A/N: Thanks for all of your kind reviews. I hope that everyone enjoys this final chapter. Also those who read 'You Belong with Me' hopefully I will update that sometime next week. I've been working on the alternate endings first before I work on the actually final chapter, so look out for that soon.

So onwards with the chapter n.n

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It's been nearly four weeks since that moment; Sasuke has felt like a complete ass for hurting Hinata. The Uchiha has been in a very foul mood because of it and unfortunately Sakura and Naruto had to suffer Sasuke's random mood changes. Currently Naruto and Sakura were eyeing the raven haired male sitting in the living room staring at his phone as if he were expecting it to ring. "What do you think is wrong with him?" Naruto whispered to the pink haired female.

"I bet it's a woman"

The blonde snapped his head over to Sakura, his eyes widening in pure shock. Out of all the reasons, a woman was at the bottom of the list. Sasuke has never held a girlfriend for more than a month probably less than that and Sakura believes he's actually thinking about a women. This is really crazy. "I doubt it's that. Sasuke hasn't even talked to me about any girl"

Sakura rolled her eyes, "He doesn't need to tell you everything about his personal life, you know!"

"But he's my best friend; we talk about mostly everything together, especially girls. So it's odd, that's all"

Her jade eyes narrowed in curiosity, "Have I ever been mentioned?" She asked with a light colored pink hue on her cheeks.

"Yeah, but don't get your hopes up. He isn't interested and most likely will never be" He exclaimed trying to hold in his snicker at Sakura's angered expression. Deciding it was time to come out of the shadows and finally approach Sasuke, Naruto walked towards his best friend eyeing him with concern. "Hey, are you okay? You've been staring at you're phone now for nearly one hour. Are you expecting someone to call?"

Sasuke snapped out of his daze, turning his head to face his friends with a small scowl on his face. "I'm fine" He muttered lowly.

"If you say so…" Sakura exclaimed looking rather perplexed about the entire situation. "I have to get going, see you boys later"

Once she left the apartment a wide sly grin came onto the tan male's face. He knew with Sakura gone Sasuke would let him in on something. After all, it's different when it's two guys talking, but with a girl in the room it can be quite awkward and that's when the secret guy code talk starts to begin. His blue eyes caught Sasuke's dark coffee eyes as he parted his lips and spoke, "Anyone I know?"

"Hinata…" He mumbled so lowly that Naruto barely caught a word he said.

"The same girl I went out with?" Naruto asked, being completely speechless. He clutched onto his shirt as he slid down into the sofa seat, his eyes still wide as saucers. He has known Sasuke for many years and he has known that Sasuke is prone to speaking with him about the women he is seeing but Hinata is someone he never mentioned before. Sure, he knew that they were friends…well they were something but this, no he didn't expected this. "How long have you been together?"

"We weren't dating. It's a very long complicated story. To put it in short terms she has feelings for me, well at least she did and she confessed. I basically was a complete jackass to her afterwards then she said a few things to me and made me feel even worst" He exclaimed.

"Wow, she actually fell for you?" Naruto suppressed a snicker when Sasuke sent him a harden glare. "It's just that, well when she went out with this" He pointed to himself wearing a smirk, "I thought she would still be head over heels for me. I mean, she left me tons of messages"

Sasuke rolled his eyes and threw the remote at the blonde's head, "She got over you thanks to me. I never thought that something like this would ever happen. It's becoming frustrating" He groaned out in annoyance.

Naruto smiled sadly at Sasuke. "You should go see her. Tell her you're sorry about what happened and maybe take things from there. In the meantime, I suggest you stop mopping around because it won't help things get better"

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Ayame sits at her desk while fiddling with a title sample while Hinata stared at her in disbelief. Her friend looked so broken; she has never seen her like this before. After Ayame came into the office Hinata noticed how red her eyes were, immediately she came to her aid and asked her what was wrong and the first thing that came out her mouth was, 'He cheated. My husband cheated on me'. It was the last thing Hinata expected to hear. "Do you know who it is?" She asked softly.

