Here is chapter 4 guys. Enjoy. This is dedicated to my best friend who always inspires and encourages me to write further.

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A few more days passed in harmony. The weather was sunny again for some days and Hinata and Sasuke's acquaintance progressed a little. He did not talk much even now but she did not mind and they both sat in a somewhat comfortable silence in classes.

Friday arrived and Sasuke just got out of economics when someone bumped into him from behind. "For the sake of every kind of God there is up there..." Sasuke said to himself as he turned around, annoyed.

The person who had bumped into him had been no one other than Hyuga Hinata, who was busy picking up her books. "Sasuke." She acknowledged.

"Hyuga." He countered, not so angry anymore. Why? Because she was just clumsy sometimes and thinking otherwise was hoping that Naruto would pick saving you from falling to your death over a year's supply of ramen.

"I have a name you know." She said, continuing to pick up the things she had dropped.

"Whatever. Watch where you're going." He said, turning to walk away. He caught sight of her looking at him annoyed and that just made him smirk.

"You could help me you know." She said, as he walked away. He stopped and looked over his shoulder.

"Why would I do that?"

"Oh I forgot, it would hurt your ego if you helped me." She said, finishing picking up her books and walked in the same direction as him. Seeing as they had lockers next to each other (Hinata had a hard time living through murder attempts by fan girls after they found out), they walked side by side.

"It's your fault for being clumsy." He shrugged. He moved his bag pack from one shoulder to the other. She looked a little strange.

"I'm sorry. I'm just excited." She said.

"You're always a little cheery and annoyingly distracted. Any particular reason for this episode though?" he raised his eye brow. Not that he cared much but she did look kind of distracted.

"It's nothing. I just have to go somewhere tonight." She said as they reached their lockers.

"Alright then." He said as he moved to his locker and exchanged books for the next class.

"Oh Sasuke!" she said, suddenly as he was about to shut his locker. He looked over to her inquiringly and stopped.

"Your jacket." She smiled as she handed him his jacket with pink cheeks. Oh yeah. He had lent it to her. He had quite forgotten.

"Took you long enough." He said, taking it.

"I'm really sorry but I didn't have enough time to wash it before and now that I did, it's all yours." She said. She had hoped he would not mind waiting for the jacket. She wanted to give to him in a good condition.

"Yeah, whatever." He said as he slipped it on over his polo shirt. It smelt good. Like the spicy, tangy smell of lavenders and the sweet smell of something he did not identify. Did he smell girly? If so, he needed to get back the old smell of mint and coffee.

She was still looking at him. He raised his eye brow. "Um...Thank you again." She said.

"You've said that already." He said as he slammed his locker. She nodded and exchanged her books.

Hinata was about to head to class when she noticed Sasuke was still standing, leaning against his locker. Was there something else he wanted? "Um...is something wrong?" she asked.

He looked over with a sigh. "Walk to class with me." He said, putting his hands in his pocket. Well....that was certainly not a request. Not with someone like Sasuke.

She nodded and started walking to class. They both did not say anything while walking to class and took their separate seats in class.

Hinata wasn't sure why but she decided to glance in his direction once. He was looking straight towards the board and occasionally writing something in his notebook.

She smiled and got to work, unaware of someone looking at her from behind. Someone possibly not friendly.

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"Finally! The weekend!" Naruto yelled into Sasuke's ear as they walked towards the parking lot together.

Sasuke did not even flinch at his loudness, as he was accustomed to it by now, although he looked slightly annoyed. "What's gotten you so happy?" he asked, sighing, knowing Naruto was dying for him to ask that.

"I said that I couldn't tell you that Teme, but now that you're so insistent..." Naruto trailed off and looked at Sasuke. Sasuke rolled his eyes and walked faster.

"It's this party. All of us boys are gonna go." Naruto announced. Sasuke raised his eyebrow. "And all of us includes?" Sasuke asked.

"You know, Kiba, Shikamaru...everyone." Naruto said "It's at Sakura's place by the way." Sakura's parties were fun and even Sasuke admitted that. That did not mean he was going there. He had better things to do. Like watch television the whole day.

