Hinata looked at Gaara as he watched the Chunnin exams happening below. He seemed so sad, so distant… And yet he pulled at her heart. He seemed to have a few scratches from the battle with Lee. She approached him, one of her salves in hand.
"Gaara-kun," Hinata said, bowing. "I brought you a salve for your scratches."
He looked at her dismissively, then turned away. Yet she saw something in his blue-ish eyes soften, just for a moment. "I'm alright," he replied.
"Please," said Hinata. "Take it."
"I'll take it, Hinata," Temari said. "I'll give it to him later." Temari smiled knowingly at Hinata, and she felt a little better as she returned to Kiba and Shino, her face flushed.
Gaara had been watching the shy girl trying to hard to please everyone else. He'd been touched by her attempt to help him, but knew only of the rejection of people past. Yet he'd almost, almost smiled as she blushed and walked back to her own team.
That night, after being eliminated from the exams, from her window Hinata saw Gaara all alone on the rooftop. She'd heard about him as a bloodthirsty person, dark and evil, but she knew there was a light flickering in his soul. She'd risk it, she figured, risk Gaara's temper.
She leapt onto his rooftop and sat next to him.
"What do you want?" asked Gaara.
"I- I figured you might be lonely, an-and might want someone to talk to," Hinata stammered.
"I've lived all my life lonely. I like it."
"Oh, oh, I've lived my life fairly lonely. My cousin Neji refuses to awknowledge I exist, and my, my father thinks I'm inferior to my sister. But when I-I became a ninja and then I got Kiba and Shino and Naruto as friends! Are Temari and Kankuro your friends, too?"
"They're my older siblings."
"That's cool," Hinata told him.
She sat next to him in silence. After a while she fell asleep, and Gaara watched her breathe up and down, and for once he felt at peace. What was the feeling that was taking over him as he watched her, the impeccable attraction?
note this fanfiction takes place the tiem of the chunnin exams
The next day, as Gaara waited for his turn to fight in the exams, he looked into the crowds. There she was, Hinata Hyuuga, looking at him and… smiling?
He thought about his past, where only one person had smiled for him before. A warmth seeped through him, and he gave a slight grin of happiness.
"Gaara? Are you OK? For a second I almost thought you'd smiled!" Kankuro said, bursting his bubble.
"Nothing. You're next. Good luck."
Kankuro looked at him, taken aback. Gaara… had just wished him good luck! He shook his head and called out, "I forfeit."
I'll update it when I have more time! I hope u like it… this is more serious than my other story.
