Hinata walked through the halls of the high school the following day with worry and fear. It eased her to know Sakura was there with her the entire day, helping her avoid awkward situations.

"Look, it's that girl..."

"I wonder if she's okay..."

"Why would you?! She's such a slut. Look at her chest. It totally screams 'whore'..."

Whispers buzzed around her like flies to a trash can. She made no eye contact and only stared at the clear tile.

"Hinata..."

"I'm fine." Hinata replied quickly.

"No, Hinata." Sakura put her hand on Hinata's shoulder, "you walked past the classroom."

"Oh." Hinata blushed as she turned back and walked hesitantly through the open door. She didn't even want to look up at anyone. No one saw the video as sexual abuse. They only saw it as a sex tape that made her look like a prostitute. All done by the work of Hidan.

"Hinata, sit here..." Sakura instructed her.

"O-okay..." Hinata whispered as she sat in her assigned seat, Sakura plopping down next to her.

Hinata noticed Sakura gesturing to someone across the room. She turned and saw Sasuke and Naruto. Sasuke only shrugged towards Sakura as Naruto caught Hinata's eye. He smiled sympathetically and waved. Hinata, being polite, smiled a little bit and nodded back.

"Alright, class." Mr. Hatake walked in, "oh, Hinata, welcome back. May I please have a word with you after class?"

"U-uh..." Hinata glanced towards Sakura, "o-okay."

Sasuke and Naruto shared horrified looks at Hinata's response.

"Thank you." Mr. Hatake turned to the whiteboard and started the lecture.

All throughout the class, Hinata felt eyes piercing through the back of her head. One of them being Naruto's, who was watching her for completely different reasons than the other students. After what felt like years, class was over.

"Y-you wanted to talk to me?"

Mr. Hatake crossed his arms, "yes. It's about that video."

Hinata swallowed hard, but nodded.

"Hey!" Naruto shouted, "she has nothing to say!"

Mr. Hatake turned to the intruding yellow-haired boy, "Mr. Uzumaki, you have no association with what happened."

"I do!" Naruto protested, "Hidan set her up! He--"

"Enough!" Mr. Hatake cut him off, "detention for you."

Hinata, Sakura, and Sasuke looked at Naruto in shock, but he only kept his jaw clenched, turned, and walked off, Sasuke following him.

"Ms. Hyuga, following school policy, if you do end up pregnant, we'll have to expel both you and Hidan. That would also go as a black mark on your college transcripts."

"Yeah, I understand." Hinata nodded slowly.

"Good. You can go." Mr. Hatake nodded towards the door, giving her permission to leave with Sakura following close behind.

"Why didn't you deny anything?"Sakura asked incredulously.

"That would've gotten me in a deeper hole."

"Hinata, Naruto's right. You have to tell someone about Hidan!"

Hinata looked her in the eyes, "can you imagine what Hidan might do to me if I tell someone?"

Sakura planted her hands on Hinata's shoulders, "but can you imagine what he might do to you if you don't tell anyone?"

Hinata pursed her lips, then turned and started walking the other way, "maybe later."

Sakura watched her walk off and sighed in frustration.

"Is she okay?"

Sakura turned to see Ino and Tenten now standing next to her, "she's just frustrated..."

"It's Sasuke's fault..." Ino crossed her arms.

Sakura rose a brow, "Sasuke's?"

Tenten nodded, "I guess you can say that. He really should've stayed with her at Kiba's party..."

Sakura thought back to that night, not too long ago, she remembered everything so clearly and so vividly...

"Come on, Sasukeee..."

"Sakura, snap out of it, you're drunk."

Sasuke held Sakura's arm around his shoulders as he fumbled for her keys, trying to open the front door.

"Sasuke, we should go to a bar or something to drink more." Sakura giggled.

"No, Sakura." Sasuke muttered as he led her up to her room, "come on, you need to get some rest."

"Noooo, but Sasuke..."

"Not buts. I'll stay here until you sober out." Sasuke told her reassuringly.

