Gaara and the Rain
Chapter two: Secrets and hidden faces.
Gaara could feel Hinata's stare while she looked at his hands, that were holding onto the horse rein.
"Do you have a problem?" he asked her in a rather rude way.
Hinata snapped her gaze from him and she looked ahead.
"N-No, I don't Kazekage-Sama." she said, blinking heavily. It had grown very dark out here and Hinata was getting cold. She shivered once unconsciously causing Gaara to arch his eyebrows at the her.
'She's so fragile looking, and she's so weak smelling. How do you stand being this close to her.' Shukaku's blood thirsty voice snarled within the sand ninja's head, resulting in Gaara crinkling his nose.
Shutting the voice out, Gaara sighed sadly, yet kept his broken eyes focused on his destination, The Village Hidden in the Sand.
Hinata suddenly broke his thoughts by whispering. "Gaara-san...Can i ask you something?" she stared ahead of them, looking at the trees disappear quickly as they did to reveal a vast open sand desert. Gaara looked at the top of Hinata's head.
"Perhaps…" he simply muttered, with no change in his voice, and no alteration showing that he would actually answer this particular question.
Hinata sighed, "Well...I was wondering, When you were talking with Hokage-Sama, she mentioned the Sunagakure and you didn't look too happy about going there, Why is that?" she said in a curious manor.
Gaara looked at the girl with an irate glare."It is of no concern to you why I despise going to the Suna at this time!" he snapped.
Hinata retorted. "But..." but she was interrupted by Gaara growling.
"No more questions, we're almost there."
He was right. Hinata hadn't noticed through their arguing that they had reached the Suna in the process. Gaara wasn't really paying attention to the feeling that something bad was going to happen. But maybe that was because Hinata was the only one. That's when the horse halted and Three large sand nin with masks on their faces jumped in front of the horse.
Gaara stared at them and with his booming voice, he shouted, "What is the meaning of this intrusion!"
Hinata went to cover her ears when one of the sand nin shot a sonbon into both of her wrists, causing her to gasp in pain, immediately yanking at the metal pins to get them out, but the needles had been tipped with poison, and she began to feel extremely sleepy.
Gaara noticed this quickly, but paid no attention to it, he knew Hinata would take care of herself. Right now he had to take care of the Sand Nin.
"Gaara of the Desert ay?" came a creepy robotic voice.
It came from the largest of the Sand Nin in front of them, he had a black mask over his eye along with his headband with a small hourglass on the front. Showing he was from the Village Hidden in the Sand.
Hinata studied them as quickly as she could before she lost her vision completely.
"Poison, Water, and—oh my…H—He has the Sharingan!" Hinata muttered, and at that thought, images of Sasuke and Itachi plagued her.
"Gaara-san..." Hinata started, but she was silenced by a hand that was put in her direction, signifying silence. Hinata nodded, but she quietly activated her Byakugan and she stared a hole through the three. Especially the oldest one, she knew who he was, and she knew he was not a Sand Nin. That is when she noticed that his headband was indeed, different than the others. Hinata was feeling a bit less woozy as she felt the anger boiling from inside of her, but she held her hands firm as she deactivated Byakugan.
Gaara nodded toward the fattest one.
"Yes? Do you have a problem with me?" he asked glaring at the big one.
It seemed he didn't notice the Konoha ninja and the shortest Sand Nin staring at Hinata, about to attack her. Gaara smirked at the large one, with narrowed eyes. His concentration was on the gourd on his back. The Kazekage smirked and said in his thick, deep voice.
"We have come to assassinate you, Lord Kazekage, and your beautiful friend here, Heiress Hinata." he said as he held his grubby hand out to reveal a large hole in the middle.
"I have my orders, Gaara." Gaara's eyes didn't change; But Hinata knew who this was. His old friend, one person he thought he could trust, but he could let him alone; no one threatened him and got away with it. Hinata realized something about the one Gaara was speaking with, he wasn't a Sand Nin, but a spy. A spy that was pretty good at his job, and had once pretended to play a Leaf Nin during their Chunin exams years ago. Gaara smirked and he grinned.
"Kabuto, you are so weak." He whispered as he closed his eyes, trying to get a sense of the area.
Kabuto's large black eyes glared up at Gaara's teal ones.
"You, have no right...to-" Kabuto was cut off at the feeling of sand crawling up his ankles.
"I don't have what right? Kabuto?" he began as his sand slowly crawled up his companion's leg, Gaara kept that same creepy expressionless look on his face, the one that made Kabuto shake.
Hinata was too close to losing her head when she was watching Gaara, that she didn't notice when the Konoha ninja went to hit him. Hinata quickly sensed it and stood quickly, kicking off from the ground and heading straight for him.
"Byakugan!" Hinata shouted loudly as she shot out six hand seals and jumped at the Konoha Ninja.
He jumped back and dodged her shots at him, they stood fighting for a moment, he had activated his Sharingan. But in no way, could he ever dream of beating Byakugan. Hinata shot at him and slapped him in the face, and they began to fight head on. Gaara looked over at Hinata for one second and then back at Kabuto, who was now almost covered in sand. Hinata and the Konoha Ninja pushed back and forth at each other with basic Taijutsu. Getting frustrated, she hit the ninja in one of his 64 chakra points causing him to lose the ability and use of his left arm.
