A/N: I know I haven't finished my other story. I just can't help myself to write this one because the idea came together with Eternity's idea. So please read and tell me what you think ;)

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Chapter 1: There's Always A Little Truth Behind Every Lies

Hinata stared intently at her fellow kunoichi friends as they were chatting animatedly about their couple's latest action in the privacy of their bedroom. Sakura, the pretty pink-haired kunoichi tried to suppress her giggle as she gave a non-too subtle comment to her best friend Ino.

"Why don't you try doing it in the shower Ino?" another giggle following that suggestion.

Ino, the pretty blonde kunoichi with a body to die for, gasped at her friend's idea. "Are you really doing that in the shower?" her cheeks were tinted with pink as she pictured the image of her and Shikamaru doing that in their bathroom.

"Yeah, what are you doing after you're getting down and dirty anyway? Of course you have to take a shower! Especially to clean that part between your legs..." and they burst out in giggle again.

Despite being too occupied in their talk, they still didn't forget about a certain lavender eyed kunoichi who was sitting across the table. Sakura turned her head towards Hinata, "You've been very quiet since we're here Hinata. How are you doing with your boyfriend?"

Hinata was scrambling for her answer as her friends were waiting non-too-patiently for her to formulate her answer.

Truth to be told, Hyuuga Hinata never even had a boyfriend in all her life. Being a shy and meek girl and more importantly born in such a traditional family, making her closed up like a clam.

She never interact with any other men except her father, her cousin Neji, and her fellow ninja friends. When she was younger, a certain blonde-haired ninja caught her attention. Ignoring the fact that she wasn't the strongest or most talented kunoichi, Naruto never looked down on her. Instead the boy always encouraged her and showered her with praises.

It didn't take a long time for the young Hyuuga Hinata to fall head over heels to him. She spent most of her times to stalk the blonde ninja and watched him from a far.

But as she watched him from time to time, Hinata then began to slowly understand that Naruto cared for all people. He encouraged all people. He showered all people with praises. And Hinata was no different.

When realization kicked her hard on her face, Naruto had to choose that time to proclaim his undying love towards Sakura Haruno, one of the prettiest kunoichi in Konohagakure.

If it wasn't for her role as the heiress of her clan, Hinata would probably have taken her life away. But Hinata successfully endured the pain of seeing Sakura proclaimed her love towards Naruto back and watched them cuddling to each other every now and then in public.

As they grown up, Hinata then realized, in a hard way, that people around her began turning into some couples. Shikamaru with Ino, Sakura and Naruto, Neji and Tenten, Kiba and Ayame, Shino and Ageha, Hinata was left alone in the middle, fiddling with her fingers as everyone was making out in the corner.

In the midst of her rage, Hinata accidentally slipped a lie from her mouth, a lie which she didn't realize will change her life forever.

"I-I-I I've broke u-up w-with him..."

The two kunoichi gasped in shock, their mouth formed an o. "I'm sorry to hear that Hinata," Ino said with a fake sadness. Hinata knew that, no one ever felt sorry for her. "What happened actually?" They just said that sorry to dig up some juicy information from her.

Of course all those boyfriend things was Hinata's made up lies. It was accidentally slipped from her mouth when Kiba made fun of her saying that she would die as a virgin.

She said that she already had a boyfriend but just too shy to admit it. To hide the lie, Hinata told them that her boyfriend lived in Iwagakure, which was pretty far away from Konoha.

"I-It j-just d-didn't w-work b-between u-us. H-his f-family m-married h-him o-off t-to his c-cousin." The fake concerned face now switched to a disgusted face.

"Ewh! That's just plain disgusting!" Sakura said outloud. "Who asked to break up first?"

"I-I did." Hinata paused for a moment before continue. "N-Neji t-told m-me that h-his f-family is w-well known f-for their i-incest. S-so I-I d-dumped him." she smiled reassuringly after that.

"Way to go Hinata!" Ino pumped her fist to the air. "So you're single now?"

Her eyes widened for a moment. "N-n-no!"

