#hinata

They split the water bottle and drank it in 2 gulps each, glass in hand they made their way to the fresh smell of summer rain. When walking out the door Hinata’s shoulder bumped into another girl, each of them apologizing to the other.

It was a chaotic, yet relaxing place.

Her feet were also hurting quite badly, she wasn’t used to so much movement and jumping around. Her life is quite stationary.

Ino pulled out a pack of wet wipes and offered her one, Hinata smiled and thanked her, she first wiped her forehead and tousled her bangs in an attempt to make them less wet. Phone out on the camera setting to see hoe her make-up survived.

It could have been worse, but she still slid the wipe under her eyes trying to make it a bit more decent. As she was doing that, out of nowhere a tan arm wrapped around her neck. Her eyes widened in shock and fear.

“You came!!”

A man’s voice. It took her mind a while to process what was happening. The drummer of the band was in front of her, smiling and acting as if they knew each other.

Perhaps seeing her pause Ino took hold of her hand and pulled her closer. The man also must have realized his mistake.

“Sorry, I was just really excited to see you! I work at that ramen restaurant, you came by some weeks ago listening to our song. Remember??”

That was why he looked familiar!! She couldn’t place him before, but now the memory came back. That was the first day she heard the song, and she was also blasting it from her phone.

“Oh my god! You knew I was a fan”

“I did!” His smile was huge. “I regretted not inviting you to the concert then, but here you are!” The blond looks over his shoulder. “Guys come come!”

In a few moments the full band was in front of them.

“This is her!” He was presenting her like a long-awaited answer. “The girl!”

Both her and Ino were a bit overwhelmed by the turn of events, but it was also so surreal to see them so close by, human. They felt so different on the stage, rockstars, like an entirely different entity from her.

“Hello, I’m Hinata this is my friend Ino. The show was amazing”

Sasuke, the singer smirked. “I saw you enjoy it. Thank you for coming, we’re glad you had fun”

“We also had a blast” the girl added quickly.

They were not introducing themselves, in normal circumstances she probably should have known their names, but..she did not.

Sasuke’s eyes were on her, he did see them during the concert, saw them screaming and living in the moment. He had pictured her so much in his mind from Naruto’s description of her. He pictured her weighted down to the ground and angry, but in this moment she seemed so frizzled, free yet shy.

Her eyes were red from crying, her voice horse from screaming along.

Sakura left after seeing a couple of her colleagues from med school, Naruto the ever social butterfly flew away to another group of people. It was him, the two girls and Sai. Unusual, he was even less social than Sasuke.

The two made eye contact. Sai looked at the blonde and nodded. Sasuke smiled in disbelief, but he looked at her, at Hinata and nodded also.

“Would you like another drink? On us of course”

Similar to Sasuke and Sai’s wordless conversation the girls exchanged a glance before nodding. The four of them walked back inside where the light dimmed once more, people were dancing to the music. Ino and Hinata were walking a step in front of them, whispering to each other, glancing over their shoulders at them and quickly looking away.

They sat at the bar, Sai on the left next to Ino, Sasuke on the right next to Hinata.

“We have a signature cocktail for the night, have you tried it?”

“No, not yet. But I suppose we should.”

Sasuke ordered 4 of them. Sai and Ino were already speaking, or better said the blonde was talking and flirting her way closer and closer to a very happy Sai.

Perhaps seeing the development, Hinata turned to Sasuke, trying to say something not to allow for awkward silence.

“You have a wonderful voice. Did you always sing?”

“Not always, we formed the band around highschool, that’s when I started writing songs also because nobody else wanted to do it”

“Oh, you write them all?”

The drinks arrived, Sasuke moved his a bit closer to her and leaned in, using the loud noise as excuse.

“Yes, I write every song we have out. Sometimes the others have ideas or come up with a couple lines but I do the majority of the work”

“Wow” her eyes were shining looking up at him. She was so beautiful and cute in that moment. “It must be so difficult to put everything in words so well. When I first listened to ‘I cannot’ it felt like it was written for and about me.”

Sasuke reached over to Hinata and caressed her cheek, her hair was stuck to her cheek from the warmth inside.

“It is for and about you. If you are able to relate so much that’s what matters most”

At his closeness, words, and move Hinata’s cheeks turned even redder and on instinct she looked down at her lap before looking back up, their eyes meeting because Sasuke was not pulling his gaze away.

Out of nowhere Sai was standing behind him, Ino’s hand in his.

“We’re going to dance” Ino also seemed to ask Hinata if she was comfortable being left alone with Sasuke. He was glad when she nodded.

“If you want we can go dance too, so you’re not too far from your friend”

Hinata’s mind was working at full capacity and maximum speed. Ino kept giggling about how these boys were trying to pick them up on the walk back inside the club. She did not think so…until the singer, whose name she still did not know, was inching closer and closer, touched her face and was now inviting her to dance.

Her heart was pounding out of her chest. He was so handsome, and so impressive and shiny and-

“Yes, I would like that” her words escaped before she could even think fully.

The music playing was more rock, yet Ino pulled the other boy close to dance together. A new issue arose. She did not know how to dance to this music, especially with a guy.

Perhaps noticing her sudden tense shoulders, the boy placed a hand on her waist and guided her closer. Her hands were trembling from nerves, and maybe a little bit anticipation. She had not been hit on much in her life so she did not know how to reciprocate wittily like Ino, not even how to accept it, but she wanted to.