Hinata stepped back and stared at him, The Konoha Ninja lifted the headband from his face. Hinata soon found out that her suspicions were true.
"Sasuke..." she whispered in a choked voice, then memories of her past came back to her.
'Uchiha Sasuke, The last of the Uchiha Clan. He was called the Avenger. He was strolling alongside a certain pink haired girl who was swooning against him, and she smiled.
"Oh, Sasuke-kun I can't believe you asked me on a date! That will be fire in Ino's face for sure." she kept rambling.
Sakura was truly in love with the Uchiha, and he was just using her. Hinata had been strolling too, thinking about a certain blonde haired boy, when she heard a deep voice say;
"You know Sakura. I have feelings for you too, .that is the reason, why I brought you here today, to tell you those feelings—so it would change our relationship forever." he stated calmly, this only gaining the best response from Sakura. "Oh! you do Sasuke-kun?...I knew you did...it was hard to hide it—I mean the way you look-" she stopped talking when she saw Sasuke stare at the ground.
He spoke up, and she stopped almost immediately. "The truth is..I hate you. You are annoying, and you make me want to scream. You are weak, and you have no skill in most of your Justus's, and most of the time it is your excellent talent of controlling Chakra that keeps you alive. Of course your smart, thats good and all, but you have no looks, and definitely no personality. This isn't a date. I actually needed to come here tonight, because I am leaving, forever. But its going to break our relationship in pieces, because I am never going to talk to you. So I want you to give up on me. I don't like you, and I never will." With that, Sasuke looked at the ground once again, taking a deep breath before turning to leave, his hands in his pockets, leaving Sakura to stare at the bushes. Hinata, who felt the urge to spy, heard the whole thing. She felt angered yet so shy, that's the way she was back then. Sakura was crying so much, it scared her to see her happy cheerful friend that way. Knowing it wasn't the world to Hinata, but that it was the world to Sakura, Hinata vowed to get Sasuke back for Sakura one day."
Hinata stood and disappeared.'
Hinata broke away from her thoughts and then she growled.
"You bastard...This time...I am going to get you back!" she said in an angered manor.
The Konoha Shinobi tilted his red eyes and stared her down.
"Hyuuga Hinata. You're just a weakling." He said in a deep yet uninterested voice.
Hinata, on the other hand; was furious.
"You only remember that timid female who sulked all of the time—I am different now!" She threatened him, walking in his direction.
Sasuke looked at her with a satisfied smirk, as if daring her to say another word.
"You broke Sakura's heart...and I am going to get you back for it...That, is a promise." she spoke clearly, stepping closer to the Shinobi.
Sasuke glared down at the short girl, really not terrified at all. Although, Hinata looked pretty intimidating with her Byakugan activated, what with the veins on her face, and in her lavender iris's. Hinata grit her teeth and lunged at Sasuke. She took a punch at his face, and missed while Sasuke ducked and grabbed her wrists, swinging the female around and slamming her against the sand-covered ground.
"You have caused enough trouble don't you think? I'm going to write your name on your headstone personally." Sasuke growled as he walked around her, slowly.
The Hyuuga grinned, and puffed into a ball of smoke and about twenty Hinata's appeared around him.
"The name is Hyuuga Hinata, bastard and YOUR name will be the one on the headstone!" This Hinata wasn't the same as the old Hinata that Sasuke knew, and it took him by surprise.
She had always been bland and had no style, or even looks for that matter. He always remembered how shy she was, and how she blushed at everything, especially Naruto. This Hinata seemed more mature, she had grown full and beautiful, her long bluish hair hung down to her hips, and her lavender eyes had grown purpler, her skin milky, and pale, her chest was large, her waist small, and her shape was voluptuous. Sasuke was surprised at her.
However, Sasuke smirked. "Ah, silly Hyuuga, Young one, didn't Neji teach you anything!" he growled and he clasped his hands together and formed the Tiger Seal.
"You will burn."
Gaara was letting the sand travel all the way around Kabuto's waist so he wouldn't be able to move at all.
"Tell me Kabuto, who gave you those orders?" Gaara asked in his monotone voice. Kabuto stared him down with a glare, Gaara thought it was pitiful that his friend still thought he would fight back.
'He tries so hard. Kill him now! You know you want it...he betrayed you...he almost killed you! KILL HIM!' Shukaku took his grasp and Gaara got that look in his eyes, letting Shukaku take control involuntarily.
Gaara lifted his hand and the sand quickly covered Kabuto all the way up to his face as he pulled his hand out and made his mark.
"Sand Coffin!" he murmured as the sand hardened and busted. Kabuto's blood shot everywhere, even on Gaara's face as Kabuto's body lay on the ground in pieces bleeding.
Gaara was content with himself.
'It wasn't enough...enough blood...Need more blood!' Shukaku shouted in anger.
Gaara pushed him away. "No you have had enough you monster!" he told him equally angry.
