Hi guys! It's been awhile, I know but I wanted to update before this year ended and it looks like I'm cutting it pretty close. Well Happy Holidays/Happy New Year's everyone. Hope you guys enjoy.

PS I really appreciate all the reviews and support. Thanks again!

PPS I'll post a songfic shortly after this update (as a kind of apology for my ridiculously slow updates). So be on the look out! :]

"Y-Yeah, sorta," she stuttered out as she looked up into his deep, dark eyes.

"Well, I-"

"Are you kids going to come in and learn something or what?" Sasuke was interrupted by a teacher with dark brown shaggy hair and an equally unkempt beard. His unlit cigarette twitched in his mouth as he stared at the kids with his black-brown eyes.

"Well?" The two teenagers glanced at each other before slowly walking inside with Hinata taking the lead and sitting in her assigned seat and Sasuke taking his right next to hers.

"Ok class, now I do believe we left off talking about Japan's role in World War II and how..." Blah, blah, blah was what followed in Hinata's head as she tuned out the teacher and his history lesson. Her mind wandered off to the new boy and his peculiarity and just as her thoughts deepened, a loud rosette with an even louder blonde with tanned skin and a positive attitude walked in carrying on a rather loud conversation.

"Will you two please shut up and take your seats!" The aggravated teacher was just about done with all of the interruptions for the day. As a matter of fact, if he wasn't doing it for a certain somebody who would never return his love, he would have already walked out of the classroom and never looked back. Unfortunately for him, that's not the case. He glared at the only two students standing as they apologized for their rudeness.

As they made their way to their respective seats Naruto asked Sakura, "So…did you switch into this class just to be with me?" Sakura looked over at him with an incredulous expression, "Pfft. Boy please. I'm here for…" she trailed off as her eyes roamed about the classroom. It soon became apparent when she found what, or really who, she was looking for when her jade orbs settled upon a figure with a surrounding dark aura.

Her cheeks heated up in a light blush as she made her way to the newcomer. Hinata looked back and forth at the three people who had everyone's focus and was glad it wasn't her getting wrapped up in some petty high school drama.

"Hey Sasuke-kun," greeted Sakura as she tried to get "friendly" with him. Unfortunately for her and her feelings, he didn't appreciate uninvited advances.

His voice cut through the abnormally quiet classroom, "I'd advise you to remove yourself from me, you disgusting harlot."

"Wh-what?" Sakura's cheery disposition faltered as the class took in a sharp breath.

"You heard me." Stunned, she backed away from him and shuffled to a distant desk; her bright emerald eyes brimmed and spilled over with crystal tears. In the front of the classroom, a red and angry Uzumaki was clenching and unclenching his fist as he made his way to Sasuke's desk.

He picked up speed and raised his closed hand, and just as he was preparing to land one on the rude boy's face, he found himself kissing the floor with a heavy weight on his back.

"Wh-What?" Everyone's eyes widened as they took in the awkward position of Sasuke sitting on top of Naruto's back with said dummy's hands pinned behind him.

"S-Stop!" came Hinata's meek voice.

Sasuke looked up to see her face contorted into an expression of anger. Sasuke bent back down to murmur in Naruto's ear, "I'd advise you not to try that again." He stood up to get back into his seat, just as Hinata slid out of hers.

"N-Naruto-kun, daijobu desu ka?" He nodded as she helped him up, careful of her own injury. As Naruto made his way to an empty seat near Sakura, Hinata sat back down and faced towards the board where Asuma picked up his history lesson again, but not before seeing Sasuke's flashing red eyes of course.

-:-

'Finally, last period of the day.' Hinata thought, grateful the school day was finally coming to a close. She was hobbling slowly using the wall as a crutch, because for some odd reason her wound was feeling more agitated than before. "Do you need any help?" asked a voice from behind her.

She whipped around to see her Prince Charming walking up to her with a gleaming smile on his face. "A-ah…." Unfortunately nothing else would come out of the poor child's mouth as her face heated up in deep blush.

Naruto looked down, "I just wanted to thank you for earlier; for standing up for me. Not many people do that for me." Hinata wanted to melt right there out of several reasons, but she didn't get to do that or anything else that could possibly further her relationship with her longtime infatuation. This was due to the fact that her standing crush was dragged away to physical training by an extremely pale boy clad in a black garments.