Sakura bit her lip. She hadn't remembered that at all. What she did remember is the morning after, waking up to see Sasuke sleeping on the floor next to her bed. This eventually led to her throwing her alarm clock at his head, him yelling at her, then explaining in detail what had happened the night before. Though she picked up on the fact that he was still hiding something from her. He avoided her the rest of the day, and it made her feel worse that she made him worry more about her than about Hinata.

"It couldn't have been Sasuke's fault." Sakura rubbed her elbow, "he didn't mean to leave her for that long."

"Oh yeah, sure. You're just saying that because he's your boo, is that it?" Ino rose a brow.

"What?!" Sakura denied, "of course not! I would never like him that way! He's just my best friend. Along with Naruto." At the sound of his name, Sakura immediately remembered what she meant to do, "Crap, I need to go find Naruto..."

"Alright. See you." Tenten waved as Sakura ran off.

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"Why were you going to say that? Let her say whenever she's ready, you moron!" Sakura crossed her arms once she got to Sasuke's house, where she found Naruto and Sasuke on the front porch, "and what happened to laying back?"

"I forgot..." Naruto scratched the back of his neck, "it was instinct."

"You realize..." Sasuke took a sip from his soda, "she never really needed you to say that. She had it all under control."

Naruto only gave him a purely sarcastic look, "gee, you really are helping out with this whole situation."

"Hn." Sasuke chuckled, "so if we can't help Hinata through her, then who do we--"

"I got it!"

The two boys turned to Sakura, "you have a plan?"

"Yeah." Sakura pointed at Naruto, "you want to help her, right?"

"Of course."

"No matter the consequence or the risk?"

"Well, I guess it depe--"

"You should go talk to him."

Naruto stared at her, "talk to who?"

Sakura scoffed then shrugged, "Hidan, of course!"

"That's like sending him off on a death sentence." Sasuke murmured.

"I have to."

"What?!" Sasuke stood up, "you idiot! What are you going to do? He's a major athlete, and what are you? Naruto, Sakura and I have seen you beat up near death once. We're not going through that again."

Sakura looked from Sasuke to Naruto. She didn't know who to support, and it was tearing her apart.

"Don't worry about me." Naruto chuckled, "if I die, I die. You guys will know that Hidan's the one who kills me, and he'll be tried for that. At least the bastard will get what he deserves." Naruto leaned his head back and watched the dark clouds moving in.

"Naruto..." Sakura watched Naruto as he started walking off.

Naruto stopped as he felt a raindrop fall onto his face, "You'll see. I'll bring Hidan down. For Hinata. I'll be fine, you know?"

Suddenly, the downpour came, Naruto quickly ran down to his car, with nothing but Hinata, Hidan, and that killing instinct on his mind.

"Naruto!! Ah, that moron..." Sakura sighed, "he's going to get himself killed, Sasuke! We need to do something!"

Sasuke shut his eyes and sighed, "he has a point, though. If he doesn't do it, then who will. All suspicion lies on Hinata, Hidan is way too cool to be seen as a rapist. He made her do some terrible things, who could let him go after that?"

Sakura stared at Sasuke's emotionless face as he watched the rain fall. She sensed something very different about his personality, after the other night, "Sasuke..."

"Hn?"

"Are you okay?"

Sasuke avoided eye contact with her, but nodded, "yeah."

The two watched the rain and where Naruto's car used to be. It really scared them both to think it would never be there again, after tomorrow.

"Where's your car?"

"I walked."

"From the school?"

"Yeah. I normally walk home from school. And if I come over, I usually ride with Naruto, but he left before I could get a hold of him."

"Ah." Sasuke looked in her direction, but not directly at her, "well, you can stay--"

"No, no, it's fine. I can call my mom to come pick me up or something."

Sasuke was silent, then sighed, "just come in, before you catch a cold. I'll drive you home."

Sakura looked at him, but he didn't look back at her as he held the door for her, "okay, thank you."