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She was so irritating. She was timid, insecure, and meek. Never once had a friend in her sixteen years of life. So why did Sasuke find her arresting? What was it about her bland persona that made her so interesting? Annoying, was what she was. Annoying for catching his attention, annoying for becoming his latest obsession. Maybe that was why he found himself walking to the library in hopes of seeing her.
He opened one of the doors, a little hesitant to get in. Why was he here? What did he care about some loser chick he was obliged to be with? Sasuke shrugged the thoughts and sought out to find her. Science fiction, biographies, mysteries, where would Hinata be.. In the end Sasuke chose to look in every aisle hoping no one would recognize him there, which, he had a fat chance of because everyone knew Sasuke Uchiha.
He was about to turn back to the cafeteria, when he saw a pair of cream toms, and small pale feet. No doubt they were hers, getting a grip on her shins Sasuke managed to pull her entire body from the bottom of a table. Hinata would've screamed, but she was supposed to be quiet in a library. So she shook instead, and brought a hand to her mouth when she saw who had grabbed her.
Staring at her paler than usual face he quirked a brow, "So this is where you hide when you skip class?" She feebly nodded.
Sasuke deadpanned, "Thats pathetic."
And just what exactly was Sasuke doing here? Was he here just to make fun of her? To feed on her vulnerable will, to fuel his own? Thats what bullies did, Sasuke was a bully. She only wondered what he had to be insecure and self conscious about, he was rich, loved, attractive, smart, and popular. His life seemed pretty perfect from Hinata's view.
"Come on, lets go get lunch." he sighed, pulling Hinata by the oversized sleeve of her sweatshirt.
She didn't understand though, he wanted to eat with her? Maybe he was planning on throwing his lunch at her and laughing with his friends. And she'd had enough humiliation for one day, "W-why?"
Sasuke just got angrier by the moment, and she was caught in his glare. Hinata almost whimpered when he snarled, "Because I'm not eating in a fucking bathroom stall, now hurry." Sasuke clutched her hand and stomped out of the library with her trippy steps.
He'd done this everyday for the next week, always finding her in the same spot. They'd get their lunch and eat on the patio, ignoring the looks and whispers. She never did learn. But he did, he gained more knowledge from just looking at her, the books she read, and the clothes she wore. Hinata wasn't a stunner, outstanding, or gorgeous. She had sleek black hair that looked indigo in the light, a white face, and broken gray eyes. No, Hinata was better. She beat every girl in this school by a fucking lot. She didn't have to talk to him, not that he wanted her to anyway. Just looking at her was enough communication for him. And sometimes, she'd look back, if he hadn't scared her shitless, that is.
He'd gotten into a little routine of this, and his lunches were better spent eating quietly with her, than with a bunch of ugly kids who thought they were hot. He was also getting into a habit of skipping class to sit with her at the library, watching her read. Sasuke was actually on his way right then but a certain blonde was abstaining him.
One week. It had been seven days since Ino's said a word to Naruto. Everytime he sees her in the halls, she ignores him as if he wasn't there. Seriously though, what did he do?
"I don't know what I did, she just won't talk to me anymore, you think she's mad?"
Sasuke paid him little mind, and kept strolling his way down to the library, "Girls get mad at everything. Don't think too much of it." except Hinata..he added mentally.
Naruto looked at him bewildered, and had to keep his pace with him so he didn't leave him. "What do you mean?"
He rolled his eyes, Naruto was so ignorant to these situations, "What I mean is, girls will get angry whether or not you do something to them."
"Huh?"
Fighting the urge to pound him, Sasuke eyed a pair of girls, "Watch this,"
He walked up to them nodding, "Hey,"
The brunette slapped him across the right cheek, "Pervert! I have a boyfriend!"
The other girl next to her slapped him across the left cheek, "Why didn't you say hi to me huh? I'm single!" Both girls huffed before making their way to class. Damn, if those two weren't woman he'd have killed them. Sasuke heard laughing from behind him and remembered, Naruto was the reason he got slapped. Because he was too stupid to know anything Sasuke was the one taking the consequences for it.
