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Chapter 14

Duty Is Meant To Be Share

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They rode back together to the Village Of Sand. Hinata was sitting in front of Gaara with his head laid on her back, as he tried his best not to steer them into a dune.

"Gaara, we're here," Hinata said as she looked back and see that Gaara was laying lazily, half asleep on her back. "Gaara, don't sleep now. You silly boy."

"I'm sorry, Hinata. I didn't sleep well last night," Gaara groaned as he looked up at her.

"Hmmmm, well I understand. I didn't sleep well last night either. If I don't get more sleep, I'll wind up looking like you." Hinata smiled as Gaara pouted his lip.

"How is it that you'll look like me?" Gaara asked her and hug her by her waist while pulling her closer to him. The horse stopped and shoke his head in annoyance. It was the third time they did this.

"I will have those black rings around my eyes, silly," Hinata said as she moved her hand up to touch Gaara's eyes. She caresses him carefully while admiring his tired feature. Gaara sunk into her gentleness. His mind was once peaceful again.

"Ahem..."

Both of them turned to the source of the sound and found that Temari and a giggling Kankuro were looking at them. Both of them turned five shades of red and backed away from each other to look in different directions.

"The both of you will have to stay here if you keep doing this. The gate to Sunagakure will be closing in no time," Temari said and smiled at them.

"I know, nee-chan. Stop looking at me like that," Gaara said while steering the horse into the village gate followed by Temari and Kankuro.

"Hey Temari," Kankuro whispered to her softly.

"What Kankuro?"

"Do you think they will ever have a baby together?" Kankuro asked.

"Oh my god! You're right! Gaara never knew anything about the facts of life," Temari snapped, sending Kankuro in shock for a second.

"Yeah right. We never tell him anything about the bird and the bees right?" Kankuro and Temari hung their head low. How ashame of them for not telling him at the first place when Gaara reach puberty.

"You know what, Kankuro? We're gonna have to tell him...uh...Well, we will bound to...Well, I think he will bound to know it one day," Temari implied, scratching the back of her head as Kankuro looked at her annoyed with her suggestion.

"You will need to tell him about that, Temari."

"Why me? Hey, you're the brother here," Temari retorted, scolding him.

"What! But, you're the eldest here. You're responsible for telling him since neither of us has a mother, and you're the only one close enough to those qualifications as one. Anyway, you know more about this than me."

"Okay, okay. I'll tell him," Temari said frazzled as she blushed and stomped away huffed from Kankuro.

Hinata looked behind her and found that Temari and Kankuro were quite far away from them. She then told Gaara to stop and ask them what was happening, but Temari walked angrily pass them, giving no indication that she was paying attention to them.

"What's wrong, Temari-san?" Hinata called out for her.

"Nothing's wrong. Keep on going people," Temari snarked, ordering them to stay out of her business. In her mind, Temari was debating with herself on how she was going to start explaining it to Gaara. It was such a taboo to everyone, even Gaara. She remembered the first time when Gaara hit puberty, and thought back to when she tried explaining to him that it was just a little tidbit about those maturing stages, and it was enough to send Gaara into shock.

But wait a second, if Gaara can fall in love, he will bound to know how to do 'it', right? Yeah, that's it. She didn't have to do or say anything then -it would all occure naturally. That's it. Temari smiled and skipped happily back to the village. Gaara, Hinata, and Kankuro were shocked at the sight and for a minute there, Kankuro thought that he had forced his sister (to explain the birds and the bees) until she went crazy. Gaara blinked for a moment and scratched his head wondering what has gotten to his older sister. He shrugged it and continued on.

Back in Sunagakure, Gaara was once shocked for a thousand times today. His work was not done, there was still a lot for him to examine: Genin's report,

village database, and everything. All of it need to be finished by tomorrow. He sat down and begin reading all the sheets of paper one by one. His inner self was sobbing quietly in his mind.

"Hinata, you can sleep first. I still have a lot of work to do," Gaara told her.

Hinata shook her head. "No, I want to stay up with you," Hinata said as she sat down next to him. Gaara held her by her hand and kissed it gently.

"Hinata, I don''t want you to look like me, you know." Gaara pointed at his black ringed eyes. "These."

"You sure?" Hinata turns her head to the paperwork and then beack to him. "Promise me you'll get some rest if you get tired, okay? You can call me up if you wanna sleep, and I can help you with the report."

"Sure thing. Go along now. Good night, Hinata." Gaara cooed gently as he smiled at her.

"You know what? I'm not used to seeing you smile. In fact, I think I'm not used to seeing things again," Hinata chuckled and walk away.

Gaara continued with his work. He was once an insomniac, but he can't do it anymore now since Shukaku was sealed in his leaf pendant, and now, with the former body-housing demon in the pendant, Gaara realized that he wasn't used to sleeping, and as many minutes converted into hours, he begin to grow tired and felt blood rushing to his head. He began thinking of Hinata as he scribbled a drawing of him and her on a sheet of paper until he fell asleep.

Hinata suddenly woke up. She looked around and found that Gaara wasn't here with her yet. So she decided to check up on him to see if he was still doing his paperwork. She opened the door slowly and found him sleeping at his desk. She tiptoed quietly to where he was and looked at him and saw there was something about him while he slept. He looked so peaceful and innocent while he stirred, his breathing was moderate, the gentle Sunagakure wind blew gently on his flaming red hair, and the shifting of his head as he burrowed his head into his crossed arms. She went to her room and come back with a blanket and wrapped it around Gaara. She then looked at the paperwork and begin working on it, so that way, she'd give her precious Gaara time to sleep and take the stress off his shoulders. She was lucky that she know how to do it because she used to doing this kind of paperwork for Tsunade.

The sun began to rise and the light was shining into the room, brightening everything it touched. Hinata was almost done with the paperwork, except for some underneath Gaara's arms. She tried to tug it out, but she woke him up in the process. He groaned and opened his sleepy eyes, which peered up at the the first thing he saw -Hinata.

"Oh, I've fall asleep, didn't I?" He yawned and realized that his paperwork wasn't done (but only what he thought) "My paperwork!" He looked at it and found that nearly all of it was done. He looked at Hinata and sighed, "You stayed up all night working on my paperwork didn't you?"

"It's okay, Gaara. I can take a nap later," Hinata said, yawning. Gaara hugged her and thanked her for volunteerily helping him, especially since it was the Kazekage's duty to summarize and write until he would risk Carpel Tunnel syndrome, but he was also feeling a little guilty that Hinata had to do it all for him. He gathered all of his paperwork into order and lead Hinata to her bed.

"You better get some sleep now." Gaara pulls her sheet close to her.

"What about you?" Hinata asked him.

"I guess I can sleep for a while since it is still early," Gaara said, walking to his own bed and crawling in. Hinata looked at him and thought at first that he was going to sleep in the same bed as her. She wasn't ready for that yet. She wasn't ready for what was gonna be an unmistakable "bed relationship." But when she saw him get in his own bed, she was thankful he didn't. Not that she didn't like him or anything, she just wanted her first time at sleeping in the same bed to be slow and steady.

Pandora: Hmm, it seems like I have forgotten almost a big part of it about what's going to happen next. Crap, this is bad. I hope this will be nice. This is the only part that I can remember planing it last year. Will Gaara ever get educated? Will Hinata be 'expecting' soon? Find out.

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