Well, well. It looks like I have another story. And the votes are in, the poll is gone, and as you can see, Gaara won. Joy! I love him. Great! I really hope you like this. I thought I should switch up from the "so regular". No major drama, no major comedy. But, hey, you know how the romance goes. Have fun, k?

Oh, and btw, I guess I don't hate Sakura as much as I thought...NO! Let me rephrase that: I hate her in the show, but not how I portray her in my stories. Yelp, that sounds about right.

Rating will go up, so enjoy the T for teens while you can. PS- did you know you can drop the f-bomb once and only once during a PG-13? You can, so I'm figuring the same goes for T-stories on here. Check the movie Be Cool if you don't believe me.

Only thing you guys really need to know is that I don't own Naruto. But if you thought I did, you deserve a dummy smack. Oh, and that OOC may occur. May. That means I don't know when it's happening but don't tell me or else I'll get paranoid and take longer to update. -sighs- but you readers of Misery already know this since I practically just repeated myself.

Chapter One

"Cosplaying Gone Bad"

Sakura passed the box of tissues to her best friend on the other side of the couch, tears still falling. "Forget about him!" she yells. "He was a total asshole anyway!"

Hinata took the box of tissues. "Sakura." she said in a low tone, indirectly pleading her to stop.

"I mean, he such a dog! That bastard—" She stopped and looked over at her friend when she touched her leg. Sakura gave Hinata a sad look. "I'm sorry, Hinata."

Hinata spared her a small, sad smile. But that smile quickly went away when she looked behind Sakura and saw the picture of her and Kiba at the amusement park on the end table. He had his arm around her shoulder and had a big grin on his face, her face a little flushed and a meek smile present. Sakura's eyes widened when Hinata bit her lip and more tears fell. She gave the picture behind her a double-take before quickly slamming it face down. She looked back at Hinata. "Hinata." she said with sympathy.

"I...can't..." she murmured. "...I...I...can't believe"—she choked back tears—"he..."

"Hinata." Sakura pulled her closer and started to rub her back. "It's going to be alright."

She shook her head; she definitely didn't believe that. She usually is so optimistic. A smile always on her face, but not now. Her and Kiba had been going out for so many years, or so it felt. They were high school sweethearts. Going out since freshman year. Now, both eighteen, both living on their own—thanks to their wealthy families—and he cheated on her. And it was all a mishap. She believed, now, she was the most unluckiest person on earth.

They had so many fun times, Kiba and her. She loved hanging out with him. She thought she had the world since he was hers. Being apart was almost unbearable, and she wished he at least felt the same. But she was wrong, very wrong. Now that she thinks about it, she should've saw the pattern. It was always her, Sakura, and Ino. All good friends, best friends. Well, sort of. Ino started to distant herself from their little clique around junior year. Hinata and Sakura always wondered why, they all had been friends since grade school, so of course they wondered why.

Now, they know why.

Hinata wondered: how long? How long was Kiba and Ino having their fling? She hoped not for too long, even though it didn't matter now. She knew about it, and so did Sakura. She wished, in the back of her head, that Ino would realize what she done wrong. She wished Ino felt horrible. Both of them.

Kiba was so surprised. Surprised to see her. There, just standing there. Watching them have sex. She thought he was foolish and furrowed her eyebrows; why would he give her a key if he was cheating? It was just pure stupidity. Maybe it was because he didn't think she would ever use the key. She never did. But luckily for her, she forgot something over there and needed it badly. Hinata, he shouted getting off of Ino, umm, what are you doing here?! She was too shocked to answer, though she glad she was, because she may have actually explained herself to the moron. Hinata! Hinata! It's not what it looks like! Umm, please don't, umm, damn! He kept shouting, all nonsense. And he was still trying to convince Hinata that nothing was happening while Ino gathered her clothes. And he still tried even when Ino ran by her saying sorry. But Hinata didn't really notice anything. Not the apologizing. Not even his nervous loud shouting. Everything was blocked out. The only thing she was looking at was his bed.

