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Fateful Dots

„Ko.”

Hinata’s small fingers closed around the hem of the sleeve of her bodyguard’s loose kimono. Gently pulling at the piece of clothing twice, she directed Ko’s attention to herself.

Looking down at the young child with a smile, Ko squatted down to bring his eyes to the same level as hers. “Yes, Hinata-sama?”

Without saying a word, Hinata stretched out her arms, letting the sleeves of her elegant kimono slip back, revealing her wrists. Letting out a small gasp, Ko’s fingers softly closed around the thin bones, his fingertips brushing over the black dots that hadn’t been there a few hours ago.

“What are these?” Hinata whispered.

Taking a deep breath, Ko stood up and held Hinata’s hand, directing her out of the crowd of the hall they were currently in. Obediently, Hinata let him guide her, not turning her eyes from his back even for a moment.

She sensed that Ko’s behavior changed—the playful glances were replaced by a worried glimmer in his opalescent eyes. Turning down her gaze, Hinata suddenly regretted showing the curious black dots to him.

Stepping out under the moonlit sky, Ko gently pulled Hinata toward a tree that seemed to be avoided by the guests who had arrived for the annual, formal gathering of the village’s clans.

Once they were under the protecting leaves, Ko bent down once again.

The serious expression on his face made the corner of Hinata’s lips turn downward.

Noticing the tears of fear pooling under the child’s eyes, Ko softened his features. “Don’t be afraid, Hinata-sama. The marks that have appeared on your skin are a natural part of life.” Emphasizing his statement, Ko lifted his own hands and pulled back the fabric of his shirt to reveal the exact same marks on his own skin.

Her irises widened and Hinata quickly counted the number of dots. “You don’t have as many as I do.”

His smile faltering for a moment, Ko nodded. “The number of the marks is different for everyone, but we all have them.” Hiding the marks again, he continued, “Has anybody told you about soulmates, Hinata-sama?”

Hinata shook her head but didn’t pose a question.

“In this world, everybody has a soulmate. Someone who can be their lifetime partner.”

“Like Mother and Father?”

Ko shot a wide smile toward her. “Exactly, like your parents. These marks appear when you cross paths with your soulmate for the first time.”

Hinata tilted her head to the side. “I think I forgot to say hi.”

Ko softly laughed at the childish comment and reached for Hinata’s hands.

“May I?” he asked, only touching Hinata’s skin on her left arm once she shyly bobbed her head. Turning her wrist upward, he pointed at the nine, organized dots on her wrist. “These marks signal the length of life. The number of dots here shows the length of your own life. Congratulations, Hinata-sama. You will live a long life.”

Her eyes sparkling, Hinata let her lips quirk up in a smile. However, her smile quickly flattened as she remembered the one single mark on her right wrist. “What does this mark mean?” she asked, pushing her wrist close to Ko’s face.

His face darkening, Ko explained in a flat tone, “The number of marks on your right wrist is connected to the length of your soulmate’s life.”

Blinking, Hinata muttered, “But there’s only one dot there.”

Ko stayed silent for a few minutes while Hinata examined the sole dot on her right wrist. Once Hinata’s posture stiffened, realizing what exactly having only one dot meant, Ko spoke up again, “There’s a reason why you see both your own and your soulmate’s lifetime. When your soulmate’s last mark is about to disappear, you can choose to give one of your own to them.”

Staring attentively at the hypnotizing dot, Hinata let out a thoughtful hum. “I want my soulmate to live a long life. I will give them my marks.”

“Be considerate though, Hinata-sama. If you give too many marks from your own, you will shorten your lifespan by a lot.”

As if she hadn’t heard Ko’s warning, Hinata turned and took a step toward the crowd of important guests. “Can we find my soulmate now, Ko?” By the time she finished the question, she was already hurrying toward the hall, leaving Ko behind.

Letting out a sigh, he mumbled, “How do you figure out who your soulmate is when today you’ve crossed paths with half of the village?”

///

Hinata couldn’t sleep. She kept tossing and turning in her bed, but dreams avoided her.

Sighing, she slipped into her slippers and as silently as possible, sneaked out of her bedroom.

Her heart was pounding—for her, this was a rebellious act. Her father didn’t like it if she left her quarters during the night. Even if she just needed a glass of water, she had to call for Ko. But she was seven years old already, old enough to fetch herself something from the kitchen alone.

The Hyuuga residence was eerily silent during the night. The shadow of a branch outside made Hinata jump back as she turned a corner, but luckily, her small eek didn’t pick the attention of any of the guards.

Proudly standing in the kitchen, Hinata poured herself a glass of water.

And then, her eyes caught sight of her right wrist.

The one dot that she was so used to seeing there looked somehow different than in the past two years since she had it. She needed only a minute to figure out why—it was fading.

Surprise and fear meshed together in her heart and her body suddenly felt weak. She heard the loud noise of her glass breaking, but she wasn’t aware of dropping it.

“What do I do?” she whispered to herself. “I don’t want my soulmate to die.”

Even if her brain didn’t, her instincts seemed to know exactly what to do. As soon as she pushed the thumb of her left hand against the last black dot on her right wrist, a painful, unexpected sting made her hiss.

“Hinata-sama?” Ko hurried into the kitchen, quickly screening all corners of the room. “Everything is alright?”

Without an answer, Hinata turned her arms toward him, showing one black dot on her right wrist, and eight on the other.

///

By the time Hinata graduated from the Academy, she saved her soulmate’s life twice already. For the first time on that particular night, and for the second time on a strangely chilly afternoon.

Even though she was already twelve and still didn’t have a confirmation of who her soulmate actually was, she didn’t mind saving him. Especially because she had a strong intuition about the identity of her perfect partner. In fact, she was standing next to him right now.

“It will be a piece of cake, right, Sakura-chan?” Naruto screamed so loud that probably the entire Land of Fire could hear him.

“Just stop screaming already, you will deafen everybody here,” Sakura screamed back, just as loud.

“The both of you should just shut up,” Sasuke crossed his arms in front of his chest and walked further away from them.

Hinata watched as both Sakura and Naruto rushed after him, one apologizing all the way and the other screaming childish insults.

She couldn’t help but smile. Naruto was obnoxious and hyperactive, but Hinata knew his soft and caring side—she had watched him feed stray dogs and build shelters for injured birds enough to know that Naruto was a good person.

And Hinata was more than sure that he must be her soulmate.

When she was around him, she felt a strange, warm sensation in her heart, and she couldn’t stop blushing whenever he was in sight. Even though she was young, she had read about this feeling in books, and she knew it was love. Naruto didn’t only make her feel giddy, but his aura also gave Hinata an inexplicable confidence that flashed through her veins as if she could be capable of anything.

Of course, Naruto had to be her soulmate.

Besides, he was the only person Hinata could imagine getting into so much trouble that his lifespan would manifest in one sole dot on her right wrist.

“Hinata, don’t daydream,” Kiba shouted at her.

