Warning-This chapter deals with a bit of explicit topic so if you are not comfortable with this, I suggest you wait for the next chapter.

Reminder: You are worth it.
I heard grunting which had immediately woke me up.

I walk around the apartment looking for her, then suddenly see her at the kitchen table.

"What are you doing?" I see her slam her cast on her book while trying to draw with her free arm.

"Idiot, let me help you." I place my hand on the book only to have my fingers squished in between.

"What was that for?!" I remove my fingers to see her hold the book close to her chest with a blushed face.

Noticing the color of it, I realize it's her sketch book.

Oh, right.

"I peeked through it already." I say which causes her to look up angrily.

"I honestly don't know what you see in that loser." I cross my arms to my chest.

'He's not a loser!' She signs at me.

"What's the point in going through the heartbreak, knowing he'll reject you? He's obviously in love with Sakura." I say in a low tone.

'You don't think I know that! I, at least want to let all my feelings go. I want him to reject me so I can move on and forget about him!' She writes down.

"You're stupid. You'll only get hurt & cry." I tell her.

'I know!'

"Like I said before,I can't stand to see you cry." I mumble to myself.

"So are you going to finish it or what?" I ask her as she places the book down and flips through the page.

I won't lie, that is pretty good.

"You could be a manga artist you know?" I say to her as she smiles a bit.

She begins to add color and is finally done.

"Can't wait to confess, huh?" I say feeling a bit uneasy.

"Mm." She says which surprises me a bit but it's not full words.

She picks up her utensils as she walks into the room.

As she does that I notice something in the corner of my eye.

"My old guitar?" I walk towards the guitar case next to the stairs.

I open it as I take out the old wooden guitar and turn it to the side.

Happy Birthday Sasuke-kun, thanks for being my best friend.

-Hinata

I remember this.

The deal between her and I.

The deal that led her to love Naruto.

We were kids when Sakura first stuck me for being rude to Hinata.

After a while Sakura had to move away due to family problems and the rest of Hinata's friends were switched into different classes due to reasons that the board didn't want to discuss not even to Itachi.

That left Hinata lonely.

I didn't feel sorry for her, not one bit.

That is until the whole thing with the dog.

Our deal was that she would allow me to bully her in order to fit in and in exchange we would be friends in secret.

She agreed.

The feeling of loneliness and longing for a friend had made her agree.

The night after my father died.

My family and I had just arrived towards the car where we would meet up with my mom who said that she would wait outside.

That's when we saw her getting thrown around but a group of men as if she was a rag doll, as if she was nothing.

She was defenseless.

Couldn't even cry for help.

That made her weak.

My father along with my brother had sprint into action as they ran towards the men to fight them off my mother.

Little did we know that they were armed.

To protect my brother & mother, my dad was shot 17 times in the back.

He was stupid.

For defending someone so defenseless.

So every time I saw her from then on.

I only felt anger.

The day almost everyone agreed to beat her up for getting rid of the cute girls in class.

I had no reason.

"You'll stop them, right?" She signed preparing herself with trust in her eyes.

"Mm." Was all I could say.

They held her by her wrists as blood escaped from her mouth.

"Sasuke! It's your turn!" The boys said to me as she smiled.

She knew I wouldn't hit her since we were friends.

But blood escaped her nose as I saw her face transform into my mother's.

That I begin to hit her harder and harder.

"Sasuke, that might be-" The boys tried to interrupt me but I continued.

That's when I felt myself being thrown to the ground.

"You're disgusting." I heard looking up at the blonde boy.

"And who are you?" I wipe the blood from my face as he also punches the boys holding her which causes them to let go and tumble back.

"Uzumaki, Naruto." He says as Hinata stands behind him with fear in her eyes.

No, not just fear.

Anger. Hatred. Loneliness.

She gently pushed Naruto and ran.

"Hey!" Naruto yelled but she had ran into the woods.

Itachi soon pulled up as he slapped me across the face.

"What the fuck do you think you were doing?" He curses at me for the first time.

"Sasuke Uchiha. Let this be the last time you do anything like this because family or not I will have you expelled!" He raised his voice which caused me to shiver.

"N-Nii-San." I say as tears swell up on my eyes.

"Enough. Get in the dam car." He yells as I'm already scared and walk towards the car as he exchanges some words to Naruto before leaving with me.

The next morning Itachi drove us to her house.

The house had a different vibe to it this time.

I knocked on the door excepting to see a mad Hinata.

"Sasuke-Kun." Her mother said.

"Where's Hinata?" I asked.

"Is your brother here?" She ignored my question.

"Yes, he's in the car." I point as she passes by me and heads towards the car.

I see Itachi's face as he punches the wheel.

His crying face.

It was the first time I saw it.

Why is he crying?

That's when I overheard.

Hinata tried to kill herself.