All credits to Yves_Liong (author from Wattpad) and Masashi Kishimoto (maker of Naruto).

-DenHime

Battling With A Hot Guy

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04

"Hello?" I finally answered my phone and let out a sigh of relief when I heard Sakura's voice on the other end of the line. The two girls turned away from me as I exclaimed, "Sakura-chan!"

"Hina-chan! I'm sorry for calling so early but I need to ask you to do me a favor. I left my homework at home and now I have to do it all over again." Sakura spoke in panic. "Can you help me? I really, really need your help!"

As I listened to Sakura's plea, I couldn't help overhearing what the two girls are saying. The one with the cellphone had already hanged up. "The line's busy. Do you think a lot of people are calling him so we can't get through?" She pondered.

The other girl nodded. "It's possible. After all, Sasuke's really popular. Let's just try again later." She remarked as they started heading out.

"Where are you? Are you at our first class already?" I asked Sakura when my attention got back to her.

"Yes, I am. Please hurry." She replied, sounding desperate. She wasn't the type who easily forget these kind of things so I knew how she felt.

"Don't worry, I'll be right there as fast I can." I reassured her as I walk out of the comfort room and headed for the classroom.

I hung up after I heard Sakura said, "Thanks."

On the way, I noticed people crowding over the places where I posted the notices. My first and second plans might not have worked but the third is perfectly functioning.

When I reached Sakura, boy, was she beyond panicking. "I only have fifteen minutes left to finish something I did for two hours!" She exclaimed, scribbling furiously on her paper.

I took a seat beside her and grabbed a piece of paper from the stack of papers on her desk. "What do you want me to do?" I asked in a very good mood now. Somehow, knowing that I was succeeding really perk me up. "Do you want me to just copy my work for you?"

Sakura stopped for a moment and smiled gratefully. "You'd do that?" She asked, almost surprised. She, of all people, knew I hated it when people copy from my work but today it was different. I am in such a good mood, I don't mind. I nodded in reply so she thanked me repeatedly. By the time the bell rang for first period, Sakura's homework is done.

As I listened intently to the teacher's discussion, I felt my cellphone vibrate a couple of times. Not wanting to get in trouble, I ignored it. I didn't even try to think about who it was that kept calling me. I just concentrated on the lesson at hand. That was until I finally got annoyed because the vibration just wouldn't stop. Once I had enough, I shut my cellphone off.

I had days when I couldn't focus even if I tried to but today it was the other way around. I was focused with the lessons that I forgot all about my cellphone. As Sakura and I entered the cafeteria for lunch, Ino came up to us in a rush.

"What's up?" Sakura asked her in concern.

Ino turned to me. "I've been calling you. Why weren't you picking up?" She asked suddenly.

I raised my eyebrow at her. "What are you talking about? My cellphone hasn't rang since first period." I replied but then I remembered that I turned it off so I took out of my pocket and showed her. "Oh, I forgot. It's off because earlier it wouldn't stop vibrating. Was that you calling me nonstop?"

She shook her head. "I only called you twice. Once, it was ringing. The second time, I couldn't reach you anymore." She responded with a frown.

I turned on my cellphone and to my surprise, there were twenty missed calls. Checking the numbers that called me, my eyes widened. Except for Ino, all the other numbers were unfamiliar to me. "This is strange. I got 19 calls from 19 different numbers." I told them as I deleted each one. But that wasn't all. After deleting them, another window pop up, saying I had 40 messages received. "I think my cellphone is broken."

"Wait, that's the reason why I've been calling you earlier." Ino exclaimed in a serious tone. "There's something I need to show you."

Sakura and I looked at each other, wondering what Ino meant. "What is it?" We asked her at the same time.

"Come one, just follow me." She said, starting to walk out of the cafeteria.

We followed her as she led us to one of the places where I posted Sasuke's number. Once we got there, I saw the notice still intact so I smiled. "What's wrong with this?" I asked Ino as I continued looking at it.

"Nothing's wrong with that. I'm talking about this." Ino remarked, pointing towards another notice a few meters left from the one I posted. Sakura already saw it before me. Her jaw dropped in surprise as she seemed to be speechless.

I walked closer to read what could cause Sakura's to be that way. But knowing how exaggerated she could be at times, I didn't think it was something big. But it really was big.

Written on the notice was, "Are you tired of hearing terrible rumors about Uchiha Sasuke? Do you want it to stop? If you do, then here's your chance. This is Hyuuga Hinata's cellphone number. Bother her all you want 'til she stops!"

As I read it, I could feel my blood boiling. It was Uchiha Sasuke's doing, I knew it. Who else would do something like this? But just to confirm whether this notice was really responsible for my flooded cellphone, I took it out of my pocket again and started to read the messages.

"If you think you can ruin Sasuke-kun, think again!"

"Please stop hurting Sasuke. I'm really sorry he doesn't like you but it doesn't give you the right to put a stain on his name."

"I don't see what you're getting from all this rumors. Do you actually believe that by the doing this, he'd resort to liking you?!"

"Hey! Answer the phone, bitch!"

After reading the last one, I decided not to read the others. Those four were enough to prove that the notice brought swarms of messages and calls into my cellphone.

"Are you okay?" Sakura asked me as we started walking back to the cafeteria. She must have thought something was wrong because since the time I read those messages, I hadn't spoken a word to her and Ino. I was busily thinking of how I should handle the situation.

I nodded in reply. "I'm fine."

Sakura cleared her throat before she spoke again. Whenever she did that, it meant she was going on serious mode. "Listen, Hinata, I don't think you should go on with this." She said, looking at me with sincere eyes. "I mean, I appreciate what you're doing for me and all. But it's just an impossible task."

I raised my eyebrow at her. "What?! So you think it's impossible for me to beat Uchiha Sasuke too?" I asked, suddenly feeling irritated. How could my bestfriend also believe that Uchiha Sasuke was great?

"You know that's not what I meant." She replied. "I just don't want you to get hurt because of me."

I was touched by what she said, really, but there was no way I could stop just because I was afraid of getting hurt. "Don't worry, okay? It's not me who's going to get hurt. It's him." I told her with a grin.

"You're really crazy, you know that?" Sakura chuckled.

"At least I'm not as crazy as you who got your heart broken by Uchiha Sasuke." I shot back at her.

Suddenly, her mood shifted to depression again. "You're right. I'm crazy too." She said. But then she smiled. "Let's hurry before our lunch period ends."

While we eat lunch, my cellphone was vibrating nonstop on our table. And so, being thrilled was an understatement for me when my battery finally died. But that wasn't the only thing that made me cheer up again. I found out from a reliable source that Sasuke had been getting nonstop calls and messages too. So in a way, my plan still worked.

"Sasuke's been complaining about not being able to play his game on his cellphone because it keeps on vibrating." My reliable source told me as we neared my locker.

"Really? He must be really annoyed." I smirked.

She nodded. "He is but he doesn't show it much though."

Reaching my locker, I thanked her for the information and said good bye as she left. I placed all my books inside my locker and got ready to shut it close until I noticed a piece of folded paper by the corner. Taking it out, I read it.

"Since you declared war, I accept it. -Uchiha Sasuke"