Update: Yes, I got my mom to e-mail me the missing chapters, so yay for us all!

AAAAAACCCCKKKKKK -DIES-

Hinata is so OOC, omg, I so gotta step up my game and get her meek-ness showing again.

Oh, and this is a total filler, FILLER chapter btw. Nothing really important happens I suppose except a small foreshadow which becomes pretty big in later chapters. And the high-speed chase: that was amazingly fun to write 8D.

Oh, and I reread two chapters back, and I found this sentence. "The Fantastic Four were on their way to an accessories store." THAT RHYMED! 8DDDD

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Sasuke nearly fell over with exhaustion. "Did you get the sponges?" TenTen asked eagerly as Sasuke struggled to walk over to her; he was practically wheezing. "I, I, oh gosh I think I'm gonna faint" Sasuke gasped as he leaned on the buggy, trying to catch his breath. "Well? Did you get the sponges?" TenTen asked him again, her impatience growing. "Yes TenTen, I got your silly little sponges." Sasuke replied, handing two sponges to her. TenTen squealed with delight as she snatched the two sponges from Sasuke and looked at them with utter glee.

She then tossed them into the basket and went around and grabbed the handles of the buggy. "Okay Sasuke, lets go get Beyonce's new CD and then we'll txt Hinata and tell her we're finished." Sasuke looked at TenTen with a frown, finally getting his breathing under control. "After this, I want to go home and sleep, and when I get up tomorrow, you are gonna buy me a pound of cotton candy at the park, got it?" Sasuke ordered as he and TenTen made their way to the electronic section of Wal-Mart. "Yeah, yeah, I go it Sasuke." TenTen waved his comments away as she began to grin as the both of them headed off to get their CD.

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TenTen and Sasuke had reached the Electronic section and were very relieved to have their work nearly completed. They pushed their buggy along as they scanned up and down the aisles with their eyes looking for anything with the word 'Beyonce' in it. "Hmmm, Pussycat Dolls. . .Switchfoot. . .Avril Lavigne. . .Kelly Clarkson. . .it just doesn't seem to be here, TenTen." Sasuke sighed as he absent-mindedly looked on the back of a Fall Out Boy CD.

"No." TenTen snapped, "We're gonna find that CD whether I have to beat down the inventory mana- oh!" TenTen cut herself short as she spotted the CD. She quickly picked it up and stared at it lovingly. "

Umm, there's two Cds." Sasuke said, killing the moment as he picked a different CD.

"What? How? Uh, which one is the newest?" TenTen asked as she began to panic.

"I don't know; I don't really listen to Beyonce. Why don't we just get both of them?" Sasuke answered calmly.

"Yeah, that works." As TenTen began to calm down she quickly whipped out her cell phone and searched her phone book for Hinata's number. Once found, TenTen quickly txt-ed her friend a message.

booooooop.

TenTen snapped her phone closed and nearly squealed with glee. "Okay Sasuke, did you get the CD? . . .Sasuke? Sasuke where are you?" TenTen looked around, wondering where her companion was. She quickly looked to her left and right, then a double take to her left when she realized Sasuke was lost in his own little world staring at the back of a CD smiling widely. TenTen sighed angrily as she stomped over to Sasuke, fully ready to indict him of not paying attention to their mission.

"Sasuke." She said accusingly "Number one, we're on a mission here. Number two, did you get the CD? And number three, why in heavens name are you smiling like a madman," -She snatched the CD out of his hands and looked at the cover- "at a Cascada CD?"

"No Reason." Sasuke snatched the CD back and looked away, embarrassed. "And naw, I thought u you got the CD." He continued as he tried to veer the subject away from him.

"What do you mean you think I got it?"

"I. . .thought u got it."

"No, you couldn't have thought that because I was txt-ing Hinata."

"Well, I did." TenTen looked behind her to where she had left the basket and headed straight for it with Sasuke trailing behind with his CD. Once she got to where she had seen the Beyonce Cds, she saw with horror-filed eyes that they weren't there.

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Hinata quietly closed her phone and shoved it into her pocket before turning to Gaara. "So, TenTen-chan said that she and Sasuke-san are done with their list." "They're already done?" he asked back, disbelievingly. "Yeah, that was really fast wasn't it?" "Yeah, we've still got at least ten things to get." "Well, I suppose we should be off now." Hinata finished off their conversation and whisked by Gaara and down the aisle. Gaara grabbed the buggy (since it's a boys job to push the basket) and followed Hinata down the aisle.

