ok, ...
this chapter is...
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I accidentally deleted all the chapters when I was rewriting it…
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Chapter 3: Just Friends.
"Hinata-chan!"
Hinata opened her eyes and looked up into two big, brown, sparkly eyes.
"Tenten!" Hinata shrieked, fully awakened.
Tenten laughed and got off the Hyuuga. "Come on Hina! Neji's making pancakes!" and with that, she ran out of Hinata's room.
Hinata yawned and sat up on her bed. 'I better get up,' she thought.
After a quick bath, she dressed up and was greeted by the aroma of Neji's pancakes as she walked down the stairs.
She opened the door to the kitchen and saw Neji and Tenten talking softly.
Neji was frowning and Tenten… Tenten looked like she was about to cry.
Hinata furrowed her eyebrows in concern.
Tenten turned away from Neji and saw the Hyuuga. "Hinata!" she said and smiled, she skipped to the blue haired girl.
Neji looked at the back of his girlfriend, sighed and smiled softly at his cousin before returning to the pancakes.
Hinata and Tenten sat down at the kitchen table.
"Hi!" Tenten smiled. "Did you sleep well?"
Hinata nodded, not trusting her voice as she recalled the things that happened the day before.
For a second, Hinata thought that she saw sadness in Tenten's eyes.
But it was already gone when she blinked.
"Neji! I'm hungry!" Tenten whined.
"Eat bread." Neji said simply in reply.
"Noooooo! I want to eat pancakes!" she pouted.
Neji sighed and ten minutes later, the three were eating their pancakes happily.
When they were finished, Neji went out to get something in the groceries.
Hinata watched Tenten, who was looking at Neji's back, who disappeared behind the door.
The Hyuuga female saw Tenten's lower lip trembling and her eyes redden.
'What is wrong?' Hinata thought.
She turned away. She didn't want to give Tenten the feeling she was looking at her.
After a sigh from Tenten, she heard her speak.
"Hinata." she said softly.
Hinata, who was washing the dishes, froze when she heard her voice.
"Yes?" she asked while continuing washing.
"Hinata…I saw you, yesterday, coming in… what happened?" Tenten sounded concerned.
Hinata stopped again and looked at her wet hands. "Nothing." She said. "Nothing."
She suddenly felt arms wrap around her waist. Tenten was hugging her.
"Hinata…you know you can trust me, don't you?" Tenten asked.
Hinata nodded slowly.
"Ok…I'm just trying to help you, ok? So if you want to tell me…just call my name."
Hinata smiled softly.
The door was slammed open, revealing a fuming Neji.
"Hinata." he said with a twitching eye. "What is the meaning of this?"
Hinata gasped as she looked at the magazine Neji held up.
In the front page, there was a large photo of her and Sasuke with the title:
"HE'S IN TOWN."
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Sasuke couldn't sleep.
"I don't love you anymore."
Who knew that those five words could make him feel like this?
Sasuke sighed.
He knew it was his fault.
He knew it that he was the one that made her cry.
He knew that it was his own arrogance that made Hinata stop loving him.
Sasuke sighed again.
He just wanted another chance.
That was all he wanted.
That was all he asked for.
Ring! Ring!
Sasuke took his cell phone out of his pocket. "Hello?"
"Sasuke!"
Sasuke groaned. It was Kakashi, his manager.
"We're just one day in Konoha and you're already in one of those gossip magazines!"
Sasuke closed his eyes and rubbed his temples. "What are they writing this time? That I'm gay? That I have a girlfriend?"
He heard Kakashi sigh on the other line. "Actually, yes. They've got pictures of you and another girl. And this time it's not photoshopped."
Sasuke's eyes widened. 'Could it be?' he thought.
"Describe the girl." He ordered.
"What?! Sasuke, don't tell me tha-"
"I said, describe the girl!"
Kakashi sighed. "Ok, Ok… right, let me see…yeah, it's actually a pretty girl… dark hair, light eyes… yeah, it's a very pretty girl."
Sasuke sighed. There were a lot of girls that had dark hair and light eyes. It didn't have to be Hinata…
"Eh, you are holding the door of the car open while holding her hand."
Crap.
Sasuke moaned. It was Hinata!
"Sasuke? Oh, please, don't tell me that yo-"
"I'll call you back." Sasuke said and hung up.
"I need a walk." He muttered to himself.
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"Tell me what's going on." Neji said, frighteningly calm.
The three were once again sitting at the kitchen table.
"Tell me why you are in this magazine with Uchiha Sasuke!"