That was what happened when you were lying too much. Another lie would easily came out of your mouth.

Her answer made both kunoichi raised their eyebrow in question. Hinata bowed her head to hide her face from their intense look. "I-I already got a new boyfriend."

"Really? Who?" Sakura asked in a mocking tone. It seemed the fact that the shy Hyuuga heiress who had just dumped her boyfriend and get another one in a short time was too extravagant.

"H-He's f-from a-another v-village." Hinata stammered her answer, still facing down onto her lap.

"You really have a thing towards men from another village huh Hinata?" Ino scoffed.

"U-um, y-yes. You guys p-probably d-don't know him."

"I know!" Sakura squealed suddenly. "Why don't you take him to Tenten's birthday party Saturday night? You can introduce him to all of us!"

"Yes! That's a great idea forehead!" Ino beamed happily on her best friend's idea only to receive a glare from the pink-haired girl.

"Stop calling me that pig!" She retorted back.

Hinata was shocked for a moment. "B-but w-why s-so s-s-sudden? I-I don't t-think h-he c-could ma-make it."

"Look Hinata-chan, if he really does love you of course he will fly from the other side of the world just to see you, right Ino?"

The asked girl nodded seriously. "Yes, this weekend. Three days are enough for the journey I think. And this time do bring him Hinata. The last time he couldn't make it and you left early too."

One of many weaknesses when you're lying to your friend about non-existent boyfriend was when they asked you to bring him to a party; you didn't have anyone to be brought.

Same goes to Hinata, so she usually pretended that her boyfriend couldn't make it there. The reasons were arranged from a sudden sickness came up until the non-existent boyfriend had a huge fight with his family. Either way all of her friends easily swallowed those lies.

In the latest party, which was held by Lee, Hinata actually pretended to be sick and left early, and to make it more believable she left a message at Sakura to tell her non-existent boyfriend she left early that night. If he came.

Of course there were no shinobi showed up that night admitting as Hinata's boyfriend.

But apparently this time Sakura and Ino had had enough of Hinata's excuses and demand her to really bring her boyfriend.

"I-I'm sorry. Umm, I-I d-dun-dunno if I-I c-could m-make it t-to T-Tenten's p-party," she said while nervously squeezing her sweaty palms. "I-I I'm a-afraid m-my fa-father w-won't let me."

"Oh posh! Neji would be there too. There is no way Hiashi-san would not allow you if he allows Neji!" This is going to be hard. Both Sakura and Ino were well-known for their stubbornness.

"That's right Hinata. Come on! No shinobi would refuse a party like Tenten's." Sakura added.

"Or, could it possibly this boyfriend you've been mentioning does not exist?" Ino slyly added. She had no idea how right she was.

Hinata almost jumped from her seat when Ino hit the right spot. "N-N-No! He does exist! A-a-alright then. I-I'll ask him t-to come. B-but I-I h-have to send h-him a l-letter f-first t-to l-let h-him k-know," Hinata paused to take a deep breath. She didn't mean to indulge herself in her own lie this far. "H-he i-is a b-busy p-person. S-so I'm n-not su-sure if h-he could make i-it."

"Aww, Hinata-chan. What kind of person would work on Saturday night? Besides, winter is coming, which means... Holiday!" Ino said cheerfully.

"That's right. Unless, he is a very busy person like a Kage," Sakura burst out laughing, "But there's no way you would date a Kage right Hinata?"

"Y-yes, t-that's r-right." Hinata said meekly. That's true, what kind of kage in their right mind would date a pathetic girl like her? She's definitely out of their league.

"It's settled then. I'll bring Shikamaru and Sakura will bring Naruto, and you my dear," Ino pointed her slimy finger to Hinata, "will bring your mysterious boyfriend." She winked to Hinata.

Hinata could only nod weakly. She had to get home soon and think up another plan to get out of this mess.

The dreaded Saturday night was finally around the corner. It was amazing how fast the week grown by when you didn't want it to come. But as the hands of time were moving, the gears inside Hinata's brain were moving too.

