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Mistake
Chapter Three:
Confidence.

It was silent, he hadn't managed to get any sleep at all, being so uncomfortable and all. When light finally poured in from a crack in the sliding door, he found that he didn't even want to sleep anymore.

It was so silent.

He heard her wake up an hour earlier, heard her walk calmly down the steps and to the yard, he could still hear her training outside…

…yet it was so silent.

He wasn't sure if he was comfortable with the silence either, it was just… there, as if he had no control as to how loud or quiet the world could be.

He was sure he'd feel the same even if the duct tape was removed.

Because in all truth, he had no control of how quiet things could be. He recalled, back in his genin days when—…

…what a minute, he never did pass the chunnin exams… so was he still a-a…

He lowered his head as much as he could, oh the shame! The shame!

Well, it wouldn't have happened if you didn't ditch, you know, Logic clucked chidingly.

…he hated that voice.

He attempted to sigh and tried to remember his original thought pattern, he knew he was thinking about some sort of tangent before the shame…

…oh the shame…

Another thought occurred to him as a slightly louder than normal grunt came from where his wife was training.

…did she… beat him in rank?

The absolute shame!

Sasuke didn't like being beaten, much less by mouse-ish little girls that surprised him and destroyed his life via accidental marriage.

Because he was absolutely positive it was accidental…

Another thought penetrated his mind and he realized he had no idea whether it was accidental or not.

…oh Kami-sama, what if she was one of the many obsessed with him? What if she hunted down the scroll purposely…

…what if she tried to molest him in his sleep?

Suddenly more desperate than ever to escape his binds, he began struggling listlessly.

There. Has. Got. To. Be. A. Way. Out.

He would not demean himself further by letting some moronic little girl take care of him!

The shoji door opened and he was met with her bowed head, in her hands was a tray holding tea and rice.

No! Escape!

Logic reasoned that if she hadn't taken advantage of him already, she likely wasn't going to. But as always, he ignored logic.

"I-I…" she sighed deeply, "I brought breakfast."

'I can see that you moron.'

"A-ano… I'm thinking about n-not feeding you this morning."

'Yeah, sur—wait, what?!'

She shifted nervously under his murderous glare and placed the tray onto the table in the center of the room.

"Y-you were going to try to escape last n-night… that was w-why you activated the Sharingan."

'Close enough, but in all honesty the plot to escape only developed after I saw your reaction.'

She looked down again, her legs folded under as she picked up some chop-sticks, "I'm u-under orders to punish you if you try anything. S-since it's a hassle to remove and reattach the duct tape, I-I figured it'd be simplest to just not feed you till later."

'Simplest for who?! I'm hungry!'

There was another silence before she began eating daintily.

She was going to eat I front of him?! And here he had her pegged as the 'too nice for their own good' type… apparently, she was sadistic.

Or, Logic cut in again, she could simply be following orders.

She was a slow eater; each of her movements was slow and deliberate.

She was stiff, too stiff for it to be completely natural.

'Her guards up…' it wasn't that startling of a realization. Thinking on it she had been completely terrified last night.

'I wonder what was it that was scaring her…' the Sharingan? Doubtful, unless of course she ran into Itachi before his demise… or perhaps she had a bad experience with an Uchiha while they were all still alive? 'If I can find out what triggered it, I might be able to actually send her into a fit…'

His musings ceased when her voice cut in, "E-eto… I've also been t-told I should blind fold you if you activate t-the Sharingan at all… g-gomen… I forgot to warn you, s-so I'll give you another chance, o-okay?"

'Oh, sure, you'll bend the rules so I won't be blind, but won't get me breakfast!' his stomach had been gnawing at itself for awhile.

Instead of flinching back at his glare, she stared evenly back at him, seemingly knowing what he was thinking. She opened her mouth to speak before shaking her head, as if deciding not to explain something to a child that wouldn't understand anyway.

His eye twitched in annoyance, this girl was beyond infuriating, she was downright intolerable!

Well, Logic reasoned, she's at very least less likely to be obsessed with you, ne?

Somehow that didn't help him see the 'bright side' of his situation.

She left the room and he was left to himself again, but the silence did not come back, he could hear animals outside, rustling of leafs…

…the quiet had left.

His original annoyance at the silence forgotten, he began to wish for it again.

Once more, his muses were cut off, this time by the door sliding open again.

There she was, holding a book this time. She spared him one glance before sitting on the couch and beginning to read.

As annoyed as he would have been if she had, he sourly wished she had started reading out loud, at very least he would have some form of entertainment other than watching her mindlessly turn pages.

With nothing else to do, he began observing even the smallest movements of the only moving thing in the room…

…which, at that exact moment, was a fly. Following its quick movements wasn't difficult but still he had to keep highly concentrated to keep from losing sight of it.

Was he destined to spend the rest of this month chasing flies with his eyes? Sitting in pointless silence and waiting for some weak girl to feed him?

…they weren't going to let him stretch at all? What would become of his muscles? What if he had to do some form of rehabilitation his legs?

It was all that damn girl's fault! If she wasn't so indecisive, he would at very least know what he was in for!

He was knocked out of his thoughts when the one thing keeping him mildly entertained, the fly, was kicked out of the room politely by female residing in there as well.

