Sakura starred at her palm.
Placing it onto the blonde girl who was asleep heavily.
She concentrated her chakra, like her mother taught her, and tried to circle it toward the center of the female's heart. She repeated some words, hushed under her breath, and lifted her hand.
Ino flinched.
Other then that nothing seemed to happen, frowning the Haruno placed her hand once more onto the body, and re-did her ritual.
This time the Yamanaka's eyes flew open, looking up at the pinkette.
"Sakura?"
"Hi, Ino!"
"Was anyone else here? It felt like someone just punched me in the chest...is Shikamaru under the bed!"
Frantically the girl tipped down to see under the covers, while Sakura turned sharply.
So she had figured out the Hyuuga's secret technique.
...
Hinata was running through the halls of the manor, the simple white dress flowed behind her, and her bare feet made small taping sounds on the wooden floor boards. Sliding around a corner she bumped into one of the Hyuuga servants, they quickly caught her, and she thanked them, hurrying on to Neji's quarters.
She didn't knock, even though it was the polite thing to do, because truthfully she was about to spurt some very impolite things to him. She calmly swung the door open, to see her cousin, and personal care tacker to be seated at his table doing his usual round of studying.
"Neji."
He turned, arching his eyebrow.
"Hinata? To what do I owe this visit? Is something wrong?"
She slapped his face.
She hit him hard.
He gave a stunned look, and an almost growling sound formed in the back of his neck.
"Lady Hinata, what was that for?"
"For everything you've done to me."
He placed his finger on the red mark, a puzzled look stretching over his features.
"I have no idea..."
"Neji, the one thing in the world I hate, what is it?"
"Liars."
She hide her eyes behind her bangs, her lips quivering into a line.
"And you are one. How could you? How could you do that to Sasuke? How could you do that to me.."
She could hear him coming closer, and the smell of his breath, but she just let herself move away.
"Why did you put the rejection seal on him? Why are you making him stay far from me? Why did you tell me you loved me? Neji, are you jealous?"
She didn't look up to see what he was doing, but she did notice the tension that had been laced between them. She knew her accusations were coming out harsh, and raw. Anyone who was guilty, or even not, would be at a lose for words.
"I was jealous."
A gasp hung in the air, and she titled her gaze upward. Her cousin's face hung low, his back arched, and his knees were shaking.
"I was...I was just so jealous..."
It looked like he was about to break. Like a vase tipping over the edge of a cabinet, readying itself to be shattered. And then all she heard was the bitter laughing of a small boy.
Not Neji's laugh, but some sort of sick demented one that twist its way around her.
"Hinata, believe me when I say I am a calm man. I've put up with being a side branch member, and catering to your every need for 17 years of my life. I fell in love with you, because you were the only girl I had grown up thinking about it. Now it's just a naturel chain reaction."
He ran the tips of his fingers through his dark roots.
"Sasuke Uchiha did not grow up with you. He doesn't know your secrets. He doesn't know the meaning of being a Hyuuga. I do, and of course I was jealous when I saw you two holding hands, talking like a normal couple, because I will never have that. My heart is locked on you, and if he touches you my first emotion will be envy, until the day I die."
She kept her lips shut.
"But I did not put the curse seal on him."
He retreated back onto his bed. His hands resting on the pillow, and she could feel him silently waiting for her response. Without a thought, she began to walk toward him.
"Hinata..."
She placed the tip of her index finger to his forehead.
"Reject."
She saw it in almost a slow motion mode, the way his mouth hung open at her words, and then the twitching, and small groans, as pain shot throughout his spine. She watched for a while, until the only thing she could think of came out of her mouth.
"I hate liars."
...
Naruto was sitting alone in the library, which was bit of an unusual sight. His nose was deep in a novel on the history of charms, a bottle of juice and a half eaten Twix accompanied him on the table.
Ino's head poked her head from behind him.
"Naruto? What are you doing?"
Startled, he turned to the blonde and smiled wide.
"Studying"
Her eyes narrowed.
"You never study...ok what's wrong?"
His blue eyes opened, and his smile dropped. He didn't know if telling her was such a good idea, but she was Hinata's best friend. She was closest to her, and the Hyuuga hadn't responded to his text, so it would be easiest to talk to someone who knew her almost as well as she knew herself.
"Well, actually I have a question about Hinata.."
