A/N: Well here's my next chappy. I've managed to squeeze my fanfic in my timetable, even though I have alot of H/W, just for you guys so I hope you will like this chappy... so go ahead and read chappy 9!
Disclaimer: How many times have I got to do this? No Naruto for me!
Will You Be My Friend?
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Chapter 9: Apologies
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"W-Would you like to go to the dance with me?"
I stood there, paralyzed. 'Did I just here what I thought I heard?' I thought.
I eyes widened when I saw the look of seriousness on Gaara-kun's face, along with nervousness and other emotions. I gulped hard and tried to speak, but nothing come out. My mouth just opened and closed and I bet I looked like a fish at the moment.
'Does he really want to go to the dance with me?' I asked myself once I got myself to keep my mouth closed.
But aren't we supposed to be just best friends? WAIT! Does Gaara-kun want more than friendship...? Well, I can't say that I don't want it too, but I never thought that he would feel the same way as me! No he can't have asked me something like that, I must have heard wrong.
"Wha-What?" I was finally able to croak out something.
He saw him turning a lovely shade of red before he turned his head to the side and managed to say "Would.You.Like.To.Go.To.The.Dance.With.Me?" and then I saw him look at me from the corner of his jade colored eyes, waiting for me to answer.
My eyes widened once again and I bet they looked at big as plates. 'So he did ask me...'
I felt myself blush too and I just know I was worse than Gaara-kun. I once again gulped hard as I tried to stop the butterfly feeling in my stomach, and went to tell him my answer. "Gaara-kun I would l-" But before I could say anything else...
"THERE'S THAT SLUT!"
I turned my head and saw...
Oh. My. God!
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Oh. My. God! I can't believe that it has actually gotten BIGGER!!
I stood there wide eyed as I stared at the Pink Slut that was standing in front of me and my Hina-hime, her face bright red with anger and... Oh dear God! That damn forehead of her's has actually gotten bigger! I smirked. There was a bluish yellow bruise right in the middle of her forehead where it's gotten bigger from when my Hina-hime hit her last week.
"Look what you've done to my beautiful face you... you... BITCH!" She screeched out as she went for my Hina-hime.
I saw my Hina-hime step back and into the wall and I decided to step in, so before Pink Slut could get near her I stood in front of my Hina-hime and crossed my arms over my chest while giving one of the best death glares I could ever give. Pink Slut stopped and took a step back and away from me, but still glared at me.
"Fuck the hell off, Pink Slut. And leave Hinata-chan alone." I calmly told her, although by the look of uneasiness on her face, I could tell she thought it was anything but calm.
I felt my Hina-hime grip the back of my shirt in both hands and it made my face soften a bit as I heard her whisper "Thank you." To me so that no one else would hear.
But my face hardened once again as I saw Pink Slut ball her hands into fists by her side as she says through clenched teeth. "You can't be around her forever, Loner. And the minute you leave her alone, mine and Sasuke-kun's group are going after her. Just you wait."
I took three steps until I was an inch away from the damn Pink Slut. 'That bitch has no idea! I promised Hina-hime that she would never leave my sight and I never go back on my promises.' I smirked down at her. "What a shame, your little plan isn't going to work." I made myself sound cocky. "You see, what makes you think that I'm going to leave Hinata-chan alone?" My smirk widened as I saw the look of defeat on the Pink Slut's face.
"You wait, Loner. I will get her alone, and when I do she's going to pay for what she did to my beautiful face." And with that she gave me and Hina-hime once last hard glare before turning on her heel and walking down the corridor as if nothing had happened.
I glared at the back of her short pink hair and went to shout something, but before I could I felt two arms wrap around my waist and a small head rest in between my shoulder blades. "Thank you so much for w-what you just did Gaara-kun. I really thought she was going to hurt me." I heard the gentle voice of my angel and smiled.
I turned around to face her and wrapped my arms around she shoulders and pulled her closer to me. "As long as I'm here she won't lay a finger on you. I promise." I heard a little giggle come from her and smirked "Besides, I ow you for all the times you stood up for me."
She giggled once again and I found myself loving the heavenly sound, along with everything eles about her. I closed my eyes and decided to savor this moment.
"A-Ah, Gaara-kun?" I heard her ask me.
"Hn?"
"A-About what you asked me earlier... before we got interrupted..." My eyes snapped open and my whole body tensed. My heart rate went up rapidly and I vaguely thought that it couldn't be very healthy for my heart to be in love. I know my Hina-hime can hear my heart because she is resting her head on my chest.
'How the hell could I have forgotten that I had just asked her to go to the dance with me!?' I yelled in my head.