"Ack! Darn it Sai, I'm coming! Let go!" Sai continued down the hall without any acknowledgement that he heard his friend's protests. "Well see ya later, Hina-chan."

"Bye-bye," she said quietly as she continued to cautiously make her way to Math. The tardy bell rang and she sighed, realizing that she'd be more than 25 minutes late without any sort of real support. She felt a tap on her shoulder and spun around to meet indifferent, obsidian eyes. The eye contact lasted only but a second because her new acquaintance swung her on his back with incredible ease and fluidity.

She gave a little yelp after the fact and a spew of words ensued. "W-wh-what are you doing? Wh-why? Please put me down." But Sasuke ignored everything that came out of her mouth and continued to walk to her next class. That was, until she started to struggle vigorously against him to get down. He abruptly stopped which caused Hinata to do the same. "Stop squirming. Don't you want to make it to class as soon as you can? Class doesn't begin when you get there and you don't want to miss any more information than you have to, am I right?" He questioned, trying to look sideways at her.

"W-well yes," she replied slowly, contemplating deeply. "Ok then," he resumed his quick and unnaturally graceful pace to the intended classroom.

-:-

They were only four minutes late to Iruka's Advanced Calculus class and when they entered all eyes were on them and they were all very wide. Being the gossipy school that they are, whispers and low voices verbalized their opinions of what was going on between the couple that arrived tardy. Sasuke sent a harsh glare across the classroom that effectively silenced them all and even caused the "mature" adult of the classroom to halt his inappropriate thoughts concerning the duo.

"Uhm, m-my seat is o-over there," she pointed to an empty seat in the front, across the room. He dropped her off in her seat and walked to an empty desk towards the back surrounded by, unfortunately, nothing but monstrous fan girls.

There were five of them that enclosed his desk and all of them looked hungry for the piece of meat sauntering towards them. The first two girls wanted his number, the third tried to grab his arm and another his butt. And the fifth basically threw herself at him and tried to rape him. The next scene was a gruesome one, as Sasuke handled the girls who were manhandling him. After 15 full seconds he had every single one of those girls running out of the classroom crying with everyone staring and gaping between him and the slammed door.

'Wow, I didn't know he could be so mean. But he's been pretty nice to me all day. At the same time though, I have not been throwing myself at him.' Hinata thought, shaking her head as she faced her desk. Iruka, just like Asuma, turned back to his lesson, not really caring about the treatment of his more foolish students.

-:-

BRRRRIIIINNGG!

The bell, signaling the end of the school week, caused all of the children in the entire building to jump up in excitement and hustle out of the classrooms ready to begin their three-day weekend. Hinata sighed a contented a sigh, packed up her books, and got up to leave the already near empty room.

"Need any help?" came Sasuke's smooth voice from behind her. Hinata jumped and dropped her books. She had been so absorbed in the lecture she sort of forgot about Sasuke's existence and the weird events that came with him.

She started to bend down but stopped and looked up at Sasuke. He was holding everything she had dropped right in her face. "H-how d-" "Never mind, I forgot I have other arrangements to tend to." He put her books back in her hands and walked out of the classroom at the same time Neji was walking in. There was a heated glaring contest that lasted but a few seconds before Sasuke turned, winked at Hinata, and sauntered down the hallway. Neji was about to follow but his precious cousin called after him.

"N-Nii-san can you h-help me?" Neji looked back at her, then at Sasuke's shrinking back and then back at her. He sighed heavily and walked towards her. "Yeah, no prob." He picked her up and carried her out of the room and to the elevator. He put her down and pressed the descending arrow.

"Hina-sama, I need you to wait by my car I have some, ahmm, business to take care of really quick." Hinata didn't have to be in all advanced courses to figure what this 'business' was judging from his light cough in the middle of the sentence and the fact that Tenten was coming from the other end of the hall. "H-hai Nii-san, I'll see you later." Followed by the elevator doors shutting, separating the two Hyuugas.

When Hinata reached the first floor she stepped out and headed towards the doors. She walked outside and stopped to gaze at the clear sky and the big bright moon. A small breeze brushed past her and she decided to just walk back to her house. 'It really isn't that far from here,' she reasoned with herself, 'besides who knows how long he'll take.' She blushed thinking about the couple and she allowed her thoughts turned to her own crush, and pretty soon she was imagining her and Naruto in Neji and Tenten's position. Her blushed doubled and she almost stumbled on the uneven pavement.

