CHAPTER 7 LIES

Gaara lunged at the stupid BAKA once more, "Fucking Idiot, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GETTING AT?!!"

Sai only grunted, bracing himself for the impact the Suna kid enforced. As the two tumbled to the ground, wrestling each other, Sai smirked, repeating his words once more, "You don't know Hinata like I do…you will never get to know her…after all she is a HYUGA."

"TEME….She is not your fucking plaything," Gaara seethed, gripping the older boy's collar, saliva misting onto Sai's face. Somehow the way Sai said it, immediately got Gaara's attention. What did he mean… he didn't know the real Hinata… what secret? Was Hinata not what she appeared or seems to be? Fucking PRICK!!

"TELL ME, WHAT YOU MEAN ASSHOLE!." he argued still clutching his opponents shirt, squarely looking into his eyes. "I could only take so much of your bantering!"

"If you really want to know…then ask her….unless she doesn't trust…", brown-black eyes flickered past him to a ghostly fragile figure running towards them. Crimson stains streaming down on her beautiful body a grief stricken fear washed over her face. He let a low gasp. NANI? Hina-chan? He wondered ignoring the aqua eye, red head.

"SHUT UP AND TELL ME!" Gaara threatened, while Sai's eyes were occupied. The red head noticed the older boy's quick change of manner, as his fists gnarled deeply down on Gaara's own arms, making the aqua eye boy flinch. Sai seemed to be in a daze.

MEMORIES OF THE PAST FLASHED IN THE BACK OF HIS MIND….

"Hina-chan, he whispered to himself, blocking a punch from Gaara. "HINA-CHAN!?!" he yelled reaching a hand towards her, as if to halt her in her steps. " .IIEE…DON"T ONEGAI…..DON'T….!?!"

Gaara lost total control, tears streamed down his eyes in frustration. "What the hell are you talking about!?!," he seethed as he aimed anywhere his fists could connect with Sai's skin. Hearing his lips call out his Hina-hime upset him to no end and reaching for her was the final straw, who does this fucker think he is? He brought this upon himself, nothing more! Unfortunately caught up in his conflict he didn't notice Hinata come from behind.

"GAA-KUN, STOP IT?!?!" her melodious voice chimed, tugging on his arm. "LEAVE SAI-KUN ALONE…… GAA-KUN!" she cried, grabbing him from behind, hear tears spilling off long butterfly eyelashes. That stunned him, but before he could think it thoroughly he continued, ignoring her, feeling her front pressed to his back, her hands on his arms.

"GAA-KUN….ONEGAI…..NO MORE, LET GO OF SAI-SAN?" she repeated, choking on words.

Hearing her voice defend this worthless piece of shit, angered him more. He pushed her back- more like a reflex, with enough force using the back of his arm. She toppled to the ground, falling to her side, copper liquid from his fight, painting her beautiful features across her face.

"DON'T INTERFERE HINATA PLEASE…THIS LOWLIFE IS SAYINIG THINGS AGAINST YOUR NAME…. CAN"T YOU SEE!!!" Gaara yelled angrily, tears falling onto Sai's face, startling the older shinobi from his momentary daze.

THE CROWD URGED HIM ON. HE WAS ON UNSTOPPABLE. THEY WERE LIKE AN ADDICTIVE DRUG, EGGING HIM ON TO THE VERY END.

Laying on the ground, Hinata wiped her stained face looking down on the rusty-red color that smeared over her pale white hands. This color…. she wished she could never see it again. She slowly stood, looking around the crowd of spectators yelling and cheering Gaara-kun, even more. He seemed to get more hyped up, more aggressive.

Is this the real you Gaa-chan nee? Back at the lockers were you just showing me what I wanted to see? To Hear? Was it all a lie? A façade? Is this the true Gaara no Subaku a fighting machine, not some ordinary boy…that I have come to cherish?

She clutched her heart, bowing her head down.

Iiee…prove me wrong Gaara-san….prove my thoughts of you now- are wrong…. That this is not the real you…that deep down Gaara is really crying inside?

She looked at the hurting boy in front of her.

"Gaa-kun….I beg you…prove me wrong…" she choked, her head ached and she was begging to feel dizzy. The world around her was spinning, she stumble, and began to slowly fall forward. She heard her name being called out, but her eyes slowly closed on their own.

Caught up in the quest to win a battle against an arrogant bastard, he didn't realized he pushed Hinata back without really thinking, that is until the older boy Sai, called her name, throwing him an icy heated glare, as he pushed Gaara back-hard-breaking free from his grasp.