"You should come." Naruto said when Sasuke didn't reply "It's the first party of junior year. Plus you can get anyone to come with you."

"You guys can go. I'll think about it." Meaning 'I will not go there in a million years and I never considered your offer or considered saying yes, I just did it to get you off my back.'

"You're not coming are you?" Naruto asked. Damn....he knew Sasuke too well.

"I have things to do." Sasuke excused.

"What things?" Naruto asked.

"What are you, my wife?" Sasuke said, irritated "I just don't want to go."

"Fine....go spend time with your stick in the ass self and we're all going to have fun. Personally, I wanna see Hinata-chan there."

"She's going to the party?" Sasuke asked, stopping walking.

"Yeah of course. She's Sakura-Chan's friend." Naruto said as if it was the most obvious thing ever. 'Sorry idiot, but we don't all keep tabs of pretty girls with midnight blue hair and their friends' he thought to himself.

Wait...did he just think she was pretty?

"She's beautiful. And she's really nice too. She helped me with literature homework the other day. She's an angel honestly..."

Naruto kept rambling about Hinata and how great she was and Sasuke rolled his eyes. 'Please don't let the idiot have a crush on Hyuga' Sasuke thought. The constant ranting would kill him if that happened.

"Whatever Naruto. I'm going home. I'll tell you if I'm coming to the party or not later." Sasuke rode off in his car and only then Naruto realized his best friend was already gone.

"Yeah, later Teme." Naruto mumbled to himself and left to find his neon orange car.

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Hinata glanced at the clock. It was 8'o clock. She decided to head out to Sakura's place to help setting up for the party. She was currently dressed in a long T-shirt and jeans over sneakers. She had decided to change at Sakura's place like the girls had originally planned.

She shouldered her duffel bag and called out to Neji. "I'm going now." She said.

"Let me drive you." He said, wearing his jacket as he stepped out of his room.

"I can walk. Her house isn't even that far. And you are supposed to come there with your friends. I don't want to ruin your plans."

"You can't possible ruin my plans Hina. And it's night. I can't let you walk alone." He said, grabbing his keys "Besides, I'll go over to my friend's place as soon as I drop you off. I don't want to spend an hour with girls gossiping and getting dressed."

Hinata playfully slapped his shoulder and he smiled. He pulled out the car from the driveway and they set off. After 10 minutes, they stopped in front of Sakura's house.

"See you Hina."

"Later Neji." Hinata said as she skipped off into the house. She knocked on the door and it was opened by Tenten.

"She's here guys!" she called out as she pulled Hinata into the house.

"Hi everyone." Hinata said, smiling at the sight of her friends which included Sakura, Ino, Temari and Tenten all smiling widely.

"Hina! We were wondering where you were!" Ino chirped as she hugged Hinata.

"Ino, we just saw each other at school today. We even had practice." Hinata giggled. Ino didn't look like she heard and continued to hug her as if it had been 10 years since they'd last seen each other.

"Anyways, how much preparation is left?" Hinata asked as Ino backed off.

"We're almost done. You can help by putting the snacks in these bowls and put them on the table." Sakura said.

"Are you sure your parents won't mind Sakura?" Temari asked.

"I'm pretty sure they won't know. If they find out....well that's something else." Sakura shuddered. Ino and Tenten also shuddered, as if remembering something bad.

"What happened?" Temari asked.

"Just that....her mom can be pretty scary." Ino said.

"Figures. Looks like we know who she got it from." Temari smirked as Sakura scowled at her and then smiled.

"Anyways, the timing was 8 but I'm pretty sure people will start coming by 9. So let's get dressed." Tenten said as the finished putting the snacks on the table.

"Yeah, let's go. Everybody got their things?" Temari asked. The girls nodded and headed towards Sakura's bedroom upstairs.

They were going to wear semi-formal clothes. Just a little more than casual. While everyone was getting ready, Hinata deliberated her look.

