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Past times won´t die

Chapter two:

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Sasuke sighed as he stood next to his partner. They had examined the whole area, but they didn´t find anything what could have helped them to find out who Uncle Blueberry really was. Sasuke watched silently as the bodies were carried away. Two young girls. Like Naruto had said, it was really messy. There was blood everywhere... And the worst part was that soon someone would get a nasty suprise when the victims´ eyeballs would been sent to someone who knew the victims. People would start gossiping and blaming the police for not getting Uncle Blueberry behind the bars.

The Uchiha lifted his eyes to the night sky. The whole situation was one big labyrinth. At the times like this, he hoped he could go to Hinata and bury his face on her soft hair and just forget everything.

"Forget it already you baka. You can´t be with her. She´ll get in to a danger. It´s better like this." Sasuke clenched his fists and tried desperately to Hinata´s imagine away from his mind.

"You are thinking about Hinata, aren´t you?" Naruto said and poked Sasuke´s forehead to get his attention. He looked away and just nodded. Naruto frowned and sighed.

"If it is so hard to forget her, then why did you leave her?" Naruto said matter-of-factly as he looked tiredly at his friend.

"It was for her own safety." Sasuke replied dryly and turned his back to Naruto, making him to grit his teeth.

"What the hell do you mean by that? And don´t turn your back to me when I´m talking to you!" Naruto growled. He didn´t like Sasuke´s attitude at all. He wanted to know why Sasuke left Hinata. They were a perfect couple, so why? Sasuke turned back and shot a death glare towards Naruto.

"If you haven´t noticed, my job is quite dangerous. And I´m sure you know how many criminals would like to hurt me or those who are important to me. I left her, because I wanted to protect her. Are you happy now?" He replied. Naruto´s face softened a bit.

"You are an idiot." Naruto said sighing. Part of Sasuke´s words made sense, but still Naruto thought it would have been better if he didn´t leave Hinata. Sasuke and Hinata were Naruto´s close friends and he didn´t like seeing them like this.

"You just don´t understand." Sasuke mumbled and started walking away. Naruto rushed to catch up with him and then he threw his arm around Sasuke´s shoulders.

"Anyway, we have to find that blueberry-bastard before even more people get´s killed." Naruto stated seriously and Sasuke just nodded, removing Naruto´s arm from his shoulders. Sooner or later they would find out who was the murderer.

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Three weeks had passed and it seemed like Uncle Blueberry had completely disappeared and now Sasuke had had more time to think about Hinata. No matter how hard he tried to move on, he just couldn´t forget about her.

Hinata hadn´t forget about Sasuke either. And to be honest, she didn´t even want to. But she wanted to respect Sasuke´s decision, so she didn´t call him or had any contact with him. Hinata knew that even though Sasuke didn´t love her anymore, she would always love him. She was pulled put of her thoughts when her doorbell rang.

"Who could it be?" She thought as she walked to the door. She wasn´t expecting any visitors. She walked to the door and opened it. Behind it was a tall man with black eyes and his brown hair was on high ponytail.

"Hi, my name is Nara Shikamaru and I´m your new neighbor." He said and gave Hinata a lazy smile.

"Oh! M-My name is Hyuuga Hinata, nice t-to meet you, Nara-san!" Hinata introduced herself and they shook hands. Hinata assumed that Shikamaru had moved to the apartment on her left. Before there lived a sweet young couple, but they moved to a bigger place, because they wanted to start a family.

"Nice to meet you too and please, just call me Shikamaru. I think it´s too troublesome to use formalities." Shikamaru said and Hinata smiled at him.

"Would y-you like to d-drink some tea?" Hinata asked kindly.

"Tea sounds n-" Shikamaru was interrupted by a loud singing coming from the front door.

"Give me a bottle (hic) in my hand, I want (hic) to be (hic) a drunken man!" Sang a gray-haired man with green lipstick. In his hand was an empty beer bottle.

