Invisible Girl and Visible Boy
Tianshii
Genre: Romance, Drama, Angst
Rating: T
Summary: The one person he can't lose is the person whose fate is to disappear. Sasu/Hina. AU.
Characters: Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuuga Hinata
Chapter Two - A Real Illusion
A girl who has never been seen but exists.
Her entire existance perplexes him.
She sits again in his safe area. This time not on his seat, but rather, the one opposite it. As if she were challenging him.
"You."
The female looked up, startled. Why was she? She was sitting in his spot after school again, surely she had anticipated him to be there. I'm not that easy to scare off.
"U-Uchiha-san..." Her voice was especially timid. Even more so than yesterday. It fit her weak girl image so well. "I-I'm sorry for acting like that yesterday - "
"What's your name?"interrupted Sasuke.
Her eyes widened, "N...name...?"
She pressed her fingers together, sweat dripping from her forehead down onto her porcelain cheeks.
"Hinata. Just...Hinata," she whispered.
The dark haired boy narrowed his eyes.
"How can you not have a last name?"
Hinata chuckled softly, as if she found the whole situation exceptionally funny. Which it wasn't.
"I can't remember it. My last name."
And that was when Uchiha Sasuke realized it. That there was something terribly wrong with the soft eyed, dark haired and pale skinned girl sitting infront of him. As if she had heard his thoughts, she lifted her head and stared blankly at him.
But when Sasuke returned her stare, he discovered that it was not so blank and uncomprehending. There was a hint of something, lingering as if it was not supposed to be there...he was so close to deciphering it, so close that he could almost taste it on the tip of his tongue...
Lonliness.
Ring ring.
And just like that, it was gone.
Hinata muttered her farewell and exited the room, her book clutched tightly within her arms.
...
Ah, I get it. She wasn't sitting there as an act of defiance. She was trying to apologize.
He grunted.
Was I too rude?
"Whatever, I don't care what she thinks of me," Sasuke growled under his breath.
"Huh? Who?"
Sakura watched him from her spot across from him. She continued to nibble at her salad - no tomatoes - until she looked like she had come to a sudden understanding and gasped.
"Urgh! It better not be Ino!" She smashed her fist onto the table and he swallowed.
The blond next to her laughed nervously then paused.
"Wait, I don't get it, why are you annoyed if Sasuke doesn't care what Ino thinks of him?" asked Naruto, genuinely curious.
Sakura raised an eyebrow, "Geez Naruto, when someone like Sasuke-kun says that line he always means the opposite!"
"What...?"
Wait, what?
Unable to keep his mouth shut he spat out, "That's not true, I really couldn't care less."
"Yes yes, of course you don't," she replied mockingly, plopping the last cucumber into her mouth. "So, who is it that has caught the great Sasuke-kun's attention?"
"An annoying girl named Hinata," answered Sasuke. She had 'forgotten' her last name but had the same white eyes as Hyuuga Neji. But he wasn't the type to assume things. Maybe she was into cosplay and liked wearing odd contacts. "I met her yesterday."
Naruto's jaw dropped,"And you're already calling her by her first name?!"
Well I don't know her last...
The pink haired girl sighed wistfully, "If only I was pretty enough to have Sasuke-kun notice me."
"I've noticed you Sakura-"
"She wasn't pretty," Sasuke interrupted quickly. Lie.
They stared at him for a moment and he felt as if they were judging him.
"At least, I didn't think she was." Another lie.
At this, Sakura leaned forward, her eyes wide with curiousity. He had seen this look before. This was the way she looked at everything she found interesting.
"Just who is this Hinata?"
...
That's what he wanted to know.
He had checked with the teachers, and according to them, they had never seen a Hinata. Ever since he encountered her, Sasuke had taken to scanning every student's head in class, outside and in the corridors. He remembered their eye colour, stature, skin colour, hair colour...But he could never find her.
Maybe she's a ghost,a crazy thought entered his mind.
Maybe she's a figment of your imagination, another unwanted thought announced.
Sasuke opened the door and shut it behind him. The librarian nodded to him as he went by and he continued to his spot. He was a little grateful to see her actually sitting there and vaguely surprised because this time her book sat on her lap. Hinata stared at her lap, her long dark hair forming a curtain around her face. Like a barrier.
Against me? He felt offended.
She sensed him near her, looked up and murmered wearily, "G-Good afternoon Sasuke-kun."
Instead of replying, he sat down across from her. And stared.
His dark eyes bore into her pale ones and she shrinked from his gaze.
"Is...is something wrong?"
Again, Sasuke didn't answer. He could see her getting frustrated and it amused him to no end.
After a minute of silence and tense staring she finally drew a breath and stood up.
Her lips trembled and the girl said, "Why w-won't you talk to me?"
Hinata turned to leave but he caught her small wrist.
"H-huh?" When she faced him, he could see that her eyes where glistening with tears. They fell down her cheeks and onto her uniform.
"You're real, aren't you?"
If only she was. If only the small fragile girl in front of him was. Sasuke realized that he would give almost anything to have this girl he held in his hand actually exist. But a part of him felt like all he was holding onto was air and that if he blinked Hinata would vanish without a trace.
Just like...Mother, Father and...nii-san.
Illusions.
When he opened his eyes, she remained there.
"What are yo..you talking about...?"
And he for the first time in a while, he felt relieved.
A/N Super sorry for the short chapter QwQ