She pulled her hair into a messy bun, which showed off her slender neck and her bangs framed her face. She applied a little eye shade to make her eyes look smoky and her lavender orbs stood out, making her look beautiful. She pulled on a midnight blue loose top over jeans and the outfit made her look amazing. She wore flat ballet shoes underneath and she was ready.

"Whoa....Hinata, you have an amazing body." Temari wolf whistled along with Tenten who stared with her mouth open.

"We know." Ino and Sakura said smugly as they saw her in the gym every day. Also in her cheer-leading outfits.

"Thanks?" Hinata said, smiling a little.

"Thanks?" Ino said, incredulously "You should see the boys ogle her in the gym and at practice. I would be jealous if it wasn't so funny to see them drool."

Sakura laughed too and Hinata playfully punched their arms. "Stop." She said, trying to scowl.

"Awww Hina you look adorable. And admit it, you love us." Sakura said, hugging her slightly.

"Okay I admit it." Hinata said, sighing in defeat. The girls cheered when there was a ring at the doorbell.

"Whoa....is it 9 already?" Tenten asked, looking flabbergasted.

"We took that long to get ready?" Sakura asked.

"Let's go. The guests are arriving." Hinata said, ushering them towards the door. The girls walked down the stairs and Ino opened the door.

It was a few guys from her class and she let them in. Slowly, the people started arriving and the party started to liven up.

The music was blaring loudly when Hinata saw Neji come in along with the rest of the boys. Naruto was grinning widely, Kiba was showing off his sharp canines, Suigetsu was nudging Juggo in the ribs and the rest of the boys were following.

"Hey guys." Hinata said, making her was towards the boys.

"Hinata..." Kiba started brightly and stopped when he saw her. Naruto looked at her and his eyes widened a little too.

"Hey Hinata." Neji said. Suigetsu was also staring at Hinata while Juggo just looked away after seeing her. They both never had gotten over the basketball incident.

"Is something wrong with you guys? Or is it me?" Hinata asked, when none of them spoke for a little while.

Neji slapped his forehead, looking embarrassed while Naruto, Kiba and Suigetsu continued staring. "It's not you. They're idiots." Said a voice and Sasuke made his way in front of her.

He was dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans, with his pale skin standing out. Hinata smiled. "I didn't think you'd come, actually." she said.

"Why?" he asked.

"You didn't look too social." She said.

Sasuke did not say anything but trailed his eyes over her. No wonder the idiots were dumb struck. She looked hot in her top and jeans, and those eyes. Sasuke had the decency to show some dignity although.

"HINATA! You look beautiful." Kiba and Naruto shouted simultaneously. Suigetsu was still quiet.

"Thank you." She said, smiling at them. Suigetsu swayed a little when she smiled and Shikamaru put an arm around his shoulder just in case.

"Let's go meet the others." Neji purposefully dragged them over, leaving Hinata and Sasuke standing there.

"So...um...would you like some refreshments?" she asked. He shrugged and she led him to the kitchen where the snacks were.

"What would you like?" she asked. "Whatever you're having." He answered, trying not to be distracted by her look.

"I'm having coke." She said. "What are you, 10?" he asked.

"No....I'm just...I'm not drinking underage." She said.

"Of course not. Well hand me the beer." He said, rolling his eyes. He had no clue what had changed his mind about coming to the party. But at the last moment, he had decided he should go to the party. Partly because Izumi had come to the house and he did not look forward to seeing his brother and his girlfriend make out shamelessly on the couch.

Sasuke looked around. Almost all the people in their year were here. The house was pretty big and everyone was having fun. The music was a bit too loud for his taste though.

"You don't strike me as the party girl either." Sasuke said suddenly.

"This was my friend's party. I could not skip it." She said, looking at him. She was looking at the people dancing and getting drunk.

"Do you dance?" he asked, before he could stop himself. An impulse crossed his mind before he shoved it away.

She looked at him in surprise for a moment before nodding. "Hn, go find someone to dance with then." He said as he finished the beer and walked away.

Hinata stared at his back for a while before scowling and leaving to see her friends. She made her way towards Sakura, who was talking to a few boys.

