Chapter 2

Disclaimer: I am not the creator of this anime/manga (NAruto) just an ordinary girl who have wild hands + mind to create this fiction story ^.~

Her swollen eyes widened as she saw the intruder or maybe intruders at the middle of the night.

"Aaaaah!" The blonde intruder screamed while her both hands on face. "You look ugly Hinata-chan." She added while adjusting her face into worried one. Her long blonde hair tied in a high-ponytail with bangs covering the right side of her face. Her blue eyes were focused on the crying lady in front of her.

Before she reached Hinata, someone popped up on her side.

Another intruder with shorter blonde hair gathered into four ponytail entered without hinata's permission and moved closer to her. She then patted her shoulder. "What happened?" She asked with a serious and concerned manner shown on her deep green eyes.

Hinata didn't expect to see them here standing in front of her door. The two intruders were her friendly neighborhood. The long blonde hair was Ino Yamanaka, a fashion designer, while the other blonde hair named Temari Sabaku, a journalist. They were her long time friends ever since she moved to her apartment. Although they were loud and noisy, but she considered them as one of her true friends and they can easily lean on.

Maybe she cried so loud and they heard her.

Hinata tried to form a smile on her face but didn't have the urge to talk. Her porcelain tears suddenly betrayed her. When her vision got blurred, she burst out into much louder cry. Temari immediately hugged her and let her cry on her shoulder until she recovered.

After a minute of crying, Temari guided Hinata in her living room to sit on her long couch. Hinata still didn't talk for a while. A glass of water appeared in front of her.

"Sorry, I'd sneak out in your kitchen." Ino stick out her tongue while apologizing to Hinata. "Here, drink this. It will help you a bit to calm down." Hinata accepted the water and drunk it.

It made her indeed calm down and she stopped sobbing. Temari wiped her remaining tears and helped her out to fix herself.

The three women didn't talk and they all drown into silence. They tried not to catch glances at each other. The atmosphere became awkward until Ino suddenly burst into laugh. Temari and Hinata sweat dropped.

"What the hell Ino?" Temari irritatingly smacked her in head. "Hello, had you ever heard a momentous drama? What's this, comedy show?" Temari sarcastically added.

Ino covered her mouth while giggling not yet fully recovered. "Coz' you look funny."

Temari glared at her while mouth slightly opened. "Really? In this kind of scenario you think of me as funny? I'm gonna bit you up 'til death." Sarcasm was her purpose, but killing Ino was on her wishing list this night.

Hinata giggled at the two of them. "Look it's not my intention to kill the momentum but honestly Temari you looked more than the victim here than Hinata. You really got carried away girl as if you have a love life." Ino tried her very best not to laugh, but she can't help to smirk at what she said.

"Of course I have to look sad too! Okay enough of this. You know I'll admit I have lack of tactics in this kind of situation, but we can't just leave you here alone. Come on girl! I'm not going to allow you to stay your butt here and cry." Temari dragged Hinata out of her apartment.

"Wow I guess this will be girls' night huh." Ino flattered at her statement and immediately fixed their huge folding foam in the living room to sleep together with Hinata in between.

They sat on the foam.

"Okay. Spill it out." Temari instructed her to tell what really happened. While twirling her fingers on her lap, Hinata bit her lower lip and fought the urge to cry again.

"W-we broke up. H-he just did." She couldn't finish it anymore since Temari and Ino already gathered what was really going on.

Ino and Temari exchanged glances. They weren't sure if they would be happy or not about what she said. They already knew what was going on with the two ex lovers. The cheating stuff wasn't unusual for them since they already heard from gossips that it's in Naruto's nature. What made them shocked was that why it took them long or maybe why in this kind of time when the two planned to tie a knot next year? Deep inside they sympathized her, but they knew this wasn't the thing Hinata needs. It was their comfort.

Ino yawned. "Guys I can't stay up late I still have work tomorrow morning, so I guess I'll sleep first. Goodnight." Then Ino drowned to sleep and started to snore.

Temari and Hinata lay down while facing each other. They both couldn't sleep.

"You okay?" Temari asked with concern.

Hinata tried to curve her lips and whispered, "Yeah, thanks."

"Is it still hurts? Sorry to ask."

"Very much."

"How much?"

She then touched her chest. "Too much to bear."

