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Chapter 8, Unthinkable

Sunlight shone through the stained glass windows in the enormous, ancient church, making almost psychedellic rainbows reflecting off of Akiko's white silk dress. She was smiling radiantly (not dumbly this time), as she walked down the aisle with her bouquet of flowers in one arm, her other arm linked with her father's. Stepping lightly and gracefully, she proudly made her way to her groom.

I sat in a pew with Sasuke, Naruto, and Sakura. Half of the tears that were coming to my eyes were from watching the wedding, half were from loneliness. The loneliness that followed me... it snuck up on me. Just when I thought I had escaped, it pulled me down again, reminding me of the fact that I am a Hyuuga, and Hyuugas were not meant to be emotional.

My seat ended up being next to Sasuke, then Naruto and Sakura next to him. As I glanced over when the bride passed us, I was able to catch a glimpse of Sakura and Naruto.

Hearing the bride and groom say their vows, I pictured Sakura and Naruto getting married, Sakura in a gorgeous white wedding gown walking down the aisle to meet her groom, Naruto. When I heard Akiko and her groom say their "I do's" I pictured myself sitting in one of the pews in the front row, watching Sakura and Naruto share their first kiss as husband and wife.

We got up and followed as Akiko and her groom ran outside to enter the decorated carriage that would take them to their reception. Enviously, I watched them look into eachother's eyes as if nothing could make them happier. There were tons of people around, awaiting the wedding of these two people.

Next to me, Naruto was throwing rice at the bride and groom, enjoying himself WAY too much. I scooted away from him, trying to make it look not so obvious, until I bumped into Sasuke.

He turned around abruptly, but when he realized it was me he said, "Uh.. be careful where you walk."

"G-gomen..." I looked to the other side of me, and saw Naruto grabbing scoopfuls of rice and tossing them everywhere. Turning away, I saw Sasuke, and before he could look at me I looked at my feet. Safest place to stare.

Arriving at the reception later, there were hoardes of people partying, dancing, getting wasted and shouting words of profanity and joy. They really were happy for this wedding...

We didn't remain at the reception long. Too many drunken men and women groped Sasuke when he stood up and walked across the dance floor to go to the bathroom (yes, MEN!). Sakura got pretty annoyed at lots of rude men, too, so in the end we all had to leave regardless of Naruto's whining for free cake.

"Let's go home already. I'll buy you ramen, or something..." Sasuke made up an awkward lie just to shut him up.

"Uh.. su-sure..."

Continuing as quietly as I could, I followed closely behind all of them on the trip back home to Konohagakure.

"He stopped breathing!"

My blank stare acknowledged the room around me. Nurses dressed in white scurried around quickly. Beeping machines surrounded me, and I recognized one that showed pulses. The little neon line was running straight, the beeping merged into an ongoing "beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee..."

A doctor burst through the double doors of the room wheeling in a machine. He called out a number to the nurses around him and shouted. "Clear!"

Cautiously, I stepped towards the crowds of doctors and nurses to see who they could possibly be trying to revive, then clutched my chest in deep pain at the sight of the person on the gurney.

Seeing father's body shocked again and again, there was one thought on my mind.

Is this another dream...?

Doctors and nurses frantically tried to jolt the life back into him. They called out bigger and bigger numbers, shocking him and giving him timed chest compressions.

After a while, they just... gave up.

The doctor that had used the machine ran a hand through his dishevelled hair and let out a long sigh, with evident disappointment.

Slowly, as if they were being weighted down by lead weights, the nurses and doctors wheeled all the machines out of the room and began to clean everything up. I walked up to my father, my pale, poor lifeless dad, and was shocked at how much he reminded me of the girl -the "Hinata" - in the coffin. But this time when I reached out to touch his face all I felt was ice.

"Fa... father?" I knelt down in front of the bed, and grabbed his limp, icy hand within my trembling fingers. "Father?