Hinata blinked, snapping out of her thoughts just in time to jump away from a boulder falling from above. They were in the Forest of Death, trying to pass the chuunin exams, but she was so lost in her own thoughts that the last thing she remembered was watching Team Seven search for their entry gate.

“I’m sorry,” she mumbled as her feet touched the ground.

The fight that followed was short and easy—Kiba and Shino had set up a trap previously and an opposing team walked right into it. Her teammates quickly searched the bags of the defeated competitors and Kiba exclaimed a shout of joy when he found exactly what he was looking for.

In a few hours, they reached their destination in the middle of the forest without any hindrance.

“We did it, guys!” Kiba laughed as they walked through the doors. “I bet Naruto and his lousy team are still struggling.”

Hinata glanced at her wrist, just to make sure everything was fine with her soulmate, but instead of the relieved wave of emotions she had been expecting, anxiety twitched in her stomach. As if Kiba’s words had drawn in some bad luck, the dot on her right wrist had almost faded to the point of nonexistence.

Without thinking, she offered yet another portion of her own lifespan on the spot. The stinging ache that accompanied losing one of her marks would possibly be dreadful to others, but not to Hinata.

Watching the black dot quickly filling up again on her right wrist, she couldn’t help but smile.

///

She had heard the news, of course she did. Everybody in Konoha was talking about Uchiha Sasuke leaving the village, wounding his own teammate almost fatally in the process.

Hinata glanced at the sleeping Naruto in the hospital bed. He looked so pale among the white sheets. Suppressing the urge to gently pet his blond hair, she placed the flowers she had brought for him in the vase on the nightstand.

Nobody would ever know she was the one who had left these lilies here.

Just as nobody would know that she had once again shortened her own life to save him from his demise.

///

“He’s dying,” the thought raced through her mind as she was watching Naruto trying to fight off Pain in the middle of the village that had been destroyed to dust. She saw it with her own eyes, and yet, the situation didn’t seem that clear—Naruto was obviously dying, but the single black dot on Hinata’s right wrist didn’t seem to start fading.

“It means he can fend him off. There’s no real danger,” she assured herself, whispering.

Ko suddenly jumped next to her, grabbing her by the arm. “Hinata-sama, we need to go.”

Glancing at the dark black spot on her wrist, Hinata decided to trust the universe and Naruto’s capabilities. She slowly bobbed her head and turned her back to the fighting scene.

Just as she was ready to follow Ko, Naruto’s scream filled the air. Jolting her head back, her eyesight was filled with the horrendous scene of Naruto being pinned to the ground by strange-looking rods and Pain towering over him, ready to strike the final blow.

With no time to think, Hinata’s limbs moved on their own, and suddenly, she was staring into hypnotizing purple eyes.

“Hinata, leave!”

As if she hadn’t heard Naruto’s yell, Hinata took an offensive stance. “I will protect you.”

“You can’t! Leave before you die!”

“It’s not my first time saving your life.”

Naruto gasped. “What do you mean?”

Hinata turned her body just enough for Naruto to see the dots on her wrist that had been revealed by the sleeves of her jumper slightly slipping down. “I used to have nine dots, now I only have five. I already gave four to you, and I’m ready to give you all that I have left.”

She heard Naruto’s surprised grunt, but before he could object further, she launched an attack toward the emotionless face of the enemy in front of her.

And the last thing she remembered before her world went dark was the dizzying circles in those purple eyes that had intended to take the life of her soulmate.

///

The sterile white light came through in the form of stabbing pain in Hinata’s eyes as she opened them for the first time. Quickly closing them back, she let out a faint whimper.

“Hinata,” came a soft whisper from a familiar voice that made Hinata’s heart beat faster.

“Na-Naruto-kun…” her voice came out hoarse, but she couldn’t care less about it when the memories started flowing back as clearly as if she was watching a movie. “Did I succeed? Could I save you?”

The weight of Naruto’s body pushed down on the mattress as he sat on the edge of the bed. Blinking to make her eyes get used to the blinding light, finally, the smeared spots of shiny blond hair and ocean blue eyes became the face Hinata had always been dreaming about.

Her heart skipped a beat as Naruto locked his fingers around her right wrist and slowly turned it around, revealing the sole dark spot on the flawless skin.

Words got stuck in Hinata’s throat as Naruto fixed an attentive glare on her. She had imagined this conversation a thousand times at least—the things she would say, how she would say them. And yet, now she was unable to utter the carefully crafted words.

“Naruto-kun, I—”

“Hinata.”

Naruto’s stare was firm and warm at the same time. Hinata swallowed, anticipation tearing her apart from the inside. She wasn’t sure what she was waiting for, a confession of love or just a friendly admission of them being soulmates, but all her ideas and dreams came crashing down on her the moment she glanced down at Naruto’s left wrist that he placed next to her right one.

His left wrist, the one that showed the length of his life in the form of neatly placed dots.

His left wrist, the one that had seven dots, when it was supposed to have only one.

///

Smile. Clap. Say congratulations and share your good wishes. Repeat.

Hinata attended the fourth wedding this summer. All her friends seemed to have found their soulmates. She was happy for them, truly—but she couldn’t get rid of the nagging feeling that the universe had made a grave mistake when it assigned her soulmate.

A soulmate she still hadn’t found but had saved six times already. The dots on her left arm used to be nine, but now they were only three, while the single dot on her right arm almost burned a hole in her skin, constantly reminding her that she was dumbly saving someone whom she didn’t even know.

After she learned that she had been mistaken, and Naruto wasn’t in fact her soulmate, she swore to herself that she wouldn’t give away any more of her own life for a stranger.

And yet, since that, she had saved this person twice more.

She couldn’t find a logical explanation for it. Perhaps she was curious to know who her soulmate was before he inevitably passed away. Or maybe she was just extremely afraid of needing to spend the remainder of her life alone, without a partner. A life that she willingly cut so short that now she possibly wouldn’t even see her own kids grow up.

“Hinata, drop the sad face, we’re here to celebrate!”

Thin, long fingers clasped around her shoulders and a cheerful laughter echoed in her ears. An honest smile spread across her lips, and she reached out to hug her dear friend.

“I’m so happy for you, Ino. You look stunning.”

“This dress was the perfect choice, wasn’t it?” Ino spun around, the small, elegant jewels on her wedding dress sparkling as the sun reflected on them.

“It was, definitely.”

“We should choose something similar for your wedding,” Ino said, winking at her.

“I should first find the person I can have the wedding with,” Hinata muttered under her nose.

“What? Speak louder!”

Hinata let out a small laugh. “I just said I would like to have something simpler.”

“Ah, Hinata. Your wedding will be the best day of your life. You have to go extravagant, it’s tradition!”

Hinata covered her laugh with her hand and gave a hand mirror to Ino so she could look at herself one last time before she went out and showed herself to the few hundred guests she had invited.

The wedding and the reception following were just like Ino—sparkling, dazzling, energetic, and somehow unconventional, but still elegant and enjoyable for everyone.