Ayame shook her head, "It doesn't matter"

"So are you going to…leave him?" Hinata asked curiously but yet in a unsure tone. She knew how much Ayame valued marriage.

Ayame frowned, "Hinata, he's my husband. He's not just some guy that didn't call me back. And he did admit it to me. He didn't wait to get caught. That's courage" Her black eyes glared at the female Hyuga. Noticing how stung Hinata looked she let out a small sigh, "I'm sorry. I didn't mean that. I know Sasuke wasn't just some guy…" She trailed off, biting down on her bottom lip looking rather apologetic.

Hinata smiled sadly, her thoughts going back to the Uchiha. "It's okay"

"It's my fault, you know"

"Wh-What?"

"I'm willing to accept my responsibility in this. I forced him into getting married. He wasn't ready"

The midnight blue haired female raised her brow, "Ayame, this isn't your fault"

The brown haired female shook her head, "It is. I've changed. I used to be fun. I was fun when we met" She exclaimed sadly.

"You're still fun" Hinata reassured her.

Ayame stops and looks up at Hinata as the tears began quickly falling. "We never have sex anymore"

"Lots of couples go through—"

"No. We never have sex. Realistically what did I except him to do?" She cried, bringing up her hand to wipe her eyes so no one would catch her crying.

"I don't think that's really—"

Ayame looked down at the title in her hand, "This is too small. I have to tell Kyo" Hinata looked mildly confused as she parted her lips mouthing a 'what' which Ayame noticed. "This title. I have to go. Tell your father I took a personal day" Ayame grabbed her purse and heads out as Hinata is left to watch her.

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Rin squeezed Kakashi's hand as the two strode down the hallway to his office. The dark brown haired female was clearly trying her hardest to suppress a smile while Kakashi smiled from behind his mask. But as soon as they reached his coworkers, the silver haired male smoothly extricates his hand away from Rin's while nodding to passing coworkers. Finally reaching his office, he walked in first as she followed in close behind him, deftly shutting the door and locking it behind them.

Rin quickly grabbed Kakashi and yanked off his mask, pulling him downwards for a heated kiss. Slowly their clothes start to come off, mainly hers, as the unmasked male began groping her roughly.

"How is it that every time I see your body, I'm shocked at how beautiful it is" He murmured into her ear delicately.

Rin smiled at his compliment as she starts to work on shirt until someone tries to open up the locked door.

"I need to go over this offering statement. Can I get a few minutes, Jiraiya?" He shouted over his shoulder, turning back around to wink at Rin as he begins to unbuckle his belt.

"It's not Jiraiya"

Kakashi freezes while Rin looked over at the male with widened eyes. Kakashi frantically puts his hand over Rin's mouth as he worked with speed and precision while gathering all of Rin's things and shoved her, barely naked body, into the closet. The closet being so small Rin had to sit down as she looks up at Kakashi from the closet as he closes the door.

Walking towards the door, he straightened himself up before opening the door. "Shit, I told Jiraiya to get this fixed"

Ayame eyes him suspiciously, "Why do you even lock it?"

"I'd never get anything done if I didn't" He smiled softly at her, watching her smiling back at him.

She pointed to his unmasked face, "Didn't think you'll be this relaxed even if it is your office. You normally don't expose your face like this" She commented on.

He chuckled scratching his cheek softly, "Ah, I suppose that you are correct" He stepped aside allowing his wife to come inside noticing that she closed the door and locked it behind herself, his eyes widened. "What are you doing?" He asked in a alarmed tone.

"Sit down"

Kakashi goes to sit behind his desk being confused by her demands and behavior. She was clearly nervous she goes to straddle him at his desk but with her skirt is too long she has to regroup and hike the skirt up. The dark eyed male slowly glances over at the closet as Ayame tries again to sit on his lap but his voice stops her, "Ayame, what are you doing?"

"I don't know. I just thought…maybe we could, you know…relight the fire" She stated shyly with a light blush on her cheeks.

