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 Four – Dreamt of You

In his dream, he was living near the sea. In a medium sized white house perched on a cliff with a large garden and a matching white dog. When he woke up, he was immediately met with the scent of the ocean and lavender. And when he walked to the kitchen, there was a nice hot plate of pancakes which was too sweet but he enjoyed it anyway.

After his filling breakfast, soft hands gave him his clothes but when he turned around, there was no one there. For some reason, he didn't question it. Instead, he slipped the dark blue shirt over his head and pulled up the pair of comfortable looking pants. The hands were back again, except this time they handed him a pair of flip-flops and a metal bucket, filled to the brim with gardening tools. He nodded obediently before accepting the offering.

The sun shone at his face and cast golden rays across his pale complexion. By now, dirt was smeared across his cheeks and forehead but for once the Uchiha didn't mind. He had just finished tending to the last rosebush when a voice spoke out from behind him.

Sasuke turned around again and Hinata smiled at him, her pale eyes warm and inviting.

It was a blissful dream, he concluded. Though he would have never admitted it out loud.

He was rudely brought back to bleak reality by the ringing of his alarm clock, signalling that if he didn't get up in the next five minutes, he was going to be late.

The dark haired boy reached a hand across towards the bedside table and felt around blindly for the familiar smooth metal object. When the annoying ringing sound finally ceased, Sasuke realized it was raining.

I hate the rain.

"Me too," he muttered under his breath.

…

"What do you mean I - I'm not allowed?"

Hinata stood by the large iron gate of the Hyuuga manor infront of the car that usually drove her to school. Her driver, Suzuki-san eyed her sympathetically from his spot near the door of the vehicle as she spoke in hushed whispers with her cousin. Well, she was the only one whispering, Neji stood there as still as a rock, his eyes hard and cold.

"Your father's orders. You've been relieved from school for a week," said Neji in that unfeeling robotic voice that she hated.

"A–A week? H–how will I catch up?" Hinata searched his face frantically for a sign that he was joking with her. She found none.

"Uncle has faith in you."

She swallowed noisily.

"And if you fall behind, he'll just move you to another stricter school."

With that, her cousin, or more accurately, her jailer, turned on his heels and made his way to the car. Suzuki-san murmured something apologetically and she nodded back.

Hinata watched as the car reversed out of the driveway and the ornate iron gate slam shut after it. She let out a sigh before walking back to her room, feeling as if the whole world was conspiring against her.

It made her upset, the fact that she wasn't allowed to go to school.

It made her lonely, the fact that she wasn't able to make friends.

It made her hate her clan, the fact that they wanted to make her disappear.

"I'm a real person too, you know," she whispered.

Alone in her room, sitting on her bed as usual with a book she had read a million times before, Hinata found herself thinking about Uchiha Sasuke. A boy who was so incredibly different from her. He was always surrounded by people, whether he liked the attention or not so it surprised her a little to see him holed up in the library.

He had a lot of friends too, including Naruto-kun who she had never spoken with but was still so kind and brave and strong. She would give anything to have a friend like him. A boy that was like the sun, while his best friend, the one closest to him, looked like he came from the moon itself.

Hinata gazed out the window and breathed in the cool morning air. She wished she was out there right now, instead of being stuck in a house filled with judgemental elders and servants that spied on her. She really did wish, she was walking under the sun with her own group of friends, on her way to school.

At that moment, while her attention was focused on the sidewalk next to her house, a certain raven haired boy chose to walk by.

And without thinking, Hinata called out his name.

Sasuke turned around slowly, his eyebrows raised in an incredulous manner. He looked around for a second, for the source of the noise before glancing up, right at her. She blushed furiously and waved her hands frantically in front of her face, willing him to walk away. Instead, he changed his course and the next thing she knew, he was striding towards her, his face contorted into one of determination. Hinata instinctively moved back from the window.

He isn't…coming here, is he?

She shook her head.

Of course not Hinata. The security measures are far too extreme.

With that reassuring thought, the dark haired girl returned to the window and let out a deep sigh of relief when he wasn't there. But then she focused her eyes on the surroundings around her and nearly screamed when she realized Sasuke was climbing the large tree near her bedroom window.

"S-Sasuke-kun!"

He grunted a greeting in response and continued to climb incredibly fast up the tree.

Within seconds he was hanging onto her window and despite her wavering feelings, she helped him up into her room.

…

Before this incident, Hinata had several words that she would use to describe the boy in front of her. Cold, unfeeling, a bit like Neji-nii-san if she thought about it, a little rude and unpredictable.

"Wh-why are you here, Sasuke-kun?" She asked while pressing her fingers together, a common sign that she was nervous. Then again, who wouldn't be, with a strange boy in their bedroom?

Sasuke didn't answer for a moment and refused to meet her eyes, instead choosing to gaze outside the window he had just climbed up from his seat on the floor.

She wasn't in the mood to be ignored so she leaned in closer tentatively and asked again, "Why are you h-here?"

This time, Hinata was pleased when he actually answered. Granted, it was a terrible answer and didn't really answer anything but at least he wasn't ignoring her. She was sick of being treated as if she wasn't there.

He brushed his dark bangs out of his eyes and muttered, "I don't know."

And the Hyuuga reigned in the out of character urge to hit him.

"I just – I just felt like it."

What does that even mean?

The boy finally turned to her, his dark eyes bore into her white ones and she had to repress a shiver.

"I think…I wanted to see you," he said flatly. Such an embarrassing line and he had said it with a completely straight face.

Of course, she blushed. A deep blush that made her feel like a ripe tomato.

"W-What? S-see me? Me?" Hinata stuttered, her eyes darting right and left, from his face to the window.

Impossible, unbelievable, doesn't he hate me? Her thoughts slowly became a train wreck as she tried desperately to make sense of the situation.

And just like that time in the school library, without warning, he grabbed her hand.

It was cool and smooth despite the fact that he had just used them to climb the rough surface of a tree. Sasuke's long pale fingers then entwined with hers with such care that it surprised her.

He really was unpredictable, cold and a little rude. But unlike her cousin, she knew he could feel.

A/N Some people asked for a longer chapter so here you go (it's still pretty short though ahaha…) Updated a little early too : Once again, thank you for the support and I hope you've enjoyed the chapter! uwu