Disclaimer: No, I don´t own Naruto.
Past times won´t die
Chapter three: Jealousy
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Hinata was walking down the street towards her apartment with a bag of groceries. She had invited Shikamaru to have a dinner with her. During the last few weeks they had become a very good friends and Hinata was able to smile a genuine smile again. After Sasuke had left her she had thought that there wasn´t anything what could have made her smile.
She was lucky to have Shikamaru as a neighbor.
As Hinata reached her apartment complex, she got worried when she saw two fire trucks and one police car.
"What happened here?" Hinata thought and rushed inside. In front of Shikamaru´s apartment was the landlord speaking with two firemen and Shikamaru. Only Shikamaru noticed Hinata standing there and he quickly walked to her.
"What happened?" Hinata asked with a worried tone. She quickly skanned Shikamaru to make sure he wasn´t hurt.
"Ah, nothing serious. There was a small accident. Someone threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of my living room." Shikamaru explained and shrugged. Hinata´s eyes widened when she heard that.
"Y-You call that a small accident?" She exclaimed.
"Well, no one was hurt and the apartment can be fixed. But now I have to start looking for a new place to stay. So troublesome..." Shikamaru sighed and rubbed his neck. Hinata would have giggled if the situation wasn´t so serious. Then she got an idea.
"Y-You could stay at my place, I have one extra room." Hinata offered and blushed a little. She had no idea where the idea came from.
"Are you serious?" Shikamaru asked and raised his eyebrown. That would save him fron a lot of trouble.
"Y-Yeah. You could stay as long as you want."
"Well, then, I´ll accept. Thanks, you saved me from going trough all that trouble of searching a new apartment." Shikamaru thanked her and smiled a little. Oh yes, everything would be so much easier now.
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Later that day Hinata helped Shikamaru to carry most of his things in to her apartment. It didn´t take much time since Shikamaru didn´t have much stuff.
"I´m g-going to make some tea, can you handle the rest of your stuff by yourself?" Hinata asked and dusted her clothes.
"Yeah, sure." Shikamaru replied lazily and started to arrange his stuff in his new room. Hinata giggled a bit and headed to her kitchen, but stopped when the doorbell rang.
"Now who could that be?" Hinata whispered to herself and opened the door and revealed someone who she didn´t expect.
"S-Sasuke?" Hinata said in disbelief. What was he doing here?
Sasuke just stared at her when she opened the door. Her hair was on a messy ponytail and she had a bit of sweat on her forehead. Sasuke just wanted to wrap his arms around her and kiss her senseless. But he couldn´t because he wasn´t her boyfriend anymore. He mentally shook his head.
"I noticed a few days ago that I had left some of my stuff here." He stated with an emotionless tone. There was a hint of sadness in Hinata´s eyes and it ripped Sasuke´s heart in pieces. The urge to hold her was becoming dangerously strong.
"Oh, right. Wait a second I´ll go get your stuff." Hinata said and turned around, leaving Sasuke to stand on the doorway. He watched as she walked to her bedroom. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair.
"It was a bad idea to come here. This place brings back so much memories. Now it will be even harder to forget." His thoughts were interrupted when Hinata came back, carrying a small bag.
"Here is your-" She started but was cut off by Shikamaru, who walked out of his room.
"Oi Hinata, I have to-" He stopped talking as he noticed Sasuke who wasn´t happy to see another man in Hinata´s apartment. He wasn´t happy at all. And he was jealous as hell.
"Who the hell are you?" Sasuke growled and shot a death glare to the brown haired male. Shikamaru only raised his eyebrown.
"I could ask the same thing." He replied and crossed his arms over hsi chest.
"Don´t play smart with me." Sasuke hissed.
"I wasn´t playing anything." It seemed like Shikamaru annoyed Sasuke on purpose.
"You-" Sasuke started but Hinata quickly cut him off, before things could get ugly.
"Sasuke, this is Nara Shikamaru. Shikamaru, this is Uchiha Sasuke." Hinata introduced them, trying to ease the tension between the two males.
"What the fuck is he doing in your apartment Hinata?" Sasuke asked and turned his eyes to look at Hinata.
"I live here now." Shikamaru said before Hinata was able to open her mouth. Sasuke looked like someone had just punched him on stomach.
"You what?" He asked and hoped that he had heard wrong.
"You heard me." Shikamaru replied lazily. Now Sasuke was really pissed off.
"Hinata what´s the meaning of this?!" Sasuke half shouted and half hissed. He couldn´t believe this. Another man living with his woman? Sasuke couldn´t let go of the thought that Hinata was still his.
"W-What´s the meaning of what?" Sasuke grabbed her hand and spoke so quietly that only Hinata could hear.
"Why is he living with you? Did you get over me this fast?" He hissed to her ear.
"W-Why do y-you ask?" Hinata started to get angry. Sasuke had no right to judge her doings anymore, actually, he had no right to put his nose to her life anymore.
"I still have the right to know what do you do!" Sasuke snarled back, tightening his grip from Hinata´s arm. Hinata couldn´t believe her ears.
"You are acting like you own me!" Hinata shot back, trying to get her arm free.
"Well, I do own you!" Hinata frowned at this.
"If I remember correctly, it was you who left me!" This made Sasuke quiet. "And let go of my arm, you are hurting me." Hinata continued, but Sasuke didn´t let go.
"Seriously, Sasuke." Hinata was now pleading. She didn´t notice when Shikamaru appeared next to her before he firmly, but gently pulled her out of Sasuke´s grasp.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" Sasuke hissed in anger and tried to grab Hinata´s arm again,but Shikamaru pushed her behind him.
"I think you should leave now, you are making things too troublesome." Shikamaru stated.
"You can´t tell me whe-"
"Yes I can, because I live here now and Hinata clearly doesn´t want you to be here." Sasuke looked at Hinata. She just nodded at him and turned her back to him. Sasuke´s eyes darkened.
"Fine." His voice was full of venom. He really just wanted to throw that bastard Shikamaru out of the apartment and show Hinata who she belonged to. Sasuke slammed the door shut as he left.
"Are you okay?" Shikamaru asked, his face showing bit of concern. Hinata rubbed her forehead and sighed.
"Yes, I´m fine." She replied and walked to the kitchen.
"How do you know that guy anyway?" Shikamaru couldn´t help, but be a little curious.
"He is my ex-boyfriend, that´s all." Hinata really didn´t want to talk about that and luckily Shikamaru didn´t ask anymore questions.
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Sasuke threw the bag on the floor as he got back to his apartment. He was still furious, but was starting to feel sadness too.
"I should be happy that she has moved on. After all I left her so she would be safe and that Shikamaru guy is probably strong enough to keep her safe." Sasuke thought bitterly. He knew he had to let her go, but he couldn´t help it. He wanted to be the one who would take care of Hinata.
"Maybe I´ll get over it sooner if I put all of my energy to working." Sasuke thought and at the same time his cell phone rang.
"Sasuke, it´s me Naruto. Old lady was found from her apartment. She was murdered about two days ago and the murderer is Uncle Blueberry again." Sasuke heard his partner´s voice to say.
"I´m coming." Was all he said before storming out of his apartment.
"Fuck you, Uncle Blueberry. When you get caught, I swear you are going to suffer."
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AN: Damn it took me long to write this chapter. But you know, being a psycho bastard is a full time job. Oh I can´t wait when I get to write the nastiest parts of this story... My head is so full of bloody ideas...