Music, Ballet and All of the Above

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Chapter 6

Stupid Sasuke! Stupid love letters! Stupid dreams!

Week two of school starts today. The nervousness of week one that everyone undoubtedly felt is gone. Hopefully. I thought mine would be gone too, but it only multiplied by infinity. Ignoring Sasuke and our confrontation at the dance studio made everything worse I guess. Was I talking to him? Should I talk to him? Is he going to talk to me? … Why do I even care?

The green scenery rushed by quickly. I was sitting in the backseat of the car with Hanabi like I do everyday. Today Neji was driving. It took a lot for Isy to give up the steering wheel, but she did. Anyway … Neji's driving …. Whenever he drives I fear for my life. He has more of a lead foot than Isy does. While we are on the topic of Neji, his hair is its normal, perfect self, except the fact that it's a little shorter, by only an inch or two. Yesterday he told me he has grown to like it, amazingly. I doubt anyone at school would notice, but you never know.

"So? Anything going on in your life dear sister?" Hanabi smirked at me. What was she up to?

"Not that I know of. Why?" I smirked right back at her. Might as well get it out of the way. Bring it on, little sister!

"Nothing. I just overheard some stuff." She said it loud enough so both Isy and Neji heard.

"Like what?" What has she heard?

"That you like someone … in your class. Actually, I heard he's in most of all your classes. It kind of seems like he's stalking you." The smirk on her face widened. She was so evil.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Hanabi. I don't like anyone in my classes," I said honestly, because I don't. I have gone to school with these people for more than eight years, I know them too well to have feelings for any of them and not know it.

"Sure you don't."

"Where did you hear this from anyway?" The annoying, little pest was probably reading my diary again. Neji stopped the car at the curb in front of Hanabi's school.

"… You should learn to know when someone is on the other line of the phone," she whispered, and slipped out of the car before I could grab her. Grrr! The little brat! How dare she listen in on my phone calls? That conversation to Tenten yesterday was private. And I never said I liked Sasuke. I just said how it felt weird cause it seemed like he was stalking me.

Neji started the car again and we drove two more blocks to our high school.

"I think you like him too." Isy turned around to look at me. My head snapped up and I glared at her. I can't believe she just said that.

"I don't." I was getting mad. The blood rushed to my face. I was getting red and I knew it. I can't believe this!!

"I know you think you don't, but it is possible that he likes you." What? Sasuke Uchiha like me?! Why would he like me? I am clumsy, shy and not popular at all.

"Does not." My glare intensified and she turned around again.

"Who is he?" Neji asked. He was confused the whole time. He gets mad sometimes because we don't let him in on the topic of the conversation.

"No one!" Isy and I said at the same time. If Neji would know about Sasuke and everything that had happened, he would just make it worse. Other than the fact he would agree with Hanabi and Isy.

"The little brat listened in on our phone call and thinks I like him," I said. Tenten was looking down at the homework that was due today. I stood in front of her desk. Homeroom hadn't started yet, but some people were already here doing the homework that they didn't do over the weekend.

"Do you?" Her head shot up before the words came out to give me a meaningful look. Of course not!

"No!" I stared down at her in disbelief.

"… You answered too fast." Say what?!

"How does the speed of my answer really mean anything?" She thinks I like him too!

"I read it in a book … it's a subconscious thing." She shrugged. I sighed, turning into my seat. The day didn't even start and I was already tired.

"Today we are going to start group math!" Ibiki called out to my math class. "Pair off!" Who can I partner with? I looked around the room at my fellow students. I ignored the direction where Sasuke sat. I didn't want to give him the satisfaction of me looking for him to be my partner. Shikamaru sat by himself next to window. Maybe … I turned my legs out from underneath me so I could stand and walk over to him, but before any of the movement I had planned took place my desk was pulled to the right. My eyes followed the direction of the person who had pulled me towards them. Big surprise … it was Sasuke.

"Where are you going, Hyuuga? I'm right here." He smirked lightly. The amusement shone brightly in his eyes. What does he want from me?

"Why would it matter to me where you are?" I sneered. I really am on a mean streak.