Maybe that was it, she thought. Maybe he cheated on her because she wouldn't have sex with him. She was very respectfully of herself, and having sex wasn't acceptable. Well, that's what she told herself. She was really scared to be truthful. Just the thought of having that...thing shoved inside of her gave her goose bumps. Sakura told her it wasn't as bad as she thought. She said when her and her current, faithful boyfriend, Naruto, had sex it wasn't that painful. Hinata said okay, but still was thinking she was crazy. She never even saw one before! She just thought they were big because of the way her—deflowered—friends described them, and Hinata always walked out the room halfway through the story. As far as she was concerned, she'd be a virgin, forever.

"Cheer up, okay?" Sakura said smiling at Hinata. "We can eat some ice cream and talk about, umm, I don't know, guys?" Hinata looked up at her with a sad, but angry face. The smile grew. "About how much guys suck?"

Hinata took a tissue out of the box. "But you have a great boyfriend."

"Who gets on my nerves!" she shouted playfully, Hinata giggled a bit. "See, let's make you laugh. How about watching some TV? I think there's a marathon of 'The Bad Girls Club' on TV One."

Hinata sighed and a tiny smile appeared as she crumbled the tissue in her hand. "Sure."

X--•--X

Jiraiya stared down at the chained up mutt—half jackal, half dog. He continued to stare at the cur with a scowl, a deep scowl. If his scowl got any deeper, his face would surely be stuck like that. The two councilmen to the side of him definitely though it was going to happen. Because he has been staring down at the mutt like that for the pass minute or so, and they were beginning to grow impatient. So impatient that Tsunade balled up her fist and tried to contain herself from hitting the head council. She would've said something but she was trying her best to stay professional, and she knew if she said anything it would come out as a yell. She looked over at Jiraiya and her ear twitch when he still had the same look.

"Let's get this started." Orochimaru said bored out of his mind tapping his fingers against the table, Tsunade sighed out of relief.

Jiraiya snapped out of his gaze and cleared his throat. He throw glances at the two worried siblings of the half-breed. He sighed in disappointment. "Gaara." he started. "I told you this was your last chance...and you already blew it."

Gaara stared down at the ground, with the blood from his head wound running down his face, like he's been doing for the pass hour he's been waiting for this "meeting". He furrowed his brow; he thought if they were going to punish him they should do it now. He knew it wasn't going to be that bad. Seriously, what could they do?

"You're being exiled." Jiraiya said nonchalantly, getting gasps from everyone beside Orochimaru and Gaara.

"What!" Tsunade shouted. "Why?!"

Orochimaru sent her a small glare. "Because he deserves it." he said, Jiraiya nodded. Him and the head council were on the same page; Gaara shouldn't be there anymore. They thought he caused too much trouble and they wanted that trouble to go away, forever. Well, Orochimaru didn't care about him causing others trouble, he just wanted to cause the boy who gave him plenty of shit havoc.

Tsunade frowned at the two dogs. She thought this was so unfair. She knew Gaara always caused trouble but she didn't think he deserved this. She was always silently rooting for the boy, hoping he would stop causing trouble and straighten up. She still is, but that hoping wasn't getting him anywhere. This was the third time this week he tried to escape from his confinement. You have to stay in there for at least two weeks, Jiraiya said, for what you did in the forest. Gaara was just in the Forest of the Wolves a few weeks ago, doing God knows what with nobody. Now, Tsunade is usually on his side, but she wasn't with that. He knew that the wolves weren't the friendliest of packs, and yet he still went over there and caused mayhem: five people wounded, excluding himself who just got a scratched-up arm.

She looked down at the mutt and gave him a sad look; she felt sorry for him. She kind of understood why he caused so much trouble. She thought, maybe, it was because he wanted attention. Nobody ever accepted him, really. Besides his two half siblings, Temari and Kankuro. He was a half-breed, and everyone looked down on him for that. It was very unnatural for people to mate outside their pack. She wished his mom was still alive to take care of him. His mom was a jackal, and a very pretty one. Tsunade still laughed at the fact that his strict dad fell for someone of another breed. It was too bad his mom died while giving birth to him, and his dad died some months before that. So nobody was there to take care of him, and nobody would even want to. In their Canine Realm, people didn't want anything to do with half-breeds. Though people didn't know how to deal with them because it was very seldom that one was conceived. So when he was born, the jackals wanted nothing to do with him. Except for his brother and sister, everyone in the Dog Clan were very weary about him, but Tsunade stepped in and said it was okay, after all, she was Love.

