A small series of a boy (Sasuke) who is forced to face his personal problems, and a girl (Hinata) who must live with the fact she's not what she wants to be. And then in detention, they meet.

WARNING: There will be cussing, but no sex.

Disclaimer: Of course, I don't own the series Naruto.

Chapter 1

Hinata could feel the temperature drop as she woke from her slumber

Hinata could feel the temperature drop as she woke from her slumber. She blinked, hoping to see the lavender curtains of her bedroom, and the floral pattern of her wallpaper, but when she looked up, she found herself staring into the face of Iruka.

"Hinata, this is getting to be a habit," he said sternly, and Hinata almost flinched at his tone, which was laced with disappointment. It wasn't her fault that she was unable to stay awake in class. It wasn't even Iruka's.

It was everything and everybody else.

Her normal schedule consisted of her being taken to meetings with her father, which ended around six at night. Then at home, she would help make dinner (she offered of course), and she would eat with her father and sister. Sometimes Neji would join them (only when he didn't want to cook for himself at his apartment), but that was very rare. Dinner ended at eight.

She took a shower, and her cell phone would ring at exactly eight thirty, which is exactly the time she exits the bathroom. It's always Naruto first, who asks for the answers to the next day's homework. Out of the goodness of her heart, she complies. She starts her homework after the call, and around nine, Shikamaru calls to ask her opinions on various questions about the homework, yet he always sticks to his answers. Then it's Kiba, who will complain about his family before finally saying goodnight. His phone call ends at ten fifteen, in which Hinata is probably done with her homework.

Then she visits Hanabi in her room, who welcomes her with a tinge of sarcasm, which has been accumulating ever since she made friends with Konohamaru. At the age of 8, Hanabi was beginning to bloom into the stage of rebellion, and Hiashi Hyuuga was dreading the day his more outspoken daughter would refuse to go to his meetings with him (for both were told they had to attend).

When Hanabi finally goes to bed at ten thirty, Hinata barely has time to kiss her father goodnight when her phone rings again, and it's Ino, who will gossip for twenty minutes more, till finally at eleven, Hinata crawls into bed, and lies there awake till eleven thirty, when she actually starts to doze off.

Of course, she couldn't explain this to Iruka, so she had to deal with it the way everyone else did, for she would take no special attention from any teacher.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Iruka, I went to bed late," she replied in a meek voice. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Ino blush and shrug sheepishly at her, for she had been the last caller the previous night.

"Hinata, you are one of my best pupils. This has happened three times this week. I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you a detention."

"But Mr. Iruka…!" She wanted to say, "My father will be very angry at you for giving me detention, and then will be mad at me for getting detention!" but she held it back. Instead she hung her head in what she hoped appeared to be shame.

"It's only for one day, but hopefully it'll show you to get your rest." He left her desk, and to her right, Shikamaru whispered, "Bummer," in her general direction.

OOOO

"I'm sorry, Hinata, but I had to tell you about my conversation with Sasuke! I'm sure we're soul mates!"

Since lunch started, Ino had been apologizing over and over, but Hinata didn't have the heart to reject any of them.

"Like Sasuke would ever like you, Ino," said Sakura at her end of the table, "He goes for girls who can hold a decent conversation with him; someone with intellect."

"Too bad, neither of you have that." interrupted Tenten, whom sat opposite of Hinata. Taking a bite of her sandwich, the young heiress ignored the bickering of her loudest friends.

"So Hinata," Ino said when the fight had ended, "Too bad about detention. Do you know what teacher you'll have?"

"Mr. Iruka said I would be under the surveillance of Mr. Kakashi instead of my homeroom teacher this time. Ms. Kurenai is expecting soon."

"I have him for homeroom," said Tenten before opening a bag of chips, "Want me to stop by so you won't be bored?"

"No, I think he won't mind if I read." said Hinata confidently.

"Hinata!"

The girls looked up to see Naruto coming up to them with Kiba and Chouji, who were both eating junk food for lunch.

"Go away Naruto." said Ino with a huff. Hinata ignored her comment and scooted over so the boys could join them. "Where's Shikamaru?" asked the heiress when she noticed one of the quartet was absent.

"Who knows," said Kiba, "Probably taking a nap in the clinic." He sat next to Tenten, leaving Chouji to sit next to Ino.

"You should have seen it!" Naruto said loudly as he began to eat his instant ramen, "Sasuke got in a fight with Rock Lee again, and it was so epic! Man, he got a bloody nose and everything!"

"Sasuke got hurt?" asked Sakura and Ino simultaneously.

"Yep," said Chouji, "Gai and Mr. Genma had to break it up before the principal got there. I heard the weight room is in shambles now."