"'Cause I'm your partner … partner." His smirk grew.

"But I was going to be with …" I looked over to Shikamaru. That traitor! Kin had taken the seat in front of him and turned it around. She was working while he slept.

"With me." I turned back to face the bastard. This is far from over. I hated the way his smirk just screamed 'Ha-ha, I win' at me. He has won nothing, and I am going to make sure it stays that way.

"What do we have to do?" I said, looking down at the worksheet Ibiki had given us.

"We have to do the problems." Well, duh!

"Great…"

"So? Evens or odds?" Sasuke propped his chin on his palm and leaned forward. His voice became husky. I looked up at his face. The onyx in his eyes caught my attention first. There was something that just wouldn't let me pull away from his gaze. Our eyes were locked together. The blood rushed to my face.

"Sorry to interrupt the staring contest, but this is a math class! So do math!" Ibiki yelled. Our eyes ripped from each others and we started doing work. I did evens while he did odds. We didn't talk or look at each other the rest of the class. Ibiki always embarrassed at least one student a day in one of his classes.

I walked into my literature class, mindlessly. The way his eyes seemed to drill holes into mine kept replaying randomly. A high-heeled foot appeared before mine and I tripped. The hard floor collided with my face. Did I mention the floor was hard? I pushed myself up quickly so I could act like nothing had happened but my luck has always been bad. Everyone in the class started laughing. After standing up fully I scanned the room. Sakura was the closest one to me, so logically … it was her. She tripped me. My eyes continued to travel and I saw Sasuke again. His lips formed a solid frown. What was his problem? I watched as he glared at Sakura, and then at Naruto. Sighing I sat in my assigned seat and began staring in space.

"I hate life." I threw my back pack on the floor and placed my head on the table. Thank god! Lunch! The day was almost entirely over.

"Why?" Temari sighed, sitting down next to me.

"She likes him … or her subconscious does." Tenten smirked. I stuck my tongue out at her. She sat down across from us and pulled her sandwich from the brown bag in front of her. Temari and I did the same, and we each handed half of it to each other. Tenten gave me her half of P.B &J, I gave Temari half of my ham and cheese and Temari gave Tenten half of her tuna sandwich. It was a sandwich switching thing we do every two days on certain weeks. We're weird I know.

"Actually, I think he likes her," Temari said. I turned to face her so quickly that people would think I had given myself whiplash.

"What?!"

"You heard me. I think he likes you. It kind of explains everything." She took a huge bite of the half of sandwich she brought.

"Who is he?!" Neji appeared next to Tenten. One of his eyebrows was raised in a questioning manner.

"No one." I mimicked Temari and took a huge bite of my sandwich so I wouldn't have to say anything.

"Fine. I'm not leaving until you tell me." He stubbornly sat down next to Tenten. I looked over at her. Her face was redder than a tomato. She looked like she was going to explode at any minute. I swallowed and shot him my 'go away or I'm telling Isy' glare.

"Do what you want, Neji. We don't care." I smirked, pulling my backpack into my lap. I opened the zipper to look for the book I was currently reading. I pulled it out and put my bag back where it was beside me. A folded white piece of paper was sticking out of the book.

"What's that?" Tenten asked. She had finally found her busybody voice again. I shrugged taking notice that the blush on her face was lighter. Neji reached across the table and pulled the paper out. After unfolding it his eyes scanned it contents. He chuckled to himself and handed the paper back to me. What was so amusing? I unfolded the paper just like he did and read it:

Dearest Hinata,

You are a complete klutz and you space out constantly, but you are the most beautiful, truthful and wonderful girl I have ever had the honor to know, let alone be in the same room for more than a half an hour. I would never have the courage to say this to you in person, but …I really like you a lot. I hope that you would give me a chance to prove to you how much I do. You can take this note as one of love and as a warning. I will win your heart and I will not give up until I do.

Sincerely,

Your love

Temari read over my shoulder, silently. I looked up. I was blushing …or at least I think I was. I have no idea. How did this get into my backpack? Who wrote it? I can't tell by the handwriting because it was typed on a computer.