In the council, there are three head members, all having there own status. Tsunade, who people also called Lady Tsunade, was in charge of romance. She helped and gave counseling in the love department, she also took care of strays and half-breeds. She told everyone to just call her Aphrodite, because of her feminine charm and beauty, and glared at Jiraiya and Orochimaru who snickered under their breath. Orochimaru, got what fit him best and that was to cast and take away curses. The last one he didn't do much of, he didn't really do it at all unless it was mandatory. He even had this nerdy apprentice but Tsunade couldn't really remember his name. And the last of the council was Jiraiya, the head. He was in charge of sentencing people to whatever, just like he's exiling Gaara now.

"Alright, Gaara." Jiraiya said. "I'm going to exile you to—"

"I think he deserves another chance." Tsunade said quickly looking at the two men beside her and missed the shock on Gaara's hidden face. He couldn't believe someone else was actually standing up for him other than his brother and sister.

They both looked at her with a frown. "No." Orochimaru hissed.

She glared. "You're not the head."

Jiraiya threw the two glances and mentally smacked his head. They always fought, and he was always the middle. "Listen, Tsunade. We already gave him a million—"

"No more than six." she said still having her glaring contest.

"Than what do you purpose?"

Orochimaru scoffed and looked away, Tsunade inwardly cheered. She looked at Jiraiya with a serious face. "A mission."

He was interested. "What type?"

"Have him make someone love him."

"That's ridiculous." Orochimaru said folding his arms.

She rolled her eyes. "How? Making someone fall in love with you isn't that easy."

He shook his head. He slowly looked down at the hand on his arm and glared up at Jiraiya. "What."

Jiraiya moved his hand and cleared his throat. "Maybe this isn't such a bad idea." he whispered.

"Yes it is."

"No. It's good because," Jiraiya stopped and looked over at Tsunade then inched closer to his pale dog friend and started whispering something in his ear.

Tsunade cocked an eyebrow when Jiraiya started whispering and started getting angry when Orochimaru smirked. "What are you two talking about?"

Orochimaru nodded when Jiraiya was done. "Okay." Jiraiya said looking over at Tsunade. Her face lit up and a big smiled appeared when she looked at Orochimaru and he nodded. "Okay, Gaara." the head said down to the cur. The guards that held his chains yanked them up so he would be forced to look Jiraiya in the eye. "We have came up with a mission for you, and if you pass, you'll get to stay. But, if you don't I'll exile you."

"Great." Temari cheered, Kankuro smirked. "What is it?"

The two male heads held a sly smirk as Tsunade smiled gracefully. "You," Jiraiya started, "You have to make a girl fall in love with you." His smirk grew when Tsunade smiled at him. "A human girl." Her smile dropped.

"What?!" she screamed and earned a glare from Orochimaru.

"Stop yelling." he hissed rubbing his droopy ears.

"That's crazy!" she yelled again ignoring his demand.

Jiraiya stared at her. "No." he said nonchalantly. "You said that we should have him make someone love him. Someone. That means anybody, any race, any being."

"But how are you going to do that without sending him there?" Temari asked with a deep frown.

"I will send him there, without any time limit on the task. You should be grateful." He turned away from Tsunade and smirked slyly before muttering to himself, "This should be amusing."

"Yes." Orochimaru agreed with his own devilish smirk. "It should."

"You two are evil!" Tsunade snapped.

"This was your decision." the pale councilman said without looking at her.

"I'm not doing anything." Gaara said in a monotone.

The head scowled. "You don't have much of a choice."

"No." he hissed. He refused to go to the human world. They were disgusting to him. He didn't want anything to do with a human. Even though the people of the dog kingdom held plenty of characteristics of a human being, they still despised the race. They thought the humans were vile creatures who didn't take care of their world.

