Chapter 4: Goodbye, my quiet life

Gaara was by no means a nice, sociable guy. So when he ran into a girl at school. He was surprised that he couldn't do anything but say a few rude things. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. She had a gorgeous pink hued hair. And the brightest eyes he had ever seen. He tried to shake the image of the girl from his head as he situated himself in his class. The bell rang and he noticed the teacher huffing about something.

"Nice to see you guys decided to come to class," The teacher smirked at three students. It was that mysterious pink haired girl with Ino and the blonde from before. Gaara stared at the group with a bored expression, hiding his interest. He couldn't help but notice that the pink haired girl and the blonde boy had changed their clothes though.

"S-sorry, I was helping them to class," Ino laughed nervously.

"Fine, Ino you'll sit beside Hinata in the back row. Maya, I presume," The pink haired girl looked up at the teacher quickly. "You'll be sitting next to Gaara in the far back corner over there, Yamoto you can sit beside her. Now then, let's begin class shall we?" Kurenai sighed.

There were multiple desks connected to make a long table. Gaara's row consisted of Ino, then Hinata, then Yamoto, the girl from before, and Gaara. The class was pretty big to have five rows of six students.

"From now on your rows will be your groups if we ever have any class assignments, understand?" Kurenai explained.

"You're-" Gaara turned to the pink haired gir with a conflicted expression on his face.

"What?" She turned her head to the side in confusion.

"Never mind," he sighed, turning away from the girl. He noticed the girl huffing and couldn't help but smirk at her reaction. He noticed her bring out a can of ravioli. Gaara raised an invisible eyebrow as she pulled a fork out and began eating.

"M-maya, I don't think you can eat in class," the blonde whispered to her. She glared at him.

"I need food now," She growled.

"You just ate," The boy retorted, sighing at her.

"Meh," She shrugged. Gaara noticed the boy eating a bag of chips and actually felt like laughing. "Hypocrite," the pink haired girl muttered. The blonde only shrugged.

"That's life," he grinned.

"Seriously, you're eating from a can of ravioli's?" Gaara smirked, he couldn't help but want to talk to the odd girl. "I don't think I've met someone as interesting as you," he grinned, noticing her cheeks flair up. He couldn't help but feel drawn in by this mysterious girl.

"Well I'll let you guys introduce yourself since it's the first day," Kurenai said. "Now don't be too loud," she sighed as she sat in her desk to read a book.

"Hey guys this is one of my friends, Hinata," Ino introduced.

"Oh, cute," the girl whispered as she saw the shy girl. "Just like Shia!" She had hearts in her eyes as she pounced on the shy girl. "Come on, don't be shy." She grinned wickedly as she poked her cheeks.

"Hey red head come and introduce yourself as well, we'll all be partners from now on!" He noticed her yelling over for him and he sighed.

"Troublesome," he shrugged.

"Ugh, you sound like Shikamaru," Ino sighed.

"Who's that?" Maya asked.

"You'll probably meet him later," Ino shrugged.

"Well I'm Maya," she grinned. And waved at everyone. "This is my twin brother Yamoto, it's nice to meet you guys."

"Believe it!" Yamoto cheered.

"Damn it, if you go on that 'believe it' crap again I'm going to beat you up," Maya growled.

"S-sorry," he shivered, probably remembering a time when he used to say it.

"i-I'm Hinata," the purple haired girl blushed.

"Nice to meet you," Yamoto grinned, hugging her close with one of his arms. She blushed at the contact.

"What about you red head?" Maya asked.

"The name's Gaara, surprised you haven't heard my life story yet," he smirked.

"No need to get cocky, you're not as badass as you think you know?" she laughed at him.

"Sounds like a challenge."

"I'm not challenging you," She shrugged, moving closer to him, "Just sizing you up."

"I've never met a woman-no, anyone who has challenged me like you have," he laughed, his laugh velvety and inviting as he bent his head down closer to hers, making her blush by the proximity. He couldn't help but enjoy the reaction he was getting from her.

"Well then, you better stick with me if you want another perspective of the world." She huffed.

"Maybe I will," he shrugged. Her face immediately turned red at his comment...and how close they were. Their faces were inches apart and their bodies barely brushing one another. He seemed just as surprised that he had gotten so close to someone else.

