Warning:Vague sex-scene.

Note:I know that the real style is ’20 truths’ and anything alike, never 27. But hell, I like seven very much that I couldn’t help elongating it.

Twenty Seven Things That Sasuke and Hinata Had Kept Exclusive to Themselves

-1-

Hinata Hyuuga was eighteen years and a hundred days old when she first had her real human conversation with Sasuke Uchiha, the alleged traitor of Konohagakure. She was stinking drunk that time, and all of these unlikely things happened in a very alien place for her: Sunagakure strip club.

-2-

It all happened when she saw him kissing a random go-go dancer, and out of instinct –but of course, the alcohol that resided within her body also gave her a great deal of urges, too- she pulled him away from the heavily aroused woman. She also gave a good punch right in the very same woman’s nose, for she didn’t want interruption while she’s confronting the very pale, very unhealthy-looking Uchiha.

-3-

The first words that she blurted to Sasuke were “I feel sorry for Naruto-kun. The man he consider bestfriend doesn’t worth his affection.”

-to which Sasuke responded by narrowing his right eye and firing away one infuriating question.

“Who the fuck are you?”

-4-

She didn’t give her name, and she didn’t call him with his first name either. She did, however, sat with him in the bar and talked with him for several hours. At first he refused to let out even a single word to her, as he’s too embarrassed and too apprehensive to socialize with any Konohagakuran, especially to a weird little Hyuuga who seemed to have a strong bond with Naruto.

“So you’re going to take me back to Konoha?” he asked.

Hinata’s response was way out of the line and way too drunky-ish.

“So you kiss girls, too.”

-to which Sasuke responded by laughing, before then he progressed into talking like a real person.

-5-

It turned out that all this time, Hinata considered Sasuke gay.

And it wasn’t without proofs. She heard the rumors –apparently, the exaggerated ones- about Sasuke kissing Naruto and him always rejecting girls, including the very beautiful ones like Sakura and Ino.

That, for Hinata, was enough proofs to make a man gay.

-6-

It turned out that all this time, Sasuke never really considered the mystery Hyuuga at all.

He did know her. But that’s because she possessed that pearly eyes and that huge rack. He might never show it to anyone, but Sasuke was still a human and still a man.

He checked the mystery Hyuuga’s breasts again when she had her head turned to the bartender, asking for more tequila.

They had grown trice as big from the last time he saw her.

-7-

A broken heart beyond repair and liquor had triggered Hinata to flirt with the good-looking man, and probably, spend a few more hours with him in his cheap motel room.

“Naruto-kun refused to have sex with me, so since you’re not gay, can you do it?”

Note that it’s her first attempt that flirting.

-8-

Harsh lifestyle for years and crushed morals had triggered Sasuke to do nasty things with the girl. But Sasuke Uchiha never took advantage of drunk girls. He preferred them being conscious so that he didn’t need to deal with the annoying sobs afterwards.

He was also too tired to feel guilty.

“Sorry, but I only have sex with girls who tell me their names.”

-9-

Hinata’s answer was a challenge for him. “Then go to the end of the world and search for my name, you traitor.”

And he did it. She fainted a few more minutes later, and since he didn’t know where her team might set their tents, he brought her to his room and put her on his bed. He didn’t spend anymore minute in that room again, and went straight to Konoha to find anyone, anyonewho might know her name.

That, as Sasuke recalls, was the first time he could go that far in only matters of hours.

-10-

Fourteen hours later, after beating up three guys in Konoha and almost gotten beaten up by a very livid Neji Hyuuga, Sasuke got her name (Neji said it by accident, “What in the world are you trying to do with Hinata-san?!). Unfortunately though, when he got back to his room, he found his bed empty and his room cleaned.

That’s also the first time Sasuke ever felt –slightly- disappointed over a girl.

-11-

Much to his surprise, however, Hinata went to the very same club again the next night. And to his dismay, she didn’t adopt the clumsy stagger and the crude mouth that she had had a night earlier.

Cringing quietly at the sound of vibrating music and the lewd catcalls, she approached him and bowed her head slightly.

