Another part to my War Stories Series.

So ladies and gents ...guys and dolls...Shinobi and Kunoichi... I do not own Naruto but I do own this very amazing storyline.. :)

His eyes lay on me in a way that I feel I am being hunted. Under his gaze, I can almost fall. I can feel my knees start to give. Weak. I am weak in his presence and his alone.

"Hinata," my name sounds so alien on his cracked lips, but I wish he would say it again. Over and over until my name isn't even a word but a loving sound.

"Y-yes?" I stutter out.

"You need to leave."

Leave? What does he mean? This is my room in my home in my village, he has invaded my sanctuary and now he's saying I should leave?
"Why?"

"Why what? Why should you leave? How about because I told you to?"

"That isn't good enough Gaara and you know it. If I'm going to leave everything I know behind I want to know why!"

"No."

"Fine. Then I stay." I seat myself on the end of my bed and stare into those seamless seafoam eyes. They've never looked so worried.

"Hinata. Please. Leave here,tonight. Just run and get out of here. Please."

"Then tell me why Gaara."

"Because I want you to live!"

Live? I was living perfectly fine where I was at.

"Because I don't want to be the one who ends you, who ends everything you are. I don't want to lose you when this village falls tonight. So please, leave."

"When the village falls?"

"When I turn your village to dust."

"No."

"No? No what Hinata? U need to leave now. I'm warning you now."

"Garra, this is my home. Konohagakure is my home, all of my memories are here. This village is who I am."

"The plan is set Hinata. Tonight at ten, in one hours time, Konohagakure will be nothing but fire and blood."

I could feel my eyes widen, and tears started falling down my cheeks. My hands shaking, I stood up and walked to him like a newborn deer takes its first steps to its mother. I opened my mouth to argue with him, stop him, but a squeak came crawling out instead. "I stay here," I said. All my confidence, all my bravery, it went into those three words. I look down, knowing I have been defeated by thoughts of whats to come.

"Hinata, " he says softly, " I love you."

And for a moment I smile, but when I go to look up and tell him I love him too, he is gone. In his place is a single scarlet rose.

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