"U-u-um o-ok." He smirked at how flustered she was getting. He knew that she couldn't resist him and he couldn't help but think it might be entertaining if he used that against her.

"Wow." Ino said wide eyed, "I've never seen you get so heated before Gaara." She grinned at the two of them, as though she had some type of mastermind plan. Gaara looked shocked as he realized that he had never even seen himself get this heated. There was just something different about this Maya girl that was interesting. He stared at her quizzically, he had the urge to keep her by his side.

"W-well, it looks like we're all introduced then," Maya laughed. "I think the bell is going to ring soon so we should probably get our bags." No sooner had she said that had the bell went off. "Damn, does anyone know where Science with Mr. Addison is?" she asked.

"I do," Gaara shrugged. He noticed her face flush and couldn't help but smirk inwardly at how she reacted around him.

"And will you take us there?" she asked. He shrugged and began to walk away. He was going to enjoy his Junior year with this girl. "I'll see you guys later!" Maya waved to Ino and Hinata.

"Wait up!" Yamoto growled, trying to follow the red head.

Once again, the teacher introduced themselves, their class, and let us introduce ourselves to one another.

"So Gaara, tell us something about you," I asked.

"Why?" he questioned.

"Cause I'm curious about you," I shrugged, blushing as I realized how that sounded. "i-i-I mean as a friend." Nice cover.

"Like what?" he asked.

"Like…I like ramen noodles, and you?" I asked.

"I don't hate them," Gaara replied. I smacked my forehead.

"Hey is that girl crazy?" I heard someone whisper loudly.

"What the-?" Naruto looked around with a confused expression, snapping out of his dream world. He wiped the drool from his cheek. "what happened?"

"Seriously, who would want to be near, let alone talk, to that weirdo?" someone else snickered. I glared out at the crowd.

"What the hell?" I growled. They should mind their own business. Gaara sighed and returned to idly twirling his pencil. Right when I finally got him to talk too!

"Hey," someone grabbed my shoulder. "You might know this since you're new but that Gaara guy isn't someone to mess with." I raised an eyebrow at the girls words. "He's dangerous; he's already killed some people supposedly. That's not someone you want to talk to, trust me."

"Why?" I asked.

"Why what?" she asked.

"Why should I trust you? Do you personally know the guy?" I asked.

"N-no," she stuttered.

"Then how do you know he's a bad person?" I sneered and removed her hand from my shoulder. "I'm the type that likes to experience things first hand so I'll tell you if I think he's a bad person or not." I walked away from the girl who stared at me awe struck. "Sorry bout that," I grinned at Gaara. He raised an invisible eyebrow at me.

"Did you listen to anything she said?" he asked.

"Yeah I guess?" I cocked my head to the side in confusion.

"Then you should know I'm dangerous. I'm not someone you should mess with girly," he shrugged.

"Hey, that choice is up to me," I grinned.

"I can't tell if you have guts or if you're just oblivious," he chuckled.

"A little of both I think," I giggled. For the first time in the couple of weeks since everything went wrong, I actually felt at ease. "For some reason, I feel really comfortable right now," I grinned.

"Well that's the first time I've given off that kind of effect," he shrugged.

"Well i'm pretty dangerous myself," I explained. "You really shouldn't associate yourself with me."

"Too late for that," he said with his usual dead-panned expression.

"Then we're going to get along just fine," I pushed my hair back. "Hey what's your next class?" I asked.

"It's art," he shrugged. Damn.

"Next?" I asked.

"Technology," he muttered.

"Me too!" I grinned at him. "So we should eat lunch together since we'll be in the same class afterwards!" I cheered, nodding to myself, what a good decision.

"Well you don't seem like the type to be intimidated easily so you'll probably like my friends," he shrugged.

"Yeah if you knew my past then you would know not much can faze me," I grinned.

"You just keep on getting more mysterious," Gaara raised an invisible eyebrow at me.

"Well I think you're a lot more mysterious to me," I gave a devilish smile at him and bat my eyes at him. His eyes narrowed and he gave a light smirk at me, making my heart flutter. Yeah, we were flirting. I felt my chests become unbearably suffocated. Like something giddy, painful, yet exciting was bubbling in my chest.