Then Temari held Hinata's hand on her chest. "I may not be a good adviser about love, but I'm a good listener you know. And I can still give you some of my opinions. I guess that's all I can do."

Hinata closed her eyes and deeply inhaled. She looked at Temari. "I just want to move on but I don't know how? I don't know whom I can rely on now that he's gone. I've been moving my world on him. I didn't plan my life without him. I-I j-just can't. The saddest part is t-t-that when I saw him a while ago he t-talked about me like nothing happened a-and then he claim that we can be best friend. It's painful to hear him happy saying that he'll date Sakura-san like he didn't feel sorry about us." Hinata couldn't stop her tears anymore instead she let it be on her face.

Temari wiped the tears on Hinata's face. "I'm not going to ask you to stop crying, but honestly you don't deserve to feel this way Hinata-chan don't be weak and don't let your life be miserable. Make this moment in your life learn from your lesson. Do you think moving your world around him is right?" Hinata shook her head.

"Have you even realized that it can fall your whole life?" She shook her head again.

"Did anyone say that your ex is a jerk and a bastard?" She then nodded.

Temari swallowed while finding a right word to say. "You know, I think everybody probably will say you should move on, but you.." She pointed her index finger at Hinata's chest where her heart located. "You will be the one who can figure out how to do it. Don't know? Then explore the world. Open your eyes to see everything. The word friends didn't create for nothing. It might be cliché or whatever, but I want to tell you that he's not the only guy in the universe. Maybe he was your first, but definitely someone out there who's waiting to be your last." She then smiled as she said her last sentence.

Hinata felt relieved on Temari's words. But her mind shifted to Sasuke's behavior a while ago. It was weird and very weird right now because she suddenly thought about him. She then shook her head and thanked Temari for everything. They decided to stop the conversation and fall asleep since this day was so exhausting.

It's indeed exhausting. She then closed her eyes trying to get a sleep as much as she could.

Meanwhile, a certain onyx eyes couldn't find himself to sleep because he was thinking about a certain woman whom he got interested with.

He ran his hand to his black chin-length hair in frustration. He leaned his back at the window glass. The cold breeze outside was lingering at his dark room as he felt it thru his shirtless body but he ignored the coldness of the night because what concerned most of him right now was the evanescent coldness of his heart. Damn that woman. She really made me worst than I was.

Due to frustration, he decided to take a cold shower hoping that it can make him numb for a while. He went to the bathroom and stared his reflection in the mirror in front of him. His spiky hair in the back with bangs hanging on both sides of his face looked messier right now. He snorted and motioned himself in the shower. The cold water running in his body made him really numb physically, but emotionally failed. After taking a quick shower, he laid down on his king size bed still couldn't sleep.

All of a sudden, he remembered his conversation with his best friend early in the morning.

*Flashback*

"What? She's not around for a week?" A worried voice in front of him shrieked.

"I made it clear. So stop making me repeat it or else I'm going to kick your ass, Naruto." His onyx eyes were glaring at him murderously.

"Man! Did I really hurt her that much?" Naruto loudly asked himself.

Sasuke twitched on what he heard. "She said her father got hospitalized and she was expecting to take care of him. Is there any reason other than that?" He pointedly asked him.

"Oh, I-I actually broke up with her last week." Sasuke widened his eyes but immediately recovered his posture. Naruto sighed in relief, "So it wasn't really because of me, right? So I don't have to worry about it. I guess she already moved on like I do." He then put his both hands on his head while leaning his back on his chair opposite to Sasuke.

Sasuke clenched his teeth. How could a person like Naruto become his best friend of all people? He really wanted to punch him right on his face, but he knew very well that a certain dark blue hair with lavender eyes would be feel sad or even be mad at him which could make him angrier to himself.

It was been so many years when he let go of his feelings towards to that certain woman. Even he didn't admit to anybody about this, but his best friend's girlfriend was actually his first and only love as far as he remembered it. He didn't pursue his feelings because he knew that this woman was head over heels in love with his best friend and totally crushed when he learned that his best friend developed to fall in love to the same woman or so he thought. So, he decided to let go because the friendship he built with Naruto was the most important for him.

