Third poke

Hinata trained for the whole day, by the time she was finished, it was late afternoon already. The sun was starting to go down. She swatted her sweats. It had been a while since she was in a mission, so she was training when she had time outside the hospital as well as the kindergarten.

She missed going on a mission. But, oh well. Her stomach grumbled getting her attention. She craved cinnamon rolls. The last time she had one was few days ago.

The other day, she forgot to buy herself one because she was too focused on getting the kids what they loved. She was overjoyed that the children and her shared the same favourite thing.

Her thoughts travelled to the incident happened on that same day. Of certain raven-head guy that made her annoyed. But alongside the annoyance, there was also a feeling she couldn't put a word. Was it, curiousity? Happiness? Eh no. Hm, she finally got the word. She felt excited.

She remembed his stupid smirks and without her knowing, a small smile appeared.

She was day-dreaming while walking to her favourite stall. The place was bustling with people around, but nonetheless people make way for the Hyuuga Hime. This lack of interruption had made her to continue her say-dreaming without looking around her surroundings.

People stared at her. Not because she looked weird or creepy being in her own world, but she was beautiful with her smile and distant eyes. Yes, Hinata Hyuuga was truly a princess in and out. Nobody could deny that.

Her thoughts on a particular handsome guy had been interrupted because she felt herself bumped into a wall. She grasped anything to hold so that she wouldn't fall.

Always! You need to be more cautious, Hinata! She scolded herself.

"Walking and day-dreaming like this, you must be thinking about me." A deep voice ringed in her ears with amusement.

She knew that voice, for she was thinking about that very person.

She met his eyes and glared to hide her blush, but she was Hinata. Everything that happened in her pale flawless face was undeniably hard to hide.

Sasuke Uchiha smirked at her. He leaned into her more, making her grip his black cloak tighter. Her heartbeat suddenly going miles per second.

"Are you purposely bumping into me, hoping that I catch you everytime, Hime?" Sasuke whispered in her ears.

"T-that's n-not w-what I w-want!" She looked down, feeling warm inside that he was always the one to catch her fall. Great, her stuttering was becoming worse with him around. Ugh!

Is she really falling for Sasuke Uchiha?

Oh.

She was still clutching on Sasuke. She quickly let go and walked away. Only then, she realised that everyone stopped what they were doing and watched her unwanted scene with Sasuke instead.

People quickly went back to their business when they noticed Hinata was looking at them. What if people start to gossip around? But she reminded herslef that she was a Hyuuga, she couldn't care less about hideous rumors.

She ignored when she heard footsteps behind her. She was annoyed at him, but she was more of flowery on the inside. She was annoyed that Sasuke was making her feeling like this.

This feelings that I had towards Naruto keeps appearing when I am with Sasuke. What is this? Wait- did I just said I had feelings for Naruto as in past tense?

Hinata shivered. It was getting scary for her.

Sasuke followed her, as he watched the princess's purple-blue hair swayed as she walked. Her lavender sleeveless blouse hugging her so well, he was unable to look away from.

He looked at the stall Hinata went into. Cinnamon rolls. He failed to hide his smile this time.

Hinata was beyond happy when her orders arrived. She bought a lot of cinnamon rolls, five in total. She squealed at the sight of the buns in a plate in front of her. For a moment, she forgot her anxiety about her last thought.

Her eyes were shiny, and quickly disappeared when Sasuke sat in front of her vacant seat.

He stared at her just now excited face had become gloomy. Hinata was glaring at him. He put his chin above his palm.

She ignored him because she was very hungry. She bit into her bun and closed her eyes in delight.

She sighed in contentment. Sasuke whom was watching was trying hard to not make a move on the girl because of her adorable face she was making.

She was on her second bun, almost finished when she realised he was staring. She ducked her head, suddenly feeling shy.

"U-uhm, d-do y-you w-want s-some?" Hinata offered a cinnamon rolls. Although she was angry at him, she couldn't ignore if he was hungry watching her eating. She must looked tempting eating her favourite food.

"I don't like sweet things." Sasuke replied, eyes still bore into her. Hinata was shocked.

"A-ano..t-then y-you must t-try t-this one first! I-it's v-very g-good, what i-if y-you could l-like i-it?" Hinata said excitedly regardless her stutters. She tore the bun into smaller pieces and offered it to Sasuke.

She held her hands out for him to take the piece, but he opened his mouth before he could stop himself.

Hinata widen her eyes.

What do I have to do? Is he asking me to feed him? Eh?!

You dumbass, what are you expecting? You look stupid right now, Sasuke, asking for her to feed you. Pathetic piece of sh-

She fed him anyway. Her hand was trembling so much. But neither of them notice because both were busy with their own feelings.

Her thumb accidentally touched his lips. Her eyes went bigger and she looked away while retreating her hand. Her cheek was red as she blushed.

Sasuke felt unpleasant feeling, almost like a warm feeling in his stomach at her behaviour. Kami.. he silently prayed he could be stronger to resist her.