“I’m sorry,” she said, and Sasuke could see genuine embarrassment flashing in her eyes, “I-I hope we haven’t done anything i-immoral that night.”

That was when Sasuke decided that the real, somber Hinata Hyuuga is even more fascinating than her drunken persona.

“Your hymen is still intact,” was his response, and she sat with him for a few hours again.

-12-

Starting from that Sunagakure incident, they often had esoteric deals. Hinata would tell him which country she’d going to visit and he’d reside in that same country for indefinite time, or after she told him her next destination.

Their place to talk was still night-clubs, where Hinata’s teammates weren’t going to find her. They still called each other with their last name, and often they got into argument when it came into Naruto and Sakura, Hinata objecting them and Sasuke implicitly supporting them. But nevertheless, they still could maintain the genial aura that surrounded them.

They found it weird that the person they never had given much thought was the person they connected the most.

Sasuke would remain a great acquaintance, but there’s one condition: she wouldn’t find him in Konoha.

-13-

There was one time when Hinata walked in at one of Naruto and Sakura’s making out session.

Her eyes rounded at their nearly naked sight, and they got even wider when Hinata noticed the real passion that fired within those two. That time, her smile was only quasi-fake as she apologized and quickly went away. She decided that it’s the right time to give up on Naruto, because, quite-frankly, Naruto really looked like he’s in love with Sakura. And vice versa to the roseate kunoichi. It’s not her right to interfere with the man’s life. Especially when the said man was the one who’d given her determination in her younger years.

And as strange as it might sound, Hinata didn’t feel really upset doing that. Quite to the contrary, she felt only jubilance. Like she’d just gotten free from the invisible cell that she’d created herself years ago.

Sasuke was right; Sakura and Naruto were meant to be together.

The most they could do was nothing.

-14-

So, the next time Hinata and Sasuke met up again, she told him about her little discovery. And he only smiled a little. It was a genuine smile, the one that he rarely let out. Hinata didn’t know that he still had it with him, but seeing him smiling seemed like more of a gem than seeing Naruto breaking up with Sakura.

So she said it to him. “You have a good smile.”

He turned pink. “You might not believe this coming from me, but I’m happy for them.”

“I thought Sakura loved you.”

“I do not deserve her,” he said. “I thought you loved Naruto.”

There was a pause before she answered.

“He does not deserve me.”

-15-

They saw each other more often from that time. Even when Hinata’s not in mission, she’d try to visit certain countries in her free time in order to meet the Konoha’s traitor once more. Just to talk to him and see him break into small smiles when she commented on something. On some rarer occasions, when she’s having a bad day, she’d had a couple of drinks while ranting relentlessly about how her life sucked.

She never really had anyone to talk with in Konoha, and it still surprised her to know that Sasuke was a very good listener. A plus point for him because he could take things objectively, as he never felt the need to support her when they knew she’s being wrong.

And she had to admit… that she liked to feel his back whenever he carried her to his various motel rooms.

-16-

The next day, she’d wake up earlier than him and she’d see him sleeping on the couch, still very pale, still very unhealthy. After she freshen up, cleaned his room and prepared him breakfast and lunch, she’d fly back to Konoha. Of course, after she’d seen his notes about his whereabouts for the next three months. Or after she’d left him notes about herwhereabouts for the next three months.

-17-

Someday, Hinata was feeling really bold and instead of checking the notes he’d left her, she stroked his cheek, studying his innocent sleeping figure in very much fascination.

He’s indeed good-looking. Ever since she’s a kid, even though she had had her eyes set to a particular boisterous blonde, she noticed him. And over harsh time and painful things he’d been through, he’s still very good-looking. There was no traitor in his sleeping face, there’s only an ordinary boy with a troubled past and a crushed future.

But she thought she could help him build a new one.

-18-

One time, Sasuke woke up and felt a soft hand stroking his cheek.

He usually never had sound sleep, and often he woke up abruptly when he heard or felt something suspicious. But Hinata didn’t provide such threats, and he let her stroke his cheek and shoulderblades for more moments before he opened his eyes.

“Having fun?” he asked, and seeing her blushing face close-up reminded him of seeing his childhood memories.

