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Chapter 10

Hinata sat gazing out at the endless desert through the large glass window in Gaara's chambers. It was a long drop to the ground and his chambers were on the fourth story. A few metres away there was a large black stone wall, two stories high and there was a gravelled pathway in between the castle and the wall that was patrolled by large sentinels at all times. The wall surrounded the entire castle and grounds and around the front of the castle there was a fountain and assortments of green bushes and multicoloured flowers.

It was weird but the castle, although surrounded by a desert, seemed to be in a permanent state of spring, cool but not too cool. She sighed and lay back against the neatly made bed. Gaara had left her alone immediately after they had arrived back in the castle. Hinata wasn't sure why but she assumed it was to sort out that council member Koharu's (or whatever his name was) punishment, Gaara still hadn't come back yet and the sun was already setting. It was weird to think they were only gone about 8 hours and had packed so much, they probably expected him to put up more of a chase than he did even though he was already wounded from the guards.

She stood up and walked to the window to open it. She stuck her entire upper body out and took a good look around. She noticed there were two large stone gargoyles that resembled a mixture between a mutated bat and a deformed dog. They were situated just below the window on either side of it and she remembered seeing a few more of them on the front of the castle when she was brought inside earlier that day.

She squeaked and fell straight onto her ass when she noticed the gargoyles were twitching and one even lifted a clawed foot to scratch behind its ear, making a noise similar to a katana being sheathed. She grabbed the front of her shirt with her hands and tried to calm her thumping heart down by taking deep calming breaths.

"Only just noticed them, huh?" Gaara asked chuckling deeply with amusement at the sight before him.

When he saw her leaning out the window like that he almost freaked out and pulled her back in thinking she was trying to kill herself until he realised she was just taking a look around.

"H-h-hai…" she mumbled distractedly, still staring up at the window in disbelief and shock.

"Don't mind them, they are just there to protect my room and the back of the castle from any intruders," He replied monotonously, folding his arms across his chest in annoyance, his pet was definitely overreacting.

"I-I thought t-they were s-stone," she breathed, her face even paler than usual.

"They are animated by magic," he replied simply before reaching down and pulling her up by the back of her collar into a standing position. She visibly winced and reached up to rub her neck before stopping half way and dropping her hand back to her side when she remember Gaara telling her not to touch her collar.

She looked up at him in confusion and rubbed her arm nervously, her neck hurt… A lot. She was fairly certain at this point that her neck had been rubbed raw by the metal around her neck. Her ears twitched in annoyance and frustration as she tried her best not to touch her neck.

Gaara sighed and reached for her neck, lifting her collar slightly before unclipping it from behind and watching the demonic seal retract from her neck and back into the collar. Gaara placed the collar onto the bed, pulling Hinata along with him by her upper arm. He sat back onto the bed and pulled Hinata into his lap in a straddling position.

Hinata went a deep scarlet colour and squirmed uncomfortably under his gaze, staring at the (now very interesting) black comforter on his bed. Gaara ignored her behaviour and using two clawed fingers he tilted her head towards the ceiling. He suddenly let out an angry growl at what he saw.

Her neck was red and raw and was bleeding a little too close to her jugular for his liking. He sighed,'I just had to be interested in such a fragile creature,' he thought, cursing silently at his luck. She may be an immortal now, but immortal only meant, in her case, that she wouldn't die from natural causes or age past her current age. She could still be killed in other ways.

He turned her around so that her back was against his chest and tilted her neck to the side. She started to tremble fearfully when he wrapped an arm around her chest and arms tightly and pulled her flat against his chest. He was always so unpredictable; he could be chuckling in amusement one second and be growling in anger the next second.

She whimpered and screwed her eyes shut when she felt his tongue on her neck, slowly making its way around her neck along the wound. She sighed with relief when the stinging, that had been bothering her, started to dull and the wound scabbed over and begun to heal.

Gaara pulled away from her neck, she tasted good. Too good. He almost sunk his teeth straight into her flesh... He wasn't even hungry.

He decided he would leave the collar off because it was obviously hurting her sensitive skin, but he would keep it in case she tried anything stupid.

