Author's Note: Well, this is a new story that have been in my mind for a year now. I wanted to write it sooner but found that it sounded stupid so I changed some of the plot. Haha, I wanted to see if anyone like Alternate Universe/Fantasy fic. Please review because I want to hear your respone about this story. I will reply you as soon as possible. Please leave your e-mail too.

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Chapter 1

First Encounter

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Year 2006, Japan

Looking up the sky, there's nothing more relaxing then doing this. Lying on the open field, her pearl-liked eyes admired it, not shifting one bit from the evening sky. She felt as if her worries have been lifted up her chest.

Hyuuga Hinata looks up at the sky, wondering if her family was looking at her right now. After that incident, she has been staying with her uncle in a shinto temple for almost 10 years now. Her uncle runs the temple and to most people, it seems like a place where they go there to pray for good luck and prosperity but in fact, her family has been skilled and well-known for exorcising demons. Passed down by generation over a thousand years. She has been trained by her uncle on how to deal with a demon but she has no chance at all to test her ability. Her uncle wouldn't allow her to do that yet.

Hinata was a little disappointed about that. She stands up and throws her fist into the air and swears that she will do her best to do it when she was needed. She glances at her watch. It was time to go home after a day of picking herbs from the mountain.

The temple was located not far from where she is. She walks into the forest and she finds it difficult to see where she was going because it was already late and dark. She keeps walking and sees something in front of her. She screams and drops her stuff onto the ground. With her hand held on top of her head, she tries to look at the thing again and found that it was just only a statue of an animal. She sighs and realized that it wasn't something that will harm her. She examines the miniature statue. This type of statue can be normally seen in temples but there was something about this statue that makes her shiver. She shrugs it off and looks around to see where she is and found that she was now standing on a cliff. She looks down from the cliff to see that the temple was just down there, very far away from where she was though.

Just as she was about to leave, she can feel the ground under her moves.

"Oh please no, this is not a time to have an earthquake." She tries to run but it was too late as the ground beneath her shakes violently and she lost her footing on the ground. She grabbed the statue's head to hold on for dear life from falling off the cliff.

"Ouch!" She flinchs as blood were trickling from her hand because she was gripping a little too tightly on the head of the statue where the jewel was located. This just makes her unbearable as her hand was getting tired and painful. She glances down and was shock to see how hugh she was. If she were to fall down, she will die instantly from the shock of it all. She was afraid of height and this didn't help her one bit. The blood was making the statue getting slippery and then she looses her grip on the statue's head.

"AHHHH!" She screamed, closing her eyes as she falls. Her head was beginning to feel light. Just as she was waiting for her back to collide with the ground, something grabs her and she has stopped. She opens her eyes a little and was met with yellow one. She looks at the person who was carrying her. He has wild red hairs and a pair of bat-liked wing on his back. It couldn't be. Hinata wouldn't believe it if she hasn't saw it with her own eyes. She was in mid air. She rolled her eyes to him.

"A-are you…a…a demon?" She questioned him stupidly before losing her consciousness.

The demon grins and his pointy ears begin to twitch. His eyes glow a little and blinks while he tries to read her thought. After that, the demon look away and flew towards the direction of the temple.

"AHH!" Hinata screamed and bolted up from her futon. She looks around while clutching her blanket tightly against her chest. She got up and slides the door open. She runs outside and found that she was back at the temple.

'Someone must have sent me home yesterday.' Replaying her memory from last night, it seems too real to be a dream. 'A demon. It's definitely a demon…but…If it really was a demon, I will be dead by now. This couldn't be. I must tell uncle Hizashi about this.' She dashed to where her uncle will usually be in the morning. She slides the door open and found that the living room was empty. She closes it back and head outside. She looks around and then spotted someone hanging up clothes onto the laudry line.

It wasn't someone familiar to her. This person has long red hair. 'It couldn't be uncle Hizashi.' She thought as she dares herself to walk closer to see who it was.

"Hello?" She managed to speak out. The boy turns around and smiled at her.

"Good morning." He said. Hinata's eyes were as wide as saucer now. The boy in front of her was the one that she assumed was a demon just now but from what she remembers, he looks slightly different. He was shorter compare to yesterday. He has no wings on his back and he seems friendlier than she thought. His smile hasn't faded from his face yet. She was confused now.

