Ok, um, after this chapter I have a few more written but not on the computer. I'll try to put them on as soon as I can. THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

Blackdolphin13

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"Demon thoughts"

Inner thoughts

Flashback

Hinata and her mother traveled for a day to see Hazumi's family. They were a branch of the clan that left Konoha to settle elsewhere. They still had the curse mark, but they were freer than the rest of the clan, and very powerful. Hinata was out training in a clearing in the forest for a few hours when it got dark and she decided to go home. When she got over the top of the hill she saw the entire village was on fire.

She ran to the village as fast as she could. Dodging falling debris and fire, she found the Hyuga house. Hinata ran inside and stopped just in time to see her mother lying on the floor. A figure with a black coat that had red swirls on it was towering right in front of her.

"Mother!" Hinata yelled as she started to go towards her.

"Hinata, STAY BACK!" Her mother yelled to her. "Run! Get out of here!"

"Too late," the figure said. Hinata saw a sword flash, heard her mother scream and fall to the floor.

"Mother!" Hinata yelled again. "Mother, please…" Hinata sobbed.

"I'm sorry…I…couldn't protect you," her mother said.

"Mother...please, don't talk like that"

"I have a secret for you. The most powerful byakugan of all," her mother wiped her blood on Hinata's eyelids. "I love you Hinata...never forget..." Hinata watched as her mother faded away.

"M-mother?" Hinata asked. "Mother, please, don't leave me alone! Come Back!" she yelled. AS she cried, her mother's blood mixed into both her eyes. Hinata screamed. It was excruciating, every part of her felt like it was on fire. Her eyes throbbed with pain. The pain stopped as suddenly as it began, leaving Hinata feeling weak.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" the figure said. He looked into her eyes and saw her byakugan transform into the infamous mangekyou. "Did you enjoy seeing your mother die?" he asked.

"Who are you?"

"I'm the leader of Akatsuki."

"I don't care what you're the leader of, I'll kill you!" she yelled as she ran towards the figure. All the smoke from the fire was blocking his face. He raised a hand and Hinata was thrown backwards by a burst of energy.

As she struggled to sit up he said, "I can see you have the ability to become a great ninja. And I have never been wrong about these things."

"Why didn't you kill me," she asked.

"I enjoy seeing pathetic life forms suffer. If you want to avenge your poor mother, you need more power. Once you are the most powerful you can be, come and find me. I'll be looking forward to that battle," having said that, he left.

Hinata barely remembered dragging her mother's body out of the village. She went up the hill overlooking the village. It started to rain as Hinata dug into the earth with her bare hands. Rocks cut her fingers, but Hinata kept digging. She put her mother into the hole and covered her up. With one kunai, she cut down two tree limbs and tied them in the shape of a cross. For the final touch, she wrapped a small flowering vine around the bottom of the cross and planted it into the ground. Hinata stared at the grave for a few minutes as the sun came up. She turned around and walked away.

End Flashback

Hinata woke up panting as if she had run a marathon. It was the same dream over and over again almost every night since it happened 10 years ago. Sometimes she remembered other events of her life, but this was the most frequent.

Gaara heard a sound coming from Hinata's room. He was curious to see what was going on. When he opened the door, Hinata was in bed, panting very hard. When she looked at him she had a scared and surprised look on her face. She gave him a questioning look. He said "I heard a noise, so I came to see if everything was alright."

"Oh," Hinata said. "I'm sorry for disturbing you. It was just a nightmare."

"I'll be leaving then"

"Wait!" Gaara turned around surprised. "Um...I mean you can stay if you want" Hinata finished lamely. Gaara sat down next to her.

"What are nightmares?" he asked

"Haven't you ever had a nightmare?"

"I don't sleep."

"Your lucky," Hinata mused. "Well, nightmares are when you see something scary as you sleep. It isn't real, but it feels real when you wake up."

"What was your nightmare?"

Hinata looked at him for a few seconds before answering. "I saw my mother die when I was 5. For the past ten years I have dreamed of that day almost every night"

"Looks like the angel and demon have something in common"

"She knows what it's like to feel pain too"

"My mother died the same day I was born"

"I'm sorry," Hinata said.

