"Sasuke are you still there?...Hellloooooo" Hinata drawled on the phone as she tried to see if someone was still listening to her on the other end of the line.

"Hinata, I can hear you clearly," Sasuke growled as he tried to rub sleep away from his eyes for the tenth time. He had been on the phone with Hinata for more than an hour and it was way past midnight now, but somehow neither of them wanted to end their conversation and hang up.

"Then why didn't you say something?" Hinata pouted as she laid on her bed with the phone to her ear. She had moved into a new apartment a week ago, right after she got her old job back at the Konoha General Hospital. That had taken only a few days since the staff was glad to have her back. She was glad to be back.

So far in the past two weeks that she had been in Konoha, nothing out of the ordinary happened. Sasuke had gotten busy in his work and Hinata had been busy trying to assemble her life back on track. She had to get her job back and find a new apartment. Hinata had hoped that she would still be able to see Sasuke as much as she had when they were together in Suna or in the Land of Waves. But since they had gotten back to Konoha, neither had any time for the other.

However, if she couldn't see him Hinata thought she could talk to him. She had been nervous when she tried calling him the first time. Sasuke had said that she could call him if she needed anything. The problem was that she didn't really need anything. She had tried coming up with excuses so she could call him without being suspicious. She knew he was busy with his work and she felt stupid for wasting his time like that. But she couldn't help but miss Sasuke. So she had finally decided to call Sasuke with no reason in particular, and just rambled the first few minutes about something she saw that say. She would call Sasuke in the evening when she was sure he was done with his work and they would just talk about random things. It was awkward at first since none of them knew what to say but soon they began their conversations which spanned from how their day went to anecdotes about their pasts.

"There is nothing for me to say," Sasuke answered her question, as he taid in his bed too. His eyes were slightly drooping but he forced them to stay open whenever Hinata spoke.

Sasuke had been relieved when he found out that Hinata hadn't considered Toneri's proposal. But his relief soon changed back to worry as they went back to Konoha. Who was to say, Hinata might find another guy who could trick her into loving him. She was too gullible and would believe any guy who pretended to be sincere in his feelings. For the first week after Hinata moved back to Konoha, Sasuke wanted nothing more than to keep an eye on her. He was worried that she would get herself in some kind of trouble again, but he was always too busy to ever get to see her. He wanted to call her but he didn't want to seem like some clingy boyfriend, because first of all they weren't dating so he had no right act like one, and second of all he didn't have her number. He had given her his number so all he could do was wait for her to contact him, which she finally did. Now for almost every night for the past week, they had spoken to each other over the phone.

"Sasuke!" Hinata huffed. "I called you for advice and you tell me that there is nothing for you to say."

"Okay fine, what do you need advice for?"

"I just told you. You weren't listening!"

"I was! Just...tell me again."

"Fine," Hinata sighed. "There's a few new medical residents coming to my hospital next week, and some are going to start working in my department. Now my supervisor wants to put me as the lead nurse in my department while the residents are settling into the hospital. I'm nervous because I've never really been in a position like that before."

"Hinata, you'll be fine," Sasuke said. He didn't know why she was so worried about this. She could do it.

"How can you say that? I am going to be incharge of ALL of the nurses in my department. I'm going to be assigning them their locations and then overseeing their patients as well and then I will be the one who they would have to go to when they had questions and then I'm the one who has to-"

"Stop worrying so much about it. Yeah, there's more responsibilities with this but you can do it. Why else would they chose you to be the one?"

"B-but -"

"Seriously Hinata, if you don't stop doubting yourself over this then I'm going to come to your work and make your job even harder."

"Fine," Hinata said as she couldn't help smiling at Sasuke. She really wished she could see him right now. She was about to say something but then she heard Sasuke yawn. She looked at the clock and realized how late it had gotten. "I'm so sorry Sasuke! I kept you up so late."

"It's fine. I would've hung up on you a long time ago if I didn't want to talk." He smirked.

"That would be so rude!" Sasuke chuckeld at her response.

"I guess we should go to sleep now," he said into the phone.

"Yeah..." Both of them got quiet for awhile, not wanting to say goodbye, but then Hinata spoke. "Sasuke, are you... never mind."

"What?"

"I just wanted to know, but I know you're really busy so it's okay."

"Just say it, Hinata. What is it?"

"I was just...wondering if you were free this weekend?" Hinata spoke quickly to get the words out before she got too nervous.

"I'm not sure...I don't really have anything set up for the weekend yet. Why are you asking?"

"Oh, it was just something silly."

"What is it?"

"It's just...we haven't really seen each other in a while so I thought maybe...we could hangout this weekend?"

Sasuke stayed quiet as he thought about Hinata's question. It was true that they hadn't really seen each other but they spoke on the phone often. What was confusing to Sasuke was the fact that he was so eager to see her. For the past week he had been feeling weird every time he thought about Hinata or when he spoke to her. But since he hadn't been seeing her at all, he never really confronted those weird feelings. Now that she had asked to hangout, he didn't know how he would feel when he actually saw her.

"Sure..." Sasuke finally replied.

"Really? There's this movie that we can watch, it just came out. Also, there's this new restaurant Kiba told me about, and I've been meaning to try it. We can probably go there too. Oh my god, it'll be so much fun!"