At least Hinata thought it to be enjoyable for all the guests until she spotted Uchiha Sasuke standing in the farthest corner with his only arm grabbing onto the loose sleeve of his lost other limb.

Before she knew it, his mismatched eyes stared down at her with a swirl of annoyance as she stopped in front of him.

“Hi.” The word came out sounding high-pitched and a bit childish, and Hinata could immediately feel her face turning red in embarrassment.

“Hi.” The deep, firm voice created a clear contrast, only deepening Hinata’s uneasiness.

She was considering escaping the situation and pretending she had never even tried approaching Uchiha Sasuke when he broke the awkward silence. “Himeko, right?”

“It’s Hinata, actually,” she mumbled, putting a strand of hair behind her ears to ease her discomfort.

“Sorry.”

Swinging back and forth on her legs, Hinata gathered all her strength to sound confident as she tried moving the conversation forward. “So, umm… are you enjoying the reception?”

“Not my style.”

“Well, it’s truly a bit… unique, but it fits Ino for sure.” Hinata waited a bit for Sasuke’s answer, but his lips remained pressed together, so she continued, “Kiba’s wedding was a bit similar two weeks ago.”

“I can’t know because I wasn’t invited.”

“Oh.” Hinata was now sure that nobody would mistake the redness on her cheeks for a blush but rather, a fever. Hastily trying to find a new topic to talk about, her gaze landed on Sasuke’s fingers closed strongly around the fabric of the empty sleeve of his shirt. “Does it hurt?”

Sasuke’s stare suddenly made Hinata wish to bite off her own tongue for asking something so invasive.

“It doesn’t hurt, not in the way you think. But sometimes I forget that I don’t have it anymore.”

“I see.” Hinata bobbed her head and paused, waiting to see if Sasuke would continue, but he just placed his hand on his hip and continued staring at the dancing guests of the reception. Trying to lighten the mood, she said, “At least you don’t have to stare at your own life expectancy all the time.”

“That damned soulmate mark,” he grunted. “If anything, I’m grateful to Naruto for removing it, otherwise I would’ve cut off my arm myself.”

Not knowing how to respond, Hinata only muttered a faint sound of comprehension and joined him in watching the other guests enjoying themselves on the dance floor.

///

Hinata peacefully slurped on her ramen at Ichiraku’s when a body slipped on the empty seat next to hers. Glancing sideways, she almost choked on a piece of vegetable when she caught sight of the unmistakable black hair.

“Nice to see you too, Hinata,” he commented with a slightly mocking undertone.

Hinata quickly swallowed the food in her mouth, trying to ignore the burning of her cheeks. “Sasuke-kun, I didn’t know you liked ramen.”

“I don’t.”

Hinata blinked, confused. “So, are you not here to eat?”

“I am.”

She bobbed her head to the side slightly, not knowing how to proceed with this surreal conversation.

“Ah, Sasuke, I haven’t seen you here since you were like… twelve, I guess?” Ichiraku joined in with a wide smile. “What can I serve you with?”

Sasuke glanced at Hinata’s half-empty bowl. “Whatever she’s eating.”

“I’m not sure you’d like it because what Hinata-sama is eating is actually—”

“I don’t care, just bring it.”

Ichiraku bobbed his head with a respectful gesture and turned away from his guests to prepare a bowl of ramen for Sasuke.

Still not understanding what exactly was happening around her, Hinata stared at Sasuke with a questioning shimmering in her eyes.

“Is there a problem?” he questioned, turning toward Hinata with his full body.

“No,” she muttered, grabbing her chopsticks tightly as if they could help her hide from Sasuke’s gaze. “I was just surprised to see you here, that’s all.”

“Is my presence bothering you?”

“No, not at all.”

After a few seconds of silence, Sasuke spoke again. “Actually, I wanted to ask you something.”

Glancing up at him from under her bangs, Hinata moved her head into a small nod. “Of course.”

“I’ve heard you’ve officially resigned from your position as the Hyuugas’ next clan head. Why is that?”

Hinata gave a small smile while she explained, “I had to admit that I was simply not fit for the role. I wanted the best for my clan, and it was clear that the best would come under my sister’s leadership. And this way, I also have fewer obligations and I can live my life more freely.”

“Freedom of choice over power, you say.”

Hinata patted on her chin with a finger. “I have never thought about it that way, but yes, that’s right.”

“Interesting,” Sasuke commented. “Most people would stick to power, no matter what.”

“Most people would, but not me.”

Ichiraku placed the bowl full of hot ramen in front of Sasuke with a loud exclamation of enjoy your meal. Sasuke stared into his bowl, but a dark cloud of disgust quickly distorted his features.

“There’s tomato in this,” his complaint came out of his mouth in the form of a grumble.

Ichiraku shrugged his shoulders. “I tried to warn you, young man.”

“Who puts tomato in their ramen?” Sasuke asked, more so to himself than the two other people around him.

“Me.” Hinata let out a small laugh as she picked up a slice of tomato from her own bowl and put it in her mouth.

Letting out a sigh, Sasuke picked up his chopsticks. “You’re really one of a kind, Hyuuga Hinata.”

///

When Hinata split a tree trunk in two with a particularly hard blow, birds flew up from the tree’s branches with a loud flapping of wings. Panting, she hopped down in the grass, massaging the edge of her hand.

“Remarkable,” a deep voice came from behind her, making her head flip toward it.

“Sasuke-kun,” she panted out in surprise. “Can I help you with something?”

As though he hadn’t heard the question, he walked up to the tree, inspecting the deeply carved line running through the middle of the thick trunk.

“A blow like that can easily kill your enemy. It’s a shame it’s unusable in combat.”

“It… it is usable.”

Sasuke’s narrowed gaze turned away from the tree and focused on Hinata. “You cannot gather enough chakra in time.”

“I can if I stay in place for a few seconds and—”

“Do you think your enemy would just wait patiently while you gather enough chakra to kill them? In real combat, your opponent is moving around, they’re not an inanimate object.”

“But if I pair up with a Nara, then—”

“If you need a specific team composition and the coordination of several people for an attack to work, then that attack counts as unusable.”

Hinata swallowed. “I… I disagree.”

Sasuke’s eyebrows lifted.

“I disagree, because…” Hinata pushed herself away from the ground and stood up slowly. “Isn’t this exactly what teams are about? To cooperate and enhance each other’s abilities? To give opportunity for attacks to work that wouldn’t work without backing up each other?”

“Then what are you doing when you’re alone and can only rely on yourself?”

“I just… I just use another type of attack.”

Sasuke turned his body toward Hinata and unbuttoned the clasp of his cape, leaving it to fall on the ground. “Show me then.”

Before Hinata could reject the sparring opportunity, Sasuke had already launched himself forward, but Hinata successfully ducked the unexpected blow. Forearms clashed against forearms, and as the sparring slowly turned into a serious showcase of moves, Hinata found herself enjoying the challenge more and more.

Suddenly, Sasuke’s hand closed around the delicate bone of her right wrist, the strength of the grip surprising Hinata. With a hiss, she was forced to kneel in the grass.