"Babe, did you hear what I just said? I have to get this offering statement out" He explained, picking up some papers from his desk but clearly Ayame isn't having it.

"Look, I'm trying her. Do you want to save our marriage or don't you?" She cried out, on the streak of tears once again causing him to be silent. Unknown to them Rin was sitting in the closet listening on the brink of tears herself.

"Of course I do" He spoke softly to his wife.

"Then you'll let me do this"

Rin sat in the closet listening to their moans and the chair silently creaking as her expression turned into a hurt one until a stone faced anger.

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The male Uchiha stares at his staffed, he had just assembled for the pre-shift meeting and was currently consulting the group while looking at the clipboard while talking. "Okay, Jugo you bus four through six and pitch in with the serves when you—"

"No, I'm on eight through ten. I'm always on eight through ten. I've been working here eighteen months doing eight through ten" He exclaimed.

"Right, um…Shino you take four through six"

The staff looked at each other rather perplexed before turning back to look at their boss. "Um, Shino quit like ten months ago"

Sasuke groans and rifles through his papers, not being sure what he was looking for anyways as he slams his clipboard on the bar. "Do we even need to have this meeting? Seriously, does this serve any purpose?" He listened as the entire staff said a resounding "no".

"Good, great…get to work" He muttered as he heads around the bar getting ready to head to his office but stopped when he noticed Ino walking away. "Ino um…were there any calls for me?"

Ino smirked knowingly, "Since you asked me eleven minutes ago? No, not a lot of phone traffic" She explained as she turned around to walk away but stopped when she noticed Sasuke taking out his cell phone looking at it but then puts it back down only to quickly glancing at it again, appearing as if it will ring any second. A huge smile grows on Ino's face, "Oh my god"

"What?"

"It's happened to you"

Sasuke raised his brow up in question, "What has happened to me?"

"What's her name?"

"Who?"

"The girl, Sasuke"

Sasuke tensed, "There is no girl. I have no idea what you're talking about" He turned away from her, heading to his office only to have Ino follow him.

"You can't hide it man. I know strung out and you are strung…out!" She giggled at the embarrassed raven haired male.

He growled in annoyance, "Please"

"This is amazing. Can't focus, right? Jumping every time your phone rings, checking tour email hundred times a day. Wishing you could write songs. Feeling the need to bring up her name in random conversation…" She pestered on.

Sasuke finally made it to his office, attempting to shut the door in Ino's face only to be stopped by her foot holding the door open. He turned around and glared his deadliest glare but it didn't seem to help. "She must be immune to it by now" He thought with a defeated groan.

"It's always the same. And it has happened to you, my friend. Trust me" She smiled brightly at him.

Sasuke lets her words sink in as he closed his eyes in frustration, "Shit" He muttered to himself.

"Welcome to my world asshole" She grinned much to his distress.

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Ayame, who was now fully dressed, was standing near the door while Kakashi was staring back at his desk in silence. "You sure I can't interest you in a little beef miso? I'm treating" She smiled lovingly at him.

"I really have to get things done" He said emotionless.

The wife was clearly flailing; she felt even though what just transpired nothing would change like she wanted it to. "Okay, I'll see you at home. I love you" She said, hoping he'll say it back.

"I love you too" Kakashi responded back to cover his anger. As soon as his wife was gone, Kakashi closed his office door and heads straight for his closet but the door flew opened nearly smashing him in the face. "I had no choice. What was I supposed to do when she—"

Rin punched him hard on his chest repeatedly, "You make me sick to my stomach! You are a disgusting excuse for a man—"She pulls her clothes back on in fury.

Kakashi's eyes saddened. "I didn't want to do it, Rin. You know that it's you I want to be with" He reached out to touch her only to be slapped across his face.

Her eyes hardened. "Are you kidding me? You will never lay a hand on me again. I may be a piss poor girl who was once your best friend but I'm so too good for you" She stormed out of his office leaving Kakashi alone in regret.