"So, Gaara-san, what do you think will be at the park when we get there?" Hinata asked him once he had caught up to her and they were both walking side-by-side. "Well, I don't know. I've heard there are some pretty intense rides. Well, that's pretty good for me since I like wild rides, what about you, Hinata?" "Y-yes, I like the large rides, but not right away, I have to work my way up from the smaller rides. And I certainly don't eat right before I go on a ride." "Yeah, cause then you'd throw up on the guy in the elephant costume."

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TenTen let out a cry of horror as the truth was revealed.

"OW." Sasuke yelled very flatly while rubbing his ear. "Why are you screaming?"

"OMG, the- the CD. It's gone! IT'S GONE." TenTen screamed back. Sasuke chose not to freak out and simply went around TenTen to the CD rack to see what had gone down. He stared at where the Beyonce CDs had been and saw that both of them were gone. "Hm, well, I wonder where-"Sasuke was cut off by the voice of a girl.

"WOW! I can't believe we got the last two Beyonce Cds, Sonya."

"Yea, Jacinta, they won't be getting another shipment of these for another 2 whole weeks!" Sasuke and TenTen slowly turned their heads away from the CD rack to their right. Two girls who looked about 12 were walking calmly and happily, their sandals clicking on the hard tiled floor. Team Sponge stood in the center of the long rows of CDs, the floor they were standing on being covered in carpet. A few meters away the carpet stopped and the tiled main roads that circled throughout WalMart started. There were a few moments of silence before Sasuke or TenTen could fully grasp the concept that their CDs had been stolen. TenTen was the first to react. "HEY!" she sped off to where the girls were.

Sonya and Jacinta stopped walking and turned around to see a strange 16-year-old girl with two buns in her hair. They both gave each other wary glances before addressing the girl. "Umm, hi, can we-"Jacinta was cut off by TenTen.

"Hi, I'm TenTen, and I saw you both had the two newest Beyonce Cds,"- TenTen gestured toward the CD each girl held in their hands- "and you see, my friend really needs those CDs and if she doesn't get them then our Christmas plans are ruined." The two girls looked down at the CDs held in their hands and then at each other before Sonya spoke for them: "I'm sorry, but these are the last ones, and we really need to give them to our family members as Christmas presents. So, you'll just have to find some other CDs by some different Artists."The two girls turned to leave before they were each roughly grabbed by the shoulder and forced to turn around. "Look, little buttercup princesses, I don't think you understood. I need those Cds, and you're gonna hand them over one way or another, got it?" TenTen has switched over from being slightly polite to having her voice covered in a layer of threatening ice. The two girls looked up at her squarely, their inner thoughts hidden.

It was a few moments before Jacinta sighed and lowered her head. "Okay then, you can have the Cd." She muttered her words just loud enough to hear, ignoring the horrified look of Sonya and the surprised yet happy gasp TenTen let out. "Well, here ya--SONYA, TAKE IT AND RUN!" Jacinta had just started to lift the CD up to TenTen before she yelled her command and threw it to her companion. Once Sonya heard her name being called, she jumped back 2 feet, Jacinta's plan slowly coming together in her head. Once the CD was tossed to her, Sonya quickly grabbed it, turned, and ran.

There was a moment's pause before TenTen realized what happened. TenTen quickly gathered her senses and violently shoved Jacinta out the way by pushing her into the mini CD wall by her face and started chasing Sonya. Jacinta cursed loudly as she slumped to the floor. She lifted up her hands and began to lightly touch her face to see if there was any bruising from when TenTen had pushed her. There was a moments silence before a boy with dark blue hair in the shape of a chicken's butt zoomed out onto the aisle and asked what happened. Jacinta looked up at him and gave a vague explanation.

"Did the girl have buns in her hair?" He asked once she was finished. Jacinta gave a small nod. "Ack, what's TenTen doing?" Sasuke asked himself as he began to run where he heard loud screaming and tons of things being knocked over. But before he could even go anywhere the girl he was talking to tackled his feet with inhuman speed, causing him to fall foreword and slam his head against the hard floor.

"What was that for?!" Sasuke yelled as he turned around to look at the girl who was clutching his feet like her life depended on it.

"Hah, I can't have you and that crazy friend of yours getting those Cds Sonya is trying to protect." The girl replied.

"Why not?"

"Well, Sonya needs them because her older sister has been begging for them for Christmas, and I need them because I need to get something nice for my brother for X-mas too." Sasuke sighed. Oh yes, he was gonna get a lot of cotton candy from TenTen when they all got to the park.

