Chapter Five –The Battle Redux-
This moment, Hinata decided, was the longest ten minutes she ever experienced.
There she was, scarifying her virgin body to sit among two of the most inscrutable guys ever, witnessing all the lethal glares and unspoken death threats that her most beloved cousin and her first 'boyfriend' had threw to each other. Of course, confusion dominated her feeling; she really didn't know why both guys didn't like each other. For God's sake, both of them just met a few minutes ago!
Had Hinata knew one of the reasons was her; she must had fainted by now.
Fortunately, she had no idea about it.
"So…" Neji began (much to Hinata's relief); he let an ominous feeling lingered in the air, making Hinata felt even more catastrophic then ever. Strange, when she glanced at the pale guy beside her, she didn't see any anxiousness in Sasuke's face. If anything, the look on his face only showed either jubilance or pure-triumph.
Neji coughed when he realized his trick didn't bring Sasuke to faze, and continued his state. "So, may I know when exactly the two of you going out?"
"Oh, two days ago, when I was transferred to Konoha high." Sasuke said, his smirk got wider as the words flew from his mouth smoothly. "Fifty two and twenty four minutes ago to be exact. Right babe?" he tossed her a smile Hinata considered almost as charming as Naruto's.
Almost, remember that.
She had to admit Sasuke was a whiz when it comes to lying and acting.
However, Neji wasn't one who could be convinced that easily. He turned his gaze to Hinata and asked. "Was the statement true, Hinata-san?"
At the same time, Sasuke bent down to her and rubbed his nose against her temple in order to conceal his whispering to her ear. "Do me a favor." He said very quietly, his tone did the pleading so well that Hinata didn't have heart to reject his request.
"I-it.. it was true.. Neji..." Hinata said.
A look of deep-disapproval spread on Neji's face as the respond.
Sasuke took the chance to take Hinata's hand and intertwine their fingers, casting more attacks to Neji's sense. And when Neji finally broke his usual icy countenance and had his veins suffused on his skin, Sasuke said this as the final blow:
"Satisfied, bodyguard-in-law?"
They said silence was golden.
Now, for the first time, Hinata believed it. Sasuke's last sentence would likely bring an apocalypse under this roof.
Surprisingly, Neji didn't reply and just stood from his seat. "Please excuse me, Hinata-san. I need to go to the kitchen right now." He announced then without waiting for any responds, stormed off nowhere, arguably to the aforementioned place.
Drowned into such an awkward situation, Hinata only could sigh.
She contemplated to go to the kitchen too, but when she was about to get up, Sasuke already had his hand circled around her wrist.
"Is that guy really your cousin?" he asked. "You sure nobody tricked you and disguised himself as Neji?"
Hinata blinked. And blinked again.
Sasuke sighed impatiently and repeated his question.
She stiffed uncomfortably on her foot and answered softly. "Y-yes.. he's my c-cousin… and, and… I-I'm very sure of that.."
And a simple "Oh." was Sasuke's reply. But he still didn't let Hinata go and tightened his grip, his eyes never leave her face, making her felt as if she was naked with his gazes.
She gulped a few times before she could ask. "I-Is there anything in.. in my f-face, Uchiha-s-san?"
He looked embarrassed for a sec, then quickly shook his head. Two imperceptible blushes were on both his cheeks when he replied. "Nothing. You two just…"
"Y-yes?"
"Well.." he ran a hand onto his hair, scratching his head. It was the first time Hinata saw Sasuke looked so uncomfortable that it urged her to know his reason.
A strange curve looked like a smile went to his lips as he –rather absent-mindedly- said. "You're quiet, fragile, sensitive, and well…" another small blush covered on his skin. "Cute." He saw Hinata's eyes got widen and quickly changed the subject. "And Neji… Neji's just plain.."
His eyes accidentally strayed to the wall before the kitchen, and he saw Neji was peeking from it. Neji's eyes, however, despite the lack of colors, looked as if they were flaming in fire.
"-Perilous." Sasuke instantaneously said. Then he looked up to her and nodded as a lopsided smirk spread. "Let just say you two are entirely different."
Though Hinata didn't really agreed with Sasuke's opinion, his expression was so hilarious when he said that, she found herself giggling after hearing it. There were quite many people said Neji and she were entirely different too, but their reasons were also entirely different from this guy's. Most of them said Neji was too beautiful to be Hinata's sibling.
Hinata knew she cherished Sasuke's reason.
"You're.." she had hard time composing herself while his words still tickled her. "You're.. mean.."
