Hey guys, feeling quite depressed because this assh- Teacher screamed at me for walking to my class with an earphone in my ear but I go to a boarding school and I am day girl. (Don't board.) So he couldn't confiscate my phone because it's a safety hazard. He took my name though... Although I'm not sure what he plans to do with it because my principal loves me and my school's head of discipline is my English teacher who's really nice and knows I'm a well behaved girl (allegedly).

Anyway I'll stop my rant! Enjoy the chapter!

Chapter 11

Hinata was woken up the next morning by the sun shining on her face and she silently berated herself for leaving the curtains open the night before. She groggily sat up and wiped the sleep out of her large opal eyes and looked around at the large room. Everything was as she left it but now that she was a bit more awake she could have sworn the window wasn't as open as it was now when she went to bed last night.

Now that she thought about it her feet were a lot warmer than the rest of her body… Heavier too. And was the duvet a bit more elevated than it should be? She blinked owlishly and brought a finger to her lip in thought, not quite understanding her observations at this point. Then it clicked and she literally threw the blanket straight off the bed.

Hiss!

She stared numbly at the small creature wrapped protectively around her feet; the tip of its tail was curled around her right foot's big toe. She just sat and stared at it dumbly for a good few minutes before reaching a hand up and pinching her arm harshly.

"Ow…" she whined, rubbing the same arm with her hand.

"So I'm not dreaming then?!" she squeaked looking back at the creature with wide disbelieving eyes before scurrying straight of the bed, the small creature left behind whined unhappily at the loss of warmth.

It opened its large blue eyes sleepily and tilted its head to the side when it spotted Hinata staring at it from the floor with a fearful expression. Its eyes narrowed and it hurriedly turned in a pouncing fashion to look behind itself, staying in the same spot. It tilted its head to the side again in confusion before looking back towards Hinata. It turned back around to face her and eyed her curiously; she was still sitting on the floor looking at it with a dumbfounded expression.

She had never seen such a creature before; it was about the size of a cat and completely covered from head to toe in shiny dark purple scales that shone with every movement. Its tail was thick at the start and gradually grew thinner to the tip which was pointed and thin. It had short stumpy legs with clawed feet and it had small, leathery blue wings that ended in a claw like digits, similar to a bat's.

Its face was pointed slightly in a heart shape and its upper jaw came over the lower one in a "v" shape, it had little rounded horns protruding from just above the space between its eyebrow bones and extending up its forehead in a straight line before stopping in line with the top of its cat-like pointed ears on either side of its head.

It playfully pounced onto her and pinned her back to the floor before settling down on her ample chest and purring cutely at her, its head just inches from her face and looking at her with a curious expression. Hinata giggled, it really was rather adorable, and whatever it was and it didn't seem to want to hurt her either. She reached a hand up towards its head and slowly moved closer to it, it watched her hand the entire time.

She stopped her hand just above its head wearily; she didn't want the creature to bite her with the large fangs she could see jutting past its upper jaw. The creature stared at her head before nuzzling its face happily into her hand, purring even louder than before. The little thing was really cute but she assumed it was probably Gaara's since the gargoyles let it come into the room.

She sighed and sat up, pulling the surprisingly heavy creature against her chest before standing and walking over to the dresser to place the little guy there. She realised it was a boy when she noticed a certain very obvious trait males tended to have. She had never seen a naked male before but she had a cat when she was living with her family called Tora.

He was a slender ginger tabby cat with green eyes and her dad explained to her why he had to be a male cat and have a male name because she wanted him to be called 'Hime' and not 'Tora'. She blushed slightly upon remembering the explanation which was a very innocent "Why daddy?" followed by "Males have two little fury balloons and females don't, so he has to be a male, understand?"

She giggled at the memory, her father was so much nicer before her mother had died and all the responsibilities had become her problem at the tender age of 8. She returned her attention back to the creature that was now sniffing at a bottle of Gaara's sandalwood cologne.

"Oh no, don't do that!" she squeaked as the cologne fell to the carpet, fortunately not shattering into a million pieces like she thought it would. She breathed out a sigh of relief and placed the bottle back onto the counter.

