Forgiveness

Proposal

Sasuke woke up late in the morning he was about to get up from his bed to get ready and leave for his training but he forgot that Naruto wouldn't be there, he sighed the first thing he did when he woke up was sighing this was the third day and even though Naruto was away ,sasuke heard a knock on his door
(this better not be sakura)
Sasuke walked to the door and opened it wearing his worst glare to scare whoever dared to ruin his morning, sasuke came face to face with another glare, shikamaru stood at his door and with the same look sasuke reflecting to him both didn't like the other
"kakashi-sama needs to see you"
Sasuke smirked with a raised brow leaning on his door frame "Kakashi?sama?" , he was calling him kakashi by only his name not like Naruto and sakura who added 'sensei' but sama was new to him.
Shikamaru was already on his way back but he looked back
"if you haven't known kakashi is the hokage now show some respect to him"
Sasuke loved to get in people's nerve so what made shikamaru any different "I only give my respect to the people who deserve it"
And that made the nara stopped and looked back "at least be grateful uchiha If it wasn't him you would still be outside looking for a meaning for your life" and he turned and left.
Well now there's a new name in the list beside the yamanaka he hated both of them sasuke slammed his door and walked back to his bathroom deciding to be more late.
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Sasuke looked at the door of the hokage, and suddenly asked himself
(will Naruto ever be sitting inside this room?)
He had a little hope that Naruto wouldn't step inside this place as a hokage, knowing all the things that's going in these places like wiping a whole clan for no reason.
sasuke opened the door without knocking and got inside the office was wide and one person sat behind many and many of papers he wondered if kakashi really read all this?
"ah sasuke you're late can you just wait a minute I need to finish this"
Sasuke didn't answer instead he looked around the office to the pictures on the wall, to the files in the closet and to the view behind the hokage's chair
Kakashi clapped his hands after he finished what was between his hands and looked up finally to his student
"so sasuke how have you been?"
Sasuke walked closer to the table, he didn't answer the question kakashi asked he wanted to get straight to the point
"what do you need me for kakashi?"
The hokage wasn't bother by sasuke he already knows his student, kakashi leaned on the table on his elbows and looked at sasuke with a smile
" from now on you will be trainging with two of people who I would choose"
Sasuke raised his brow who were they and kakashi understood
"kiba inuzuka and shino aburama"
He remembered the inuzuka the dog boy but who was the other one?
"why?"
Kakashi held back his smile he wasn't surprise that sasuke wore that face
"and sasuke you're starting from today after you leave go to the training ground"
Sasuke furrowed his eyes "what made you think that I would agree on this?"
Kakashi didn't answer immediately he leaned back on his chair staring at Sasuke with a smile and sasuke hated that smile
"because sasuke, you don't have a choice if you want to be back to the missions and live like a real shinobi and rebuild your clan than you have no choice but to agree and don't worry when you finish this I have good news for you"
Sasuke pressed his lips together he wanted to say something but the words were held back he didn't want to ruin this for himself this was his only chance
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Sasuke walked in the village and did as kakashi told him to, but was this Nara should follow him he knows where the place is, sasuke looked to his side by the corner of his eyes staring at the man beside him he was yawing too much sasuke wished that he would slam his foot in the wide mouth of his, he was really annoying this day seemed to be a bad from its start.
Shikamaru was aware of sasuke's eyes watching him but he was too lazy to care so he just looked at paper and scratched his head with his pen, shikamaru looked up they were close to the entrance
"we're here" shikamaru spoke and walked pass sasuke inside
There were two males who were already there shiakamru stepped forward to them
"sorry guys we're late, we had something to do first"
Sasuke looked at shikamaru he was laying it because sasuke decided to be late that was all
Sasukel stared at the new team and felt offended for being with them they looked too weak
"it's okay shika so when are we going to finish this?" the guy spoke as he walked toward shikamaru followed by a dog he guessed this was kiba, he reminded him a lot of Naruto his eyes looked back to the other one he remembered him he was there in the dinner after he got out of prison his head was blank when he looked at the aburama
Suddenly the dog barked loudly at the new intruder, kiba was the 1st one who react as he stepped looking behind shikamaru and sasuke waving his hand
"heey guys what're you doing here?" he grinned so widely to the team behind them
The girl with red hair spoke politely "goodmorning kiba-san"
While the other boy with blonde hair stared at him lazily "what do you think ? we just finished training and now we're leaving for a mission"
And the last boy stood beside the girl but never bowed or said anything
Kiba continued speaking loudly as if he was an old man who saw his grandchildren
"so is hinata here?" and the girl nodded then he looked back he was happy kiba looked back
"hey shino did you hear that hinata is here"
Kiba looked back to the younger team
"so where is she?"