"So are we going?" Naruto asked.

"Huh?" I muttered dumbly.

"The bell rang," he snickered at me. "Let's go," he grabbed my arm, making Gaara twitch ever so slightly.

"See you later Gaara," I gave a large smile and walked away.

"So what was that?" Naruto asked as we went down the hallways.

"What was what?" I replied innocently.

"You were being extremely flirty with the school's bad boy," Naruto raised an eyebrow. Even if Naruto knew I could beat any man up, he was still protective. It made me happy to see him protective sometimes. "He seemed pretty interesting though." He shrugged.

"You guys seem like you'd be good friends," I laughed trying to divert the subject.

"Yeah. But that doesn't change the fact that you're into him," he rose his eyebrows at me suggestively.

"S-shut up! I am not! I'm not in the position to be into anyone," I sighed, inwardly kicking myself.

"Maya, even though we're in this situation, doesn't mean you shouldn't still live your life. Don't beat yourself up too much," Naruto gave me a sad look. "Come on, trust your twin, I'm the better half anyway," he grinned. A loud smacking sound echoed in the hallway from me punching him in the face. "Sorry," he whined, rubbing his cheek. The next class I was in was government with Hinata.

"Cute girl!" I cheered, jumping on Hinata.

"M-m-Maya," she blushed.

"Troublesome," a man sighed.

"Huh? Who said that?" I growled. A guy with pineapple hair sighed as he looked over at us.

"It's cause you're making so much noise," he shrugged.

"Huh, who do you think you are?" Naruto asked.

"Sorry for not introducing myself," he sighed. "The name's Shikamaru," I laughed.

"Oh it makes sense now," I laughed, understanding Ino's comment from last period.

"What was that?" He twitched. His dark brown eyes staring me down.

"Nothing," I giggled to myself.

"Shikamaru is the smartest kid in the school," Hinata offered.

"So are we," Naruto and I sneered.

"Oh?" Shikamaru grinned. "Then things might get more interesting." I twitched nervously at his comment. We might be smart, but this guy looks like he's strategist. Someone like this is dangerous…I need to keep an eye on him. "You seem quite rebellious, Maya," he rose an eyebrow.

"I guess you could say that," I shrugged.

"So how are you liking the school so far?" Hinata asked.

"Pretty interesting I guess. The only thing I'm interested in is a certain red head, and of course you guys," I grinned, rubbing Hinata's head. She meeped and ran to Naruto for help.

"Y-Yamoto," She whined, grabbing Naruto's arm. I noticed a light blush accent his face, causing me to grin devilishly. I found something else interesting as well.

"S-sorry Hinata, my sister loves cute things, despite her brute personality," he grinned.

"Whose brute?" I growled, throwing a pencil at Naruto.

"You guys are so funny," Hinata giggled, causing all of us to blush at her bell like laughter. Wait, why was I blushing? Oh, cause she's cute.

"Oh I think I just fell for you," I joked, going on one knee. "Will you marry me?"

"Don't screw around!" Naruto growled, kicking me down.

"Stingy," I pouted, with a dejected expression.

"Wanna eat lunch with us by the way?" I asked.

"Sure?" Hinata smiled kindly.

"Troublesome, but sure," Shikamaru sighed, as though he was being forced to do something.

"Cool," I grinned, just as the bell rang. "Let's go then," I grabbed Hinata's hand and walked out.

"Hey don't forget us!" Naruto whined behind us. As soon as we were a bit ahead of them I grinned at Hinata.

"It seems you have a thing for my lil bro," her face turned a bright red.

"W-what?" she blushed.

"It's ok I'll help a cute girl like you out. I think he has a thing for you too, I'm his twin after all," I grinned.

"R-really? Who would like me though?" she sighed sadly.

"Are you kidding me? Your cute factor is….it's over 9000!" I laughed. I heard Shikamaru sigh from behind us. I guess that was a bit loud. I looked around the courtyard for a table for us. I found a big one under the tree and ran over. "I hereby claim this our table!" I laughed manically, I was giddy off cuteness. (From Hinata)

"N-not so loud," Hinata blushed.

"Nah its fine," I grinned as I sat down. "INO!" I shouted as I spotted the blonde. She sighed and peevishly made her way towards us.