Sasuke couldn't help but smile at how easily Hinata got excited about the smallest things. Would she have been this excited if it was someone else that she would spend her weekend with?

"Well, you can plan out whatever. I have to go to sleep now."

"Ok. Goodnight Sasuke," Hinata said as she blushed at her own excitement when Sasuke agreed to hangout.

"Goodnight, Hinata," Sasuke said as he hung up the phone placed it on the bedside table. He laid back in his bed to sleep but the smile on his face never left.

The next morning Sasuke was in his office doing his work when Hinata texted him the details of a movie she wanted to watch. Picking up his phone without realizing the smile that was on his face, Sasuke answered her text saying that he was fine with anything.

"Sasuke, you're smiling at your phone," Itachi said in bewilderment as he stared at his younger brother from the entrance to his office.

"What do you want?" Sasuke immediately schooled his face back to a mask of indifference and placed his phone away on his desk.

Itachi eyed Sasuke suspiciously. "You never really told me or mother about why you cancelled the wedding or what happened to the girl you were looking for."

"It doesn't matter so can you just drop it."

Sasuke's phone buzzed again lighting up its screen with a text from a person named Hinata. Itachi caught a glimpse of the name before Sasuke could grab his phone to hide it. So it seemed that his little brother was still talking to the girl even if they weren't pretended to be married anymore.

"Sasuke, I came here to remind you that our meeting is going to start in ten minutes, but there are some documents that you have to look at before the meeting begins."

"Okay, I'm coming." Sasuke got up to leave his office but not before he placed his phone in his pocket. He saw how Itachi was looking at him suspiciously but the truth was that Sasuke wasn't ready to tell his family about anything between him and Hinata. This was because, first of all, he knew how they would misunderstand everything and just ruin the friendship they had. Secondly, Sasuke himself wasn't sure about how or what he felt at the moment, so he didn't want to be confused by his family's assumptions on what might actually be going on between them.

Itachi walked with Sasuke as they went to the conference room where the meeting was going to be held. Once they got in Sasuke took his seat and began reviewing the documents that were presented to him. Before the meeting started, Sasuke got up to get a glass of water, and on his way Itachi bumped into him. Itachi had pretended that he hadn't seen Sasuke coming in his direction so he ended up bumping into his brother. It was something harmless and nothing out of the ordinary, but with some slight of hand Itachi was able to take Sasuke's phone without him noticing it.

After the meeting ended, Itachi quickly left the conference room and went to his office. He knew it was wrong to go through his brother's phone but he couldn't help but be worried about him. He didn't know who Hinata was, and to him it seemed like his brother was getting too involved with a woman that could end up breaking his heart. It was quite often that they would find people who just wanted to be close to the Uchiha brothers for the wrong reasons, and Itachi just wanted to make sure that Sasuke wasn't being played by another woman. Itachi still believed that Sakura was just playing with his feelings because when she found out that being with Sasuke wasn't what she had hoped for, she left him.

Itachi unlocked Sasuke's phone thinking that finding out his password was really easy. Once he got to Hinata's messages he tried to look for anything suspicious. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary but what he did notice was that there were multiple calls to her phone every night and most of them were almost an hour long, some were even longer. Itachi began to get even more worried even though he couldn't find anything that would explain what was going on between the two of them. But one thing was clear which was that Sasuke was getting closer to this woman. He had never known his brother to open up to any woman since Sakura left him, but now he was talking to Hinata almost every night. He had to figure out what this woman's motives were before this got any further, because if Sasuke got his heart broken again Itachi wasn't sure how his little brother would recover this time.

Itachi sent a text to Hinata telling her to meet him, which she would think was Sasuke, at his apartment before they went to the movies on Saturday. He sent her the address which was actually Itachi's and waited for her to reply. When she replied, agreeing with meeting him at his apartment, Itachi deleted the message so that Sasuke wouldn't find out about it. Itachi wanted to meet this girl on his own and make a judgement from there.

When Hinata got the message from Sasuke telling her to meet up with him at his apartment before they went to the movies, she felt her heart speed up. She tried convincing herself that this was nothing but her heart kept telling her that she was hoping it meant something. It had to be a big deal if Sasuke invited her over to his place, right? He seemed like the guy who always kept his distance from people so Hinata thought that him inviting her over meant that he was letting her into his life. She still didn't know much about his past or his family so she hoped that he was slowly opening up to her. This logic sounded ridiculous in her head but she couldn't help but wish for it.

Hianta replied after succesfully calming herself down. Her blush was still evident but her heart had slowed down. She agreed to coming over and then assured herself multiple times that this didn't really mean anything no matter how much she tried to think otherwise.

After deleting the messages, Itachi took Sasuke's phone back to his office. He took a sigh of relief when he found out that his brother wasn't in there. He went in and place his phone under some papers on his desk to make it seem like it was there all this time. He quickly left his office before Sasuke could come in and become suspicious.

Sasuke walked into his office a while later not realizing that someone had been in there earlier. He reached for his phone in his pocket where he was sure he had placed it before the meeting, but couldn't find it. He looked around in his office until he found it on top of his desk. He was sure he had placed it in his pocket before heading to the conference room. He shrugged thinking that he must have forgotten it, and went back to his work. He had to do a lot today and he was diligently trying to finish everything before the end of the day because tomorrow he was supposed to meet with Hinata. He wouldn't admit it out loud but he was really looking forward to it.