Disclaimer: See chapter one. Thank you everyone who Read and Reviewed, I really appricate it. I'm also sorry about the spelling mistakes and grammer mistakes. My spelling isn't the best to begin with, I also have no spell check on my computer so I look up the words by hand with a dictionary (I have one with me half the time). And the grammer, well I live in a very, I guess you could say, redneck/hick area, half my family from W.V. so you get the pictures, I speak very country, worse than most the people around my area. You should here the way I say my 'e' and 'i' I rarely say reading I say reedin' so you get the general idea. And if my hick ain't showing through I speak like an old timish person, saying things like 'nor do I', 'shall not' and one of the things I say the most ,'as do I' I have a very unquie dialect. Anyways now that my litte 'explination' is done, and half of you are like 'when's she gonna stop already adn write the story' here's the story.

Hinata's POV: Lalalalalalalalalala

Gaara's POV: Lalalalalalalalalala

Thoughts: Lalalalalalalalala

I wake up and stretch the sun shining bright through my window, I feel so refreshed and energized. What can I say, I'm a morning person. I smile as I walk and turn on the old radio on the floor beside my bed, I softly sang with the song, one of my personal favorites, 'Step That Step'. Incorparted little dance steps as I got dressed. "When ya got that crowd and their screaming you gotta," I switched to humming as I latched the bra and pulled my shirt on, since we were going camping I decided on a dark blue shirt, jeans, and black hiking boots. "You gotta step that step. You gotta walk that walk. Shake that thing. And honey talk that talk."

I turned around and blushed when I saw my cousin at the door laughing, "Very cute Hina."

"Niisan..." I looked down the realize while I was dancing I'd put on my jeans and a leather belt. "Ho-how long?"

"Don't worry Hinata. I just got here." He smiled at me. "Have you called Naruto yet?"

I blushed, "No. Th-thank you for reminding me Niisan."

"It's no promblem Hina, we don't want fox boy barging in our house, now do we."

I laughed, "I su-supose not. I'll c-call him no-now." When my cousin shut my door I walk over to my phone, on the floor beside my radio, and picked it up. I dailed the number's I had memorized. The phone ring a few time's until I heard a diffrent voice than usual over the phone.

"Hello."

My eyes widened it couldn't be, I mean I know he lives there but, "He-hello. Ca-can I sp-speak with Nar-Naruto pl-please?" I glanced at the phone from the corner of my eye to see that it was shaking.

"The dobe is asleep."

Now that can't be right, I don't think Gaara would ever call anyone a dobe, it just doesn't seem, well like him. "Oh-okay."

There was a long pause that lasted a few minutes until I heard a cheerful voice in the background, "SASUKE IS THAT HINATA!!"

I felt my brows knit, Sasuke, Sasuke, who's he. I've heard that name before. "What do you think dobe."

I heard a loud noise, like someone being tackled, a frunt and then,"Hinata!!"

I laughed silently at my blonde friend, "Ye-yeah Naruto, it's m-me."

I could almost see him grin, "Are you feeling better Hinata."

"A-alot better, re-really."

"Look Hinata, I'm really sorry about the scary moive. I forgot, honestly."

I felt the blush spread across my cheeks, "I-it's fine. Re-really."

"No, Hinata it's not-"

"Pl-please Naruto, do-don't worry. No-not a night-nightmare, I pr-promise." I hated when people fussed over me, I got enough of that from my cousin. "So ar-are you still c-c-com-coming on the ca-camping trip?"

"Of course Hinata, and I promise no scary stories "

I heard Naruto laugh, and I laughed to. "Tha-thanks. S-so are yo-you and Temari st-still meeting us at o-our hou-house?"

"Of couse, where else. We got enough green yesterday, time for some white."