"Hinata, there you are." Sakura said as soon as she spotted Hinata. "Hi Sakura." Hinata replied, smiling.

"Is this your friend you were telling us about?" a white-ish haired guy said, stepping forward.

"Omoi, this is the very friend I was talking about." Sakura said, smiling.

"Nice to meet you Omoi. I'm Hinata." Hinata said, shaking hands with him.

"You're certainly prettier than Sakura let on." He said, smiling "Pleasure to meet you Hinata-chan." A red head stepped in front and slapped Omoi's head.

"Don't mind Omoi. My name's Karui. I'm his....friend" The red head girl said, smiling.

"I haven't actually seen you guys around Konoha high." Hinata said, shaking hands.

"That's because we're from Cloud High." Omoi said, sipping a beer. "We were just here for the weekend. Sakura's her friend so we came here. Not that I regret it now." He pointed to Karui and then winked at Hinata.

Hinata smiled and blushed a little. "Well, I'm glad. Do you want anything?" she asked.

"I want you to drink with me." Omoi said promptly.

"I don't see why not." Hinata said as she grabbed a coke from the table. "You're drinking that?" Ino suddenly came out of nowhere.

"Ino? And yeah, I am. Why?" Hinata asked, puzzled.

"Its rude to drink coke while your companion drinks beer. And besides, it's not like alcohol. I guarantee you it's a rule to drink at least one beer in a party" Sakura said, slapping her hands on Hinata's shoulders.

"I've never heard of that one before." Hinata raised her eyebrow.

"Of course not. When was the last time you threw a party? That's right....never!" Ino said as she thrust a beer into Hinata's hand.

Omoi raised his beer to hers and they both said cheers before drinking and Hinata had to admit, the beer was not that bad.

Sakura and Ino walked away, along with Karui, triumphant smiles on their faces. "I hope she has a boyfriend by the time this party ends." Ino said, rubbing her hands together.

"A date will do too." Sakura said.

"Or a couple of dates." Karui cackled and the girls walked away laughing.

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Meanwhile, Sasuke was hanging out with Naruto and Kiba, two loudest people he knew. "THIS PARTY IS SO AWESOME!" Kiba yelled as he jumped to the beat on the dance floor.

"I KNOW, RIGHT?" Naruto also yelled.

Sasuke stopped the urge to strangle them. He had tried to get away from them at the party but they always found him and dragged him back to the dance floor.

And it was better here, because there were all kinds of girls lurking at the party and Sasuke didn't want to deal with them right now. He wondered where Neji was. As if on cue, someone clad in a green jumpsuit came into view, dragging behind a mass of brown hair.

"LET US FLOW WITH THE POWER OF YOUTH NEJI-KUN!" Lee yelled. Neji looked like he wanted to strangle the dude. Sasuke understood. Seriously, he did.

Lee joined the others on the dance floor while Neji came to stand beside Sasuke. "Nice party huh." Neji commented.

"Hn." Sasuke said, looking at their friends dance stupidly.

"Well, there go any chances of them finding girl friends at this party." Neji mumbled. Sasuke agreed. All the girls made sure not to be within a hundred yards of the boys.

"I don't know, works for me, keeps girls away from here." Sasuke shrugged.

"Have you seen Hinata anywhere though?" Neji asked, looking around.

"No." Sasuke said. He noticed that Neji looked a little sick. He raised his eyebrow. Neji was turning....green?

"I....I'm going to...." Neji ran off without completing his sentence. Sasuke wasn't sure if he should follow him or not. He came back after a few minutes.

"You okay?" Sasuke asked, looking at him.

"I....feel sick. I should go home actually." Neji said, looking tired. Sasuke had an inkling he had not fully healed from the sickness yet.

"Why did you come if you felt sick?" Sasuke said, sighing. "I didn't want to make Hinata worry." Neji replied, sitting down on the couch now.

"Do you need me to drive you home?" Sasuke asked. Neji shook his head.

"I'll manage. Just make sure Hinata is okay." Neji looked at him and continued "This is her first party here and I don't want her to worry about me. I don't want anyone to make her experience unpleasant either and you're the only one sane around here. Take care of her."