She flipped the long bang from her face, and made an almost cute scrunchy thing with her nose.
"Do you like her?"
"N..."
"Don't lie, it's ok a lot of people are starting to take interest in her, she's gorgeous. And rich."
He could sniff out a hint of jealousy.
"Ino, are you jealous?"
Her cheeks got a tint of pink, and she fiddled with the chipped wood of the old tables.
"Well..."
...
Today was the day she was going to tell Kiba.
Today was that day.
"Kiba...I like you..."
She bite her lip, looking at her reflection in the glass of her parent's flower shop.
"Kiba, I wanted to tell you..I think your cute, will you go out with me?"
She huffed, nothing seemed appropriate to say to him. Finally, she agreed on simply telling him she had a crush, she saw the familiar spiked brown hair, and the bark of the cute puppy he always had with him. From behind the corner of the street, the small 13 year old blonde calmed herself, and stepped from behind the curb.
"Kiba..."
She called, but cut her voice of quickly.
There he was, holding Akamaru, blushing, as Hinata stroked the fur of his pet.
"Hinata..."
"Yes Kiba-kun?"
"Do you like...me?"
She gave a small sweet smile.
"Of course."
Ino backed away, sliding down against the brick, and shielded her watery eyes behind a curtain of yellow hair. Hinata didn't like Kiba, like...like she did. Did she? No, she was her best friend, Ino had told her about her crush, why would she do that?
But there it was, that scene replaying in her mind.
Well she couldn't blame Kiba, Hinata was beautiful, mannered, graceful, and came from a upperclass family. She had everything Ino didn't.
It was ok to feel jealousy...right?
...
At first, Naruto thought the girl was going to cry, but she just brightened up and pointed at the book in his hand.
"So what's that for?"
He looked down at the passage on rejection seals.
"Just...studying."
...
Sasuke could feel himself wobble slightly because of the lack of sleep, but he didn't mind it. He had been diagnosed with insomnia after his brother had passed, but it had gradually subsided over the years. Too bad now it was coming back.
He was walking through the main gates of the Academy, and strangely his feet were carrying him to the direction of the city, he only had his keys to the dorm and a couple hundred yen on him, but sauntering forward he listened to the noise that grew as he got closer to the bustling town. It was a Saturday, or a Sunday, he had lost track, but there wasn't any school.
He had left his phone back in school, and he thanked the time away from those constant calls from Sakura, and the reminder of Hinata lingering in the text messages, faintly he recalled the time he had first got her number, how shy she was about it.
...
"I don't really talk to many people, only Naruto or Shikamaru."
"Same, I only text Ino."
His dark eyes landed on the glasses she had out on the table, and the cup of cold coffee that hadn't been touched. The café window was large, reaching from floor to ceiling and he watched the cars and people who weren't enjoying their summer run through the streets like mice in mazes.
"It get's lonely, for such a big place."
From the corner of his eye, he saw her nod.
"But I'm never lonely with you."
This startled her, and she squeaked out something inaudible. Sighing, he set his elbows onto the table top, and rolled his knuckles under his chin.
"D...d..do you want my..n..number?"
She had her phone, shaking, in her palm. He gave a chuckle, taking out his own cell and flipping it open. With a click from the shutter, he snapped a photo.
"W..wha...?"
"Contact photo."
He smiled, his eyes turning into arches and her confused mumble like music to his ears.
...
He hadn't been thinking of where he was going, but before he knew it, his feet had stopped out, and his eyes adjusted to where he had ended up.
A large home with a long gate surrounding it towered over him, the garden was green, and the structure was wooden, his gaze locked onto the plate that coated the mail box.
Hyuuga Estate.
His mind over flooded with memories, and small sprays of pain that came along with it, he knew that the window on the far right, was Hinata's room.
Desperately, he picked up a stray pebbly, aiming it for the light purple curtains. It hit, but nothing happened. He tried, again. This time there was a slight movement from inside, so he tried a third time. He saw a shadow fall onto the window. Suddenly, it was opened and the dark hair shimmered in the sun.
"Psst.."
He whispered, but knew she obviously couldn't hear him.
"Hinata!"
He said a bit louder.
"Hinata!"
Louder.
"HINATA!"
His scream echoed through the sky, and he could see her eyes land on him.
"Sasuke?"
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A/N - ...There will be so much Sasuhina in the next chapter. Omg.