AnimeCrasherz: HUZZAH! I was beginning to run out of ideas before... until I went to see Lady In The Water. (Loved it.)

Sasuke's in it! FINALLY, YEAH!

Chapter 4, Why Me?

The servants words still echoed in my head.

He is dying...

Why me? Why must all this happen to me?

I took another sip of the drink I held. (Non-alcoholic. I don't think anything can get Hinata depressed enough to get blind stinking drunk. Or even just a little drunk.)

"One martini, please."

Wha?

When I turned, I was surprised to see... Sasuke?

Sasuke sat down next to me with his drink. He looked serious, boring as usual. He didn't say anything, who'd expect him to? But... then why sit there?

"Good... afternoon, Sasuke-kun." for once I was too tired and depressed to stutter.

"Hn." He took another sip from his drink. "Good afternoon."

Staring at my glass after I'd taken another long gulp out of it, I tried to push away everything, every thought, even for one blissful moment. Sasuke must have noticed.

"What's wrong?" he looked confused at my gloominess, my negativety. Maybe that's why he chose to be out of character and speak out to me?

"Nothing."

"You can tell me." (Eh? Maybe Sasuke DOES have a soft spot for Hinata. You never know.)

"It's nothing." I was beginning to sound like someone I remembered... someone I whose face I never wanted to see again... but followed me in my mind nonetheless.

"I don't believe you." (peeeersiiiistenceeeee)

He can tell I'm lying. Just like I could tell Naruto was. But, he had the bravery to voice his mistrust. I kept it inside... and look where it's brought me. I'm weak. I couldn't just make Naruto tell me earlier... Now it's turned around, and I'm sounding like him.

I can't EVER stand to be like him.

That was it. My worries, my insecurities-well, the basic and not-too-personal-ones- I had to tell somebody. And this somebody happened to be a bird's-ass-hairdo-"i-have-a-ten-foot-pole-shoved-up-my-ass" Uchiha, watching me choke out words of sorrow in between long gulps of my drink.

I finished my story, "Sometimes I wonder. Sometimes I just look up and ask god, 'Why me?'"

"And he parts the clouds, looks down at you and says 'Why not you?'"

Once again, I was stunned.

Who was he to say such things to me...?

That's when I remembered, his entire clan. The genocide. (i don't know if she does know about it, let's say she does.)

He must have been going through a lot more than I am...

Boy, did I just make myself look like a total crybaby. Look at him! He lost his entire family but finds the strength to go on and try to avenge their deaths. I lose my boyfriend and my father falls ill, and I lose all faith in the world?

That made me want to cry even more.

"Well, I have to go." Sasuke got up from the chair. "I'll see you."

"I'll... I'll see you..." tears stung my eyes once more, for what seemed like the millionth time in the last few days.

But once I'd wiped my eyes and looked up, I was alone.

AnimeCrasherz: THE MARTINI SASUKE DRANK IS FROM KYUUBI FESTIVAL! I guess he learned to love martinis. And... the legal drinking age is 21... but in Konoha lets just say its... 13 or something.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter!

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...sorry... but... but you guys aren't nice anymore! -cries pathetically-