"The fuck? How am I the only sane one you can leave your cousin with?" Sasuke asked, irritated.

"Sasuke.....please." Neji grit the word out. Now that was another matter. Sasuke's face broke into a smirk.

"I'll do it." He said. Neji nodded and turned to leave. "AND MAKE SURE SHE'S OKAY." he said before going.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Sheesh papa bear, I got it." He muttered. He left the couch to look for Hinata now. Naruto and Kiba weren't dancing anymore. Sasuke walked out of the lounge to see the initial stage of the party was over and everyone was getting drunk by now.

He could not see Hinata anywhere. Come to think of it, he couldn't see Sakura or Ino either. He walked to the kitchen, getting of the girls trying to seduce him along the way.

When he got to the kitchen, there was a crowd gathered there. Everyone was yelling "DRINK, DRINK, DRINK".

Sasuke figured it must be a drinking contest. Now only to find Hinata. He could not spot her in the crowd. He pushed through the crowd to see who was drinking anyway. He was not prepared for the sight in front of him.

Suigetsu, Kiba, Naruto, Ino and....Hinata were sitting at the table, drinking shots. Everyone was cheering and Sasuke figured everyone was drunk.

The contestants were laughing and giggling (Hinata). Kiba suddenly dropped to the floor, snoring. He was out. Hinata, Naruto, Suigetsu and Ino remained. A lot of other people were already on the floor. He didn't even want to know how many there had been there at the beginning.

"How many shots has she had?" Sasuke asked, grabbing Sakura's arm, who was giggling pointlessly. "I don't know....I stopped counting after 10."

10? NEJI WAS GOING TO KILL HIM!

He walked over to her and yanked her up by her arm. "You're not drinking anymore." He said.

"But I'm winning." She whined in a very un-Hinata like way. She was right though. The contestants had been reduced to Naruto and her. Naruto suddenly hugged Hinata tightly and started yelling randomly.

"HINATA CHAN....YOU'RE SO AWESOME! AND I THINK I KINDA LIKE YOU. I LIKE YOU A LOT. AND I THINK YOU'RE PRETTY. YOU'RE PRETTY TOO SAKURA-CHAN. BUT HINATA...MAN SHE'S SO HOT. I WANNA KISS HER! AND..."

"You won." Sasuke yanked her away from the table as he punched Naruto's face and he dropped to the floor. Suddenly a weird boy with white-ish hair grabbed Hinata's arms and hugged her from behind.

"Hina....you won the contest....cuz you're awesome." He said slurring his words "Can I kiss you now?"

"She's not kissing you." Sasuke pushed him away before Hinata could answer.

"Sasuke...that was....that was mean. And I want to kiss him." she said. She was trying to frown but was pouting instead...in a cute way.

"You don't want to kiss him. You want to go home." Sasuke insisted. Neji was paying him with two weeks of Onigiri with tomato juice for this one.

"I do?" she asked. He nodded as he dragged her with him. It was a wonder how she was still managing to look so pretty, despite being wasted.

"Where are you going?" Sakura asked as she came out of nowhere.

"I'm taking her home. Move." Sasuke said.

Sakura refused. "No you're not. We haven't even played Spin the bottle yet."

"Yay! I wanna play." Hinata giggled and jumped.

"Hinata, you have to go home." Sasuke insisted.

"Just one round. Please..." Sakura said, doing her puppy eyes thing which obviously worked on Hinata but not Sasuke.

"Please Sasuke-kun?" Hinata asked. Sasuke sighed and rolled his eyes which Hinata took as agreement and ran off with Sakura, dragging him.

How Sakura managed to wake up their drunken friends, he had no clue. Now, a good 15 people were present for spin the bottle, even though they were drunk.

"Naruto first."

Naruto spun the bottle and it landed right on some random girl. "Hallelujah. Praise the Lord Almighty!" Naruto whooped before practically jumping on her and kissing her, who laughed and soon it turned into a make out session, between the two drunks.

"I think they're out." Someone said.

