Ridding Me of You

Author’s Notes: Okay. Here is another remake of chapter. No time to talk. Be back soon.

Disclaimer: Not until I became adopted someone from the Naruto world, I do not own it.

Chapter 20: When Sasuke is Obsessed

Sasuke just happened to be hanging outside the Hyuuga household because the team won’t be meeting today. He learned that Naruto and Sakura got themselves neck deep in shit. When he asked about it, Kakashi turned away and mumbled something under his breath. It sounded very much like, “How I can’t I get some?”

It didn’t take him long to connect the dots. When he did, a resolve formed on his head. If that dobe can get lucky, then by Kami, he is not going to be left behind.

This brings as back to his current plight. He is waiting outside of the Hyuuga compound as he is hoping to catch—literally—a certain girl with indigo-colored hair. Yes, he is dreaming quite big, but is nonetheless pursuing it.

It wouldn’t hurt. Not by much anyway if Neji chances upon him sprinting Hinata way for an afternoon delight.

Sasuke’s ears perked up when he heard footsteps nearing the gate.

“Hinata-sama!” called out a gruff voice, which Sasuke unmistakably identified as Neji-the-pest. “Are you going to day to the waterfall?”

Hinata mumbled her reply. She wasn’t able to continue with her initial intention of leaving the confines of her home as Neji-the-pest’s question acted as a blockade.

“I don’t like you being in your skimpy bathing suit there alone!”

At this, Sasuke nearly rammed the iron clad gates down and snatch Hinata from her too uptight… too sterile family.

“it is not skimpy!” Incredulity colored Hinata’s response.

“Your bikini hardly fills the palm of my hand!”

Sasuke distinctly heard Hinata gasp. Murderous intent filled the air, but he paid no heed to it. He was too busy gulping the water that constantly flooded the floor of his mouth at the vision of Hinata donning said skimpy bikini.

“N-neji! How—why—,” spluttered Hinata.

“it blew to my face when you left it hanging out today,” Neji interrupted defensively.

Sasuke snorted derisively while Hinata huffed.

“I’m going now, Niisan.”

Neji-the-pest’s exploasive breath reverberated inside the compound.

“I’m coming with you,” he said matter-of-factly.

“I’ll be wearing my bathing suit Niisan!” she protested.

Neji choked and sounded like he is in the height of utterly being flabbergasted. “I wont be watching you, Hinata-sama!” he exclaimed tightly.

Sasuke no longer heard Hinata’s answering remark. Instead the fate creaking open told him that his prey is going to continue with her little excursion with or without Neji.

He was trying to plan for methods on how to get rid of Neji-the-pest when Hinata spoke again.

“Niisan, o-onegai, I will be fine. I would appreciate it if you respect my wishes.” In plain sight, Sasuke watched Hinata bow deeply to her cousin, amazed at how her softly uttered words reverberated so much strength.

The curling of Neji’s lips showed much of his displeasure. It would seem that he had further arguments up his sleeve, but his nest words proved otherwise.

“Please come home as soon as you can. Hinata-sama.”

It Sasuke didn’t mind looking like an idiot or a clown he would have jumped into the air and clicked his heels together. The way that he was raised thankfully prevented him from doing such Mary-Poppin-like-stunt, appropriate though it might be for the situation.

Sasuke breathed in deeply when Hinata passed underneath the tree he was hiding in. Indeed, when he had mentioned that he was hanging outside the Hyuuga compound, he was truly hanging around. He couldn’t risk easily being seen on the street after all.

Ah her nice clean smell, He was inhaled deeply again. Her scent lingered and he wallowed in it. It’s as if she never left.

“S-sasuke-san?”

Fir the first time since he had learned to work, Sasuke lost his balance… and nearly, nearly fell off the tree. Even Hinata was poised to catch him, something that he would have lived with if it did happen.

Regaining the bits of dignity he that has left, he scrambled back up to the branch he was sitting on before. Secure now in his position, he cleared his throat.

“Ohayo.”

Hinata’s brows creased ever so slightly. She stared at him for another second and then moved on her way.

He didn’t know what to make of her reaction. Nonetheless, he was thankful that she didn’t prolong—now to be called as—his most embarrassing moment.

Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and leapt from tree to tree following the direction she was going. Hinata kept track of his presence. She never failed to glance up, to check on his location or marked to check is he was still around. Her face remained blank at the times that he allowed her to catch sight of him. This should not have bothered him as he is naturally stoic himseld, still Sasuke willed for her to show some sort of reaction.

At some point, the howle thing about him trailing after Hinata got a little weird. Not in the sense of someone else watching them with a popcorn in hand, but rather because they were simply walking around in circles. They were coming back to the same place as before.

Losing the nonexistent patience that he has, Sasuke jumped in front of Hinata, arms crossed on his chest.

“Do you want me to get lost?” He asked bluntly.

She gasped, taken aback by his actions. Her eyes flickered to his, but they quickly were averted away. She mutely lifted a fisted hand, seeming as though to place it against her lips. She dropped it, however, huffed and side-stepped him. She was to say the least troubled.

He didn’t know what it was that confused her. It he had an idea of what is was—insensitive cod that he is—he would have brought it up, driven a nail through it just so that he can clean the air.

“Not answering me is not going to make me disappear you know!” He called out shen Hinata decided to ignore him and proceeded to resume her trek to her destination.

“Naruto’s never going to be where you’re going,” Sasuke tried again.

The barely contained “eep” that escaped Hinata’s lips told him that he got to her. She swiveled around to face him again, eyes narrowed in irritation.

“I-I don’t always follow Naruto-kun around,” she said spiffed.

Sasuke raised an eyebrow tauntingly. “Could have fooled me.”

The color red would have envied Hinata when she flamed up in embarrassment. Being both angry and flustered made her look so endearing that Sasuke found himself getting pulled towards her.

“S-sa—“

The only thing that stopped him from colliding into her and pressing himself against her is the wall that she created with her hands. Said appendages rested firmly on his chest and Hinata strained with the effort of keeping where he was at.

Her breathing came in short and quick—something that he enjoyed guiltily. Mentally sla[pping himself, Sasuke reigned in his hormones and stepped a millimeter back.

“I want to got with you,” he said gruffly.

Hinata blinked at him a few times as though digesting the meaning of his words. When they did, steam blew out of her ears with much force, her color increasing intensely.

“You c-cant!”

“Hinata,” Sasuke said, his voice pained. “Can you please even out your breathing?”

“Eh?” Hinata replied in a strangled voice.

He sighed. Lowering his head til he came nose to nose with her, he said “You’re making me…”

Hinata instantly back-pedaled several yards way from him.

“I need to go!” She yelled and sped out of sight.

Sasuke silently cursed the space that came between them and exercised extreme patience in not using his katon to burn the offending distance.

“Wait for me, Hinata.”