Gaara fell back, it felt like the wind was knocked out of him, but he instantly got to his feet, he really didn't want to leave himself unguarded. He paused only to wipe his face off of tears and blood. He winced feeling the after affects of what the older boy might have done. Was it his imagination or did Hinata called out to him? He looked around his surroundings only to watch the older boy running towards an unmoving figure.

"DON"T YOU EVER TOUCH NATA-CHAN…EVER…. BASTARD!!!" Sai hissed dropping to his knees, cradling the fallen girl, that was lying on the ground, her hair spread about her like a halo, red copper covered her. She really did look like a fallen angel.

"Hina-hime what have I done?" Gaara felt his heart pound hard against his rib cage. His eyes began to moisten. He stood watching the older boy hold Hinata close to his own body, sheltering her, cleaning her face. "Hina-hime, Daijoubuka…..Hina-hime, open your eyes...please?" he heard Sai softly whisper. "Please be alright…"

"Hina? Gomen… Gomen nasi…Hinata-hime" Gaara whispered slowly walking towards her and Sai, placing a hand over his mouth to hold a sob back, though clear tears shone through washing any dirt or blood that clung to his visage.

Black-brown eyes eyed him cautiously and angrily, as he brought her small frame closer to his own. Making Gaara stop in his tracks a few feet away, eyeing them both.

It seemed that way for a couple of minutes, though the crowd had died down, just a bit.

It was then pale eyes fluttered openly, briefly opening up to her surroundings, milky pearl-opal eyes connected with soft black-brown ones, "Sai-Sai-nii…you're okay…I'm so glad." she spoke softly, sitting up just a bit, wrapping her arms around him. Sai kissed her forehead brushing a couple of bangs away from her face, before whispering to her ear "Thank Kami, you're all right…I'm so glad...you scared me there for a while…Hime…I thought…" he laughed a laugh of relief. She nodded and leaned to hug him. "Gomen If I worried you, ne." She smiled wiping his face in return.

Sai responded with a rare laugh and a tighter hug, nor soon did he released her, Hinata looked up to catch aqua eyes soften at her, as the red head fell to the floor on his knees, tears leaking from his eyes, as he hugged himself for comfort.

"Gomen…"

"Gomen…."

"Gomen nasi, Hina-san…. "

Gomen nasi…" Gaara repeated desperately, feeling hurt, his head bowed low enough to cover his face, his red hair covering his eyes. At the moment he felt worthless, kneeling in front of her. How? How could he show this ugly side of himself to her so early on now in this so called "friendship." with her. Tears still escaped his eyes falling onto the dirt, soaking into the deep earth.

Hinata stared at the remorseful boy. She moved away from Sai's arms, much to the disappointment of the older boy, but he let her go as she crawled towards the Gaara. Holding back his dismay, Sai watched her with protective eyes as she neared the broken red head.

Gaara felt soft small warm smooth hands rub his back. Looking up in surprised he caught her gentle caring eyes. Both of her hands moved to cup both sides of his head. He looked away from her. He hated her seeing him in this moment of weakness, tears still trailed over old ones. Soft, fingers, gently wiped them away surprising him again, as well as urging him to face what was in front of him. A shaky sigh escaped his mouth, looking back into her deep milky white orbs, more tears trailing.

"Iiee, Gaa-chan….Arigato… for proving me wrong…" she smiled, a small smile that was directed towards him. Gaara let a sob wrack his body that he was holding in., desperately clinging onto Hinata's warmth. Warm lips gently placed a chase kiss on the top of his head.

"Arigato….Gaa-kun." was all he heard before his eyes closed and-he -himself was encased with a warm embrace, letting his head rest on her shoulder.

"Iie Hina-hime…. Thank…you…" he whispered, before falling into a deep slumber feeling warm wet drops fall from above.

Sai watched the whole seen before him. Although it annoyed him that the stupid Baka Subaku still seem to be able to get on good terms with Hinata-hime, especially with what happened hours before. He hated as she held him like she did right now, crying for him. It appeared Hinata was breaking out of her shell, discovering more, opening herself more with the opposite sex. It seemed just a couple of days ago where she only relied on Prince Neji and himself, occasionally her other friends, but now even the top boys in school were fawning over her. The Uchiha and this Baka Uke Sabaku… He felt jealousy overcome him. He did not like this one bit. Something had to be done…something had to change….

He quietly stood up wincing at the major wounds that ate away at him, slowly applying pressure and chakra to stem any bleeding. It was night time and it appeared half of the crowd had disappeared. The wind blew a cold breeze. He looked at the two people in front of him huddled. The red head out cold and his Hime was just behind him with her fluttering eyes… they both were probably…exhausted.

What a waste of my time! The idiot fell asleep too… Sai scoffed in his mind, closing his eyes before he opened them up to scan his surroundings.

It was then he heard a voice, calling out his name.

