Author's Note: Here's chapter two, guys. Hope you like it. :)

The following morning seemed to speed by. Getting to school again, Hinata looked around as almost everyone outside waited for the bell that would signal the start of class…waiting with the partners they had. Exchanging gifts of love and chocolate. It seemed something wonderful to be able to do. But Hinata only looked away from it all, heading into the building to get to her first class.

Inside the school, though, the same thing was going on – girls running to their loves, getting roses and candy. Hinata tried her hardest to smile at them all. But it was hard when she had no one to do those things to her. Not even that. Hinata wouldn't have minded if she'd gotten a gift or not…all she wanted now was someone who would love her. And just that, itself, would be more than wonderful.

Hinata got through most of the day alright. She'd seen Neji a few times…and was only able to look at him as she silently remembered what Tenten had told her. She still didn't believe it, though. And she doubted she ever would.

By the time fourth period had come again, the Hyuuga girl was very relieved. School, the week, and Valentine's Day were almost over. She still had to get through Spanish, though. And for some odd reason…Neji wasn't there.

Though Hinata was hoping not to speak with Neji today…it crushed her that she wouldn't get to see him during Spanish…it felt so strange without him. He was always there…on the other side of the room, answering every question given to him perfectly. Blinking sadly at her cousin's empty desk, she slowly looked down as Señor Gai began to call the roll.

As Gai got to Neji's name, Hinata received the answer to her silent question about him.

"Neji… He told me earlier today he wouldn't be here for my class…," Gai looked up from his list. "Looks like he'll be missing the activity."

Hinata blinked. Activity? This was bad…

Soon, Gai finished the roll. He went to his desk and grabbed a stack of half sheets of paper, coming back to the middle of the classroom with a smile.

"¡Feliz Día de San Valentino, alumnos!" he began. "And I hope you all had a good one! Now…for today, you have one activity…which I have here in my hands."

As he passed each row, Gai gave everyone a sheet. Hinata took hers, looking down at it curiously. Gai continued.

"What I have just given you is a list of phrases and words relating to love and Valentine's Day. I want you all to take this list…and with it, write a letter. Write a letter to your valentine. And give it to him or her at the end of the day when you see them. If you don't have a valentine…write it to the person you like. Aaand that's all for today. Have fun with this, kids!"

"How romantic, Señor!!" cried Lee with a happy smile as he took his sheet of phrases.

The teacher chuckled, giving a grin to the boy. "Better hurry and write your letter!"

Lee grinned back and hurriedly began to write as Gai had requested.

Gai then walked back to his desk, sitting back down and getting on his school computer. After he sat down, small chatter began within the room. Pretty soon, everyone was talking and laughing as they wrote their letters. Especially the other girls in the class. Hinata looked around shyly as everyone wrote. She knew most girls would be writing their letters to Neji and Uchiha Sasuke, another of the boys most of the girls had classified as "hot".

Suddenly, Hinata jumped a little as a cry echoed through the room. The crazy blonde-haired boy happily waved his paper in the air.

"Sakura-chaaaan!" he called. "I'm writing this for you¡Ta keero!"

The girl he was writing to, Sakura, glared back to him in response as most everyone else laughed at the boy's bad Spanish.

(A/N: He was trying to say "te quiero." x3 Which means "I love you".)

"Naruto! I don't want a love letter from you!" she responded in annoyance.

Sakura turned away, crossing her arms with a huff. Though she couldn't hide the faint blush that had come to her face. Everyone knew the pink-haired girl really couldn't help but think almost everything Naruto did for her was cute. Naruto suddenly let out a gasp.

"No! Wait! I'm not done yet!" he quickly slammed the paper back on the desk and continued to add more of the phrases and words from the paper Gai had given them.

Hinata gave a small smile at the scene. She finally looked down to her own paper, wondering what she should do with it. Hesitating, she realized she couldn't resist. She had to write a letter to Neji. And she had to use every ounce of strength she had to make the letter flawless. This time she could have no errors in her Spanish. Neji wasn't here to correct them. And even if he was, she wouldn't be able to ask for his help. The Hyuuga hesitated again for a long moment. Could she do it…? The phrases were right here in front of her. How could she go wrong with this? Finally, Hinata took a deep breath. She placed her pencil to the paper, looking for a word to begin with.

As she was writing, the blue-eyed Naruto scrunched up his nose as he watched Lee writing his own letter…or letters. The blonde scratched his head and paused for a moment before speaking.

"Lee…," he started. "How come you're writing like five letters?"