He snorted. "I despise him."
"I-I think… everybody c-could see that…" she let a smile plastered on her lips. "Y-you really s-show your hatred…"
She halted for a sec before she continued. "I.. I never could do it."
He tilted his head. "Do what?"
"S-s-showing.. my true feeling." She said meticulously. "I-I don't h-have enough cou-courage to do that…"
He released her hand and also stood. And since Hinata was at least a head shorter than him, it made her afraid to see him standing right before her. Her anxiousness became worse as she saw he outreached. She clenched her eyes shut, not daring to think what he was gonna do to her.
But he only put a hand on both of her shoulders. His voice came shortly afterwards.
"I think I've told you." he pushed her shoulders gently until her back was straightened. "Hold your breath, strengthen your feet, and had your chin high whenever you talk. " he said as he removed a hand, only to locate it again under her chin, lifting it up, so she had to look at him straight in face.
"Like this." He finished, unintentionally leaning closer to her.
He was too close to her approval, and she tried to slide her eyes away from him. Strange, she couldn't do it, it was surprisingly hard to avoid his gazes, they were so intent. His orbs looked really dark, almost black, and she liked seeing those.
"Got it?" his voice rang in her ears, but she couldn't get her eyes off his face.
They were so—
"-Beautiful.." before she had chance to stop it, she had spoken it. And no matter how hard she prevented herself from stating the continuation, she didn't succeeded.
"You're so beautiful." She blurted out.
A pause arised as both of them widening their eyes.
"D-did I just say that?" even more unexpected words flew from Hinata's mouth.
Instead of answering, Sasuke laughed. Loudly. Ten seconds, twenty seconds, thirty seconds, and still laughing even after the fiftieth second.
Meanwhile, Hinata didn't know what to do nor to say, she had been considered Sasuke as an epitome of eerie beauty, but when he laughed, he looked really boyish, nearing to the point of cute. His whole face lit up and his eyes lost most of their despondent, for a moment there everyone would guess that Sasuke was a cheerful guy.
But for Hinata, however, his laugh only put in more addition to her embarrassment.
"I-I… maybe Ne-Neji is is w-waiting me…" she stammered, then quickly made her way to the kitchen. But Sasuke was quicker; he lunged and grabbed her arm.
"I'm not letting you. You just gave me the nicest compliment." He bit his lower lip to prevent himself from smiling any longer. "Although I prefer to be called handsome."
"U-Uchiha!" Hinata almost yelled. She knew she was blushing, if not turning green.
He didn't hear her. "And you didn't stammer when you said that. Is 'beautiful' your personal opinion of me?"
"Uchiha!"
He stopped just immediately. "Yes?"
"I—I really.. really n-need to go..!" and before he could respond or tease her again, she had released herself from him, and quickly ran to the kitchen.
Neji was waiting for her when she arrived. His face only showed anger.
"Did he do anything inappropriate to you, Hinata?"
Afraid to the qualms that she would blurt out something embarrassing like she'd done again, Hinata only shook her head.
Neji grounded his teeth, had albino guy wasn't Hinata's boyfriend; he must had gone kicking that bastard's ass. He wouldn't let even any guy made his Lady hyperventilated like that and get away with it.
Especially if the guy was an Uchiha.
Neji had heard many gossips about the Uchiha family. And those weren't good things. Fugaku Uchiha and Mikoto Uchiha were divorced. And their first son, Itachi Uchiha, albeit his strikingly perfect scores and GPA, was an overly stuck-up guy who had to go to numerous therapists. Neji remembered there were also rumors about the youngest son too, about Sasuke Uchiha being a breathtakingly handsome albino.
And from now on Neji would add a note that aside from Sasuke's albinism, he was also a bastard.
From his corner eye, Neji saw Hinata's hyperventilating slowly changed into a vague smile, and it didn't took a long time before her smile turned out to be some suppressed giggles.
Neji thought he heard her saying 'Uchiha so funny..'
'Correction.' Neji said to himself
Man-whore bastard. Note that. Sasuke was an albino man-whore bastard.
"I despise him." He mumbled.
The next day, Neji found his hatred towards the young Uchiha blossomed as he saw the damned raven-haired guy had occurred sacrilege to his chair in the worst way.
The Uchiha guy was sitting on HIS chair! He was sticking his wicked ass onto HIS chair, his sacred chair!
Very sagacious, the nerve of him.
Oh, Neji so wouldn't want to put his butt in that chair anymore.