She already had a plan up in her sleeve.

It wasn't a very great plan, and truth to be told it was kinda lame. But Hinata was sure her friends would have no choice but to let it go again this time.

The only weakness of this plan was... she never actually try this out before.

As Hinata was brushing her long lavender hair swiftly, her mind was wandering towards the mess she had created for herself. Who was she trying to fool here? Was it Sakura? Was it Ino?

But why did she want to get this far to fool all of them?

At first she did all of these just to nurse her broken-heart, and to show Naruto that she wasn't a pathetic girl which was still head over heels to him. It was a great feeling actually to think that you have a boyfriend, having someone that would be there for you in the fleeting ups and frightening downs of your life.

But the truth was Hinata still couldn't get over Naruto, she still love the boy with all her heart, and she didn't shy to admit that the boyfriend she keep imagining was the blonde-haired ninja.

Though that simple fact would always remain as her own little secret.

Who knew what Sakura would do to her if she knew another kunoichi had her boyfriend in their dreams? The talented medic-nin was also known for her great possessiveness over her boyfriend.

Hinata sighed and put down her brush, and then carefully put her hair up and hold them in their place with a beautiful hair ornament.

Once it securely held her hair together, Hinata stood in front of her mirror and twirled herself. Her lavender kimono fell gracefully and reached her ankle, the purple obi sash tightened securely around her waist, flattening her already flat stomach. Two soft curls framing her face, and as the final touch Hinata sprayed green-tea perfume to her delicate neck.

And she was ready.

She didn't forget to grab the wrapped gift for Tenten before heading out of her room towards the back of the house, where her father usually sat and enjoying the night.

"Father," She said in her softest voice, afraid to ruin her father's mood, "I'm going to Tenten's birthaday party."

Hiashi Hyuuga was silent for a moment before answering, "Make sure you distant yourself from any liquor Hinata. Am I understood?"

"Yes, Father." Hinata bowed before making her way out of the main house complex, silently apologizing to her father that she couldn't keep his words.

When Hinata made her entrance inside Tenten's house, it was already crowded with ninjas that arranged from lower chuunin until higher-ranked jounin.

Hinata tried to find the birthday girl as she made her way further inside the house while trying her best to avoid bumping into any ninjas.

It wasn't a hard task because originally no one really noticed the Hyuuga heiress presence anyway.

The brunette kunoichi was found up against the kitchen wall with her cousin molding her face like there's no tomorrow. Hinata walked up to them and cleared her throat.

It took Neji two minutes to let go his girlfriend before acknowledging Hinata's presence. "H-Hinata-sama," he bowed with flushed face.

"Neji-nii-san," Hinata said before turned her attention to the beautiful brown haired kunoichi. "Happy birthday Tenten-chan," she developed her in a warm hug.

"Thank you Hinata-sama," Tenten said before letting Hinata go. "I thought you won't make it down here," she giggled, "I'm glad you do!"

"Why are you here alone Hinata-sama? I heard that you're going to bring your boyfriend here." Apparently Ino and Sakura had decided to take the liberty to announce her unofficial relationship to their friends.

"W-well, h-he's gonna b-be here shortly," Hinata was back in her stuttering mode. "H-He still has some business downtown, s-so I'm g-gonna wait for him, y-you two e-enjoy your night," Hinata excused herself, leaving the two shinobis behind so they wouldn't ask about her relationship any further, especially Neji.

Up until now, Hinata was glad that Neji never interrogate her about her non-existent boyfriend. Her cousin was well-known with his ability as human-lie-detector. Hinata thought it must be something dealing with Tenten, maybe the pretty brunette told him to keep his business to himself and to leave her alone.

Hinata was glad though, otherwise her years of hard work to gain the respect from him would be crashed down to the earth.

Without she realized, Hinata made her way to the living room, where she found most of the liquors gathered. Some of the bottle were half-empty though, but she didn't care. She quickly grabbed the first bottle that met her eyes and gulped down the remnants of the drink.

