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This one is kind of a shorter chapter than usual as well but I hope you guys enjoy it.

I have been writing in Sasuke's POV but I thought I should change that now and maybe for the future because honestly it can be hard having to write his thoughts and perspective only. I wanted to be able to show Hinata's side as well, so I decided to make it a third person POV.

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Third person POV

After Toneri's proposal, Hinata had done nothing but stay in her room for the rest of the day as she evaluated her decisions and what she should do in the future.

Since coming back home, Hinata had been thinking a lot about her life and what kind of mess she had gotten herself and Sasuke in. This wasn't Sasuke's burden to bear, yet he had so much for her. Faking this ceremony with him just to hide from her family made her feel like a coward and a horrible person for using Sasuke.

She had been gullible, fooling herself into believing Toneri's words. She was too naïve to realize what would happen because she was too lost into the fantasy she had created of a married life of with Toneri. Sometimes she wondered if she was actually in love with him or just the idea of being married. It was something she had wanted since she was a little girl.

Hinata's mother had once told her that to truly be happy in life she needed to fill her heart with love. She had been too young to understand that at the time, but after her mother passed away, those words were something that stuck with Hinata as her mother's last memories.

For a long time, Hinata thought that the love she needed to fill her heart was the kind of love she was getting from Toneri where everything just seemed perfect. When they were together in college, she felt like this was what her mother had talked about, to have love that made you happy. What she didn't realize until later on was that love wasn't just meant to be for the good times. It was suppose to stick around when you were feeling sad and support you when you were at your low. It wasn't a one-way road, but a bridge between two people.

After Toneri's proposal, Hinata realized that she needed to evaluate her life choices. For too long she had been focused on love and marriage. She wanted nothing more than to be married. But looking back to her relationship with Toneri, she found that their relationship was nothing but a happy one without any problems. That was the thing that made Hinata realize that she could never fill her heart with love if her love was never even there through the problems. Toneri hadn't been there for her when she had come all the way from Suna to meet him. He had just abandoned her to essentially be on her own in a place where she knew no one. She was alone in the Land of Tea constantly trying to plead with Toneri, but he just rejected her. For what, fear of commitment, fear of losing his bachelor life? And now all of a sudden he was ready?

Hinata gave Toneri's proposal the proper amount of thought she knew it deserved because aside from what Toneri had done to her, she wanted to know she was making the right choice for herself so she wouldn't regret it later. No matter how much in love she had been with Toneri, she had to heed her mother's advice. She had to fill her heart with love, not the kind that is wishy-washy, or only there for the good times.

As she spent her day in her room, Hinata also thought about Sasuke. He had done so much for her without ever asking for anything in return. And what had she done? She had just selfishly used him whenever she needed someone. Sasuke had even allowed her to make a show of him as her husband to her family just so she could be saved from their anger, disappointment, and disownment. She had to finally do the right thing by Sasuke.

The Uchihas were always considered to be selfish and cold people, with a few exceptions, and it was funny that to Hinata, Sasuke seemed to be the exception even if he didn't seem like it in the beginning.

The day after the proposal, Hinata finally decided that she had to get some things straight before she could move on in her life. Toneri had been her love but it was not the one she wanted and she was glad she was able to realize that earlier. She had to thank Toneri for always rejecting her a year ago because that helped her realize some things about herself and Toneri. His rejection had prevented her from making the biggest mistake of her life.

Taking a deep breath Hinata left her room to have breakfast with her family who seemed as normal as before, which meant that they didn't know about Toneri or what happened yesterday. Even if her family didn't know about it, she knew she had to face her father and tell him the truth, which she dreaded more than anything.

After breakfast, Hinata asked for an audience with her father and Sasuke. Hiashi decided to take it to his office where they could have privacy because he knew what his daughter wanted to talk about. After Hiashi told someone to summon Sasuke to his office, Hinata and him patiently waited for his arrival.

"Father, I want to speak with you about the ceremony for the wedding." Hinata spoke when Sasuke arrived and took a seat next to her in her father's office. She looked to her father in his office as he sat at his desk quietly, waiting for her to continue.

Throughout the entire walk down to the office Sasuke had kept an indifferent appearance, but on the inside he was anxious about why he was summoned. As soon as he entered the room and saw Hinata sitting in front of her father's desk, he knew she had made a decision.

She can't be serious, thought Sasuke, that idiot was going to make the biggest mistake of her life if she gives even a second thought to that bastard Toneri.

In Sasuke's opinion, Toneri had acted like whatever he did to Hinata was justified, and he didn't even ask for forgiveness. Now, he was asking her to marry him. How could he change his mind just like that after he constantly refused and ignored her for a year, and that does not include how badly he treated her when she went to see him.

"I-I…I'm not going to attend it." Hinata's head lowered as Hiashi frowned.

Sasuke couldn't help but feel angry and hurt, for reasons he did not know nor acknowledged, because it was clear she wasn't going to go through with the ceremony, and that only meant one thing. She couldn't be serious in Sasuke's opinion because this was going to be the biggest mistake of her life.

Toneri had acted like whatever he did to her was justified, and he didn't even ask for forgiveness. Now, he's asking her to marry him. How could he change his mind just like that after he constantly refused and ignored her for a year, and that does not include how badly he treated her when she met him. Hinata couldn't be with a guy like this. She deserved so much more.

"But you have to, Hinata. It is a wedding ceremony for you and Sasuke."

"F-father…the thing is t-that me and S-Sasuke are not really married." Sasuke froze at her confession. She really was going to go back to that bastard, he thought.

Sasuke didn't know why but the idea of her choosing Toneri just reminded him of Sakura. His fists clenched at the thought, but he kept his expression the same. He didn't want to show how this was affecting him.

