Authors Note: Konoha High School is a Japanese style school, so they have foot lockers and such, in case you were wondering what that was. Also, I know this chapter is a bit cliche, but I felt like it was necessary nonetheless. THANKS FOR THE KIND REVIEWS BY THE WAY. I love reading them. I won't do a note like this on every chapter, just every once in a while, when I have something I feel like is worth noting. Well, without any further adieu...

Chapter 4

The next day, Hinata woke up refreshed. She had managed to completely push the Uchiha out of her mind, and woke up rejuvenated. One may think that she would be heartbroken after hearing about who Naruto received but in truth, she had been expecting it. She decided instead to focus on who her friends got as their results, it was a lot more interesting and productive.

Neji and Tenten had gotten each other, but they refused to admit it while in each other's presence. The only reason she knew about it is because they had both confided her in secret, via text message. Kiba had gotten Ino, much to his surprise, and he really didn't intend on pursuing it. Lee got a sophomore girl, who was just as much of a fitness junkie as he was, it was almost funny. Shino had been ambiguous with his answer, but then again he always was ambiguous with everything, so no surprise there. Smiling, she stepped into the shower.

When she arrived at school an hour later, she immediately went to her shoe locker to put on her school shoes. When she opened it up, tons of mean letters came cascading out of it. She bent down to pick and began to pick them all up. While still on the floor, Hinata cautiously looked at a few of them, and the words she read were horrendous. Tears began to fill her eyes and silently fall as she sat there with her mouth open in shock. All of the letters called her an ugly slut, bitch, or something along those lines and said that Sasuke was way too hot for her. However, she was silently snapped out of her daze when she felt someone tap her shoulder.

Hinata was certainly surprised to see the man that caused her troubles bent down, helping her pick up the letters. And everyone in the area was equally surprised. She saw his eyes absorbing the words on the papers, and she heard him click his tongue with disgust. He then turned to look at her once he had read them all, and she was startled to see his eyes filled with rage. Slowly, he said, "You can't possibly believe this nonsense right?"

Hinata was floored. Firstly, because she in fact had believed it all, but more so because he was being nice. Nice. To a girl. He was notorious for being extremely rude at all girls, with not a one escaping his discrimination. Hinata struggled to get her words together.

"N-no I-I just.. I-I… well um.." she said as she turned away from his heated gaze. She then began to awkwardly tap her fingers together, and cursed herself for floundering.

He made another tsk noise and then stood up. She expected him to walk away from her now, after seeing her in such a pathetic state, but instead he turned his head away and held out a hand. A hand to help her get up. She looked at the hand reluctantly, but then decided that she didn't want to be rude, even though the gesture was causing even more unwanted attention than the other scene a mere few seconds ago. She grabbed on unwillingly and was pulled to her feet in one fluid motion.

She expected him to hand the letters back, but instead he snatched the letters out of her hand and threw them out with the ones he had collected in the nearest garbage can, then disappear down the hallway of the school.

Hinata was in a daze for a few minutes as she watched him begin to blend in with the bustling crowd. The people who were looking at her eventually began to thin out, but she didn't move until Tenten clapped her on the shoulder and gave her a weird look, asking, "Are you alright?"

Hinata nodded her head and the two girls began to set off down the hallways. Eventually, they went their separate ways, and Hinata headed into her own classroom. When she arrived, she saw the Uchiha, sitting in the same seat as always, with the same crowd of girls around him. She sighed in relief, thinking that his earlier actions didn't mean anything and he just helped out because he felt a little guilty people were harassing her because of him. She saw him turn to her, and blushed out of impulse, but didn't mean anything by it Smiling to herself, she stared straight ahead for the rest of the school day, unaware of Sasuke's wandering eyes, and how he had told the girls off for writing the mean notes.

….

Sasuke could not believe what he saw when he walked into school the next day. He wanted to find Hinata as soon as possible, because he planned on following through with what he declared the previous day. He didn't expect to see her so soon though, and he certainly didn't expect to see her crouched on the ground crying with a bunch of notes strewn around her.

He immediately walked over to her and went to her level, but she didn't appear to notice. Sighing, he leaned over and tapped her shoulder, then he picked up the notes to see what was so distressing.

When he read the contents he had never been so disgusted in his entire life. He could not believe that his fan girls would go as far as writing mean letters to a girl he wasn't even acquainted with, just some unfortunate girl who he happened to get in the idiotic survey orchestrated by an even more idiotic principal.