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Sonya raced down the aisles, her heart pumping and mind racing. She side-stepped and old lady as she ran down the yarn section, the sound of her pursuer's footsteps ringing loudly in her ears. As Sonya ran, she began to get desperate, sure her older sister would be in such a foul mood if she didn't get the Beyonce Cd, but was risking her life really worth it? She made a sharp turn into another section and was so busy contemplating if she should give up that she didn't even realize that she had run into a dead end. Once at the end, Sonya looked up and saw that her short attention span would be her downfall. She turned around, somehow hoping to get out of there before the crazy girls with buns came, but saw that at the mouth of the 'tunnel' was her chaser. TenTen had a manic smile on her face. She had finally caught the girl in a dead end, knowing that this round she was going to win. She began to walk foreword, subconsciously enjoying the fact that the girl was franticly looking this way and that trying to find a means of escape.

"If you'd just give me the Cd, this can all be avoided." TenTen said, sounding like she was the one in charge here. Sonya took that as a challenge. 'No one underestimates me.' Sonya quickly leaped foreword and began to run. Surprise appeared on TenTen's face as the Sonya launched herself foreword, which was exactly what Sonya needed. The girl put both Cds in her left hand and grabbed a pair of knitting needles that were neatly packaged together and hurled them at TenTen with great accuracy. The needles only hit TenTen's arm since she saw the attack coming and blocked it. TenTen was so caught up in the needles that she was powerless to stop Sonya from running past her and taking a sharp right down another aisle.

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"Okay, so we just gotta get a Evanescence Cd and we'll be done." Gaara said to Hinata, checking an item off the list. They both had stopped for a few minutes to look over their list and rest. Hinata was about to reply but stopped herself when they both herd a loud cry of help. Both of them sprang up to attention and began to look around, even though they could only look one of two ways since they were in the middle of an aisle. That's when a girl turned into the aisle running like the bats of the underworld were at her heels. Gaara and Hinata turned to look in her direction, silently in awe of what was happening. The girl was looking behind her every 5 seconds, confirming the thought that she was running from something. As Hinata watched, she could swear that she had seen the girl somewhere before, and she was sure of it when the girl called out her name, a large smile appearing on her face.

Sonya skid to a stop once she had passed Hinata and Gaara by a few feet and ran up to Hinata and gave her a large hug from behind. "Oh my gosh, Hinata! Hi! It's me, Sonya, remember?" "Umm, oh! Sonya, hi, how are you?" "BAD. I'm running from this crazy lady!" Sonya was standing behind Hinata trying to somehow become smaller in order to hide. She was clutching the side of Hinata's jacket with her fingers like a frightened child.

"What are you talking about? What crazy lady?" Gaara asked, but his question went unanswered as the sound of shoes skidding across a tiled floor filled their ears. All three of them looked up to where Sonya had come from and saw a girl their own age come speeding down the aisle. It hadn't even registered in Gaara and Hinata's minds that it was TenTen until she skidded to a stop once she reached them. Hinata and Gaara stared at TenTen as she quietly and quickly patted her hair down and became her normal self. "Hey, have you two seen a little girl named Sonya?" TenTen asked them both, surprisingly very calm. "You mean this Sonya?" Hinata asked turning around, revealing Sonya's 'hiding place'. Sonya scowled as she came out from behind Hinata and crossed her arms, still holding onto the Cds tightly. "A-HAH! You little MENACE. Fork over the Cds." TenTen ordered to the girl holding her hand out. Sonya stared at the outstretched hand for a moment before giving TenTen a low five. Hinata and Gaara chuckled gently at the antic before TenTen's glare silenced them.

"Sonya, what's this all about?" Hinata asked calmly, figuring that she could handle the situation better than TenTen. "Well, me and Jacinta were just calmly walking down an aisle holding the Beyonce Cds we picked up."- Sonya quickly held up the Cds to show them- "when this insane woman runs up and demands that we hand them over; which of course we didn't, so Jacinta threw them to me and I cheesed it." (A/n: I think 'Cheesed It' means to run away, idk, I heard it on Futurama xD)

Gaara and Hinata blinked for a full 10 seconds, trying to comprehend all the drama that was completely unnecessary. A moment later, Hinata finally spoke to Sonya. "Okay, Sonya, TenTen is crazy, that we know. But I really need the CD or I can't go to the park with my friends. May we please have them?"

There was a moment's pause before Sonya replied. "You mean the special Six Flags Park?"

"Yes."

"Oh! Ah, well, I suppose I could give you one of the CDs then." Sonya looked down at the CDs in her hand.

"All we need is the newest one."

