Penance | By : Trollmia Category: Naruto AU/AR > General Views: 1920 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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‘Not real… he’s not real… not real…
he’s not real…’ She repeated the words over and
over like a mantra as she wandered back and forth inside her bathroom. He
couldn’t be real. Once she realized this she would walk out into her flat again
and it would be empty. It would be just her and Akamaru like it always had been
since she moved here. Yes, what ever her little sick mind had pranked her with
was not going to be there when she opened the door.
‘That’s right. I never saw him in the
first place. What ever he was… was just a figment of my imagination, a thing
that my twisted brain thought up to bring me down. Nothing else… nothing else.’
And with that Hinata took a deep breath
and unlocked her bathroom door and tiptoed outside.
A quick look into her bedroom, then
another one into her study. There was no stranger there. She took another deep
breath, this time out of relief and she walked through the hallway.
She passed the living room and the front
door. Nothing strange there either. It was just that black haired…
She stopped and took a step back and
looked at her sofa.
Dressed in one of her bathrobes, waving,
sitting on her sofa… was that damn figment of her imagination. He hadn’t
disappeared at all.
“Y-You?”
“Hi,” Sasuke said as he got up.
“S-sit down!!!” She choked.
He fell back and sat down on the sofa.
“AKAMARU!!” Hinata called for her
dog and the white coloured dog appeared seconds later at her side.
But the dog didn’t react to the… thing…
that was seated on her sofa dressed in one of her bathrobes. He just panted
happily and looked at her wondering what his mistress wanted.
“I told you – you are the only one that
can see me,” the figure on the sofa said.
Hinata just turned her head and curled
her lip a bit as if she was growling like a dog.
“I hate you,” she said and moved to go
into her kitchen. She saw him make a move to stand up. “Don’t you dare move from
that spot!!!”
Sasuke sighed and sat back down again.
This was going to be a problem. As long as she deemed him to be just a figment
of her imagination she was not going to acknowledge him.
“Hinata, I am not going to go away.”
“You do not exist!” she concluded from
the kitchen and Sasuke could hear her slam around with her pots.
“I do exist and I am very real even if
you don’t think I am,” Sasuke continued.
“I spent 10 years trying to get rid of
you damn demons and I will not allow you t-to come back into my l-life again and
cause me t-trouble!!”
Her voice trembled a bit when she spoke
from the kitchen. Sasuke rubbed his forehead. This was not getting anywhere. He
had to do something. He rose from the sofa, and as he did he let the robe fall
from his body and then he walked quietly towards the kitchen. He could see her
move around and it looked as if she was going to make herself some tea but she
was shaking so bad that nothing worked for her.
And what disturbed him the most was when
he saw tears fall from her eyes. She tried to keep them from falling but it was
in vain.
“Sit down, Hinata, and I’ll help you
with that,” Sasuke muttered as he took the tea kettle from her hand before she
dropped it.
She began to stutter but he just gently
pushed her down on one of the chairs and then began to make her some tea. She
was in no condition to do anything, not unless she wanted to make a fiery chaos
of her own kitchen.
Hinata rubbed her eyes. What she was
just too unreal. Moving around in her kitchen was this.. this demon. This almost
naked demon with wings folded against his back and he was making her tea!
It didn’t take Sasuke very much time to
prepare the tea for Hinata. He put the cup in front of her and stepped back,
giving her space. She just blinked and he grunted.
“Just drink it already, I haven’t
poisoned it.”
Hinata took a deep breath and sipped
some tea. She blinked and looked up in surprise.
Sasuke snorted again as he crossed his
arms.
“You pick up one or two things if you
have lived as long as I have,” he stated.
“The robe?” she mumbled as she cupped
the porcelain cup with her two hands and sipped some more tea.
“It was cramping my wings,” Sasuke said
and made a small flapping noise to prove his point.
Hinata blushed as she looked up over the
cup and watched him move his wings just a little bit.
“C-cant you use a-anything to c-cover up
a bit?” she asked as her eyes lowered again.
“Why?” Sasuke asked but you could detect
a small smile on his lips.
“B-because!!”
Sasuke sighed a quiet alright and headed
towards her bedroom. Two minutes later he came back – with her sheet around his
body, like a toga.
“There, is this better?” he asked her.
Hinata just gaped.
“Smells like you… nice,” he said as he
raised one end to his nose and inhaled the soft fragrant of the woman in front
of him.
Hinata, true to her very shy nature was
about to die from acute blushing. She gulped down her tea, almost burning her
tongue in the process in order to calm her self down.
“Hey, take it easy,” Sasuke scolded as
he walked closer but he halted when her hand came up in a stopping gesture.
“P-please… just… keep distance,” she
whispered.
“Alright, but please, Hinata… you don’t
have to fear me.”
Suddenly Sasuke was met by a pair of icy
white eyes. And a voice reached his ears, something he hadn’t heard in a long
time – hatred.
“Oh really? And why should I not fear
you? You are a demon. And the likes of you made my childhood miserable, your
kind made my childhood into a hell!” Hinata’s voice dripped of ice and hatred as
she rose to her feet and took a step closer.
Sasuke waited until she stood just
inches away and he looked down into her face, taking in every aspect of her
delicate features.
“Even if… even if my childhood demons
were only figments of my overactive i-imagination.. I still… I still can’t
accept that you’re real.” Her voice came out as she pushed a finger into his
chest, poking him.
“Why?” Was Sasuke’s immediate reply.
“Because they will find out,” Hinata
whispered. “They will find out and then they will come back for me… and lock me
up in that p-place again. I hate that place. S-so cold… so lonely.”
Sasuke frowned and he cupped her cheek
with one hand.
“I’m sorry, but I will not go away. What
ever demons you met in your passed. I am nothing like them, I promise. I’ll be
around until the day you pass on to the next world because you are the very
first living being I’ve been able to talk to… you can see me.”
Hinata just shook her head as her eyes
closed and she let her tears spill freely.
“Hinata, look at me, please.”
No reaction, just more tears.
“Just let me be with you.”
“I… I can’t…”
“Yes… I just… I just want to be with you
ok? You can see me, you can talk to me… I do my best to help you… Just… just let
me be with you.”
Just hours earlier Sasuke had been used
to the loneliness but now when he had found someone that could see him, could
talk to him – he was not content to go back to that life again. Not until nature
ripped this woman from his grasp.
Hinata blinked away a few tears and
looked up as she heard the pleading voice of the demon. And in his red tinted
eyes she could see it. The despair, the longing of being connected with someone,
with anyone.
And she was a kind soul. She was one of
those that hated to see other people in pain and she often went out of her ways
trying to alleviate some of that pain. So how could she force him out of her
life now when she had seen his pain?
Hinata nodded as her hand reached up to
touch the one that was cupping her cheek.
“One condition though…”
Sasuke nodded.
“Ruin my life and I’ll get my friend to
seal your demonic ass to my soul so you’ll never get rid of me… never!!”
Sasuke smiled and leaned closer and
kissed her other cheek.
“You got a deal lady,” he said.
Hinata nodded, totally unaware what went
on inside Sasuke’s head at the moment.
Oh he had been afraid that she would get
him to promise not to “feed” from her, being an incubus and all, but no… instead
she had just asked him to just make sure that he didn’t cause her any trouble.
“Do you demons drink tea?” Hinata asked
as she moved away from the sheet clad incubus-demon.
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