Naruto; Sabaku no Gaara/Hyuga Hinata; 13. excessive chain
Title: Locks and Chains
Author: Shilohm
Pairing: Sabaku no Gaara/Hyuga Hinata
Fandom: Naruto
Theme: 13. excessive chain
Disclaimer: I have not, do not, nor will ever, own the great anime/manga Naruto. Some one in japan owns it, and anyone else who has the rights. So, no copyright infringement, okay? Already had a bad experience with that TT
Rating: PG-13
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Why? Why did he let Naruto talk him into this? When has anything Naruto said, beginning with the words, "I have an idea!" ever brought about anything less than a disaster? Never. That's when...
So, here he was... out at the training grounds... looking up at the sky. "Naruto... you are going to die."
Naruto, though Gaara couldn't see him, was grinning in that "I'm-Sorry-I-Screwed-Up" way of his, "Uh sorry, Gaara, I'll go get one of the Hyuuga's to help. Be back soon!" and the bastard ran off, leaving Gaara lying in the dirt, watching the sky.
The young Kazekage sighed as he stared at the sky. This was all Naruto's fault...
They had been training like they usually did when he was in the village and not busy with something or another. Gaara had just vanished one of Naruto's clones when Naruto had said the dreaded words."Hey! I have an idea!" He wasn't even going to think about it anymore... wouldn't help him any now.
It was several more minutes before Naruto returned with the Hyuuga girl in tow. "Gaara! I found Hinata-chan! She can do it!"
The dark haired girl was playing with her fingers and looking at the ground. He blinked, fighting down the heat that he felt on his face. Why did he have to get her?
"Um... Hello, G-Gaara...kun," she said hesitantly, looking down at him, a splash of pink on her cheeks.
Gaara blinked and looked back up at her, "Hinata..." he paused for a moment as she had, "Chan."
"H-how--?" she took in his... tied up state. Gaara glared at Naruto.
Said glared at ninja went on to explain his blunder, "We uh were training and I wanted to try out a new summoning scroll I made... I think I used a few too many locks.. maybe too much chain, too..." he took a long look at Gaara.
Gaara was lying on his back, arms pinned to his side, legs pinned together, by many coils of chain. And what locked the chains in place? Over a dozen padlocks, attached to various links in the chain, none of which Naruto knew where the key for was. To put it simply he couldn't move. "I'm going to kill you Naruto..."
Naruto blinked and smiled nervously, "Well, uh, I'll let Hinata-chan take care of you now. I'll go, uh, see if Tsuande has a mission for me.. Yeah," And he ran off, obviously scared of what Gaara would do when he was free.
Hinata let out a small giggle, but then blushed and looked down for a minute. Gaara was staring after the dust trail Naruto left. After a long minute, he turned to face her, "...Think you can get all the locks off in time for me to catch him?"
"U-um, I can try..." she said softly before activating her bloodline and pulling out a few different piece of wire she had grabbed when Naruto said there was some locks that needed opening. She began at one that was around his shoulder.
Gaara stared at the sky as she worked to free him. This day was not going well at all.
After 30 minutes, about a third of the padlocks had been dismantled. Which, on average, left them another hour to go.
Gaara had taken to watching Hinata as she worked. She wasn't blushing or acting nervous, as she wasn't paying too much attention to him while she worked. She had a look of utter concentration on her face as she began working on the next lock, this one just below his collar bone. She had to move closer to be able to get the pins in, because of the weird angle the key hole was facing, so her face was only a few inches from his.
Gaara closed his eyes so he wouldn't be caught staring. He tried to concentrated on the sounds of her picking the lock, which was hard as the sound of her breathing was louder, at least to him.
The red head could feel her breath on his face when she exhaled, so that added to his lack of concentration on the picking noise. His mind drifted back to when she had kissed him on the cheek at the training grounds that evening at sunset. Then to when he had kissed her at the waterfall. Both times had been.. strange, but nice. He didn't have much experience in kissing, or in even.. caring for anyone. He was learning, but this was different than the friendship he felt for Naruto, or the caring he had for his brother and sister... He didn't want to kiss them.