“What is this?” Sasuke asked, his voice simultaneously calm and menacing.

Hinata’s eyes quickly found what Sasuke was referring to—the soulmate mark with one single dot.

“My… my soulmate mark.”

“Have you ever offered one of your own marks not to let this one fade?”

“I…”

“Answer me,” Sasuke’s tone became even firmer, along with his hold around Hinata’s thin wrist.

“I… I have, but why—”

“Damn you, Hinata,” Sasuke grumbled, and he disappeared as abruptly as he had appeared only a few minutes ago.

///

“I’m really worried about Sasuke-kun. It has been a month since anyone saw him. Not even Naruto’s spy frogs can locate him.”

“Don’t worry, Sakura,” Ino put her hand on the woman’s shoulder, “I’m sure he’s fine.”

“Yeah, you know he has a habit of disappearing,” Sai commented but swallowed his further insights when Ino’s death stare focused on him.

“I just don’t understand.” Sakura lifted her head and looked at Hinata. Concern etched on her face, Sakura pressed, “Hinata, you were the last one who saw him. Are you sure you didn’t notice anything strange about him?”

“Yes, there was nothing strange. He gave me some advice while I was training, and then he just left.” Instinctively, Hinata started massaging her wrist. “That was all.”

Sakura buried her face into her palms. “I don’t understand.”

Guilt bubbled up in Hinata’s chest while she was looking at her clearly distressed friend. Her lips parted, ready to confess that she might have played a role in Sasuke’s sudden disappearance, but before a word could form, she pressed them together.

She had kept her mouth shut about the unusual interaction she had with Sasuke. She couldn’t confess what really happened anymore, her friends would think she had kept it a secret intentionally. When in fact, she just didn’t know what to confess. She herself didn’t understand what she had done to anger the Uchiha so much, causing him to seemingly go rogue once again.

As she was walking home, she once again found herself thinking about the one possible explanation that she could come up with—that Sasuke must possess the mirror image of her own soulmate marks.

She shook her head. Although it was the most likely explanation, it still seemed impossible. How could Sasuke be her soulmate?

The thought kept her awake that night. She stared at the reflection of the moon on her room's wall, as though expecting answers to emerge.

A sudden wave of wind brushed her upper arm, and she bolted up in her bed, her head turning toward the open window.

Unexpectedly, instead of the glowing full moon, her eyes captured a dark figure sitting on the windowsill, one arm resting on his leg pulled up to his chest.

“Sa-Sasuke-kun? Where have you been?”

“We need to talk.”

Hinata pushed her blanket against her chest as an unconscious defense mechanism. Her voice barely above a whisper, she questioned, “Did I do something wrong?”

“I don’t know anymore.”

Hinata blinked but remained silent.

“You know who I am to you, right?” Sasuke continued.

“My soulmate,” the word rolled off Hinata’s tongue with such ease that she shuddered in surprise.

Sasuke’s nod was almost invisible. “Since when do you know it?”

“I…” Hinata felt her lips becoming dry. “I think I just realized it now.”

A single eyebrow arched high on Sasuke’s forehead. “You say you didn’t know it before?”

Hinata shook her head.

“You say you didn’t know who your soulmate was, but you still decided to repeatedly give them portions of your life?”

“I… Yes.”

“I can’t decide if you’re too compassionate or too stupid.”

Hinata pinned her gaze to the ground. “Maybe both.”

She heard a faint thumping noise as Sasuke jumped off the windowsill, placing himself fully inside her room.

“You first saved me on the night of the massacre. I hated you for not letting me die then and putting me through so much suffering. Then you didn’t let me leave this world when I was an overwhelmed kid who missed his parents and all he wanted was the river to take him to them. I hated you even more at that time. In the Forest of Death during our chuunin exam, you helped me survive Orochimaru’s marking. That was the first time I actually felt a bit grateful to you. Then I hated you again when I deserted the village and only survived Naruto’s attack because of you, not because of my own strength.”

With every instance Sasuke mentioned, he took a step toward Hinata.

“Once Orochimaru tried to kill me in my sleep. He didn’t succeed because of you. After that, I became careless with my actions, also because of you. I knew that I could do whatever I wanted because you’d save my life anyway. I was reckless, but you also gave me strength. As years passed, I wanted to know you more and more. But then, I almost died in a fight with that fool of a jinchuuriki of the Eight-Tails. You saved me, and I realized that I depend on you too much. So, I hated you once again.”

Hinata took a deep breath when Sasuke stepped next to her bed.

“I never wanted to learn who you are,” his voice cut into the silence. “I felt like you had too much power over me. I thought you knew that it was me and you were kind of playing with my life. I decided to punish my soulmate, whoever it was, by never letting this connection come to fruition. This was the only way I could feel some power over you too.”

“I didn’t know it was you,” Hinata whispered. “I wasn’t playing any games with your life. I just… I just wanted my soulmate to live.”

“The ridiculous thing is that whatever I did, you still ended up having power over me.”

Hinata’s head snapped up, her eyes staring into Sasuke’s. “How?”

“I didn’t pay much attention to you before you came up to me at Ino’s wedding. But after I noticed you, you occupied my mind. At first, I was trying to ignore it, but then, I decided to give in. I figured that if I pursue you, I can finally sever all my ties with my annoying soulmate.”

“It didn’t even cross your mind that I could be your soulmate.”

“Did it cross yours?”

Hinata stayed silent for a moment before she answered, “No.”

“When I realized you’re actually my soulmate, I felt so much anger that I could’ve easily killed you on the spot. Whatever I did to avoid you, you still ended up having power over me. I couldn’t let you have the upper hand.”

“Why did you come back then?”

The question lingered between them, the silence becoming more and more suffocating with each passing second.

“I will give you the power.”

Hinata’s eyes widened, and her lips parted. “What do you mean?”

“You can have the power over me. I’m tired of resisting this that seems to be my fate.”

Hinata’s heart pounded so aggressively that she was worried Sasuke could hear it clearly. Thoughts rushed her mind and the world suddenly felt unreal. She wanted to turn her gaze away from Sasuke’s mesmerizing eyes, but her body didn’t obey her brain’s instructions anymore.

“If you accept me, of course,” Sasuke added, and Hinata wasn’t sure if she only imagined the faint insecure tone in his voice or it truly was there.

“I saved you so many times without knowing who you are,” Hinata mumbled, but she heard her own voice as if she were only an outside observer in the situation. “Now that I know who you are… I would save you a thousand times more.”

The corners of Sasuke’s lips quirked up in a small smile. “I will count on you even more from now on.”

The moon seemed to shine even brighter as two souls merged tenderly under its light with a passionate kiss and a tight embrace.

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In love with Mew - Sasuhina Month Day 24

So technically I'm late, but I have been working on this for ages. I don't know what it was about this month, but there were so many WIPs for this that I ended up hating, including Day 8 which was originally going to be my TMM au. It's a bit of a deeper dive into the relationship of Sasuke and Hinata from last years fic. I only did, 2, 3 fics this year, but I hope you like it. I do want to post a full fic of the AU eventually but maybe I'll just do a massive text dump with the idea, who knows.

