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Music Ballet and All of the Above

Chapter 9

Meetings and Mistakes

"Here is the money I promised." A female wearing a pink hood studded with diamonds stood with another hooded figure.

"Thanks. You will have Sasuke Uchiha on your arm by the end of tomorrow," the male hooded figure said. The two smirked at each other and parted ways on different sides of the street.

Another school week flew by at the speed of light. I received more stalker notes, but all the time I spent with Sasuke made me forget. Every moment, caress, smile, hug, kiss was perfect and heart-stopping.

"Now ladies, the recital is this weekend and I am pleased to say that … you are all ready." Natasha smiled brightly. Her eyes traveled across the faces of all the dancers. She froze when her eyes reached mine. Her smile widened and she gave me a wink. I have a solo in this recital, the first one I have ever had. I was nervous. I was going to be the only one on the stage. What if I screwed up? What if I made a fool out of myself? Natasha had so much faith in me. What if I betrayed her faith by giving a terrible performance?

"Class dismissed," she said, walking out of the room.

I stood still and waited patiently as all the girls left. When the room was completely empty I walked over to the piano. Sasuke sat on the bench, piling all of his sheet music into his messenger bag.

"Hey," he smiled at me, after he closed the bag. I loved his smile. It made my stomach feel all bubbly. He moved down the bench slightly so I could sit down next to him.

"Hey." I smiled back as my hand found his. Our fingers interlaced with each others.

"Don't be nervous. You'll be perfect, as always." Sasuke raised our intertwined hands to his lips and kissed the back of mine. He had faith in me too. I felt my cheeks heat up and I leaned my shoulder into his.

"I want you to meet some people," he whispered into my ear. Some people? Like who? I looked at him questioningly as he stood, pulling me to my feet as well. Throwing his bag and mine over his shoulder, he continued to pull me out of the room, down the hall and outside to where his bike stood.

"Get on," Sasuke said. He stuffed our bags somewhere and kicked his left leg over the seat and sat down, waiting for me to do the same. With a smile, I gladly mimicked his movements, and wrapped my arms tightly around his waist. The bike roared to life underneath us and he drove through the city and into the more country part of town. The houses on either side of us started to have more space in-between them. We passed some farms filled with fields full of crops. A random farmer stopped his harvest work and waved to us as we passed. Releasing my grip on Sasuke slightly, I raised my hand to give a gentle wave back.

"We're almost there," Sasuke yelled over the engine. The question was where was there?

"Okay!" I screamed back. My curiosity was overpowered by just the idea of being with him. It didn't matter where we were going as long as we were together. The bike continued forward until we started to pass grave markers. Sasuke turned the front wheel into the small gravel-paved path into the cemetery.

"Kohona Hill Cemetery." I frowned as I read the sign. A cemetery. … My mother rested eternally in a grave in another cemetery on the other side of town. Sasuke stopped the bike a few feet away from the sign. He waited as I got off the bike, and he followed suit. He kicked down the kickstand and turned to look at me. He placed his hands in his pockets and looked at me nervously. Why was he nervous? I would never judge him simply on appearances. I thought he knew that.

"My entire family, except my older brother is buried here." Sasuke let his bangs fall onto to his face, hiding his eyes. "I wanted you to meet my mother." His nose made a sniffle noise as he breathed in.

"I'm sorry," I said. I walked over to him and wrapped my arms around him. I understood. I lost my mother as well. It is a pain that stays with you no matter how long ago it happened. "Turn that frown upside down." I smiled, looking up into his downcast face. His onyx eyes caught mine. Pushing myself up on my toes, I pecked him on the lips, gently and pulled his right hand out of his jacket pocket.

"Where is she?" I asked, looking out across the graves. His frown did turn upside down. Sasuke smiled down at me and started to pull me through the grass, past some graves. I noticed most of them had the name Uchiha. Suddenly Sasuke stopped in front of a large gravestone. I stood next to him and looked down at the stone marker.

"These are my parents, Fugaku and Mikoto," he introduced them to me. "This is Hinata." he said to the gravestone, as he tightened the grip on my hand.