"That's cute." Temari stuffed the rest of her sandwich in her mouth and stood up. "I'm sorry I have to go to the library." Whoa, library? Since when does Temari go to the library?

"What does it say?" Tenten asked, staring after Temari oddly. She was thinking the same thing I was. Well about Temari anyway. She would have no idea about the confusion swirling in my brain right now. I handed her the love letter so she could read it. By the time she finished she was smiling at me. I sighed heavily, taking the letter from her hand. I shoved it into my backpack and again mimicked Temari. I left through the door. My lunch was forgotten on the table where Tenten and Neji still sat. But once again I didn't care.

I threw all the books that I didn't need into my locker, violently. I smirked bigger at every slam sound that occurred.

"What did your locker ever do to you?" I knew that voice. I turned guiltily towards him. Kakashi-sensei stood further down the hallway looking at me, curiously.

"Nothing sensei. I'm sorry." I looked down. I was going to get punished again. Maybe he would give me a demerit or even a detention.

"It's fine, at least, it's better then punching the locker itself. I did that a couple times when I was in school." Even with his face underneath a mask, I knew he was smiling. " By any chance, have you seen Isamaki anywhere?"

"No, I haven't." I was about to ask why, but I thought better of it. It's none of my business why he was looking for Isy.

"That's a shame. Well if you do see her, can you tell her I was looking for her?" His smile had quickly turned into a frown.

"Sure."

"Thank you." He turned around and started to walk the way he came. Swiftly he stopped and looked back at me. "You may continue." He made a motion with his hand to my locker and I understood. I smiled and nodded. For a teacher, he was pretty weird. All of the teachers here are weird in one way or another… I guess.

I continued my reign of carelessness by skipping history class. No one would notice anyway. I was invisible, except when I did something stupid or clumsy. Then everyone decides to see me. I sat down on the seat of one of the girl's toilets. I pulled out the love note letter thing, and scanned it again. The look Tenten gave me at lunch meant she thinks Sasuke wrote this, but I doubt it. This guy seems sweet and the Uchiha is not anything that resembles sweet. I crumbled the paper in my fist and sat glaring at a spot on the closed stall door. I glanced down at the paper quickly. What did I just do? I straightened out the paper as well as I could. there were creases all over the plain white paper. I refolded it and put it back into my book. the bell rang and I walked out of the bathroom to go to 8th period.

Once I walked in the band room I looked around for Isy. Where is that cousin of mine?

"Isy?" I listened to see if anyone would answer.

"Yeah?" Isy's voice was faint and muffled.

"Where are you?" I walked closer to where I thought her voice came from.

"Behind the bass drum, here." Her voice grew louder as I came closer and she pulled herself up slightly so I could see her too. "What's up?" she asked falling out from behind the large bass drum and passed all of the other percussion instruments.

'Kakashi-sensei was looking for you earlier."

"Oh he was?" Her cheeks had a faint, but noticeable, pink tint to them. She was blushing. No way! She liked Kakashi! Holy crap! I smiled and nodded. I sat in my seat and pulled out a notebook. I was prepared. Isy walked to the other side of her desk and sat down as well.

The other students started coming in by themselves or in pairs. Sasuke was the last one to come in. He smirked at me before he sat down. Bastard! Temari hadn't come yet. She usually gets here before I do. The bell rang and still she wasn't here. First she goes to the library during lunch and now she's late to her favorite class. What is wrong with her? Isy pulled out the attendance sheet and marked that everyone was here.

"Where's Temari?" She looked at me. "I saw her this morning."

"I don't know where she is." I shrugged. Did something happen? I was starting to really worry, she wasn't telling Tenten and me something.

At that moment, the door opened and Temari came in. Her hair was messier then it was earlier at lunch and her shirt wasn't buttoned the right way. She had missed a button.

"Sorry I'm late." Temari said. She was also partially out of breath. Isy motioned with her finger, telling Temari to come closer to her. She walked closer to her, obediently. Isy whispered something to her and Temari gasped. She went back out into the hallway, and came back in after a few seconds. This time her shirt was buttoned the right way. She smiled sheepishly at Isy and sat next to me. I looked at her. She looked back telling me almost telepathically that she would tell me later. I nodded in understanding and listened as Isy began the lesson she planned for the day.