When the bottle in her hands was emptied, she grabbed two more bottles from the table and made a bee-line to the window which overlooked the scenery of Tenten's garden.

As each of the bottles were emptied, Hinata felt her head became lighter and lighter. She suddenly didn't really care if Naruto would not ever look at her way for the rest of her pathetic life. She didn't care if Sakura would live a long happy life with Naruto until they have a family of three kids like Sakura said. She didn't care if her father would marry her off to some old strangers. She didn't care about anything.

And it felt really good.

Hinata now wondered, why did everyone insist to stay away from alcohol when it had this amazing effect on human's mind?

"Hinata? Is that you?" Hinata felt a tap on the shoulder which made her turned around.

"O-Oh S-Sakura." Even in her drunken state, Hinata were still stammering her words. But even if she was drunk, she wasn't blind. She could see Naruto besides Sakura, with his hands were holding Sakura in an inappropriate way.

"What are you doing here alone? Where's your boyfriend?"

"W-what? O-Oh! H-He's g-gonna b-be here sooon, you want some drink Sa-ku-ra?" Hinata giggled as she thrust the bottle in her hands to the pink-haired kunoichi's face.

"Wow! You gotta boyfriend Hinata? Why don't you ever tell me?" The surprise was clear in Naruto's voice, but Hinata didn't care about that.

"Why should I tell you? Even if I do, would you even care?" Now, all the traces of stammers had gone, leaving a heavily drunk Hinata with a little bit of conscience in her mind.

"Of course I would. You're a..."

Before Naruto could finish his line, Hinata had cut him, "Really? Wow! All those years I've been trying to get you to care for me, all I really had to do is to get a boyfriend?"

The look of astonishment in Naruto and Sakura's face was priceless. But that only encouraged Hinata more.

"Everytime I tried to make a lunchbox for you, have you ever noticed my feeling? All those times I sent ointments for you, did you know they were from me? All you ever care about was Sakura, Sakura this Sakura that."

Now this was getting out of hand. Inside her, Hinata was panicked. She couldn't control her words. All she wanted to say originally was to brag about her boyfriend to Naruto so she won't look pathetic.

But now disaster was coming out from her mouth.

"Hey, Hinata... Stop that you're drunk." Sakura placed her hand carefully on Hinata's shoulder, an unbelievable look printed on her face.

"No, you are the one who have to stop that Sakura!" Hinata slapped Sakura's hand away from her shoulder. "Your fake kindness disgusts me to no end! All those times you told me about your adventures in bedroom with Naruto, your intention is to torture me right?"

Hinata was shouting her words now, her hands moved frantically on her side, sending the bottles in her grasp fell to the floor, creating a loud-crashing sound which got everyone's attention.

Neji and Tenten appeared from the kitchen, the birthday girl quickly ran to Hinata to restrain her from doing anything further.

"Stop that Hinata-sama, I won't let anyone ruin my party, not even if you're my boyfriend's cousin," she whispered dangerously. And Hinata knew she had to take that warning as a threat.

"Don't worry Tenten, I'm not gonna ruin your party. I'm about to make my leave from here. Another minute of being in the presence of this couple," she nodded her head towards Naruto and Sakura, "and I'll puke my tummy."

Clumsily and with eyes of all ninjas in the room following her, Hinata made her way out of Tenten's house. She was barely there for twenty minutes and she had made sure her action tonight would be the hottest gossip for the next two months.

Murmurs of gossips could already be heard throughout the house as the Hyuuga heiress stumbled her way to the door. The Hyuuga heiress was still in love with Naruto? She wanted to take away Naruto from Sakura? I never knew the Hyuuga Hinata is actually a drunkard.

From outside, Hinata Hyuuga looked like she barely awoke, but in the inside all her senses were alerted. She was fully realized of what happened inside there, and not regretting any single words she had said tonight.

She didn't care either if Neji reported her behavior tonight to her father. She was ready with all kind of punishments her father going to throw to her.

