I was so shocked I barely noticed the frantic high pitched voice but instead focused on the low timber voice that was being very brusque with the woman at the door till there was a loud slam. I could hear him softly pad his way back into the room and quietly shut the door. He approached my futon but stopped at the edge to look down at me.
"You seem surprised." Surprised? Well that's what happens when you wake up to a strange man in your bed!
"Leader-sama I set up a futon for you in the living room for you to sleep in."
"I know." I took a deep breath while trying to restrain my hysteria at this man.
"Then why did I awake up with you?" He tilted his head like I asked him a strange asking before bending down to my eye level.
"Because you wanted me here with you. I heard your nightmares so I came to wake you but instead you pulled me down to hold on to me like I was your savior." I blushed more out of being ashamed that he had found out about my nightmares because I didn't take my usual precautions.
"Gomen Leader-sama that you had to deal with that." His amusement was gone replaced with something akin to anger and some frustration and then it became something I wasn't sure about.
"Deal with that? The 'That' you are referring to is your pain overwhelming you. Since you refuse to acknowledge it when you are awake it takes control of your dream world. Pain is the most natural thing in the world and having to deal with your own is an obstacle in life you have to deal with but when you only deal with others pain instead of your own you become stuck. Stuck in a world of constant pain, havoc, restlessness and fear. Tell me hyuuga when was the last time you some one soothed your pain?"
I sucked in a breath at his words trying to calm myself at the answer that had always been there. Never…
I got up quickly and started my way to the bathroom. I didn't get far as his hand consumed my much smaller one and held it in a vice grip.
"Running away hyuuga? Why do you run away from your pain but face everyone else's with out a second thought?" I made the mistake of turning around to let him see the tears pooled in my eyes that I refuse to ever let drop.
"Why are looking in places you shouldn't be? Why can't you be like everyone else and just leave me alone? Why are you looking at me?"
His burnt orange eyes looked into mine with a seriousness that frightened me.
"I will never ignore pain. I will never be like any one else you know and I look at you because you understand pain, like me." My whole body was shaking but he never wavered.
"Let me go." My voice was nothing but a whisper but he heard it anyway.
"If I do… what would happen to you hyuuga? Will you break?" I activated my chakra and burnt him; he wasn't expecting me to so it bought me enough time to lock myself in the bathroom.
I took a very long shower while I pushed that whole scene into the vault in my head never to acknowledge it again. I couldn't believe I had been in his company not even a day and he had already seen me lose my composure I had built over the years. I got out of the shower only to realize I had only a short towel and no clean clothes. I activated my eyes to see leader-sama sleeping on my futon so I relaxed and opened the door while deactivating my eyes. I tip toed across the room to my closet trying to find something in the dark.
"Who knew what you had hiding?" It was his voice that made me jump and turn toward the man laying on my futon with nothing but my sheet draped across his bottom and was staring at me like I was a piece of steak. Of course my brain apparently was focused on the most important thing right now.
"Where did your pants go?" He smirked and I backed up but my closet door was there so I hit my head. Reflex had one of my hands rubbing my head so I didn't notice that my towel had slipped down, but he did.
"Careful Hyuuga you may not fall into temptation but I have no problem helping you along if you keep that up." I squeaked and fell into my closet while scrambling to shut the doors. While I was hyperventilating he was laughing in his sexy voice that did nothing to help my breathing problem- Wait did I just refer to leader-sama and the word sexy together? CCCRRAAPPP!
"You can come out now hyuuga, I was just giving you fair warning." I found a short dress that had been on the bottom of my closet hidden but it was the easiest thing to put on quickly. I opened the door to find him in the exact position; the only difference was that if I just pulled on the white sheet just a little then that little strip would no longer be blocking anything of the man laying on my futon.
"Your pants." He raised an eyebrow like I was the one with out pants.
"You look very gorgeous hyuuga, special occasion?" I blinked in confusion before I looked down at the dress I was wearing and blanched. It was the dress I had bought on my first and last date with naruto- Hokage-sama, to bad he never showed up.
"I'll change."
"No don't… I rather you join me in here." I whipped my head with a blushed face and wide eyes to stare at the man.
"I'm g-going t-to m-make b-breakfast." I rushed out of there stuttering a response glad to be out of that room and out of his sight.
An hour later I was perfectly calm, well I was calmer since I was a little miffed he was trying to pull that kind of stunt in my apartment as a guest.
"No pants… Who doesn't wear pants?" Of course I didn't know he was behind me.
"Is it that much of a problem?" I jumped but luckily he had grabbed the tea pot that I had been holding so I didn't burn myself.
"I usually don't wear anything when I'm sleeping but I was wearing pants because when you grabbed me last night I didn't want to wake you up. You were sleeping so peacefully in my arms that even though I couldn't sleep I didn't mind." He didn't sleep because he was letting me have a peaceful sleep, that's why I feel so refreshed.
"Thank you leader-sama, I'm sorry about this morning I was just taken by surprised."
"Call me Pein Hyuuga and I'm sorry since I assumed that some one like you would have woken up beside a man before, so it was a pleasure being your first." He smirked again before passing me to go back to bed.
"Some one like me?" Was he making fun of me like Sakura and the other girls did?
"I meant some one who's beautiful Hyuuga; how many times do I have to tell you I'm not like anyone you know." He had his back to me so he didn't see my blush but I think he knew.
A knock at the door woke me out of my thoughts. I went to answer it automatically but before I did I considered pretending I wasn't here. I had enough to deal with so did I have enough of me to help some one else?
"Hinata I know you're there." I sighed thinking that the man in my bedroom was rubbing off on me as I opened the door for Shika-kun.
He came right in with out even looking at me to sit on the table in my living room waiting.
"Are you coming?" I blinked at him before I quietly shut the door as not to wake up Pein.
"I heard Ino came by today but Pein told her to go screw herself and slammed the door in her face." I nodded trying to think back to that incident but it brought up other memories.
"I know its your first day off in a fucking long time but I wouldn't have bothered you if I didn't need you. Hinata you were there for me when Asuma-sensei was killed and every day after so I have come to rely on you but do you think I could live with out you beside me advising me?" I frowned at him trying to get my brain to catch up but even then he wasn't making sense.
"I'm your friend Shika-kun, always will be when ever and where ever we are. Friends take apart of each other where ever they go Shika-kun because life separates us by distance but not our bond."I 'm hoping that's where he's going with this and thankfully I'm rewarded with a smile and more relaxed friend.
"Gaara has asked Naruto for me to go and stay in Suna to help out with the war effort there and he agreed. So now I have till noon to decide but Ino and my family already made it clear they didn't want me going and Chouji said he would support me either way but I can tell he wants me to stay."
"What do you want? Take away all the feelings of guilt and nervousness and look at what you want." He closed his eyes and laid his head on my coffee table.
"I want to go. I love Konoha but if I don't go then I'll never see if there could be anything between me and Temari, I'll never know if I can survive with out you telling me everything is going to be okay or if I can be a nin with out Ino and Chouji having my back."
"Then why are you here when you know the answer? When we leave something or someplace we have become to think is apart of us it will hurt but it will make you stronger. Those left behind will miss you but they will continue to become stronger in your absence in a way they wouldn't be able to if you were there with them."
He smiled and straightened up to look at me with a serious face.
"What about you?" I raise my eyebrow in question.
"What do you want Hinata-chan?"
"That's a question we both would like an answer to." I jumped again to look at the man who filled my bedroom doorway looking very good enough to eat. No Bad Hinata! No thinking the enemy would make a very delicious …Crap.
Thanks that is chapter two so please review! if i get enough reviews i'll post another chapter tonight!
