EerieNightFall wrote this one. The Last chapter hers. I will start at chapter 8. : r/r
Chapter 7 - Surprise
(Hinata's POV)
Snap!
Crap! I immediately glanced at Gaara to see if he would turn at the sudden
break out of silence. But, he didn't even move or get startled. He just
stayed in the exact position, laying down on the grass with his arms crossed
under he's head, gazing at the moon, unfazed.
I jumped as I was instead startled my him as he spoke up breaking the silence
once more. "I already told you Temari, I'm not going to that stupid
festival." he coldly said.
I slowly walked up to him. I stood about a couple of feet away before I said
something.
"I-I'm not T-Temari, but c-can I sit here too?" I sniffed, I guess the
crying still didn't go down.
Gaara lifted his head upside-down to glance at me then casually turned back
to the way he was. "Sure" he simply said.
I then carefully sat next to him with my arms hugging my knees and looked to
the big blazing red moon. I glanced from the moon back to Gaara. The moonlight
seemed to perfectly rival his hair, and it beautifully gleamed off his pale
skin making it also seem like it glowed. I then quickly noticed I was
observing him for a pretty long time, I then blushed and looked away.
"S-so um…so why aren't you going to the festival." I came up with,
hoping he didn't notice me staring.
"I Hate loud places, their so troublesome." he casually spoke, though
still stressing on the hate part.
"Oh, I guess that makes sense" then I slightly giggled at what he said.
'Troublesome' Shikamaru's trademark saying. Then my thoughts started
leading up to me, thinking about Temari. Hm… wonder what she's
doing.
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(Normal POV) with Temari )
"Damn! Great now my plans are ruined and I don't have anything to do!"
Temari pouted. hm… Now what could I do? I could go to the festival, since
I'm already dressed She thought as she tapped her index finger on the
side of her forehead. After She had gone home she decided to dress up anyway,
but apparently was starting to regret it.
While she closed her eyes to think of what to do, something rammed into her
shoulder. Her eyes snapped open with rage to where the rude idiot, who
didn't even say sorry, was.
"What's the big idea?! Watch where your going, lazy ass!" She hissed at the
top of her lungs, to then have her eyes lay one the laziest guy in school or
pretty much in all of Konaha.
"So troublesome." A lazy voice coming from none other then Shikamaru, who
was scratching his ear after going minority deaf. "Sorry. Ok?"
Noticing that that it was just Shikamaru, she ran to Shikamaru's side.
"Hey Shika, so What chya doing here?"
"I don't know, the guys wanted me to meet them here, but they cancelled
last minute." Shikamaru said in a mellow tone.
"I know how that feels." she mumbled angrily.
"Well I'm just going home to sleep now, so see you." He turned and
started continuing to walk.
In that very moment Temari started to have a mental break down. -gulp-
Should I tell him. No, he'll reject me. Yes, because if I don't I'll
never know for sure. No, I Can't. Yes, you can. Wait, who are
you? God. What?! Never mind.No really, who are you? Damn it, Just spit it out already! Fine!
"H-ho-hold on." she muttered. Great, hanging out with Hinata so much
made her rub off on me.
He stopped with only time to accomplish walking a grand total of three steps,
but only to slightly turned his head to the side with his hands in his
pockets. "Yeah?"
"I-I-I-well-I-erm, uh… Nevermind" You sissy! It's not my
fault, I'm not ready! Well what happened last summer when you promised to
take this lazy ! (A/N: flashback chapter 2) Well I thought I'd be
ready by then. Oh, so all talk no bite, huh? But- No
buts, talk or else I'll mentally kick you. Sheesh ok! You don't
have to get violent…
"Hm… While if your not going to say it, I'll go home." he was about
to take another step until he heard something.
"Ilikeyou" she voiced too fast to comprehend.
Slowly Shikamaru completely turned around. He cuffed his hand to the back of
his ear and leaned in closer. "What did you say? You we're talking to
fast." he stated.
"I Love You!" she shouted.
Silence.
Right when Temari was going to high-tail it, he spoke. "Well it was about
time. I was starting to think, I was the one who had to make the first
move." he sighed in relief.
At the point Temari's eyes automatically lit up. "so… You like me
too?" she so questionly asked, just to make sure. "or do you not like
me?"
"Yes. No." he put it simple.