It was painful in his part every time he saw the two love birds happily together. He wanted to feel jealous but he can't be. Being a genius billionaire bachelor that every woman dream of was nothing and useless since the only girl he wanted to be with didn't fall in his spell. Life isn't really fair.

He then adjusted his sit to finally focus his full attention to Naruto. "For what reason? Just a month ago you said you two were engaged but now you were telling me that you broke her heart? What's next?"

"I just realized I can't marry a woman who I don't really love. I mean man all those years I thought I'm in love, but I can't help myself to cheat on her. I felt guilty and somehow sorry for her. Then I met Sakura again last month after I proposed to Hinata and I realized I still love Sakura. I don't want to cheat and made it worst again, so I decided to call her to give each other space and for that we need to break up. I didn't wait her respond cause I know she'll make a fuss about it so I turned it off." He then exhaled loudly after confessing the truth to Sasuke.

Sasuke stood on his chair and faced his back at Naruto and then slightly turned his head.

"I never interfere about your affair to her. Even it might help her, I tried not to care because I believe you are the only one who can make her happy, but I totally forgot the fact that you are the only one also who can hurt her so much. I might be your best friend Naruto, but I won't agree of what you did to her. I guess we don't have anything to talk for now. You may leave." Sasuke stoically said to him and waited to his best friend to finally moved out of his office before turning back to his chair.

He leaned on his chair and brushed his hand on his hair. He really wanted to punch Naruto as hard as he could, but he can't do anything now because the damage has been done. All he can do right now was to comfort Hinata, but he didn't know how. He sighed in frustration.

His instinct rushed thru his blood and he decided to meet Hinata outside this company and talk about her break ups with Naruto as a friend and not as her boss. But suddenly as he slightly opened the door, he saw Hinata facing her back at him almost trembling and fighting herself not to fall on the floor while his best friend Naruto was smiling inside the elevator. He then immediately closed the door and decided to go back in his chair.

He assumed that Hinata already knew about Naruto going out with Sakura and that she still didn't move on about their break ups. Hell! Was there any people who can easily recover from heartaches even him a heartless man couldn't do that maybe if his best friend was a human he can consider it but he was simply a monster, a bastard monster to be specific.

Then someone knocked the door. He closed his eyes and decided to just do whatever he thought would be the best.

*End of Flashback*

He groaned still confused and frustrated.

This was the first time he couldn't solve a problem with his genius plan. All his thought was messed up because of her. The only least thing he wanted to do was to hurt her, but at the end he was just hurting himself unconsciously. Am I?

He closed his eyes trying to get a sleep as much as he could.

Another work day was meant for another hell to Hinata. Previously she didn't have any problem at her works and co-workers, but now every time she walked in the corridor she felt like everyone was looking at her like a celebrity in the middle of paparazzi.

Hinata didn't like the feeling of being the subject of the company's gossip. She didn't enjoy it at all. She'd never been appeared in their sight, but when they learned about her relationship with Naruto was over, the news was like a bomb that exploded in their entire company. Although feeling ashamed and somewhat annoyed, she decided to ignore it.

At their lunch time, Tenten and Hinata talked about it. Tenten gave some good advices that made Hinata really touched and lucky to have a best friend like her.

"You just wait for yourself to heal and I'm telling you it's not easy to do. But once you're ready to let go, make sure that you'll never turn around anymore from your mistakes." Her best friend's advice was rational, but she guessed what Tenten was telling her.

"Yeah, I will." She answered and smiled.

"Lunch will be over but I have to go to the comfort room first." Tenten said while heading to the direction of the comfort room area.

"I'll go too." Hinata then followed.

Their comfort room was clean and big. What more you can think for an Uchiha founder that owns a very influential industrial company? Even a tiny place of their company is luxurious and deluxe. The comfort room was divided into two regions and it was separated by a thin layer of a broken-like glass window. The first region as you entered the room was composed of huge mirror in front of the door with four washing area, a seating surface across and lying that gave users a sense of comfort, space and contact with nature, while the second region was composed of six toilet cubicles.

Hinata was on the forth cubicle. When she went out of the cubicle someone grabbed her and pulled her inside of the first cubicle. She panicked but felt relieved when she saw the person who grabbed her was actually her best friend. Tenten gestured to keep silent and motioned herself to listen to those women inside in the washing area.

