After reading your reviews I thought I should clear things up. This was originally going to be two chapters, but they would be rather short. Hopefully this answers your questions.

Hinata's lips were soft, but the quick peck left him wanting. Sasuke opened his eyes to look at her expectant face but then everything came reeling back to him.

"Naruto Uzumaki."

"N-Naruto?" Sasuke asked in confusion. His head began to hurt. Hinata was not loving him back? Wait, what was he talking about. He stopped loving her a long time ago. Or did he, he wondered? "How do you know Naruto?"

Hinata's gentle gaze alight with a passion he'd never expected turned away as she began her tale.

"I feel like I've been wading through water. Ever since what happened I can't think straight. I can't sleep, all I can see if their faces, all I can hear is their voices. It's been years, I know, but it doesn't go away." Her voice was raspy, her breath beginning to quicken. "I was walking in the meadow- it was barely morning and the water was beautiful. Father told me he was going to send me away soon. An-and I was so scared. When I reached the rocks I didn't think- I climbed until I reached the bottom. There is a road there, did you know? I hadn't left the manor in so long and I finally felt like I could breath again. The air is so perfect, the sun was just rising along the water- and he hit me."

"'Hit you?'" Sasuke echoed bemusedly.

"With his car. It wasn't his fault. There is a sharp turn there and I was just in the way. Staring. Waiting. I don't know. It was finally a time I didn't regret living- and when I met him in the hospital, he apologized. But Father ruined everything." Her voice was quick, short shallow breaths pouring out from her. "Naruto, though I'd only known him for a moment, said these pretty words to me. After Father pushed him away, he stayed. He told me these things, and I-I," A deep shuddering breath. "I believed him."

"Hina calm down," Sasuke ushered her over to her vanity and forced her to sit down. After she caught her breath, he started again, "You don't know Naruto. You don't know if he is capable of taking you away."

"Please, Sasuke," She begged. Her large lavender eyes began to fill with liquid. "All I have is this chance. This is my only hope. Father is going to send me away, no matter what. A-and I can't, not after what happened to Hanabi."

"Okay," He replied, wiping her eyes. "I promise I'll help you. We're family, remember?"

"You once told me we weren't," Hinata turned to her vanity and began to rub her face. "We are too distantly related. Not like me and Neji."

"That's why we were to be married, remember? Keep the bloodline strong." Sasuke's voice regained his hardness, much less tender. "But that was a long time ago."

"Sasuke," Hinata whispered, catching him before he began to stew in memories.

"Don't worry, Hina," He looked at the woman he was once going to marry, finally understanding the light in her eyes. A light not for him. "You rest, I have some phone calls to make."

"Okay Naruto, I think you've had enough," Genma laughed, pulling him away from the bar. "I'm glad you came out with us tonight though. What made you change your mind?"

Even with his friends hand guiding him up, Naruto still stumbled into a standing position. The room spun in three different way, disorienting him and making him naseous.

"T-this giirl," Naruto managed to spit out. "I don't think- I-I don't think its meant to b-be."

Genma laughed, guiding him towards a table where three people sat. A tall man with a spiky ponytail who leaned lazily against his hand, another man with bowl-cut hair and green sweatsuit and a blonde woman in a short purple dress and come-hither eyes. "Someone get this guy some water, geez."

"Oh can it Genma, we all know Naruto won't even have a hangover in the morning," The spiky haired male snorted. The blonde woman to his right laughed.

"Shikamaru's right. He's too far gone anyways," She giggled. "He's been muttering about some girl all night. He's a bit obsessed."

The man in the green grinned at them as they laughed, everyone was surrounded by shots and beers but he just had water. "I'll get him some," He offered, standing from the table and wandering back over to the bar.

"You're lucky Lee's got you," Genma smiled, poking the blond male in the forehead causing him to grimace. "We would have just let you suffer."

"She w-was the real thing." Naruto mumbled, just a bit more coherent. "I could have s-saved her."

"Saved?" The female echoed. "Women don't need saving, bonehead. We just want to know you're in it to win it."

"Mahh," Shikamaru groaned. "You don't speak for all women Ino. That's just what you want in a man."

"Okay, guys," The mechanic waved his hands to ward of the dispute. "Let's just settle this, hmm? Naruto, you're the best we're gunna get you tonight. Why don't you call her?"

Naruto's head dropped solidly onto the table, causing the others to wince. Lee returned with the promised water and sat it carefully next to his head. "I don't have her numbeeer..." He groaned. Then, after a moment slid his phone from his pocket. Quickly hitting speed dial he managed to finagle the phone to his ear, but left his head against the table. It picked up after a few rings.

"What!?" Sasuke's angry voice boomed from the phone, loud enough even his friends could hear it.