"Hinata (hic) -hime! Long time no see!" The drunken man said and faked happy. He walked wobbly towards Hinata and Shikamaru.

"S-Sakon-san." said suprised Hinata. Sakon lived one floor above Hinata and it seemed like he didn´t do anything else but drink. Hinata had many times helped him back to his apartment when he had fallen asleep on the stairs all though Sakon never was kind to her. He was always trying to flirt with her when he was drunk, but he didn´t really mean it.

Sakon grabbed Hinata´s hand and placed a wet kiss on the back of her hand. Hinata´s eyes widened in shock and she tried to remove her hand from Sakon´s tight grip, only to make him squeeze her hand more.

"It´s always (hic) so nice to see you, hime." Sakon said mockingly and flashed a huge gring to her.

"S-Sakon-san, I t-think it´s b-best if you go now back to your apartment and t-take a nap." Hinata said softly and smiled nervously.

"Ah! A nap! That (hic) sounds wonderful!" Sakon said and clasped his hands together. He looked around him and noticed confused Shikamaru standing next to him. Sakon threw his arm over Shikamaru´s shoulders.

"What we have here! A new face! Though I don´t (hic) now you, I can tell that you are (hic) a cool guy! Nice to meet you Mr. I-have-pineapple-on-my-head! Are you (hic) Hinata´s boyfriend? Well anyway (hic) I think I´m goint to (hic) sleep! Good fuck, I mean luck to you two!" Sakon said and climbed to upstairs, singing again.

"May I ask who was he?" Shikamaru asked and he had his eyebrown raised.

"H-He was Sakon, he lives one floor above me. He seems to be drunk nearly always. I think he is just harmless, lonely man." Hinata told him and stepped aside so Shikamaru could come in.

"Oh." Was all Shikamaru said and Hinata led him to her kitchen. Shikamaru observed her as she started to make tea. Shikamaru was smart and during those ten minutes they had known each other he could tell that Hinata was very kind and sweet woman, a bit shy too. Her voice was soft and soothing and her movements were graceful. She was so gentle that Shikamaru doubted that she could even hurt a fly.

And she wasn´t bad looking. Her long navy blue hair was past her shoulders and she had a with ribbon holding her hair in a ponytail. Her white skin looked soft and smooth and her pearly white eyes gave her a mysterious look. She was very pretty, even beautiful. Like a fragile flower.

Hinata placed two cups on the table and poured some tea to them.

"So, where are you from?" Hinata asked, trying to start a conversation.

"From Tokyo." Shikamaru replied and sipped his tea.

"Tokyo? What made you to move here, to Nagoya?" Hinata asked.

"I got a better job. And it was too troublesome to live in Tokyo." Shikamaru shrugged.

They talked almost two hours about their lives. It was amazing how easily Hinata was able to talk to Shikamaru. It felt like she had known him for years and not just hours.

Shikamaru was lazy. And he liked to use word 'troublesome' which Hinata thought was funny. But he was extremely smart too.

Hinata was glad that she got to know Shikamaru. He seemed trustworth. Before Hinata even noticed, she was telling him everything about what had happened between her and Sasuke. Shikamaru listened carefully and Hinata saw that he was truly interested in her and her life.

When Hinata finished, it was already very late.

"I guess I should go and start unpacking my stuff. Thanks for the tea." Shikamaru said and stood up. Hinata walked him to the door.

"I hope we can spend more time talking sometimes." Shikamaru said and smiled lazily.

"I would like that." Hinata said smiling shyly. They said bye and Hinata closed her door and leaned against it. It had felt good to talk to someone.

Hinata headed to her bedroom, thinking that maybe life wouldn´t be so bad. She was happy that she had made a new friend.

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AN: I´m stopping now because I want to go to sleep. And yeah, there will be a little ShikaHina in this fic, but the main pairing is still SasuHina, though they aren´t together right now.