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Will You Be My Friend?

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Chapter 2: Choices

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Maybe I'm just being paranoide... I mean what can Sasuke do to Gaara while doing track apart from trip him up? Nothing... I think.

I have this weird feeling in my stomach and it's not a nice one too. I feel as though i'm going to throw up if I don't tell anyone about this feeling soon. But there is no one to tell. Everyone likes to see Gaara in pain, which is just plain wrong in my opinion.

So I just sit there quietly acting as though nothing is wrong and watching as Sakura beside me shouts out how much she is in love with Sasuke and how she knows he's going to win.

I think my mother had told me that this weird feeling is called women's intuition... I had no idea what she had meant back then, but now I know what she means. I just hope my women's interdiction is wrong!

I bit my bottom lip as I noticed the boys lining up and getting into position. I saw Gai-sensei walking over to them and then counted down from three, just like he did when me and the girls were about to run.

"3"

I gripped the bench.

"2"

I gripped the bench harder until my knuchles when white.

"1"

I squeezed my eyes shut.

"GO!"

I opened my eyes to see them start.

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"GO!" I heard Gai-sensei shout.

I pushed off with all my force and ran as fast as I could. I had never beaten Sasuke in a race... in face I've never beaten Sasuke in anything! But that was going to change. I want to show my Hina-hime that I can be a winner just like everyone eles. And so I have to win this race!

So far Sasuke is in the lead with me not far behind him. Kiba is far enough away from me for me not to worry about him, and Naruto... well, it looks like Naruto is dead. He's already wheezing and he is bright red! We haven't even made it around the first corner yet!

I pushed myself to go faster as we went around the first corner and I noticed at the right hand side of the track, it is slightly sloping. And as you go further down the track, the slight slope becomes steeper and steeper, until at the last corner it looks so steep and dangours, with rocks sticking out of the steep slope and rocks at the bottom. If anyone was to fall down that steep slope, I wouldn't be surprised if someone broke a bone or two.

'Ouch...' I thought. ' Now that is something you definatly don't want to happen to yourself...'

As we turned the second corner, I noticed Sasuke had started to slow down. Is was weired. I had never seen Sasuke slow down in a race, no matter how long he has been running. Maybe I'm just getting faster...? No. I'm still going the same speed. So then is he just really tired?

Heh. Who cares? This means Hina-hime will soon see me passing the most fastest runner in Leaf High! Maybe she'll cheer for me... I'd like that.

At the third corner Sasuke slowed down even more. So much so, that I was finally able to overtake him.

I heard gaspes comming from the crowd in the benches. They were probably wondering how I was able to out run Sasuke the, supposed, best runner! I smirked. I could just picture all the shocked and most probably angered faces in my head.

I noticed Naruto had dropped out at this point, but was for some reason smirking, even though he had Gai-sensei shouting in his face about how he should be more youthful, that crap.

I just mentally shrugged as I saw that I was coming to the last corner, where the finish line would be after I turned it.

I had to see her face. I wanted to see the look on my Hina-hime's face to see if she is proud of me. I hope so because otherwise i don't know what I'm gong to do to try and impress her.

I looked through the crowed of studens who love to make my life a living hell to see that my mental image was better than I thought. Almost everyone had shocked and angered looks on their faces. Almost everyone...

I looked over to where I knew my Hina-hime was sitting and expected to see her shouting and smiling that gourgues smile that makes my heart melt, and to see her cheering. If not for me, then for someone. But when I looked over...

Her face showed pure fear. And her eyes that were looking straight into my own sea green one's, showed pure worry. For me. But why would she be scared and worried for me...?

Someone got in the way of my and Hina-hime's vision, blocking our eye contact. I made a face at this and looked up to see Sasuke with... with That smirk on his face. The same smirk he always puts on when he's planing to do something horrible to me.

Before my mind had the time to tell my body to move away from him, Saskue sent a punch straight to my stomach.

The wind was knocked out of me as I struggled to keep my balance. I noticed I was on the edge of the steep slop and managed to get my balance before I could fall down it. I knelt on one knee and my right arm was hugging the place where Sasuke had punched me. I really tried my hardest to get the air back into my lungs.

Before I could do anything, Sasuke had run up to me and kicked me in my side...

Making me roll down the steep and dangours slope.

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'GAARA!' I screamed in my head.

I sat there, stunned as I watched as Gaara got his balance back just before he could fall off the steep slope that I had somehow missed when I had been running around the track.

Then my hand went up to my mouth to stop me screaming out Gaara-sama's name when I saw Sasuke kick him, which made him roll down the steep slope.

My mind couldn't progress what had just happened... had it just happened...? And if so ... then... Why...?

I bit my lower lip so hard that it drew blood. But I couldn't feel it. I felt totaly numb. I couldn't feel anything. The only thing going through my mind was one word. 'Why?'

I felt tears stinging my eyes and thretoning to fall, but I somehow kept them down. That was until...

It was totally inapropreat. That sound... The sound that was only meant for happy times... The sound that I had never expected anyone to do at this moment... The sound that finally made my hot tears fall down my pale face. Laughter.

LAUGHTER!

Everyone was laughing... laughing at Gaara's pain. I sat there shell-shocked as my shoulder's started to shake uncontrolably from the amout of tears that was pouring from my eyes. I didn't need to hid my face from Sakura, Ino or TenTen becuase they were too busy watching, while laughing, as Sasuke ran to the finish line, arms up in the air as though he had done the most amazing thing in the world... but he hadden't. He had just hurt a fellow student for no reason at all.

Memories from my old school came flashing back at me, full fource, and just made me cry harder. I had gone through the simmalir things as Gaara-sama has had to go through.

I should help him... I know what it feels like, and it breaks you. I want him to know that there is someone in this world that understands him... but...

If i do that then I would have to face Sakura's wrath later on.

So I had two choices: Stay where I was and pretend to laugh and enjoy Gaara's pain, but feel guilty that I was just as bad as the other students at not helping him, or go and help Gaara and feel good about myself and make sure he's okay, but having to feel Sakura's wrath later on...

Just as I was about to make my decision, more tears pourd down my face as I realized what they were doing. They were calling Gaara-sama names!

"Loner!"

"Loser!"

"Monster!"

These were just a few of the names that they were calling him. But they also helped make my choice...

I wiped away my tears, and bravely, stood up and ran as fast as I could over to where Gaara-sama had fallen.

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