"Please just stay here for me? I need to clean the room before I can go exploring, or my master will kill me." She pleaded to the little creature that looked up at her with large intelligent blue eyes before it sat its bum down on the dresser in response. She raised her eyebrow at his understanding of her question but smiled gratefully at him anyway before turning to go make the bed.

After she was done making the bed and tidying up the room she went to get dressed and searched around in Gaara's cupboard for clothing. She was surprised to find a sky blue silk kimono waiting for her and she delicately wrapped it around herself and pulled her tail through the conveniently placed hole. It had a white oriental flower design along the bottom and extending up to her right hip; it hugged and caressed every curve on her body, causing her to blush upon seeing her reflection.

She sighed, 'At least it covers most of my skin' she thought happily. Gaara probably didn't want anyone to see her in the usually revealing clothing he left for her. Her hair had grown surprisingly longer since she had been a genie, it had only been just over a week and her hair was already about an inch longer than before. 'Side effect of the wish perhaps?" she mused, thinking back to when Gaara made his first wish for her to become his personal slave and no longer be a genie. She was sure there had to be a side effect when you change an ethereal being back into flesh and bones.

She turned back towards the winged creature on the dresser; he was patiently sitting exactly where she asked him to and was watching her actions with obvious interest. She wasn't quite sure what to do. What if he wasn't Gaara's companion? Should she leave him in the room? Should she bring him with her? If she left him here he might wreck the room and then Gaara would punish her and she didn't even want to think how he would do that. She grimaced, thinking back to what Gaara did to that poor council member person – whatever his name was.

"Coming with me it is," she replied, out loud before making her way towards him. She picked him up and he slithered up to her neck before curling around her neck with his head and front feet on one side of her neck and his hind legs and tail on the other side. She was really surprised how warm the creature was, wasn't he supposed to be cold blooded, like a reptile? He had scales after all.

She pushed the thought away and cautiously exited the room, looking up and down the passageway warily. She walked down the passageway towards the east wing of the castle, the direction she saw Naruto and Sasuke go when they arrived. She lost her train of thought completely when she heard the deep rumbling coming from the creature nestled in her neck. She paused and looked around when she heard a slightly muffled voice from behind the door next to her.

She knocked politely on the door and anxiously waited for a response, she didn't know whose room it was but she sincerely hoped the person/people would be nice to her and let her come in, she was curious as to who was living in the castle.

"Yeah, yeah. I'm coming!" She heard a man grumble from inside the room. 'Man?!' she thought anxiously to herself, still uncomfortable around the opposite sex. She heard the door creak open and saw a man staring down at her with an annoyed expression. He had messy spiky brown hair, animal like, black slitted eyes and tribal, fang like markings on his cheeks. He was in a pair of blue boxers with a wolf head printed in white on the left side. Besides his boxers he was wearing nothing else. She blushed profusely and averted her gaze to the ground in embarrassment.

"Who are you?" He asked sceptically, raising his eyebrow questioningly at her.

"I-I-I u-uh," she paused trying to calm down her nerves, "H-Hinata," she finished quietly and looked up at him curiously.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!" He shouted, eyeing the previously sleeping creature around her neck that now hissed defensively at him.

Hinata shrunk back away from him and started to tremble fearfully, she hated when people raised their voice at her and her ears flattened against her head, away from the noise.

He eyed her trembling form and felt horribly guilty, he had been rude to the poor girl since she knocked on his door and then he shouted at her. She already seemed to be anxious beforehand. He sighed and sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck, he really wasn't a morning person and he didn't mean to be so horrible to the poor…? What was she? He leaned closer to her and sniffed her curiously, she smells kind of human but different at the same time. Definitely not a demon though, 'Then what's with the ears?' he thought in confusion.

"I, uh, sorry about shouting like that there, I didn't mean to scare you uh, Hinata was it?" He asked grinning apologetically at her. She nodded and eyed him wearily, he didn't seem like a threatening type of guy, and she was exceptional at being able to tell and he seemed friendly enough.

