WW0604: Okay, I said 2 weeks till the this chapter would be posted, but obviously that didn't work out. Instead it took me about 25 days. From reviews told me no one said no…and about five if I remember correctly said yes, so I guess I'm making a sequel. Two more chapters! It's kind of sad but not so much at the same time seeing I'm going to be posting a sequel haha. Man things are crazy, but like always I won't give up on fan fiction, so do not fear…umm…well I haven't thought of what else to put after that.

I own nothing….end of story.

Big thanks to AnimeFreak4261! This chapter wouldn't have been posted for months if you hadn't helped me. Thanks =]. Okay now, enjoy the fic.

Chapter 11: Won't Find Me

The ride back to Gaara's house was in silence. Hinata was with them along with Gaara, Neji, and Temari. Temari had agreed to letting Hinata stay at her place. She will just have to sleep in the living room till they think of a way to get her her own room. Gaara was laying in the back seat with his head resting on Neji's lap. Said boy kept stroking Gaara's head, keeping him as calm as he possibly could, which wasn't much. The redhead was lost in a nightmare where he was being raped by not one guy, but two. One of them had the face of Hinata's father, but the second one had a black face. He couldn't see his eyes or mouth or anything. Just black.

"I think he's having a nightmare…" Neji softly spoke to no one in particular. Hinata, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, looked behind her and frowned. It definitely did look like he was having a nightmare. He was sweating and jerking in his sleep. With no warning, Gaara shot up from his slumber and hit his head on the roof of Temari's car.

"…" Gaara tried to speak but nothing came out. His hands slowly inched to his mouth as he tried to speak again. "…" nothing. Gaara looked at Neji, fear clearly in his eyes. Neji gently kissed Gaara's forehead and patted his head.

"That must have hurt." Gaara nodded and looked out the window as the scenery flew by. Neji took notice of Temari looking at the 2 from her rear view mirror and Neji shrugged. "Wanna try sleeping again Gaara? We're almost at your house, but you must be tired and we have school tomorrow." Gaara slowly nodded his head and laid back down on Neji's lap to try to get a little more sleep that never came.

They arrived at Gaara's house shortly after his awakening. Everyone parted to different parts of the house; Temari and Hinata went to the kitchen to prepare dinner for everyone, Kankuro went to his room to do whatever it is he does, and Gaara and Neji went to Gaara's room.

"Gaara…" Neji said as he shut the door behind him. Gaara turned around and found himself in Neji's arms. Naturally he would panic and freak out, but this was Neji, the one person who wouldn't do anything to hurt him. "I'm sorry I couldn't help you in time. It's my fault."

"Is he guilty for what happened to me?" Gaara thought to himself, lifting his arms up to wrap around Neji. "It-it's not your fault." Neji lifted his head and gently pushed Gaara's back a step.

"You…I thought…"

"…" Gaara lost his voice again. He placed a hand on his throat and looked up at Neji, tears forming in both of their eyes.

"I see, you only speak if you feel it's absolutely necessary." Gaara looked around the room and ran over to his desk to grab a note book.

"I also find it easier to find my words around you." Gaara wrote on the paper. Neji read the note and looked at Gaara before slightly smiling.

"Then…I'll be your words. It's the least I can do to make up for my mistake. I hope one day, you will forgive me." The two boys were able to hear Temari call for dinner and they went to the dinning room joining Hinata, Kankuro, and Temari. It was silent, everyone focusing on what's important to them, but the silence was disturbing to Temari and so she tried to bring up a conversation.

"So uhh…tomorrow we'll bring Hinata to the school with us so we can get her enrolled into it. Is that fine with you all?" Temari asked, trying to start some sort of conversation. Everyone said yes, besides Gaara who just nodded his head. "Oh Hinata, I should warn you. You will most likely get P.E. and the teacher there is crazy. He's always challenging his students and trying to get them to race around the track on their hands."

"No way! That seems so weird. Do you think I'll be in the same classes as Neji or Gaara?" Hinata asked as she looked across the table at her cousin and her old childhood friend.

"I'm not sure, but we can try asking the principle. Gaara is in all of Neji's classes so it would be nice to start off with 2 friends. Don't you think so Neji, Gaara?" Temari asked the boys and they both just nodded their heads. "Okay what is up with you two? Neither of you have said a word since we got to the dinner table."