"Hi," I said to the stone. Even though a normal person would feel foolish speaking to a stone that marked the presence of a dead person's body, we didn't. I think we both knew that they were watching and now they knew that I was in love with their son and hopefully he loved me too.

"How did it happen?" I asked softly, hoping he wouldn't actually hear me.

"They were murdered. … by my brother." His voice trembled. I bit down on my lip and squeezed his hand. "The bastard was acquitted of the crime though. He … he blamed me, called me a liar. I didn't lie on the stand that day. I told the jury the truth, even after his threat." I released his hand and made him turn to face me. I reached up and pushed some of his bangs away from his face so I could see his eyes. I saw a single tear slide down his cheek. I let the drop of salt water slide onto my pointer finger and I wiped it in my pant leg. Pushing myself on my toes, I wrapped my arms around his neck, and pulled his face into my shoulder. His arms snaked around my waist and pulled me into him tighter.

"I'm sorry," I whispered into his ear.

"It happens," was all he whispered back. We stood there in each other's arms for a long time. Just holding each other, breathing in each other's scents, just being together.

I kissed Sasuke goodbye and watched from the porch as he sauntered to his parked bike. He put on his helmet and drove off down the street. Turning back to my front door I noticed that the lights were out downstairs except for the light radiating from the television. What was going on? Slowly, I pushed the white windowed door open and glanced inside. I saw two conjoined shadowed figures on the couch. Eww Neji! Couldn't he keep anything PG-rated?! In a huff a flipped the light switch beside the door up, turning on the light.

"AHHHHHHH! I'M SOOO SORRY!" I screamed and covered my eyes with my hands. It wasn't Neji and some random girl … it was Isy and Kakashi-sensei! Fumbling I flipped the switch off again and tripped as I started to run up the stairs. Pulling myself together I finally made it to the top of the stairs. I dropped my things by my bedroom door and threw open the door to Hanabi's room. She had to have known about this. Why didn't she warn me before I opened the door? She is the best speed texter in the world. I doubt it would have taken her that much effort.

"Do you know what's happening downstairs?" I said to her. Hanabi was flopped on her bed with her ears covered with earphones.

"What?" she asked curiously, after pulling the earphones off of her head.

"Do you know what's happening downstairs?" I repeated, heatedly. She had to know, she knew everything! She was super Hanabi!

"Umm, Isy is eating some silvered-haired guy's face. Surprisingly I don't know who he is and stuff, but they're going at it like crazy!" Hanabi smiled and pulled the chord for the earphones out of her music player, so the sound of her crazy screamo music filled the air. I grunted and threw myself down next to her on the bed. I pulled her pillow out from under her and pushed it down on my head. This was too much. "Do you know who he is?" she asked.

"He's my English teacher." I said into her pillow, but she probably only heard "Hez mugh enslis feamcher."

"What?" I looked up at her shocked face, as she tugged her pillow away from me. "He's your what?! Did you say English teacher?!" how the hell did she hear the entire sentence perfectly?!

"Yeah, how did you hear all of that?" I asked. I might as well gain some of her secrets.

"I have been trained in the art of gossiping and eavesdropping. Hearing is a key part to that." Her face twisted up in one of her arrogant smiles.

"AHHH!" We both jumped up hearing the scream from downstairs.

"Neji!" we both looked at each other and said simultaneously. Jumping off the bed Hanabi and I pushed both of our bodies out of her doorway and into the hallway to met a probably scarred-for-life Neji.

Neji walked up the stairs slowly. His white eyes held a confused and scared look.

"Your eyes burning?" I asked. My eyes felt like they were burning before too. Neji nodded dumbly and walked past us into his room.

"Where was he?" I whispered to Hanabi. He usually didn't go out on a school night, yet here he was just coming home … from somewhere.

"On a date!" she said in a singsong voice.

"With who?"

"Te-"

"Shut up!" Neji's slammed open and he glared down at us. He had gotten taller and I hadn't noticed it before. "It wasn't a date. We were just hanging out."

"Yeah, you were hanging out … on a date." She placed her hands on her hips and smirked at him.