"Gaara." Temari said looking down at her brother with pleading eyes; she just wanted him to come home with them. "Please just do the mission. Please. For your big sister."

Gaara furrowed his eyebrows and threw glances at the two guards next to him, ignoring her. He didn't think they were that strong, or as fast as him. He started to think of a plan to just escape and live were all the exiles were usual sent: The Wastelands. It was a humongous dessert full of all the people who were banished, and nobody was allowed out there besides them. Gaara winced when the chains around his neck and arms tightened.

"Don't think about it, mutt." the dog to the left said with a growl.

"Stupid half-breed!" the other one yelled kicking Gaara in the back making him fall on his face.

Gaara growled viciously; he hated when people called him that. "Shut up."

"What are yo gonna do—Ahhhh!" he screamed when he was thrown to the ground when Gaara pulled him down with his chains.

"Hey!" the guard still standing up yelled as Gaara jumped to his feet. He tried to pull the redhead down to his feet again but Gaara was too strong. Gaara kicked the dog in his stomach and tore the chains away for the guard's hand and made a run for it.

"Catch him." Jiraiya said uninterested; this was a routine for him since Gaara did this almost all the time.

And as soon as he said the command, Gaara stopped his running when at least ten guards surrounded him. He glared at the ones in front of him; he just wanted them to get out of the way. In a swift move, he charged at the few men in front of him and tried to maneuver around them by hitting them with kicks. But as soon as one was down, Gaara winced and feel to the ground when the ones behind him pulled on the chains. He coughed, the chains around his neck making it hard to breathe. All the guards glared down at him and started kicking him. In the stomach, legs, and even one put their foot on his head and made him sink into the ground. Gaara grunted. "That's what you get!" the one guard yelled and pressed harder against his head.

Jiraiya shook his head. "He's going to fail."

Tsunade lowered her head and Orochimaru gave off a smirk.

"But he's only eighteen." Tsunade pleaded.

"He'll rot in those woods." Orochimaru said with a scowl, Jiraiya shrugged.

X--•--X

Hinata and Sakura shared another laugh. She stopped and smiled at her friend who was in tears; it felt good to laugh again. She felt so much better now. She hoped Kiba was out of her system, but he wasn't. But she still had that big smile on her face. Sakura shared fun and good times with her when she realized the TV idea wasn't working. They talked about their last year in high school, and she skipped the part with Kiba. They talked about how college was going to be the start of their new lives, only a couple of months for that. Everything was going well. Sakura even took the picture away when Hinata wasn't looking and hid it in her purse. She stopped laughing and wiped the tears away from her eyes before smiling at her friend. "Naruto's so stupid." she said breathing out another laugh.

Hinata gave her friend a semisweet smile. She was kind of jealous. Sakura had the best boyfriend in the world, according to her. Someone she could trust and would always be by her side. Hinata would give anything to have that, but not someone like Naruto. She loved Naruto to death and they would do anything for each other, because they were friends. And nothing more. Hinata knew Naruto as long as she knew Sakura, and back then, she may have had a little crush on him. But that crush quickly faded when she met Kiba in middle school. See, Naruto always helped her with boy trouble. He would always tell her what a boy liked, what they didn't, he was just always there and she couldn't see him anything more than a friend. A brother even.

"Oh!" Sakura shouted thinking of something else. "And remember that time when he—" her eyes went slightly wide when Hinata smiled apologetically. "What?"

"Sakura," she said, "Don't take this the wrong way but..."

Sakura quickly stood up and put her hands on her hips staring down at Hinata with squinted eyes. Hinata blinked in confusion. "Are you trying to kick me out?"

She smiled and looked away. "It's not that I want you to leave"—she looked back up at her—"but I just want some time to myself, that's all. I'm sorry."

Sakura laughed making Hinata blink again. "I don't mind. It's past seven o'clock anyway." she said and picked up her pocketbook, having a little extra weight. "Just call me, k?"

She nodded. "Okay."