"Alrighty then, Hinata." Sonya held up the newest CD to Hinata without any complaint and after a short goodbye Sonya was off on her way to find Jacinta, much to TenTen's utter confusion.

"But," TenTen said unbelievingly, "I just went through so much drama for the CD and you got it in, like, 13 seconds." "That's probably because Hinata isn't as melodramatic as you, eh TenTen?" came Gaara's comment as he finally took part in the large conversation going on around him. TenTen shot him a short glare and returned her attention to Hinata who was placing the CD in the buggy. "So, have we got everything on the list?" She asked impatiently. Hinata nodded a yes which made TenTen want to cry with joy.

. . .Later. . .

Hinata, TenTen, and Gaara had gotten their stuff together and went off to find Sasuke. They found him in the CD section where TenTen left him, trying to crawl away from a small girl who was grabbing onto his legs and not letting go. Seriously.

She was like some beaver.

So, once they had got Sasuke away from her, they all paid for the stuff they had colleted and had driven to the Hyuuga complex. Once Hinata parked her van, she waved goodbye to her friends and bolted inside yelling to Hiashi that she had bought the groceries. The others ran to their own cars and sped away.

If the other Hyuugas wanted the groceries put up, they were gonna do it themselves.

. . .Gaara's House. . .

Gaara opened his front door and slammed it behind him. He was exhausted. As he went through the kitchen, Temari and Kankurou asked him how his day out was, but Gaara just made a noise and waved his hand at them like swatting a fly. He walked on through the house and climbed the stairs once he got to them. A few moments later Gaara was inside his room, changing into a long black T-shirt and some gray shorts. He walked over to his bed and slid under the covers, pulling them up tight as the events of the day flooded through his mind. And of course Shukaku had an opinion.

If you ask me, I think the day was a total bore.

1. I didn't. 2. I thought it was pretty cool. 3. I thought you left, ypu haven't spoken to me in a few days.

Eh, I've been busy.

Doing what?

Well, 'cause of your insomnia, you've got a real complex imagination due to lack of sleep. So sometimes I stroll down your mind and enjoy some of your more sane fantasies.

Well, that was pleasant info. Now I know I have to watch what I think and fantasize about. Thanks. Anyway, what was wrong with today?

Well, I must say, you've acquired the most overdramatic friends ever. It's actually quite frightening.

Yes, TenTen is very scary. And Sasuke, well, he's prone to disaster. Hinata, ah, she's okay, probably the sanest person I've ever met. Anyway, I kinda liked the shopping; although we all shopped for the weirdest things. I still don't know why the Hyuugas needed al that stuff.

I think you mean you liked shopping with Hinata.

Ye- wait. What? I don't follow.

Of course you follow bird-brain. I'm a part of you; you've grown fond of her.

What? Hinata? Please, thats crazy talk.

Hah. Alright, keep believing that. But remember, I OWN YOU. So don't try lying to me.

I wasn't lying! I'm serious you moron!

Gaara's last call fell on deaf ears. He got no response from Shukaku and he secretly knew that there wouldn't be one. Gaara looked up at his ceiling in thought. He thought about Hinata and compared her to the other girls he'd met and been around in his life (-cough- Which wasn't a lot ).

She didn't seem as independent and confident in her abilities as Temari. Her shyness made her seem innocent and completely dependant. This could be a problem on many levels that he wasn't even going to go into. Her build wasn't completely ideal either, not like most normal girls anyway. TenTen had a strong build, and it was obvious she trained and worked out. Hinata seemed very frail and breakable and her pale complexion didn't help. When you looked at her, it seemed that if you touched her she would shatter into pieces. On the other hand, she had a calmness that a lot of people lacked. Gaara though of how she calmly and nicely asked the girl - Sonya, he remembered - for the CD instead of going on a rampage like TenTen.

She was also nice from what he could tell from the different conversations they had in the store, sticking to small talk mostly and being polite. In an overall perspective, Hinata seemed liked a dainty little angel. Still, she wasn't a pushover. If there was anything they both had differed on in their conversations, she held on tight to her opinion and debated thoroughly until Gaara either caved in or they both decided it was a moot point.

This is exactly what I mean. Please tell me why else you'd be spending all this time thinking about her?

Gaara ignored Shukaku's question as his voice rang through his head. Gaara turned over on his side, deciding he might as well try to get 3 hours of sleep.

Little did he know.

It was going to be a looooooooooong day tomorrow.

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Well, 11 pages, I hope u all are happy 8D Oh, and btw, I have no idea as to what will happen in the next chapter.

Update: Well, it took me like two hours to edit this, I hope you all like it!