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Hinata sighed softly to herself sitting on her couch watching television. Lately she knew Sasuke has been trying to get in contact with her but she has been ignoring him. Hinata couldn't understand why he wanted to talk with her anyways after what had happened between them before. Sighing to herself her lavender eyes gazed over to her phone when she heard to ring. Leaning over she picked up the receiver placing it near her ear. "Hello?"

Hi, Hinata, this is Gaara.

"Um"

Sasuke's friend, we were supposed to meet up…but Sasuke told me the wrong day.

Hinata's eyes widened, "Gaara, so you do exist" She mentally frowned thinking back to the times she made herself look like an idiot in front of Sasuke. She honestly thought he wasn't real but apparently he is…

I do. And I'd love to buy you dinner sometime if you want to.

A small smile slowly made its way to Hinata's face, "Sure, why not"

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The brown haired female finally arrived home, gazing around the house at the vintage wall with a small smile on her face. Walking down the halls and up the staircase, past the tables and mantles—all covered with pictures of her and Kakashi—as she ends her tour in the master bedroom. Her face transitions from delight to loneliness within a matter of seconds. Taking out her call phone she hesitates but eventually dials. Waiting and waiting for her husband to answer the call went straight to voice mail. She hangs up clearly confused, sitting the edge of the bed looking around the room, not really sure what to do with herself.

Noticing Kakashi's pants and jacket thrown over a chair she stands up to tidy it up. Picking up the jacket, she checks the pockets only to notice they were empty. She grabs the pants, takes them both to the walk-in closet hanging up his jacket as she then folds over the pants only to hear something hit the ground. Looking over down at the floor she spotted a pack of cigarettes. Her face pales as she stares at it completely immobile. Her face tightens as her eyes well up.

"You lying sack of shit!"

She grabs two handfuls of his clothes off the racks and flies out the closet and hurtles the items down the stairs. Turning around she stares at the antique mirror hanging in the hallway. Without thinking she grabs it from the wall and smashes it on the ground. She stood over it breathing heavily, looking at the shattered glass feeling the pain well up within her heart as she breaks down in tears.

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The date finally arrived for Gaara and Hinata; the two were currently at a seafood restaurant. The midnight blue haired female sat across the red haired male looking very nice in her dark black dress with very light make-up on. She had to admit Gaara was very good looking, judging from his appearance he didn't really seem like he would be friends with Sasuke, like they would argue a lot with each other but from what the red haired explained he informed her that he and Sasuke are good friends.

"So, Sasuke told me you work in fiancé"

"Yes, I do fiancé"

There was a very long silent awkward pause after he spoke which made it uncomfortable for the both of them. "This is nice" She responded with a small smile.

"It is"

"A nice evening. And you planned it, and you called me when you said you would. And even showed up on time, thank you Gaara" She blushed lightly.

"You're very welcome"

Hinata could tell her wasn't much of a talker, he hasn't really said more than five words since meeting him. It was very awkward but instead of being rude she smiled politely at him.

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Sasuke growled to himself, becoming more and more agitated. Currently home alone in his apartment since Naruto was out of town again in business. He literally had to kick Sakura out because he didn't feel like being bothered by her. He was shirtless and his hair was a disaster, basically looking like bed head but he didn't care while holding his cell phone. Unable to retain himself he dials Hinata's number only to get the voice mail.

Hey, it's Hinata. You're reached my cell. I'm either having a very good time or in a meeting, either way just leave a message and—

Sasuke quickly hangs up, thinking to himself as he suddenly runs into his bedroom like a madman.

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Both Gaara and Hinata stand outside awkwardly her door. She looked up at him smiling shyly, "It was nice meeting you"

"Thank you for a lovely evening"

"You, too"

Gaara reached out for an ill-timed hug despite it being very awkward. Pulling away they both said a silent goodnight to each other. Once he left Hinata closed her door, dropping her things on her couch as she bends down to sat a seat but was reluctantly stopped when someone knocked on the door. Smiling to herself thinking it was Gaara, she walked towards the door, "Did you forget something?" She asked only to see it wasn't the red head but Sasuke.

