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Place to call home

Chapter 3

"G-gaara...kun..."

Her navy long sparkling hair fell beneath her, soaking the wetness of the ground in her locks.

"Hyuuga-san..." He muttered, rubbing his hands through her hair gently.

"You're strong, Gaara-kun..." her voice trembled and vibrated unsteadily.

He continued stroking his hands through her hair, so gently. "Wha-what do you mean?"

"Look at you're.. hands..."

His hand trembled unsyeadily; warm, wet rich blood falling down each one of his finger tips. Hyuuga blood. Lips quivering, his red hair fell onto his face like rain. Wet rain.

As he looked into her pearly white eyes, his heart trembled. It trembled, like devestation has spread all over it. It was just like that time. When he had gazed at those dark violet, cold stained eyes. A slight smile on his face, near death. It was just like that. The one person Gaara had ever thought cared for him, he had killed and now, she lay here. Blood seeping from her own body.

"B-but why...Gaara-kun?"

He didn't answer. Tears ran down his black-stained eyes.

"I thought... you... cared about me...Gaara-ku-"

My eyes flashed open in shock and my breathes brew heavily. It was all a dream. Thank god it was all a dream...

Why did he have a thought like that filling his dreams? It really made no sense at all. Why, that's was Gaara longed to know. Just... why?

The curtains drew open wide, making the bright light shine harshly in my eyes.

"Time to get up, Gaara-kun!"

And there she was. Her pearly teeth caps showed as she grinned from ear to ear at me. She looked rather...cute. Wait. WHAT?

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I was assigned to go to the academy today and teach silly children how to behave properly. How troublesome. At least the Hyuuga was coming a long. She always seemed to make things less... lonely.

"Hey! give that back! TEMARI! THAT'S PERSONAL!!!"

Idoit. Kakuro keeps on dating all these different woman and recieving love letters by the day. It's rather sickening, really.

Temari skipped across the floor, taunting her older brother, a peice of parchment klutched in her hands.

"Who's sending kanky-poo love letters now? Honestly. You're more popular then I am." She rolled her eyes and opened the paper restessly. She ignored Kakuro's "give it back" and read it anyway.

"Oh, this is from Mary-Sue then, is it?"

"TEMARI!!!"

I glared at my siblings crossly which made them jolt upright, a look of cold terror on their faces. I walked out the door and smirked, happy with my accomplishments for the morning.

" Gaara-kun, are you coming?"

Hyuuga-san was already halfway up the path.

"You sure are slow..." she said between breaths, blushing.

"Well, I'm not exactly excited..."

"What? Why? I rather like children."

I sighed deeply and she smiled brightly.

We walked along the rest of the path, talking and laughing. I saw her looking at a flower planted in the ground. It belonged to a garden of a cranky old lady. Once a year, she wold plant a flower bed. They were the only flowers in the sandvillage. They were long gone and out of season by now but, there was one left. A blue rose, rather odd, but nonetheless it was there. I glanced back at the blue flower and kepting moving foward with Hyuuga-san.

"Oh! And I rember this time when Akamaru-"

Hinata stoped talking and rested her fingers across her mouth. Her face had gone completely pink and her ears blotched red. Hovered over her shoulder was the blue rose, guided by sand.

"G-Gaara... this is so..."

"YOU DARNED KIDS! GET OFF MY LAWN OR I SWEAR, I'LL-!"

The old crancky lady had come scurring out of her hose and running stumpilly after us. I grabbed Hyuuga-san's hand and ran. Her hand was soft and didn't clutch back onto mine. I could feel my face grow hot and it wasn't because od the blazing heat.

The stumpy old woman had stopped chasing us a fair bit ago, but I kept running anyways. I could hear Hyuuga-san laughing behind me. It was the sweetest sound I had ever heard (So cheerful and genuine), and having the cool wind blow through my hair on a hot day wasn't so bad, either.

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"Kazekage! Kazekage! Tell us a story! Tell us a story!"

My ears ringed with the yells of little children from the academy. I even considered doing my "Dessert Coffin" jutsu on them all. Oh dear God.