But he had an obligation to protect his Lady from anything wicked. So, it was his sad duty to curb his pride and kick away that filthy guy from his seat, in order to get his chair back.
But even thinking about his butt would share a same chair with the Uchiha's butt already made him shudder greatly.
….
So much for doing an obligation.
"Neji-nii…?" Hinata's voice came from his back; her soft hand gingerly touched his wrist as she told him.
"I'm really, really sorry… but I have promised Uchi-S-Sasuke that.. he would sit in there today…." she pressed her forefingers together, and after saw Neji's looks changed into disgust, Hinata hurriedly continued.
"Y-You can sit in my place…if y-you want to…"
Neji quickly shook his head. "It is fine with me, Hinata . Sometimes floor could be used as a substitute for both chair and table."
"But Neji-nii!"
"You expect him to be there, Hinata-san." He bowed a little. "And that is an enough reason for me."
He said an excuse to her, and put his bag on the empty floor beside Hinata's seat, sure, his action drew a titter from the younger guy, but he tried his best to ignore him. It was Hinata's wish to have Sasuke in her side, and he couldn't do anything about it.
'Damn fate..' he swore under his breath before he took out his books to begin rereading it.
"Oh, my God, Neji!" Ino Yamanaka cried out as she came over to kneel beside him. "You really resemble Cinderella!"
And "Shut up." was all Neji's respond.
Hinata couldn't help looking at her cousin. He looked really pitiful sitting on the floor like that, but she couldn't do anything about it. She drew a deep breath, then sat next to Sasuke. He quickly bent down and whispered.
"I thought you rather had him to be here than me."
"Y-Yesterday… I..I asked you t-to sit beside me…"
"And?"
She didn't dare to look up, for her face was as red as tomatoes. "You.. you said 'sure'.."
Sasuke raised a brow. But then his lips made a strange curve looked like a smile, before he tapped her upper arm slightly.
"You're an Idiot, a Clumsy,… and a Weirdo."
Hinata was about to crack a smile when Neji suddenly already on his feet.
"You know nothing about her, Uchiha. Hinata isn't any of those!" his voice was calm, yet it was cold. One of the rarest things Neji Hyuuga had ever done. Hinata felt a tremor came up to her spine hearing that, the last time Neji spoke like that was when they were seven, and someone tried to kidnap her. And the older guy ended up beaten off by the eight-year old Neji.
Sasuke sighed very deeply. "Look, Neji—"
"—Never, never dare yourself addressing me with my first name." Neji cut off. "I do not approve it."
Sasuke's face became scary as his mouth twitched a few times. Hinata clearly could see his originally red-eyes were flaming, before he shut them to regain his patience. He took a deep, slow breathes as he counted fro one to ten, and after he done, his face looked much composed.
However, his tone was still mocking as ever. "Okay, Hyuuga. Happy now?" he spat.
Neji snorted loudly. "I can not say I am. Not if I see you as Hinata-san's first boyfriend."
Those words pissed Sasuke off.
Big time.
"Damn you!" Sasuke shouted on top of his lungs, even much louder than his usual yells. Hinata jumped in shock and quickly fidgeted in her chair, she was too afraid to make any move, especially after she saw the situation when she was trapped in two infuriated guys.
"U-Uchiha.."
Sasuke ignored her.
Neji noticed it. "Hinata just called you."
"What the fuck I did wrong, anyway?" Sasuke's shouts became even louder that it attracted attention. Now they had people watching them.
Neji didn't answer Sasuke's question, instead, he went to Hinata's place to sling his arms around her shoulders, trying to sooth her.
"You should not yell in front of Hinata-san, Uchiha." He said, his face was still stoic. "She doesn't like loud sounds."
Sasuke growled in a surprisingly canine voice. He hated being told what to do. He especially hated to see that he didn't know his 'girlfriend' enough. Then, with a dramatic scream, he leapt to Neji and started to wrest with him. Thank God, Neji had released Hinata by the time Sasuke's hands grabbed his collar so the girl didn't get dragged along. But still, their fight was perturbing, although some people found it exciting.
"Stop, stop!" Hinata tried to separate the fighting guys, but alas, she couldn't do it. Strange, it seemed that she was the only one who looked concerned with them. The others were surprisingly looked excited seeing the fight, even she saw some guys made a bet.
God, she hated this.
A few minutes later, there were some blood squirts on the floor, they were already bleeding. Hinata's voice had gone hoarse, because she'd been yelling to stop them, and the crowd was getting bigger as more students gathered to see the hot-new-kid and the hot-misfit battled.