"Yeah, I did"

She frowned and folded her arms across her chest, "Really? What did you forget?"

"This" Sasuke reached into his pocket pulling out a pen, the same pen Hinata used months ago pretending to return it to Naruto. His dark eyes watch Hinata tries to suppress a smile but fails miserably.

"You came all the way here at eleven at night to give me back a promotional pen?"

He smiled a rare smile, "I thought I better come up with some excuse to get over here. Isn't that how it's done?"

Hinata shrugged, "Sometimes…":

Sasuke stares at Hinata for a long moment become nervous, which was new for him. He didn't know what he was doing; he was reacting on his emotion. "Look, I can't stop thinking about you. I drive by your place. I call and hang up. I'm turning into—"

"Me"

He let out a light chuckle, "Yeah"

"Well, a wise person once told me that if a guy wants to be with a girl he will make it happen. No matter what" She explained to him, eyeing him carefully.

"True" Said the Uchiha, still looking rather flustered.

"Hm, because when I was hurling my body onto yours, you didn't seem to want to 'make it happen'"

He nodded his head, "Here's the thing about that. You were right. I've gotten so used to keeping myself at a safe distance from these women having the power…that I didn't know what it felt like when I actually for one of them" Sasuke stated, his dark eyes piercing into Hinata's lavender pools.

"I just went out with your friend, Gaara. And it just might be exactly what I need. No drama. He calls. He does what he says" She exclaimed with a pout.

Sasuke took a step closer looking down at the shorter female, "I could do that stuff too"

"But you didn't. And that same wise person told me that I am the rule. That I have to stop thinking that I will be the—"Before she could even finish her sentence Sasuke leaned forward, and kisses her in a long, slow, passionate kiss. Breaking the kiss Hinata continued, "—that I will be the exception"

"You are my exception" He whispers against her lips causing her to blush deeply as he continued the kiss.

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Kakashi finally arrives home looking around noticing that the place appeared to be empty. Figuring that his wife wasn't home gave him enough time to relax and think things through. Heading towards the stairs he noticed all of his clothes neatly stacked and folded into piles. Slowly approaching he sees a carton of cigarettes on top of one pile. "Shit…" His eyes caught sight of a note tapes onto the carton. Grabbing it he opening the letter it read that Ayame wanted a divorce. He slumped down to the floor clearly devastated by the turn of events.

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Girls are taught a lot of things growing up. If a guy punches you, he likes you. Never try to trim your own bangs. And someday you will meet a wonderful guy and get your very own happy ending. Every movie we see, every story we're told, implores us to wait for it. The third act twist…the man who couldn't get it together finally figuring it out, the unexpected declaration of love…the exception to the rule. What we're not taught is how to read the signs. How to tell the ones who want us from the ones who don't. The one's who'll stay from the one's who'll leave. And ultimately, we're not taught the one thing that could save ourselves, our friends, our family countless hours of confusion, despair and speculation. That sometimes the happy ending…is just moving on. But I must say…I finally found love and for the first time I'm truly happy.

Months had passed since that confession. Sasuke and Hinata are inseparable. Naruto wasn't used to couple at first but slowly started mending to the fact they are a couple and a happy one at that. However, he never made a relationship with Sakura much to his dismay but it grateful for his friendship with her.

Neji and Tenten finally had gotten married, the wedding was a very small but it was the most beautiful wedding Hinata has ever been to.

Ayame had cut off all communication with Kakashi but sometimes the masked male had a habit of calling Hinata to check up on his ex-wife, which Sasuke didn't approve off and said so when Kakashi called again. Ever since then Kakashi never called back. But besides that the main couple Sasuke and Hinata couldn't be any happier with each other.

The male Uchiha gazed over at the sleeping female in his arms as he smiled to himself. "You are definitely my exception. I love you Hinata" He whispered to himself, unknown to him Hinata wasn't sleeping.

"I love you too, Sasuke" She smiled completely startling him causing her to giggle and cuddle closer towards him.