"I-I'm sorry, I didn't think this l-little guy would be such a s-surprise, I thought he was my Master's c-companion." She explained rubbing his horned head affectionately. She had calmed down completely when she realised he wasn't a threat and even the creature around her neck was settled around this man.

"That's a dragon you know, Hinata? They are extremely rare and I've never seen one around here. You should be careful, some people would kill to obtain one of those." He warned, looking at the happily purring dragon.

"D-dragon? L-like t-the mythical, f-fire b-breathing c-creatures?" She squeaked wide-eyed, she never believed in the existence of such creatures.

"The very same, they are almost completely extinct though, you are extremely lucky to have even seen one. I didn't know they could be this friendly though!" he exclaimed, giving her a fanged, feral grin.

He turned and looked over his shoulder when he heard a whine sound from behind him.

"Oi, Akamaru, come here and stop moping around in bed, it's already 8- o-clock!" He called to the huge white ball of fur curled up on one side of a king sized bed. It whined again but jumped off the bed and sulkily walked up to him.

"Akamaru this is Hinata," she said gesturing towards the girl who was gaping at the size of the dog.

He barked happily and licked Hinata's outstretched hand in a friendly gesture. She giggled and petted his head; she had always loved animals since before she could even walk.

"A-ano, I don't think you m-mentioned a name?" she asked, giving him a shy smile.

"Oh right, sorry! I'm Kiba," he said rubbing the back of his neck again, 'must be a habit these demons have,' she thought in amusement.

"Oh, and who is your 'master'," He asked, accenting the word "master" as he spoke.

"A-ano, Gaara-sama," she replied shyly, looking down at the ground. He raised his eyebrow; he didn't know Gaara had a slave.

"I-I wanted t-to ask where N-naruto-san and Sasuke-san stay?" She asked, hoping he'd tell her so she could check on those girls, if they were still alive.

"5 doors down is Naruto's door and the one directly across from his is Sasuke's door," he said and grinned at her before saying goodbye and closing the door between them, secretly wondering why she wanted to see those two anyway.

She silently walked down the passageway, she was surprised that she hadn't seen a single guard since she started walking, she assumed they were guarding the stairwells to make sure she didn't go any lower than she was allowed to go or tried to escape. She couldn't just jump out one of the windows on the third or fourth story of the castle after all.

She stopped outside the door that was said to be Naruto's and knocked gently on the door. She heard a pained moaned and someone nearing the door before it was cautiously opened and a baby blue eye studied her warily.

"Hinata?!" The girl squealed and pushed open the door, her once downtrodden expression immediately disappeared and her face lit up happily.

"Ino-san! I'm so g-glad you're o-okay." She said softly eyeing the room behind Ino warily, still not spotting Naruto.

"What's g-going on Ino-san?" she whispered under her breath, still looking around cautiously. She was unsure of how Naruto would react if he heard them talking. Ino's face saddened considerably and she lowered her face to the ground, her long platinum hair curtained her face and was not tied up like it was when she saw her the day before.

"I'm not sure but I'm scared and he won't let me see my sister," she replied sadly eyeing the ground as if it could give her all the answers in the world.

"Oh, hey Hinata-chan!" Naruto exclaimed, wrapping his arm around Ino's waist and crushing her to his chest possessively. He looked down at Hinata with his chin resting on top of Ino's head, yes, he was that much taller than her. Ino started to tremble fearfully in his arms but didn't make a single sound; her wide eyes speaking silently to Hinata with an obvious 'Help me'.

Hinata wasn't too worried about her safety anymore though; it was obvious that Naruto had grown attached to her by the possessiveness he had shown towards her and she knew exactly what that meant, it was the same in her own case. He would keep her, it was the obvious decision that Hinata could see Naruto had made. Now all she had to worry about was Sakura-san, she really hoped the kind girl was alright.

"Hi N-Naruto-san," She replied, smiling politely at him.

"Hinata-chan, are you allowed to be walking around up here?" he asked, looking around and expecting Gaara to show up and gouge his eyes out with his claws for talking to Hinata again.