the blonde boy pointed bhind them to where an older female came from the hallway and kiba flew to her with wide smile and opened arms
"hinaaattttaaa!"
The girl was surprised by the voice she heard she looked up with wide eyes she never got the chance to figure who this was she was already in his arms but she knew by his voice, the man stepped back and looked down at her
"you are going in a mission too?"
Hinata shook her head as she looked down at herself
"hinata-sensei changed her outfit for a more fitting one" Ryu spoke
She was wearing dark shorts with a sleeveless shirt and her long sandals
Shikamaru waved by the paper to the younger team "now let's go we have a misson for you"
They turned and left shikamaru walked until he reached sasuke then he stopped and looked at the uchiha and he whispered "try to get along with them and don't ruin anything"
Then he left, a part of sasuke felt pissed he didn't come here to do anything he wanted to get rid of this and to go back to missions and be a shinobi and focus on his goals
The hyuga walked away following the team but he teammate held her arm
"oi where are you going?"
Hinata looked back and smiled a fake one but she didn't talk she just smiled a small, fake smile Sasuke could see that she wanted to leave but the Inuzuka was persistent
"Come and watch like the old day remember "
He laughed and forced her to sit facing the training ground.
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Sasuke looked at the sky the dust was flying around him
(What just happened?)
His hand wasn't working anymore, why?
"Oi sasuke didn't you train with Naruto?"
He did so what was happening? He was uchiha sasuke why was he on the floor and not the dog boy?
Sasuke got up fast and stood again speaking through his gritted teeth
"One more time"
Kiba took his position
"Getsuga!!"
And again he was on the floor staring at the sky Sasuke realized one thing
(Fucking Naruto)
He was going easy on him and they wasted a lot of their training doing other things.
Sasuke was pissed why did he looked down at him he is as strong as he is so why didn't he took their training seriously, a part of that was his mistake too but Sasuke now regretting it.
He got up again and shino was the one who spoke
"We will train from the start" the shino looked to Sasuke
"Sasuke you can do seals with your hand right?"
He was more pissed that he was questioning by this person and it was shown on the glare he directed to him, shino in the other hand waited for the answer patiently but kiba wasn't
"Oi what's with that look shino is trying to help!"
He knew but he hated it and he hated that everything was going on in front of this person.
His eyes drifted to the hyuga who was staring at him too
"Oi teme, hinata didn't do anything to you!!"
Kiba's voice got louder when he looked at her,
Shino got closer to Sasuke
"Nothing of your skills wasted it just the arm, you will have to train more on combat skills more than ninjitsu"
Then he turned to kibe who just calmed
"Ou can you throw a shuriken?"
As soon as he finished his question a flying shuriken passed his head and he froze in his place looking at sasuke
"Teme!! You're trying to kill me"
Shino looked back to Sasuke he was furious, mad he understood his reason for this feelings knowing that kiba was making fun of him and the disappointment he felt for not being able to fight like before shino looked back at his teammate
"Kiba"
Kiba looked at shino then rubbed his head and walked to join hinata.
Shino stood instead of kiba in front of Sasuke eh took out a kunai and prepared himself for only a combat training no ninjitsu.
They both started and sasuke figured something from their training, kiba was the strongest in the team, shino was the smart one so if it was like this then... his eyes glanced towards the hyuga who was listening to whatever the dog boy was talking about
(What was her part on the team?)
