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Will You Be My Friend?

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Chapter 3: Meeting His Siblings

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'Ouch... I was right, it really does hurt if you fall down that damned steep slope!'

I had been laying here for about five minutes now, listening to the laughter and name-calling from the people who saw what had happened.

I couldn't move. My body felt like lead. My whole body ached and I think I twisted my ankle when I was trying to get my balance, before Sasuke pushed me off the side. I also won't be surprised if one or two of my ribs are broken, and my arm is thumping with pain because I had landed on it awkwardly when I hit the bottom. And I knew I had bruises and cuts all over me from the small rocks that stick out from the slope.

I couldn't stand it. I hate the names they call me and their even laughing at me! And even worse, my Hina-hime saw everything! She must think I'm so weak and useless now. I have no chance with her anymore, she must hate me as much as everyone else does in this damned school that I'm forced to come to. Why do they hate me though? I can't remember doing anything wrong to them so why am I the one they have to hurt...?

"G-Gaara-sama?" That voice... No... It couldn't be...!

The voice came from the top of the slope and it sounded full of worry. 'Must be my imagination. Maybe I've finally gone crazy...'

I heard the sound of someone slowly sliding down towards me, stopping every few seconds encase the person fell. Maybe it was Sauske coming to finish me off once and for all. I wouldn't mind anymore. The only person I've ever wanted to be friends, that I know I'm in love with, most probably thinks I'm worthless now.

The sound came closer to me and then there was a little thump where the person must have jumped to get to me. I turned my head painfully and saw...

"Oh God, G-Gaara-sama are y-you a-a-alright? Can you h-hear m-me? Can you s-stand up? Can-" Hinata was right next to me! She was on her knees next to my laying form on the ground.

I wasn't listening to her. I couldn't. My mind was still trying to progress the fact that my Hina-hime was right next to me! The same navi haired girl who has invaded my every thought, the one person I truly care for was in front of me.

I noticed she was still talking and tried to get her attention "Hi-nata...?" God it was even hard for me to talk!

She stopped instantly and looked down at me. She blushed and brought her hand up to the back of her head as she said "S-Sorry, I g-guess I was r-rambling o-on about nothing. S-Sorry." She smiled a small, sad smile at me.

As soon as she smiled the heat rushed to my face and I bet I looked as bad as her when she blushes.

She also noticed this. "Oh, G-Gaara-sama! A-Are you alright?" She brought a small, delicate hand to my forehead, just making me go even redder in the face. "Don't w-worry Gaara-sama. I-I'll help
you get t-to the n-nurses' office."

Before I could protest - I didn't want her to wast her time on me because I knew the pink slut wouldn't take this lightly - she took my right arm and put it over her shoulders and lifted me up so my body was resting on her side. My head rolled to the side and landed on her shoulder where I could smell her perfect smell... lilies.

I never thought I could like a smell so girlie but if it's on my Hina-hime, then it seems to become the most amazing smell I've ever smelled before.

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He looks worse than I thought he would look and I'm really worried. He has cuts and bruises everywhere and his P.E clothes are ripped and worn. He can barley stand and has to use me to lean on. Not that I mind or anything... I like his smell.

I'm not sure what his smell is really. It's a mixture of a few things... like sand and a burning fire and weirdly he smells kinda like lavender too. But them all mixed into one, it smells really nice to me.

I decided to go forward, while literally dragging Gaara-sama, until the slope was only slightly sloping. Then we went up it, and I'm surprised that I only stumbled once. Gaara-sama may look kinda small, but he weighs alot.

When we got to the top I was surprised and so relieved to find that no one was there apart from a few that were thankfully not Sakura or Sasuke. This meant that it was going to be easy getting to the nurses office. But I still had to watch out for Sasuke and Sakura.

I could see that Gaara-sama's neck was straining from where it was on my shoulder so I shifted it for him so that it rested on my head, but before I could walk someone grabbed Gaara-sama's free arm.

I expected the worse, but was relieved to see that it was only Gui-sensei helping me take Gaara-sama to the nurse.

"T-Thank you." I said to him. His only response was a small nod as we walked in silence to the nurse.

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We were in the school building now and I couldn't help but ask Gui-sensei "G-Gui-sensei? W-What's going t-to h-happen to Sasuke n-now, a-after what he's d-done to Gaara-sama?" I felt Gaara-sama's head shift a little on my own and knew he wanted to know as bad as myself.

"Hm... Well, I believe the principle, Tsunade, well suspend him. He deserves it. How long? I'm not sure... Oh look we're here." he said

I looked from my sensei to the door in front of me to see that it read 'Nurses Office.'

"I have to go now to talk to Tsunade about what happened. I'll leave Gaara with you now, Hinata-san." And with that he turned in the opposite direction and walked towards the principles office.