Turning his gaze to remember that there were three Sand Ninja, he noticed that the small one had run away obviously in fear of him. The Ninja was only a boy. Then Gaara turned to see where Hinata had gone, but heard he shoots of Chakra, and yelling coming from her tiny voice. Gaara finally found her with his eyes and kept them locked upon her quick movements, when had she gotten so strong?
Last he remembered, she was blushing and stuttering. Now she was almost face to face with an expression that showed anger with no limit. Gaara kind of liked it. Staring and not stopping her to see if he could get a good show, he mounted on the horse and watched her. Finally, h e noticed she was fighting the Uchiha, he then thought;
'Maybe I should assist her, No, she should learn her mistakes.' he contradicted himself. Gaara smirked at his own thoughts and continued his gaze on the small petite Nin.
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A large flame shot out towards the petite girl, she smirked and before Sasuke could suspect it, she shot out about 6 hand seals and a large chakra field blocked the fire that was shot at her face. Jumping forward before Sasuke could see her, her speed almost completely blinding, it was something that Lee-San had taught her. Speed was one of her bases in her personalized Hyuuga style. Stepping forward, she lifted her leg and kicked Sasuke in the face causing him to fall back about 10 feet. Landing on her feet she smiled a little wide, and the Uchiha stood and spit out a trail of blood that came from his mouth.
"You have changed Hyuuga." he muttered as he whispered, "Sharingan!" Moving his hand out and cupping it a giant ball of lightning started to grow.
Hinata knew the Chidori well for she had seen Sasuke try to use it on Naruto once. Stepping back, she growled and she tightened her legs and lifted one finger over her lips and she ran forward to Sasuke with amazing speed and she hit 16 points of chakra in his arms, then 42 in his stomach and chest and then 64 points in his legs and she clenched her fist and a large chakra flame engulfed it and she hit Sasuke in the forehead, sending him back into the ground causing a huge gash in the sand.
'Well,this is a surprise. She's stronger than I thought.' Shukaku spoke inside Gaara's mind.
Gaara nodded to himself as he continued watching the Shinobi with complete interest. Hinata stood breathing heavily, Sasuke was a little much for her, honestly, but he really couldn't fight now.
"Sasuke, I will not kill you...but I'm not done with you..."she said to Sasuke, standing over his body and looking down at him, her disgust was rising yet again, she hated what he had done to her friend, and new that it would be wise to leave. Raising her hand to hit him, she pulled her hand back—remembering what it was that she was supposed to do, she turned to see Gaara watching her. Her eyes widened and she raised her hand, deactivating Byakugan. Hinata began running over to Gaara and the horse. Once she was there, she bowed her head respectfully.
"Sorry, for keeping you Kazekage-sama." she said breathing heavily.
Gaara tried to keep his glare hard and firm but couldn't.
Sighing he said, "Get on." he leaned over, putting out his hand, and pulling her up until she sat in front of him again. The horse did the same thing it did when they got going she pushed back against Gaara's chest but she didn't blush this time, because she expected it to happen. They were about a mile away from the Sunagakure, Gaara stopped the horse and the horse ran away. Hinata wondered how the horse knew where to come when Gaara needed it. Gaara lifted her russet sack that was rather heavy for her.
"Girl, we are going to go to the Inn. Do you have money?" he asked her as he started walking, his long strides kept him ahead of her by far, and Hinata had to jog almost to keep up with him. Gaara soon found their room in the Hataki Inn and they shared a room, because Gaara did not want for Hinata to remain in the Kazekage household just yet, not during this certain weekend. Closing the door, Hinata noticed that it was still dark.
"Is it always this cold at night Kazekage-Sama?" she asked. After a few moments she got no answer. He was staring out the window as well. Hinata didn't look away from him, and eventually he was nodding.
"You will get used to it." he said simply, while turning around."You should get your sleep." he said as he sat down on his bed and Hinata nodded.
"Hai." The little voice muttered.
Feeling quite shy towards him, Hinata turned around and took her jacket off and pulled off her fishnet top, then pulled out her long white t-shirt and put it on and then she slipped her shoes off, then slipped into the bed. and she laid down facing away from him. Closing her eyes, Hinata tried to sleep. However, it was very hard to know, that the most feared person in Konoha was "sleeping" in the same room as her. Her thoughts were rambling to her 'Jump out the window when he sleeps...you can run...you don't have to stay with him' Hinata detested her thoughts and before she knew it, she was drifting off into a dreamless sleep.
Gaara, on the other hand was watching her closely as she slept. He had done this with all of his escorts. Since he never really sleeps thanks to Shukaku, he feels the need to watch over them all to make sure no one harms them. But something seemed to ache for her. After seeing her on the bridge he was thinking about why she would want to visit such a dreadful place, a place where she was not important...where 'he' was not important. It made no difference if Gaara wanted to be here. She did, so he agreed, and escorted her to this horror. Now that they were there it didn't seem to be such a sad place, because he wasn't really alone, plus he had been waiting for something to happen sooner or later and was glad it was sooner. He rested his head down on his bed and stared at the ceiling.