"Ha Sasuke, you got bitch slapped!" Naruto clutched his stomach, laughing. Sasuke pushed past him, "Whatever, move."
Oh no, was Sasuke mad at him too? "Wait!"
"What." Sasuke was apparently incapable of asking. Naruto caught up to him, "I still don't get it,"
Now he turned to him, "You're so clueless, I flirted with one of them, and she didn't like it. And I didn't flirt with the other one, and she didn't like it either. What does that tell you?"
"Erm," Naruto was actually racking his brain, "Not to flirt with girls who can hit hard?"
Sasuke had had enough, "Forget it, you're hopeless." But Naruto needed to know, this whole Ino dilemma had drove him crazy. "Just tell me!"
"It means you can't be fucking nice or mean to a girl. You have to ignore them. If you keep following Ino like a puppy, she'll get tired of you. And if you ignore her, she'll come to you." He explained.
Naruto nodded, "So where are you going?"
"Library." He kept walking.
What the? What was a guy like Sasuke doing in the library? "Lame,"
Sasuke looked back at him and spat, "Nobody asked you," not that Naruto heard, he had just seen Ino. There she was, walking like she owned the school. Nose high, and eyes sharp, she looked like sex. But Naruto couldn't stare at her, No. He had to ignore her.
Ino walked right past them, ignoring them as well. And that was when Naruto lost it. The only thing Sasuke remembered was Naruto running, Ino screaming, and now he had a kicking Ino on some idiots back. He shook his head, Naruto was so stupid.
"I said put me down!"
"No can do Ino, we're skipping class." Naruto smiled, walking with Sasuke.
Ino screamed and kicked some more, "Skip class with your boyfriend, now let me go!"
Sasuke scowled at the implication.
After futile attempts to get Naruto to put her down, Ino shut up. Somewhat, she kept threatening and grumbling something to Naruto. They finally got to the library too. Sasuke found Hinata sitting at her usual table, reading something. She looked up, and had this weird mix of fear, discomfort, and panic in her face. She looked normal to Ino.
"Skipping class..in the library." Ino deadpanned, "You guys are rebels." she rested her cheek in her hand after sitting down. Two whole minutes of staring at each other, Ino glaring at Hinata, Hinata trying to read her book uncomfortably, Sasuke scowling at Ino, and Naruto bored out of his mind. "Forget this, I'm leaving." Ino announced getting up.
"Wait!" Naruto cried, following her towards the entrance, "The principal said you have to help me with my school work!" Ino stopped momentarily, "You're lucky she's forcing us,"
Naruto smiled, "What do you need help with anyway?"
"Algebra."
Ino took a seat back at the table, motioning for Naruto to sit next to her.
"Algebra is easy as fuck." Sasuke sneered.
"So's your mom," Naruto pulled out his text and notebook, "Okay Ino, it says to ejacualate-"
"Evaluate."
"-Evaluate," He nodded, returning back to his sentence, "X in the following equations."
Ino looked over his paper and quickly got his notebook and wrote an equation down, "What you do to one side you have to do to the other, so divide by three on each side and you'll see that X equals nine." She pointed to each of the calculations with her pen. Naruto nodded in understanding, "See Naruto, its not that hard."
"That's what she said." Sasuke mumbled, looking away. Hinata fought a giggle.
Ino rolled her eyes, that joke was so old. "Anyways, now that you know how to do this. Can I leave? This is really boring."
Naruto agreed, "She's right Sasuke, this blows. Let's go somewhere else."
Sasuke folded his hands and grumbled, "Nobody's asking you to stay,"
Naruto was looking around the library, this place disgusted him. Books, on top of books, stacked on books, piled on books, gross. There were books everywhere and it was getting to his head. "Let's go eat."
Ino perked at the mention of food. And Sasuke raised an eyebrow, "Where?"
"Anywhere, I'll drive." Naruto swung his keys out of his pocket.
