A/N: Hey peoples! :D I know i haven't been on in a while. . .i think? But ever since school started i've been so busy, and i take extra classes,blah,blah,blah. . .anyways, i've also had writers block, and you know how that is :P As a matter of fact i still have writers block, but i usually write my story with writers block anyways, so why not? xD Not gonna lie, i've been waiting to write this chapter so im scared it's not going to meet my fangirly expectations xD but i hope you guys enjoy it none the less :D
I'll stop rambling on. . .with out further ado (adu?) here's chapter 21 ! :D
P.S: Hi! :D
P.P.S: If you read the author's note,thanks :D and make sure to read the author's note at the end because it's sort of important :) thanks.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Naruto or any of the characters.
::Chapter 21 Part 1::
Hinata awoke at her usual time feeling energized and ready to take on the day. She blankly looked at the wall in front of her, she remembered something important was going to happen today but she couldn't remember what it was. She waited, and waited, and waited, but nothing came to her, she shrugged.
"I should probably go make breakfast. . ."
Hinata walked to her bathroom, turning on her sink she washed her face to look more awake. She looked in the mirror to give herself a little confidence boost.
"Hinata. . .you are a strong, young lady! " She smiled cheerefully and began to walk downstairs to prepare breakfast. Neji was in the living room watching
"Parental Control" on tv, he shook his head as he turned to Hinata.
"Hinata, can you believe this? If i were this girls father i wouldn't put them on some useless tv show, i would just kill her boyfriend. It's so simple. . ." (A/N: Lol, i don't think you'll get this joke unless you actually watch parental control :D if you do get it, yay! )
"Neji, i don't think you're allowed to kill the boyfriends. . ."
"So?"
Hinata laughed nervously and she made her way to the kitchen leaving Neji and his show.
When Hinata was done with breakfast it was about 9:30, everyone came downstairs, ate, and left afterwards. Hinata's father had buisness to attend to, Hanabi went out to the mall with her friends, and Neji stayed in the living room watching tv as Hinata cleaned up, it was now 10:30.
"So, you're not going out with Gaara today?" Neji asked as he kept his attention on the tv.
"Hm? What do you mean?"
"Yesterday, i overheard Gaara asking you if you wanted to spend the day together today and you said yes. . .but im guessing you've changed your mind."
"Me and Gaara? . . .m-me and Gaara! I forgot about today! How did i forget ! ?"
Hinata panicked momentarily looking around for a clock of some sort.
"It's 10:40." Neji knew she would be looking for the time.
"Already? ! That gives me enough time to get ready! " Hinata quickly sprinted to her room, leaving Neji in the living room.
"Now im lonely. . . " Neji soon shrugged and continuted to watch his programs.
At Hinata room she scanned through her closet, once, twice, even a third time, but once again she couldn't find anything to wear.
"I-I stink at picking out clothes!"
'Snap out of it Hinata! Don't you want to look pretty?. . ..yes, yes of course i do! I won't ask Neji for help, this time I'll pick out the outfit myself!'
Hinata scanned quickly through her closet again finding no clothes that she thought would match, not wanting to waste anymore time she decided to use another one of those dresses that were abandoned in her closet, they were really pretty after all.
Hinata looked at the unfamiliar dresses she was holding stopping at one specific dress.
"This is it!" Hinata smiled happily setting the dress on the floor, quickly grabbing a towel and rushing to the bathroom to take a quick shower.
11:25
Hinata's shower took longer than expected but she really didn't have to do much to get ready. She began by towel drying her hair until it became damp and tied it up in a bun. She carefully took the dress she picked put and put it on letting the loose fitting dress fall. She looked at herself in the mirror, she shrugged thinking that she looked okay, but she never had much confidence. The truth was that the dress looked fantastic on her, although the dress was loose fitting it looked nice on her small frame. The dress was very doll like, it reached a little above the knees and had long sleeves. The dress was a pretty chesnut color with white laced pattern at the end of the cuffs of her sleeves and down the middle of her dress, buttons adorned the middle strip of the lace that was on the front of the dress. Once again, a simple but very cute dress.
She paired the dress with some nude, mate flats. Her hair finally had dried and she untied it letting her long locks fall on either side of her. Tieing her hair up in a bun made her hair wavy, but the hairstyle looked nice with the outfit she was wearing, she tucked one side of her hair behind her ear and looked at herself once more in the mirror. She actually felt pretty.
12:10
Hinata had finished getting ready quicker than expected and now all she could do was wait, she felt like Gaara was taking forever to get to her house.
'Wh-what if he doesn't want to hang out anymore? Wh-what if he got lost on his way here? . . .wh-what if yesterday was just a dream? ! '
Hinata snapped back into realization upon hearing a knock on the door.
'Gaara?'
"Hinata? Can I come in?"
'Just Neji. . .'
"Mhm. Come in."
"Hinata-"
"Neji, I don't think Gaara is going to come. . . what if he doesn't want to be friends anymore? What if he never actually wanted to hang out today? What if I imagined every word he said, what if-"
"Hinata!" Neji inerupted.
"Y-yes, Neji?"
"Gaara's downstairs."
"H-he is?"
"Yes."
"T-tell him im not here! No! tell him, tell him I ran away or something! No! Tell him I was just a figment of his imagination!"
