So breakfast went well, and by well, meaning Renji had tried flirting with her, she shot down every single one of his advances with a nasty insult, and he still continued to flirt with her.
God, doesn't this guy give up? She was tired of responding, but if she stopped, he may take it positively. What did I say about mornings? Not my thing. And what is up with Sasuke? The guy hadn't said a word all morning. She looked at him with eyes full of doubt. Should I let it go?
He noticed her looking at him, but didn't bother looking back. He wasn't in the mood for anything, not even her. Then he started to feel bad. She's worrying about me and I'm ignoring her.
"I got the fruit." Renji's mom told him to get fruit salads for them. He passed one to Hinata, one to Naruto, and one to Kushina.
"There's just one left, and I haven't eaten fruit in ages. You don't mind right?"
"Hn." If you think denying me fruit is going to bother me, you're wrong.
He started eating what was supposed to be Sasuke's fruit, and so did Naruto and Hinata.
Kushina poked him in the cheek.
"I'll share mine with you." she said with a smile. He looked surprised at the fork she offered him, but took it anyways. He smirked.
"Thanks, Uzumaki."
"You still owe me!" she sang.
He rolled his eyes and ate with her, not before shooting the brunette a smug look.
"Stop finishing all the strawberries!"
"Why?"
"Because I love strawberries!"
"But I'm a growing boy." This is so much fun.
"Growing boy my ass!"
"That's not ladylike."
"Ugh! Jerk!" She said in defeat.
"Oi Kushina."
"What do yo-mmff!" He shoved a strawberry in her mouth with a smirk. She glared at him, slowly chewing on said fruit.
Naruto cleared his throat. "Will you guys please just stop with all the fighting!"
"Who asked you to watch dobe." He said, shoving yet another strawberry in her mouth.
Her eyes darkened and everyone knew what was about to come.
"SHOVE ONE MORE PIECE OF FRUIT IN MY MOUTH AND I'LL SHOVE YOUR HEAD DOWN A TOILET!"
"Serves you right!" Renji laughed, he had been angrily plotting before.
"SHUT THE HECK UP YOU WASTE OF SPACE!" Sasuke knew better than to say anything.
"Here you go." He offered her some chocolate as a peace offering.
"Oh my god thank you Sasuke!" She said with a bright smile. Worked way too well.
Renji stared jealously at them. I've known her for years! Who the hell does he think he is!
"K-kushina..."
"Hmm?" she said through the chocolate.
She gave her look.
"Oh you're totally right." And they both got up and left.
"What the hell was that?"
"Yea man. They understand each other with just a look. Girls!" He sighed.
"How long have you known her?!"
Sasuke gave him a dominant look.
"Four months." His jaw dropped.
"Just four months and she's that comfortable with you!"
"Let's just say, I have a way with her." He smirked. Naruto was taping all of this on his phone.
"No way. She can't like you better than me."
"She doesn't even like you."
"Who the hell do you think you are!"
"Uchiha Sasuke." Spending all that time with Kushina had made him a pro at this.
"You can't do anything about it! She can only accept an Uzumaki and-"
"It's her choice. She's not going to base her life on a stupid rule. She's better than that."
"You dare insult our ways?! You better watch it Uchiha!"
"Or what? What are you honestly going to do?"
"You'll see." He said getting up and walking away.
"..."
"That was rich!" Naruto wiped an imaginary tear. "You're catching her habits already."
"Hn."
"And he's back!"
"We brought food, dattebayo!" Naruto announced as he entered the room with two boxes of pizza, followed by Sasuke with drinks.
"Pizza!" She practically flew towards them, eyes gleaming with the mention of food. She didn't give a flying shit that they had entered without knocking.
"Come on Hinata!" They sat in a circle and clunk their drinks with happiness.
This wasn't as bad as I thought. Kushina was content at that moment. Ahh barbeque~
There was a loud bang on the door.
"Open this door right now!" Renji.
"Get a life, douche."
He continued to bang harder.
"Just ignore him." Naruto tried to reason.
Kushina couldn't eat with him banging like that. A vein protruded on her head.
"No one messes with me and food!" She got up and grabbed her baseball bat.
"You actually brought that?" Naruto looked at his sister confused.
"I can't sleep without it."
"That's creepy..."
She opened the door wide and in walked Renji and maybe 5 or 6 more guys. She stood in between.
"We're here for him."
"You have 30 seconds. Explain."
"He insulted our ways!" One of them said.
"Yeah! And he made fun of cousin Renji!" That came from another.
"Get out."
"H-hey! That wasn't even 30 seconds!"
"I said ."
"No way." He said. "I'm not leaving until I have a round with him."
"You're not worth my time." The Uchiha scoffed.
Renji made a move to walk towards him but Kushina stood in between.
"Why are you defending him!?"
"I'm warning you one more time. Get out before I swing this bat."
He nodded at his ' posy ' and one from the back walked over to her, aiming to snatch the bat. She whacked him upside the head.
The rest of the group look scared. She wasn't joking.
"Who's next?"
She took one step towards them and they all ran like the room was on fire. She locked the door and plopped onto her bed.
"Kushina?" Hinata asked.
"I'm not hungry anymore."
He looked at her barely eaten pizza with guilt. She isn't eating because of me. He got up and left the room without a word.
"I better leave too. Bye Hinata-chan! " she blushed and waved him goodbye and locked the door.
"Will you tell me what's wrong?"
She did. She told her everything, from the notes to the unintended confession, including her feelings about it all.
"It's going to be okay." She assured her. "At least he isn't choosing between you and someone else."
"Oh god, I'm so sorry. I'm making my life sound like hell."
"We should get some sleep; tomorrow's the wedding after all."
"Goodnight, Hina."
"Goodnight."