Lee looked up with a blink at Naruto's question. "Oh…I am only writing three."

"Yeah… How come?"

Suddenly, the shiny-haired boy gave a grin. "I am writing one to Neji, and one to Tenten, and one to Señor Gai!"

"But…," Naruto picked up the list of phrases. "These are love words!! Not friend words! …Are all of them your valentines?"

"Oh... No, they are not. I am sort of cheating and adding in friend things," he told him.

Naruto looked down at one of the letters, scrutinizing it carefully. "Why'd you call Neji a girl…?"

"Huh?" Lee also looked at the letter the blonde was looking over. "I did?"

The boy nodded matter-of-factly, providing his friend with his very bad Spanish tips. "The amigo with the 'o' means 'girl'. You need to change it to 'a'."

Lee blinked a few times before smiling brightly back at Naruto. "Thank you very much! I never would have noticed!"

"No problemo!" Naruto grinned.

Looking back down at his paper, Lee quickly erased the 'o' from the word in his letter, putting an 'a' in its place. He smiled, proud to have fixed it. Little did he know that he would not get a happy response from the Hyuuga boy that day.

After a while, Hinata was nearly finished with her letter. The more words she wrote, though, the more nervous she became. She could write it, sure. But could she give it to Neji…? Hinata shook her head, getting the worrisome thoughts out of her head. She could do this… She was almost there.

"Heeeey! Who ya writin' to?"

Hinata quickly gasped, turning to face the one peeking over her shoulder. …Zaku. What did he want with her?

"U-Um…," she started quietly.

Zaku laughed. "I coulda sworn I just read your cousin's name on that paper. …I mean, I've heard rumours ya like him, but I never believed 'em. So…the rumours are true, then? You like your cousin?"

The shy girl's eyes widened worriedly. She quickly shook her head, not knowing what else to do. "N-No, I…"

"Lemme see!"

Hinata had no time to act when her letter was suddenly stolen from him. She yelped, trying to take it back from him.

"No! P-Please! Give it back!" she begged.

Zaku grinned, holding out the letter in front of him. "Neji… So it's true. I always knew you were weird, but I never knew you were gross. He's your cousin!"

"Please stop!" she yelled again, nearly on the verge of tears.

Finally realizing what was going on, Gai blinked, getting up from his computer and coming to the scene quickly. But just before he was able to stop the incident, all was lost.

"Whoops!" Zaku said as a loud rip silenced the room. "Sorry. Guess Neji'll have to wait 'till next year."

"What is going on?" Gai said sternly, grabbing Zaku's arm just after the rip.

Zaku blinked. "Nothing, Señor! Hinata's letter got ripped."

"It got ripped?" he looked to Hinata, still in shock at the shredded pieces of paper on the floor, once being her flawless letter. Gai looked back to Zaku. "Leave the room, please."

Zaku gave him a look before mumbling something under his breath and leaving the room, slamming the door behind him. Gai turned back to Hinata again after Zaku was gone.

(A/N: I know Zaku isn't in Konoha, but whatever. I don't care. And yeah, he's really mean. But hey, it's the same guy that beat Sakura to a pulp. That's pretty mean. Lol).

Immediately after, the bell rang. Everyone once again didn't care at all about Hinata and her letter. They all quickly left, happily chatting again amongst one another, ecstatic that Thursday was over. Gai hesitated a moment, trying to think of something to say.

"Hinata, I…I'm so sorry that happened… If you want, you can take one of my lists home with you and write another one," he told her.

The girl shook her head. She didn't want another one. She wanted the one she'd written first. Her perfect one. She swallowed down the lump in her throat, looking up at her teacher with a forced smile.

"I-It's alright, Señor…," she told him. "It was…just a letter."

Gai blinked. "…You sure?"

Hesitating a moment, Hinata nodded in return. "I'm sure. Thank you, though."

"Alright, then… See you next week."

Hinata nodded again, getting her things and slowly leaving the room. If she hadn't been in the middle of the hallway just them, she probably would've broken down into tears. She could never tell Neji all she had to say, herself. That letter was the only way. Or so she'd decided to believe. There were other ways. But not for her. The girl bit her lip, trying her hardest to contain her sorrow as she walked to the door of the building.

Author's Note: I know this chapter was shorter than the last one. :P And I'm sorry. But originally, I had planned on making this be a one-shot. And since it ended up being about twenty pages long… e.e Hehe. Yeah. I had to separate it into chapters. So, it's kinda hard perfectly separating a story that wasn't originally meant to be three chapters long.

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