Hobbies: flowers

Hello peoples, I decided to update really fast because I like this story. Plus I was so happy I got 3 reviews the first day, I think that's real good so if it keeps up I will update this one really fast. Thank You…

Kiba504 : I'm trying not to make him too soft, anyway thanks for the review.

TheDemonQueen1: Thank you, I'm trying to keep a good mix of all the genre, this is going to be more dramatic though. Thanks for the review

XXRedWolfXX: Thank you, I liked the Kakashi part myself. Thanks for the review

Megamikumori: Thanks, I tried to make the first chap a little fluffy, sorry for the wait. Thanks for the review

sailormarsfire93: Thanks for that, I hope this chap doesn't disappoint. Thanks for the review

LoveKibaAndShinoForever: Thank you, I'm sorry for the wait. Thanks for the review.

S-A-K-G: Alright here comes the next chap.

Shikamaru: I think they know that.

S-A-K-G: Anyway: beware there will be Sakura bashing in this chapter.

Shikamaru: Sakura fans just don't get too insulted okay.

S-A-K-G: I personally don't like Sakura but anyway...

Sasuke: I don't like her ether, or Ino, or you for that matter, I hate fan girls.

S-A-K-G: I'm not a fan girl!!!

Shikamaru: You have his keychain on you're backpack, his picture in your folder and his character card on your desk. I'd call that fan girl status.

Sasuke: Really?!?!?!? Man I'd call that obsessive status…

S-A-K-G: I do not… Anyway just get on with the story.

Shikamaru: Do too.

S-A-K-G: Grr…

0o0 (previously)

Sasuke waited, trying his best to be patient, and trying his best not to look at her body. 'Really, since when am I a pervert… damn that Kakashi,' he cursed in his head.

0o0somewhere

Sneeze

Kakashi sniffed. "Somewhere someone is cursing me… probably Sasuke again."

Chapter: 2

Protector of the heart

After a few minutes of Kakashi cursing (and for Kakashi, strong sneezing) Sasuke got bored. 'How many memories can she have in one book?' Sasuke thought. He was having a hard time occupying himself while waiting and had decided just to watch her turn pages. It was surprisingly interesting to see the many different flowers inside the pages of her book. But it left him wondering about all the memories she must have. 'I'm kind of glad that she has so many memorable moments,' he thought, but in truth it made him think about the childhood his brother stole from him.

"Oh, here's a page we can use," she said startling Sasuke out of his depressing thoughts.

"Okay, so how do we start?" he asked grabbing the bouquet excitingly, though it didn't show. Hinata giggled for the thousandth time, she could tell he was excited. And he was so excited it was funny.

"First we pick a flower to p-press," she instructed. Sasuke looked at all the flowers in his hand.

"Why not press them all?" Sasuke asked.

"Th-this book c-contains important memories," she said. "So I press one flower from each m-memory, in order to save room for m-more"

"Hn," was Sasuke's short reply. 'Is it that important to her?' Sasuke wondered; he hadn't really cared before, but the more he talked to Hinata, the more fascinated he got. He figured that it was just the way she explained things; the poetic reasoning she would give for things was able to pull him into interest. But rather than waist time thinking about that he decided to get strait to pressing flowers. He picked one of the blue and white flowers from the group and handed it to Hinata.

"Th-this is my f-favorite flower out of a-all the others," Hinata said to Sasuke as she placed the flower down on the book carefully.

"Hu, mine too," he said as he watched her close the book slowly. When she finished closing the book, she pressed down on it.

"You should keep p-pressure on it for 10 seconds," she explained. Suddenly she heard Sasuke move next to her, then without a word, he placed his hands on top of hers. She could feel his chest against her back and he started to apply pressure to the book too. Even though his hands were applying pressure to hers, it didn't hurt at all; in fact he was very gentle. Hinata blushed the deepest red she has ever blushed before in her whole life, and that's saying something. Sasuke placed his head on her shoulder and Hinata almost fainted. 'Why dose he have to be so close to me?' she thought.

"Is this enough time?" Sasuke said. Hinata snapped out of her thoughts upon hearing his voice.

"H-h-hai," She said quickly expecting him to move. But he didn't move, she turned her head to see what he was doing. He wasn't looking at her; he was looking over his shoulder. She leaned forward to see what he was looking at, only to see Uzamaki Naruto, and Haruno Sakura gaping at them. And who could blame them, with how close they were to each other you wouldn't think that Sasuke and Hinata were pressing flowers.

'Crap,' Sasuke thought. 'Naruto's not going to let me hear the end of this. And I don't even want to hear it from Sakura…' Hinata fidgeted under Sasuke, he looked at her, her face was so red as compared to its normal cream color. 'Her skin was always so pale, and it always looked so soft and smooth.' Sasuke was still looking at her, and it was really bothering Hinata that he was still yet to get off her. Sasuke though, hadn't noticed her discomfort, and only made it worse when his thumb began to run up and down the back of her hand. 'It really is smooth,' he thought. He looked at Hinata's face; he didn't realize how close they were till just then. 'If I lean forward just a little…' He then realized what he was thinking. He blushed slightly as the temptation of leaning forward and kissing her was only held back by the fact that they were being watched.

"Um, are we interrupting something?" Naruto said. Sasuke snapped out of his daze and looked at Sakura and Naruto.

