A/N: Eh, hi guys. . . What?? A whole month and two weeks. Nah, your crazy. . . Don't shoot! I'm terribly sorry. As I've said, school is my main focus in life, and apparently so is drama.

My lab top is broken, well it died and won't revive, so all my work is gone. This chapter was two sentences from being done on my computer. My mother was very nice to let me on hers, but now I have forgotten all I was going to write about. So don't blame the story for this chapter if it is in low quality.

Drama new. Play the twilight zone music for this paragraph! My best friend, Annie, is moving back! This means I wont be home enough to sleep, let alone write. No joke, I'm running on three Monsters, a Rockstar, and three shots of coffee. It's been two days since I was able to sleep. She's dyed my hair and cut within these two days too, I'm loosing my mind! I will slip away every so often to write, hopefully quicker then this update, way quicker!

Disclaimer! If I own Naruto I wouldn't be wasting my time with school, trust me.

Listening To: This Providence - Wolf In Sheep's Clothing

You're Weak

Thunder

They thought they had made it back to camp without anyone seeing. They thought the had fallen asleep without the probing eyes of the team on them. They thought wrong. Sakura watched, watching everything, and that wasn't the end of it.

For the whole mission she watched. The looks Sasuke gave Leader-sama, the longing look that just begged her to accept him without hesitation. And for some reason she felt Leader-sama looking back at him. So, she went to the only person she knew that could help her, Ino.

"I think Leader-sama and Sasuke have a fling going on." Sakura whispered over her mug, hoping to keep her information between her and Ino, for now. The outburst of laughter surprised her though. "Leader-sama and Sasuke? That's impossible, what about Hinata? A day ago you thought he was having a relationship with her. Your paranoid Sakura, aren't you happy with Naruto?! Leave Sasuke, let him be happy!" Ino left her, she was alone.

After a few minutes of sitting alone at the café table she smiled sadly at the rain outside the window. "Of course I'm happy Ino, but he's mine with or without Naruto."

- -

"S-Sasuke. . . It's raining harder now." Hinata yelled over the pounding rain. "Let's head back!" She was happy that is was only raining and not anymore. She didn't want Sasuke to see her when the thunder hit. She barely saw Sasuke shake his head no. "We keep going. Now do it again." Hinata bit her lip and stared up at the ever dark sky. This wasn't good.

Without looking back she repeated the hand signs he had shown her that morning, before the first crack of thunder whipped through the clearing. Her eyes shot open in fear, her body tensed, and her hand stopped their movements.

Sasuke noticed her ridged look and stalked over to her. "Hinata. Hinata?" He watched as she looked away, then disappeared from his sight. "Hinata!"

- -

If you were to walk through the forest on any other day you could have seen the greenness of the trees, the happy birds singing, and any thing that wasn't green from all around, but the forest wasn't the same while it rained. It was dark and eerie. The shadows toyed with children's imaginations and left grown men to fear the place. Even the greatest nin knew when to enter the forest and when not to. This is how the Hyuga heiress knew she was lost.

She didn't care though, she ran off in fear of Sasuke thinking what was true. She was weak and she knew it. How many strong people sat in the hollow of a tree, huddled like a scared child? It wasn't the dark shadows or the darkness that scared her, it was the rolling thunder that made her jump and hold back tears. The only thing that calmed her was that Sasuke didn't see her like this.

"Hinata! Hinata!!" It was faint, but she heard his voice, calling out for her. "Hinata come out!" She whimpered and tightened the ball she was huddled into. His calling got closer, and she was happy he didn't have her blood line, it would have made his search easier. Hinata squeezed her eyes shut and calmed her breathing. He couldn't find her.

"Hinata." She bit her lip in tension. She peaked one eye open to look out the hole, finding a water logged Sasuke looked down at her, releaf obvious in his eyes. "There you are." Hinata sniffed and opened her eyes completely to look at him. He looked like a mess, his cloths were ripped, and sticks and twigs shot up randomly from his hair. It was a funny sight to say the least.

"Y-Y-You weren't supposed to look for me." His lip quivered into half smile. "Baka, I couldn't just leave you." In one swift movement he lifted her out of the tree and sat down, pulling her into his lap. His kindness pushed her over the edge, she began to cry into his chest.

"I'm weak Sasuke, why are you helping me? Why does everybody think I can do this, I can't! I'm not Leader-sama, I'm Hinata Hyuga! Not strong, not special! Just plain boring Hinata!" Sasuke listened in silence, letting her cry as he held her.

When her crying turned to sniffles he turned her towards him. "You're weak," Sasuke whispered, brushing his lips against her own in the process. "but I've always wanted a weakness." Hinata opened her eyes to look up at him, seeing his face inches away from her own. The rain had turned to mist around them, but neither cared as their lips met, both slightly hesitant before they met head on.

"Sasuke-kunnn!" Both of their heads shot up as Sakura's voice broke through the silence of their kiss. Hinata licked her lips and disappeared from his sight for the second time that day.

- -

"Father, I've chosen. I'm going to do it for the good of my team and for myself." Hinata gulped, staring at her father straight in the eye. She had came to the Hyuga household to talk to her father, so far so good. "No." Hinata bit her lip, looking down. "I-I'm also leaving my title to Hanabi. Good day Father." Hinata stood, disappearing though his office door.

- -

"Leader-sama is late again. . . ." Mistuki mumbled from the top branch of the oak for the whole team to hear. "Yeah, I wonder why." Naruto sang loudly back at her.

Before anyone could answer a twig snapped outside the clearing. Within seconds the team was ready for battle. "G-Gomen, I'm a little late." Sasuke whipped around to face the voice, watching as Hinata, decked in her ANBU uniform stepped into the light. "I think we need to have a team discussion." She smiled proudly, throwing her mask into the middle of the self made circle of team 17.

A/N: It's at least a page less then it was supposed to be, but I had to stop it there. You'll see why in the next chapter.

We're getting close to the end, I say five more chapters at the most.

Sasuke is kind of OC in this chapter, but it's my story, and I like it.

Reviews are greatly appreciated, and loved alike.