Mshinata: Yeah…Neji is OOC right now. But, I have my reasons for that.
Neji: Ne, ne…that's not right.
Mshinata: -ignores- chibirain94, really?! –Blushes- That's so sweet of you!
Sasuke: Blahh, you get flattered by the simplest of things.
Mshinata: Yes…I do. –Squeals- YAY! –Hugs Ed- I love Ed. xD NinjaDancer also gave me a jackhammer, woo!
Sasuke: OO DUDE, it's scary that she has all these…weapons.
Mshinata: But weapons are fun.
Neji: They're dangerous, Mshinata-sama.
Mshinata: Eh?! You're worrying about me?! –Sparkly eyes-
Sasuke: No.
Mshinata: NOT YOU! Leite Destiny gave me another cookie. –Smiles-
Sasuke: Cookies aren't that healthy you know…
Mshinata: THEY'RE SWEET! –Pouts- Hahaha, I like everyone shoving cookies down Sasuke's throat. It makes me laugh.
Neji: She doesn't own Naruto. If she did, she'd have a cosplay outfit for this Anime convention by now…
"Ex…excuse me?" Hinata sweat dropped.
"I asked if you were single." Neji replied. Ino's jaw dropped open while Sasuke gave Neji a weird look.
"U-um…h-hai…" Hinata fidgeted, starting to feel nervous.
"I see. That's good." Neji said, continuing to eat his rice.
He's not going to ask her out?! Ino thought to herself, kind of disappointed.
"You are as well, Sasuke-san?" Neji turned to Sasuke. Sasuke had an angry mark on his forehead.
"Yes…yes I am." He replied through gritted teeth. That was a strange question for Neji to ask…
As a child, Sasuke had been asked by many girls if he was single. He'd always reply "yes"…which was a mistake. They just wanted to chase him even more.
But for a guy to ask Sasuke was just…sick.
"Hinata-san…I was wondering if you wanted to go for some tea after school today. I have to talk about the Uchiha family with you." Neji returned to talking to Hinata.
"U-um…I can't." She replied.
"Why?" He asked bluntly. Sasuke turned his attention to Neji. She couldn't be that stupid to tell her secret about being a maid?! Would she?
"I…" She started.
"She's very sick. Actually, she's been sick." Sasuke interrupted.
"She is…?" Ino asked. Sasuke glared at her. "I mean," Ino added on quickly, "she is!" Neji looked a little bit disappointed but was also a little unfazed.
"What disease?" Neji raised a brow at Sasuke.
"It's too big of a name for us to remember so…we just know it makes her very weak and tired all the time!" Ino said nervously.
"Hn." Neji replied, closing his eyes. "That's interesting. If you were that sick, wouldn't Fugaku-sama and Mikoto-sama put you under homeschooling?" Hinata and Ino became even more nervous.
"Otou-san and Okaa-san feel very sorry for her for not attending school through elementary and middle school." Sasuke said coolly, naturally lying. "Her condition has gotten better but not enough for her to go to school unattended by a family member. That's why she goes to school with me."
Nice job, Sasuke-kun! Inner Ino cheered.
"Ah…I see." Neji replied. "Then Sasuke-san, would you like to come with us? I bet she'd be more comfortable with that. Ne, Hinata-san?" He looked over to Hinata with a smile. She looked over to Sasuke and gave him an "I-don't-want-to-go" look.
"Sure. Why not?" Sasuke replied.
Eh?! Hinata thought to herself.
Did Sasuke just do that?!
Mshinata: QUICK AUTHOR'S NOTE! You see, this is the answer to xXxrebelx-xkoffeexXx. When Neji asked Hinata if she was single, it didn't necessarily mean he was going to ask her out. OKAY! Back to the story!
"Sasuke-sama, why did you do that?!" Hinata flustered all over the place.
"Do what?" He replied, bored. Hinata was panicking while Ino was by her best friend's side. The trio came to the classroom after lunch break was over.
"Y-you know I was giving you a look." She retorted.
"Seriously Sasuke-kun…I didn't know you liked to play with her feelings like that," Ino leaned in closer to whisper to Sasuke, "Especially when she's your maid."
"I don't know what the problem is." He raised a brow. Hinata sighed inwardly.
She didn't want the Uchiha family to know…especially with the pact with the…
"She was uncomfortable and you took advantage of that!" Ino put her hands on her hips.
