Chapter no.31

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"Di…., Did he see me?" Hinata questioned herself and then turned around to look at Sasuke, but when she did, she saw nothing but the post. Sasuke had vanished. "What the heck, where did he go?" Hinata Asked herself, nervously

Who is it that disappeared? When Hinata turned around, she was confronted by Sasuke face to face.

"EPPP!" Hinata recoiled in surprise, her blush becoming even more obvious as she saw Sasuke standing right in front of her. She suddenly realised that she was only centimetres away from his face when she exclaimed, "S..., SASUKE-KUN!" Hinata shrieked as she collapsed to the ground and butted her head. "S…,, Sasuke-Kun, I'm sorry, very sorry." Hinata Apologised, embarrassment In her voice "Could I inquire as to why you are in this room? Do you know that this place serves as a training ground for members of Team 7? Your team's practise pitch is conveniently located just a few metres away from ours." Sasuke asked Hinata while helping her to her feet and giving her a helping hand. "I....., I know Sasuke-Kun....., I was Just a bit...., I....., I don't know....., But I felt a bit..., FREE!" Hinata responded. Hinata answered, giving Sasuke a fake smile while attempting to bring down her blush and asking, "Free?" despite the fact that she was lying. Sasuke questioned, dumbfounded, "What I meant to say was...., well I feel free today, my team has no missions so I sort of have the day...., off, I was Just...., seeing you I just felt a bit lonely." [Sasuke] "What I meant to say was...., well I feel free today, my team has no missions so I sort of have the day...., off." Sasuke was lied to by Hinata, she explained "You are aware. I am able to determine whether or not someone is telling the truth. Your tone of voice leads me to believe that you are not telling the truth; would you mind explaining to me what the issue actually was?" "Well, the truth is..., I was confused because-," Sasuke asked Hinata while making a smirking face at her. Sasuke interrupted Hinata and asked, "Let me guess, about that hug and talk we had yesterday?" Hinata was unable to continue. Sasuke Asked, Hinata nodded, "*Sigh*" Sasuke Sighed, "To tell you the truth, I had planned to talk to you about that today after I finished my workout. I suppose now is as good a time as any other to bring it up." Before reverting to his emo expression, Sasuke stated what he was going to say next. "Hinata..., please forgive me for what I did the day before." Sasuke apologised

"It's..., It's okay, I should be the one apologising....., I know it isn't good to do that because of our respective clan backgrounds." Hinata continued, "It's disgraceful to me for doing it, remember I hugged you first, not the other way around, therefore I should be the one apologising, not you." She said this with a tiniest smile on her face. "It's disgraceful to me for doing it." Sasuke explained, with a tone of disappointment directed at himself, "Still, that doesn't mean that It helped me though." When Hinata informed Sasuke of this, he stared at her with wide eyes and said, "In fact, I also want to thank you for hugging me. It helped my depression a lot..., I haven't felt this warm before since....., since....., my mother." Sasuke was referring to the time when his mother was alive. Hinata spoke softly, a note of melancholy in her tone, and asked, "You're mother?" Sasuke was perplexed, and to his knowledge, he had never previously been told anything about Hinata's mother. "How is your mother exactly?" Concerned, Sasuke inquired. He sounded as though he wasn't entirely sure why he was concerned, but he was.

"She's…., She's dead…, she died when I was five, a cloud nin came to the Hyugan mansion and tried to kidnap me as I was told while I was asleep…., my mom came to save me, only to meet….., an unexpected death, she was stabbed In the heart…., She….., She died, the cloud nin was executed by his village for treason, my father told me she was stabbed because I was In the way….., I was goanna die but she sacrificed her life for me." "Oh...., I'm sorry I Asked," Hinata said as tears began to form in her eyes. "I'm sorry I Asked." Sasuke expressed his regret, feeling sorry for the young man with the blue head, and apologised.

"That's okay. You were unaware of it." Hinata said as she wiped the tears from her eyes, "So I guess that's why you train hard, that's why you want to be strong, I know because I seen a video, a security camera footage of how you and Neji fought, The Third Hokage showed me in case I missed anything." Hinata was referring to the fight between the two of them. "So I guess that's why you train hard, that's why you want to be strong." Sasuke Explained "In part. My father considers me to be feeble and pitiful, and as a result, he tends to neglect me in favour of my younger sister, who is beginning to get the same treatment as I have. My father is always hard on her and I, and he always tells us that we will never make it to the position of clan head." The explanation that Hinata provided was as follows: "What about the elders in your clan, they must do something about It?" Sasuke questioned, "Well..., The elders respect my father and the actions he has taken..., They say that he is a great example of a clan head...., They see me the same way as they see my father." Hinata elaborated while a note of melancholy ran through her tone as she asked, "What about the other members of your clan?" Sasuke Asked

"The members in the main household attend to neglect me as well, because of my pity for the branch members...., The branch are ordered by my father that any contact with me shall be an immediate execution..., the only ones who respect me and talk to me are Hanbai-Nii-San and now Neji-Kun," he said. "The only ones who respect me and talk to me are Hanbai-Nii-San and now Neji-Kun." Hinata explained, smiling at the end when she talked about Hanbai and Neji\s"There's also you, Naruto-Kun, Choji-Kun, Shikamaru-Kun, Kiba-Kun with his dog Akamaru-Kun, Shino-Kun, Lee-Kun, Sakura-Chan, Ino-Chan and Tenten-Chan, along with Kurenai-Sensei aswell, with Tsunade-Sama and Shizune-San." A grin appeared on Hinata's face as she asked, "In a sense, I'm guessing that you consider us to be more of a family than your clan, am I right?" "I guess so," Sasuke replied, giggling at Hinata and taking pleasure in the fact that she was laughing. In response, Hinata said