Chapter 3 Is this supposed to be a normal life?

Hinata's was racing through the possible scenarios as to why her secret needed to be so well guarded. And why did she need three teachers there to help her? What kind of danger was she in? She figured she had to be in danger, otherwise Itachi would not have been so adamant on her having confidence in him. While musing to herself she thought that maybe she should tell Neji, but thought that he would only get himself worked up over possibly nothing. Or it could be something, but then he would never let her out of his sight, and that could be even more frustrating than the situation already was. Still…

Hinata had entered the suite noticing that Neji and Sai were playing chess. Muttered a hello to let them know she was home. Sai waved a hand absentmindedly, while Neji just nodded never look up from the board he was concentrating on.

Hinata opened her room door and went in, only to look up into very deep pools of black. Sasuke was standing right there in front of her. He shut the door behind her very quietly, the grabbed her almost violently and pushed her against the door pinning her there. "What were you and my brother talking about?" He said in a harsh hushed tone that personified of danger.

"N-n-n-n-nothing," was all Hinata could get out before his grip tightened on her shoulders.

"You're lying," he seethed.

"I-I-I-I-It w-w-was n-n-nothing."

"My uncle is in charge of the lie detection agency unit in the police force, trust me I can tell when someone is lying and since you are so poor at it, I can almost smell it. Now what were you guys talking about?"

Hinata could not speak. Sasuke was too close. She started to hyperventilate.

"What did he tell you? To look out for me? To tell him about the things I do? Did he tell you to spy on me?" Sasuke nearly growled out the last few words.

Hinata was able to relax a little. He wanted to know if was the subject of the conversation and thankfully he wasn't.

"N-n-n-no. W-W-Wait!" realization just hit her. "H-h-h-he's y-y-y-your b-b-brother?"

With this Sasuke knew they had not talked about him. Good his brother was losing that annoying habit of looking out for him finally. Hinata let out the breath she had been holding so that she would not pass out, unfortunately that got Sasuke's attention.



"Then what were you guys talking about?" Sasuke was now just curious as to what would be more important to his brother the watching him like a hawk.

"N-n-n-nothing."

Sasuke let out a sigh of frustration. Hinata was not going to tell him what she and Itachi had talked about. She did not even understand what was going on let alone trying to explain it.

"I know your are lying and I am going to find out why." With that he left the room. Hinata could hear voices from the other side of the door.

"Hey dobe. Get your soccer ball. "

"Alright Teme! Ready for me to kick your ass at soccer!" Naruto yelled.

"In your dreams baka." Was Sasuke's retort. The noise left the main living area and Hinata was still trying to regain composure leaning up against the door.

T-t-this c-can't be good. Hinata thought, W-what if he f-finds out! Hinata felt very tired all of a sudden. Today had been long and weird. She decided to go to bed early and let her confusion drift away as she slept.

The next morning she walked into math with Naruto and Kiba. The instructor was Kakashi Hatake. The man was strange to say the least. One he showed up five minutes late. Two he wore a mask and had a bandana that looked like it came from an animie convention covering one of his eyes. And three, after teaching for about twenty minutes he told the class to work on the homework, he then proceeds to sit at his desk reading a book of questionable content.

Hinata was a little relived that Kiba and Naruto were not in her biology class. Instead the two were taking geography. "Rocks for Jocks! So it should be easy. Ow! What was that for?" Naruto said as he looked indignantly at sasuke who was gracing them with his presence at the moment. "Because you're an idiot. Rocks for Jocks is a geology class. Te," Sasuke replied managing to stay monotone the whole time.

"Hiro, you have biology next right?"

"H-Hai."

"Well come on, we don't have all day."

Hinata sped up to Sasuke but still stayed slightly behind just in case. Hinata remembered the Sasori was one of the people who knew who she was, so when Hinata walked into class she looked over at Sasori who was seated in the front. He looked like 

Gaara from a distance, except for the tattoo. Sasori caught her eye and gave her a nod of acknowledgement.

"Yo, Hiro!" Hinata turned to see Sasuke looking at her and pointing to the seat next to him in the back. Hinata moved towards him wondering at Sasuke's change of heart about her sitting by him.

"Th-thank you U-Uchiha-san," Hinata said as she approached the chair.

"Don't thank me. I don't want to sit by you. But unfortunately you are my lab partner (he pointed to a piece of paper with Hiro Hyuuga written on it). And don't call me Uchiha-san. It's Sasuke." And with that he sat down with a frown on his face.

Hinata left biology slightly disturbed. Was it legal for someone to know that much about the human body, or the body of anything for that matter? Hinata questioned if she would be ok going to that guy for help. But then again she would rather have him on her side then be against him any day.

Hinata sat quietly eating her lunch half listening to the conversation heating up next to her, when she saw Sasuke leaving the dining hall looking around as if to make sure no one saw. Hinata was about to mention this when suddenly there was a loud crash.

"GOD DAMNIT NARUTO!" Was Neji's voice.

"IT WAS KIBA'S FAULT!"

"TRAITOR!"

Seeing the scene before her, Neji lying on the floor with a try on top of him and Naruto sprawled underneath. How this came about Hinata will never know because Neji got up and started for the two who dashed away from the angry Hyuuga. And along with them the question of where Sasuke was.

"What the hell do you want Itachi?" came Sasuke's deadpan voice from Itachi's Office door.

"Is that anyway to greet family nii-san?" Itachi said with a slight frown.

"Whatever. Look just tell me whatever it is that you want to tell me so I can go."

"Not much for conversation are you?"