He turned his head towards that direction.

"SAI-KUN?!?!" it rang.

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Akno-sensei laughed.

She actually did it! Hinata-chan managed to stop those two from killing each other. She looked around to see that half of the other sensei's managed to control the crowd as well, sending them home. Even some parents came to drag their offsprings home. She sighed, unfortunately this charade was not gonna go without consequences.

She looked down at Naruto, who fell asleep. He had given her a scare, when those boys harmed him without any remorse, she almost wanted to smack them-hard-. She lifted the blazer Hinata used earlier to covered his leg, it seemed to be healing quite nicely, another boost from a med-nin should make it look good as new. She cursed. She kept forgetting he had the chakra of the nine tails, helping him heal faster, but she had to wonder why he didn't use any of his strength to stop them…she shook her head he probably had to have a really serious trama to trigger it. She ended sighing.

In the distance she saw two figures running towards her.

"Prince Neji…..and Sasuke…." she whispered surprised, "I actually forgot about them." She smiled waving her hand towards them. "I wonder who won?" she muttered to herself.

They waved back as they came nearer.

Principal Tusanade-sama won't like to look at this report in the morning, she thought.

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SAI-KUN!?!?!?!?!

"SAI-KUN?!?!?!!"

"SAI-KUN….ONEGAI ANSWER ME?!?!?!?" a shrill female voice called out.

He squinted his eyes and shock ran through him. A blond, slim, beautiful girl caught sight of him and with full speed headed towards his direction, she ran to him with shinning big blue eyes filled with glistening tears.

Not far behind her was another boy… Inuzuke one of Hinata's friends who was running just a bit behind her.

It was Ino his current "supposed" girlfriend.

"Yamamaka?" he muttered surprise.

She caught up to him, jumping into his arms. She began to cry "Mou, Sai-kun…I was so worried about you. I tried to look for you through the crowd. I was so scared. I could only see Prince Neji-senpai and Sasuke-san racing. Then fights broke out and sensei's were ushering students to go home and…and …..I ran into Kiba-san who was searching for Hinata-chan?" she said the last word unenthusiastically.

As soon as she mentioned Kiba, Inuzuke ran past them heading towards Hinata and Gaara who seemed to have fallen asleep. He eyed Inuzuke carefully before the brown hair boy notice his gaze and eyed him back stopping briefly before he continued towards Hinata. His gaze was only meant to be a warning-if the Inuzuke was caught doing something to Hime he would so regret the day he was born.

This did not escape the eyes of the blond beauty, who only hugged Sai tighter, smirking a cynical smirk.

He sighed placing a hand on her head. He felt her stiffen. She had recently been prodding about past with the female Hyuga. He mafe it clear that nothing could ever happen between them. He hated whoever she felt her position was threatened or her jealousy of the unknown rose about her. He looked down upon her blond head.

She faked a sniffle, as she buried her head deep onto his chest using her delicate manicured hands to run her hands through his dark brown copper locks.

She hated when her "supposed boyfriend" got jealous with anything to do with the Hyuga girl and that made her jealous as well, it meant taking her beloved Sai Hino's attention being taken away from her.

He knew she noticed it, but at the moment he didn't care… he had to change the subject before she decided to press on further. He was only glad Hinata wasn't awake to see this.

He knew what he was about to say would spoil the mood, well for her anyway, but he just had to know…he was so caught up in his own actions, he forgot all about it.

"Gorgeous?" he softly called, playing with a strand of her blond hair.

"Hai" she responded eagerly.

"By any chance did you see who won?"

"BAKA.." she muttered quick against his chest, but moved slightly back, pulling his head to her level, after all Sai was a head taller, "It was a draw…they never completed the race…Baka " she ended flicking his nose, before placing a hard kiss on his lips.

Sai leaned into her kiss nipping her lip back, earning a playful squeal from her.

"She then muttered in his ear "Sai Hino….your filthy…I can probably stop by your apartment and help you clean up." she smiled pulling back, making a pretend displeasured mischief face. "That's if your wanna be guardian isn't there… ?" she smiled seductively.

He only stared down at her contemplating her invitation. It was tempting… but at the current moment her last comment upset him and brought his attention back to Hinata-hime and Prince Neji. He decided to decline her offer and check on Hinata, moving away from her towards Kiba.

She saw the look he gave her, which deep down angered her. He always does this, these stupid mind games, playing real affectionate with me and then, drops me like nothing when it comes to the naïve little Hyuga. Well not this time! she seethed holding him tight.

She challenged him to a staring contest by grabbing his cheeks with both hands turning his head to face her. She eyed him with a ferocious stare, a stare that screamed "what the hell do you think you're doing, I'm right here, so forget about her!!!" He knew by now how to read her and her games-were not that hard to figure out. He was surely going to play her this round, but come out the winner. When neither one did not wavier from each others eyes a voice interrupted their game. Ino flinched.