"H-hai m-my master s-said I could w-walk around on t-this floor and the o-one below it," she answered, biting her lip nervously. She was wondering why he hadn't said anything about the dragon yet; she could still feel him curled around her neck. She looked down towards her right shoulder, where she could feel his head resting, and almost yelped in surprise when she saw nothing there.

She shakily returned her gaze to Naruto and smiled nervously.

" Oh yeah, I noticed your chain is gone, must feel weird, huh?" He replied to her action, mistaking it for something it was not.

"U-uh, y-yeah," she replied nervously, she was always a bad liar but she didn't want to expose her little friend because he didn't seem to think it was safe enough to reveal himself and Naruto didn't seem to notice her horrible attempt at lying anyway.

"A-anyway, I just w-wanted to s-see who lived in t-these r-rooms Naruto-san, if y-you don't m-mind I'll be g-going now, g-goodbye Naruto-san, Ino-san," She said politely before bowing and turning to leave when Naruto nodded his head in agreement.

She waited for him to close the door, blocking a distraught Ino from view. She felt kind of bad but there was nothing she could do anyway and Naruto wasn't going to kill her anytime soon. She walked to the other side of the passage and knocked lightly on Sasuke's door. She was extremely nervous around Sasuke and had never actually spoken a word to him before. He seemed polite as though he had a noble upbringing but she could sense something dark lurking under his façade and she didn't trust him.

She heard light controlled steps nearing the door and she knew it was Sasuke who was going to open the door. He opened the door fully to reveal a large room with a king sized bed and a decent sized bathroom and walk in closet on the opposite sides of the room.

"Hinata-san, hello. Would you like to come inside?" He asked politely, he was raised not to speak to people in a doorway unlike the brunette and blonde she had just spoken to. She nodded, silently accepting his invitation before walking past Sasuke and entering the room.

She looked around the room which was mostly black furniture although the walls were painted a cream colour, her eyes landed on the pinkette. Sakura was sitting dejectedly in the corner of the room; she was chained to the wall behind her by her neck on a rather short chain that still allowed her enough length to lie down if she wanted to. There was a black blanket and a couple of pillows lying on the floor next to her.

Her hair curtained her face and she had her knees pulled up to her chest in a defensive position, she was still wearing the same clothing as the day before unlike Ino who had a large black shirt that went down to her thighs on when she saw her. Hinata assumed it was Naruto's clothing and Ino smelled as though she had showered too.

Hinata crinkled her eyebrows in worry; she really didn't like what she saw, maybe Sasuke would kill Sakura after all. Hinata gazed up at Sasuke, her eyes telling him everything he wanted to know.

"So she is the reason you are here Hinata-san," he stated, scanning her with calculating eyes, she looked as though she was finding it harder to hold herself up than usual but he saw nothing wrong with her.

"H-hai, a-are y-you g-going t-to k-k-kill her?" she asked nervously in a very soft whisper that he wouldn't have heard if he was not a demon. He hadn't thought about that yet. Was he going to eat her like they had planned? He could tell the Dobe had already grown attached to the human he brought back. He sighed; he should have chosen the other one, the girl he took is was too loud and feisty.

He had sedated her with the sharingan and at the moment she was despondent and unable to process what is going on around her.

"No need to whisper, she can't hear you anyway." He said stoically, before eyeing the beautiful girl. He didn't really want to kill her anyway, she could probably be of use later and if he did feed on her he could still leave her alive and do it again once her blood replenishes. Yes she was useful.

"To answer your question, no I am not going to kill her… yet." He replied, adding the yet as a last thought because he doesn't have the best temper or patience and he couldn't promise anything especially when the girl was so… annoying.

Hinata sighed out a breath of relief and just hoped that Sakura would grow on him in the future, she didn't know what he had done to Sakura but she was still alive and that was all she could hope for at the moment. She didn't want to push it by asking what he did to her because she did not trust him not to hurt her, Sakura was alive and didn't seem too hurt and that was all that mattered for now.

