A/N: " hey " Talking

" hey " Talking on the phone

' hey ' Thinking

' hey ' inner voice

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Chapter 1: New Friend

"Thanks for inviting us to your party Sakura-chan." Hinata hugged her.

"Yeah! Thank you so much" Tenten hugged her too.

"No problem at all. Love you guys and take care!" Sakura replied, giving them a hug in return.

The girls said goodbye and went home. It was autumn and was getting cold outside. Their breaths made foggy clouds that disappear in the dark and starry night.

"Bye Hinata-chan." Tenten was lucky that she lived near by but now Hinata was suppose to walk all alone.

"Bye Tenten-san." They hugged each other and Hinata walk on her own. After walking a while she constantly heard footsteps after her and that made her afraid. She didn't even look back, and then she heard someone talking to her.

"Hey! You with the skirt. Where do you think you are going?"

"Yeah, you are so pretty, why don't you spend a night with us." Another one of them said.

This made Hinata even more afraid and she tries to run away from them. 'Why now? Why me?' She closed her eyes and sighed. She stopped when she sees the busy road ahead of her. She needs to get to the other side but it was too late. The guys behind her caught up.

"So… Where are you heading gorgeous?" One of the guys spoke. Hinata didn't answer. Why should she? The road was clear and she starts to walk and so did the guys. When none was in sight, one of them with pretty big muscle grabbed her wrist.

"Hey! Let go!" He just gave her a creepy smile and she was surrounded.

"If its money you want, I didn't bring any! Let me go." She struggled to hold her voice steady and even harder not to cry.


Why was he the one that had to do the grocery and in this hour too. He looks at his watch, which shows 10 pm. He was just about to go out for a walk to clear his mind when his stupid roommates, Kiba and Naruto urged him on to do their stupid grocery.

"Aaaah! NO!" He stopped when he heard someone screaming in vain and on the opposite side of the road he was on, he can see a girl being attacked by some guys. He counted them. "Three." It was an easy mach for him. He drops the bags and runs to her.

"Stop it." He shouted, standing there in a fighting position, ready to strike.

"Eeh, and why must I listen to a baby like you any way?" The man teased and glared at the redhead.

"Cause I can beat you guys up pretty bad…" The boy didn't show any emotions at all when he says that.

"Well, there's one of you and three of us and we can beat you up pretty bad!" The man laughed at him.

One of them started to attack him but he still show no sign of emotion. The guy raised his clutched fist, prepared to crush the boy's nose but when he throws his fist, he wasn't there and suddenly, the guy hit the ground pretty hard.

"Watch your step you big oaf…" The boy smirked at the guy that was wincing in pain on the ground. He had tripped him. When they saw their fallen comrade, one of them come at him and the man didn't do much before a hard foot did a very nice print in his stomach and he also wincing in pain on the wet and cold ground.

The one he had tripped was on his way up to his feet but the boy kicked him in his face and the guy passed out. Now the only one that was left was the one that was sitting on top of the girl. She laid there on the dirty ground, tears running down from her beautiful lavender eyes. This made the redhead grew even angrier than before.

'How dare they do such a horrible thing to a girl like her?' He immediately went back to his fighting position and signaled with his hand at the horrible guy to a very painful date with his fists and legs. The man didn't move so the boy gave him a death glare and spoke.

"Get off of her… Now!" The man just looks at him in fright.

"Ye-yes sir! Absolutely sir!" The man nearly stepped on the girl on his way off her.

"And take your worthless friends with you!" He shoots daggers at the frightened man before him.

"Yes, yes, just don't hurt me!" The guys ran away pretty beaten up like he had said.

He kneeled down by the frightened girl, examined her with his eyes. "Are you okay?" She looked up at him, her eyes flaked and she passed out. 'Shit! Now what? What am I suppose to do now?' He asked himself. He couldn't leave her here, not after being attacked by those men. He picks her up, carrying her bridal stile and pick up "his" grocery bags and walks home.

He had trouble opening the door with the girl and grocery bags in his arms so he pushes the doorbell with his shoulder.

"Come in…" A tired voice came.

"I can't! Open the damn door Naruto" Muttering could be heard behind the door, followed by someone falling down to the ground but he ignored them. "Typical."

"Whoa?" Naruto opened the door and was shocked to see Gaara home with someone. "Who is that Gaara! She looks really nice by the way. I didn't know you had it in you." Naruto gave him a perverted grin that make Gaara send a death glare that meant just more then "shut up".

"Who's she?" Another person by the name Kiba asked.

"I don't know… I saved her from some jerks that tried to get the best of her." Gaara said like he hadn't done anything good at all.