@sasuhinamonth

Flowers & Weapons | Flores y Armas

Oblivious & Observant | Inadvertido y Observador

Hinata walked around the park, listening to the sounds of the area around her. Rehearsal had let out and Sasuke disappeared quickly, only leaving a text for her to meet him here. she thought they’d be doing their normal tradition of getting food by together on the first night of performances but Sasuke had been weird all morning. She started down the stairs taking her lower down into the park when finally, she spotted him. She’d recognise his hair anywhere, spikes and all.

“Sasuke!” he stood up off the bench he’d been sitting on, with his hands behind his back. “I thought we were getting lunch.”

“We will.” He promised, shifting a little. “I just, I needed to give you something.” Sasuke pulled a bouquet of flowers from behind his back, sunflowers and lavender.

Hinata let out a small laugh as she took them. “I thought I get flowers after the performance.” She reminded, sniffing the lavender.

It had been a tradition, since their first performance in Juniors Symphony. They’d done separate performances - Strings, Winds, Percussion – and after her Wind performance, Sasuke have her a massive bouquet of flowers, promising to always give her some after every performance. It became after every first night due to how many she brought home after the first few months. She hadn’t told him, but she’d dry the flowers out and put them in shadowboxes, hanging them up labelled with the orchestra piece they performed that day. They were, to her, the physical representation of how he felt. Of how she felt about him.

“You do, but this is more than just keeping a promise. I want to tell you something, maybe you already know but…we’ve known each other since we were kids. I didn’t want a practise partner for auditions but mom insisted and it turned out to be you. you were shy, but you didn’t give up. Your grandparents were poking at you for not being a prodigy but I remember watching you play through your piece without any mistakes for the first time. I thought it was beautiful. I wanted to be your friend then.”

She did remember that. Sasuke was still his usual closed off self, but he talked to her more. actually, smiled at her. By the time he gave her her first flowers, he was nearly different around her compared to strangers.

“as we got older, wanting to make you smile with the flowers was my main goal and as our families started picking on each other more, I was worried I wasn’t going to be around you anymore. I mean, we were supposed to attend the same school. When I thought I was going to lose you, it occurred to me that it was more than just losing my best friend. I’d be losing someone I loved.”

Hinata felt her breath still. “You, what?”

Sasuke took a breath and stepped closer. “Hinata, I love you. have loved you for as long as I can remember. One of my best friends confessed to me and I had to turn her down, and I realised while I didn’t like hurting her, keeping quiet about how I felt about you was going to hurt us if you decided to move on with someone else.”

“Why would I do that? I have you.” she said, not thinking fully. At the surprised look on his face, she looked at her flowers. “It’s, it’s always been you. I just, didn’t know how to put it in words. But every bouquet you’ve given me, felt like you telling me how you felt.”

“So, will you be mine?” he asked, hesitantly like she’d even say no.

So, she took his hand and looked up at him. “of course I will. Though, our parents…”

There had been some disagreement between their fathers, one that nearly stole Hinata from Sasuke completely like he feared and now the men almost always refused to speak to each other, let alone look kindly to their families interacting. They knew their mothers would be on their side, but they both knew their fathers would want something from the other before they let their kids date each other.

Sasuke sighed, knowing this. “we don’t have to tell them.”

“Kō would know.” she said, reminding him that her caretaker picked on things in seconds. “If we let them know now, they can get their peacocking out of the way and then we can date.”

“Or I can say screw getting their permission and just kiss you anyway?” Hinata was red but she still glared at Sasuke. “Or we can wait.”

“Besides, it’ll make the kiss that much sweeter.” She pointed out, giving him a mischievous smile.

She let out a squeak when Sasuke snuck one onto her cheek, smirking down at her. He laced their fingers together and tugged her down the path.

“Come on. I think I heard something about a café opening here.”

The café was actually a flower shop, though the castle like exterior made Sasuke give a comment about love hotels Hinata hit him for.

“They’re not open yet. ‘Mew Bouquets’, that’s an interesting name.” Hinata said, looking at the sign.

“Hey, they have an ice cream stand over there.” Sasuke spotted. “wanna cone?”

“Before lunch?”

“Like that’s stopped you before.” he teased.

Sticking her tongue out at him, she asked him for vanilla and waited by the building. Across the flower shop, was a slight hill were a girl with pink hair was rolling on the grass. She heard oriental music playing in the distance, no doubt from street performers. A girl in a trench coat and glasses passed her by and she heard someone yelling at someone for eating all the food somewhere. The world felt normal and it made her feel more confident in what she confessed. She was in love with Sasuke, it was a fact that was correct with the world. She took another sniff of the flowers, wondering what their orchestra mates would think seeing her with flowers early. Some of them were so superstitious, she wondered if they’d panic at the sight.

All of a sudden, the birds went quiet and dogs started barking and the ground started to shake.

“An earthquake?” Hinata dropped to the ground, trying not to panic, wondering where Sasuke was and if he was ok. Then there was a light, so bright it was like it was coming from under her. It enveloped her, leaving her standing in a hazy scene. She heard the bellowing sounds of a whale and looked around. Something nudge at her head and she turned. There it was, the whale, floating in front of her calmly. She didn’t know why, but she reached her hand out and touched it, feeling warm when it started to glow. “What are you?”

‘A friend. I’ll help protect you.’

The next thing she knew, she heard her name being called. She opened her eyes to see Sasuke’s worried face looking down at her. Kō was also there, sighing when she turned her head to him.

“Thank goodness. Quick, get her up. We’re taking her to the hospital.” Kō held on to her flowers as he stood up. Wasn’t she just holding those? And why was he getting up?

Sasuke moved as well, Hinata moving with him. He was carrying her. Why?

“What happened?” she asked, wrapping her arms around Sasuke’s neck as he followed her caretaker.

“You passed out. the earthquake came out of nowhere and when it stopped and I got back to you, you were unconscious. You weren’t waking up, I had to call Kō.”

“The concert.” She started.

“Who cares?” Sasuke said, looking scared. “You’re getting checked out first, everything else can wait.”

She had more questions, but she felt exhausted. She’d been fine after rehearsal and even after the walk to the park but now, all she wanted was a nap. So, she rested her head on Sasuke’s shoulder and let the motion of his walking lull her to sleep.

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“They’re dating?” Hinata asked, lacing her hand through Sasuke’s arm. He’d been updating her on his friends’ apparently ‘busy’ weekend. It had been busy for them, getting cleared by the doctor before rushing back to the auditorium to perform. Plus, there was Hinata noticing the odd mark by her right eye. it was a spiral with something that reminded her of a tail. She didn’t know where it came from, just that she’d kept having dreams of what she saw during the earthquake, with the whale. A bowhead whale. It got to the point where she looked up what the animal was.

“Yep. Naruto’s had a crush on her forever and I guess my rejecting her got her to decide to say yes to going out with him. She came to thank me weirdly enough. I’m just happy she’s happy now.”

