Neji'sTrueLover: Well I kept my promise. Chapter 13 (or 14 depending on how you look at it)
Neji: That is certainly surprising.
Disclaimer: Even though this has been said like 13 times, I own nothing.
Chapter 13 A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate…
Hinata's P.O.V.
When we get to the doctor's office, everything is quiet. I look around and say in a whispering tone, "Nobody's here."
"…"
I am answered with silence as Sasuke slips his hand out of mine and walks toward the desk. But before he actually opens his mouth, a nurse walks through the door. Her head snaps up as she sees us. "Oh, I'm sorry. We weren't expecting anyone now. Is something wrong?"
Out of the corner of my eye, I see Sasuke give me a side glance. He lets out a sigh. "Yeah. My… sister was hurt in an accident a little while ago. She said that there were some pains emitting from her side. I wasn't sure of what to do, so I brought her here to see if it was serious."
The nurse gives a small nod, glances shortly at me, and then leaves the room.
Sasuke lets out a small laugh as I join him at the front of the desk. "So…now I'm your sister?" I ask with a smile plastered on my face.
"Well, I thought that you don't want them knowing that you're really a Hyuga. Isn't it?"
"True, but isn't it a bit obvious that I'm not an Uchiha?" I ask.
"How?"
I raise a brow at him. "I'll give you three guesses."
Sasuke still doesn't seem to understand my meaning, so I give off an annoyed sigh as I point to my eyes.
"Oh…" Sasuke drifts off. "Well…let's just say that you got lavender contacts."
"And what about the last name? I'm pretty sure that they know all about the Uchiha murder."
Sadness enters Sasuke's eyes, and I quickly regret what I said. But before I can apologize, Sasuke says, "We'll deal with that when they ask. But until then, just pretend that you are my sister. It'll help keep your identity a secret, and…" he stops, "I want to feel what it's like to have a family again."
Tears spring into my eyes as I grab onto Sasuke's arm. "Let's help each other have a family again."
Sasuke grabs onto my waist, and gives me a short, reassuring hug, but before I can return the gesture, we hear a door open. We jump as far away from each other as we can, but I think that the nurse saw the light pink that is coloring our cheeks. She gives us a confused smile, then makes a finger motion that is a clear sign for us to follow.
Our pace is quick, we are refusing to make eye contact, but I can't keep the happy grin that is playing on my lips off of my face, so I stop trying to hide it.
So with a smile on my face and happiness in my heart, I walk down the hall fearlessly with Sasuke by my side. Nothing can ruin this new feeling I have. At least, not right now.
Finally, when Sasuke and I stop laughing, we walk toward the town so I can get home faster, and I couldn't be happier. If it wasn't for the person walking nest to me, I would have been in the hospital by now.
Flashback
"Young girl, you have 2 broken ribs that, if left untreated, can cause serious damage. We need to take you to an emergency room so we can bandage you up," the doctor says as the nurse punctures my stomach with a needle filled with numbing fluid.
"H-how fast w-will t-that be?" I ask; the medication already taking a major effect: I cannot feel anything.
"We need at least a day to get you a room, then we need to find a doctor that can help you, finally, we need to do the actual bandaging. 3 days should do it."
Fear runs through my veins. I can't possibly stay away from home for that long. I am about to protest by saying that I can treat myself when Sasuke speaks up.
"Is there any way this could go faster?"
"No. Getting a room in a hospital is no easy task. The doctors are all extremely busy, and getting one alone will take a few hours."
Sasuke seems to weaver a bit, but then, his face turns expressionless, and his eyes cold. The doctor is caught off guard by Sasuke's sudden change in character, and takes a step back.
Looking into Sasuke's eyes and not being able to tell what he is thinking, I start to get worried. Is he going to agree to put me into a hospital?
Out of habit, I bite my lower lip in uneasiness, and start trying to think of a way to get out of this situation. But, once again, Sasuke manages to best me to the punch.
"Sorry. We can't go. Out mom will get worried if we stay out too late."
"But this girl will get seriously hurt if something isn't done to help her," the doctor says, trying to get us to understand how serious this issue is.
He doesn't understand how true his words are.
"I-if all I-I need is s-some b-bandages wrapped around m-my abdomen, t-then I-I can
d-do that myself." All 3 pairs of eyes turn on me, and I wish that I had not said anything. "U-um…b-but I c-can…"
"She's right."
Now it is Sasuke's turn to have all eyes on him. But he doesn't seem to be nearly as affected by it as I was.
"My sister plays a lot of sports, so she gets hurt a fair amount of the time. But she always heals herself whenever she does."
Sasuke turns his gaze onto me, and I can tell what he wants. So I pull on the hem of my sleeve, debating whether or not I should go with his plan. I make an inaudible gulp that seems to go unnoticed by the doctor and assistant, but Sasuke looks as if he had heard it. His eyes soften a little, and he gives me a nod before he goes back to his old expression.