"Yeah, Sasuke-teme. Don't be so mean to Hinata-chan." Naruto butted into the conversation with Gaara by his side.
"You don't even know what we're talking about, baka." Sasuke sweat dropped.
"But…if it involves Hinata-chan, I want to know." Naruto flashed a smile. Hinata blushed from embarrassment.
"Stop saying useless things, Naruto." Gaara sighed.
"Class is about to start." Sakura announced, coming into the classroom with her group of friends again. Ino was about to jump her when Naruto pulled her back by putting his hand on her shoulder.
"Just ignore it." He gave a reassuring smile.
"Hopefully, I can." She replied.
"Everyone get in their seats." Sakura said, dropping down on her seat and crossing her legs. Everyone scrambled to their seats as Sakura was glaring at people who didn't sit down.
"I want to help." Sasuke leaned down and whispered into Hinata's ear. "That's what masters do." He said as he walked back to his seat. Sakura saw that…and became furious inside.
Hinata's fists clenched on her desk.
Even if he could…everything that was happening right now…would be changed.
Sakura sighed loudly. She took out her schoolbag and stared inside her locker. Her eyes softened and her heart started thumping against her chest.
"I-I'm…suffering, too…" Sakura mumbled to herself as she continued to stare into her locker. "Sasuke-kun…"
"Forget it, Sakura." It was like Ino could read her thoughts as she was passing by.
"You don't know anything!" Sakura turned around to face Ino. Ino closed her eyes and ignored the glaring looks that Sakura was giving her.
"You hurt him. He got over it. You just never did…" Ino replied, slowly opening her eyes again. "It's the past."
"I…I…" Sakura had the words that she was about to say in her thoughts…but her mouth refused to speak.
"He loved you, Sakura." Ino said deeply. "And you…hurt him."
"Shut up, Ino!" Sakura shouted, throwing a fist at her face. Ino was about to dodge it when a sudden semi-muscular arm shot out and held Sakura's fist in the air.
"Isn't it time to go, ladies?" Naruto smiled at the two of them. Sakura's eyes widened as he just appeared from nowhere…had he heard the whole conversation? "Ino, Hinata-chan and Sasuke-teme are waiting for you." He smiled at her. She weakly smiled and nodded.
"Yeah. We'll be waiting as well, okay?" Ino curtly waved at Naruto and ran off to the entrance doors of the school. Naruto slowly brought down Sakura's fist as he took his arm from hers. Sakura's eyes started to water but she shut them tightly closed.
"You know…I used to hate Ino. Hm…" Naruto slightly smiled. "I wonder what came over me back-"
"Shut up!" Sakura shouted, the tears now forcing out of her eyes.
"What's wrong, Sakura?" Naruto asked, truly dense. Her fists started to tremble at her sides.
"Y-you…you were always dense like this." Sakura said with a shaken voice. Naruto's expression turned serious. "So…now you love Hinata-san?" There was a complete silence for a few minutes.
"Yes." Naruto said strongly. Sakura's watery eyes widened but then she collapsed to the ground, the tears flowing even more out of her eyes. "Sasuke-teme has always told me that…people use people for their own selfish needs…I didn't know it at the time, but I…I think he was talking about you." He stuffed his hands into his pockets. "You love Sasuke and I love Hinata-chan. Isn't it time you just…forget about it?"
"W-what's taking Naruto-kun so long?" Hinata asked worriedly as Sasuke leaned on the rails of the stairs outside of school and Ino stood on the stairs.
"He's slow." Sasuke scoffed, his arms crossed.
"In any event," Ino turned to the two, "don't you guys have a date with Neji-senpai?" Hinata started playing with her schoolbag as Sasuke, again, scoffed, and looked the other way. Ino's sweat dropped. "I'll take that as a yes."
"Neji…senpai is already in club activities for cooking." Sasuke said with a nasty tone. He was obviously in a bad mood.
"Cooking?!" Ino squealed. "That's so manly of him." Ino sparkled as a picture of Neji with an apron on and cooking was in her thoughts. "I wonder what he's making right now!"
"Teme!" Naruto slammed the door open while he was panting.
"You know…you could have just opened the door and quietly entered rather than slamming the door open and speaking with your unusual loud voice." Sasuke snapped back.
"Man teme…you're in a bad mood." Naruto pouted as he threw his schoolbag over his shoulder.
"Go home with Ino today." Sasuke commanded Naruto. Naruto confusedly blinked.
"Nani?"