"It's not your fault," Gaara said as he hugged her closer to him. She rested her head on his chest and fell asleep. Gaara stayed there until he saw the sun rise through her window. He gently laid Hinata on the bed and went to work.

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Gaara was in his office working on the latest catastrophe. Apparently the Sand nomads had started to move around the desert, joining up near Suna. "This could mean that they are preparing for war", Baki had said. Gaara remembered that his dad always hated the Nomads. He also remembered the one time he met a Nomad.

Gaara was stranded in the desert during a mission and his water supply was low. He was sitting near a pile of boulders when he saw a head peek out at him from behind the rock. It was a girl with long bangs on either side of her head and a long braid going halfway down her back. The girl slowly climbed over the boulder to get a better view of him. She had a long-sleeved black turtleneck on with a knee-high red skirt, complete with shinobi pants and sandals with a high top.

"What are you doing here?" she asked. Gaara responded with an ice glare.

"Well, listen up, obviously your from Suna, you lost your team, and you have almost no water left, so I would start answering questions if I were you," she said. Gaara summoned his sand and was ready to attack the girl when shesuddently held out a canteen. "Here's some of my water, it will get you back to Suna. Go west for the next day and you'll make it," she said as she turned to leave.

"Wait," Gaara said. The girl turned and lokked at him. "Why did you give me part of your water?" he asked.

"Look, I know Suna people hate us, and we Nomads don't like you, but that doesn't justify leaving a person to die or enslaving one of us," she said.

"Who enslaved you?" he asked.

"Well," she said, sitting on top of the rock, "When Suna defeated us in battle the Kazekage sent one of his friends to rule over us and watch us. This man has a special curse mark that keeps most of us under his control."

"Why?" Gaara asked.

"People in Suna don't like us because we have a different life style than you. Everyone fears what they don't understand. From that fear comes anger and jealousy, which eventually leads to fighting. We want to live peacefully, but at the same time we fear you will destroy us," she explained.

"Hmm..."

"I'll tell you a secret if you swear not to tell anyone back in Suna," the girl said.

"Why do you want to tell me?" Gaara asked her.

"Because you listened to me. Any other Suna person would have started fighting me as soon as they saw me. Maybe what everyone needs is to start listening to each other and not jump to conclusions," she said.

"Tell me whatever it is and go," Gaara said.

"Fine. My brother is leading a rebellion against our chief. He never dared attack openly because the chief holds me and most of the people hostage with the curse mark he invented. He can kill us whenever he wants," she said.

"So?" Gaara asked.

"Recently my family rescued a small girl in the desert. We cared for her and nursed her back to health. She's amazing! The girl is a hostess for the black dragon demon and can control the power of the black dragon herself. She is helping my brother because we saved her. Finally we can be free," the girl said. She looked off into the horizon at the sun and said, "Crap I gotta go. Everyone has to be in the camp before dark, chief's rule. If I'm out late he'll torture me to find out about what I just told you. Bye!"

"There's still time before dark," Gaara said.

"Yeah, but I'm the storyteller, so I need to get back and get my book and divining sticks. A few of us have the power to see futures and stories in the divining sticks. Every night the kids ask for a story and I tell it to them," she explained.

"What's your name?" she asked unexpectedly.

"Gaara. You?" he said.

"Hanashite, but everyone calls me Hana," she said. "It means storyteller," she said as she slipped out of view to the other side of the rock. Gaara looked for her but he couldn't find her. "It was nice meeting you," he heard the wind whisper to him. Gaara left to get back to Suna.

Gaara had never forgotten Hana and her explanation of why Suna and the Nomads hate each other. Gaara was sure she was right, because the Nomads never harmed them and very rarely even contacted Suna. Everyone just believed their superstitions and prejudice. Gaara didn't believe it, because he was the only person in Suna to befriend a Nomad, and he knew they wouldn't fight.

"Gaara," a voice came from the other side of the door. Hinata came in and walked to the side of his desk. Gaara stood up and wrapped his arms around her. "What..." he smiled as she turned red.

"Come on, why don't I show you some of Suna?" he asked.

"Okay," Hinata said a little hesitantly. For the rest of the day he showed her the layout of Suna and his favorite spot on top of the Kazekage's mansion.

