Chapter One: Attempting A Hook-Up

A/N: Another chapter up! And yes, we all know I don't own Naruto, but wouldn't that be cool!

Sasuke always hated Naruto. Always. Well, he appreciated him as a teammate, but still hated him. It was an odd friendship he had with him.

But now, while he watched Hinata totally ignore him through this whole walk and try to talk to Naruto, Sasuke could only find one word to describe his feelings for Naruto: hate.

Pure hatred.

He didn't know how he was going to handle this. After all, Hinata's journey to the Village In The Mist, would take a whole month. A whole month of being ignored by Hinata, the girl he was starting to have second thoughts about.

"Naruto-kun…" he heard Hinata say softly.

"Yeah?"

"Nothing…" the Hyuuga heiress turned red and twiddled with her fingers again. Naruto shoved his hands in his pockets. How ignorant he was not to realize Hinata's feelings!

Sasuke clenched his fists and growled. This was the first time he had expressed his feelings since their walk, and he hoped no one had heard him.

"Sasuke-kun?"

Oh, but of course, it was Sakura, who always seemed to be watching his every movement.

"Sasuke-kun, you seem frustrated, what's wrong?"

Sasuke looked over at the pink-haired kunoichi with great dislike. However, Sakura was never able to read his eyes. He sighed, scratched his head, and took his sweet time responding.

"Nothing."

Sakura was not pleased with his answer.

"Sasuke-kun, I know something is wrong, but what is it?"

At that moment Hinata turned away from Naruto and looked back at Sasuke. He almost melted. Seeing that Sasuke was busy talking to Sakura she turned away. Now Sasuke was mad.

"Sakura, you are of no use to me right now, and you are just making everything worse. How about you go talk to Nar-"

And that's when his plan hatched. Was it an evil plan? Quite frankly, yes. But it could work, if he put his mind to it. It was, a desperate move, but Hinata was special, so special, he'd risk his dignity, which was the only thing he had right now, all for her.

All for her..

"Sakura," Sasuke started up again, this time in a much friendlier tone, that put a slight smile on her face. "You see Hinata and Naruto talking over there?"

"Yes, I think they're cute, don't you think?" Sakura added with a smile.

Sasuke sighed. "No, don't you see?"

"See what?"

Another sigh escaped Sasuke's lips. "Hinata is only talking to Naruto because she feels bad for him. You know, about the whole deal about having no parents and all." Sasuke's voice was kept to a whisper so Hinata and Naruto didn't hear. He didn't have to worry about Kakashi-sensei eavesdropping, he was too caught up in his book.

"Oh…" Sakura said in realization. Sasuke tried to hide a smirk. "So do you mean…Naruto's really bothering her?"

"Sakura, would you honestly talk to Naruto if you weren't on his team?"

Sakura took a moment to ponder this. "No…not really."

"Please, Sakura, I beg of you. How about you go talk to Naruto and relive the Hyuuga heiress of his company."

"You are so thoughtful, Sasuke. I would've never thought of this." Sakura told him happily, skipping off to obey Sasuke's orders. She'd do anything for Sasuke, even talk to an annoying brat named Naruto.'

And success.

"Naruto." Sakura started, tapping his shoulder. "I need to talk to you."

"You do?" Naruto asked, his eyes growing wide. Sakura-chan wants to talk to me?

"Naruto-kun.." Hinata started but couldn't say what she wanted to. Sakura now dragged Naruto to the side to talk to him, to keep him occupied, so he wouldn't bother Hinata.

Of course, only Sasuke and Hinata knew Naruto was not a nuisance to her.

"Don't worry, Hinata." Sakura said, giving her a friendly wink. "We're here to protect you right? You don't need people like Naruto hanging around you."

"But…"

Hinata's plea was not heard.

She didn't want to tell Sakura her feelings for Naruto, but the way she was dragging Naruto away from her…could she like Naruto too? No…no one in Konoha liked Naruto, except for her, Hinata. Or so she thought. Was Sakura only taking Naruto away from her to add to the pain she was already feeling about her father not trusting her? Hinata wanted to die.

And now, Sasuke's chance. Hinata was alone, confused, and ready to break down. With slow sure steps, he approached the confused girl, until his only chance at talking to her were interrupted by Kakashi-sensei.

"We're far enough out of Konoha now." he told them all, shutting his book. "Let's set up camp."

Sasuke looked around. They were in total forest. He hadn't even noticed his surroundings, he was so caught up in all his emotions: love, anger, rage, hatred, that he had dropped his guard. What if some random ninja jumped out of the bushes and attacked him? He'd be dead, and no one was left on earth that would care about him...especially not Hinata...

Hinata, who had packed supplies for all of them, pulled a foldable tent out of her backpack, and she and Sakura set up camp. Kakashi carefully set up the sleeping bags. Naruto was looked at his reflection in a puddle of water, trying to be as un-useful as possible. Sasuke wanted so much to push Naruto's head in the pool of water, but how would Hinata think of him? He must be on his best behavior.

Sasuke walked over to Kakashi-sensei, would was having trouble putting to sleeping bags down while using one hand (he refused to put down his book, as he was just getting to the good part). Sasuke unconsciously reached for the other end of the sleeping bag and helped his sensei spread it out.

"Kakashi-sensei.." Sasuke started, while going for another sleeping bag. Maybe he could help him with his problem.

"Yes, Sasuke, what is it?" Kakashi asked. Two sleeping bagshad been laid out, and the pair headed for another one.

"What do you do when you can't take your mind off of someone, but that someone doesn't like you, but likes someone else, but the person your somebody likes doesn't like your somebody, and likes somebody else, and that person doesn't like that person…would my somebody be up for grabs?" Sasuke said in one breath.

"I have no idea what you just said." Kakashi told him. "Now, help with this."

Sasuke sighed as him and Kakashi-sensei set the sleeping bags out. Three of them were in one of the tents, for the boys, and two of them were in the other tent, for the girls.

Sasuke had a hard time sleeping that night, and it wasn't because of Naruto's snoring, for the fact the Kakashi-sensei had on a lamp so he could read Icha Icha Paradise. It was because of Hinata, the girl with white eyes that was taking over his life.

A/N: That's it for chapter 2, so remember to review! Hehe, that rhymed! Now, you must review, or the killer rabbits will come in your house and eat of your faces!…or not…but still, review! It makes me feel all happy and special! And the more reviews I get, the faster I type, using the special powers of Review-energy!

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