"Correction, I did speak. I said yes to one of your questions." Neji said, slightly raising his hand out of habit.

"Fine, Gaara hasn't said a word. Why is that Gaara, and I want a real answer, not just a shrug of the shoulders." Gaara thought for a moment and looked around the table looking for something to write on, but forgot to bring his notebook to the table so he went to plan 'B'.

Gaara took his right hand and put up 3 fingers. Everyone exchanged confused expressions and looked right at Neji.

"Charades…" he simply said. Gaara started pointing at the three fingers and moved his lips, trying to say something, but failed. "Three words." Neji explained. Everyone looked back at Gaara who was now pointing at himself.

"I.." they said in union. Gaara nodded and did the first thing in mind, made an 'X' with his two pointer fingers. "X?" Gaara shook his head and started to move his arms from across his body to sticking straight out like he was a baseball umpire saying someone was safe. No one knew what he was saying. So Gaara sat back down at his seat and slammed his head on the table, giving up on explaining. Everyone sat, confused and unsure about what Gaara was trying to say.

"It was a serious question Gaara. Not something to play charades over." Kankuro said.

"All he can do is play charades, Gaara can't speak." Everyone was shocked. They looked from Neji to Gaara and back to Neji. "At least right now he can't. He either lost his words or locked them up. It's understandable, seeing as he's been through such a traumatic event." Gaara, still having his head on the table, looked at Neji through the corner of his eye. No one bothered saying anything else after that. They figured it would have been awkward for Gaara to try to speak even though he couldn't.

Dinner was over and everyone went to their rooms as Hinata pulled out the sofa bed in the living room. Neji was getting Gaara to bed at this time. Once he got Gaara to lay down he stood up and started t

o head to the door. Gaara quickly grabbed Neji's shirt and stopped him from leaving.

"What is it, Gaara?" Neji asked. Gaara looked down, not trying to say anything fearing that he wouldn't be able to. Neji reached over for Gaara's note book and pen and handed it to him. "Tell me what you want."

"Don't leave." was all that Gaara wrote. Neji read it and sighed before sitting on the floor against Gaara's bed. Gaara watched Neji and smiled.

"I'll stay till you fall asleep. That ok?" Gaara hesitated, but eventually nodded and laid back down. It only took five minutes for the boy to fall asleep, but Neji knew Gaara would end up having a nightmare and did not want to leave him to cope with it alone, so he silently stood up and wrote a note for Gaara before running out of the house and to his own house.

Ten minutes after Neji left, Gaara was having one of his nightmares. Hinata's father and the man with a black face were back and Gaara was alone. Gaara tossed and turned throughout the whole thing, not having the comfort of Neji with him.

-Dream/Nightmare-

"You're a good little whore." said the man with no face. He slammed in and out of Gaara, showing no mercy for the much smaller boy under him.

"No…no, stop." the boy beneath the man was Gaara, but not the Gaara today. This Gaara was much younger, by at least five years, making the boy around ten or eleven.

"Your begging makes me want more of you." The man continued to pound in the boy as another man, Hinata's father, approached the scene.

"Hey, save some for me. I still need to take my turn. Don't forget." The black faced man nodded and finished with Gaara by filling the boy with a big load and pulled out of him. "Why thank you. I hope you're ready to have some fun with me now." The small Gaara that was once there is now the Gaara today. Older, taller, and full with scars.

"….." Gaara made no response, just him and his thoughts. "Stop…I'm not a whore. Stop it!"

-End Dream/Nightmare-

"Stop it!" Gaara screamed and quickly sat up on his bed. Breathing heavily Gaara looked around the room and saw emptiness. Neji was gone, but Gaara figured as much, he only promised to stay till he was asleep. Gaara got out of bed and started to walk towards his bedroom door when he noticed a note on his computer desk.

Gaara,

I went to my house to get some clothes and my school books. Don't worry I promise to be back by your side in no time.