Somehow, with just those two little gestures, I get more courageous. So with my newfound exhilaration, and slight giddy feeling from the medicine, I say, "Just last week I got hit with a baseball in the arm. Most people thought that it might be broken, but I wrapped it in some gauze, and it was feeling fine the next day."
With that, I lift up my sleeve a bit to expose a small amount of my bandaged arm.
The doctor stares wide-eyed at me, and takes my arm into his hand to inspect it.
"Well, I have to agree that she did bandage herself greatly, but…"
"We don't have the time right now," Sasuke says with much authority in his voice. The doctor, in turn, seems to be a bit frightened, so he lets us go without any other word.
When Sasuke and I reach the front door, I think that we are home free. But before we can actually leave, the doctor comes through the door, and asks us the same question I've been dreading ever since we entered.
"Wait. How is it that you both have such different eye colors?"
I feel Sasuke grab my arm, and rush me out of the building. We run far away from the doctor's office, and even though we could be in the biggest trouble of our lives, I start laughing. I cannot tell if it is a weird side effect from the numbing of my stomach pains or my own mind finally going crazy, but I enjoy it.
Sasuke stops when we are far enough away that the doctor wouldn't chase us, and he looks at me like I have gone insane. But all that does is make me laugh harder.
"Ha ha ha ha! Sasuke…ha…I-I'm sorry. I must look really weird right now."
He nods, and I burst out laughing once again. With all my laughter, it looks like Sasuke can't keep a smile off his face, and soon, he starts laughing as well.
End Flashback
So, here we are. We both stopped laughing a while ago, but we cannot keep the smiles that were left off our faces. And best of all: I can actually enjoy it. Whatever medicine that doctor had given me had worked a miracle: I don't feel any pain from my broken ribs when I move. But the happy time cannot last as my watch beeps.
Both of us jump in surprise as it gives off its first noise, indicating that school is over. I turn it off and start walking a little faster. Sasuke manages to keep up with my pace easily.
I glance to my side to see Sasuke's concern-filled eyes. "Hinata, calm down. We still have some time before your mother gets home."
I stop as Sasuke does the same, and take a deep breath. "You're right. We still have at least an hour before Mother'll get home. Besides," I give him a mischievous grin, "I can't be looking weird when people are around."
He gives me a grin of his own, and we start walking again.
When we get into town, Sasuke stops.
"Sasuke, what's…"
Before I can finish my question, Sasuke points to a moving object. I look in that direction, and see a bright pink blur speeding right towards us. When it comes closer, I recognize the blur as the girl from school. What was her name? Sasukie? Sakana? Sa…
"Sasuke!!"
I look up to see Sasuke give off an annoyed sigh. "Sakura."
When said girl gets closer, she jumps up, and lands right in front of Sasuke.
"What are you doing here Sasuke?" she asks sweetly. She has a smile on her face until she notices me. "Sasuke, why is this girl following you?"
"Sakura, this is Hinata. She's from our class." He gives a side glance at me, "She was walking around, and I decided to join her."
Sakura doesn't seem to think that it was true, but before she can say anything about it, a person yells out, "Saaakuuuraa, why'd you run like that? You know that I can't keep up with you."
I instantly recognize that voice. "Naruto."
When he stops and takes a breath, he finally notices that Sakura is not alone. His face lights up with a smile. "Hi Hinata!"
I blush a little at the way he yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Naruto, don't be so mean. Sasuke is here too you know." Sakura scolds Naruto, but then she turns to Sasuke and gives him a flattering smile.
"So, Saaasuke. What are you really doing here?"
Before Sasuke can tell Sakura that what he said before was the truth, some more figures appear behind Naruto.
I recognize the first two quickly: They are TenTen and Rock Lee, Neil's two best friends.
Next, are my two best friends, Shino and Kiba.
"Hey Hinata! Haven't seem you around today," Kiba says.
"Arf!" Akamaru agrees happily from Kiba's arms. I reach up to pet him, and he starts wagging his tail to show that he likes the touch.
I giggle a little as even more people show up.
"Hey Sasuke!" Ino, the blond girl, yells. She's another girl that's in Sasuke's fan club.
"Get out of here, Ino-pig! I was with Sasuke first," Sakura says.
"Well, Forehead Girl, it didn't look like you two were having a very good time. So, I came to make it better," Ino said.
While Ino and Sakura are head to head having a stare off, Shikamaru and Choji enter the circle. "Troublesome girl," Shikamaru yawns. Choji nods his head in agreement while he eats his chips.
"What did you say?!" Ino yells back at Shikamaru.
Before Shikamaru can reply to Ino's yelling, a deep voice interrupts all the conversations that are going on.
"TenTen, Lee. Come on, we have to go."
I know that voice anywhere, but I can't believe that it is him. We haven't seen each other since the beginning of the school year. The crack I hear makes me realize that I turned my head extremely swiftly, and I reach up to rub my neck.
