I don't own Naruto....
Hinata had taken the rest of the day to organize and arrange her things in the apartment.
She lay on her back on the bed; it now accompanied by an alarm clock and desk lamp, both atop a small bedside table, and a small three drawer dresser that was no higher than her waist.
There was no window in the bedroom, so no curtains to draw to make the room dark.
She turned off the light and drifted quickly into a well desired sleep.
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Sasuke sat on his feet in the small room on his bed, his forehead pressed against the wall as he stared into the white paint thinking.
He had been thinking all day. Brooding more like it.
His whole life had been based on a lie.
This whole time, he was chasing the end of the wrong string. Wringing the wrong neck in his mind.
He had been so childish.
So foolish.
So.. weak.
He punched his fist into the wall.
The three inch plaster wall..
Before he could comprehend what was going on, he felt a shooting pain go up his arm, something crash over his back, and he flipped through the air all in a few seconds.
His reaction time was still intact though he discovered as he landed on his feet almost elegantly after such a shocking..whatever had just happened.
The man looked up at the sound of crumbling plaster and his eyes found such a sight.
He had been thrown through the wall, a huge hole left from his passing. There was not even a sign of the fist sized one he had created on his own.
His eyes widened in shock as he continued to try to take in his surroundings.
The bed he had been laying on was clearly visible from where he was crouching, exactly next to it, was another bed, one with a girl, sound asleep.
Inches separated the beds, the remaining wall, and plaster was dusted over mostly the blankets on the girl's bed.
A long, midnight blue braid lay on the girl's shoulder as she slept quietly, soundly, as if nothing had happened.
When he punched through the wall, she had, in one simple move, twisted his arm and thrown him across the room...through the wall.
She turned on her side and faced him, her eyes still closed. Her breathing was so steady, she must have been asleep, yet she spoke.
"Don't. disturb. my sleep."
She growled like a malicious grump, but there was a recognizable softness to it that astounded the raven haired man even more.
'Hinata?!'
This girl was just a basket case of surprises now.
How was she so strong, so fast, so aware, asleep?!
If she was like this asleep, what was she like awake?
He had met her in the hospital, only briefly, but she had been so quiet, so gentle. This couldn't be the same person.
He was tired, and not exactly in shape after being cooped up for so long. He figured it would be best for him to not move from his current place and deal with the obvious problem in the morning.
Not to mention the huge hole in the wall.
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Sasuke awoke in the morning uncomfortable. When he opened his eyes, he remembered why.
He had slept on the floor of Hinata's apartment not wanting to cause anymore trouble for the night.
He looked at her still sleeping form, then glanced to her clock.
7:30 A.M.
Might as well get up and try to leave.
Slowly he rose from his place on the floor, watching Hinata with a hawk eye for any sign of movement.
He felt ridiculous. Being afraid of a girl that wasn't even awake! Yet his brain told him not to make a sound as he snuck out of the room.
He made it through the front door alive, his pride inwardly damaged, and decided to take a walk around town figuring it was a little safer for the time being.
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Kakashi and Kurenai made mild conversation as they sat in Ichiraku's ramen shop eating a quick breakfast before they were to each go out on their own separate missions.
Asuma had a more mandatory assignment and couldn't spare the extra time with his comrades and was already out of the village.
When Sasuke walked in and sat down at a stool next to Kurenai, the two Jonin quieted and greeted him, sorta.
"Hey Sasuke. Have a good sleep last night?" Kakashi taunted lightly as he looked at him.
Dark circles had formed under his bloodshot eyes and his whole attitude in general screamed for rest.
He just turned and looked at Kakashi with a silencing stare.
"What happened kid?"
"You're Hinata's sensei aren't you?" he replied.
"Umm..? Yes. But what does Hina-"
"Last night, I punched a wall and she threw me through it across the room." he cut her off monotonously and sipped from the cup of tea that had been placed in front of him.
Kurenai just had a smile on her face while Kakashi was trying to swallow a laugh(or quite possibly an outburst of giggles.)
"How did that happen?" she inquired once she processed the information.
"It seems that we are neighbors." Sasuke replied.
"Interesting."
"Has she ever done something like this before? I would like to know if I can expect any kind of..reoccurrence."
Now Kurenai had to hold in her own laugh earning a raised eyebrow from the questioner.
"Only during...certain times....will she act like that, and only in her sleep. She once had Kiba in a choke hold because he was snoring too loud for her taste." she smiled as she spoke, remembering the incident.
He had to say he was quite surprised. That quiet, weak girl had turned into a strong, beautiful woman, with a temper.
"What kind of times?" he inquired, for his own safety. With his power sealed away and Hinata's unknown, he wanted to be sure he knew when to stay out of her way.
He had learned long before not to underestimate an opponent.
The Jonin's cheeks became a shade of pink darker than her normal skin tone.
"Umm.. Well.." she got out as tried to think of a way to explain it, fiddling her thumbs all the while, but Kakashi gave her a rather blunt hand out.
"I think what Kurenai is trying to say is once a month, right?" he smiled with his eye as he looked rather cheesily at his friend.
"Well..Hehheh..Yeah..." she blushed a light pink now as she found the back of her head rather itchy.
Sasuke turned his attention back to his tea.
"Hn."
'Man that girl knows how to PMS..'
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Arms stretched up above her head as she woke slowly.
She didn't have any missions today and she was going to enjoy taking her time getting up.
When she began to pull off the covers, they were unusually heavy which caused her eyes to snap open.
"Aw shit! Not again!"
She pulled the covers down over themselves and stepped out of bed to survey the damage.
How much was this going to cost to fix? Geese. What did she even do this time?
There was a huge hole in the wall next to her bed and she could clearly see the entity of the next room.
No one was there; it didn't even look like anyone even lived there.
Who did she go to about this?
'I guess I'll have to find out who owns that place and apologize. By chance maybe they'll know what happened.'
"Might as well start cleaning this up." she sighed and got a dustpan and brush and a trash can and began sweeping up the powered and crumbled bits of wall.
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AN// Shariki-Mirebu and La Mariposa3795 get a cookie for guessing the vicinity of their apartments! x3
Tsk. Tsk. Bad Hinata! xD Wow. So many reviews! I'm a druggie so keep 'em coming please! Next chapter should be up soon.
-Complicated.