Chapter 2: Sickness
Gaara caught Hinata before she hit the ground.
'Oh, great...' He sighed '...A fever?' He thought as he moved her to where she was laying bridle style in his arms. 'I told her she would get sick... but did she listen to me? NO!...'
He took a deep breath in and started for his second home, his home in Konoha.
As he jumed from tree branch to tree branch he looked down at Hinata and smiled slightly to himself. 'She's so light...' he thought.
Gaara opened the door and went in walking twords his room. There he laid her on his bed gently.
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'Mmmm... What smells so good?... And when did my bed become so... so soft? Wait! My bed isn't soft at all!'
Hinata sat straight up in the bed gasping for air and looking around desperatly.
Gaara arose from his seat next to the bed and made his was swiftly to her side.
"Whow. Calm down, calm down." He whispered laying one hand on the back of her head and the other on her stomach pushing her back on her pillow. "You shouldn't be making such quick movements... expesially in the state you're in."
Hinata relaxed with Gaaras touch. "I-I'm s-so sorry f-for being such a burden. I-I'm always getting i-in the way and slowing everyone d-down." A single tear escaped her eye and made its was down her cheek as she though of what her dad told her earlier about being an embarassment to the family.
"Don't worry about it, Hinata." Gaara said as he moved the hand under her neck to her cheek wiping away the tear with his thumb.
"Th-thank you Kaze-"
"Call me Gaara."
"Y-yes. Thank you Gaara-kun."
Gaara then noticed that his hand was still resting on her cheek. "S-sorry 'bout that." He said as he removed his hand.
There was an awkward silence between the two as they tried to hold each others gazes but only to end up with Hinata blushing and Gaara looking away with a rare smile on his face.
"D-don't you have a brother and a sister?" Hinata said breaking the silence.
"Hn."
"Where are they?"
"They're either at home in Suna or out on another mission."
"O-oh."
"I guess I should be leaving you so you can sleep. Goo-"
"N-no! This is your bed! Well I assumed... So I will just be leaving." Hinata said as she tried to get up only to be stuck to the bed by Gaaras sand.
"You can't leave now. 1. You're still have a slight fever. And 2. It's 3 oclock in the morning. So you can't just leave. Just make yourself at home."
"Well... If you won' let me leave... I won't you leave... And the bed is a queen size... I can move over!" She said with a cheerful smile.
'Well... since Shakaku is gone... I guess I can sleep for a little while.' Gaara thought.
"Hn." Gaara said going over to the drawers and pulling out a long black shirt. He tossed the shirt to her. "I'll be right back. You can change while I'm gone just make sure you don't make any quick movents or you may blackout again." He said leaving the room.
"O-okay..."
She sat up and removed her shirt and put on his.
She smiled to herself closing her eyes and took a deep breath in. 'How nice of him!'
Gaara came back into the room and saw her sitting there with her eyes closed and smiling.
"What is it?" He asked.
Her eyes snapped open and she jumped a little. "N-nothing!"
She scooted over to the side of the bed as he cam around the other and climed in.
"Th-thank you Gaara-kun,"
"Don't mention it." He said as he closed his eyes and slipped into sleep.
