Chapter 4

As they walked through the thinly snow covered ground, Sasuke reached in his coat pocket for the key to the apartment. Hinata, who tailed behind him, watched as he pulled it out. The key was connected to a cell phone chain of a pink flower. While Sasuke was unlocking the door to their new home, she couldn't keep her eyes off the cell phone chain. "Why... It seems a little...out of character," she thought and smiled. Once the door had opened, Hinata moved her gaze away so that he wouldn't notice what she was looking at. Sasuke turned to her and asked what was wrong.

"N-nothing! I-it looks warm inside. Let's go in," she said, scared that he might get angry at her for staring at his chain. Hinata took off her boots outside and stepped inside, so as not to get snow inside apartment. She leaned over to shake the snow off her boots, placed them near the doorway, and slipped on a pair of house slippers. Unlike Hinata, Sasuke had walked in the apartment with his shoes on, making small puddles with every step. He closed the door, took off his shoes, and threw them near Hinata's boots. The thump from the shoes landing startled Hinata. She looked over at her roommate who was walking over to what she supposed was her room because he put her suitcase inside it. Hinata's eyes trailed over to the wet mess that Sasuke had left on the tiled entryway. If she had the courage she would have told him to clean up the mess, she felt it wanting to slip out of her mouth, but she held it in. Instead, she searched for a towel in the kitchenette of the apartment.

After Sasuke had placed all of Hinata's luggage inside her room, he turned to find her missing from where she was standing before. He looked around and heard cabinets opening and closing. He followed the sound to the kitchenette and found Hinata squatting in front of an opened drawer. "What are you doing?" he asked. She looked up, obviously startled.

"I-I was looking for a towel or a roll of paper napkins," she muttered, standing up.

"A towel? What for?"

Hinata sighed, "F-for the mess... The mess on the floor." She pointed torward the doorway.

"You just came in and you already made a mess?" he sneered.

At this point, Hinata couldn't help but feel annoyed. "N-no... You..." She took in a deep breath, looked down at the floor, and breathed out, "Y-you made the mess when you came in."

He continued to sneer and said, "Well, I didn't have time to buy any paper towels. I just got here myself last night." Sasuke sighed as he looked upon the girl's small pouting face. "Fine." He started taking off his black coat and red scarf. Before Hinata had noticed what he was doing, Sasuke removed his white shirt and handed it to her. She looked up at the half naked man that stood in front of her, eyes wide open, whether from amazement or fright, she didn't even know.

"Wh-wh-wh-what are y-y-you?" Hinata stuttered. Her trembling hands covered her eyes as she turned her face away.

"Quit being such a spaz," he said, "Just use my shirt to clean up the mess, I've worn it already so it's fine."

The nervous girl moved one trembling hand to grab the shirt that her roommate held out to her. She grabbed it and quickly walked over to the entry way to clean the puddles. Sasuke watched her as she left, a smirk planted on his face.

Is she really that innocent?

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[A/N] I'm sorry! It's been a year since I've updated, hasn't it? It seems like every time I put up a chapter I apologize! Haha~ In all seriousness though, I don't think I would have it in me to actually update if it weren't for the notices that I received from FF telling me that people favorite my story. It really makes me happy! In truth, I was just being lazy and possibly had a bit of a writer's block. Well, that and school has taken up a LOT of my time. I'm afraid that this school year might be even busier, so I really will try my best to update but if I don't, please understand.

There might be a little change in the characters. I haven't really been much of an otaku of anime lately, so I kind of forgot the personalities of the characters and what I was aiming for in the beginning. I've been watching lots of Korean dramas in my free time and my mind is set in that mode. I almost made Hinata have the personality of Jan Di from the Korean version of Boys Over Flowers! The Korean and Japanese are probably similar, but I wouldn't know because I haven't watched the Japanese version...

Anyways, enough of my rantiing! I hope you enjoyed this and the other short chapters that I gave you! As always, R/R! Thank you all for the support!