"Hn, dose it look like your interrupting something dobe?" Sasuke said trying to recover from the fact that he thought about KISSING Hinata Hyuga, whom he barley met. 'Ch, it was just because we were so close. That's it, we were just so close,' he thought to himself. 'But, whose fault was that,' he thought again.

"U-Um S-Sasuke, do-do you mind," Hinata said from under him. She really couldn't take much more of him being so close. Especially with Naruto standing there, plus Sakura looked like she was going to explode. Sasuke stood up, he had just realized how uncomfortable Hinata must have been the whole time. He helped her up and they both faced each other for a moment.

"Well, I don't know, are we interrupting something?" Naruto asked again. Sasuke was about to retort back, but Sakura bet him to it.

"Of course not you idiot!!" Sakura screamed. She hit him on the head leaving a large bump.

"Ow!! Sakura-chan what was that for? How do you know they weren't doing anything?" Naruto half stated, half complained.

"Because why would Sasuke-kun be doing anything with Hinata!!" she yelled back. Everyone looked at Sakura, Hinata wasn't sure if she should be offended or not.

"Hu, what's that supposed to mean?" Sasuke asked in disbelief. Was Sakura insulting Hinata? Well it sounded like an insult, at least to him. 'And I thought Hinata and Sakura were friends.'

"I mean out of all the girls in Kanoha you could have, you wouldn't pick her." Everyone went silent; Hinata's eyes went wide in surprise. "I mean you want me," she continued. "You love me. There's no way you could ever be in love with her, look at her, she's not even pretty," at this point, Hinata was holding back tears.

"Sa-Sakura, w-why would you say something like that?" Hinata whispered. "I k-know, I'm not… I know I'm not p-pretty, like you," Hinata's tears began to flow. "Or strong as y-you, but you don't… you don't have to s-say it to my f-face," Hinata said, severely lowering her self-esteem. "I-I'm s-sorry Uchiha-san, b-but-," Hinata started crying so hard that she couldn't finish her sentence, she dropped to the floor as if she suddenly lost the energy to stand. Both boys just stood there, nether new what to say. Both were in disbelief, Sakura usually talked so fondly of Hinata. As if they were great friends, but now it seemed like she hated her.

"Hinata-chan" Sakura said suddenly. She realized what she had just done, she wasn't talking to Ino, she couldn't say those things to Hinata. She really hurt Hinata, 'I really screwed up this time.'

"Sakura," Sasuke said in a low, calm voice.

"Yes Sasuke-kun?" she said. She knew that she had stepped way out of line, she was ready to pay.

"Get as far away from Hinata as possible," he said in that eerily calm voice. His face hidden behind the shadow of his hair. "I thought you were Hinata's friend, but what you just said," he paused. "What you just said was unforgivable." He bent down and picked Hinata up bridal style. "Naruto," he said getting Naruto's attention. "Get me Hinata's things," he said. Naruto did what he was told, and put the book that they were just using into Hinata's bag.

Sakura turned away in shame, 'I'm so sorry Hinata,' she thought. She walked away slowly, hoping that maybe she could turn back and say 'I'm sorry Hinata-chan' and everything would be okay. She didn't have the courage to; she knew that she had hurt Hinata really bad, 'Hinata-chan is so fragile, everything hurts her.' Sakura had lost her temper, she didn't mean it. She turned back to face Hinata and say her apologies, but Hinata and Sasuke had disappeared. Sakura fell to her knees, "I'm so sorry Hina-chan, I-… I didn't mean it," she sobbed softly to herself. Suddenly she felt to arms encircle her, she looked up to see Naruto looking sadly down at her. She fell into his embrace, holding onto him for dear life, he was there for her, even after what she had said. He understood that she was extremely sorry for what she said, he new that she was sincere in her apologies.

"It's okay Sakura-chan… its okay," he said softly.

"Oh Naruto," she screamed, burying her face into his neck. He would wait, wait for her to fell better, he was there because she needed him, and it helped.

0o0

Sasuke was pissed off, no, he was beyond pissed off. 'How could she do that? How could she just say something like that to her friend? And Hinata, how could she just take it, how could she just stand there and take it? How could she do that without yelling back at her, just a whisper of 'that's mean, you shouldn't say things like that.' No death threats, no swinging, hell Hinata didn't even yell.' Sasuke took a deep breath and looked down at Hinata. She had stopped crying, and was trying to gain control of her breathing pattern. 'She's so… fragile,' he thought calming himself down.

"I'm s-s-sorry U-uchiha-s-san," she whispered.

"Hey, what did I just tell you, call me Sasuke," he said putting her down. He had run deeper into the forest and just decided to rest. Hinata wiped her eyes furiously; she had calmed down and was trying to over come her embarrassment of crying in front of Sasuke. "Hinata, you should have said something back to Sakura," Sasuke said. "You should stick up for your self, or else people will hurt you." Hinata looked at him. Her eyes were still red, but she still smiled.

"Thank you Sasuke-kun," she said. Sasuke gave her a questioning look, and was about to ask her why she had thanked him, when she rapped her arms around him. She began to cry again, sobbing into his shirt, "Thank you for caring about me Sasuke," she said. She clung to him one hand with a fist full of the back of his shirt; the other hand had the font of his shirt, holding onto his shoulder.

Alright, so what do you think so far? If you like it, please review: if you don't, well… I'd appreciate a review telling what you don't like about. So anyway, review.