Chapter 11- PLEASE REVIEW WHEN YOU'RE DONE!

Hinata stepped unwillingly out of the safe bedroom. She had no idea what it was that was in the living room, but it was enough for Sasuke to not want to come out of the bedroom.

Maybe there was a spider or some sort of bug in the living room. Would be kind of funny if Sasuke was afraid of bugs though.

And the first thing Hinata saw was, indeed, bugs. Lots of them.

Then a crawling baby who was, apparently, chasing the bugs cleared the bug cloud. And the baby was chased by a rather annoyed looking Shikamaru. Shikamaru was being chased by akamaru who was being chased by Kiba. Then she saw her cousin, who looked positively bored and was rolling his eyes (very weird that someone without pupils can do that, but Neji is talented .). Next to him was the pink haired Sakura, who was beating up Naruto (Hinata's heart sank), and Lee was trying to stop Sakura.

And then the sound blast came.

The buzzing, the screaming, the crying, the yelling, the roaring, the barking.

Hinata was so stunned that something could be so horribly loud, she didn't even notice all the broken things. And there were, in fact, quite a lot of them. And she noticed them now.

Hinata slowly stepped back into the bedroom, and tightly shut the door behind her. Sasuke was already sitting on the edge of the bed. She joined him.

"I hate this." She told him. Sasuke nodded. "What should we do?"

"Wait until they go away?" Sasuke suggested. Hinata nodded.

"Good idea." She said and kissed him.

"Get a room!"

Hinata and Sasuke looked around, to find Konohamaru in their room, looking very disgusted.

"Actually, this IS a room, as a matter of fact it's a room in our HOUSE, which YOU shouldn't be in!" Sasuke hissed.

"Well So-rry, Naruto Nii-San asked me to call you guys..."

"I'm gonna kill him one of these days." Sasuke whispered to Hinata and got up.

"Konohamaru-kun, Sasuke and I will be out in a few minutes, please wait in the living room." Hinata said quietly. Konohamaru shrugged and went outside.

"We have to go out to them, don't we?" Hinata said miserably.

"Looks like it." Sasuke replied with the same amount of misery in his voice.

They both got up and went to greet the guests.

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"Hot here. Is it always like this?" TenTen was trying to make small talk. She was being carried by Gaara's sand somewhere. She hadn't really excepted this, but hey, wherever it was he was taking her couldn't be worse than the middle of the desert.

"Of course it's always like this, this is the desert, baka." Gaara replied plainly. He was starting to wonder why he was doing this. This TenTen person wasn't very interesting. Not as much as she seemed when she was sleeping.

Awkward silence.

They were both thinking. Gaara was thinking about girls, about why they all always hated him. They were always afraid of him. TenTen was thinking about Neji, about how she missed him, about what he might be doing right now.

Neither really noticed how the time flew by.

It was night.

Gaara was surprised with this fact, actually. He stopped.

TenTen was surprised with the fact that Gaara stopped. She decided it wiser to not say anything about it, though. Apparently, Gaara was stopping to... sleep?!

Wait a minute... didn't everybody say that Gaara of the Desert does not under any circumstances sleep?

She shrugged it off.

Gaara's sand formed a house. It wasn't very big. One bedroom, and a kitchen. TenTen checked it out. In the kitchen there was lots of food, but she had a suspicion that since everything was made out of sand, so was the ice cream, pizza, vegetables and cereals. She decided not to take a risk and didn't eat it.

She moved to the bedroom. There was one bed.

"Why is there only one bed?" she asked him.

"I don't sleep." Gaara replied.

"Then why did we stop?"

"For you. Besides, I don't travel by night. All the animals go out."

"For... me?" TenTen said quietly. This didn't seem right. Gaara of the desert never cared about other people and what was comftorable for them. Besides, he should be thinking that she had already had her fill of sleeping. "Arigato-gozaimas..."

Gaara was staring at the moon. He was really tired. He wanted to sleep. Actually, he had slept yesterday. It felt so great, not having to worry about Shukaku getting loose because no one was around anyway. And now he had gotten used to it already, after only one time. He felt like he was falling asleep, but he kept himself awake.

The moon was full.

"Is that what you do every night? Watch the moon all night long?" TenTen's soft voice came from behind him. He heard steps, and then TenTen was sitting next to him.

"Yeah." He said and looked around at her. Her brown eyes were looking at him. He looked at her face.