As she continued on her way, she inevitably saw the old house that never ceased to give her the creeps. Just as she picked up her pace, a flash of the boy's uniform from her school caught her eye near the mansion. Despite her fear of the creepy old place, her curiosity was piqued. Who, from her school even, would be at that house? At the same time, almost as if her interest were controlling her, she felt an overwhelming urge to go to the building. She let her feet shuffle in that general direction.

'Okay, I'm only gonna take a quick peek, then I'm getting the heck outta here.' She moved with the grace of ninja, quickly and quietly, and peered around the side of the house. 'Oh man, this place is so creepy.' 'Please let that just be the wind,' she thought as she heard a creak and a moan from the house. As she neared the back of the house, it didn't take long for her curiosity to turn into a heavy feeling of dread in the pit of her stomach.

"You do know that trespassing is against the law right?"

Hinata jumped ten feet in the air and let out a bloodcurdling scream. A hand clapped against her mouth and she felt herself being thrown against the back wall of the house, forcing her to drop her book bag.

"Shh! What's wrong with you?" The voice that scared her demanded harshly, shaking her shoulders a bit.

The poor, startled child opened her eyes that had been squeezed shut when she was initially frightened and they widened in surprise.

"U-Uchiha-san? Wh-what are you doing here?"

"Uh-uh, I'm asking the questions here."

Then everything clicked. 'The boy from the window, the boy in the uniform, Sasuke's creepiness, uh, I mean the fact that he's actually there.'

"D-do you live here?"

"Are you deaf?"

She shook her head. "Then what are you doing here?"

She shivered at his cold voice and replied, "I-I was j-just…" She trailed off after seeing his harsh face soften and felt his hands move from her shoulders to her hands.

"You know, it's really not safe for a pretty little thing such as yourself to be out here at nighttime. Especially not alone."

In a flash he had both of her hands above her head with one of his and was standing really close to her. Hinata whimpered and struggled against him as his unoccupied hand caressed the side of her face.

"Shh, it's going to be okay." How could he say such a thing? He wasn't the one being held against his will at some spooky place with no assistance. His tone, which was laced with a tinge of malice, also didn't help.

Never before had her body been taken over by fear, but with the sudden realization of all the things he could possibly do to her, her body stiffened and she stopped making noise. Remembering what the news had said not too long ago surfaced in her mind and she wished that she had taken heed to their warning.

"So intoxicating," Sasuke murmured as he dipped his head and nuzzled her neck, causing Hinata to choke back a sob.

"Shh," he breathed on her neck, "Don't move." But she couldn't. She could only stand frozen, paralyzed with fear, as the bad feeling in the pit of her stomach worsened.

Just as Sasuke's lips pressed against the long, creamy skin that was Hinata's neck, they both heard a woman's voice call for him.

"Saaaassssukkeeeee! Where are you?"

He sighed, looked up, and started to walk towards the back door. In the same moment, Hinata's fear dissipated just enough to release its gripping hold on her, allowing her to try to make a run for it. She got as far as a little more than halfway to the front before Sasuke snatched onto her arm. "Wait!"

"N-No! Stop it! Y-You're hurting me!"

As they continued to struggle, with Sasuke winning, the sound of screeching tires resounded in the residential area, followed by the slam of a car door.

"Uchiha, if you value your insignificant life, I'd advise you to release my cousin." Neji stood twirling a deadly switchblade with an even deadlier glint in his eyes.

Sasuke tilted his head as if contemplating the idea, and then complied with a smirk.

Hinata ran to the safety of Neji's ride. Neji took on an offensive stance and prepared to attack the worthless scum in front of him.

Fortunately, his cell phone rang, saving him the trouble of getting blood in his hair and on his uniform. "Hello," he answered still keeping a wary eye on his enemy. He nodded once and the conversation ended.

"This isn't over!" he shouted as he walked to his sports car.

"You're right," he replied to the car speeding away, "This is quite far from over, you piece of-"

"Sasuke! Where the h-ll are you?"

Said boy sighed and responded, "I'm coming mother," before walking into the decrepit, old house.