I gulped hard and waited for her answer.
"Gaara-kun, I-"
Before Hina-hime could say anything else, the bell for first lesson rang. My gritted my teeth and my left eye twitched in annoyance at the crappy timing of the damn bell.
"Well, it looks like we're going to have to talk later." I heard my Hina-hime say. She got out of my grip and I made an inaudible sound of disappointment of the loss of warmth from where she had just been. "We had better get to class before we're late."
I sighed as I took my Hina-hime's hand in my own and we started walking down the corridor, to our first class of the day. English with Kakashi-sensei
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I yawned and stretched in my seat as Iruka-sensei wrote down a bunch of problems on the board for his students to work through. 'I really hate Maths. I seriously CAN NOT do Maths, no matter how hard I try.'
I looked to the left side of me to see Gaara-kun glaring at the board. I knew straight away then that Gaara-kun also hates Maths and can't do it too. I giggled to myself. People say Gaara-kun's death glares are scary, and yet I think it makes him look like a spoiled little child who can't get what he wants.
Gaara-kun must have heard my giggling since he turned to look at me, while cocking an invisible eyebrow at me and turning his head to the side a bit. I smiled. He didn't look like a spoiled child anymore, but like a cute little puppy.
I waved at him while giving a big smile, even though inside I was shaking dew to all of the emotions he was making me feel. I saw him smirk and lift up his arm, and start to slightly wave it back and fore. I gave him one more big smile before turning to look back at the board in front of me.
Gaara-kun and me are in the last class of the day. Maths with Iruka-sensei, and we still have half an hour left. I mentally groaned as I felt my eyes start to close by themselves from the lack of sleep I had the night before.
I looked around me and saw that everyone had their heads down and was working from the board, and Iruka-sensei had finished putting the problems on the board and was now sitting at his desk while using his computer for whatever reason.
I bit my lip and made sure once more that no one would notice me, then layed my head in my crossed arms that were leaning on the table, and closed my eyes as I let out a sigh of relief that I was finally able to close my eyes. 'It's my own fault that I'm so tired.' I thought 'I shouldn't have stayed up with Gaara-kun most of the night, talking about my childhood, and my Mother and about my Father and siblings.'
I yawned again. Last night I found out just how good of a listener Gaara-kun really was. I talked about all I could remember about my childhood, although I left out how my Mother was murdered because I know it would give me nightmare's, and he took everything in. Only stopping me when he wanted to ask me something. I smiled. Maybe I do know how I feel about Gaara-kun now...
I was brought out of my thoughts when I felt something hit my head.
My head shot up and I quickly glanced around, only to find everyone as they were the last time I checked.
I looked down at my desk and found a crumpled up piece of paper there. I looked around again to see who would sent me a note but I found no one looking at me and no one was hinting that it was from them. So I shrugged before opening up the ball of paper and I read:
'So what's your answer? Will you go to the dance with me?
Love
Gaara'
I blushed scarlet at the word 'Love', but decided to focus on the question.
I bit my lip hard and hoped that he wasn't just messing around with me as I wrote down my answer, although I don't know if Gaara-kun would be able to read my writing because my hands are shaking so badly and it is making my handwriting all messy.
'My answer is yes. Of coarse I'll go with you, Panda-chan.
Love
Hinata'
I giggled lightly at the nickname I decided to give him. The first time Gaara-kun had heard the name he had demanded that I never use that name again because he refused to believe that he looked like a panda. So I refused and decided to call him Panda-chan all day, and got mine and his siblings to call him Panda-chan too. So in the end he had made me promise that I would only call him that when we were alone, and to make our siblings stop calling him Panda-chan.
That was such a fun day!
I scrunched the paper back up and when I knew that Iruka-sensei was not looking, I threw the note to Gaara-kun. It, amazingly, landed right in front of him and we both looked at each other in shock at how perfect I had thrown it, before Gaara-kun rolled his eyes at me and mouthed the words 'Show off.' Before picking up the note and reading it.
After Gaara-kun had read the answer I had sent him, he gave me a nod and a quick smile before he started working again. I smiled too. It might not have been much of a reaction off Gaara-kun, but just by the look in his eyes I knew he was happy that I accepted his offer. I saw so many emotions in his eyes, one being happiness and another being relief. I'm happy he wants to go with me. But I can't help but think that maybe I was wrong and Gaara-kun only asked me to go to the dance as two friends and nothing more.
I frowned at the thought but it could be true...
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I found my Hina-hime at the front gates of the school with her back faceing me. I could hear her humming to herself lightly and I could just imagine the soft smile that would be on her perfect face and I couldn't stop the smile that came to my face for a split second, before I hid it with my blank face before anyone could notice it.