He cleared his throat, "not bad." He nodded at her, without looking at her eyes.

"O-of course, it's t-the b-best!" Hinata giggled making him looked up at her.

Wrong move.

Because she looked too surreal. He felt like he was in a dream. If this was a dream, he needed to wake up badly.

Uncousciously, his two fingers came up from the table and went up until they reached her forehead.

Hinata saw the movement and quickly stopped his hand. Her thumb unexpectedly linked to his thumb and their palm were perfectly fit. Her delicate hand...

"D-don't!" Hinata said with fury face.

Sasuke realised that he was about to do it again.

Shit.

Her voice made him snapped out of his thought.

"S-stop, Sasuke-san! T-that p-poke m-made S-sakura-chan b-bothered! I-it must b-be s-special!" Hinata sadly stated. Her face was down.

She didn't want to fight with Sakura over a guy. That was dumb. She didn't fight over stupid things. She let go of their intertwined hands.

"Don't d-do it t-to s-someone y-you barely know, like m-me!" Hinata said and looked up to him. It burned her heart a little, but this was the right thing.

Sasuke was taken back. He knew he shouldn't. But he did it anyway.

Yes, his hand went to her forehead again and gave a little push.

She whined at him. She glared at him cutely. I did told him to stop!

"You're too cute to resist."

Hinata ignored him, pretend to not hear him but her cheeks gave it away.

She could hear her heartbeat. She silently pleaded it to stop beating so fast.

Sasuke couldn't understand how fast his heart could beat at the time. He wasn't normal and needed to do health check up, he thought.

Silence. Neither both of them made an effort to lock eyes.

"Hn. Naruto is going to be busy to handle the guys that will go on an mission next week." Sasuke stated.

Hinata nodded, but didn't understand the sudden statement from him.

Sasuke was observing her reaction toward Naruto. He smirked knowingly when she no longer blush or nervous hearing the dobe's name.

A win for him.

She gave him a question look. Sasuke just stared at her longer.

What does he want, now?

"You're no longer excited for Naruto? Few days ago, you were nervous around him. What changed?" Sasuke asked, eyes seeing through her.

Hinata felt nervous suddenly. Did I change?

She bit her lips. She didn't know what to answer.

Sure, she did admire Naruto to the extend of stalking him. He saved her several times and she was grateful and she did the same in gratitude. He was his inspiration and that was why she fancy him. She was so proud when he became the Hokage as she knew it was always his dream to be one.

She also knew his hardships he had gone through. He was heroic and she liked him for that. Did she liked him as a man? Hm. She deeply thought.

Seeing her deep in though, Sasuke's lips twitched.

Got you.

"I like Naruto!" Hinata suddenly said. Sasuke's almost to nonexistent smile turned upside down in split second.

Sasuke tried to not hear his heart broken so loud, so he coughed.

"Hn." And he walked out.

Hinata wasn't even finish talking! But she stared at his back as he walked away.

"I don't even get to tell him everything and he walked away already." She mumbled then huffed. She intended to tell that she liked Naruto as her inspiration to become stronger, yet she didn't get the chance. He was gone already.

Sasuke sighed.

"You don't deserve any good in your life." He whispered to himself.

"You're not sick, Sasuke." Sakura said as she checked his pulse and breathing.

"I don't understand. It went abnormally fast earlier." Sasuke explained with a pissed look.

"When exactly is earlier?" Sakura asked.

"When I was with Hinata." Sasuke held Sakura's stare as she went from curious to shock then to amuse in 0.01 second.

"You- forget it. I forgot you're not capable of feeling other emotions. This might be your first time to feel this emotion then after a long time. No wonder you look so lost." Sasuke raised his brow at this new attitude Sakura showed him instead of girly and sticky Sakura he knew awhile back. Did she moved on? Good.

"What emotion?" Sasuke demanded.

"Love. You're lovesick."

A dark laugh came from him. He got up to leave.

"Tch." Sakura heard before he slammed shut the door.

"Love? You don't deserve the good things in life. Let alone love!" He talked to himself and chuckled in disbelief.

"Bullshit." He whispered sadly.

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Poor Sasuke, he didn't deserve all the bad things happened to him 😭

Anyway, questions!

Have you ever heard Naruto's ost 'Blue Bird' Arabic version?

Ah if you haven't, please do!!! Because I get emotional every time I hear that and I want yall to be emotional too! 😭

And also what is/are your favourite soundtrack/ost from Naruto/Naruto Shippuden?

Thank you for reading! Comment and Vote would make me happy ❣️

P/s

I got my exam result for my last semester and omg I did good I didn't expect it 😭 I'm so happy despite the struggle because of covid-19 that made us unable to end our semester like normal and we had to do online assignments. I had a lot of lengthy assignments and the distractions at home were real. I did it I'm so proud of myself 😭❤️ probably the reason why I published this chapter sooner than I planned. Hehe!

Anyway, happy upcoming Eid! And im sorry for this lengthy a/n !!! This is the first and last!