"He has a date with Neji-senpai." Ino smirked.
"NANI?! TEME, YOU'RE GAY?!" Naruto grabbed his best friend's shoulders and shook them. "NO. NO!! THIS IS WRONG, SASUKE! AS YOUR BEST FRIEND, I WON'T ALLOW IT!" Naruto kept shaking him harder as Sasuke felt his brains slowly oozing out of his head. Ino started to laugh hysterically while Hinata tried to separate the crying Naruto from her irritated master.
"Baka," Sasuke was released from his grasp, "I'm not gay." He straightened his uniform collar. Naruto blinked away the tears.
"THANK GOODNESS!" He shouted for joy.
"Demo Naruto-kun," Hinata turned to Naruto, "please walk Ino-chan home."
"Eh? Why?" Naruto blinked kind of disappointed to not walk home with Hinata.
"Because…we have a date with Neji-senpai." Sasuke hissed.
"The tea here is always so refreshing." Neji said simply as he scanned through the menu. Sasuke's sweat dropped since all the girls who sat and worked there were staring at the two dazzling and good-looking guys. Why did Neji choose this place?
Actually, it even scared him more that Neji would go to a place where girls wore fluttery maid outfits and served you.
"W-would you three like to order, now?" A maid about their age asked with her cheeks a bit tinged with blush since she got to serve two handsome high school students…and a girl.
"Hai." Neji slightly smiled. "Arigato for serving us." In the maid's eyes, he was sparkling. She turned a complete tomato-red as she felt a nosebleed coming on. Sasuke inwardly scoffed. How weak. "I would just like some green tea. That's all."
"Water." Sasuke leaned on his palm which was leaning on the table. All three people were staring at Hinata now. She felt her cheeks heat up from all of the attention.
"U-um…a-apple juice…" She weakly said.
"H-hai. Y-your orders w-will be r-ready soon…!" The little maid ran off. Neji chuckled.
"Apple juice? How kawaii." He simply said, smirking. She blushed a bit.
"So, you said you needed to talk about my family. Get to the point." Sasuke said coldly, taking his chin off his palm.
"Maids are so kawaii…do you have a maid, Sasuke-san?" Neji asked politely, ignoring Sasuke's comment.
"Why?" Sasuke replied rudely.
"Maids' duties are to always serve their master and stay by their side…either the master can take advantage of that or just completely be arrogant and say that they can take care of themselves." Neji said seriously. His character changed into someone…very serious.
"What are you trying to say?" Sasuke asked.
"Hinata-san," Neji turned to the frightened Hinata, "how come your eyes are different from Sasuke-san's?" His eyes turned from a normal shade of lavender to a menacing shade of white. It actually…scared Hinata.
"It's the disease she has as well. Her eyesight isn't very good either." Sasuke butted in.
"Then…shouldn't she be wearing glasses? Or contacts?" Neji asked. Hinata bit her lip. "And why are you answering all this for her? She can answer by herself. I don't think she's that sick."
"That's what you think. You don't know anything about her." Sasuke replied but Neji only came to smirk.
"Uchiha Hinata-san…she was almost kidnapped on her third birthday, her sister loved her but soon after looked down on her after something happened, her mother died right after her sister was born, and…" Neji said with hurt and regret in his voice, "…her father kicked her out of the house."
Hinata's eyes widened. This was exactly what she was trying to avoid.
But nooo, Sasuke had to agree to come.
Sasuke's eyes widened, shocked to hear all this information coming out of Hyuuga Neji's mouth. The whole world completely stopped as he was trying to register all this information in his thoughts.
"So you see…" Neji started again, "your maid is actually-"
"S-stop!" Hinata managed to squeak out. After a nanosecond, she immediately covered her mouth. Another poisoning smirk managed to come across the handsome male Hyuuga's face.
"I missed you…Hinata-hime." Neji said with toxins and poisons dripping from each and every word he said…especially…the word… "hime." Hinata quickly stood up and ran out of the little tea shop. Sasuke also stood up and was about to chase after her when Neji's hand abruptly stopped Sasuke by his arm.
"Let go of me!" Sasuke shouted. Everyone in the café was now staring at the two men.
"What's the use? Now that you know she's Hinata-hime, you can't force her to do anything anymore…" Neji said coldly. Sasuke's eyes widened as he removed his hand from Neji's grasp.
"I…don't understand." Sasuke said quietly.