Sasuke just stared.



"Alright then I will get straight to the point. Your room mate Hiro, I need you to do me a favor."

"I don't see where you get the idea that I would do favors for you."

"Look Sasuke, it's not much. I just need you to keep an eye on him. Nothing more."

"So is this some sort of reverse psychology? You won't spy on me so I spy on someone else so you can keep track of me?"

"I did not spy on you."

"Then why did you always shadow me!?"

"Look Sasuke I am not going to go into detail about that time ok. Dad was working on a case that could have come back to haunt us if it failed. It was for your safety."

"Whatever." Sasuke knew his brother was sorta right. But it still not change the fact that their dad believed more in Itachi's abilities than in his.

"So why do you want me to look after my roommate. Is he in some sorta trouble?"

"You could say that. He seems the type that if threatened the right way, he won't talk to anyone. I need you to keep an eye on him and if his behavior changes for whatever reason to let me know so I can talk to him."

"Why don't you get his overprotective cousin to help you?" Sasuke asked suspiciously.

"Neji is his family. He may not be willing to open to him like he might with you."

Sasuke thought about what his brother was asking him to do. He knew he should be more suspicious, ask more questions but he knew his brother would not reveal anymore then he already had. My roommate is defiantly hiding something. If he is in enough trouble that my undercover cop brother is looking out for him, it must be big.

"Alright on one condition."

"It will depend but I will do my best."

"At some point you will have to explain all of this too me."

"Don't worry. If you help me out now, I can guarantee that at some point you will be involved."

And with that Sasuke left his brother's office.



P.E.

Never had two letters held such dread in Hinata's mind. She kept telling herself that everything will be ok. Dressing was actually not that bad. As long as Hinata kept her head down and did not look she was good. She wore a white undershirt over her corset shirt so no one would notice.

But when they met the P.E. teacher…

"HELLO MY YOUTHFUL CLASS!" Came the booming voice of Gia Maito. The man must be insane to wear green spandex. Especially at his age.

"Alright class do 15 laps around the track for warm-up! GO!" The entire class groaned as they started to move to the track. When the majority of the class finished the only ones who were not sweaty and red faced were Sasuke and Lee. Hinata almost passed out, twice but her pride kept her going.

"Alright class now for a game of SOCCER! Skins and shirts style!"

Hinata really wanted to pass out.

"Hyuuga, since the principle himself told me that you have a skin condition you will be the first on the shirt team." This was not the problem the problem will be when guys start taking their shirts off.

"SHIRTS TEAM IS…" Hinata was not listening she kept her eyes closed and breathed deeply trying to calm herself. When she opened them she saw Kiba, Shino, Gaara, and Lee had come to stand by her. T-t-t-that m-m-means she thought frantically that…OH NO!! Naruto had no shirt. And for the second time in her life (which she believed once was one too many) Sasuke had no shirt either. Hinata's face was on fire needless to say. J-j-just l-l-l-look a-a-at the g-g-ground and e-e-everything w-w-will be f-f-fine. The Hyuuga was not so lucky.

"ALRIGHT! THE POWER OF YOUTH! LET THE GAME BEGIN!"

Hinata stayed on defense the whole time and since between Kiba and Lee being pitted against Sasuke and Naruto the ball pretty much stayed in center field, until…Sasuke broke from the group headed towards Hinata's team's goal. Hinata started to move in Sasuke's direction focusing solely on the ball until he passed because Kiba caught up too him. Hinata changed directions. The ball was stopped by someone, Hinata did not look up to see who, and she did something she never thought she would or could for that matter. She slid to get the ball. And she got it but that caused whoever was controlling it at the time to fall on top of her.

During the whole thing Hinata had kept her eyes shut, and she wished she had stayed like that, but no, she just had to open her eyes. And when she did she was staring into 

deep pools of crystal sky blue, N-N-N-Naruto, was the last thought that that went through her mind before she blacked out.

When Hinata came too she saw a clock that said it was 3:30 pm. Hinata sat up much too quickly because the room began to spin.

"Sitting up that fast you are bound to knock yourself out again," came Sasuke's distant emotionless voice.

"U-Uch- I-I-I m-mean Sasuke-san. W-w-what a-are you d-doing h-here?"

"My brother sent me. He said I should go make sure my roommate was ok and to wait for you to get. And that you are up we can leave." Without another word Sasuke stood up strode out the door while poor Hinata went to follow though she was still a little dizzy.

Hinata was barely paying attention to where she was going. All she knew was that she could see Sasuke's back and that was what she was following. So when they arrived at the dorms she was bit surprised.

"W-why d-did we c-come back here?"

Sasuke stopped. He stood before the suite door not saying anything. Hinata wondered what he was doing, but was too frighten to try to get his attention, so she stood there waiting for him to do something.

"Are you sure you are not gay?" Hinata stopped breathing.

"O-o-o-o-of c-c-course……"

"Remember I can tell if you are lying," he said glancing over his shoulder.

"W-w-w-w-what m-m-make y-y-you th-th-think th-that?" She figured it would be safer to ask a question.

"Because you act like a prude girl when you're around everyone. so tell me are you attracted to men?" He had turned completely around now to face her and all Hinata could do to keep from fainting was stare at the ground.

"Well…" he was waiting for her answer.

"hdsiufhwriufh," she whispered.

"What was that?" he moved closer.



"I-I-I-I s-s-said I-I-I a-am u-un-uncomfortable a-a-around p-p-people."

Sasuke watched her for few seconds. "Hn," satisfied he walked inside.