"Ye-yeah." It seemed that Lee's house was all green, well about 1/3 brown 2/3 green, now that TenTen was redoing it. My cousin's house was mostly white, expect for my room which was dark indigo and crimson, Sakura thought is was strange, those two colors together, that indigo should be with paired with a lighter color, like her favorite colors light pink and dark brown. I just smiled at her and shook my head, I remember exactly what I said, because my cousin questioned me on it later, a color that is as dark, as night-like, as indigo, certiantly couldn't deserve something so airy and cheerful. THe night sky did not have a sun, it had the silver moon. "I-I've got to g-go. I ne-need to co-cook breakfa-fast."

"Okay!! See you later Hinata!"

I could see the fox grin on Naruto's face and I smiled. "B-bye." I head the click of the phone so I hung by end up. "Niisan!! Wh-what do you w-want for breafast!!" I hollared down the hall as I walked the familar path to the kitchen. It was a tradition in our house, we took turns cooking breakfast and dinner, for lunch we're on our own.

When I arrived in our kitchen I saw Neji already cooking, from the smell of it, banana-and-cinnamon pancakes, "I thought I would cook this morning, I did not know how long you would be on the phone."

"Niisan, yo-you kn-"

"I know that, Hina."

I smiled, "Th-thank you Niisan." I started setting the table, smiled, my cousin was the only one who called me Hina, my mother and sister used to but, well...they can't now, he never called me Hina in public, it was, somewhat, sacred, and he understood that. "Ho-how did you g-get Temari to aga-agree?" I placed down the last fork and walked to the fridge to get the milk.

Out of the corner of my eye I watched Neji flip breakfast onto a plate before he answered, "Well, I've been thinking and..." he placed the platter of pancakes down and motioned for me to sit down, I poured to glasses of milk and put each in their usual spots. Once I sat down my cousin continued, "I think that you and Temari should get to know each other."

I looked my cousin in the eye, blushing as I did, his pale grey eye's were carefully hiding something, "Niisan...te-tell me. Th-that's not all, I kn-know it."

He sighed, his long brown hair falling over his shoulders, "Well Hinata, you see-"

"Yo-you do-don't have to w-worry Niisan, ju-just tell me, puh-please."

"Hinata, I want to propose to Temari."

I felt the fork slip out of my hand, I could hear it clatter againt the porcilan plate, "Wh-what?" I felt by breath slowly coming out in pants, no. No. NO! I don't want to lose my niisan too. I can't be by myself, I don't know how.

In a blink of an eye I felt my cousin's warm arms around me, his calming earthen scent envading my senses. "Hina! What's wrong. Breath, Hina, breath!"

"Ni-niisan!! I-I don't wa-want to lo-lose you to-to-too!!" My vision had started dancing around the edges, things were starting to go black.

He pulled me in tighter, "You won't Hina, I promise." His dark brown hair fell into my face, and I turned around, burring my face into his chest.

A small part of me was telling me I was over reacting, I was being selfish, but that part was being drowned out by the side of me that was frantic, that part didn't want to lose the only family she had left. "Yo-you l-love me. Ri-right Niisan?"

At some point he'd lifted me out of my chair and was rocking me back and forth, smoothing my hair, "Yes Hina. And I promise you, I'll never be far away, okay. Shhh. Calm down. I love you."

I let out a shaky breath and looked at him, he wiped away tears I hadn't realized were falling. "Pro-promise?"

"Promise." He kissed my forehead. "Now eat Hina. We have a long weekend ahead of us. And Temari's a really wonderful woman, okay. She's very motherly."

I nodded my head and sat down, "I-I'm so-sorry I rea-reacted that way Niisan. It w-was, it was r-rude."

He sat down across from me and smiled gently, "It's fine Hina. We all deserve a freak out every now and then."

I felt my face slowly cool from the blush that had been occuping it. "Ye-yeah. So wh-who all it com-coming?"

He cut his pancake into 7 triangle peices, just like I had then picked one up, he chewed it and swallowed before he answered. "Lee, TenTen, I, you, Temari, and Naruto. Sakura and Shikamaru are going to vist her grandmother's and Choji has a wrestling tournament to attend."