When I look up, I see the same type of pupil-less eyes that mirror my own. But, then they change. Instead of having the hard look they had before, his eyes relax, and give off a calm feeling.
The tug of his lips gives the impression that he is smiling, and if it was any other time, I would have not been able to believe it was true. But, the large smile that forms on my lips makes me believe the illusion.
"Hello, Hinata." His voice is so calm, so gentle, so…perfect.
I walk up to him with the confident filled stride he showed me when we were kids. "Hello Neji-nii. It's been a long time."
He gives a nod, and his smile grows a bit wider.
"Why, Neji Hyuga, are you smiling?" TenTen asks in the background.
Neji snaps his head up to her to give a glare, but an amused smirk remains on his handsome features.
Naruto walks up next to us, and looks from me to Neji, then back to me.
"Hinata! Neji is your brother! I never knew that."
"A-actually N-Naruto, w-we're…"
"Hinata and I are cousins, not siblings." Neji steps up and stands in front of Naruto.
I forgot how commanding Neji can be.
"But you two look exactly alike," Ino said, coming into the conversation.
"Not really, only the eyes are the same," Sakura states.
By then, almost everyone is standing around us: studying us, and trying to see how alike or different we are from each other.
I pull on my sleeve, feeling uncomfortable with all of the sudden attention, when everything stops. Well, not literally, but Neji just steps out of the circle, pulling me with him.
Some people give off an annoyed sigh, like Lee, but other are laughing while saying sorry for crowding us.
I let out a relived sigh, and Neji looks at me with his eyebrow raised. I wave my hand in a dismissing manner, and pull my arm out of his grasp.
Just then, Sasuke comes up to us, and gives me a concerned look. I just give him a sigh disguised as a laugh as I quickly nod my head at Neji. Sasuke looks back, and his face becomes expressionless.
"So it's you again. What are you doing with Hinata?" Neji asks.
I can feel the tension between these two, but it immediately disappears as Sasuke gives a court laugh.
"I was walking when I saw Hinata going in the same direction I was. So, I decided to walk with her. I don't see any problem with that, do you?"
Sasuke smirks as everyone gathers again to see what is happening.
If any person were to walk straight up to this spot, I don't think that they would understand at all what was happening: Two unbelievably beautiful boys having a stare down with a group of kids watching.
Did I just call them unbelievably beautiful?!
Well, why not? Neji has always been gorgeous, even as a kid. And Sasuke is indeed in a league of his own compared to all of the other 16 year old boys. Why even…
I shake my head to make my inner voice stop.
I'm arguing about who is more beautiful. With myself. This has defiantly become way off sane.
When I finish scolding myself for saying such things, Neji lets out what I think was a laugh. Or at least a chuckle.
"No, I don't. You have guts for standing up to me like that. Who are you anyway?"
Sasuke smirks. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha. And yours is…"
Neji's eyes widen a little at the name Uchiha, but he regains his composure quickly. "Neji Hyuga. From the famous Hyuga clan."
He lifts up his hand, and Sasuke shakes it. Finally, they seem like friends now. They both have smirks on their faces, and their eyes seem to reflect off of each other.
"Well, now that all of the introductions are over, let's start going, shall we?" Kiba asks.
I take a glance at my watch, and my breath gets caught in my throat. I am over 2 hours late, and Mother will defiantly not be pleased with that.
"U-um…yes. I-I need t-to g-get home s-so…"
I stop talking as two pairs of eyes turn to look at me. White and black orbs stare right into my own colorless ones, and I flinch mentally.
That can certainly leave an impression on people.
Sasuke seems to understand my meaning, and he quickly turns around to start walking.
"Well, let's go," he says in a monotone.
I follow after him, but a shout of, "Wait!" stops us.
Naruto, along with Sakura, runs toward us.
"Hey, let us come with you. We're going the same way," Sakura says. Why do I have the feeling that that isn't true?
Sasuke shrugs. "Do what you want."
He starts walking again. But, instead of just me following him, there is a group of, like, 10 people.
I nervously look around at all of the different faces.
I hope Sasuke has a plan of how to get rid of them.
I can't help but feel guilty at the thought, but it is the truth. They can't find out like Sasuke did, or else I'll be in even bigger trouble then I am now.
I run up to Sasuke as I realize that I am lagging behind, and walk next to him.
Neji'sTrueLover: So how do you all like it? Even though I feel like I've just started this story, I already know how it's going to end. Now I don't want to sound pushy, but I want to have at least 30 reviews by the last chapter (that's still like 10+ chapters away but...) And I will need them before I start my next story. This is just a heads up for the future, but I'm serious about continuing
Neji: It's pretty hard for you to be taken seriously
Neji'sTrueLover: Ignore him! He's just a little annoying voice in the back of everyone's head