"Seriously?" She snickered. I looked up to see Gaara walking out of the school and into the courtyard.

"Be right back guys," I grinned and ran towards him dramatically. He flinched as I had my arms wide open. As I was about to jump on him, he put his hand on my head.

"No." I pouted.

"But why not?" I whined, faking tears.

"I have an older sister, the fake tears won't work," he sighed.

"Damn," I scoffed. "Well come join our table! I picked it out myself," I said, a fake southern accent in place.

"Fine, I'll tell my friends to come over as well then," he shrugged and motioned to the people on the other side of the courtyard.

"What is it Gaara? Looking for a fight already?" a blonde haired woman sighed.

"No this woman wants us to sit with her," he shrugged. I grinned at them.

"This woman is Maya," I pinched Gaara, "Don't forget it pal." He only snickered at me, as though I didn't deserve a name.

"Dude she just touched him," a guy with brown hair and red lines on his face exclaimed.

"So?" I put a hand on Gaara's, scowling at the brown haired guy. Gaara stared at it for a moment, until deciding he really didn't mind.

"Interesting," the blonde woman grinned, following me to our table. Her hair was oddly in four different pony tails. But I couldn't help but feel she looked really unique from it.

"Introduction time, I guess?" Naruto laughed. "I'm Yamoto!"

"And I'm Maya," I began.

"And we're twins!" Me and Naruto finished punching fists like a comedy duo.

"Lame," Ino coughed.

"I thought it was pretty cool," Naruto pouted.

"Me too," I sighed.

"Temari," the blonde woman grinned, eyeing Shikamaru. Shikamaru's eyes remained on Temari for a while, and after looking her up returned to a bored expression and stared at the clouds. "And i'm a senior."

"I'm Kiba," I noticed Ino blush. "Junior."

"And I'm Tenten," a girl with brown buns exclaimed. "Junior as well."

"Nice to meet you guys, I'm Ino," Ino smiled politely. "I guess I should say that i'm also a junior."

"I'm Shikamaru," he sighed. "Senior."

"H-hinata," she blushed. "J-junior."

"Cute," Temari and Tenten replied.

"I know, right?" I laughed like an old man.

"You're acting like a creepy pedophile Maya," Ino laughed, throwing a tater-tot at me, which I caught with my mouth and ate quickly.

"Thank you very much," I huffed. "So Gaara how was art?" I asked, turning to the man sitting beside me. He shrugged.

"The same as last year I guess," he began to eat at his rice bowl. I stared at him intensely. "What?" he growled.

"Eat this cookie," I handed him one of my cookies me and Hana had made the night before.

"Why?" he raised an invisible eyebrow at me.

"Cause I think it would be epic to see you eat a cookie." I replied swiftly and Temari snickered at me.

"Maya you're so silly," she giggled.

"Do it!" I whined putting the cookie closer to his face.

"No," he turned away from me.

"Puh-lease," I moved closer to him with a seductive look. He seemed to resist for a bit but took the cookie nonetheless. "Thanks!" I giggled. He threw it in his mouth and swallowed it down. "Aww, I wanted to see you nibble on it," I pouted.

"Yamoto stop!" Hinata laughed. I looked up to see him drawing faces in her mashed potatoes. "That's so silly," she giggled.

"Sorry i just wanted to make you laugh again," Naruto grinned.

"I'll be right back; I'm going to throw my trash away. Anybody have some they want me to take?" Hinata asked, still smiling at Naruto.

"Oh here I'm done with mine," Temari said, handing her tray. "Thanks a bunch cutie." Hinata blushed but took the tray nonetheless.

"So how was the cookie?" I asked.

"It wasn't bad."

"My cute little sister baked them with all her heart!" I shouted.

"Yeah she wore a cute apron too!" Naruto added.

"I know," I said, hearts in my eyes, high-fiving Naruto.

"Oh, the pathetic doting siblings appear," Shikimaru snickered.

"Hush up," Naruto growled. "She really was cute."

"Ouch!" I looked up to the voice of Hinata crying out in pain. Naruto jumped up before I could and went running towards the direction of the sounds. The rest of us jumped up and went in the same direction. We came upon a terrible scene. Trash was spilled everywhere and that Karin girl had ahold of Hinata's hair and was pulling it roughly. Hinata had a bright red mark on her cheek, making me growl.