“People will never believe me when I tell them Uchiha Sasuke is a softy.”

“Shut up.” He said, causing Hinata to giggle into her roses. It was their first performance after the earthquake, after he told her how he felt. Sasuke decided that he didn’t want to waste time tip toeing around, but like Hinata pointed out, their fathers wanted something from the other and it was now a waiting game for Sasuke to get permission to date Hinata, or if she knew her best friend as well as she thought, for Sasuke to get annoyed with waiting and just date her anyway.

“It was a little worrying though. Turns out she was at the park during that earthquake and also passed out. she was out for hours but she’s been acting a little strange since. More, wild I guess. I don’t know.”

Hinata squeezed his arm. “I’m sure she’s ok. Naruto’s aunt is a doctor right? So, he knew what to look for. And maybe being with him makes her a bit more free. Animals have been doing strange things too. Did I tell you what Cinna did?” She asked, talking about her Shiba Inu.

“No, what?”

“So, you know how sometimes, we’ll let him stick his head out the window in the town car? He jumped out this time, ended up jumping on a girl coming from work. We were passing the park actually.”

So many things seemed to happen around that park that Hinata was wondering if it would be best to avoid it completely.

“That dog has all the energy you don’t show off, I swear.”

“Hey!”

They reached the stage door, just managing to miss the patrons who wanted to pass out flowers to their favourite members. Kō was waiting for Hinata, talking with Sasuke’s cousin who was in charge of his pickup.

“I’ll call you later. Tell Cinna to stop jumping out of moving cars.” Sasuke said, pressing a kiss to her cheek, cut short by Kō’s cough for attention. “Bye.”

“Bye.” Hinata said, shooting Kō a look as their car pulled up. “I thought you were on my side.” She stated, handing him her flute case as she climbed in.

“I’m also on the side of the man who signs my checks. Don’t worry, everyone knows where this relationship was going, they’ll settle their differences and get what they want or they’ll have Sasuke’s mother to deal with.

Uchiha Mikoto was a terrifying person. To Hinata, she was the scariest thing that ever existed, not counting an annoyed conductor and a bad rehearsal. At least until the same girl Cinna had jumped on randomly appeared wanting to return the handkerchief Hinata had given her. Kō was thrown off by her sudden urge to show off her phone charm to every corner of the foyer but Sakura kindly left, at least until Cinna wandered back inside from saying goodbye, growling and grew into a large monster. After watching Sakura turn into a cat eared hero, things were explained to her. The earthquake at the park, a machine revving up to change the DNA of 5 girls, all who were compatible with endangered animal DNA. The whale she saw, that was her animal. The one that allowed her to change into a Mew.

“The flower shop.” Hinata asked, after the battle she couldn’t explain to Kō as the reason the whole foyer was destroyed. “That’s…”

“Home base. Sasori is gonna want you to work there, that way we’ll be nearby in case they need us and so we’re actually paid for being turned into heroes. You can totally yell at him after if you want, that’s what I did when I started looking for answers.”

She wanted to complain but it felt like she didn’t have much of a choice. Her best friend, her constant when everyone else was busy, Cinna, had been turned into a monster. Who was to say what would happen if she hadn’t done anything?

“And don’t worry about rehearsals at the Symphony. I have a friend who’s part of the Orchestra, so I know when your rehearsals and performances are. I’ll help you talk sense into him.”

Hinata couldn’t really think of what else to say, so she took Sakura’s number and promised to be at Mew Bouquets after school. She sent Sakura in a car, while Kō tried to figure out what to do. Hinata’s side of the mansion was really only accessible by the front staircase, since it was closer to the living room she preferred to practise in. she was still trying to wrap her head around what had happened when another car pulled into the gates and letting Sasuke out.

“Hinata! What happened? are you ok?” he asked, pulling her into her arms, Cinna struggling slightly as he was pressed between them.

“I’m ok, just…. I don’t even know if I believe what happened. what are you doing here?” she asked, pulling away to look at him.

Sasuke looked at her like the question was stupid. “Kō called me. You’re staying the night at home. He said you were down here when it happened? who just left?”

Hinata dropped Cinna to the floor and wrapped her arms around Sasuke’s waist, Sasuke hugging her back automatically. It was starting to hit her, one fight in and with details still left unexplained. She go thrown around a bit, but she wasn’t majorly hurt. the aches from the fight had dulled in the span on minutes. If she was attacked with Sasuke close by, he could get hurt.

“Hinata, what’s wrong?” he asked softly, like he was trying to talk her down from an anxiety attack.

“Just, can you just hold me and save the questions for later?”

He held her tighter and pressed a kiss into her hair and didn’t speak.

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Being a Kunoichi Mew was, well…there weren’t proper words to explain it. sometimes it felt like she was a normal girl. She had a part time job at a flower shop, she’d listen to Sakura argue with Saori while watching Ino and Diedara fight about flower arrangements and how they shouldn’t look like they just exploded. TenTen had to be talked out of hitting picky costumers with flowers used as shuriken, impressive as it was when she nailed the hit.

Most nights, they’d change out of their colour coded uniforms, back into their school uniform and continue gossiping or complaining about school while waiting for Kō to come pick her up. Other days, the shop would either close unexpectedly or not open at all as they donned their Mew transformations to go stop creatures created by Pein. Sasori was still compiling information so they didn’t know why the alien was so insistent on fighting them or what he wanted. Just that it was their job to stop him. The human souls part was new which made it harder to stop him but they hadn’t failed yet.

So yes, trying to explain what a Mew was felt impossible, but Hinata could be happy for the few joys it brought. It however, did not stop the everyday life troubles she’d deal with. Like Neji.

Sakura needed an outfit to go to a party with Naruto and their school’s soccer team, so Hinata offered she could borrow one. It turned into a field trip with the others to her house. They’d been thrown by all the staff greeting her as she came in but even more when Neji came down the stairs, nose in his book and followed by his guard. He didn’t say much, even when Hinata introduced her friends. Just told them to move out of his way.

It was easy to keep distracted by talking about her wall of dried flowers from Sasuke. Ino and TenTen were quizzing her about Sasuke and their feelings for each other, Sakura oddly not joining in when Cinna ran out from the closet and to the door to her room. He whimpered, scratching at the door that slowly opened. The minute a leg was through the door, Cinna tried jumping up that.

“I saw you two days ago.” Sasuke said, lifting Cinna in his arms, moving his mouth away as Cinna covered him in kisses. He was still dressed in his school uniform and he had his violin case on his back. “Hey Hinata, Kō said you had people over so I – uh, hi?” he said when he realised he was being stared at by the girls.

“Is that him? Hinata, he’s gorgeous.” Ino said, checking Sasuke out.

TenTen circled him, stopping in front of him and stared, eyes slightly narrowed but Sasuke didn’t back down either.

“I hear you and Hinata might be dating.”

“TenTen!” Hinata cried from the doorway of the closet, blind to Sakura trying to keep from laughing.

