Chapter 6 cats out of the bag

When Hinata fainted the towel fell open as well leaving Hinata exposed in all her glory and left Sasuke with a completely unobscured view of her birthday suit. It took Sasuke a full thirty seconds to realize what he was doing. He closed his eyes and brought his hand up to cover them as he cursed for ogling her like that especially in her condition. Not knowing what he should do, Sasuke decided that maybe covering her would be a good start. He made his way to her body; while keeping his eyes closed he felt for the edges of the towel and brought them around to cover her body. When he felt that enough of her was covered he opened his eyes. He gently picked her up and carried her to the room and placed her on her bed and he pulled a sheet over her.

He debated on showering or waiting for her to wake up. He ended up sitting on his bed reading waiting for her to wake up. He wanted an explanation for this. His shower can wait.

It was twenty minutes before Hinata woke up. She clutched the towel and sheet to her body and sat up. She spotted Sasuke on his bed and let out squeak while pulling the sheet higher up to her neck.

"Get dressed and then come out to the living area when you are done." He then got up and left Hinata alone in the room. Hinata dressed in record time all the while trying to calm herself down. She emerged from the room with a fire engine red color on her face.

Sasuke got up from the couch and pulled her back into the room.

"We should stay in here so if any of the others get back we won't be interrupted."

Unfortunately Hinata's mind was not as innocent as she tried to make herself.

"W-wh-wh-what w-w-would th-th-they in-in-interrupt?"

"You are going to explain why you are a girl. I don't think you want the entire suite to know this right?"

Hinata let out the breath she had been holding.

Sasuke chose to ignore that. But he gave a look that said I know what you were thinking. Hinata was embarrassed enough that she sank to the floor in humiliation. Sasuke sat down right in front of her. She jumped and squeaked Sasuke just looked at her with no expression.

"Well? Are you going to explain yourself? And what is your real name?" Sasuke waited patiently.



"H-hinata and I-I-I d-d-do-don't kn-kn-know why I a-a-am he-he-here," was all she could say.

Sasuke let out a sigh," Look I'm not going to tell anyone. As long as you are not here to try to get to me I really don't care."

"N-no. I-I really d-don't kn-know why I am h-here," Hinata said again.

Sasuke just looked at her a little disbelieving. "Does anyone else know about you?"

Hinata nodded her head. "I-Itachi, D-Deidara, and S-Sasori-sensei know. A-and of co-course m-my cousin."

So she is why he is here. But why is she here? She doesn't even know. This must be one serious undercover case. Sasuke thought to himself. Sasuke was looking at her while thinking things over when a sudden curiosity tangent popped into his head.

"How have you been hiding those boobs of yours?" He asked bluntly.

Hinata turned red again. "I-I-I w-wear a cor-corset."

Sasuke was staring at her chest. Hinata noticed and self-consciously crossed her arms.

"What about the other stuff?"

"Wh-what o-o-other st-st-stuff?"

"You know your once a month thing." Hinata almost passed out again. Seeing that this topic obviously distressed the poor girl Sasuke changed the topic. "You know this would explain a lot."

"Ex-explain wh-what?"

"Why you get all nervous if any of us are in anything less than shirts and pants. And why you moon over Naruto. For awhile I was convinced that you were gay but in denial."

Hinata turned away not looking at him. "W-was i-it th-that obvious?"

"Yeah, it was. But lucky for you the dobe is too dense to realize it. Sai is the only one who notices your strange tendencies, but he knows not to say anything."

"W-why?"

"I told him if he did I would kick the shit out of him." Sasuke smirked remembering that conversation. Sai had accused Sasuke of being gay at the time, but Sasuke was able 

to shut him up real quick and ensure that the man did not say anything about his suspicions in the future.

Hinata relaxed a little as the time began to weight on her and drowsiness crept up on her. Her arms eventually fell in to her lap as she looked off at no particular spot in the distance. She stayed in this trance until Sasuke's voice brought her back to reality.

"What did your father tell you before you were sent here?"

"H-he said th-that I sh-should not ask qu-questions. J-just do a-as he said."

"Humm." Sasuke went into a deep thought trance as he thought about what could be going on. He would talk to Itachi and that was that. Sasuke wanted o know what was going on and he knew his brother would be the only one with all the answers.

"I-I-I will h-have to tell I-Itachi a-about this." Hinata said hoping Sasuke would not get angry at the mention of his brother.

"Don't worry about it. I'm going to tell him myself."

Sasuke studied her while she seemed to be off in her own world. As he looked he could help but think why he did not notice before now. You thought it was impossible, he thought. But now that he knew he could see the girly features that he did not see before. The long eyelashes, graceful neck, soft famine features of her face, soft voice. They now stood out like a sore thumb. He continued to stare even though she refocused on him.

"Sasuke, wh-what are y-you st-staring at?" She asked.

"Hinata right?" Hinata nodded in affirmation. "Would you humor me for a minute?"

Hinata nodded.