I stood in the parking lot with Temari. Neji was going to drive me to dance and I was dreading it. I waited patiently for her to say something. It felt like a couple hours passed before she finally did.

"I'm seeing someone." She tugged gently on one of her four ponytails.

"Who?" I asked curiously. Curiosity killed the cat has never applied to me.

"You know that guy that always goes to the movies the same day we do? And he yells at us because we talk during the previews and the movie?" Temari started to look nervous and fidgety. The same way Tenten acts around Neji.

"Shikamaru?" I asked even though I knew it was him she was referring to. She nodded. My face cracked into a smile and I hugged her. "That's awesome, Tem!"

"What?" I pulled away from her and gave her a weird look.

"What, what?" I asked.

"You don't care?" Huh?

"Why would I?"

"I heard from Tayuya that you liked him once." Laughter erupted from my chest. was she serious? Tayuya … she was always the person to go to if you wanted rumors that were most likely untrue. Actually she is like the pathological liar of the school.

"No, I never liked him like that. We just had math class together. She only said that because she's jealous that you have him and she doesn't."

"Really?" Temari smiled.

"Yeah." She threw her arms around me and gave me one of her signature bear hugs.

"Okay stop the PDA!" Neji yelled, unlocking the car. The moment I was dreading is upon me. I sighed, saying goodbye to Temari and climbed slowly into the car. " Straight to dance?" he asked, turning the key.

"Yeah." Maybe I shouldn't have sat in the front seat. "Where's Isy?"

"I have to come back and pick her up after I drop you off." Neji pulled out of the parking lot. I tightened my seatbelt and held on to the door like my life depended on it.

Fully dressed and ready to dance, I walked into the empty dance studio. I was early. Really early. Throwing my stuff in the corner of the room I decided to take a little nap. Sitting on the floor I leaned my back against the wall facing the mirror. I pushed my ear buds into my ears and turned up the volume in a swift movement of my finger across my I-pod. My eyes closed gently and I slipped into a dark realm of sleep.

I walked down the empty hallway in school. Out of thin air one arm gently pushed me against the lockers on my right. In shock I looked up to be met by a pair of onyx eyes.

"Did you like my letter?" he asked in an irresistibly sexy voice.

"Yes, but I could think of a few things that would be better." I said sincerely. I pushed part of his long bangs away from his face and traced my index finger along his jaw.

"And what is that?" His tone didn't change, but he leaned closer to me. I could feel his body heat. All I wanted was for him to wrap his arms around me so I could be just as warm.

"If you kissed me." We both leaned towards each other and I closed my eyes.

"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!" I screamed as my eyes popped open.

"Nightmare?" Sasuke asked. He was sitting at the piano bench, twiddling his fingers on the keys.

"Yeah." It was a nightmare. I would rather lick the bottom of Sakura's crappy looking shoes then kiss him. Stupid Sasuke! Stupid love letters! Stupid dreams!

I threw my I-pod in my bag and stretched out my legs. As I outstretched my right leg, Sasuke played an ascending scale. Out of the corner of my eye I glanced at him. He was watching me out of the corner of his eyes. His dark onyx eyes! Rawr! I pulled my right foot back to my body and he played the same scale but descending. I glared at him. His reply was a silent smirk. Double rawr!

"Any request?" he folded his fingers together and cracked them all at once. I cringed at the sound. I hate it when people do that.

"Yeah… shut up." I mumbled.

"I could play that if I had my guitar with me, but there isn't a piano version." Is he stupid? Wait no, I forgot he is the number one ranked person in our grade. Hn…

"No, I meant for you to shut up, not the song by Simple Plan." I growled angrily.

"Hn." He scoffed and started playing a classical song. It sounded like a cross between Beethoven and Mozart. Sasuke plays the piano even better than Jiro did. Just because I think he's a bastard doesn't change the truth. He was amazing. Taking a deep breath I closed my eyes and lost myself in the beautiful music that he provided for me.

End of chapter 6

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