As Sakura smiled and left, Hinata took a deep breath as she got up and walked up stairs to her bedroom. She was very thankful that her dad bought her this house. It was very nice. A two-story, three bedrooms, two and a half bathrooms with many other rooms. It was filled with lovely, expensive furniture and the garage had a lovely, expensive two-door car. She walked into her bedroom and closed the door quietly. She let out another heavy sigh before running and jumping on her bed and hid her face in her fluffy, cloud-like pillow, muffling a small scream as a few tears seeped into it. This was the worst day of her life. Today and yesterday was the worst days of her life, since last night is when she caught Kiba cheating.

She still didn't understand it. They had so many fun times together, so many happy memories. Nothing added up. She remembered the first date they went on, it was a wreck, for both of them. She was so nervous she kept blushing and he was so nervous but he tried to hide it. She could tell since he kept repeating his words. They went the amusement park, that's were that picture was taken. He became so hyper when he wasn't nervous anymore. He started acting like the boy she fell for in the school hallways. Always so live, but knew when to calm down. She liked that a lot about him. She loved everything about him.

Hinata quickly lifted her head hearing a thud. What was that, she thought. She was kind of scared. That's one thing she hated about living on her own: she didn't like being on her own. She remembered how she use to call Kiba to make her feel better, feel safe. Hinata, he always said as if he was tired, nothing going to happen, okay? And if something does, I'll be over there in a flash.

She rolled her eyes at the memory and blinked away the tears that were forming. She started walking over to her window but stopped at the sight of her face in the mirror on the bureau. She frown at her red eyes and nose; she needed to just forget about him and move on. She didn't want to be stuck like this forever, even if she only found out yesterday, she still wanted to get over it as soon as possible. She shook away any feelings left and peeked out the window. She scanned her backyard, but nothing was there that was out of the ordinary. No. She didn't really have anything in her backyard besides the pool and jacuzzi that was connected. Yelp, even the redhead unconscious thing was still there. She sighed out of relief then started to walk to her bathroom.

She paused then turned around slowly. "Red?" she said to herself looking at the window. She quickly ran over to the window and looked down at this redhead that looked like it was a person. Her eyes went wide. "A person!" she screamed running out her room and downstairs. She started to get scared. What was an unconscious person doing in her backyard?! She started to run faster. She hoped they were alright! She charged out to the backyard and jumped over some of the pool equipment that was on the ground, the cement scratching the bottom of her bare feet. "Umm." she called loudly still standing far away from the person that was in the grass, it looked like "they" was a guy. "Umm, excuse me." she called again. He still didn't move. She felt her body start to shake as she pulled her hoody closer to her and she looked down at her feet, still on the cement, inches away from the nice evergreen. She gulped, putting her fear of bugs aside—suburbia had a lot of those—and quickly walked over to the guy and gasped when she saw his condition. "Oh! Are you alright!" she called bending down on her knees and got a little relief when he was still breathing. "Are you alright?" she asked more calm and more quietly; she didn't want to wake up the neighborhood. She let her eyes scan his body while blushing at his bare chest and was very grateful that he had a pair of jeans on. She looked down at his feet, and he didn't have any shoes on. As her eyes traveled back up to his face, a confused look appeared. First at the sight of this long, bushy tail that was the same color as his deep scarlet red hair—covered his ears and was a bit shabby. And her eyes went wider when she saw the pair of long reddish-brown dog ears on his head. She cocked an eyebrow; was he cosplaying?

Yeah, good huh? Well I thought you guys would like it, but don't keep that to yourself. Review Pls!

Footnote(for those that don't get the appearance of the Canines):

For those who don't get something, I'm going to clear it up here. Any other questions just PM me. Okay, so they're not COMPLETELY dogs. They are just humans with dog tails and ears on their head, and without regular human ears. Hence, Gaara's hair covers said partand so does everyone else's that usual shows ears. If you don't know what a jackal looks like, check yahoo or google, they're really pretty. They have different ears from wolves. Theirs are longer. All the dogs in here(Sannins, Sand Siblingsbesides Gaaraetc.) have small droopy ears.