Love, what is it? Gaara sat at his desk; short rays of light from the rising sun invaded the small room. Gaara squint his eyes slightly trying to make out the words on the page. He normally hated mornings, day light in general. But his mood was somewhat chipper this morning since he knew he'd be seeing Hinata this morning. He calming affects seem to working well on him, liking the feeling that came with it. He frowned when he thought about the mission he was sending her on, some random mission to escort an old lady back to one of the surround counties. Simple task but something he could give her to take her mind off of him. Gaara wasn't impressed with Naruto, he didn't know if he could ever forgive him. He wonder if it had been any other girl would he have felt the same, after pondering that though for hours he concluded he most likely wouldn't. The Hyuuga girl had that affect on him; he was falling for the girl with the broken heart. Ironic no? He sat there staring at the same sheet of paper for at least 10 minutes till he heard a soft knock on the door. He straightened up and briefly answered. "Yes? Come in!"

'The night is deafening, when the silence is listening. And I'm down on my knees, and I know that something is missing. Because the back of my mind is holding things I'm relying in, but I choose to ignore it because I'm always denying them.'

Hinata slowly knocked on the door, slight nervous from last night, she had opened up too much to him. "Yes? Come in!" He barked out, she sighed to herself least this mission was a way to get away from him and the emotions he had opened up in her. She pushed the door open and slowly walked in.

"Good morning Kazekage-sama." She went back to calling him that, she felt that calling him by his name was to personal. Gaara looked up from his papers, a frown still on his face.

"Good Morning Hinata-san, are you ready for your mission?" He asked trying to act as uninterested as could, trying not to let her catch sight of his feelings. She stood slight fidgeting with her jacket sleeves.

"Yes I am." She spoke in a whisper, she felt scared to raise her voice, and afraid it may give more away than it already did. Gaara held up some documents and motioned them to her; she reached foward and grabbed them from Gaara's hands both looked at each other in the eyes. She stayed there caught in the beauty of his aqua eyes, which she hadn't much attention to until last night. Her eyes widened, and then she quickly looked away.

"I expect you back in 5 days to complete the mission; you will be paid extra if you return before then. All the details of the mission are contained within those documents. Remember to write a report, and return it to me with the documents when you return. That will be all, you are dismissed." He said in his bored monotone voice. "Oh and try not to get killed." He added that with sarcasm knowing very well she couldn't even get injured on the mission. But just in case he sent Temari with her, she could use the girl and girl bonding. Hinata quickly nodded to before turning and walking out the door like a ghost she was gone.

'I'm a bit of a manic when it's not as I plan it, 'cause I start losing my head, and then I get up in a panic. Remember, when we were kids, and always knew when to quit it. Are we denying a crisis, or are we scared of admitting it?'

Hinata soon found Temari at the village gates, the blonde stood there in the sunlight yawning and stretching. She snapped back to her alert self when she heard Hinata clear her throat to speak.

"Good morning Hina-chan" She said with a happier tone. "I saw your battle with Gaara yesterday, quite impressive I must say. I don't think Gaara had even expected that from you." She said in a slight mocking tone, indicating that she saw more than she was supposed to. Hinata just stood there blushing becoming as red as a strawberry. "Oh well let's get this mission over with." She said nodding toward the direction of the village. An elderly lady was heading their way. 'So we have to escort her to the border of Fire County but then who will take her from there.' She wondered to herself freezing in fear that it might very well be Naruto that takes that mission. They started walk through the large gate Hinata offered to carry the lady so that could move fast during the day, she reluctantly agreed. The ran across the desert making it to the entrance of the forest in one and a half days time, setting up camp Hinata knew that they were close another days walk and the be at the meet point where they were to drop Suki off. They didn't talk very much during the journey one enough words to know where they were going Hinata of course lead the way since this was her home land. They landed on the ground in the drop off zone no one was in sight, which didn't make her feel anymore calmer than before. Suddenly there was a rustle of leaves then and tall girl walked out, her long ebony was tied in to a pony tail her skin as pale as Hinata's. The one thing that gave the younger Hyuuga girl away was her pale white eyes similar to Hinata, but not as soft. "Hanabi-chan?" Hinata called out to the younger girl. She only replied with a very cold look to her sister.

'I don't wanna know'

After handing Suki off to Hanabi, whom hadn't uttered a word to Hinata, Temari had offer the idea of heading out right away in an attempt to get back early. Hinata agreed with the idea, she need to be away from her old home. As they turned and left, Hinata casted a glance back at Hanabi, sigh to herself. She never really understood why Hanabi hated her so much; she figured it was because of her father. Temari had asked the question, and she just shrugged it off as if it were nothing. When it finally got dark, they decided to set up camp.

"Hinata-chan what do you think of Gaara and be honest?" Temari asked the question out of the blue. Catching Hinata off guard she stare at Temari not sure how to answer it best.

"Well when I had first seen him back when he had been at Konaha for the first time, he scared me. My team had seen him kill someone." Her eyes were wide, remembering that time. She had never felt as scared in her life as she had then. "But since seeing him more recently, I feel no need to fear him. Though I do feel nervous around him." As the words left her mouth, her face went red. Temari smirked at her, mind working at 100 km/h.