She seemed to notice him then, but she still didn't look him in the eye. He was enraged anyone would do this, especially to the most innocent and sweet girl he had ever met. She seemed to be believing everything the letter was saying so he turned to her and said, "You can't possibly believe this nonsense, right?"

Her eyes then immediately snapped to him and she seemed to be taken aback by the anger he was openly showing. She then began to stammer and twiddle her fingers. He wanted to stay, but he didn't have all day, and he hated being late, so he just took all the letters and threw them away.

As he was walking down the hallway, his usual group of doting girls came up to him and asked him if he wanted to hang out or go to a mixer. Usually he could tolerate this, but today he could not. These monsters had just harrassed someone for something she couldn't even control. So he did what he does best. He gave them a glare so cold it could freeze hell. Then he said with potence, "Leave me the fuck alone today."

Well the girls got the message and ran away as quickly as they had come, but yet somehow they still had a flirtatious giggle as they disappeared. Girls, he thought to himself with irritation.

When he arrived at his classroom, the one he and Hinata shared, he noticed that she wasn't there even though he had taken a detour to avoid his most rabid fangirls. He was a little worried she was sitting somewhere broken, but he decided not to dwell on it too much.

Sakura and Ino immediately strutted up to his desk as soon as they walked in and propped their elbows up on his desk. Squeezing as much of their cleavage as possible in an attempt to give him a good 'view'. He never understood why other guys liked that, for he was into someone with a more modest and discreet approach. Someone like Hinata. They tried talking to him about how his day was yesterday, but still feeling sour from earlier, he coldly told them, "Enough."

They both could immediately tell that he was not in a good mood, and normally they would leave him alone at this point so he was content. Apparently, though, they were fearing more eager to get him under their wraps than usual because of his bold declaration yesterday, so they asked him what was wrong.

As soon as they asked this, Hinata walked in, nearly late. He looked at her and he blushed a little then headed to her seat, where she would not look at him for the rest of the day. She looked distressed and her eyes were still puffy from crying. He then turned back to Sakura and Ino who were staring at Hinata like she was the embodiment the plague and he snapped. Sasuke then turned to the two girls and said so quietly it was almost a whisper,

"Yes I am in a bad mood today, thank you for noticing. When I walked in this morning, I was greeted with the image of Hinata sitting on the floor and crying because there were about 20 mean notes in her locker from my… more intense fans. The funny thing is, is that she hasn't done anything wrong. Everyone seemed to love her until yesterday, when I received her name on the survey. And it isn't even like she received me. In fact, she is completely uninvolved in this incident if you ask me. She simply wrote down what she was like as person, and it happened to be the kind of personality I was looking for. Other girls should not get mad at her, if anything they should be mad at themselves or even mad at me. Not some innocent bystander who did not want to be involved in this equation at all."

Sakura and Ino looked at each other, a flash of guilt passing across their eyes. Their Mrs. Kurenai then came in and they hesitantly went to go sit down. His suspicions had been confirmed by the look in their eyes- they had each written at least one letter.

The day passed by relatively quickly, mainly because he was staring at Hinata the entire time. He knew he should've been focused on paying attention, but he pays attention every day so he deserved a little break. He was surprised she didn't seem to notice he was staring so intensely, she just kept her eyes straight ahead, her attention unwavering.

Sasuke then decided that it may not be the best idea to pursue her. She had gotten so hurt when they hadn't even done anything yet, and he was actually afraid for her when he thought how far girls would go if they actually had a thing. He pondered this as he left school today, and at night once he had reached the safety of his home.

….

The next day Hinata opened her locker and tons of letters poured out once again. She winced and hesitantly began to pick them up. Preparing herself for the worst, she picked one out of the stack in her hand and began to read. She was shocked when she found out it was an… apology note? She quickly looked at the other papers in her hands and they all said the same thing. They were all apologies from girls who she presumed had written the letter she received yesterday. Some of them even had names on them, like the ones from Haruno Sakura and Yamanaka Ino.

Those two letters were particularly long, and at the end they each even suggested that they should become friends or at least go out to get tea or coffee or something. Hinata felt her heart soar as she read the kind letters. Being the understanding girl that she was, she decided that she would take them up on their offer. She always enjoyed making new friends. Hinata then put on her shoes, picked up her bag, and walked off to class with a huge smile on her face.

Little did she know that Uchiha Sasuke was watching her from afar analyzing her actions. He smirked to himself slightly then thought, Maybe I should stay away. She is way too damn good for me, I would probably just end up being toxic.