The plan

Chapter five

After two more days of training the day arrived that they need to start planning. They agreed to come up with a few ideas in advance and will brainstorm if need be. Today they were going to discuss their course of action. Also they would choreograph a sword fight sparring match, it is going to be the match they will start when they are being spied on. Since Hinata can see if anyone is going to be watching, they need to be prepared, also Sasuke can sense other people's chakra.

Hinata has already been really vague the passed few days with her teammates, they usually trained on a daily basis but she had their her own training session to get to. She has known her teammates since she was twelve years old. She expects that Kiba is getting annoyed with her vagueness, Shino will defend her for a couple of days before getting fed up with it as well. She expects she has a few more days left, Shino might already be bugging her for information on her whereabouts. She used to be creeped out by that, but she knows they only want to help her, they are like her rowdy older brothers who would defend her honour if need be.

Hinata takes a little longer to get ready today. She wants to update her outfit a little and wants to run it by Sasuke as well. She still had her regular outfit on, but decided to add a tank top to her outfit. So she zips her regular shirt down a little, showing her tank top and just a little cleavage, not so much as making her completely uncomfortable but enough to make it believable to others that she can be enticing enough to attract the attention of the dark ex-rogue shinobi. She even added a little mascara to make her noticeable eyes stand out even more. She even thought of pulling her hair in the same bun as a couple of days before when Sasuke said it looked sexy. She still doesn't know if he was speaking the truth but she figures he will tell her anyway.

After arriving at the training ground, she noticed she was there first. That hadn't happened before. She picks up her sword and goes through a routine to slowly warm-up her muscles. It doesn't take long before she feels Sasuke's chakra approaching. When he finally arrives at the training ground, she has trouble recognising him. It seems that he has left behind his bandana and his ratted down poncho. Instead he looks real good, ninja sandals, pants, the standard. Then with a grey long sleeved shirt and a fitted white waistcoat. His hair looked longer, but the loss of the bandana is probably to blame for that.

He sees her and also takes in her slightly changed appearance. "I guess we were thinking the same thing, hn."

"Well... Geniuses tend to think the same." Hinata thinks out loud. "I do think that you look improved, I am glad you finally put away your poncho."

"What's wrong with the poncho?" Sasuke asks.

"Well, for one it looked like it was holding on together by a thread, I also had trouble predicting your movements." Hinata says.

"Well, don't expect things to get easy now." He flexes both of his arms and grabs his sword. Hinata stares at his bandaged arm. Sasuke notices and raises one of his eyebrow at her newfound fascination. "Can I help you with anything?" he asks her.

"Oh... sorry" Hinata looks down embarrassed. "I was just wondering and thinking, does it feel like a foreign thing to you? Your arm I mean?" Hinata asks out of curiosity. Sasuke looks at his arm, like he is studying it for the first time. He swings it around a bit before responding.

"In the beginning I wanted to rip it off every time I used it. But it grew on me, same counts for most people in the village actually." he explains.

"Most people?" Hinata asks. "Like who?"

"Well, Sakura and Naruto for example, Kakashi too." Sasuke mused. "And many more, although some are still in the process of growing on me."

"Do I fall in the last category? We haven't really talked before, but we spent more time together these passed days than we ever have before."