Leaning over his face, my tears fell on his ghost-white skin. "Father! Wake up!"

Wake up...

"Hinata! Wake up already!" someone was shaking me violently. My eyes cracked open to reveal Sakura's worried face looking at me. "You look like you've seen a ghost!" she said when she was sure I was finally awake.

"Where am I..." I sat up, and to my surprise I was sitting on a dirt path in the forest. I was dressed in my normal clothes.

"After the wedding we changed into our normal clothes, began walking back home and you just fainted! Then you were shaking, and telling somebody to wake up in your sleep... remember?" Sakura asked, concern evident on her face.

"Oh..." Oh, yeah... Now I remember getting dressed, walking for a little bit... just not the fainting part. Has that ever happened to you, where in your dreams all memories of the real world are blocked out, you have this HORRIBLE nightmare, and you wake up in your bed thinking you're still in some terrible place? Then you remember.

"Well, come on. We have to hurry home before you faint on us again." she held out a hand for me to take, and the smile plastered on her face was mixed with hope, sadness, shame, pain... I guess she still suffered with the guilt...

I got up on my own and brushed myself off.

Let her suffer...

For a while. At least... until she apologizes. She hasn't even had the guts to acknowledge the fact that I know about what happened and that she has to say something... Maybe she didn't want to in front of Sasuke.

But if she was uh.. sleeping... with Naruto doesn't that mean that she doesn't like Sasuke anymore?

Or is there still something there?

My questions followed me and buzzed around in my head as we walked as far as we could until nightfall, when we had to set up camp once more. The only problem this time was that there was no Akiko to break the silence.

It was once again a cloudy night, but the moon tonight was gone. There was no light source anywhere within miles and miles. The only light came from the fire we had lit, that reflected off of all of our skins, making us glow almost eerily.

As we sat around the fire once more, eating food this time, there was a slight emptiness accompanying the tense, awkward atmosphere.

"Ahem..."

Sasuke cleared his throat, and we all whipped our heads towards him in surprise. He just raised an eyebrow in response and continued eating his food. (When someone clears their throat it doesn't always have to be out of wanting to get attention. Sometimes they really DO have something in their throat. XD)

"So..." Sakura began, sheepishly trying to break the uneasy silence. "Uh... how-how've you been lately, Sasuke? Haven't talked to you in a while..." her voice got quiet near the end as if her nerves were willing away her courage to speak.

"Hn." Sasuke didn't even look up as he answered, "Life's... the same."

"Uh..." she looked at me, then quickly switched her gaze to Naruto and opened her mouth to ask him something.

"Oh, cut the crap already."

I stood up, and looked across the fire to Sakura. My anger got the best of me for what seemed like only the second time in my life.

"Hi... Hinata..."

"Do you honestly believe that you have nothing to say to me?"

"I-I..."

"You can at least say something about it! An apology would be nice."

"Ah..." she looked at Sasuke, checking to see if he knew what I was talking about -she doesn't want sasuke to know about the SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME- but he just sat there quietly, eating his food and watching the scene with great confusion and interest.

"We-well... it's not... it's not like it was MY fault!" she was trying to mask her emotions with anger... it's easier to hate the ones you've hurt than experience guilt.

"Why not?"

"Maybe if you weren't such a boring, weak-"

"Sakura! Hinata! Don't-" Naruto cut in, and was cut off.

"Shut up!" Sakura and I both spat cruel words at him, and stomped off in either direction, her towards the sleeping bags and me towards the forest.

"..." Sasuke had noodles hanging out of his mouth as he sat frozen in utter stupefication,"Okay... what?"

AnimeCrasherz: I know I should have more SasuHina, but this story isn't just about them two.

It's more about Hinata life, but YES there will be more SasukexHinata later. I just find it hard to pair up those two right away, like you can never picture them falling in love in the series without some extensive, weird turn of events. I mean, he's a bastard and she's really really shy.

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