"Hey bitch, aren't you going to apologize?" Karin yelled at her.

"I'm sorry for bumping into you and spilling our trash on you," she cried out.

"Heh, as if an apology could fix this. If an apology fixed things in life then there would be no point of punishments!" she laughed cruelly and poured her drink on her.

"That's enough!" Naruto and I both yelled grabbing Hinata and pulling her away from Karin. I wrenched her hand off of Hinata's hair. "Leave her alone!" we said in perfect unison.

"What the hell?" she growled. "Oh, newbies," she sneered. "Cause you're new, I'm gonna let you get away this time. But unless you want to be seriously injured I'd back away next time." She laughed walking away and back to her table. Naruto held onto the crying Hinata. I glared at the girl's silhouette. I noticed the Sasuke kid from the table give me a creepy look, and wave happily at me. To put it plainly, it creeped me out.

"This time it's personal. Like hell I'd let these assholes rule our lives here!" I growled to myself. "That's it. I'm starting a secret resistance," I sneered. Naruto nodded at me, he also couldn't stand this.

"Well count me in," Temari cheered. "Bout time someone puts them back to reality," everyone in the group nodded.

"We're all in this one Maya, tell us where we should begin," Ino said. Shikamaru only smirked at me. As though he knew this would happen. He made an O with his hands. He seemed to be in deep thought.

"I think I can help with a plan on this one," he grinned. "It might be troublesome, but it's not as troublesome as dealing with them."

"Great, there goes our quiet life," I laughed to myself.

"Interesting things always seem to happen around you, huh?" Gaara said, with his usual stoic face. "First day of school and already rebolting against the system."

"So it seems. Hopefully it won't get too interesting," I sighed. I can't stand out that much, but I can't go along with this king system.

At the end of the school day Naruto and I went to go pick up Hana. Hinata tagged along to get her little sister Hanabi.

"Hey I heard that this street is haunted," Naruto began, smirking devilishly.

"Okay, what the hell?" I sighed, smacking my forehead.

"It's true! Someone said a young girl from the elementary school ran away and got hit by a car. Her ghost wanders down this road trying to find her toy she lost," Naruto said in a creepy voice.

"W-what," Hinata said, a frightened look on her face.

"Sorry Hinata, Yamoto just likes to joke around," I said, rubbing her back in a comforting manner.

"I-i-I see her," She cried out, wide eyed. "H-help me!" she screamed trying to run away. I held her in my arms though.

"What is it Hinata? It's ok, it was just a story!" I yelled out trying to wake her up. Then next time she turned around the veins around her eyes had protruded slightly and her white eyes looked almost ghostly.

"No I can see the ghost-oh kami-sama she's going to hurt me," she whimpered.

"Hinata, are you a necromancer?" Naruto asked. I turned to him in surprise. A necromancer? As in the type that can summon the dead? The type in video games?

"I-I think so," She whimpered, "It's a trait that's been in my family for generations. We are born with the power to see ghost, to exorcise them. But I'm scared," she grabbed Naruto's arm. "I just turned 16 in December but I've seen glimpses of ghost since then. But I see her so clearly."

"I won't let anything hurt you," Naruto growled out. "Let's cross the street and walk around the ghost then." We ran quickly across the street before crossing again to go to the entrance of the elementary school. Once we got in Hinata collapsed in Naruto's arms in exhaustion.

"I'm so sorry, you must think I'm crazy," Hinata laughed at herself sadly.

"Trust me sweetie, we believe you," I nodded to her.

"We don't think you're crazy," Naruto said reassuringly.

"Come on, let's go get our siblings," I offered.

"You're right. Please don't tell anybody about this," Hinata begged.

"Don't worry we won't," Naruto grinned patting her head. "Now don't be so worried."

"You'll get wrinkles," I added on.

"Thank you," Hinata smiled to herself as we walked down the school's hallway.

Seems like fate had no intention of allowing us to live a quiet life. But that's fine, I'll accept each and every one of its challenges until I beat fate, I thought to myself as I opened the door to Hana's classroom.

me- and so the story continues :D Don't forget to review! ^_^