"No," Sasuke didn't have a deathwish. "I'll drive."
Hinata clutched onto her book, was everyone crazy? They couldn't just leave campus, they would get caught and suspended. "N-no, we shouldn't g-go." she pleaded.
Sasuke and the others were already up, twirling his keys he replied, "Fine, stay and eat lunch alone in the bathroom." He was so mean, he knew how much she hated eating in a cramped stall with nobody to look at. Hinata closed her book and reluctantly followed. Walking behind Sasuke just in case they got caught.
This was actually kind of fun to Sasuke, he hated school and everyone in it. So leaving would be relieving naturally. He also knew if they stayed and ate lunch at school, Naruto would follow because he was a clingy little bitch, and Sasuke really didn't need anyone getting the wrong idea that he was friends with a loser like him.
They got into Sasuke's expensive black car, Naruto was seated next to Sasuke in the front, leaving Ino behind Sasuke and Hinata behind Naruto in the back.
"Wooo! Road trip!" Naruto hollered pumping his fist in the air, and rolling down the windows. To which Sasuke rolled back up immediately, "Shut the hell up! Do you wanteveryone knowing we're skipping school?"
Naruto pouted, crossing his arms, "I'm just saying, this is gonna be a kickass story to tell my kids."
There was a scoffing from behind, of course from Ino. "I pity the woman who's forced to bare your children."
He looked back and winked, "Don't count yourself out princess, you could be the lucky lady."
"Please," she rolled her eyes, "I wouldn't date you if you paid me."
Naruto smirked, "Would you fuck me if I paid you?"
That earned him a slap, courtesy of Ino. "No!"
He rubbed his red cheek and turned back to face the road, "Good, 'cause that would make you a whore, and no wife of mine is a whore."
"You're delusional, we are not dating. We're not even friends."
Naruto looked out the window and smiled to himself, not yet.
Sasuke shot him a shiteating smirk, "She's so crazy for you, dude."
"My partner loves me a lot more than yours does."
"I hate you." Ino mentioned.
Sasuke scowled, "Hinata respects me."
"The only reason Hinata respects you is because she's afraid of you." Naruto knew, because Sasuke was a pretty scary guy.
"That's not true." he assured himself more than Naruto.
Naruto looked back, "Hinata, do you genuinely like Sasuke or are you terrified of him?"
Those were one of the longest seconds of Hinata's life, Naruto looking at her expectantly, Sasuke eyeing her discreetly from the mirror, and Ino still glaring daggers at her. "I- uh, w-we-"
"See Sasuke? She hates you."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, he knew Hinata. Taking a turn, he muttered, "You never let her finish."
Ino looked around the car, driving was Sasuke, one of the Police chiefs sons, in the shotgun seat was Naruto, the mayor's son, and Hinata next to her, she knew was the daughter of the president of Hyuuga Inc. Konoha city's largest manufacturing company. As bad as it sounded, Ino felt kind of out of place being there with all these wealthy kids. And she was just the flower girl, the one who helped out in her parents' flower shop. Ino was by no means poor, but she wasn't loaded like these kids.
"So what do you guys wanna eat?" Naruto asked.
This realisation actually made Ino angry. "Ask the hoe with enough money to buy the restaurant."
Hinata's eyes widened when she realized Ino was talking about her. Sasuke subconsciously tightened his grip on the steering wheel.
"Don't call her a hoe, Ino." Naruto castigated.
Sasuke sighed and almost laughed at the whole thing. They were like a family. Hinata was the baby who couldn't do absolute shit but cry and get victimized by the older sibling, Ino, and Naruto was the mother who fruitlessly tried to stop them. He was the father who wanted to crash them all in a car wreck and forge an accident. He was actually tempted.
"We're eating Italian." Sasuke pulled into the parking lot of some nice restaurant. Everyone got out of the car and went inside, any outsider would see that they were clearly out of dress code.