I silently sunk up behind her and wrapped my arms around her, bringing her as close as possible into my chest and squeezed her lightly so that I wouldn't squash her. I heard her make an 'Eep!' Noise and gently whispered into her ear "Shhh. It's only me." I felt her relax and I rested my chin on her head.
She started to hum again and I felt at peace for once in my crappy life.
After about five minutes of standing there in silence, with only the sound of gentle humming by my Hina-hime, I remembered that Hina-hime's cousin Neji was picking up her siblings today, she we could spend the day to ourselves. "Hey. You wanna go somewhere today? You said Neji is picking up your siblings so we have the rest of the day together. We can go to the park or cinema if you want?" I asked her.
She broke out of my grip for the second time today, and I had to swallow down the growl of frustration of the fact that I couldn't hold her for as long as I wanted to.
"Sure! Um... I think I would like to take a walk in the park. What do you think?" She smiled as she turned to face me.
I grabbed her hand and tugged her in the direction of the park "C'mmon then!"
I smiled as we turned the corner, but cursed the second I bumped into something hard and almost landed on my ares. "Damn it!" I shouted.
I turned to see who I had bumped into and gulped hard. In front of us was Naruto, one of the "followers" in the sissy group of Sasuke-dopes. I heard my Hina-hime gasp, and so I quickly turned around to run away from Naruto with Hina-hime, only to growl in frustration as I saw that Blond Bitch from Pink Slut's damn group. Soon all of Sasuke-dope and Pink Slut's "followers" were standing in a circle around me and my Hina-hime.
I clenched my teeth firmly as I pushed my Hina-hime to stay behind me and gave everyone of them a death glare. "Leave us alone. If Sasuke-dope and Pink Slut want to fight, they shouldn't hide behind their little 'followers'." I said firmly.
"P-Please don't h-hurt us." I heard Hina-hime say just loud enough for them to hear.
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I bit my lip and hoped that they would just go away and leave us alone. I was so looking forward to taking a walk in the park with Gaara-kun and now we wont be able to because the want to try and hurt us... Life's a bitch.
I saw Ino take a nervous step forward and both mine and Gaara-kun's eyes went straight to her. "Please." She began. "We're not here to cause any trouble. We just want to talk. We really want to talk to you right guys?" I looked around and saw everyone nodding. "See? Now could we go somewhere to talk?"
I could see Gaara-kun was not happy, but I want to know what they want to talk about. So I stepped out from behind Gaara-kun, still holding his hand, and said "W-We were just about to-to go to the park. Maybe we could talk th-there?"
"I think that would be fine." Shikamaru answered for them.
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"... So you see? We've all been too afraid to stick up for ourselves because of what Sakura and Sasuke might do to us. But when you." TenTen turned her head in my direction "Hinata, when you punched Sakura, and Gaara started fighting back with Sasuke, we decided that if you two can stick up for yourselves... then... well, why can't we?"
We were all sitting on the grass under a sakura tree in a circle. I was sitting next to Gaara-kun, he was sitting next to Naruto, he was sitting next to Ino, she was sitting next to Shikamaru, he was sitting next to Shino, he was sitting next to Choij, he was sitting next to Kiba and he was sitting next to me.
I was surprised when they all started talking about the fight between me and Sakura and about Gaara-kun and Sauske's. But what really surprised me was how they were giving me and Gaara-kun taps on the back and "Well done"'s for getting into a fight with them.
Ino had told me and Gaara-kun how she and TenTen were so sick of being bossed around by Sakura and how they were supposed to be friends but she doesn't tread her or TenTen like a friend at all. And Kiba had said around about the same things as the girls had said, but about Sasuke, but what had been the most interesting part was when Naruto admitted for all the boys that they never really liked hurting Gaara-kun and even tried stopping Sasuke at times.
"So what's the point in all of this?" Gaara-kun asked them.
They all seemed to bow their heads at this question and none of them would make eye contact with me and Gaara-kun.
I heard Gaara-kun give out an annoyed sigh, and knew he was growing impatient. Gaara-kun is not one of the most patient people I have ever met before. So I took his hand in my own and squeezed his hand lightly as if saying 'Give them time.' and so he nodded at me.
After another minute passed, Naruto finally looked up and began to talk. "Look man. We all came here today to... apologize to you both." Both mine and Gaara-kun's eyes widened "Especially you Gaara. We have been made to hurt you too many times and so we all came to apologize and ask... well, we came to ask... if we could be your friends?"
I just like that I knew Gaara-kun would forgive each and everyone of them.
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