"Sasuke's nose is only the start," Kiba said as he unwrapped an ice cream sandwich, "He's got a huge-ass bruise on his left shoulder, where Lee really got him! Lee didn't even come away with a black eye! He had some bruised knuckles though."

"I heard from Neji that the teachers broke up the fight after they fell in the pool," Naruto said, "I heard both might get suspended." He was overly excited.

"Where's Sasuke now?" asked Ino. "And Lee," added Sakura.

"Both went straight to Tsunade," Naruto said with a snort, "Boy, did Sasuke look pissed!"

Hinata barely had to say anything for the conversation to end. She knew that Neji, Lee, and Sasuke were all in advanced Athletics classes, so she'd just ask Neji for the details later.

The bell rang, and the group dispersed.

OOOO

Hinata stood in front of Kakashi's classroom for what felt like twenty minutes before she even began to reach for the doorknob. She'd heard rumors of Kakashi being a perverted pedophile, but she had serious doubts. Yet she couldn't bring herself to enter a detention classroom. It felt like she was going to walk strait into hell itself.

But summoning her determination (what little she could find), Hinata grabbed the door handle, hesitated for a brief second, and opened the door.

It was a normal classroom, from what she could see. The windows were all closed and the lights were dimmed a smidge, but it was far from what she had imagined. The teacher sat on (not "at", but "on") his desk, reading a book of questionable content. There were only a handful of students in detention, but Hinata guessed these were the usual group.

Walking in timidly, she went up to the teacher and handed him her detention note. He took it, looked for a brief second before looking back at her again.

"A Hyuuga in detention. I guess there's a first for everything." he said, balling up the note and throwing it in the trash, "Take a seat where you want. Don't talk, not like you'd want to. Safest bet is near the front, but whatever."

"Kakashi, that's so prejudice!" cried a voice from the back. It was a skinny boy, who looked to be a junior. His silver hair was covering half of his face, which was already covered in blue tinted makeup. What she guessed was his twin sat next to him, but he didn't say anything.

"Detention doesn't involve talking, Sakon," the teacher merely said as he began to read again. Hinata was able to see five kids at various desks. The twins were near the back, a girl with red hair sat near the windows, a boy in her English class with absurd makeup sat in the far left corner, and right near the door was someone she didn't expect.

"Sasuke Uchiha…?" She didn't realize he had said his name aloud. The girl near the window snorted violently with a chuckle hidden within the sound, and Kakashi seemed to grin beneath his flu mask.

Sasuke looked at her with a look of suspicion, expecting her to sit next to him. Knowing this, Hinata took advantage of the seat at the very middle of the classroom, and took out a book to read. Her seat was several feet away from his, with three desks between them.

Detention generally was as long as thirty minutes, which to Hinata was a short amount of time, but it seemed to take forever with nothing to do but read and do homework. With no disturbances from her cell phone, she was able to nearly finish her homework, but her mind often wandered to the people around her.

Sasuke's hair was still wet from his fall in the pool, which made Hinata wonder why Lee wasn't in detention as well. She could see a towel by his messenger bag, which had various buttons on its strap and sharpie marks on the back.

The girl by the window wore a hat (which was generally frowned upon by the school), and her hair was a wreck. It looked as if it hadn't been brushed since maybe elementary school. She wore black, almost as much as Sasuke did, but hers was more rebellious looking with the spiked bracelets.

The twins she couldn't see, but she definitely could hear them whispering to each other. They giggled and whispered some more, but she couldn't hear exactly what they were saying.

The boy from English was silent, but she could feel his presence, and that's what distracted her the most.

After what seemed like forever, Kakashi closed his book, hopped off the desk, and said, "Get out of here." He didn't need to repeat himself the boys in the back dashed out of the classroom, the girl swiftly following, with Sasuke soon to follow. Hinata took her time, carefully putting her books and papers in her book bag. Before she exited, she heard Kakashi mutter, "You don't belong here Hyuuga," which she took as a warning to not get in trouble again.

She rounded the corner of the hallway only to be stopped by a hand over her mouth and being dragged into the soda machine room. She was shoved none too lightly against a snack machine, and looked into the face of Uchiha Sasuke.

"Tell your brother to mind his own fucking business," the boy hissed at her. She wanted to correct him so badly, but thought against it, knowing he'd react violently. So she nodded instead.

"Tell him to stop talking shit about me, especially to loudmouths like that faggot Rock Lee! Got it?" She nodded once more, and he let her go, kicking her dropped book bag as he left. With a sigh, Hinata continued on with her venture toward the parking lot, where, as luck would have it, Neji would be picking her up. She'd tell him all right. She'd tell him everything.