She dares not move from her spot and thus she can only stand there looking at his eyes. 'His eyes were not green yesterday. It was yellow in color.' The morning wind blows, ruffling his hair to reveal his pointy ears that were covered by his long red sideburn. She blinks her eyes. 'He has the same pointy ear though. He is a demon then but…' She was shooting all kind of question to herself like why is he here and doing their laundry and why is he smiling at her? Shouldn't he grins or something more scarier?' She was confused, very confused. Just then she remembered her uncle. 'Where is he? It must have something to do with this. Did he…'

"Good morning Hinata." Hinata turns around to see her uncle carrying shopping bags. "Ah, I see you have met Gaara-kun here." Hinata looks back to the person his uncle has just mentioned. He gives her a wave and a smile again.

"Uncle." She runs to him and drag her uncle inside. She closes the door behind them and both of them sits down. "Uncle, I have to tell you something. That boy there is a…"

"A demon." Her uncle cut her off. "I know what he is and it seems that you have succeeded on finding and releasing him after a thousand years."

"What?" Hinata was confused once again.

"You see Hinata, our family has been granted the power to exorcise demon since a thousand years ago and it all begin with the First Maiden, Hyuuga Hinata."

Hinata was speechless. Hyuuga Hinata? That's her name.

"I know what you are thinking dear. Where should I start this of?" Her uncle looks up the ceiling searching for an explanation. "You were named after the First Maiden by your great grandfather. It seems that fate has brought you two together again."

Hinata looks to the direction where the demon should be. "I don't understand at all. What is it that the First Maiden and I have in common?"

"You are the 77th generation of the Hyuuga family and it seems that the prophecy is true. When time comes, the curse will be lifted away from him. A thousand years ago, our family made a promise with this demon that we will let him live in peace as long as he helps us defeat the other demon."

Hinata listened carefully to the story.

"This is something really hard for him as he, Gaara was the 'First Demon'. Gaara was the first one who signed a contract with the devil to gain power and rein terror to the entire human race. He was the one who brought up other animal spirit to become demon just like him."

"Wait a minute. He's the 'First Demon'…but... Why will he help the human? I don't get it." Hinata was puzzled.

"You see my dear; the only person Gaara obeyed was the First Maiden. She cursed him with her power thus living making him obey whatever she says. He promised by helping us seal as many demon as we can but in the end, our family didn't keep the promise and sealed him in the statue but it says that the 77th generation will be able to release him again for the mistake we have done upon him. This is as far as I know about the history about this."

"Doesn't that make him dangerous to us now?" Hinata asked.

"As a matter of fact, no. There's the thing I know from my grandfather. He won't harm us as he can't turn back to the other demon either. He has betrayed them by helping us human." Hizashi chuckled. "I can't believe I will be able to meet him. I was fascinated by my grandfather when he told me about this. I was just a little boy. Unlike your father, he has no interest in this, thus we went on our separate ways."

"So, what are we going to do with him?" Hinata questioned.

"Well, we will see about that." Hizashi got up and slides the door open. He walks outside and look at the demon.

Hinata followed and look at him as well.

Sitting under the tree, Gaara was lost in his thought about the whole incident. 'Why does she look like her?' He closes his eyes, trying to search for his memory of the girl he once loved.

Year 956, Japan

Landing on his feet, he folds his wings back after the long flight. He steps forward cautiously, growling with hunger with the urge of feasting a human tonight. His pointy ear tries to hear for any sound and movement from the area surrounding him. His eyes scanned the area in front of him. He smells human, a very bold one.

He walked forward and was confronted by a girl. He smirked, showing his canine. He's eyes never shift from the image in front of him. Human, to him, they are murderer. The kinds of species that make him suffer, to go through those days with the feeling of loosing his loved one.

"You're the first human that dares to confront me. Tell me your name." He growled at her. His claws was ready to plunge itself into her flesh, tearing it off.

The girl kneeled down and her hand moved to perform a seal. "Hyuuga Hinata. Remember this name always as tonight it's the night you shall perish."

To Be Continue

Pandora: So, how was it? There will be a lot of flashback and I think I will reveal it one by one. Haha. Wanna know why he became like this and why he was sealed in the end? You have to find that out.