In some strange ways, Hinata felt relieved when she walked out of Tenten's house that night.

No one mess around with Sabaku no Gaara... and his siblings.

That was the first thing that came into Gaara's mind when his brother was cursing out to his heart's content after he found out that his wallet had been stolen.

As the three of them made their way from Konoha's entrance get to the busy street in the center of the village, Kazekage had ordered his escort ninjas to retreat, because no attacks that Kazekage could not handle in the middle of a village like this.

Unfortunately, when the famous Sand Siblings were walking down the street towards their appointed inn, a group of thieves had also realized who they were and how much money could they possibly brought with them.

Seeing that the Kazekage could probably crush you to death even for the slightest touch, the thieves didn't dare to try their luck on him. So did to his sister who was carrying a giant fan behind her back.

The only one who looked harmful was Kazekage's brother. Which was explaining why Kankurou was practically throwing everything in his arm-length radius towards the wall that evening.

As Temari was comforting her brother and telling him she would handle all of his expenses during their stay here, Gaara made his way out of Kankurou's suit to deal with this problem in his way.

Which was the hard way.

Now, standing on top of a building in the near the central of Konohagakure, Gaara silently watching his preys who were stumbling down the street.

It wasn't difficult to track those thieves down; they left all their traces on Kankurou's pants in their attempt to steal his brother's money. He used his sand to track down the exact person who possessed the fingerprints like that.

And they led Gaara to this group of punk who were walking drowsily down the street. It didn't take a genius to figure out they had just used Kankurou's money to have a liquor party.

The image of Kankurou's money that he earned in an honest way was used for something as low as liquor party alone had made Gaara's blood boil. These punks would sure got a hell of a night once he done with them.

Gaara's thought was distracted when he saw his prey stopped right below a street light. It seemed whatever it was that made them stop, surely caught their interest for they made a circle around that thing.

He leaned his body slightly to take a closer look, and notice it was a person they were surrounding.

They talked for a moment before one of them made a move to touch that person. The person apparently wasn't an ordinary person because as soon as the thief touched them, he or she immediately jumped back several feet away from them.

Now, this was interesting.

Gaara decided to take a closer look so he descended down to a tree branch, where he was well-hidden, but could still see the ongoing thing below.

The person who was unfortunately met these thieves was a woman, as Gaara noticed her kimono. Some of the thieves also jumped behind the woman, preventing her to escape.

One of the thieves, took hold of the woman's wrist, and then forced her head to look up to him. What Gaara saw clearly surprised those thieves as well.

Below the dim street light, a pair of pale lavender eyes was glinting in the darkness of the street.

A Hyuuga.

"Well, well, what do we got here? A Hyuuga! And a pretty one too," the man who caught her wrist sneered disgustingly. Her friends were giving sinister chuckle when they saw the scared look on the Hyuuga's eyes.

Gaara frowned at this sight. Hyuuga was a powerful clan, any member of their clan could take down these punks in a minute. But why this woman looked afraid?

Before Gaara could formulate any answer for his question, the Hyuuga surprised them by smacking her head forward towards the man who caught her wrist. The impact was hard enough that the man was thrown to the street, making all of his friends stared at him in shock.

The Hyuuga took that time to make her escape, she ran as quickly as her kimono-clad body could carry her. All the time she took something out of the small bag in her hand.

She didn't escape far as one of the punks chased her and pulled her hair roughly. Gaara thought she would lose her balance, but instead of getting slammed to the street like Gaara predicted, she flipped her body and hit her attacker's hand with a small fan.

The man shrieked and cursing her while holding his hand.

Gaara smirked at the Hyuuga, it seemed that she didn't have any weapon with her, so she used a small fan. But it's still better of she used her fingers.

When the Hyuuga landed on both of her feet, her knees gave away and she slumped down. The thieves didn't waste that time and immediately thrown their body at her, pinning her hands roughly to the street.

They made a mistake for not holding her feet at the same time.