"She was alone. Hinata was with Sasuke and Temari was with Shikamaru." He explained. He was still glaring but now it was fully directed at Hanabi. OMG! He meant he was hanging out with Tenten! AH! Finally! Running across the hall I slammed my door closed and locked it. I had to call Tenten right now! Except the stupid phone had to ring.

"Hello," I said into the receiver.

"Hi, is ... Umm... Hanabi there?" a boy's voice came from the phone.

"She could be. Who is this?" I asked. Everybody is getting someone now … including Hanabi.

"Konohamaru." Unlocking and opening the door, I reached my arm out holding the phone for her. Before she could grab it from my hand, Neji pulled it to his mouth and asked "Who's this?! Hanabi's boyfriend?!" He dropped the phone on the ground and walked back into his room, slamming the door for the second time. My mouth fell open and I looked over at Hanabi. Her facial expression mirrored mine. Something bad was going to happen to Neji I just knew it. Hanabi wasn't going to let this go. Not for a long time. Finally closing her mouth, she picked up the phone and started to apologize to the boy named Konohamaru. She slammed her door closed after walking inside and I just stood there looking stupid for a few minutes. I glanced curiously at both Hanabi's and Neji's bedroom doors and then finally walked into my room. I slammed the door closed. I didn't want to be left out of the door slamming adventure. I would have to wait until tomorrow to talk to Tenten about what happened with Neji.

The air around all of us was silent, both during breakfast and the ride to school. We weren't mad at each other or anything … at least I didn't think so, with the exception of Hanabi. She was pissed at Neji and her anger was mutual since he felt the same.

Thankfully at school, we all went our separate ways. I went to my locker; I had to get all of my books before going to homeroom. I piled my books into my bag silently as I felt someone on the other side of my locker door. I assumed it was Sasuke, but I was wrong.

"H-" I started my greeting as I closed my locker, but my eyes met another pair that I was not expecting. Kabuto.

"Hello, dear Hinata."

"Hello." I said, smiling politely. I wanted to start walking away from him but he stepped in front of me. "Is there something you want Kabuto?"

"Yes, there is." he took another step closer to me. I glanced in both directions down the hallway and saw we were alone. Oh God! Why did we have to be alone?! Why couldn't anyone have been with me?

"You." The word escaped his lips in a barely audible whisper, but I heard it. He wanted me? He … he was the stalker. He wrote all those notes. He didn't want me with Sasuke. His pale gloved hand reached out for my face.

"No!" I slapped his hand away forcefully. He had no right to touch me. "It was you! Leave me alone!" I cried out, my voice sounded more panicked then I wanted it to be. I took a step back and my back was against my locker.

"Never." In one fluid movement Kabuto was on me. His lips were pressed against mine. My hands pushed against his chest, trying to put some distance in between us. It was disgusting. I didn't even know him, and even if I did, I would still like Sasuke. No matter what.

"Hinata, I heard you-" I heard Sasuke's voice and Kabuto pulled away from me slightly.

"Sasuke." I said. Tears began falling from my pale eyes.

"I'm sorry I interrupted something." His eyes grew sad and then he glared at me. He turned away and began his descent down the hallway from where he came. I closed my eyes and kneed Kabuto in the groin. When he fell to the ground in pain I ran after Sasuke. He had to believe me! I didn't know Kabuto! And he kissed me! I didn't kiss back at all! I loved him, I loved Sasuke Uchiha and no one else! Once I reached the steps I saw him all the way across the parking lot, already on his bike. With one glance at me he put on his helmet and drove out into the street. I dropped my bag and my legs gave out from underneath me. I held my head in my hands as I cried. I always was the one who made the mistakes, the mistakes that ruined everything.

End of chapter 9

Hey! XD I know its been a LONG time … and i'm really sorry. I tried to ignore this story because I didn't want to write this chapter and after reading it, you probably know why. It's sad, but its okay the next chapter will get better. I PROMISE! And thanks for all the reviews, as always I loved them! I'm even closer to my wish for 100 reviews! XD so thanks for reading and please review!