"So then do you like him hmm? You're face is red must mean something?" Temari jabbed at her side with index finger, still smirking at the younger girl.

"Umm... I-I don't-t k-know w-what y-you-u are-e t-talking a-about..." Hinata stuttered out.

'It won't ever change if you want it to stay the same I really hate it, but I know it's hard to chose if you're chained, and when it's all you can control, 'cause you've got nothing else to hold. You're getting tighter and tighter, it's getting harder to let it go'

Temari had gotten up for her perch smiling at Hinata. She turned to start setting down the camp. It was early morning; the sun was still far off from rising. Hinata was still smiling when she got up, she had been grateful that she had found a friend in Temari, it had made her feel that her stay would be worth it. She turned to help Temari when something caught her attention, a kunai sailing through the air heading straight to Temari. Without thinking Hinata threw herself at Temari successfully knocking her to the ground.

"HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Temari yelled out from the ground, not long after she heard the sound of splitting wood. She looked up from where she was and saw the kunai sticking out of the tree trunk she had been standing in front. She gulped. "Well... it was a good thing you did that Hinata-chan. You saved my life, thank you" She said, a bit of fear was left on her voice. They both picked themselves of the ground and assumed a battle postion. Hinata quickly activated her byakugan. She looked around, until she saw it. A large amount of chakra focused in one spot, the figure seemed to be crouching waiting to attack. All of a sudden it moved, jumping out of the tree in front of them. Her long brown hair hung in a mess down her back, her skin was too pale for words and her eyes were grey and dead like. She lifted her hand up almost like being controlled by a string, it held another three kunai. Temari smirk, knowing she was going to attempt the same move again, she place her hand on her fan and prepared for battle. Just as Temari had assumed the lady shinobi threw all three of the kunai at them, Temari acted quickly pulling out her fan and shooting a gust of wind that blew the kunai away. Then she chanted a justu and called up the wind throwing it back at her. She fell; cuts appeared on her body they turned black. Hinata could smell the old blood, she then noticed that there was a faint string of chakra connecting with the lady in front, it was then that she realized they were fight a dead body.

"She's dead!" Hinata yelled at her. "The real one is hiding in the trees!" She looked around trying to follow the chakra string. But when she was almost to the end the string of chakra broke, the body fell limp to the ground.

'Stand me up and maybe I won't be so small, free my hands and feet and maybe I won't always fall. Save me'

Gaara sat behind his desk in frustration; he figured that they should have been back by this time. "Kankuro!" He yelled out. Kankuro had been just outside the door, he hated when Gaara got frustrated because he normally got the brunt end of it. Like a coward Kankuro entered the office, covering his head with his arms expecting something to be thrown. When he didn't feel anything he lowered his arms and looked at Gaara. The expression was a frustration mix with worry. "They aren't back yet. Something doesn't feel right go out and meet them, the last I heard they were nearing the desert." Gaara gave it to him like an order not like a worrying brother. Once Kankuro left the office he called on the best shinobi they had to head out with him, the three of them headed for the gate. He hoped they were alright and just taking their time, not battling some shinobi.

The figure jumped out of the bushes landing gracefully in front of them, her long black hair cascaded down her back, she wore all black, with a dark blue long half skirt, she was pale and black eyes similar to an Uchiha. She was also tall and slender and looked innocent like Hinata, but not as timid. She had a glare painted on her face, her were at her sides she looked unarmed.

"Who are you?" Hinata called out softly. "Why have you attacked us?" The girl looked at Hinata with disgust. Her hands balled into fist, she had a murderous looking her eyes.

"Why else but to kill you Hyuuga." She said bitterly in a soft voice almost a whisper. She moved forward at fast speed until she was beside Temari. "Let's see how well you fight when you have no chakra." She whispered as she touched Temari on the shoulder. Temari felt faint, her energy seemed to be fading fast. She tried she throw a hit on the girl but she had vanished. Hinata watched Temari fall to the ground loosing conscious. She didn't know what to do or how to fight her. She looked at the lady and saw her grinning. "Seeing you pained pleases me. You will soon be joining her, cept you will be going further then her." She said with a smile then gave a sinister laugh.

Kankuro heard the evil laughter, he shivered. He had a deep grudging feeling that there was something wrong; he began to running faster, worrying about his sister. He got to the clearing, he saw Hinata standing there injured at the mercy of Temari fan that was being controlled by the strange girl.

Hinata stood there waiting, she knew it was her end on more hit would have her out and at the mercy of this girl. No one knew that they were here, by the time anyone found them they'd both likely be dead. The fan moved up and went down hard creating a gust of wind, it headed straight towards her, she couldn't scream, and the exhaustion was getting to her. Just as she started fading out she saw something dark blocking the way, but before she could see what it was she finally black out. Kankuro had got there just in time, one of his puppets was lucky enough to catch the force of the wind saving Hinata. The strange lady just glared at him, turning to leave she uttered soft words. "I'll get her eventually." Then she disappeared into the trees leaving Kankuro slight confused.

'I just wanna run to you and break off the chains, and throw them away. I just wanna be so much, and shake off the dust that turn me to rust. Sooner than later, I'll need a saviour. I'll need a saviour...'

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Long chapter this one ended up being... sorry it took so long I was busy with work and being sick. The song in this chapter is Saviour by Lights

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