She spread both of her feet up in the air, tearing the kimono which covered her leg, and then she slammed her feet down to the heads of her attackers, causing the grips on her hand lessened.

The Hyuuga took that time to press her fingers to a certain part in their forehead, and both her attackers slumped down unconsciously.

Before she could stand up, the man whom the Hyuuga knocked down earlier with her head, was charging at her and then landed a blow right on her stomach.

The blow was powerful enough to make the Hyuuga lost her consciousness.

"Shit, what an irritating bitch." The man said as she wiped out some blood off of his forehead. "But today sure is my lucky day. First, a Kazekage's brother, and now a Hyuuga." He laughed maniacally, "Fortune is on my side today."

He crouched down to the Hyuuga woman, and opened one of her eyelids, "Now, let's see how much money people would pay for this one creepy eye?" he took out a kunai and ready to slit the woman's eye.

But before he could poke the girl's eye out of its socket, a stream of sand curled around his wrist, the grip was dangerously tight that it his vein could be cut in any seconds. The thief dropped his kunai and screamed loudly.

His scream was louder once he learned whom her attacker was. The sight of the red-head Kage increased the terror in his scream. "K-K-Ka-Kazekage!"

"Well well, look what we got here," Gaara said in a mocking tone. The continuous scream finally got into his temper, so he gagged the thief with his sand.

"Let's just say, you are not so fortunate today for not getting knocked off by the Hyuuga." Gaara glanced at the young woman, "and have to face me."

The sand was now circling the poor man's body like a snake, slowly enveloping him in a cocoon. "A little advice from me, next time," Gaara chuckled at that, "if there's a next time, check your victim first before you jammed their pocket, moron."

The man's scream was fully engulfed now, "Now, rest in peace," Gaara didn't care if he was killing a citizen of Konoha. The man was a criminal. Hokage should thanked him for doing the dirty work for her. "Sabaku Kyuu." At his command, the sand cocoon immediately crushed the human inside, his blood was leaking through the sand.

Gaara didn't find the pathetic man's blood interesting; instead he walked over towards the unconscious Hyuuga. Her torn Kimono showing a pair of, Gaara must admit, beautiful legs.

As Gaara crouched down to take the Hyuuga in his arms, he realized that this Hyuuga was not an ordinary Hyuuga. She was their heiress.

"On a second thought," Gaara whispered to no one in particular, "I think you were lucky to be killed by me. Attacking a Hyuuga heiress," he chuckled, "You're really lucky the whole clan didn't hunt you down."

Gaara knew this girl because he had met her several times in the past. Her father tried to marry her off to him. But he directly, or rather cruelly, refused. The girl stuttered too much, and it annoyed him to no end. If she didn't have a backbone to stand for her own self, how could she possibly have a gut to stand for her clan?

When the heiress was safe in his arms, Gaara caught the smell of her breath, it was awful. Exactly like how Temari was smelled when she was drunk.

Could it be she was drunk too?

No wonder the girl got beaten up pretty easily. But why was she drunk? The Hyuuga heiress sure didn't look like a type of girl that would drinking much and wandering on a street alone in the middle of the night.

There must be some explanations, but Gaara didn't intend to sniff into another people's business. So he just did what other normal shinobi would do to help a fainted woman on the street, carry her straight to her home.

Gaara stood up; carrying the Hyuuga heiress bridal-style as his stained sand was seeping back to his gourd.

Four years ago, Gaara would probably just leave the girl on the street, or possibly kill her. But he had changed now, thanks to a certain blonde haired ninja. There was no way the new Gaara would leave the fainted woman alone there, especially after he knew she was an heiress of a powerful clan in his alliance's village.

As Gaara made his way to the Hyuuga compound, which once again, wasn't so hard to be located, he failed to notice the young heiress' grip on his robe.

A/N: Thank you so much for reading. I hope I didn't make Gaara or Hinata too OOC Also, Hinata and the others are all eighteen years old here, which was a legal age of drinking in my country.

Please let me know how you find this story. I don't mind flames, but I really appreciate constructive criticisms. xo