He regretted looking at her because when he did he was on his back looking up to the sky again.
Shino was panting he looked down to Sasuke
"Train more on your hand you don't need to worry about the seals"
Sasuke laid on his back feeling a mixture of betrayal, failure and useless, he looked up to the sky when both males left and did nothing but stared at the clouds surrounding the sun forbidden its light to reach his cold body sasuke closed his eyes knowing there a long path waiting for him to achieve his goals
'Do you think you would win this easily'
Orochimaru's voice repeated inside his head and he gulped when he heard a steps.
Sasuke let his guard down as the steps got closer this reminded him of the times when he heard Orochimaru's steps when he was training with him but this one was slow, light and didn't scare him he opened his eyes when they stopped close to him and his eyes met with the hyuga's she didn't looked down at him or spoke to him she knelt beside him and took his arm and pulled him until he was sitting he watched as she turned to her backpack and took out a cream on her fingers then applied it over his tiny injuries ... gently and carefully.
He wasn't looking to his arm he was staring at her how did she got the nerve to walk to him like that and do this without his permission but she didn't look at his she just packed her things and got up and walked away but then she turned and looked back at him and walked towards him with fast steps until she reached him
"To..tonight.. please come with us..to th...the dinner " and then she turned and walked away
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Team 8 walked inside one if the many restaurants in konoha as they planned but she didn't go inside she stayed out and waited and waited praying that he would come but she waited to long so she gave up and walked inside and find her team they already ordered and were waiting, hinata sat there she wasn't comfortable she wanted to hide in her bed and cry all night or just hide without doing anything her friends chatted over so many things about a lot of things
"Hinata"
Kiba called and she almost jumped from her seat but never looked up
"How have you been?"
Hinata knew what was coming after these kind of questions
"It's been a while since we last seen you"
And she didn't want to answer them, she didn't need any advice
"You should come ou—"
For some reason he didn't complete his question and she didn't know the reason she wanted these questions to stop and this feeling of uncomfortable to stop and it did when someone sat beside her suddenly she looked up and saw sasuke's face he was taking off his jacket and threw back on the chair he stayed there and looked to both male in the opposite side of the table and both males in the other side was staring too
Hinata looked outside to the place outside to the people and now she could sink in herself without talking to anyone and without being surrounded by unwanted questions or advices
She didn't want to talk to anyone nor did she wanted to see anyone why would they want to be around her? She wasn't anyone worth their time, she would never be.
Hinata looked up when shino placed her plate in front of her
And she just  flipped her food then took a small bite then flip it again for about a minute then take a small bite  she didn't look to the others she focused on her plate and let them have their staring contest
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5 days later sasuke was able to control his hand more he realized it when kiba was on the floor rolling from pain he smirked the feeling of victory was dancing inside him he loved seeing the dog boy in pain and above that he was the cause of it but that feeling Extinguished when the hyuga ran to his side, wearing that worried face
"Kiba-kun"
He was surprised that she could speak loud like that, she treated his injuries just like she did with him but her face held more emotions than the one she gave him which held none
'You're a pa..part of the team ..n..now until the week is o..over'
He knew she lied and he knew the answer-of it  but still he asked
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They were standing outside the restaurant when he walked to his direction hearing the Inuzuka asking the hyuga to walk her home but she refused
"Sas..Sasuke-san will do s..so thank you kiba-kun"
Sasuke stopped and looked over to her, he was pissed that she made him play her game he shouldn't have stopped because when he did it was like he was waiting for her and then she walked towards him he didn't deny and he still didn't know why but he was surprised when she walked ahead of him when they were out of the her team's eyes she built that distance between her and him and started walking alone.
She was about tot turn when he called her
"Hyuga"
Hinata stopped and looked back to the person who called Sasuke was standing there hands inside his pockets
"Why did you invite me?"
He knew the answer but he wanted to ask if she really would say the truth or not
He knew that she wouldn't when she looked to each side of her and when she settled for an answer she looked up to him
"You're a pa..part of the team ..n..now until the week is o..over"
She didn't wait for his answer or checked his reaction she just turned and walked away