The plan

Chapter three

Hinata woke up early the next morning. Although you cannot really call it waking up when you are up all night, tossing and turning. Thinking what Sasuke meant by brainstorming and coming up ideas. She sees the clock striking six o'clock. She starts getting ready, showering, changing into her ninja gear. That way people won't get suspicious about her going to a training ground early. Just in case the negotiations fall through, she might want to be ready to punch some damage into those training dummies anyway to keep her mind otherwise engaged.

She went into the kitchen, the cooks were busy with making breakfast. Normally she would have loved to help them, but the nerves aren't working in her favor. She requests to take her breakfast away in a bento box. She decided to take and extra bento box with her for Sasuke. If he doesn't want to have it, it will be her lunch.

She puts both the bentos in her backpack. She sees the red scarf she made for Naruto before he was together with Sakura. She doesn't remember how much time she spent on making the red scarf but it is twice as long as herself. She wanted to give to him and confess her feelings, again. But before she had built up the courage, Naruto was happy in a relationship and even more love with Sakura than ever before. She kept it in her backpack as a reminder to always have the courage to tell how you feel before it is too late, hoping that one day she might have it.

The sunrise was now almost 30 minutes ago. She decides to simply walk to the training ground, he isn't really waiting for her anyway. He said to drop by whenever she wanted. She used the time walking thinking about what to say, demand and negotiate with Uchiha Sasuke. She expects him to have a list ready for her.

'We need to discuss many things if we want to succeed at this plan. For example we need to get our stories straight about how we got together and started dating. We have barely spoken in the previous years. We need to learn something of the other that the other doesn't know but what people expect to know from someone they love.' she mused.

'We have two weeks until Sakura and Naruto return from their Honeymoon. Are we going to start then. What kind of schemes do we have to start before then. It will be quite time consuming too.' She mused further. She was getting close, she already reached the edge of the village. She starts to walk faster and passes training ground two.

It doesn't take long until she hears the familiar sounds of someone training. It sounds like it was a sword fight with the familiar sounds of lightning. 'This must be the correct training ground, without a doubt.'

Hinata turns the corner and sure enough sees the Uchiha concentrating on his mock battle against a clone of himself. She decides to stand back, not wanting to disturb him or being thrown in the middle. Ninja's in fighting mode can sometimes just be too focused on fighting that they forget where they are. She observes his movements, however with how fast he is going she is having a hard time keeping up with his speed. She activates her Byakugan to follow his movements even better. The small amount of chakra she uses, gets noticed anyway by Sasuke. He stops his sparring and turns in her direction.

"Hyuuga, do you like to sneak into someone's training ground?"

"You said to stop by whenever I was ready. I am ready and we have a lot to discuss, Uchiha-san." She dropped her backpack near the exit of the training ground.

Sasuke nods his head and waits for to continue.

"First we need to address some ground rules. I was thinking that we cannot tell anyone." Hinata begins.

"Like I have someone to tell. My only friends in this village are either the persons in question or the Hokage. Also if you tell any of your teammates something, I am going to tell Naruto and Sakura about our plans." Sasuke threatens her in a low voice.