I took my arm that was not wrapped around Gaara-sama's waist and turned the door knob. "H-Hello?" I called out... No answer.

I walked in, once again literally dragging Gaara-sama, and saw an empty bed. "I-I'm going t-to put you o-on the-the bed. Okay G-Gaara-sama?" I asked him. I felt him nod and I stumbled over to the bed, where I - as gently as I could - layed him down and put the white blanket over him. "N-Now where is th-the nurse?" I asked more to myself then Gaara-sama.

"Right here." Said a voice behind me.

I jumped and give a little squeak then spun around on my heel to see a woman, that looked around early thirties and had her brunette hair tied into a bun behind her head. She had a small smile on her face and her brown eyes showed amusement in them.

"Huh..." I was lost for words and started to blush. "Uh... G-Gaara-sama needs y-you'r h-help." I tried to turn the attention away from me and to Gaara-sama...

"Sabaku-san is here again?"... And it worked.

I nodded and stood out of the way for the nurse to see him laying on the bed.

"Alright I'll be right with you. I'll phone your siblings and tell them to come and pick you up. Just by looking at you I can see you need to go home." With that said the nurse walked out.

Then there was Gaara-sama and myself... alone.

"Uh w-well... I-I guess I h-had better get g-going." I told Gaara-sama. I tried to push away the part of me that was screaming to shut up and stay with him, and turned to go... But I couldn't move. My arm was caught on something. I turned around to see it was another arm... Gaara-sama's arm. "I-Is there s-something y-you need?" I asked him. I may as well get whatever he wants me to before I leave him.

"Stay... please." He said so quietly that I had to strain my ears to hear him. I blushed at what he had asked me to do, but I do it anyway. For some reason I don't want to leave his side. At least not yet anyway.

I pulled a chair from the corner of the room and sat at the side of his bed and, decided to be bold and took his hand in my own. We both blushed at this but I didn't want to let go, so I didn't

After a few minutes of silence I heard his small voice ask "Why...?"

I bit my lower lip. "It's not f-fare how th-they treat y-you Gaara-sama. I know h-how it f-feels and it's n-not nice is-s i-it?"

"You know...?" He was clearly interested, but I didn't really want to talk about my past right now. So I shook my head and hoped that Gaara-sama would understand. And he did because he gave a small nod before looking up at the ceiling.

"Alright, your siblings said that they would be here as soon as possible. Now lets give you a check over Sabaku-san." The nurse said coming through the white door and disturbing the peaceful silence.

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It had taken the nurse around fifteen minuets to do the check on Gaara-sama. She cleaned his cuts, put this weird cream on his bruises and checked to see if his bones were broken. Thankfully there were no broken bones, but he did have a bruised rib and a twisted ankle.

And throughout the check up, I didn't let go of Gaara-sama's hand. In fact he seemed to squeeze it now and again, and I would squeeze back and smile at him.

"Alright. I'll let you get some sleep while your waiting for your siblings to arrive." The nurse told Gaara-sama. She turned to me and said "And you should be getting back to class. I know there's only one lesson left, but we need to let Sabaku-san have some rest."

I was about to nod even though I didn't really want to leave his side, until Gaara-sama said "She's staying. I want her to stay."

Both the nurse and myself were surprised at this, but the nurse just sighed and nodded before going out through the door. She clearly didn't have the time to be arguing with Garra-sama now.

It was silent again, but it was a comfortable silence.

"I w-wonder if y-your s-sibling's lo-ok anything like y-you." I said. He looked at me and smiled a small smile.

"We don't look anything alike. And if you want to know, I have and older brother and an older sister." It was the most I had ever heard him talk before and I found myself smiling at that. I really liked his voice for some reason.

I nodded and was about to say something else, but the door slammed open before I could say anything.

"Where's my baby bro!" In front of me stood a blond haired woman with four ponytails in her hair and had the same colored eyes as Gaara-sama. And behind her was a boy that looked a year or two younger than her with brown spiky hair and also had the same eyes as the woman and Gaara-sama. This must be his siblings.

"He's right in front of you, Butch!" The male rolled his eyes at his sister.

"Don't call me Butch, make-up boy!"She shouted back.

"It's not make-up! It's face paint!"

"I don't see a difference! Right Gaara?" The woman looked over at Gaara-sama and so did the male that looked as red as a stop sign. He must be really angry and insulted I guess. Then their eyes landed on me. Then they went down to our linked hands and widened. They did that a few more times until I was really red. The woman seemed to notice how uncomfortable I was at that moment and decided to break the silence.

"Well, introduce us lil' bro!"

I heard Gaara-sama sigh before saying "Hinata, these are my siblings, Temari and Kunkuro. Temari and Kunkuro, this is Hinata."