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Gaara had Sundays off. He planned to spend the entire day with Hinata and show her the rest of Suna. She only went out a few times with Temari to go shopping and he wanted to show her his favorite spots. She also needed a lot of cheering up because tomorrow Neji would leave for Konoha. Hinata had become friends with his siblings fast. Her cooking was way better than Temari's so she was instantly put in charge of all meals. That was enough to make her friends with Kankuro for life. Temari treated Hinata like the sister she never had. They went shopping and talked together all the time. Kankuro also seemed to adopt Hinata as a little sister. It was great seeing them all getting along.

Well, partly anyways.

"Kankuro please pass the eggs."

(Kankuro passes eggs to Temari) "You know Temari; you should really watch what you eat"

"Why is that?" asked a pissed off Temari.

"Well, your getting even fatter than you already are."

(Whack)

"I mean, you need to slim down a little

(Whack)

"Temari, please don't beat up Kankuro at the table," Hinata interrupted.

"Aaaawwwwww," Temari whined.

"Thank you Hinata," Kankuro panted.

"You have to wait until after breakfast," Hinata said.

"WHAT!!!"

Temari (evil smile) "Just you wait Kankuro, you're gonna get it."

"Uh, I think I'm done now," Kankuro whimpered as Temari pulled out her fan.

Run Kankuro," Hinata advised.

"WWHHHHAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kankuro ran as fast as he could up the stairs. Temari grabbed her fan and raced after him yelling "Come here and take your beating like a man!"

"Hello Gaara," Hinata said over the obvious bangs and little girl screams of terror. Neji just glared at him.

"I can't believe I'm related to them," Gaara said.

Hinata just smiled.

Knock. Knock.

Gaara, Hinata and Neji all turned and looked at the door. Without a word Gaara got up and opened it. There were three people, two girls and one guy. The guy's headband was not from any village Gaara knew about; it was a circle with a vertical slash going through it. He had a zubato sword on his back with the kanji's of earth, fire, water, and air on it. He was wearing a black muscle shirt with matching black pants that ended above his shin. His shins were wrapped in ninja bandages. He had black hair that was combed back with one small piece covering his eye.

Both girls had white hair. One was Misha, who has already been described (see chapter two) the other girl had short hair in the front, but a long ponytail in the back. On the side of her head was a small ponytail with a few little beads on it. Her headband was from the Rain Village. She was wearing a black kimono top with purple lining that showed off her toned stomach. The lining of the top was clipped together with two loose Chinese clasps. She had a light-purple skirt, a black belt and black leggings with a kunai pouch on her right hip. She also had a huge smile on her face. All of them had the same tattoo on their right shoulder: the kanji for death surrounded by two black waves.

The guy spoke up, "We are looking for our friend Hyuga Hinata. Is she here?"

"Hinata!" the smiling girl yelled. Temari and Kankuro came downstairs just in time to see her elbow Neji and Gaara out of the way to give Hinata a big hug.

The Misha sighed and walked in. The guy said "Well, that's Fu'un for you," and walked in.

"OMG Hinata, it's so awesome to see you again!" the girl was saying.

Hinata was laughing. She hugged the girl back and said, "It's good to see you too Fu'un."

Once Fu'un let go of Hinata they both turned to the other two ninjas. The guy ninja walked up to Hinata and gave her a big hug. Gaara felt a pang of jealously when Hinata hugged him back. Neji, Gaara, Temari and Kankuro were all surprised to see that these ninjas knew Hinata, but even more surprised that Hinata was friends with them.

"It's good to see you Takashi," Hinata said to the guy.

"It's awesome to see you too Hinata," he answered. Hinata turned to look at the other ninja.

"Hello Misha."

"Hello Hinata," Misha said.

"Well Hinata, aren't you going to introduce us to your friends?" Fu'un asked as she looked around at everyone else.

"Okay," Hinata said a little nervous. "Well, everyone this is Fu'un Takashi and Misha."

"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you," Kankuro said to Fu'un. She giggled a little. "Well, he's kinda cute" she thought to herself.

"Oh, this is Gaara, Kankuro, Temari, and Neji ni-san," Hinata said.

"Enough of all the introductions, Hinata, we need to talk," Misha said. Suddenly all four of them got serious.