"Hinata! Get ahold of yourself! Now, you will go downstairs and present yourself, and you two will go out and have fun. The rated PG-13 kind of fun. . .wait, thats too extreme. . .okay, the rated G kind of fun."
"B-but Neji. . ."
"Wait, something's not right." Neji twirled Hinata around examining her appearance. "Why are you dressed like that? Are you- are you going on a date? With Gaara?"
"N-neji! I-it's not a date! W-we just wanted to spend the day together, and I wanted to look nice. . ."
"Whatever you say. . .just go, Gaara's downstairs."
Hinata gulped, she didn't want to go downstairs because she knew Gaara would see her, but at the same time she did want to go downstairs because she knew Gaara would be there.
Hinata slowly walked down the first step, and ever so slowly taking the second step. It took at least another two minuted before she took the third step and suddenly froze.
"No way. . ." Neji's voice could be heard behind Hinata, he quickly rushed her down the stairs.
"W-wait Neji! Wh-what are you doing? !"
"Look Hinata, my favorite show is about to be on soon, I can't go all fangirl mode with you still here." Neji exclaimed still rushing Hinata down the stairs.
"Fangirl?"
"Erm, I-I mean f-fanboy. . .a manly fanboy."
Finally the reached the end of the steps.
"Wait Neji I-" Hinata stopped mid-sentence as soon as she saw Gaara, she was just nervous but maybe it was something about the morning but Gaara seemed more. . .cute?
"Hinata." Gaara smiled a friendly smile that Hinata had the pleasure of witnessing, she smiled as her usual blush took over her face.
"Okay you two kids have fun, get out, shoo! " Neji rushed both Gaara and Hinata out the door quickly slamming the door on them afterwards. Hinata blinked at the the door that had just been slammed in their faces, it was so unlike Neji, but apprently he was a fangirl.
"Neji seemed. . .odd." Gaara stated.
"Y-yeah."
Gaara turned to Hinata, and smiled another one of those rare, cute smiles of his.
"Shall we go?"
"M-mhm!" Hinata blushed as she nodded, they only took a few steps before the once slammed door was heard opening.
"Oh! I forgot! No holding hands, etc, etc!" Neji said before once again slamming the door.
"Your cousin is weird. . ."
"You should be used to weird siblings." Hinata stated.
"True."
Hinata walked alongside Gaara as he led her through the forest, if she was correct he was leading her back to their childhood hangout near the lake. She giggled unconciously remembering the last time her and Gaara went to the lake and had a water fight. She blushed suddenly remembering she also saw him half naked.
"You okay, Hinata?" Gaara asked raising an invisible brow.
"O-of course, why do you ask?"
Gaara smiled. "No reason."
::Gaara's Pov::
'She looks. . .she looks so, cute. . .I could barely look away when I saw her . . .just walking alongside her makes me feel-nervous. . .I can't help but feel this way around her, it can't be helped.'
"Oh, we're here."
"Oh! i was right! I knew you were leading me here, I love it here!" Hinata smiled happily making her way towards the lake.
"I like this place too, I like reminicing."
"Me too. . .and this place brings so many memories."
Gaara nodded.
"Gaara! We should follow the river and see where it leads us, we never figured that out."
"Or, we could go deeper into the forest, I wanted to show you something that I think you'll like."
"Okay." Hinata smiled,a small blush decorating her cheeks. How he loved when she blushed, she looked so cute to him.
::Hinata's pov::
They walked over the river as Gaara led Hinata even deeper into the forest. The scenery they were once in was changing, deeper into the forest the tree's were now white cherry blossom tree's and small bushes that were covered in some sort of unedible fruit looking thing. Right in the middle of all those white cherry blossom tree's was a much smaller pink cherry blossom tree, it wasn't as big as the others but it bloomed beautifully.
"It's so beautiful here. . .how did you know about this?"
"Don't you remember it? " Gaara ruffled Hinata's hair playfully.
"Nope." HInata blushed at Gaara's actions.
"Don't you remember crying and running into the forest?"
"That's right. . .when i was 8. . .this was the forest I ran into? It looked so different before!"
"Yeah, that's because it was a cloudy night so you couldn't see how it looked around you."
"How were you able to see,Gaara?"
"I couldnt, honestly. I had to try though. . .I knew you'd be scared in the forest, i had to try to look through the darkness."
'G-gaara has always been such a good friend. . .it's odd to think that i like him more than a friend now. . .a-am i admitting it now? D-do i like Gaara? Or possibly more than that. . .'
Cut! Oh My Goodness!
So, this chapter was supposed to be longer -n-; but this is what happened, I was typing up the story, and i was almost done with what was supposed to be the whole chapter, but my computer decided it wanted to be funny and exited out my story, and I did not save it D: So i basically lost the other half of what was supposed to be this chapter. . .
so i decided to make their date two parts, and this my friends is the first part, the second part will be up asap as soon as i wake up to type it tomorrow :D or later, cause it's 5:02 am already xD
All my hard work. . .gone :,(
-sniffle, sniffle-
Nevertheless, i hope you enjoyed this part 1 of part 2 chapter and don't forget to let me know what you think :D (D: my facial expression when i found out my work didn't save)
See ya next time!