From what he had gathered about kissing from listening to other people talk, it was something people did when they liked each other more than friends, and differently than family. He assumed that was what the weird feeling he got around Hinata was. She was his friend, kinda, but friends didn't kiss. So was she, more than a friend?
'You're thinking again. I thought I told you to stop doing that?'
'Shut up...' he thought weakly, still confused, but no longer thinking so much.
Gaara blinked his eyes open when he heard the lock click open. He wished he hadn't. She was smiling to herself as she pulled the padlock away from the chain and tossed it in to a pile. He couldn't move again.. And just when he was getting some movement back too...
He closed his eyes again, taking slow, deep breaths. The Shukaku was making fun of him, and he listened to him instead of the sounds Hinata was making.
Hinata began to pick up speed, as she was now more used to the layout of the locks, which ws made easier as they were all the same kind of lock. It only took her about forty minutes to do the rest of them.
Finally, she tossed the last lock to the side and looked down at Gaara, who had his eyes closed. It was obvious he wasn't asleep, as he was very tense. She looked at the chain and searched for where one ended. "G-Gaara-kun, is the chain looser now? All the l-locks are gone."
The teen opened his eyes and tried pulling at his restraints. They weren't loose enough to just fall off, but he could move his arms a little. "I can move my arms slightly," he informed her, "If you would help me sit up?" he asked, and she moved around him so she could push him into a sitting position, though not a comfortable one.
"I found the en-end to one," She told him as she began to unwrap it, pulling at different lenghs. After another few minutes of their combined efforts, Gaara managed to slide his arms out of the upper chains.
"Almost there," the dark haired girl smiled slightly at him.
After another minute, he, with Hinata's help, managed to stand up, and from there, the chains dropped from him. He kicked the remaining chains away from him and turned to thank Hinata for her help.
"Tha--" was all he got out when something slammed into him, pushing him into Hinata, almost knocking her over. "Hey!" He yelled at the blond haired blur zooming by followed closely by another, bigger blond blur, "NARUTO GIVE ME BACK MY SAKE!!" the Hokage yelled as she chased the thief.
"NOT UNTIL YOU GIVE ME A MISSION!" He yelled back.
Gaara, not yet noticing his arms around Hinata, or the lovely shade of red on her face, yelled as well, "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU NOW, NARUTO!" and, having made up his mind about something, turned his head towards Hinata. He blushed a little at how close they were, but he went through with his plan. Okay, Shukaku's plan...
"Hinata chan," he began more confidently than he felt, "Would you like to have lunch with me tomorrow?"
Hinata turned redder and stuttered out, "U-U-Um.. Uh, I uh,... Y-yeah, I mean, su-sure..."
As soon as he had a positive response, he let out the breath he'd been holding and gave her a small smile. "Ramen stand at noon?" He said, actually feeling confident this time. She nodded, bright red now.
He looked down at her for a moment before leaning down and kissing her cheek, then he said, "Til then," He reluctantly took a step back, arms dropping to his sides, and then he was off, chasing after Naruto. Though really, Maybe it was a good thing the blond idiot had used excessive chain. And, at least the scroll worked. Maybe he wouldn't have to kill him, after all...
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A/N: Yes yes, been months lol. Once again, I blame my love. Though, I seem to finish each chapter while talking to him, so maybe is his fault I finished... Either way.
Hope you like the newest installment. And just to clear it up, and I'll add this to the chapter mentioned. Chapter two: Say Ahh, wasn't after the first chapter, it could be, buuut.. I might move it to chapter one later. All of these, mostly, can either be read as one shots or as separate installments to one story.
Thanks all for the reviews. Sorry again for taking so long. Is currently almost 4 am as I'm writing this A/N. and last chapter was finished at like, 2 am lol
Btw, this is also a birthday present to myself. That's right. Happy birthday to me I'm 17 today! tah tah!