"What possible reasons can you think of as to why you would be sent here?"

Hinata thought about why she could possibly have been sent here and could think of only one reason. "Th-they had to p-protect the clan. Th-that would be th-the only reason t-to send me h-here."

Sasuke began to wonder what would threaten the Hyuuga enough that they would send their heir here under cover. This means big time crime was going on but what? Now that he knew where to get all the answers regarding Hinata's mysterious reason for being his roommate he had one last curiosity itch to satisfy and he knew she would not willing let him. So while she looked at him waiting for more questions she clearly did not want to answer with her guard down, he reached out and made a grab for one of those huge boobs he saw in the bathroom and to his surprise he felt nothing under his hand. Hinata did not know how to react at first, but after 5 seconds of wtf thinking she leapt 

back from her sitting position on her floor while crossing her arms over her chest, squeaking right before she promptly fainted the minute her butt came into contact with the floor.

The next morning Sasuke found himself outside of Itachi's office waiting for his brother to show up. Itachi came up with a bit of a surprised look on his face at the unexpected visit of the younger Uchiha.

"Well isn't this a pleasant surprise. What brings you to my office and so early in the morning? Yesterday did not have that great of an impact did it?" Itachi said.

"I know about my roommate." was all Sasuke had to say. Suddenly Itachi dropped his joking air and looked serious.

"We should move into my office." Sasuke followed Itachi into his office and for once sat in the chair across from Itachi's. The two sat there for a few seconds in silence. Finally Itachi spoke.

"How did you find out?"

"Did you seriously expect me to not pick up on it eventually?" Sasuke said with no emotion.

"I expected you to find out but I want to know how."

"Let's just say she was exposed a bit."

"You pervert!"

"Are you calling me a pervert? You know about her, so that would make you one too!" Why was it Itachi could always break his temper.

"I was assigned this case to protect her."

"And what is the case? Why is she even here?" This was what Sasuke wanted to know and had been dyeing to find out since last night.

"The details do not concern you."

"Bullshit Itachi! She's my roommate; I have every right to know." Itachi sighed a little contemplating how he really did not realize how much work this case would be.

"I will give you the basic run down but no details and you can not under any circumstances tell Hinata what I am about to tell you, do you understand?"



Sasuke quivered in anticipation. "Yes I fully understand and I promise to not tell her."

"Ok," Itachi took a deep breath as he rearranged his words so that he would not reveal too much information. "There have been kidnappings recently that involved the abduction of heirs to wealthy families and then they were held for ransom. The problem is these people operate in the school system but we for some reason can't trace them. So, Hiashi Hyuuga offered us the opportunity to find out who these people are by offering his daughter as bait." Itachi waited for Sasuke to say something but the boy only stared at Itachi with that stone cold look of his.

The silence stretched on and Itachi was about to suggest that Sasuke get to class when the statue spoke, "Why the hell would you not tell her something like this?" Sasuke said with a voice that seemed strained with restraint.

"One, she does not need the added stress of such knowledge. Two, her father does run the operation as far as she is concerned. Which means that if at any time he feels she is in too much danger he can call it off, and it is by his request that she not be told. So I expect you to not tell her anything Sasuke." Itachi stressed that last part otherwise Sasuke could compromise the whole mission. But Sasuke merely stood up and went for the door. "Sasuke? You are not to tell her anything. Sasu…"

"I get it! I won't tell her!" And with that he left the office. Itachi wondered if what he had done was going to bite him in the butt.

Sasuke came over to the breakfast table looking rather irritated.

"Hey Teme where have you been?" Naruto asked as he came up to the table.

Sasuke ignored him completely and instead stood behind his roommate who seemed to be pretending that he was not there. So, Sasuke leaned over and whispered in her ear so that no one would hear what he said. Sasuke then left without so much as a backward glance.

Neji looked at Hinata to try to see what he could have said but her face didn't give anything away but then again her normal face expression could be anything. "What did he say?" Neji asked.

"S-s-something about m-m-my th-th-things b-being on h-h-his side o-o-of the room. I-I should g-go cl-clean it u-up." Neji bought her lie and Hinata excused herself from breakfast. Sasuke was waiting for her by the bathroom.

"W-what do you w-want?" She asked as soon as she was close enough.

Sasuke looked at her, his face unreadable.

"You are to never be alone, do you understand?"

Hinata just sort of stared blankly at him obviously at a loss for words.

"You are to never be in the suite alone, leave alone or go anywhere on campus alone. And if that is a problem for you then I will make sure that you never leave my sight, and this also means no more bathroom trips in the middle of class, got it." Sasuke almost sounded angry when he was speaking to her and she could not understand why he would talk to her that way.

"Wh-why?"

"Because I said so. Do we have a problem?"

Hinata shook her head and then let her shoulders drop in defeat. Sasuke nodded and began to head for class. He stopped a few feet away and turned around, "YO, come on," and then resumed walking as Hinata ran to catch up to him.