'Is there no one around him that is not incredibly annoying and worthless?' He thought. His search was not going well. Gaara had carefully watched Naruto and those he was around for the last two weeks. Slowing he began to whittle down possible choices from the list of people who cared for Naruto. I would end up killing them all in less then a week.' He sighed inwardly. 'My search seems pointless.'
"Heeelllo Naruuto-kun." A timid voice stuttered out. Gaara cast a glance at the Raman shop below. He saw a small woman with long dark hair speaking with Naruto. "Oh hi Hinata. Didn't see you there." Naruto said. "How are you?" Hinata asked, staring at her feet. "I'm fine just taking a quick food break from training. But I got to get back to it so I'll see you later." He said a large grin on his face. "Ookay Naruto-kun good bye" She spoke in barely more then a whisper. She looked up to see him already walking away. Slowly she turned and began to head for the Huuga compound.
'Her face is red.' He thought as he watched her carefully. 'But why?' He watched her, as Naruto departed, there seemed to be a longing deep inside those opal eyes. Leaping from the rooftops Gaara followed her unnoticed. He watched as she entered the place that seemed to be her home. Unnoticed and ungreeted by all whom she passed Hinata made her way to her room.
Silently she shut the door to her room. Hinata leaned against it. Her shoulders began to quiver. Gaara could smell the salt of her tears from his position on her roof. "He doesn't even seem to care." Her voice was shaky and soft. Gaara had to increase the charka to his ears in order to hear her words. "Naruto… I loovvee yooouuu." She said almost soundlessly. Her body began to tremble. "You don't even notice me at all. I'm invisible to everyone." Her heart broke as she said these words, feeling truth in them. Gaara heard her gentle steps. Then with a soft thump she fell to her mat.
'She loves him but he is a monster. She can love a monster?' His fingers brushed over the love symbol on his forehead. 'She is weak and unwanted.' Shukaku said. 'It pains her dearly to be so unwanted. We should end her suffering.' A vision of her bloody corpse flashed in his mind. 'NO!' Gaara shouted inside his head. He shut his eyes against the thought, focusing all his energy on blocking out the bloodthirsty raccoon.
He sat on the roof meditating/waiting. His thoughts kept coming back to her words. "I love you." 'If she can love one such as I, could she love me?' He heard movement coming from her room. Opening his eyes he saw that night had crept up on him.
He stopped a few feet away from her in a tree. He had followed her out into the woods. 'She still hasn't sensed me.' Hinata sat next to a small pond. His eyes widened as he realized that she was getting undressed. He watched puzzled as she took off each article of clothing folding them neatly next to her. Carefully she walked onto the water, the moonlight giving her white skin a silvery glow. The water jumped and danced with her every movement as she practiced her jutsue. She enthralled Gaara. 'She is beautiful.' His body tingled with new sensations that flowed throughout him. A longing to touch her, taste her began to grow. His penis began to pulse with longing. A soft chuckle ran through his mind.
'So it seems you found what you want. Our time here has not been a waste. Why don't you just go out there and take her. You can easily over power her.' Shukaku said. No was Gaara's reply. "Why not just take what you want. It's right there in front of you?' 'I can't.' Something inside Gaara told him that was not the way to get what he wanted. Though he wasn't sure what that was. 'Fine then!' Shukaku said. He sent an image of her laying beneath him her eye shut lips parted in a pleasure filled moan. Gaara heard the moan leave his mouth as his mind rapped around Shukaku 's departing gift.
Hinata gasped at the sound she just heard. It sounded like a person moaning. She ran to the edge of the pond and grabbed her cloths. She used a quick teleportation jutsu to bring herself back to her room. Panting she quickly dressed. 'Someone was watching me. Someone was moaning while they watched me naked.' She thought panting. Fear and embarrassment filled her.
'Damn it. She's gone.' He thought. Gaara leaned against a tree. His body still ached with the want of her. Shukaku began to laugh. 'It's true she is weak but her blood holds strength. She would be a good choice to bear our young. ' He left Gaara with that thought and his aching body.
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He glanced down through the foliage and watched her wave goodbye to her teammates. She began her walk home wondering what to do with herself. They had been given a week off to rest and enjoy themselves. Their sensei felt that they were working too hard and it would be best.
A shiver ran down her spine. She felt as though she were being watched. The memory of the night before flashed in her head. She quickened her pace. He smiled at the sound of her heart beating more frantically. She could sense him. Playfully he dashed from tree to tree in pursuit of his little deer. Hinata activated her Byakugan. Her eyes widened as they found a source of her fear, someone was coming after her. They were powerful. Frantically she increased her pace. Trying desperately to out run this strange chakra source. His smile widened at the scent of her fear. He let her gain distance between them. She panted and slumped against a tree trunk. 'I lost him' she thought looking behind her and sensing no one with her Byakugan. She deactivated it. Raising her head skyward she closes her eyes. Her jagged breathing began to ease. 'Who was that? And why is he after me?' She wondered as she tried to recover. A gasp escaped her throat.
Slowly she opened her eye. Her heart all but stopped as she saw him not three inches from her. His breath caressed her face as the gray green pools consumed her vision. So close to her. Tremors coursed through her.
'Gaara of the sand.' Her mind began to flip back three years to the chunin exams. He was a monster, she had seen him kill and take pleasure in it. 'Why? Why is he here? Am I going to die?'
Gaara moved back to get a better look at her. He took in the deep silver of her eyes that reminded him so of the moon, her smooth white skin that covered her soft features. 'I wonder if she is as soft as she looks.' He'd wondered this ever since he had seen her practicing her jutsu at a waterfall. The strange new feeling began to erupt in his body again. Slowly, tentatively the sand of his armor receded from his hand, he brushed her cheek with his fingertips. She was softer then he could have imagined. Her eyes widened at his touch. "W-w-w-w" was all she could manage to say. Fear constricted her chest, something was different but she knew not what. Her pathetic attempts to speak only brought his attention lower. Her lips contained a faint pink tint. They like the rest of her looked so soft he just had to feel if they were.
'What's he doing? Why did he touch me? Oh no he's coming closer.' With that final thought she fainted. He caught her limp form. A thin smile peaked at the corner of his mouth. 'She is more beautiful up close.' He shook his head at the thought. He lifted her into his arms. 'She's so light.'
'What are you going to do now?' Shukaku asked playfully while Gaara gazed at Hinata's sleeping form in his arms.
'I'm going to bring her home. I have wasted enough time here.'