Neji was pinning Sasuke on the floor, one hand curled around his neck when the other hand constantly hit his face. Sasuke had hard time struggled from Neji's attack, but somehow he managed to lift his feet to gave Neji a kick right in his tummy, making him got flew away for a few feet.
"You bastard.." Sasuke breathed in a abnormally hoarse voice, his hands covering his neck, then he spat blood on the floor and coughed.
Neji, meanwhile, was prostrating, his forehead met the floor as his hands hugged his stomach, moaning in pain. Along with his moans, there were also some curses.
Hinata's eyes already felt burn from the hot tears; she didn't want to see any of them got hurt. Besides, she hated blood, she hated seeing them. But no matter how loud she yelled, they just didn't listen to her..!
"Please, please stop, Uchiha.." she crawled to Sasuke, taking his hand, but he shoved it off and scrappily got up. At the same time, Neji staggered forward too, as if they would begin another round.
"You're weak, Hyuuga.." Sasuke said.
The other guy calmly wiped blood from his jaw. "Smug bastard." But after he said that, he doubled over, his hand on his kidney.
Sasuke took the chance to lunged and grabbed Neji's collar, but when he was about to dart another punch to Neji's face, he got his hand held.
"What the fuc—"
"Don't talk dirty to your teacher, Mr. Uchiha. Your detention would be doubled." Prof. Kurenai voice boomed.
"Shit." Hinata heard both guys whispered the same things.
Apparently, a big 'DETENTION' mark would be in their foreheads in any minutes.
Here were things that made today as the worst day ever to Neji..
Firstly, it was his first time to be in the principal's room and not receiving any trophies, if anything, it was detention that certainly he would get.
Secondly, he just got dispatched from the hospital due to the injuries he had for his fights (for Hinata's sake, of course), and now, considering all the wounds he just got –and it felt really, REALLY hurt too-, he would likely enter that creepy white building again.
And the last, right beside him, sitting a bastard who happened to be his Lady's very first boyfriend, and that guy just couldn't stop taunting him.
Like this..
"Looking good there, Hyuuga.." ManwhoreBastard said sarcastically. Unfortunately, the Principal Tsunade hadn't come to the office, had she been there, she would fillet the Uchiha guy, for he had guts to speak in such critical situation. When Neji hadn't replied him until the next three seconds, ManwhoreBastard flashed a grin that showed off his cracked teeth and bleeding mouth.
"Cat got your tongue, senior?" He provoked Neji again, looking really enjoying it.
Neji found himself smirking at the view.
"If this could cheer you up, Uchiha.." he said, closing his eyes as he motioned his chin to the younger guy's grin. "Your teeth are all red, and it looks really horrible."
When he opened his eyes again, the first thing he got was an awfully powerful punch right in his left eye.
"Damn you!" Neji hissed, his hands on his smarting eyes. "I should have known that you're a barbarian!"
Sasuke ignored him. "Now you should thank me, my future-bodyguard-in-law.." his tone and talking style oozed Neji's mockingly. "—for I had given color red to your formerly-plain-white eye."
Neji was lifting his right hand up when both of them heard two footsteps were nearing the place. It had to be Principal Tsunade and Prof. Yuuhi.
Sasuke quickly shook his head wildly so his hair fixed, then spat all the blood in his mouth to his handkerchief. Neji rubbed his left eye softly until it got white again, then changed his countenance to be his usual tranquil expression.
"Don't drag Hinata into this." ManwhoreBastard hissed.
"I should have said the same thing to you." he replied.
Then both of them folded their arms on their laps, faces looked confused. Those were a picture of an utter capitulation from two innocent boys.
"Play it cool." Neji said while maintaining his patented golden-boy look. "We do not wish for her to get into any trouble because of us.
The other guy snickered quietly. "Don't order me around, whitey-eyes."
"God curses you, Albino."
A sound of someone twisting the doorknob rose.
Sasuke's innocent look replaced his former-lethal expression as he announced softly. "Here they come."
Neji's expression was strikingly identical to the guy beside him when he smoothed his long, lustrous hair. "Remember that we're in foreign territory."
Shortly afterwards, two women marched into the room. "—and since the fight was getting brutal, I had to separate them and bring them here, Tsunade." Kurenai said as she closed the door, her eyes locked onto the calmly sitting young men.
"Thank you for the explanation, Prof. Yuuhi, now please continue your works." Tsunade instructed and Kurenai followed it without any balk. After her presence was gone, Tsunade walked onto her seat and flopped onto there. Her calculating eyes studied the boys' for a second before she exhaled sharply.