"Why don't you sit down," Hinata said gesturing to the table. They all sat down. Without a word Gaara joined them. Neji, Kankuro and Temari sat down too.

"Hinata, why didn't you tell us you got married?" Misha said instantly.

"You found out," Hinata said with no emotion.

"Yes."

"Why didn't you tell us Hinata, I could have been a bridesmaid," Fu'un said.

"Seriously Hinata, why didn't you report back when you left the land of fire?" Misha said. Fu'un's laughter died away instantly. You could see the thought bubble over Temari, Kankuro, Gaara and Neji's head: WTF?

"Truthfully, I don't want to join full-time yet," Hinata answered.

"That doesn't explain why you didn't report back. It's been almost a month since we heard from you," Misha said.

"Yeah, Misha was worried sick about you," Fu'un joked. Misha glared at her. "Okay, shutting up now," Fu'un said meekly.

"I know," Hinata said.

"Well, as you probably guessed, Aria sent us to convince you to come back," Takashi said.

"I think Aria will understand why I didn't come back," Hinata said.

"Oh, we're also suppose to get some scroll," Fu'un said.

"Here it is," Hinata said as she pulled a scroll from her pocket.

"Is this everything?" Takashi asked.

"Yes. The maps of Suna and the Nomad city, estimated army strength and military capability and village alliances last time I checked," Hinata said.

"Man, this could get ugly," Takashi said as he looked at the scroll. Misha looked over his shoulder to see. "This could only mean war," she remarked.

"I don't think so. The nomad city is well protected and hidden. There's no way to overtakr it, even with all the villages attacking it at once. It's too well protested," Hinata said.

"You have to go to the city," Misha said.

"Why?" Hinata asked surprised.

"They're nervous. Suna could attack at any time. Rido has put all his men on guard and is preparing the citizens for an attack," Fu'un said.

"Calm down. Rido knows what to do, why do you think I made him be the Nomad chief?" Hinata said.

"Well, some of the elders are concerned because Rido is the youngest chief they've ever had," Takashi said.

"Rido's only nineteen," Hinata said. "Besides, Suna won't attack."

"Garbage. Sand ninjas and the nomads hate each other, everyone knows that. Even with your fabled byakugan you're blind," Misha said.

Hinata knew this was coming, but she was still mad. She stood up and said "So? Just because I trust Gaara doesn't mean I'm blind,"

Misha was on her feet now, "You're putting your trust in a murderer!" she yelled

"At least I have trust!"

"Don't you remember what happened last time? Suna conquered the nomads and the Kazekage put in a leader that was sure to enslave them!"

"I know that, I freed them!" Hinata yelled.

"You'd put your trust in that Kage's son? He'll probably do the same thing. Like father, like son," Misha said.

"Shut up. Gaara's nothing like the old Kazekage!" Hinata yelled.

"You only say that because you love him!"

"So what if I do?!"

Everyone was quiet. They all suspected it, but no one believed Hinata would admit she loved Gaara outright. Except Gaara. He felt like he was about to burst. Hinata loved him. All this time a part of him was scared she would push him away because he was a monster. This was the happiest he ever felt.

"Have you forgotten about Shi?" Misha asked quietly

"No. I would never forget," Hinata said. Gaara saw sadness in her eyes. He walked over to her and put his arm around her shoulder. Misha's gaze softened.

"I hope you realize what will happen," she said quietly. "They're already on your trail."

"How long do I have?" Hinata asked.

"A few days at the most," Takashi said.

"In that case please forgive me, my friend," Misha said.

"There's nothing to forgive," Hinata said as she gave Misha a hug.

"Good luck to both of you. Remember, we're always here if you need us," Misha told Hinata.

"Thank you Misha," Hinata said. With that Misha walked out. Fu'un gave a quick goodbye and hug before running after her. "See ya Hinata," Takashi said as he gave her a goodbye hug. "Oh, I forgot," he said turning around in the doorway. "If you get into trouble the nomads are retreating into their city. The tribes are massing together to go in all at the same time," he said.

"Thank you Takashi," Hinata said.

"Hey, no problem," he said as he left.

Everything will be explained, just wait!!!!!!!!!!!