"Uh...It's n-nice t-to meet you." I said. This got the older woman to take a thinking pose as she kept saying over and over again "Hinata... where have I heard that name before...?"

She's heard my name before, but from where?

"AH! I know now! Gaara was..." she stopped short at Gaara-sama's death glare that was directed straight towards her. "You know what... never mind." Why was Gaara-sama glaring at his sister? What was his sister going to say?

"Uh... I-I really s-should be going n-now." I said getting up. "I-It was nice m-meeting y-you." I said to Temari and Kunkuro.

"Yeah. You too." They both said at the same time, which got them to glare at each other. I smiled. You don't see many siblings these days that are as close as these three. I could just feel how close they were. I knew Gaara-sama felt better and more open with them around and it was nice to know that at least he wasn't totally alone.

I went to leave, but once again my arm was caught on something. I turned around and found it was the same hand as before, which meant "G-Gaara-sama is th-there anything you n-need?" I asked him politely. I saw him shaking his head from side to side. "W-What is it t-then?" I saw him biting is lower lip, which I found cute, and I could see he was struggling to say something to me.

"Ah... Thank... you." He said it quietly, but it was loud enough for me to hear, and by the shocked looks on his siblings faces they had heard too. 'He musn't say thank you very often... ' I couldn't help but think.

"N-No problem. J-Just get b-better s-soon." I couldn't control my own body. My body was moving towards him and no matter how hard I tried to pull back, my body wouldn't respond. And before I knew it, I had kissed his tattoo and ran out of there before they could see my reddening face.

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Did that just happen...? 'Coz if this is just a dream I never want to wake up... my Hina-hime had just kissed me! It my not have been on the lips, but it was definitely a start! I couldn't help the smile that came to my face as I brought my hand up to my tattoo where she had kissed me.

"Aww! I knew I was right! You are in love lil' bro!" Temari shouted while punching her fists in the air.

I had completely forgotten that my siblings were still here. Temari looked really happy for me as she kept talking about how this was all so romantic... blah blah blah! And Kunkuro looked... proud? Yeah. I guess, but he also had a sort of perverted look.

"So... is that all you guys have done so far?" Kunkuro is going to die!

"Shut it Kunkuro!" I shouted while going a lovley shade of red.

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I walked along the pavement as I made my way home.

I didn't have to rush home today. I didn't need to pick up my siblings so I was happy. Neji-nii-san is taking care of them for most of the day which I'm so thankful for. I love Hinabi-chan and Yahiko-chan so much, but it's hard to take care of them when you have no mother or father to help you.

Sure I have a dad, but he only comes home when he feels like it. But he hasn't been home in months, which I am so thankful for. I hate it when he's home because he takes everything out on me. He even tells me that I'm the reason for my mothers death... But it wasn't my fault... If onl-

I was brought out of my thoughts when I bumped into someone "S-Sorry." I mumbled before looking up.

I wish I hadden't looked up... In front of me was Sakura, Ino and TenTen.

I shot up off the ground, and my plan was to run as fast and as far away from them as I could, but I couldn't move. 'Oh God damn it move!' I shouted to myself in my mind.

Sakua seemed to have a scowl on her face, and behind her Ino and TenTen had looks or worry on theirs. I gulped hard. I knew this was going to happen, so I'll just have to take whatever Sakura gives to me.

She walked up to me and grabbed me by my hoodie and brought me close to her face. I like my personal space, so I tried to move my head as far as I could way from her own, but I soon stopped as she gave me a death glare. "What the hell was that back there!?" She haddn't shouted it. It was more like a hiss through clenched teeth.

"U-Uh... I- y-you... I-I mea-"

"Shut up!" She seemed to look thoughtful for a moment before she continued "I'm going to give you one chance. Only because I like you." After she said that she brought one of her long nails to my face and scrammed me across my cheek, down to my chin. Then she dropped me and I ended up on the floor again.

My face burned from where she had scrammed me and I put my hand to my bleeding cheek, and looked up with a dumbfounded expression on my face.

"I'm giving you one more chance. Stay the hell away from the loner and we won't fall out. Got it!?" She shouted. I hated the fact that she was looking down at me. It made me feel small and weak so I stood up, but I knew I could never talk back to her, so I just nodded.

"Good." And she walked away, signaling TenTen and Ino to go with.

They both mouthed the words "Sorry" to me before taking off after Sakura.

I walked back home in a daze. The only thing going through my mind was 'Sakura is crazy... but I can't talk to Gaara-sama anymore.' The last thought made me sad. I thought that he would have made a great friend.


Chappy 3 done! Yay! Ugh it's so depressing! D/W it will start to get happier through out the next chappys! Oh yeah and don't forget to R&R plz!