Keep safe,

Neji

Gaara dropped his hand to his side with the note tight in his hand. Then his bedroom door opened and Neji walked in. "Oh Gaara. Did you just wake up?" Gaara nodded his head and once again found himself in Neji's arms. "Did you have another nightmare?" Gaara didn't answer him with a nod or a shake of the head. He just started crying as he remembered him dream. Neji hugged his boyfriend tighter in his arms and led him back to his bed. "Come on, lets get some sleep." Neji calmly said as he laid Gaara back down on the bed. He was about to sit down next to the bed as always, but Gaara pulled at Neji's sleeve.

"….bed" Gaara said. Neji tilted his head to the side.

"You want me to join you?" Gaara nodded his head. Neji smiled and got on the bed next to Gaara, being careful to not scare the boy. "You okay?" he finally asked when he got settled next to Gaara. The redhead nodded and turned to face Neji as he silently drifted off to sleep, not having another nightmare for the rest of the night with Neji by his side.

The next day at school was a bit of a challenge. Gaara was still not speaking and the teachers all kept trying to get him to answer a few questions, making Neji have to explain why he wouldn't speak after class. Gaara didn't want the teachers to know exactly why and he didn't want the other students to know anything. All he wanted Neji to tell them was he went through a bad experience and locked his words up, and that's what Neji did. They were at health class with Ebisu-Sensei, the last class of the day for them. Today they were discussing mental illnesses.

"She paints a pretty picture, but there is a twist, her paint brush is her razor, and her canvas is her wrist." Ebisu started. The class exchanged looks, but Neji can only look at Gaara with worry. He knew that this class would be tough on him. "As you all are aware, we are going to be discussing mental illnesses. Cutting is not one, but it just happens to be one of the many ways of coping. We will mainly focus on the ways of coping and how to handle a friend that you may have that happens to be a cutter or even someone who overdoses." Before Ebisu-Sensei could continue Gaara stood up and grabbed his bag. "Gaara?" Ebisu questioned.

"…." Gaara tried to speak, but obviously couldn't, so he scribbled a note on a piece of paper and walked up to the teacher. "The nurse asked to see me at this time. May I be excused?" Gaara was obviously lying, but it fooled his teacher and he left the class room, making Neji worry.

"The nurse didn't ask for him. Well, as far as I know at least. Maybe it's something private. I'll be seeing him after school anyway and school is over in fifteen minutes, so I can wait. I just hope he's okay." Neji thought. The teacher continued with their lesson, but Neji found it hard to pay attention when he knew something may happen to Gaara.

Gaara quickly and quietly walked through the halls undetected. He reached the front doors and pushed them open to run outside to who knows where. Gaara just wanted to get away from that place. It was making him uneasy with the talking of cutting and suicide and shit like that. "I should go to a place where only Neji will know to find me, but where? There's only one plan I suppose." Gaara kept running until he reached his destination and entered, hoping that Neji would think of looking there. Or maybe Gaara didn't want Neji to find him. Gaara's mind was all over the place with cutting himself to actually using the gun he sees on the floor to finish himself off. Gaara curled in the corner next to a dead body on the floor and shut his eyes to keep himself from looking at the dead body with a fun shot wound to the head and the gun that caused it.

School was over and Temari, Kankuro, Hinata, and Neji all met up by the school entrance. Hinata was only taking the entrance exams today and she had pretty good news about how it went. "I spoke to the principle today after my entrance exam and he said that it's a possibility that I may be able to have classes with Neji and Gaara." Everyone was happy for her and shared her excitement, all but Neji that is. He couldn't stop thinking about Gaara, he should be by the entrance gate by now.

"Hey, no one has seen Gaara have you? He left during class to go to the school nurse, but I thought he would be here by now." Neji asked.

"Well maybe he was sent home early. Lets go check the house." Temari suggested. Everyone agreed, but Neji decided he was going to be the first one to look and made an all out sprint to the house. Something told Neji that Gaara wasn't at the house and he wanted to be the first one to know. It naturally takes fifteen minutes to get the house, but it only took Neji half that time. He burst through the front door and ran to Gaara's room. No Gaara. Temari's room. No Gaara. Kankuro's room, behind the couch, in the drier, out back. No, no, no, no Gaara. Everyone entered the house to see Neji standing, facing the door with a sad expression on his face.

"He's gone…Gaara isn't home. He…he ran away."

WW0604: Okay sorry for the long wait. Please R&R. next chapter is the last before the sequel! I hope you all liked this chapter, it took me so long to do, as everyone knows.