She was awake, she was looking at him, he was looking back, and she wasn't scared.

She wasn't scared of him.

TenTen could read the shock in his expression.

"What's wrong?" she asked him.

'She's... worried about me...'

"No... Nothing... it's just that..."

"Just that what?"

"Are you scared of me?"

"What?"

"Are you?"

TenTen looked at his eyes. They were usually emotionless and cold, but now... she couldn't help but notice how beautiful they were.

They were both silent for a minute. TenTen was looking at Gaara's eyes. She had something for unique eyes; it was one of the traits she loved most about Neji. Gaara was staring back at her.

"Do you want me to be?" TenTen finally asked.

"No." He replied.

They were both silent again.

And then TenTen kissed Gaara.

It all went rather smoothly at first. Hinata caught Todai and with her feminine touch put her to sleep. Then, she handled with Shino's bugs. She got to know them and what they like pretty well from all those years as Shino's teammate. Akamaru chilled, and Shikamaru, Shino and Kiba, who felt rather bad about the mess they made, were cleaning up.

Sasuke was helping Lee separate Sakura from Naruto, which was rather hard. Neji was still rolling his eyes (A/N: you'd think he'd get dizzy from rolling his eyes so many times but like I said, Neji is very very talented.)

Everyone was sitting down on the couches, and Hinata went to get some coffee and cookies, and some meat for Akamaru.

Must be that going to the kitchen to get something was bad luck for those two today, because when she came back, Sasuke and Naruto were fighting, very violently.

Her mind went blank when she heard the discussion they were having (while fighting, duh, that's how they always have it in Naruto). They were fighting about her. A-and Naruto was getting hurt... and Sasuke was preparing chidori...

"Sasuke... Sasuke, stop it! DON'T HURT NARUTO!" She screamed. Sasuke looked at her confused, the chidori in his hand fading to none.

They were staring at each other. They were both confused, hurt, and didn't understand themselves or the other. 5 minutes ago, all that mattered was the guests, but now neither paid attention to anything but the other.

Everyone noticed this, and one by one (Neji being first) they left. Naruto left last, muttering something about being sorry.

They were alone again, sitting at the opposite ends of the couch. Neither of them felt like talking to the other, nor knew how to start a conversation.

"That's the first time I heard you yell." Sasuke said quietly after a while.

"I'm... sorry, Sasuke..." Hinata replied. "I didn't mean... to yell..."

Silence. Just like their first days together, Hinata thought. The first days, when she slowly made up with the knowledge that she could never love Naruto again, because she was married to Sasuke.

"You still love him, don't you?" Sasuke said, just as softly as before.

"I... I admire him, Sasuke... and also... and also, I loved him so much... You can't expect me to... to just completely forget about all that... because of someone I'm forced to love." Hinata replied. And the moment she said what she said, she knew she shouldn't have said it.

Sasuke didn't reply.

They sat like that for what seemed like forever. Sasuke then got up and walked to their-his- bedroom. Hinata followed him. They both went to sleep without another word.

"Gaara..." TenTen started. It was a few days later. A lot of things happened, and they were nearing Konoha. "Why does your sand let me kiss you?"

Gaara was thinking just that.

"I don't know. Maybe Shukaku wanted you to kiss me or something... But that can't be, he hates love."

"Gaara... would you have been able to control the sand without shukaku?"

"I think so. The sand is controlled by my chakra. But it won't automatically protect me, like it does with shukaku..."

"Is it possible that Shukaku left? Or, or died, or just disappeared?"

Gaara thought of that. Shukaku hasn't bothered him since yesterday night. He tried to call him in his mind, but no response came- then again, maybe this was some kind of joke on shukaku's side.

"Maybe." Gaara replied.

"What I'm thinking... is that maybe love makes mosters like that disappear... and that's why he set you against love all along."

Gaara thought about that.

"But then Kyuubi wouldn't have still been in Naruto. Naruto- he loves too much..."

"Maybe it's just Shukaku then. Or-or when you love someone and they love you in return..."

"Maybe." Gaara replied.

TenTen spotted Neji from afar. He was on gate duty. She got off the sand and ran to him.

"T-TenTen?!"

END CHAPTER 11

Sorry for the big lack in update. Terrible writers block but mostly just lack of time... and tons of fights w/ people and stuff all ending up with a serious lack of mood... so yeah '

Made this one longer though to make up for it

It's 4 word pages (I usually make each chapter around 3 pages).

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