Utter joy.

-19-

She let him kissed her forehead in regards of him letting her stroking his cheek.

And the moment his rather chapped lips met with her skin, she knew something was forming within her. Something strong, and unbreakable, and… and…

comfortable. Cathartic.

Something very much like love.

She went home to Konohagakure unwillingly.

-20-

It was raining in Sunagakure when Sasuke heard a series of furious knocking in his door. He brought his kunai and opened it, and instead of finding a bunch of ANBU members armed, he found Hinata Hyuuga breathing mild alcohol was soaking wet in front of his door.

“I want you to make love with me,” she demanded before even he let her enter the room.

And Sasuke knew she knew he wouldn’t refuse.

-21-

“You’re a virgin,” he said, and that’s his last attempt to decline. “I don’t want to be anyone’s first.”

She’s still panting heavily, and that time Sasuke realized that she ran from Konohagakure to there. “I-I’m not a virgin,” she said, and upon realizing her stuttering, Sasuke knew that Hinata still maintained her consciousness –even though barely- within her body.

That made him easier to talk to her. “Who’s your first, then?”

Still with her face red with liquor, she held up her hand. “My hand.”

Now, he’s lost of excuses. Especially when she cupped his cheek and made the first move.

-22-

Their very first kiss was very tentative, she just placed her lips onto his, and upon they’re connected, she immediately pulled away again. Hesitation flashed in her eyes.

“Coward,” Sasuke hissed, and he could feel tremor ran over his body at the memory of their kiss, “do I not deserve you, Hyuuga?”

Those simple words steeled her resolution, and she lunged for their second kiss, a deeper one, but still very chaste. Her hand went down to circle his neck, and he had his hands snaked to her back, pulling her to him. Their second kiss was still awkward, but when they saw each other eyes, they knew that it’s the right thing.

-23-

The third kiss was fiercer, and it’s the first time they involved tongues and a lotgroping. They shared breaths, but neither thought that it’s disgusting, and they practically had their hands on each other, trying to feel every imperfection, every muscle, everything.

By the time they pulled away, both of them were short in breath and were hugging each other too tightly. The rain was still pouring like crazy, and Hinata’s still as wet as hell. But Sasuke couldn’t give much thought about it as she lurched forward again for the fourth.

That time, she’s pinned to the wall, and Sasuke dared himself to touch her privates.

She let him, only after she’d touched his.

-24-

Their fifth kiss was on Sasuke’s bed, and she swore she could feel the bed almost tumbled down as their weight shifted on it. At the sixth, both of them had had their tops undone, and she finally lost count on seven as she decided that thinking in this time was against the law.

It’s their first time calling (shouting) each other by their first names.

-25-

The morning after, Sasuke woke up first. But he didn’t have the liberty to watch over his lover, for she too, woke up only seconds after him.

“You should sleep longer,” he voiced his protest. “I want to see you sleeping.”

She smiled and cuddled to him. “Then make me.”

It was another challenge, and Sasuke realized he’s ready for it.

-26-

This time, saying ‘goodbye’ was a lot harder, but she knew she had to do it. Tsunade had been suspicious about her always missing, and she didn’t want the Godaime to track her and find Sasuke that way.

She wanted him to make his own choice.

They didn’t leave notes to each other, and instead they walked side by side until the frontier of Sunagakure. Sasuke gave him a kiss, a lot less passionate than the ones he’d given last night, but it’s filled with something that had been alien to both of them.

Love.

-27-

And thus, somehow she’s not so surprised when she found Sasuke sitting on the bench near at Konohagakure’s gate, being hugged by his former teammates and got wetted badly by their tears. He’s not smiling, but he’s not frowning.

Hinata didn’t need to scrutinize hard to know that Sasuke’s just plain confused.

Their eyes met, and Sasuke held their gaze for a few seconds, before then his eyes softened and he greeted her.

“Hey…”

Her eyes were blazing when she waved her hand at him.

“Hey…”

And from the looks in his eyes, she was positive that he would never ever leave Konoha again.

Hinata Hyuuga was twenty years and twenty seven days old when she felt that life is beautiful.

.Fin.