…great, now he would have to count the roof tiles so he wouldn't go insane… however that also proved to be too difficult for him as he couldn't look up in his position.

He heard the girl turn another page and concentrated on her slow movements, deliberate, stiff… he blinked, she gave the perfect illusion of relaxation on first glance, but if you looked closer you'd notice her complete vigilance of the area. This, of course, was nothing out of the ordinary; any Shinobi with basic training could pull it off…

…well, except Naruto.

"…are you bored?" her soft voice reached his ears, her lips hardly moved. He found the question demeaning; he had no way of answering.

Sighing deeply she glanced at the ground; apparently she had come to the same conclusion he had. Just much slower.

"…I-I'm not sure what to do about you… I've gone over my options over and over, I w-wish I could get your opinion on th-this…"

'You might as well be talking to yourself, 'cause guess what? I can't reply! Moron…'

He was getting more irritated by the minute, being in a straight jacket was not helping his attitude.

"…I-if I let you out I'll have to keep constant vigilance on you and I'm positive you'll try something…"

She sighed again and got off the couch, without bothering to tell him anything she exited the room, and the house shortly after if his ears weren't mistaken.

Perhaps she finally got sick of his death glares?

He didn't ponder it long, his good friend Fly-san had entered when she exited.

Logic complained that if he wanted to retain some sanity, he should meditate instead…

…but since when did he listen to logic?

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It was hours before she returned, and another hour before she even came into the room he resided in.

Much to his disappointment, she once again shooed Fly-san away.

But in a way, he was happy to see her. After all, it was long past lunch and she broughtfood.

…glorious food…

But she didn't move to feed me or herself, placing the tray on the low table she looked up at me, her expression was almost irritated; it was certainly stiff and rather cold.

The question presented in his mind however, was a little different.

Is she upset at the Uchiha? Or someone else?

She opened her moth to speak, a small sound coming out before she slammed her mouth closed again. She attempted to compose herself again, but the more she tried to calm herself down, the more anger seemed to pour from her eyes onto the not so innocent victim in a straight jacket.

He was suddenly worried that she would take advantage of his trapped condition to take her frustrations out on him. Regardless as to whether she did it verbally or physically, he knew it wouldn't be something he enjoyed.

"…I'm going to make a b-bet with you."

Confusion showed clearly on his face at her sudden choice of words, she sighed and shook her head, seeming once again to be trying to gather herself.

"I… I'm going to take you out of that straight jacket, and rid you of the duct tape… b-but I have a bet to make with you."

He attempted to make some sort of noise of understanding, anything to get him out of his current position.

She looked down, "We'll talk d-during dinner after I get you undone, I can only h-hope you accept the b-bet."

It took an entire hour before she managed to get everything off of him, she had decided to get the duct tape off last, probably in fear of what he would say, when all the sealing jutsu's were finally undone she sat on the couch, gesturing for him to sit across from her.

"…"

"…"

Silence reined supreme in the small room, Sasuke found that he missed being able to move greatly, so much that he almost felt hyper. So, obviously, he suppressed it by being even more silent than usual.

A part of him considered knocking her out and making a run for it, but judging from the other day, there were plenty of ANBU just waiting for him to do just that.

"…this bet…" he trailed off when she jumped a foot in the air at the sound of his voice, there was nervous but this went beyond nervous, she was being ridiculous.

"H-hai…" she flushed a deep color of red, "…I-I bet… well, I-I suppose it's more l-like a deal…" He was growing annoyed, quickly.

She collected herself quickly enough though, taking a deep breath she looked up to face him. He didn't miss the way she clenched her fists, almost in agitation.

"Break me. I dare you."

He couldn't help but be slightly taken aback by the confidence etched in her voice. It was a challenge.

Why would she make such a stupid challenge? There was no doubt he could win.

"I-if you can break me, I-I will let you go without c-complaint and take the blame for your e-escape." She wasn't able to look at him anymore and was instead boring a hole into the ground.

'Why?' Sasuke could help but wonder.

"Pl-please don't ask…" Hinata muttered as if reading his mind.

Sasuke glared, was she up to something?

…but it was a good deal. He could leave Konoha again…

But did he have a reason to leave? Itachi was dead.

'I'm not ready to come back.'

It startled him to realize it, but he simply wasn't ready to come back to Konoha. Not after everything that had happened. Not while he remained convinced that Itachi would still somehow haunt him.

He wasn't able to see Itachi die. It just didn't seem real.

Tsunade-baa could have just been lying, he reasoned, after all she'd do just about anything to force him to stay.

"U-Uchiha-san…?"

Kami he hated this girl.

But he couldn't just leave without her permission. Even without the ANBU guards that were going to patrol the area for quite some time, she obviously had Hyuuga blood(judging by the eyes) and though she seemed scared of the Sharingan, with her Byakugan all of his genjutsu would be near useless.

Just great.

"Fine."

Despite all his thought, reflections and ideas, in the end… watching a fly buzz about day in and day out for a month made him reconsider not accepting. That, and his nose was really starting to itch.

"Are there any other conditions to the bet?" he wanted to make sure she didn't pull anything funny.

She shook her head, "None. If y-you manage to break me w-within a week, you're free to go. I-if not, I tie you up a-again."

He really hated his 'wife'.

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