A/N Lots of thanks to my awesome beta reader: Hiei's-Dark-Little-Phoenix
And Thanks for the reviews
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It was late, very late. Gaara was in his room sitting on his bed. "Guess this is goodbye …" He looked at his sister who was laying couch and his brother who dozed off in one of the chairs. Gaara looked at the drawing in his hand, then grabbed his backpack and walked away.
"Where do you think you're going?" A low voice from the shadows asked.
Gaara froze mid-step "Kankuro" "I thought he was asleep."
Kankuro walked towards his brother and realized what was going on. Kankuro came closer and looked Gaara in the eyes.
Then suddenly Gaara felt a fist and fell down.
Kankuro sat down next to Gaara and they looked at the stars in silence.
"So you were planning to just disappear?" Kankuro asked.
Gaara didn't answer.
"You probably didn't want her to get hurt" Kankuro added.
Gaara stayed silent and kept on looking towards the stars.
"You thought it would be easier on everyone to just disappear didn't you?" Kankuro looked at his brother, with an angry look on his face.
"Kankuro, this has nothing to do with you" Gaara said.
"It doesn't huh?" A female voice asked. Temari walked towards her brothers who were sitting in the hallway. She had woken up and quickly realised what was going on.
"Gaara, you can't just decide this on your own" Temari added and sat down next to Gaara. "You are part of a family, you have people that care"
"It's my life isn't?" Gaara replied and he felt a hand smack his cheek.
"Temari?" Kankuro asked amazed, since his sister beat him to the punch.
"Gaara you're doing this for Hinata-chan, you want to protect her right?! The only thing you're doing by leaving her, is hurting her!" Temari hissed.
"I'm only hurting her?" Gaara wondered.
"Bro, come on! If you want to make such a decision, you should talk to her. Sometimes a physical blow is less painful than a mental one." Kankuro said, with a weird emotional voice.
"A mental blow is worse than a physical one?" Gaara repeated the sentence over in his head.
"Well let's go inside. I'll make some hot chocolate and we can get to the core of this." Temari said this and then stood up, her brothers following her..
"So, why did you freak out?" Kankuro asked.
They were sitting on the couch and chair, all sipping the steaming hot chocolate.
Gaara looked at the floor for a couple of moments, then sighed and started talking.
"I was trying to remember what happened today, but I couldn't and then I started to look at my drawings, and I realized something about all the things I had drawn. They had happened. They weren't made up, I made them happen, I took people's lives" Gaara said this and it was all very sensitive, it didn't fit Gaara at all, Kankuro and Temari noticed too.
"Gaara" Temari said with a controlling voice. "Most of your drawings really did happen, and it's true that some people have died. But you can't forget that it wasn't you! You can't blame yourself for what had happened. It's like blaming yourself because our next door neighbour killed someone."
Gaara's eyes met his sister's "But, I can take control, but I sometimes" Gaara stopped for a second.
"This is crazy. I'm acting like some child. I'm actually going to stutter, this isn't even close to who I am!" He thought, and took a breath.
"I am weak." Gaara stated.
It was silent. But Kankuro put his cup down. "You'll have to get stronger then…You sure as hell can't get stronger by walking away"
And with that Gaara decided that he wasn't going to leave, and if he really loved Hinata, he was going to fight for her and fight for himself.
"Okay everyone go to sleep. Tomorrow I'll make an appointment with Inumi-san" Temari commanded, and everyone went to bed.
"Hinata!?" Hinata was lying in her bed, crying. She didn't know why, but something suddenly broke her heart. Tears were running down her cheeks, and it felt like dozens of daggers were pushed in her chest.
"Hinata!" she heard again, someone on the other side of the door was knocking loudly.
"Father?!" She quickly dried her tears and opened the door. Her father was standing with a telephone in his hand.
"Some girl on the telephone for you Hinata. I can't approve of your friends calling in the middle of the night. Expect punishment tomorrow." Hiashi said and put the telephone in Hinata's hands, and marched away.
"Moshi moshi" Hinata said.
"Yo, Temari here, we kind of need you here, can you come by tomorrow morning?" she heard Gaara's sister say.
"S-Sure" Hinata answered uncertainly.
"Great! See you then" And with that Temari hung the phone up.
"I wonder what is going on, I hope Gaara is all right."