This was a formal restaurant, not a beach, Ino, or New York, Hinata, or a football game, Naruto, and this was most certainly not a strip club, fucking Sasuke. Seriously though, Ino didn't have to wear shorts and a tank top every. damn. day. Hinata had no reason to wear two sweatshirts a scarf and jeans in the beginning of October. Naruto wasn't required to wear his jersey in school hours. And Sasuke was in no way a thug.
They all found a spot way back in the corner, and a waiter immediately came up to them. Scrutinizing them all before forcing, "What would you like to eat?"
"Salad." Ino said with no particular enthusiasm.
"What kind?"
She was getting irritated, "Surprise me," the waiter nodded and scribbled something, looking back at Sasuke expectantly.
He glanced at the menu, "Baked ziti."
The waiter looked at Naruto, "I'll have the spaghetti."
The only one left was Hinata, she could almost hear the words the waiter hadn't asked yet, "C-can I have a c-cinnamon bun p-please?"
"Sorry, we don't sell cinnamon buns here,"
Fuck. Now everyone was staring at her, she skimmed the menu nervously, not really comprehending anything. Hinata choked, "Um, th-then j-just a slice of c-c-cake please." The waiter nodded and left.
"Cake isn't lunch." Ino scrunched her nose in disgust.
Sasuke breathed out of his nose, "Let her get whatever she wants to." While he too was a bit concerned with Hinata's eating habits, he didn't like when Ino pushed her buttons.
The table was quiet once more, Ino and Sasuke having a glare off. Naruto cleared his throat, "So my birthday is this wednesday,"
No one cared.
"You're all invited."
Still nothing.
"There'll be food."
That was when they shrugged, "Whatever," "We'll see," and Hinata just nodded.
Silence. Once again.
Naruto scooted closer to Ino in their booth, nonchalantly wrapping an arm around her shoulders.
Ino glared at nothing, "What are you doing." She demanded, not asked.
"Aw babe, you're cuter when you smile." He poked both sides of her mouth, pulling them upwards. "See-" Ino slapped his hand away, "Don't touch me."
Sasuke couldn't help but laugh, Naruto was either really clueless, or looking to die. Because while Ino didn't intimidate him personally, he'd heard a lot of talk about her, being in the same group and all. They said she was brutal. An absolute monster. She didn't want to be friends with anyone, only stay on top. And she always was, as far as he knew Ino was probably the most popular girl in Konoha High. She was better known than Konan the senior, the Akatsuki even invited her to their party once. For reasons like her face, body, clothes she wore, people she dated, and hearts she'd broken, Ino was who she was.
It was almost an honor to be sitting with her at lunch, almost. Because Sasuke was the one with the status. He was the one with the older brother who was in the most well known gang in the city. He was the one with the money. The police dad. And the one with Hinata as his partner. Sasuke couldn't remember a time where his life was better. And he didn't mind this lunch either, Ino and Naruto were amusing enough, and Hinata just stood there, doing nothing. Perfect.
The meal was nice, everyone ate and Naruto paid, refusing otherwise.
It was the ride home that was slightly..off. Sasuke insisted Hinata sit up front, to avoid Ino killing her. Preferring Naruto get killed instead. When they got to school, Sasuke made sure to unlock only the backdoors. "Get the hell out of my car."
Naruto let Ino go first, "You're skipping the rest of the day?"
"Dont worry about me." Naruto nodded and closed the door.
Hinata tried to open her door, but it wouldn't budge, "Sasuke the d-do-"
"Hn. Shut up." and with that, Sasuke drove away with her.
Sorry for taking so long to update D: School sucks.
And on Friday I was with my friends celebrating my friends birthday. We went to the movies and watched Pitch Perfect, omg best movie ever. Damn, so much talent and beautiful people in that shit. I finished watching the breakfast club too, because the first reviewer on this story mentioned it and I decided to watch it. So good, AND YOU'RE TOTALLY RIGHT, IT DOES KINDA REMIND ME OF THIS STORY. Thank you all for taking the time to review and read this. Love you :D
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