“I’d like to.” Sasuke said, blunt as ever. “But it’s her choice. That and our stupid parents.”

TenTen hummed before punching Sasuke on the shoulder. “You’ll do. But if you do hurt her, you’ll have us to answer to.” She said, gesturing to the others.

Sasuke rolled his eyes but stopped when he saw Sakura standing next to Hinata.

“Sakura?”

“Hi. We’ve been friends since middle school.” Sakura explained at the confused looks.

“Ah! You’re his Sakura. How did I not realise you were the same person?”

“Hey, I didn’t realise Sasuke’s crush was you. I think the only time we would have figured it out was when Yukie Fujikaze came. He and Naruto helped me translate but you and Ino didn’t come out until after they left. Honestly, I don’t think you even know where Hinata works.” Sakura scolded, Sasuke refusing to look at her.

“Do you want me to come back tomorrow?” he asked Hinata, hoping to distract her.

“Oh, no. you’re not getting away that easily.” Ino said, taking him by the arm and dragging him out of the room. “You two have so much to tell us!”

Hinata hid her face in her hands, only pulling them out when Sakura bumped her shoulder with hers. “Come on, let’s go save him. At least now I know who’s he’s always texting during breaks.”

It should have been fine, watching Ino and TenTen pull information from Sasuke about the two of them growing up when Kō suggested they come to their next performance.

“The Symphony Orchestra is playing with the Konoha Ballet Company on their first leg of their Romeo and Juliet tour. You must come to opening night. Hinata’s father and sister won’t be able to attend so she has 2 extra tickets. I suppose Sasuke might have another if your father is busy.”

Sasuke nodded while Hinata felt confused. “I have 3. We get 4 and you’re the only one who will be here.”

“Well, since Neji is home, I thought to invite him as well.”

Neji was her cousin but the closest thing to a brother she had. They’d grown up and after his father passed, her own father practically adopted him. If it wasn’t for succession rules, Hinata knew Neji would be the one to become the new head of the family. He’d been the first person she played for, the first person who gave her flowers before Sasuke. As they got older though, Neji was expected to be perfect like the Hyuuga family was and the warm and kind brother she’d grown up with turned into the cold person who’d greeted her friends. She’d never pull him from making his family happy, no matter how much she wanted her brother back.

“Nii-san has a conference the same day. He won’t be attending.”

“I’m sure he’ll change his mind. This is the first time you both are doing this. did you know Neji used to be Hinata’s biggest supporter, always wanting to listen to her practise?” Kō started, stopped when the sound of her chopsticks hit the table.

“He’s not coming. I’m tired, please show the girls out when they’re done.” She said, pushing her chair back and leaving the dining room.

Sasuke would find her cuddling Cinna in her room later. He didn’t say much, pulling off his blazer before dropping into Hinata’s bed, waiting for her to speak. She stayed silent and he decided to at least turn his violin while he waited. That’s when she moved to stop hiding in Cinna’s fur.

“I shouldn’t want him there. He can’t, he’s got obligations. But…”

“We’re allowed to want family to support us, even if they’re really bad at it.”

She continue wishing for it, as they got ready for opening night. she got suspicious when Ino was invited backstage by Kō with TenTen and Sakura no where to be seen. Sakura gave up going to the party with Naruto to come support her so her absences was even more noticeable. When Neji appeared outside the dressing room, she figured it out.

“What are you doing here? You have a conference you’re going to be late for.” She said, refusing to look at Neji, her hands no doubt leaving a mess on her flute.

“I was invited.”

Hinata looked over to the girls who looked hopeful. They didn’t have to go through so much, which made doing what she did next make her feel worse. “You should go. I didn’t want family here.”

They both ignored for the moment that Kō was related to them both.

“Hinata, come on. he came – ” Sakura started.

“But I didn’t want him here. I’m sorry you wasted your time talking to him but Neji, you should just go. I have to go; we’re supposed to be getting there for tuning.” She didn’t wait for an answer, grabbing Sasuke’s arm and dragged him towards the stage door.

“Hinata, slow down.” he said.

“No! I can’t believe they did that.”

“They didn’t. I told him to come.” Sasuke said, making her stumble to a stop and turn to him.

She didn’t get to question him when the whole hallway was filled with terrified screams as a creature with a mask spun in pirouettes while brandishing a sword in place of an arm.

“The fuck?!”

Zetsu, the name for the creatures created with animals, or human souls now, and a parasite controlled by Pein.

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“Your lucky that your violin wasn’t destroyed.” She was lucky her flute made it out unscathed, using it as a distraction against the Zetsu.

Before they could transform, the ballet Zetsu had attacked on Pein’s orders, hitting Neji and Kō and Sasuke standing in front of her to keep her protected, even if it left him flung across the room.

“A snapped string isn’t any better.” He said, fiddling with a loaner one he’d been able to get in the theatre, from the original orchestra that performed at the venue. He let Hinata lift his head to dab at the cut on his brow. “I’m surprised they didn’t just cancel this completely.”

“Donors sitting in the audience. They can wait, but if no one’s broken a bone, we go on. that, and they think it’s a sign perseverance with the creatures’ sudden appearance.” Hinata said, reciting what their conductor and orchestra leader had told them. “What did you mean before? About telling Neji to come?”

After the fight was over and Hinata found her brother and caretaker both ok, she tried one more time to get Neji to go to his conference. He pulled out a small bouquet of daisies from his blazer pocket, just like the same first one he gave ever.

“I thought that if I took head of the family, it would mean your father wouldn’t put so much pressure on you, that you could still be happy and play without having to worry about making your father happy. I know your,” at that time, Neji looked over at the doorway where the others were peaking around, including Neji’s guard. Sasuke was leaning against the doorway, the girls watching around them, looking bored. But she knew he was listening intently, “Current situation is leaving you with difficult decisions. I just didn’t want you to have to make you weren’t happy with. I’m sorry doing so made you think I didn’t care.”

Sasuke pulled away from the cloth, looking at the mirror they were seated next to in the dressing room. “I called him and told if he cared about you at all, to get his ass down here or I’d beat him with my violin.” He said so nonchalantly, pushing his bangs back to see how bad the cut was.

“What?”

“What? You wanted him there, even if you were protesting the whole time. Your family, except for Kō almost never comes. Be nice if someone you know cared was also in the audience.”

“So, you threatened him?”

Sasuke shrugged. “he was making you sad.”

“into the pit everyone!” the stage hand called.

“I think this will – what?” Sasuke asked, picking up his bow, loaner violin in hand.

Hinata pressed a kiss onto his cheek as she took her flute in hand. “Thank you.”

“yeah, yeah. Come on. we wait any longer, the ballerinas might be the ones to hurt us, not whatever that thing was.” Sasuke said, his ears red.

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Hinata tried to ignore the looks. She wasn’t supposed to be at practise, she’d already called out. but she couldn’t be at the flower shop. Not with the nightmares and the arguments right on her mind.