"You-you're a sunnavabitch you know that, S-sasuke?" Naruto spat into the phone. "You take off wi-with the love of my life an-"

"O-okay, that's enough of that," Genma laughed awkwardly, taking Naruto's phone away from him and shoving the bottle in its place. He placed the blonds phone in his jacket pocket. "Here, drink your water."

"Sasuke?" Ino gave Naruto a speculating look with her azure eyes. "Are you and Sasuke fighting for the same woman?"

"No," Naruto took a drink and let out a breath. "He said, he was doing some family stuff, and-and I saw her with him. They left together and I just, I just," His voice started to get high pitched. "Hinata! ahhhhhhh!"

"Ohh, he's got it bad," Lee laughed. "Poor guy."

But Ino was looking at Naruto weirdly. She brought her chair close to his, grabbed him by the back oh his hair and yanked him into a sitting position. "Naruto, focus, can you do that?" Feeling him nod, Ino loosened her grip but did not let go. "Do you by any chance mean, Hinata Hyuuga?"

Naruto's cerulean eyes widened, though they retained a faint glossy look. "Y-yes! That's her!"

"Oh geez," The woman sighed. "Hinata is Sasuke's ex-fiancee."

Genma and Lee let out low whistles, but Naruto perked up again. "You said ex, you said ex, right?"

"Well yes, but you don't understand." She reached for one of her shots, downing in a practiced motion. "Let me tell you a story Naruto. When Sasuke and I dated, he was a wreck. And by that I mean, whew he was destroyed. It was just months after their canceled wedding, and one night he got drunk, kind of like you right now," She laughed, "And told me the whole thing."

"I feel like I'm going to be a lot more drunk for this," Shikamaru muttered. He lifted his shot and clanged it with Genma's before swiftly drinking it.

"It was an arranged marriage," Ino began after glaring at her friend. "The Uchiha's and Hyuuga's are related, albeit barely. They are like, half-cousins, if there is such a thing. Like, their great great great grandparents are the same, but that's the closest relation. And they're super old school. Sasuke's father Fugaku promised one of his sons to be wed to one of Hiashi's -that's Hinata's dad- daughters. Now, Fugaku had two sons and Hiashi had two daughters."

"Two?" Lee asked curiously. "I've worked closely with a Hyuuga before- I've only heard of Hinata."

Ino licked her lips. "That's the thing. Fugaku and Hiashi needed heirs for their business's, so they chose their youngest children. Sasuke was to be married to Hiashi's youngest daughter, Hanabi." She let out a breath. This was the hard part. "Itachi is Fugaku's heir, but Hinata was not Hiashi's. Fugaku wanted leverage, after all he was an Uchiha, so he was fine with the pairing. Hiashi was not. He would not marry off his heir so easily- so he proposed a deal. Half of Fugaku's assets, and Hanabi was his. There were so many dealings, so much stress Sasuke said it drove him insane. But then, Hanabi died."

"She died?" Naruto gasped, entrapped in the story. His eyes were wide as if he followed her every word with his gaze.

Ino quietly took another drink. "Some say it was stress, some say it suicide, Sasuke said it looked like murder. But then again he was drunk."

"What happened next?" Genma asked, his voice low.

"Sasuke says Fugaku continued to barter. Since Hiashi couldn't provide the promised heir, he pushed for the marriage between Sasuke and Hinata. Hiashi was furious about the whole thing, she was his only child and therefore the heir at that point, but there was nothing he could do. He had cemented the deal with the dividing of assets, no matter what child married. But then, surprise surprise, Fugaku also died. You remember the whole scandal. His business tapered off, and with no one to reinforce the marriage, Hiashi canceled the wedding and set them both free." Ino sighed.

"Sasuke said she was really messed up from some incident," Naruto wondered, way more sober now. "Do you think that's the one?"

"Undoubtedly," The female blonde replied. "Sasuke was ruined for years, only after he came to my family for professional help did he straighten up. Then we started dating..." She sighed wistfully.

"Thanks for the time guys," Naruto told his friends, standing up suddenly. "I gotta make some calls."

His friends waved, some also caught up in their own thoughts. He paid his tab and set out to his vehicle, stumbling around to his door. "What am I thinking? I can't drive." He grumbled. What was he to do next? All this new information sent his mind whirling. Hinata used to be engaged to Sasuke, his best friend! Maybe he didn't stand a chance after all.

A vibration caught his attention. He dug clumsily through his pockets and pulled out his phone.

Sasuke Uchiha it said to him, vibrating furiously in his hand. Should he answer it, he wondered. With a sigh he did, bringing it slowly to his ear. "Sasuke."

"Listen, dobe," Sasuke's voice was calm, unlike earlier. "There's something I need to talk to you about."

And that's that. Now I noticed concern about Sasuke being in the character tags. I put him there because he is a big part of the story, though this is NOT a SasuHina. If it really bothers people I will take it down.