"She feels like she's princess or highness just because her boyfriend is the great vice president of this company, but now huh who's she? Just a rogue that vice president threw easily." A very loud and high-pitch voice said.

"Do you think she knows that vice president toying her? I feel sorry for her if not." A soft voice asked.

"If not, but if she knows it long time ago, then she's an idiot to make herself be fooled. I hate it when girls already knew that their guy was cheating on them but they still hanging on. That's totally a shit in the ass." Another voice answered.

"Of course she knew it! I heard that even she caught him, but once the guy said sorry she just forgive it like nothing happen. That's really gross." The loud and high-pitch voice talked again.

"Ewww! Yeah you're right." The voices responded in unison.

It was really hurtful on what they said. Though they didn't say her name, but it was already obvious since Naruto is the vice president and she's known not only as a secretary but also the girlfriend of the vice president whose now an ex lover. She can't help herself to have an urge to fight, because at some point they were right.

Even she knew about the cheating stuff, Hinata still forgave Naruto, but of course she never forget it. She simply loved the guy just to let him go. She never did anything bad that she deserve this kind of treatment from her love ones and even to her co-workers.

But sometimes she thought of protecting herself for ones. She just needed someone to stimulate her courage.

Then suddenly Tenten opened the cubicle's door very hard that made the voices shrieked. She went in front of the mirror beside those three women who dressed like her uniform.

Those gossip women were shocked as they saw the best friend of their topic not looking at them while she was fixing herself but they felt the anger on her face.

Tenten stopped fixing herself but still focusing on her reflection. "There are really people who never stop spilling bullshits about others, aren't they?" She didn't look away, but they knew she was talking about them.

"H-hinata-san." A soft voice widened her eyes as she saw Hinata approaching her best friend. The two women was taken a back and almost drown in shame because of what they said a while ago about her.

Hinata ignored the three women and stood beside Tenten. While imitating what Tenten did a while ago, she said surly, "That only implies the quote of 'Great minds discuss ideas while SMALL minds discuss people." Hinata and Tenten smirked.

"Let's go. Lunch break is over. We might be contaminated here of those ugly bees here." Hinata said stoically to Tenten as they walked out in the washroom.

The three ugly bees or what should say three women left dumbfounded while their mouth dropped open with shame in their faces. Now they'd learned their lesson. That was to check first the area before gossiping someone or maybe the other meaningful lesson.

Hinata and Tenten walked in the corridor like a boss. And when they were sure that they were already far away in the comfort room, they stopped and stared at each other. After a few second, they burst into laugh.

"Wow! I can't believe you did that! Have you seen their faces? It's so funny I wished I brought my phone there." Tenten said in between her laugh.

"Yeah. I can't believe I said it. I somehow felt relief after that. Thanks." Hinata said and sincerely smiled at her best friend.

"For what? They deserve it Hinata-chan so it's alright." Tenten said.

"As soon as I heard your voice, I got the urge to go out too and spill all the words that I have on my mind. If you didn't do that I might absorb their thoughts and just cry. So thank you."

The two best friends both smiled at each other. They were as happy as they went to their designated work place.

Hinata felt the heavy feelings of her chest lessened. It was a bit relaxing to her as she already felt her brave side stand for the first time. Maybe if she'll continue it, it might help her to boost out more and more.

When she was getting started to type on her keyboard, the phone rang and saw the number one did light indicating that her boss was on the line. She immediately answered the phone. "Yes sir? What can I do for you?" She softly asked.

"Hinata…" A husky voice answered. "Come over here now."

*end*

This might be the result of a haggard writer who keeps trying to finish this chapter as soon as possible . I planned to include some scene of Sasuhina together but decided to do it in the next chapter.

I just want to imply this chapter of some reaction of people around Hinata. This chapter shows that people divided into two category which the first category are people who are concerned about you and didn't talk harsh thing at your back instead comfort you in the way they know while the second category are people you thought your okay with or just a random people around you are actually the people who stab you at your back. And for that you cannot please everybody so sometimes you have to defend yourself against those malicious gossips about you coz' you're the only one who can protect yourself not only physically but also emotionally. You don't have to shut your ears and let it pass as time goes by, right? Well I hope this is not a messed up for all of you.

Anyway, I'll promise more romantic scenes in the next chapter ^.^ so behold my readers ((^O.O^))

.Jai ne.