"Okay then....I'm next." Sakura said. She spun the bottle and it started slowing down near Sasuke. Sakura's eyes lit up and Sasuke groaned. With a flick faster than his drunk friends could see, Sasuke managed to make the bottle turn to Kiba.

She looked sad but shrugged and kissed Kiba, who's eyes widened at the realization. Everyone was spinning the bottle now. Omoi's bottle landed on Hinata and they both looked at each other but Sasuke knew he had to prevent the kiss so Neji would not kill him.

As Omoi hovered above Hinata's face, Sasuke who was in next to her smacked his face hard. As a result, Omoi fell on his face and fainted which everyone blamed on the alcohol even though they had seen Sasuke punch him.

Oh innocent, amusing drunkards. Hinata's turn was the last. She spun the bottle and Sasuke got ready to punch whoever it landed on. Then something happened at once.

The bottle stopped at him. He was shocked initially for a second before Hinata practically jumped on him and kissed him.

Sasuke had kissed girls before but suddenly, he felt heat creep up his neck. He didn't know why, but this felt really good. He kissed her back and damn, he felt good. Her hands moved to keep him in place and he moved his hands into her hair. His hands fisted her hair and she put her arms around his neck.

Before the kiss could turn passionate, realization hit him and he realized he was supposed to be taking care of her, not kissing her, even if it felt really nice.

He broke away and looked at her face, flushed and smiling. Everyone else was looking at them. When he glared, they hastily turned back to the game. They probably wouldn't remember it later on.

He took Hinata's hand and dragged her up. "You're going home." He said, pulling her with him. She laughed and followed him gladly.

He knew he had to help Kiba and Naruto get home but then again, they might not come with him. "You guys need a ride?" he asked anyway. No reply. Naruto was slumped on the floor now and Kiba was yelling.

Sasuke sighed and walked out the door with Hinata. He led her to his car and helped her sit in the passenger seat while she giggled. "I think I've.....I've seen this...car before." She said, still giggling and now hiccoughing.

"I'm sure you have." He muttered while he secured her seat belt and shut her side of the door. He moved to the driver's side and slid inside. Thank God he had high alcohol tolerance and could drive despite drinking.

Sasuke started the car and made his way towards Hinata's place. He looked at her. She had her eyes closed and her brows were furrowed. Was she asleep? Whatever. He turned to the road again.

"Stop the car." She said harshly. He was a little surprised but complied with her request. She fiddled with the seatbelt and got out of the car. Sasuke also made his way out of the car. Hinata was sitting on the edge of the road, puking her guts out.

Sasuke sighed and moved to hold back her indigo locks. She vomited for another few moments. "You okay?" he asked, even though it was clear she was not. She was vomiting all the alcohol but whatever.

She nodded despite everything and he had no idea from where, but she wiped her mouth with a tissue. She nodded again and he let go of her hair. He had to note that her hair was very smooth and silky.

She groaned as she turned to his car again. "I swear if you puke in my car" he said as he helped her sit again.

"I'll try." She said, softly "I just hate alcohol."

Sasuke smirked. Yes, he was a sadist but this was funny. Hinata would remember not to drink again. However, not all things bad had come from her being drunk. For example the kiss. She was bolder while drunk.

He still had no idea why he returned her kiss instead of shoving her away and even enjoyed it. He was going mad. He shook his head and began driving as soon as they were both in the car again.

They reached her home safely. "I assume you can walk in on your own." He said. She nodded softly.

"Thank you for bringing me home." She said as she unbuckled her seat belt. He didn't say anything as she stepped out of the car.

"Good bye." She said and he raised his hand as a gesture of bye. She walked in quietly. Sasuke drove off in the direction of his own home, many things weighing his mind, the petite Hyuga being one of them.

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Author Notes: Another chapter done. I hope you guys like it. Do comment to let me know what you think and if i'm not developing the Sasuke and Hinata part enough. There will be more development and i also apologize if the characters are somewhat OOC because this is still my first time attempting to write them. Also excuse me if there are some grammatical errors. I will edit them later. Comments are appreciated.