"Okay, stop acting right now, boys. I know you both were fighting." She smirked at these words. "And all because of this Hinata girl.."
Sasuke blinked twice, and then looked at Neji, then back to Tsunade, his face only showed confusion. "I don't know what you are talking about, ma'am."
Instead of answering, Tsunade leaned onto her arm to reach Sasuke's chin. He automatically backed away, but her hand was faster, she cupped his pointed chin to tilt his head rather forcibly to get a better view of his face.
"Don't make things difficult, Mr. Uchiha." She released him roughly. "Your beaten up face is the evidence, the wounds are new."
"Besides.." she continued, looking very sure that she would win the word-war. "Everybody knows that Hinata is your girlfriend.." she glanced at the grim-looking Sasuke. "-and also your beloved Lady." This time, her eyes were on Neji. "It's no wonder if you two fought because of her."
This time, it was Neji's turn to raise his voice. "We were doing rehearsal for our play, ma'am."
The blonde woman merely cocked a skeptical brow. An amused smirk on her face.
"That was the worst lie I've ever heard, you idiot!" Sasuke whispered with his mouth closed.
"Is there anything else you could think in this situation, Mr. Smart-Ass!.?" Was Neji's reply, of course with his mouth closed too.
A silent curse was barely heard under Sasuke's breath before he grinned sheepishly to the woman. He was pretty good on using his charm, and quite frankly, his ability had saved him for a few times. He just hoped today his charm would save him again.
"That's true, ma'am." He confirmed. "You know, Neji just out of the hospital and we wanted to surprise my dear Hinata."
Neji winced at the remark.
SMACK!
"Shit!" a nasal sound escaped Sasuke's mouth as he felt an extreme pain on his feet. Apparently, Neji just kicked him.
"Yours only, Sasuke?" Neji asked, his voice oozed eerie sweetness.
Sasuke mouthed another curse to him before corrected himself reluctantly. "-Our dear Hinata."
The smirk hadn't gone from Tsunade's lips, much to the guys' dismay. "By pretending that you're fighting over her?"
"Yep. By pretending that we're fighting over her." Sasuke nodded in jubilance.
"Exactly. By pretending that we were fighting over her." Neji's nods followed him.
"I see…." She also nodded.
Sasuke tittered when he realized that it was an extremely weird view. Just imagine, three people were smiling to one another while nodding simultaneously over a pointless lie? Oh, please…
Neji kicked his feet (AGAIN?.!) hard under the desk and Sasuke quickly turned his laugh into a cough while trying to hex the damned Hyuuga.
"But it's kind of weird, actually…" Tsunade began to speak again as the boys' brain started to roll for ideas. "Why you have helluva so many serious injuries when you're only pretending?"
"Because…" Neji replied briskly, then paused for a while as he tried to find a good reason. "Because… my-" he barely saw Sasuke charged his feet under the table from his corner eye and quickly corrected the sentence. "-I am sorry, our, OUR personifications were amazing."
"Plus—" Sasuke added, a triumphant smirk spread on his face. "He's got this overly soft and fragile and delicate skin, that even a little punch like this-" he punched Neji's upper arm as hard as he could, but he made it in such way that it looked as if he punched him lightly.
Of course, a huge bruise suffused on Neji's arm a few seconds after Sasuke darted his fist on it.
He ignored Neji's silent cursing and finished. "—could've leaved this big bruise in this skin."
Tsunade couldn't help chuckling inwardly in this rate. "Interesting theory, Mr. Uchiha. But still—"
The door flew open and Hinata's petite body rushed in, on her back, there was Prof. Yuuhi trying to call her back, but surprisingly, she ignored her.
"Well, well, well, another newcomer." The blonde's smile got widen as the boys' jaws dropped.
"Hinata-san?" Neji was the first who recovered from the shock. "How is it possible to you to get in here?"
Hinata didn't answer him, instead, she was muttering things sounded like 'Hold your breath, strengthen your feet, and had your chin high' over and over. Then she walked slowly to Tsunade's desk bravely.
Sasuke leaned to Neji slightly. "Told you before that your cousin is an idiot."
Hinata tripped forward and lose her footing, the next second; she was lying on her stomach. Neji wanted to get up to help her, but Sasuke's hand held him.
"-And a clumsy.." he continued.
"Shut the hell up."
The words Sasuke had taught her kept heard inside the room as Hinata scrappily got up, then after she was right before Tsunade, she embedded her hands on the big desk, before forcibly had her white eyes locked onto the blonde's.