Hinata bit her lower lip.
Neji opened the magazine named 'True: Konoha.' and gave it to her.
"Read." He said.
And Hinata read it.
'We can proudly say that Uchiha Sasuke is in our town!
But…before you ladies buy new clothes and breasts, we first have to say…
He has a girlfriend!
Well, that's what we think…
As you can see from the pictures, the two are very, very close…
His manager said that he isn't here for a girl…
But we all know, pictures don't lie!
Is it love or "just a(nother) friendship"?'
Hinata gulped and looked into the eyes of her older cousin.
In his eyes she could see sadness.
Hinata sighed and told them everything.
From the meeting under the sakura tree, to the talk in the restaurant, to the talk in the car.
"Bastard." Neji growled. "How dare he."
Tenten glared at Neji and looked at Hinata.
"But Hinata…did you mean it? Do you really not love Sasuke anymore?"
"Of coarse she doesn't like him anymore!" Neji snapped. "He betrayed her!"
Tenten didn't respond to Neji's outburst but focussed on Hinata, who shook her head.
She couldn't deny that she felt something for the Uchiha.
Tenten smiled, as if reading her thoughts.
"I think you should talk to him." she said. "He sounds like he really loves you and that he wants you back. Maybe you should start all over again. You know, as… friends?"
"He's a bastard. He doesn't deserve a chance." Neji snorted. "People who betray their love don't deserve another chance."
Tenten's lower lip trembled and she glared.
"Hinata?" she asked softly while holding her glare at Neji. "Why don't you take a walk? I need to talk to Neji."
Hinata nodded and walked away.
She put on her jacket and left the house; not hearing Tenten cry.
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Hinata stepped outside and let her feet decide where to go.
Should she?
Should she give him a chance?
Hinata sighed and knew that Tenten was right.
She surely didn't love him anymore, but still…now she knew that Sasuke was back, she couldn't stop thinking of him.
'Maybe I should give him a chance…but just be friends.' Hinata frowned. 'But on the other hand…maybe he will walk away. Again. I don't want to get hurt anymore.'
Then she heard her mother's voice in her head.
"Carpe diem, my little Hinata. Carpe diem."
Seize the day. It was her mothers favorite saying.
Hinata smiled a little.
'Take the chance whenever you can.' She thought.
"Hinata?"
She turned around to face the person who called her.
Sasuke.
"Hey." He said.
"Hey." She replied and stared at the magazine 'True: Konoha' under his arm.
"You saw it?" he asked softly.
Hinata nodded.
"I'm sorry."
Hinata smiled softly. "It's…ok..."
Sasuke nodded. "Hey…I'm sorry about yesterday. I guess I shouldn't have done that."
Hinata nodded. "It's ok." She said again.
Sasuke shook his head. "It's not ok." He said. "You must hate me. I left you with a promise, one that I broke. And now I came back to tell you that I love you and I expected you to tell me that you feel the same. I really am stupid."
Hinata's eyes softened.
"I guess you don't want to see me anymore." Sasuke said while sighing and he began to walk away.
As Hinata looked at his retreating form, something hit her.
"Give him a chance."
"Wait!" she yelled.
Sasuke turned around, surprised.
His heart jumped.
'What does she want?' he thought, his head filled with hopes.
Hinata smiled.
Tenten's words were in her head.
"Give him a chance."
Hinata smiled and before Sasuke blinked, she was hugging him.
"Hey…what about we start over again? You know…as friends?"
Sasuke smiled, closed his eyes and hugged her back. "Just friends."
Hinata giggled at his respond.
After a little silence she asked something she wanted, needed to know.
"Promise me," Hinata whispered. "That this time, you won't let me down."
Sasuke sweated. He knew that with his job, he never knew what might happen next.
'But…I don't want to lose her…' he thought so he nodded and whispered back his response.
"I promise."
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Hinata happily walked in her apartment.
Nothing could go wrong.
She was friends again with Sasuke and tomorrow they would go back to his old house.
But from the moment she came in she knew that something was wrong.
Hinata quickly walked to the kitchen and saw something that made her heart break.
Neji sat on his chair, his forehead resting on the table and his hair hung as a curtain in front of his face.
"Neji-nii-san!" she said and walked to the Hyuuga, uncertain of what happened.
Neji raised his head and Hinata gasped.
He was crying.
"Neji!" Hinata said and sat down in the chair next to him. "What happened? Where's Tenten?"
Another tear escaped his pearly white eyes.
"She left." He said while his lower lip trembled. "She left."
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