Her face brightened from the answer 'yes', but disappeared from the
'No'. she thought maybe he had rethought it once he said yes. But she ask
with a saddened tone. "so you don't like me."
"No"
"Oh"
"I meant yes."
"Wait, what is it yes or no?" she was completely confused, by now.
"I Like you too." he clearly restated, "god making me say such an
embarrassing thing."
Temari blushed scarlet, ironic since it was the Scarlet Moon, her eye's
stuck to the floor, and her arms behind her, as she turned and twisted
nervously. It surprised Shikamaru, that the strong and confident Temari, was
actually being this shy. He thought is was even pretty cute too.
All of a sudden, Temari snapped out of it and pounced to Shikamaru's side.
She hugged his left arm and laid her head on his shoulder. "Troublesome"
he murmured. Should have know it would end sooner or later.
"Erm, err… Shika? Do-"
"-I want to go to the festival with you?" Shikamaru interrupted.
"Yeah, but how did y-" Temari questioned.
"Don't forget, I have an I.Q. of 300. If I couldn't figure out how to
figure out a few sentences, what kind of genius would I be." Shikamaru
stated matter-of-factly.
Temari clutched Shaikamaru's arm harded and dragged him back around.
"Let's move out!" she confidently exclaimed. While she dragged him, he
wore a small smirk which formed on his lips. Then they headed to the
festival.
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(A/N) sorry about the long TemShika, I needed the couples to form. Back to
the Story!
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"Was that funny or something?" he said.
"N-no. I-it's just that I-it remind me of something." Hinata managed
out between giggles.
"Anyway shouldn't I be the one asking you, why you're here." Gaara
paused, " since you have to confess to that hyper idiot, right?"
Hinata automatically knew who the 'hyper idiot' was and blushed deeply.
"How did you know about that?" she said surprised.
"Well…" he began to explained.
(Flashback) about a week before school began
Gaara was peacefully listening to music on the computer when he heard a huge
slam. His earphones fell off and he was about to put them on again, but Temari
stomped in and tugged on his arm excitedly.
"Guess what? Guess what? Guess what?" she kept repeating, which felt like
hours on end, until he got annoyed enough.
"WHAT!" He hissed.
"Well, Guess Who Hinata Likes? Guess Who Hinata Likes? Guess Who Hinata
Likes?" she repeated.
"…"
"Come on guess?"
"…"
"Okay, well anyways, It's Naruto! Can you believe it, Naruto!" she
basically yelled.
(Flashback end)
"Not that I wanted to know. It's just that it's pretty hard to ignore
Temari when she is practically yelling." he retold, not even taking his eyes
off the moon.
She then twisted away from him, to then clench her fist together. Temari! You
traitor! She mentally shouted gritted her teeth together. You could almost she
a hint of flames of anger in her pupiless eyes. The next time I see you,
you better run!
After taking a moment to calm down, she started think back to his question.
hm… Wait, what was his question again?
"So, like I said, why are you here and not with Naruto?" he re-asked, her
heart immediately sunk. It felt like someone was yanking at it. She soon put
her head down as the recent events reoccurred in her head.
"I-I s-saw N-n-naruto kissing Sakura!" Hinata sniffled and shuddered,
until the tears came flooding, and she couldn't keep it in so she yelled the
last part. Gaara blinked once then turned to her with a emotionless
expression.
"Stop, dwelling through the past. It's already over, so who cares." he
harshly said. The weird part was Hinata felt comfort from those words, they
were spoken emotionlessly, but somehow it felt as if it was supposed to be
calm her.
Hinata whipped her eyes trying to whip the streaming tears away. "Y-your
right, I guess I should get over it right?" She started to calm down.
"Well I got to go, It's getting late." stood up patting her jeans.
"I'm going too" he stood up and started walking in to the forest.
Hinata had no choice, but to follow him in because she had no clue what so
ever of where she had gone.
Once they were out of the forest, they started walking homeward and it so
happened to be that there houses were the same way home. Though Gaara didn't
really know, but Hinata knew since Temari was Gaara's sister and Hinata
always walked hame with Temari after school.
They walked in silence as Hinata followed him closely behide. Then all of a
sudden bumped into his back with her head. "Gomen!" she apologized,
rubbing her head.
"You do know that we're out of the forest, so you don't have to keep
trailing me."