She was his.

His.

All his.

His eyes glazed over slightly and he went back to nuzzling her neck, which was now mostly healed. He placed soft passionate kisses all along the side of her neck and onto her collar bone, purring deeply into her irresistibly soft skin.

Hinata was blushing profusely and looked about ready to faint as she squirmed futilely in his iron grip. She eventually gave up and slumped into his chest. Nobody had ever touched her in such an intimate way and she didn't know what it was supposed to mean.

Her mom had kissed her before, when she was little, but her mom died when she was only 8 and left her alone with her abusive father and confused, easily influenced little sister who begun to hate Hinata after their mother died and sided with her father against Hinata in everything after that.

Hinata felt his fangs graze lightly over her neck and she started to struggle again, those things were sharp and no doubt they would hurt like hell if he bit her.

"P-please d-d-don't…" she squeaked desperately, tears starting to fall down her cheeks.

Gaara immediately stopped what he was doing and blinked in confusion, what was he doing? Gaara was possessive by nature but this had never happened before. He had never lost himself in someone's scent like this before. He wanted her, in every sense of the word and it was so different. Refreshing, he had never felt like this towards somebody before.

The girl in his arms was shaking like a leaf and he placed a large clawed hand onto her head and fondly ruffled her hair. She was just so innocent and it was absolutely adorable, demons were seductive, beautiful and sexual creatures. Gaara didn't think she could be seductive if her life depended on it, although she didn't even need to try because she was already impossibly beautiful.

He sighed and reluctantly let her down onto the bed next to him. She collapsed onto her back and looked up at him feverishly through long smoky lashes; she looked enchanting with the sun casting a pink- orange glow over her soft features.

"Sorry…" he muttered under his breath and looked away blushing slightly again. He just didn't seem to be able to control himself around his pet and it frustrated him. She just nodded at him and pushed herself back up into a sitting position.

"A-aren't y-you going t-to put it b-back on?" she asked wrinkling her nose in disgust at the collar lying on the bed next to her. Gaara chuckled at her expression and picked the collar up. She moved her hair to the side and bowed her head expectantly. Gaara just stood up and walked over to a rack of hooks hanging on the wall before hanging the collar on one of the hooks.

She wrinkled her brows in confusion before smiling so brightly and happily that Gaara's heart skipped a beat altogether and he had to force his lips to not curl upwards, he could feel his inner demon growl with approval and it was the oddest thing, his demon usually only became present when he was in a situation where he needed to fight.

He tried to compose himself again and rubbed his temples lightly in concentration.

"Listen here, I'm going to allow you to leave this room and roam around the castle but you are only allowed to be on this floor and the one below it. If I find you on any other floor or if you try to escape, the same promise applies." He said, dangerously narrowing his eyes at her.

"H-h-hai!" She replied quickly, still smiling happily at the freedom her neck felt after so many years. She reached a hand up and lightly traced the light pink scratch around the right side of her neck in delight, she had never known about the healing qualities of a demon's saliva but she was grateful for it none the less.

"Also make sure you don't enter anyone's chambers without their consent, I trust everyone on the floors I mentioned but you better respect their privacy regardless." He said before leaving her alone in the room again to go sort out some paperwork in his private library.

She sighed happily and flopped backwards onto the bed, she decided she would explore the castle in the morning. With that thought in mind she took a shower and changed into a knee length baby blue silk night gown that was left hanging for her in the bathroom.

She went to sleep that night thinking about Sakura and Ino and she hoped that Naruto and Sasuke hadn't killed either of them yet; they seemed like such nice girls. She decided she would look for them tomorrow and she hoped they would be on the floors she's allowed to be on.

Her final thoughts were 'Please be alive Sakura-san, Ino-san.' Before she fell into a peaceful slumber.

Sorry the chapter isn't as long as the last one, I have ADD and my brain is so fried right now that I'm literally writing a word a minute, please forgive me! I'll update again later this week, Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee Review! Also please let me know if you want me to include Sakura and Ino more into the story or not.

And keep an eye out for my next chapter.