"What do you mean?" Hiashi asked as his frown deepened.

"I-I didn't run away w-with Sasuke t-to elope with h-him…I r-ran away t-to be with T-Toneri." She kept her head down and Sasuke could see how afraid she was of her father's judgment.

"Toneri? The man from yesterday?"

"Yes father."

"If that's the case, then why did he ask you to marry him?" Hinata's eyes widened as she realized her father had listened in on her conversation with Toneri.

"He…H-he rejected me when I went t-to him. And I d-don't know why he's b-back now. He didn't care for a whole y-year and n-now he wants t-to be with me." Hinata was crying now and even though Sasuke wanted to hold her to make her stop, he held himself back from doing anything irrational.

Hiashi stayed quiet for a while trying to understand what the situation was, but then he turned to look at Sasuke.

"Did you know about this?" he asked.

"I didn't know about it at first. I only found out when I looked for her last week. I thought she came back home after meeting with Toneri." Sasuke answered honestly. There was no point in hiding anything anymore.

"So you two were never together for the past year?" Hinata and Sasuke shook their heads.

"F-father, Sasuke has b-been very kind to me, and he has gone out of his way for me many t-times. Please, don't hold anything against him." Hiashi stayed quiet for a few minutes as he regarded his daughter who still had her head down even as tears kept falling from her eyes.

"I suppose we have much to thank you for, Mr. Uchiha. You have no obligation to us and our family so you may leave any time you see fit." Hiahsi said indifferentlyas he got up to leave his office. "Hinata, we still need to discuss some things so I suggested you stay in Suna until we have them figured out." He then left with a somber look, leaving the two of them alone.

"I'm s-sorry Sasuke," she sniffed. "I always s-seem to put you in the w-worst situations." She laughed dryly.

"Hinata, are you really serious about this?" Sasuke asked guardedly because at one hand he didn't want to hear her say she wanted to be with Toneri, but on the other hand he needed to know.

"Yes," she answered as she finally looked at him. "This was t-too much for m-me to ask of you, and in the end, I-I can't wait for other people to save m-me. I have t-to own up to m-my mistakes."

Sasuke stayed quiet for a while, studying her face as she kept looking at him doing the same.

"Sasuke, thank you for everything." She smiled ruefully in the end as she gave him a kiss on the cheek. Her tears were dry by now and her eyes were still red, but her smile was beautiful even if it was sad.

"So is this it?" Sasuke asked.

"I guess. Now you c-can finally be r-rid of me." She smiled again trying to make a joke, but there was something poignant about the way her face changed.

Sasuke got up to leave the office leaving as Hinata just sat on the couch without moving a muscle. There was second where Hinata had wanted to tell Sasuke to stay even if the ceremony wasn't going to happen. She just wanted him to be here because after this she might never see him. He was the CEO of the Uchiha Company, he would never have time for someone like her. She was lucky enough to meet him through some twisted fate, and she had asked too much of him. It wasn't fair.

"Hinata, are you really going to marry Toneri?" Sasuke asked quietly as he strained his voice to be indifferent even if that wasn't the case. He was standing by the door with his back to her but he didn't open the door to leave, not yet.

"I-I…No of c-course not! Do you think I'm t-that stupid!" she half yelled at Sasuke in disbelief and exasperation.

Sasuke whipped his around as soon as he heard Hinata's tone. Was he missing something?

"But then why did you tell your dad that you weren't going to do the ceremony? You didn't have to tell him the truth about us," Sasuke looked at her skeptically as he fully turned towards her and took a few steps to stand right in front of her.

"I cancelled the ceremony because I wanted to tell my father the t-truth. I wanted to stop lying to him, not because I wanted to marry Toneri. Plus I was trying to give you an out because this was too much of me to ask of you. Why would you think that?" Hinata couldn't believe he thought she wanted to be with Toneri. She wasn't stupid. She knew that when a guy treated you as bad as Toneri, you don't go back to him.

Sasuke just shrugged in response as the constricted feeling in his chest faded and his shoulders relaxed. He propped back on the sofa where he was seated before but this time he was much more relaxed.

"You know you didn't have to cancel the ceremony," Sasuke said as an after thought as he laid his head back on the couch and stared at the ceiling.

"W-what do you mean?... D-did you w-want to h-have the ceremony w-with me?" Hinata blushed as she stared at Sasuke with wide eyes.

He shifted his head towards her taking in her expression, which was cute in his opinion. He then sat upright and leaned his head closer to her.

"You wish," he smirked as he whispered it just inches away from her. Hinata could feel his breath fan over her face as he spoke and her face turned even redder.

"I-I don't," Hinata barely managed to squeak out. Sasuke being this close to her was making all the blood rush to her head making it hard to really think straight.

"You don't?" He raised an eyebrow at her response.

"I m-mean I d-don't want t-the ceremony." She tried leaning her head back but Sasuke just kept leaning forward, never letting her face go more than a few inches farther than his.

"You don't want the ceremony." Her blush was beginning to reach her ears now, as Sasuke's mischievous smirk grew even bigger. "But you want me?"

"Sasuke!" Hinata pushed him away by the shoulders as he threatened to get even closer than before. What was he going to do, thought Hinata as she cupped her cheeks and willed her heart rate to slow down.

"Hn," Sasuke got up once again to leave, but this time with a smirk. When he got to the door, he turned to her one more time and said, "I was just saying that because now you have to tell all of your family about why you want to cancel the ceremony."

Hinata's eyes widened as she realized what Sasuke was talking about. In return, he just smirked and left to go back to his guest room.

That idiot, he thought as a genuine smile, albeit small, graced his lips.