Starbucks Espresso is truly amazing…Anyway, most of you picked D, so congrats, you get a seriously LONG chapter, YAY! I am soooo sorry about the long "rest" period. I have a ton of stuff going on, but spring break is next week, so I promise you 2 updates in the next 9 days. :):

DISCLAIMER: Too tired and stressed to think of a witty disclaimer, I don't really own Naruto, or at least, I think I don't…

Hinata jumped back from Sasuke in a hurry, slightly fuzzy in the head and completely bewildered as to what exactly the young boy was thinking. "Wh-wh-wh-what are y-you doing?!" she yelled…well, yelled for Hinata.

"Hn? Isn't that kind of obvious?"

"W-well, I-I gu-guess, I m-mean…W-wait! Why w-were y-you kissing m-me?" Hinata stared at him, clutching against a bare wall for protection. As they were still in the hall outside the classroom, no one saw them. And as Hinata's "yelling" needed some work, no one heard them either.

"Well, because, you don't believe in facts," he said, rather huffily. "I thought I said that already."

"…"

"It's fine if I like you, because you don't believe in facts," he clarified.

"Th-that m-makes no se-sense wh-whatsoever…"

"It does to me."

"D-does i-it r-really?"

"…no."

Hinata sighed. "D-does th-that m-mean you l-l-like m-me?"

Sasuke stared—or glared, just a little—at her. "…sort of."

"A-ah."

That's when Hinata fainted, causing Sasuke to have to carry her to the nurses for the rest of the day until she later woke up after school, only to find herself faced with a new menace.

The fangirls.

DUN DUN DUN!

"What did you do to Sasuke-sama?!" one of them screeched. And for perhaps the millionth time in her young life, Hinata did not know what to do with herself.

"I-I…" Hinata whispered, trying to force words through her lips that would make them understand she didn't like the boy, while trying to make sense of how they knew he liked her.

"You little s---! You can't have him!"

The others bobbed their bobble-headed…well, heads up and down, as though they were programmed to do exactly that.

Hinata stared wide-eyed with fear. And, well, hunger. Hinata had never been able deal with her stomach, and she really just wanted to high-tail it to Ichiraku's, maybe she'd even see Naruto…

"Are you even listening, pig?!"

Hinata stared at them. Was that all? She heard worse. Frequently. In her own home. They really needed to brush up on their insults.

"Stop."

The word alone brought hearts into the fangirls' eyes as they turned to meet their prince. Even as he was staring at another.

"She didn't do anything to me."

And with that he administered the group the soundless, but very affective Uchiha Glare, which seemed to have been misinterpreted as a wink or another flirty look, for they all flew out of the room, sighing with contentment as they went.

Perhaps another girl would have gone to him, reaching outward whispering, "My hero!" before they embraced and walked off into the sunset.

Hinata, however, was not another girl.

"H-how d-did they kn-know?" she asked him pointedly.

"The dobe saw us."

Hinata's eyes went wide and she stared at him. "N-no! No-not Naruto-kun!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Pl-please," Hinata pleaded, head down. "T-tell N-naruto-kun it di-didn't mean an-anything."

"Why should I?"

Hinata looked up at him and their eyes met where a brief exchange occurred between them using only their eyes. Well, what do you expect? They were both pretty silent people. In fact they had both wondered why exactly another silent person would raise such conversation from them. But, anyway, they had to have some other means of communication. Now we know.

"So, what you're saying is, you prefer that dobe over myself," Sasuke said slowly. He would kill him. Oh, would Sasuke ever kill that boy. He would be more dead than any person had a right to be, in fact…

"I-I g-guess so," Hinata said hesitantly.

"Hn." Sasuke turned to walk seemingly-casually away, but Hinata stopped him.

"D-don't d-do any-anything r-rash, U-uchiha-san."

"I never do anything rash. It's always planned."

"O-oh, r-right."

Hinata let him leave before she thought over the implications of what he had just said, when she had actually thought them over, she fainted once again. Fortunately, as she was still in the hospital bed, no one was forced to carry her anywhere and eventually she woke up and went home where she was finally able to eat and then go to sleep, completely forgetting that Sasuke was, as she ate and slept, plotting to kill a certain blonde-haired boy…

Hinata got out of bed with a head-ache. She really needed something to calm her down…

The hot spring! That's it, she'd go there…

Hinata lazily floated on the water in the forest. She had found the hot spring a long time ago and came there when she needed to relax. When she heard a stick snap she plunged under water and threw a rock toward the place the sound came from, while screaming.

"OUCH! What was tha—oh Kami…"