"Although bringing her home is a good thing…"Kiba chuckled. "What are you suppose to do when she wakes up?" He continued.

"That will be a later problem. Now, we need a rest, especially the girl." He carried her to his room, laying her on his bed and walks out, closing the door behind him as he joined the rest of the guys.


'Where am I?' She was in a dark room, sleeping on what seems to be a cozy bed. There was a digital watch by the bed and it showed 3:16 AM

'Oh my God!' She got out from the bed as the memory slowly came back to her. She gasped, afraid about what would have happened if the redhead boy hadn't show up. She slowly walks to the door, opens it a little and peeks out the little slit.

It was dark outside. "Where am I?" She asked herself. She opens the door wider and walks carefully into the living room. It wasn't big but Hinata could see, with a bit of her imagination a TV, a couch and a little table situated in it.

"He-hello?" She stops in the middle of the room. "… Anybody?" Hinata's heart nearly stops when she heard voices coming from the couch.

"Who- who's the-there!" She asked. Grunts could be heard and then a lamp was switches on. The redhead boy that saved her laid there and she can see that he wasn't really happy to be woken up three in the morning. He sat up, looking at her.

She couldn't help but gaze at his muscular form. He was shirtless, and that really turns her on.

"What do you want?" He asked her, snapping her out of her thought of him.

"Oh! S-sorry for wa-waking you up… um?" He just glared at her. "…Can I at l-least ge-get my rescuers na-name?" She asked him.

"Sabaku no Gaara, now go back to sleep." He switched the lamp off and shut his sea green eyes hoping that she would leave him alone.

"Um… Sabaku-san?" Hinata plays with her fingers, an old habit she had from her childhood and a slight blush crept up on her cheeks. Gaara turned the lamp on once again and now with a death glare.

"What!" He asked her. She blushed even more and had a hard time to get the words right.

"I-I ca-can't sleep… in these…" She pointed at her ripped clothes. "Can I - May I borrow some-something from… you?" At first he just looks at her with his bored face but later, he sighed and crawled out of the comfort of his couch. "Come" He motioned for her.

They walked back into the room where she had waked up in. Gaara walks to the wardrobe and picks out random clothes, but only those clothes that were cozy enough for her to sleep with. He hands her his cloth and look at her sleepily.

"There… Happy now?" He asked. Hinata nodded, unsure what to say more than a mere "thank you".

"Go back to sleep now." He grunted and walks out from his room, leaving Hinata with some privacy. She changed her clothes and went to bed, with a nice and safe feeling and soon, she was fast asleep.


"Good morning!" A boy's face with paint on it was the only thing she could see when she was woke up by the noise. Shocked and without a clue what to do, she screamed. The boy was shocked by her and screamed with her.

"Aaaaaaa!" Gaara heard screaming and run throwing himself into the room.

"What happened!" He asked and saw Hinata nailed against the wall and an unconscious Kiba on the floor.

Naruto joined Gaara. He sees Hinata and walks up to her and smiles.

"Sorry about our friend but Kiba likes new people. Oh! And you must be starving. Come you can help me in the kitchen. By the way, I'm Naruto…" He grabs her by the wrist and led her out of Gaara's room. "…and I supposed you already met Gaara." Hinata nods as she follows Naruto into the kitchen with Gaara behind them and leaving Kiba on the floor.

"Well, what do you want for breakfast?" Naruto's wide grin made her giggle.

'Wow! They don't even know who I am but here, they treated me like someone they have known for a long time. I think I'm beginning to feel better now.' She tells herself.

"Um, just... just a sandwich wi-will be… fine" She said to them. 'Oh, why do I have to stutter all the time?' Hinata mentally scolds herself.

"Here you go then. By the way, what's your name anyway?" Naruto handed her the sandwich he made with some odd stuff on it.

"H-Hyuuga… Hi-Hinata… Hyuuga Hinata." She repeated her name, trying not to stutter. She picks up the sandwich and she could only stare at it before she taste it. She wanted to see if the thing was alive or not. It looks weird but it tasted really good.

She nearly choked on the piece of bread she had in her mouth while eating. She had totally forgotten about her family. They must be worried to death.

"Hinata! What is it!" Gaara pats her back and she could breathe normally again.

"My family! They must be so worried by now." She was so upset and into her mind that she didn't even stutter on bit. "Can I borrow your phone for awhile?" Naruto got to his feet to fetch the phone and hands it to Hinata who took it and quickly dialed the number. They could hear a panicked voice on the other line and Hinata answered it.

