The Cut That Always Bleeds
Summary: She will always be the cut that always bleeds. He will always let her. Hinata endures, Sasuke knows she doesn't have to. Here's why exes should remain in the past.
Pairing: Naruto x Hinata x Sakura , Eventual Sasuke x Hinata
World: Alternate Universe, Modern Era without special abilities
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Two.
She is beautiful, his current. Long hair, fair skinned, plump on the right places, prim and proper and smells good too - to think her perfume wafted in the war of smoke inside the barbecue house?mThe current, his current, also looks quite rich - her bag, her wallet, her aura... She just couldn't compare, can she?
Sakura stares at herself in the mirror, pink short hair dulling with her non use of conditioner, flaky skin thanks to her inability to stop smoking, her bones feeling brittle and poking... green sad eyes unlike those mesmerizing pale pale lavenders...
She wondered if at any point in time, in the last hour, Hinata had caught her staring? Compare herself to her? Copy the way she tilts her head when she listened to Shikamaru despite the roaring customers in the grill house? How she cringed in envy when she delicately stood and sat and ate - the way her boyish body just can't copy?
She just can't compare, can she?
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When Sakura got back to the table, the sitting positions changed and somehow she found herself sitting across Hinata who was cooking the meat only the way she does.
Since when did small and bony hands look so...pretty?
Sakura blinked. And smiled.
"It's nice that you can come tonight, Hinata-chan. We don't really get to hang out, the five of us. Everyone is always busy!" Her hard wrists turned the other meats on the grill, her green eyes still on those pretty little hands.
Just when?
"Aa, yes.. My schedule was free today so I.. I followed here. It's quite traffic, I-I'm happy I made it" she smiles, oil tracing her lips from the fatty beef.
It wasn't as if she was going to say that she had papers due and an 8 am class the next day - that she won't be sleeping tonight only to have dinner with them and finally meet them.. her. Right? It's not like she was going to confess she didn't like how excited Naruto was about this small get together, or how he was meeting up with old friends.. with her. Right?
"You know we're actually looking forward to see who got Naruto wrapped in her fingers! He looks so in love, like a fool that he is" Sakura laughs, the tong in her hands pointing at the busy blonde talking to Shikamaru and Ino. Hinata blushes. It was not so much later when they heard the loud blonde challenge Chouji in an eating contest.
"I-I've been wanting to meet you guys too. Naruto, he.. he told me good things and stories."
"Ah, of course he would! We've been in this group since I can remember! It's like we've been together our whole lives!"
Of course.
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"Do you think.. do you think they liked me?" Hinata asks, adjusting her computer glasses as she continued to type on her laptop. It was 12:24 and she was in no way done with her first of the papers due. Hinata sighed. They were finally at his humble humble apartment, showered and bloated from the heavy meat - with her make up gone, hair wet and just clad in Naruto's shirt. Finally she could stop trying. She sighed again, the picture of the pinkette clouding her mind.
The weight of the bed shifted as Naruto plopped on his bed, his strong arm snaking around her waist.
"There's nothing not to like about you, Hina-hime. You're perfect"
A blurr of yellow appeared on her peripheral and suddenly she felt a cold wet kiss on her bare shoulder. "You're not giving me a chance, Hina-hime, you look too irresistible when you wear my shirt like that"
Hinata giggled as the blonde attacked her shoulder with butterfly kisses.
Mr. Yakamoto's paper due tomorrow can wait. She still has time.
She makes time, always. For Naruto.
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Sasuke will appear on the 3rd chapter :) Will be updating as soon as I can! Please do leave some love!