"I can tell y-you all a story,"

Hyuuga-san sat down on a stool facing the group of yougsters. Her knees entertwined with each other. I could tell she was nervous.

"Who'ra you?"said a scrangally boy with a few of his front teeth knocked out of place.

" Hyuuga Hinata-san from the villiage of Konoha. Now treat her like a lady." The kids looked up at me in awe.

Hyuuga- san went red and I smiled weekly.

"Tell us a story, Hinata-sensei!" screamed the children loudly.

"Oh! Alright then. A stroy..." She dabbed her finger on her chin and thought for a moment. She then stopped and mtioned her head twoards the ground. "I think I know one, Yes."

"Once upon a time there was a boy. A young boy, with blonde, blonde, blonde hair and blue,blue,blue eyes."

"How blonde and blue?" said the toothy, scragly boy.

"His hair was as blonde as gold and his eyes were as blue as the sea!"

"Woah!"

"Uhuh!" Hyuuga-san smiled "But, you see, no one liked this boy. No one knew why, not even him. But no one liked him. He was always so alone, and more anything, that boy wanted a home. A place to call home, where people that care for you and love you wait. Wait to protect you. Wait to love you. A place to be safe and feel happy. That's what he wanted. But no one would invite him into a home, because no one loved the boy. No one cared about. Everyone hate the boy. Everyone hated him, except one girl. She was shy and never spoke to anyone, but she loved the boy with all her heart. When she saw no hope in herself, she thought about him and how he believed in himself even though no one else believed in him. She felt good about herself when she watched him. When she thought about him, she felt better than ever and when she was with him, she couldn't even say a word, she was too taken away by him. So, she decided one day, that she would build him a place to call home. And she did. All by herself. She was too shy to invite him in her home, so she waited. And waited. And... waited. But he never came. Maybe he found another home with other friends and other people. But they didn't love him first. The girl did. Still, he never came. The girl in her home, waits, every single day for him come. But still, he never came."

It was hard for her to keep a steady breath, I could tell. She put her hand over her mouth and resisted blinking. Her face had gone pale and she looked somewhat sick. Jumping up from her seat, she ran out of the academy grounds.

Everything she had said about that boy... I understood it all. It was if she were talking about me...

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She had been very quiet that night as we ate dinner. She had gotten along famously with Temari and Kankuro, certainly something I couldn't say about myself. They were bickering foolishy again. This time it was about some sort of Bannana cream pie Kankuro wanted. So, I gave them one of my looks which brought them to their senses.

"I wish he wouldn't do that all the time!" I could hear brother whispering "It kinda scares me."

"Pft. Scardy cat. Hey, look! You even have kitty ears to go along with your personality." Temari smirked. Kankukuro glared.I sighed. Hinata yawned.

"I t-think I'm going to go to sleep now. I'm tired..."

"Wait, don't go."

She blushed and smiled after I stated my remark. She held out her hand for me take " W-why don't you escort me to bed?"

So, I did.

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"Hinata, could I ask you a question?"

"Oh, yes. Of course. Go ahead."

"That boy were talking about today to the kids, were you talking about about Uzamaki Naruto?"

"Oh, yes. Naruto-kun... I was." she smiled for the first time that night "He can really change people."

"Yeah. He brought me out from darkness at my worst times as well."

"Yeah. I believe it."

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kyaaa DONE! review plese! I lurve you all!!!

look, i changed the title!!! more original an fitting to the fic now!

hm hm.. ok one reson why i like gaahina is because gaara is ALOT like naruto. He's a jyrinkurki(blah. can't spell it.) and he knows the same pains as naruto. He's also not as wild and crazy as naruto. Hinata and naruto are just too different, even if opposites attract. blaH. I'm probably boring you all, so I'll stop.

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EDIT:

What the hell...?? This chap. was completeed like 5/6 weeks ago! grr! fanfic didn't submit it properly! I'm so sorry for making you all wait so long!! smacks head on desk it won't happen again, i promise!! anyways enjoy, and review, then next chapter will take longer... it's action-packe and I have los of school stuff at the moment :(

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