"Hina-sama…" a voice broke their connection. "Your' awake."

This caught Sai's attention and he immediately pulled away from Ino, that is until she grabbed his wrist hard digging her nails into his skin, "Sai-kun…don't you walk away from me….she already has Kiba -san attending her."

He turned to face her while a small breeze blew through his locks, making her gasp. "Hino-san." she whispered. He looked so handsome, more mature. His dark eyes gleamed in the coming light, thick dark locks, surrounded his face in a beautiful mess. His eyes radiated the unknown, a total expressionless face….a face that was not amused by her antics anymore. She felt unsure at the moment, he always left her this way, whenever she felt she said or did something wrong or dumb on her part.

Ino swallowed hard. Nonetheless she still wanted to cling to him, to love him, to make him only hers. But for some reason, FATE was not being kind to her.

"Gomen…gorgeous, but what a terrible friend I'll be if I don't greet my awaken best friend's …Hime…but on the other hand I'm sure you, he paused… wouldn't mind at all… right?" he smiled a fake smile to Ino. In the end she could only nod dumbfounded, letting go his hand. She knew he was probably saying a hidden message with those words to her, but she was too scared to even decipher them. She caught a quick glimpse of the red markings she left on his pale skin on his wrist. She cringed, she didn't want to lose him. He began to walk away from her.

"SAI-KUN" she called softly, holding back her blond tresses as they swayed in the night cold air.

He did not stop.

"Gomen, Sai.." she whispered more to herself. Hoping by chance he heard her.

He kept on walking, but at that moment it looked as if he paused to acknowledge her …to acknowledge her words...or so she hoped.

She watched his backside as he walked away farther away from her, leaving her feeling a bit colder. Something cold and wet slide down her cheek. Did it start to rain? she wondered, wiping it away agitatedly from her face. Looking to the night sky, there was no signs of raindrops.

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"Anko-sensei, Naruto! Gomen, sorry we arrived so late." A concerned Neji rushed to the older woman who held an awoken Naruto, who winced, as he was carefully held up to stand on his feet. Neji flanked to Naruto's other side to support him. Sasuke sauntered behind him surveying the aftermath of Naruto's appearance and Anko-sensei's relief.

"Neji-senpai you're here Thank-Kami-sama." Anko sighed, then looking to the Uchiha she yelled infuriated "SASUKE BAKA YOU"RE LATE!"

Sasuke scoffed "Whatever. I'm just going to ignore the favoritism going on here."

"Shut up" Anko sensei quipped, "I'm going to retrieve a med-nin for Uzamaki-san. So stay here and watch him alright." she ended heading towards the infirmary.

Neji nodded.

Sasuke shrugged. " I guess I might as well be blondie's babysitter."

"TEME!" Naruto growled, shifting all his weight on his good leg, still balancing himself on Neji. Sasuke ignore his comrade as usual with closed eyes, pretending to clean out his ears, overlooking Naruto's ranting and Anko-sensei's earlier comment. Neji sighed.

"TEME, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO ACT LIKE THAT."

"Yeah, Yeah,…bitch and cry. You most have been so weak to allow yourself to be hurt like that… eh…Nani?" Sasuke narrowed his eyes to Uzamaki.

"What now?" Naruto snorted.

"Naruto you baka!" Sasuke cursed, as his eyes shifted to a very familiar piece of clothing to him… Hinata-chan's jacket. He almost forgot what he really forfeited and came back for ….for Hinata.

"BAKA! WHAT HAPPENED! WHERE"S HINATA!" the Uchiha felt his anger boil, rushing to Naruto grabbing his collar, red flickering in his eyes..

"TEME! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DEMAND ANYTHING FROM ME, UUHH HELLO LOOK AT THE CURRENT SITUATION I'M IN." the blond shouted, his blue orbs fading to a shade of red.

"UCHIHA, CALM DOWN!" Surprisingly it came from the non other than Prince Neji. "She's okay. She's with Inzuka-san ,Hino-san…..and…...Gaara-san?"

Both boys looked at the Byakugan wielder.

"And you are okay with that?!" Sasuke spat.

"NO, but she is safe nonetheless." the Prince replied.

"Well, I'm not, there will be hell to pay, when I'm done with them.'

It was then Sasuke took off leaving Neji alone with Naruto.

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Yeah so another chapter finished. Sorry it took so long, with things changing at work, I really didn't have chance to update. So, anyways I will try to update faster.

I know , I know, Sasuke and Hinata will meet again in the next chap, so.. so there okay.

Thanks Next chapter: Reunion