"A-ano, w-well s-she s-seems okay and I r-really must be g-going now, I don't w-want the maid to bring m-my breakfast to an e-empty room," She said politely and once again said goodbye, he didn't seem to interested in her being there anyway.

She walked back down the hall, getting extremely confused, 'It was this way I came from, right?' she thought, eyeing the unfamiliar surroundings. The castle was flipping huge; she was completely dumbfounded at how anyone could remember their way around the seemingly never-ending passageways.

She sighed and slumped against a nearby wall in defeat, she was utterly lost. As her back hit the wall she knocked a nearby torch holder out of place and squeaked as she stumbled backwards into a dark room, the door she fell through instantly slamming shut behind her. She stared around with wide eyes, she could see absolutely nothing in here, how was she supposed to get out?! Hell where was she in the first place?

Her dragon was still curled protectively around her neck and looked around the room unhindered by the darkness. Hinata stumbled around until she crashed into a wall; she rubbed her forehead tenderly and lifted her arms to feel for the wall in front of her.

Nothing.

"Boo," someone growled deeply into her ear caging her in muscular arms and crushing her against his well-toned chest. She squeaked in terror and breathed sharp ragged breaths, trembling uncontrollably in his arms. The dragon that was previously around her neck had disappeared when she had bumped into the man and was watching from above, invisible and nestled on a bookshelf.

He was still a baby and wouldn't stand a chance by himself so he sulkily watched his friend trembling, and saw her visibly sigh with relief when she realised he had protected himself and moved from her shoulders.

Hinata was too scared to speak, she didn't know who the man was and she didn't was to get killed horribly for pissing him off so she stayed silent and didn't struggle in his arms. The man didn't seem like he was going to kill her yet but she couldn't be sure.

A door on the opposite side of the room cracked open and light flooded into the room, allowing her to see the shape of a bookcase and a desk strewn with blueprints and plans and the was a life sized puppet hanging from the ceiling next to the desk. She shivered involuntarily upon closer inspection as it became obvious that the puppet was once a real man and its head hung horrifically to the side, eyes bulging from the puffy sockets.

"Danna, I found that blueprint you wanted and it looks really interesting and I-" A man with long dirty blonde hair and a scope on one eye, that was covered with a long bang, started and stopped upon noticing Hinata in Sasori's arms.

"Who is she, Sasori-danna, un?" The blonde asked, eyeing Hinata mischievously and grinning darkly at the trembling girl.

Sasori gave Deidara a bored look and lifted Hinata off her feet before walking out the door towards the main Akatsuki room. Hinata trembled and cast her eyes to the ground as she was pushed onto a couch and squished between two men already seated there. Seven men eyed the girl sceptically and she shrunk back into the chair, fearing for her life and extremely uncomfortable around men.

"So, who the fuck are you?" The silver haired man beside her asked before turning his body towards the trembling girl trapped between himself and Kisame.

"I-I-I… U-uh," She tried to answer him but was too scared and shaky to even tell them her name. She blinked dazedly before her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she went completely limp on the couch.

"Good job! You made her pass out you idiot, un!" The blonde yelled at Hidan before eyeing the peacefully 'sleeping' girl.

"Now what?" He asked, voicing the thoughts of every man there.

Extra-long chapter that I have spent like 6 hours writing, I know there wasn't any Gaahina moments in the chapter but I wanted to get the story going so that there is some kind of plot. I promise there will be some next chapter though! Please review for me! I have been slaving away in front of my computer all day to give you a nice long chapter to read so…

Please, please, please, pretty please with a cherry on top? Reviews are my inspiration. I will be including Sakura and Ino later on but not too much because this is still a Gaara and Hinata fanfiction and not a SasuSaku or InoNaru.

Also I hope you guys like/don't mind the inclusion of the Akatsuki and before you ask Gaara does know they are there but did not think that Hinata would end up finding them because they are hard to find and because of that he doesn't warn them about her – big mistake!

Also, any suggestions for the Dragon's name? I'm not saying I will choose your name but if I like it is very possible I'll choose it.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed the 8 page chapter, I will be updating next week most likely so keep an eye out for updates.