I nodded and smiled, "Th-that's good. I do-don't think Sakura, wo-would be much for cam-camping anyways."

Neji smirked, a low chuckle cam from his throat and he smiled, "Hina, Hina, Hina." His shoulders shook with silent laughter, "I remember a certain little someone pouting whenever anyone mentioned anything that had to do with being outside."

I blushed and poked at my food, that seemed like ages ago, almost in a differnet lifetime. "Yea-yeah well you-you're the one who pl-played dress up as a mo-mo-monster."

He grinned, something he only with me, or his Temari, and ate another bite of his food. "To true. But I am the best looking big foot ever, agreed."

I giggled and took a bite of my pancake, "Ag-agreed."

We ate our breakfast in a compainable silence for awhile before he pushed his empty plate back and looked at me, "Hina, you are okay with this aren't you."

I bit my lip and stared at my last peice of pancake before prodding it with my fork and eating it. I nodded and smiled, 'Ye-yeah, I g-guess. It's you-your life, Niisan."

I watched as my cousin shook his head, his eyes had a faraway look in them I didn't understand, it seemed like a mix of melancholy and something that looked like amusment, the kind you laugh at when you see the irony of something. Was I missing something? He shook his head again and smiled, "Hina, know that you are one of my top most priorities."

"Nii-"

"Listen to me Hinata Rose okay." I nodded dumbly, what else could I do when he gave me that look, it always made me feel like a little kid getting scolded my their respected grandfather. "You are more than my cousin, you are my family. After my father died, and your mother died, you know things went down hill." I nodded my father hated his brother and my cousin, my mother was the only reason they got along. "I left, thinking you'd be safer without me. Of course I had to have your dear father's permission. But after he married that wench, and birthed Hanabi. I did what ever it took to leave. But when I discovered everything your father was invloved in, years later, I was to late." I closed my eyes, trying to supress the urge to cry out over the memory of my little sisters torn and bloodied body. "When I saw you so broken, I made a promise to myself to make sure that you were happy. Do you remeber the game we used to play, you were the lost maiden and I was the strong prince."

I nodded, "Ye-yeah." How could I not? We spent days at a time playing that game. I would be a lost maiden, a damsel in distress, he'd come and save me from the monsters, rather it'd be a dragon, vamipre, werewolf, or even, my favorite, a demon. No matter though, at the end he'd pledge his loyalty to protect me forever, to keep me safe.

"Well, the pledge is still in affect. I want, need, you to be happy. I have no choice."

"Niisan, i-it was a ga-game." I shook my head in disbelief we we're little kids back then, how...

"I know that Hinata, but the principle applies."

"Niisan, fo-for me to be hap-happy you need to b-be happy. I w-want to ma-ma-marry Temari. Re-really."

He eyed me his gray eyes sharp. "Promise."

"P-pinky." He smiled, the atmoshpere shifted and shook his head. "I-I''ll do the di-dished Niisan. You go ah-ahead and do wh--what you go-got-gotta do."

He got up and placed his dish in the sink, "I'll bring out gear down."

"I-it's on m-my bed." He nodded and went up stairs to get out gear, it was going to be a long weekend, I could tell. And it hasn't started out very well either. I narrowed my eyes and flipped the faucet up a little more roughly than needed. It was that stupid crimson-headed idiots fault, if he'd just called or, even if he'd just polietely said no. Jerk. I slam the faucet down shut then blush, I was being stupid, very stupid. It wasn't like I was his friend or anything. I didn't even know him well. I take in a deep breath and slowly exhale it. Hopefully by the time everyone arrived I'll be in a better mood.

Cobalt'sNote: I know sorry bout the wait I had to finish a chapter for my other story and so I didn't work on this as often. Also I realize there's only one POV, Gaara's will be in the next chapter. Thanks for the R and Rs.