"Don't you understand? Fugaku-sama only used Hinata-hime for his own selfishness." Neji said. "He no longer needs her…or you."
Hinata ran away from the café as fast as she could. She had temporarily forgotten all the memories with her family…and now they came back to haunt her.
It was all like a nightmare. It almost frightened her that she might've been dreaming.
She soon realized something as she slowed down. She couldn't go back to the Uchiha estate…otherwise soon as…her home.
"Hinata-chan?" The voice who seemed to always make her laugh lightly said. She turned around.
"N-Naruto-kun…" Hinata managed with a shaky voice.
"Hinata-chan!" Naruto dropped his bag and ran towards her. He grabbed her shoulders and looked her straight into her eyes. "You're…crying." He said, looking closely at her.
The pain was so unbearable that she didn't notice she was crying.
"Hinata-hime…I'll be here. Please…cry on my shoulder."
Those were Neji's words when they were young. She couldn't take it and just instantly buried her face in Naruto's chest. The tears wouldn't stop. They just kept flowing and flowing. Naruto felt his face heat up while his trembling hands pulled her into a hug.
"What's wrong, Hinata-chan?" Naruto said calmly as he stroked her long midnight indigo locks.
"N-Neji….S-Sasuke-sama…" She muttered against his chest.
"You're not smiling today." He said worriedly. She didn't respond and just kept crying. "Hinata-chan…just let it all out. I'll even stay here all night."
"Naruto!" Sasuke ran towards the two as he was panting.
"S-Sasuke-teme!" Naruto felt suddenly awkward and embarrassed when he was hugging Hinata. Sasuke's eyes widened and his face fell. He slowly walked towards them, his face shown with no emotion again.
"Naruto," Sasuke started, "give her to me." He held out his hand. Hinata turned around, frightened at Sasuke's tone of voice. A sweat bead rolled down Naruto's cheek and he gulped.
"Iie." Naruto said strongly. Sasuke glared at him, "whatever happened…it had to do with you." Sasuke bit the inside of his cheek.
"I command you, Hinata." Sasuke said his voice a bit shaky. She was shaking which only made Naruto hold onto her tighter.
"You can't tell her what to do!" Naruto shouted.
"And you can't tell me what to do!" Sasuke shouted back.
"Well, I love her!" Naruto announced again. Hinata's eyes widened as she looked up at Naruto.
"Tch…you said it was love at first sight." Sasuke scoffed.
"You…TEME! You heard me?!" Naruto shouted, furious now. "You always have to eavesdrop, don't you?!"
"What are you saying, baka?!" Sasuke shouted.
"First Sakura-chan…now Hinata-chan?! You can't be SERIOUS, can you?!" Naruto said as he let go of Hinata. She slowly backed away from the two fighting guys.
"What are you talking about?! I never did anything to Sakura!" Sasuke shouted again.
"Whatever." Naruto threw his hands to his sides. "I'm leaving." He said furiously as he walked away.
"N-Naruto-kun…" Hinata said, clasping her hands together.
"Hinata," Sasuke called her attention, "tell me…why were you crying?" He calmly faced her as he gently grabbed her shoulders.
"I…I told you not to go with Neji-niisan today!" Hinata shouted back.
Nii-san? Sasuke thought to himself. "All I wanted to know was…who you were." Her eyes widened as she released herself from his grasp.
"You want to know who I really am." Hinata said. This was the first time she had such anger and sadness mixed into a sentence.
"Yes. You are my maid…I must…" Sasuke said again.
"Why do you always say that I'm your maid?" Hinata said on the verge of tears. He inwardly sighed.
"Because you are." He bluntly said. The tears were about to fall out, "the first maid whom I have ever accepted." Her eyes widened as the Uchiha held out his arms and pulled her into an embrace. "I know now…Hinata…Hyuuga."
To be continued…
Mshinata: Shugo Chara!
Sasuke: Don't make me hit you…
Mshinata: -squeals- There are new chapters of Special A! Ah, I almost forgot. I found this really cute Manga called Cherry Juice. Please read it! I'm addicted to it. –Sparkly eyes-
Sasuke: You and your Manga…
Mshinata: I missed an Anime convention that came to town the other day. I'm sad.
Sasuke: Haha, you have to wait until November or October.
Mshinata: That's mean, Sasu-chan!
Sasuke: Don't…call…me…Sasu-chan…-angry marks appearing-
Mshinata: Sasu-chan, datebayo! xD
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