"Hold your breath, strengthen your feet, and had your chin high" she said to herself. "Hold your breath, strengthen your feet, and had your chin high."
Tsunade's voice was sweet. "Yes, Ms. Hyuuga?"
"T-t-t-t-they…" she gulped and repeated the sentence once again. After she composed herself, she tried again.
"T-they were fighting like that because of me, ma'am!"
Sasuke's smirk was rueful as he finished his sentence. "-And a weirdo."
Neji's face fell down as he –for once- had to admit that what the albino guy had said was true.
A Victory sign were on Tsunade's eyes as she heard the whole story from Hinata, before she sentenced the teens three hours detention at Saturday.
"A-are y-you… still hurt, Neji-nii?" Hinata asked very softly as she applied an ointment to Neji's left eye. "I.. I'm very sorry f-for what'd happened…I-I.. I never meant to get you into tr-trouble..—"
He smiled despite on his hurting eye. "Good deed was the thing that stands as the basis for your former action, Hinata-san. Your intention was pure and that is the only thing matters for me now."
She returned his smile cutely, then she bowed a little. "You're.. very kind…"
Had Neji got wings on his back, he must have flown; the words really blew him out. He cheered inwardly, Hinata always got bolder with her words when no one around, that was why he liked taking the small halls to go to the cafeteria, almost no one ever went there and there were always been the two of them..
If only she weren't..
"Keep dreaming, Hyuuga.." Those wicked voice rang on his ear, ruining the mood of his luscious hallucination. "Just remember that you can't and won't get the realism of your fantasies."
Neji grunted in resentment. How come he had forgotten that that Uchiha guy came along with them today? And how did he know that Neji was thinking about her?
It seemed that his thought was read by the Uchiha. "You're smiling so frenziedly until I'm pretty worried about my girlfriend safety." Manwhorebastard said, then stuffed himself between Neji and his Lady. Neji found himself dropping his jaw when Sasuke took Hinata hand and whispered something to her ear. She gasped as another blush came to her cheek, then gave Neji a strange look.
Maybe he told her about Neji lusting over her.
Fink, fink, fink. He played it dirty.
"Accusations and defamations are utterly sinful, Uchiha." Neji managed to keep his voice cool, although the hatred was failed to be concealed.
The albino's tone had mutual hatred in it. "As much as incest and lustful thinking would be."
"S-Sasuke..!" Hinata suddenly cried out. "Neji! Please d-don't fight a-again!"
"Sure thing." Sasuke lightly said as he slung his arm around the girl's neck, making a deep crimson blush to appear on both of her cheek. He drew her closer so their bodies met and took a glance to the homicidal Neji.
"Truce, Hyuuga?"
'Damn you albino manwhore bastard! Get off her!' was already on Neji's tongue of tip, but he swallowed it and instead tossing the couple a forced smile as the respond.
"Okay."
They reached cafeteria in a few moments and easily located their table, and much to Neji's horror, Sasuke would gonna sit with them.
Purgatory was the only thing Neji could say in order to reassure himself.
Hinata announced that she would go to the toilet, and the Uchiha offered to get her some food. Hinata hesitated at first, but then the guy gave his Lady a weird smile (?) that almost looked like a threat, before he went to the food counter with two trays on his hands.
Neji thought he saw Hinata shuddered a little she waved a goodbye salute to him.
"S-See you... Neji-nii..." she said before she went to the girls' closet.
That left Neji sat alone in the table.
And thus he waited..
And waited..
But still, neither of them came back again.
After half an hour waiting, Neji couldn't hold his patience anymore and started to search for them. Since he couldn't find the couple anywhere, he decided to wait until the bell ring and went to his next class (which was also Hinata and Sasuke next class).
They still didn't show up.
One strange possibility of his Lady and her boyfriend whereabouts strike to his mind. And as his nostrils flared, he rushed away to his locker—
-and found a letter was slipped under it.
"Shit." He breathed a curse indignantly after he had read the letter's content.
'We're going out for a date. Don't search for us.
Hinata and Sasuke
P.S: Don't you dare to disturb us!'
A teacher found out about him missing his classes and called for him. But Neji merely ignored her and exited the school hall. As more colorful curses escaped his pale lips, he quickly entered the parking lot to get into his car. Without thinking twice, he pulled out from the lot to search for his cousin. And if possible, give the bastard more kicks.
There was no way for Sasuke Uchiha to kidnap his cousin!
Chapter five ended