“Hey.” Sasuke appeared in front of her, startling her. He looked worried. “Sakura just texted me. Aren’t you supposed to be at work?”

“I don’t want to talk about her. I’ve missed enough practises, so I’m here.”

“Yeah, but,” one of the obo players said, “you’re like always perfect and on point so everyone’s fine if you miss a few practises.”

Because people at the flower shop thought the sounds of her practising during work hours was enough of an excuse to come inside.

“I just don’t want to fail or mess up.”

That was as far as she was going to go on the subject and thankfully people dropped it. any questions were instead replaced with gossip being shared or teasing her about what bouquet she’d get next from Sasuke. It was their biggest performance since their summer concert. After the concert, the whole shop team had gone out to the beach and they experienced Mew Aqua. Mew Aqua had…

“Alright, shall we get started? Oh, Hyuuga, welcome back? Work cancelled?” the conductor asked.

“I quit.” She saw Sasuke looking at her over the heads of those sitting in the second violin section. “I want to focus on my music.”

“Oh, well. we’re happy to have you back. Let’s start with the first piece shall we? Hyuuga, keep up if you can.”

It was easy to lose herself in the music, thoughts of what her life had become after the earthquake, after she’d been combined with animal DNA, pushed as far as they went. People were fine to not ask questions as she easily kept pace, did her solos perfectly and easily corrected any mistakes. Sasuke was not people.

“Hey! hey, wait a second.” He called, following her when they were let out and yanking her to a stop. “You quit? You love working at the flower shop.”

“And now I don’t, can we let it go?”

Sasuke pulled her back, letting go when she pulled her arm away. “Sakura said you snapped at her for clocking out for a while to be with Naruto. You, who’s always gossiping with me about those two.”

Sakura was off being in love, wondering if she should tell Naruto about her pink cat secret while they were tasked with saving the world. Saving the world from aliens, who created creatures for them to stop. Some of them, stronger than they could handle. They wanted to wipe out humans and now they were finding out it was all for one thing. Mew Aqua, a mineral so pure, it interacted with the animal DNA they held. It gave her a tail. If she continued this, there was a chance full exposure would fully turn her into a mermaid, pull her away from Sasuke or fall right into the aliens’ hands and it would all be for nothing. She didn’t want to do it anymore. Neji put up with their family so she could do what she wanted. She didn’t want to be a hero anymore. What was the point?

“What is going on? will you just talk to me? You’ve been acting weird ever since you got back from that beach trip.”

“Just drop it! honestly at this point, I’m wondering why you even care. You haven’t done anything about us, so clearly I’m just something to sooth your ego. I’m tired of having to be at everyone’s beck and call, so just leave me the hell alone!”

She didn’t have to yell at Sasuke, not when he kept texting her apologizing for something that wasn’t his fault. She was fine that their relationship hadn’t moved forward, much as she wanted it to. Sasuke had been hurt by a Zetsu before, she wasn’t about to make him a massive target.

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“So, he’s not worth fighting for? As scared as you are to do this, you don’t think Sakura has the right idea, focusing on Naruto as her reason to fight?”

“First an earthquake and then a mini flood? All with another monster?”

Hinata looked at Sasuke who came into the spare bedroom with the first aid kit. Screams and cries from another bedroom with the girls spilled into the room, cut when Sasuke closed the door behind him. When Hinata first transformed, Sasuke rushed over the minute he was told. This time he didn’t have to wait for a call. He’d come over, hoping to try one more time to talk to Hinata when he spotted the attack Temari caused to her room. Her shadowboxes were fine, if only a bit bent and mixed up. As much as she wanted to yell at the older girl for attack her home like that, she made a fair point.

Sasuke was her reason to fight. The fighting and what would happen scared her, but the aliens winning and losing Sasuke hurt more.

“Do they still hurt?”

Another one of Temari’s attacks had left her with scraps and bruises, plus a cut or two. She’d been about to attack Cinna, who followed Sasuke around like he was also his owner. The bird Mew really knew how to get her where it hurt.

“No.” she hadn’t said much to Sasuke when she got back to the mansion, her friends in tow. All he’d done was squeeze her tight and question why she and the others were soaking wet, listening to Sakura complain about getting caught in the flood. He didn’t even ask why Hinata was in her pyjamas and the others were in their work uniforms. She kept thinking of what she said after practise.

Sasuke grabbed her legs, turning her so they rested on his lap. Cinna, who’d been snuggled in her arms since coming in from outside with TenTen, wriggled for Hinata to let him go. He stuck his head under Sasuke’s hand, begging for pets.

“Spoiled.” He says, giving in before focusing on the first aid kit. He cleaned off the scratches on Hinata’s knees, before focusing on a cut near her ankle.

“I’m sorry.” She said, twisting the skirt of her nightdress in her hands without Cinna in them to keep her occupied. “I, what I said.”

“You’re not wrong.” Sasuke interrupted, tying off the gauze with a piece of medical tape. “I don’t normally wait around to do what I’m told. We’ve had plenty of instances were I should have just done it, regardless, but I didn’t. Hinata, I meant what I said at the park, I love you. that hasn’t changed and I’m sorry if I made you feel like it has.”

“I got scared.” She confessed. “everything that’s happening, I don’t know how Sakura can be so happy with Naruto with all the attacks. I got scared, that it’s all going to be ripped away.”

She hadn’t been looking at Sasuke, so she didn’t see him lean closer, just felt his fingers move her head up. Sasuke’s lips pressed against hers, leaving her breath shuttering.

“I’m not going anywhere. Ok, not unless you tell me to.” Sasuke promised.

Hinata closed her eyes and kissed Sasuke, pulling him closer by his jacket. She let out a startled squeak when Sasuke pulled her onto his lap by her legs, Cinna barking in annoyance from all the moving, but neither listened to him as Sasuke put his hand on her cheek and pulled her down for another kiss.

“Hey, what’s all the – oh!” Sakura yelled, causing the two musicians to pull away, Hinata red and Sasuke glaring.

“Do you knock?”

“Ignore me, we were never here. just drop her off when you’re done.” Sakura called, the other girls giggling as the door shut behind them.

Hinata couldn’t help but laugh as she hid her face in Sasuke neck when he groaned. “she’s not gonna let me live that down.”

“Payback, for whenever you find her and Naruto.” Hinata said, moving so she could look at Sasuke. “Was that…?”

“Me tired of waiting. Sorry I didn’t do it earlier.”

Things would be harder now. There would be times that saving the world would have to trump Sasuke, where lying to him would be the best way to keep him safe.

“You left me waiting a while.” She said, deciding to ignore that for now.

“Well, I’ve got you until Sakura gets bored of waiting.” Sasuke said, kissing her again.

Being a Mew was hard to put in words beyond scary and more pressure inducing than her family. But she gained new friends, new skills and realised sometimes waiting wasn’t worth it. she didn’t know how this fight would end, she just knew she’d have Sasuke when the final battle approached, even if she permanently gained a tail.

#sasuhinamonth2024 #sasuhina month #day 24 #tokyo mew mew au

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