"Ne-Neji? Hi… It's me." Naruto and Gaara's eyes went wide in surprise by the sudden reaction that the man named Neji had.

"WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU?"


Hinata told her cousin to calm down and she managed to convince him that she had only spent the night with some friends because she was too tired to walk home and that she has forgotten to call. Now Hinata was to leave in about an hour.

"Ano… Sa-Sabaku-san?" Gaara glanced over at her from his cup of Coffee that read: 'Fuck off'.

"Nani?" He looks up at her before he takes a sip.

"I n-eed to go n-now and I… um, I can't ta-take… your clothes. I-it will be r-really bad o-of me to d-do so." Her face turns a light pink and she immediately started to play with her fingers again.

"You can borrow my T-shirt if you don't want to walk home in the ripped one." Her heart skipped as her face turns an even darker shade of red.

'Why can't he stop being so nice to me like that? It makes me want to hug him for being so nice.' Hinata had to look at the floor to calm down from all the kindness.

"A-arigato Sabaku-san!" Hinata looks over at Gaara who just took another sip and muttered something that sounded like "whatever". He didn't want Hinata to take away his favorite T-shirt, it was black with a Halloween pumpkin that said: Trick or treat.

'Damn! Why was I too tired to not notice it at all? Gaara you baka!' His T-shirt was quite big on her and it made her look rather cute, but he didn't want to admit it to himself because that was him. He never admits that something or someone was rather cute. He woke up from his thoughts by Hinatas stuttering voice.

"Sa-Sabaku-san?" She started to play with her fingers once again and it was beginning to be pretty annoying now.

"What?" Her big, shiny lavender eyes gazed into his green one. He felt a warm touch inside his chest. He loves that.

"Can I-I know w-where am I?" Hinata asked politely… 'Man she is annoying and yet she is so…' He was at a lost of word.

"We are at our schools apartments. It's like a boarding school, well, do you know where the Grand Mall is?" Hinata nods it was about 10 minutes ride with a car from her house.

"It's like a thirty minutes walk from here." He said, didn't know how to actl towards her. This was something new for him but then again, she didn't need to come back

'No! Don't let her leave with my favorite T-shirt! What if I don't get it back?' He said while his other self said the opposite.

'Make her go home now, no coming back, no coming back. 'Well, it's just a piece of fabric anyway.'

'I must have it back!' He scolded his other self.

"Hyuuga san?" Hinata looked up at him, startled by his voice "When…When can I have my T-shirt back?" She had just recovered from the blushing and now it started all over again.

"We-well, I can… we can…"

"… I'll call you when I miss it" He cut her off, saving his ears from the stuttering girl's voice.

"Oh okay." She smiled at him. "Thank you… for sa-saving me…" She took a deep breath and continued. "… I don't know… what wo-would had happened if-if-if you hadn't …show up. I'm in yo-your debt Sabaku-san." She bowed at him.

"So don't think about it… and you don't have to do anything for me, so just forget it." He got off of his chair and walked to the sink to wash his cup. When he was done he faced Hinata. "Get dressed Hyuuga, I'll walk you to the mall."


He could hear her teeth chattering and it was annoying 'Why did she wear a skirt in the middle of autumn? Honestly?' All Hinata wear was a skirt, a jacket and under that, Gaara's beloved T-shirt.

"S-Sabaku-san?" She said.

"Nani?" Hinata looked up at him with her big and beautiful eyes.

"How did yo-you get rid of t-the guys… yesterday?" He sighed, didn't bother to look at her.

"At my school we have a martial art course and I'm the captain of the best team in first grade with Kiba and Naruto in my team, you know the guys that I live with."

"Oh…" Was all she said and they continued to the mall in silence.

They stood outside the mall, shilly-shally if they should go inside or say goodbye there. Hinata took the decision to go inside.

"Well… I c-can at least b-by you a cu-cup of t-tea or something?" Gaara ogles at her and they went inside to find a café. Hinata orders two cups of wild berry tea and joins Gaara who had made his way to a table by the window.

"I forgot to take down your number." He said and takes a napkin from the cup-plate and a pencil from his pocket. "Can you write it down here?" Gaara handed her the things and she starts to write down her home number. Actually she had a cellular but it was broken and was off for reparation after an accident.

"The-there…" She handed it back to him after she finishes.

Outside the café a boy glared angrily at Gaara. "So, he's flirting around ne! Well if I can't get my "love" nether will Gaara have his. He nearly ruined me! I lived for that price!" He turned around, facing his comrades.

"What are you planning to do then?" One of his friends asked him. The boy with spiky black hair smirks and answers.

"A surprise my dear friend, a surprise."

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End of chapter 1