A/N: Hey guys! Sorry for the wait, I've had a lot of H/W and other stuff. But here's the next chappy, and I hope you like it! Oh, and I have a oneshot out and it's a GaaHina so read it if you want! R&R plz!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Will You Be My Friend?

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Chapter 13: Yahiko-chan!!

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We stayed at the sakura tree for another half hour before we decided we were wet enough, and decided to go home. The rain was still pelting down as we ran home, laughing and smiling all the way. My Hina-hime had to put her hand over my mouth as we walked into our house, so not to wake up her or my own siblings. She smiled as she closed the front door and put her index finger to her mouth and whispered "Shh." To me.

I nodded my head and somehow kept my laughter down as we crept up the stairs, trying not to step on any of the creaks and tip-toped into our room.

My Hina-hime opened the door and walked in, I was right behind her. I closed the door and truned around.

I smiled to myself as I saw my Hina-hime go into the bathroom, as I turned on the small lamp by the side of the bed. My Hina-hime came out a few moments later with dry towels. "Our hair's soaking!" She exclaimed and giggled. My smile widened. Oh how I love that sound.

I threw the towel onto the bed and walked up to her until I was only an inch from her face. A soft blush made her way across her face. I look the towel from her hands and smirked at her. I lowered the towel on the top of her head, making sure I could still see from her eyes down, and started towel drying her hair.

She giggled and I tried to tell her to stop. "Shh! You'll wake everyone up!" I whispered to her.

She just giggled louder, making more of a chance that one of our siblings would wake up and bitch to us in the morning. I growled lightly, but when an idea popped into my head, I smirked evilly at her. She was still giggling, her eyes closed tight and I wish I could have stopped time at that moment. I still can't grasp how I could get someone like my Hina-hime. 'Why didn't she like Sasuke-dope instead? How am I worthy of her love?' I push the thought's to the side right now and forces on my plan to shut her up.

Her eyes snapped open when she felt my lips against her own once more. She had finally stopped giggling and I smirked against her mouth. I saw her blush deepen a bit but she leaned into the kiss.

I slowly began to dry her hair again - I had stopped when I had kissed her - and I knew I could never tier of doing this. I heard her sigh into the kiss and rubbed her hair a little faster. She began giggling again and I had to roll my eyes, not that she saw though. She had closed her eyes again. I was thankful that my mouth stopped her giggles from leaving the room.

I stopped towel drying her hair and regretfully pulled away from her soft lips. I took the towel from her hair... And had to use all my self control not to burst out laughing. My Hina-hime's normally perfectly straight hair was now a bush sitting on top of her head. I accidentally let a quiet chuckle out, but she picked it up. She glared at me. She must have known how her hair looked.

She turned her back to me and took out a comb from her small drawer. She walked over to the full length mirror and started brushing her 'hair'. I was amazed at how just one stroke of the brush, that piece of hair was now straight and as perfect as wet hair can get. I watched until she had finished combing her hair, and she walked back over to the drawer and put it back. She walked over to me as I threw the wet towel lazily to the floor.

She rolled her eyes at this, but just passed it and got the dry towel I had thrown to the bed.

She walked back over to me and did the same to me. As she towel dried my hair, I felt myself lean more into her touch, loving the feel of her hands massaging my head. I noticed my chest felt funny, but thought nothing of it. That was until my Hina-hime stopped drying my hair. "Why'd you stop?" I practically moaned.

She grinned. "You were just purring! I swear you made a noise! You sounded just like a cat purring."

I blushed. "Whatever." I mumbled and took the wet towel's and thew them in the corner of the room, making a mental note to put them in the washing basket tomorrow morning. "Okay, Hina-chan, I'll go get dressed in the bathroom and you get dressed in here." At her nod, I walked out of our bedroom and tip-toed to the bathroom. I didn't take any pajama's because I sleep in my boxers.

When I was finished I tip-toed back to my Hina-hime's and my own room. I knocked on the door and asked quietly "Hina-chan can I come in now?"

No answer.

"Hina-chan?"

Still no answer.

I decided to go for it. 'We are going out now...' I reasoned. I slowly turned the doorknob and pushed the door open. I peaked in, and my heart nearly melted at the sight.

My Hina-hime was even more worn out than I thought. My Hina-hime was lying on the bed, obviously sleeping. I closed the door lightly behind me and walked up to her still form. I smiled down at her. 'Beautiful...' I thought. I took a few more minutes, just to take in the scene and burn it into my brain.

When I was finally able to tear my gaze away from my fallen angel, I turned the lamp off and climbed into bed. I blinked until I could see well enough and settled the black cover over our bodies. I settled down next to her and ran my fingers lightly through her still damp hair. So soft. I think all of her is as soft as a cloud. I smiled. It was most likely. I pulled her closer to me.

I rested my head on my pillow and sighed blissfully. I was so happy. I had finally admitted my love to my Hina-hime... and she had told me that she loved me too! I wouldn't be surprised if I was dreaming, but knew I wasn't. The tiny bruises going across my left hand from where I have been pinching myself is enough proof that this is real. I was not dreaming. This was REAL! And I knew that now I could have her, I would never be able to loose her.

I kissed her gently on the lips, loving how I could finally do that. I had craved to touch her lips with my own for so long and now I was finally able to. I pulled away and opened my eyes to see the eyes of my sleepy Hina-hime. "Sorry. Did I wake you?" I whispered.

She shook her head 'no' and yawned. I pulled her - If possible - closer to me.

"Goodnight." I heard her whisper.

"Goodnight." I whispered back.

"I love you."

"I love you, too."

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I woke up before Gaara-kun this morning, which was weird. He was always up before me. I smiled. Maybe he was as tired as myself last night. Although, knowing Gaara-kun, he would never admit that!

I kissed Gaara-kun's tattoo lightly, making sure not to wake him up, and got out of bed. I stretched and yawned before making my way into the bathroom to wash my face, brush my teeth, change out of my pajamas and comb my hair. That all took about ten minutes for me. I got out of the bathroom and made my way down stairs and into the kitchen. I decided to cook breakfast, even though it was Temari-nee-chan's turn.

I took my time getting breakfast ready, knowing that it was Saturday and everyone liked to sleep in... Especially Hanabi-chan and Kankuro-san. I shook my head at the thought and put down the last plate. I saw that there was a pile of dirty dishes in the sink and seeming as I was waiting for breakfast to cook... I may as well do them. It was Hanabi-chan's turn to do the dishes but, what the hell. I was up and had nothing to do, so I may as well do them, right?

I walked over to them and filled the sink with hot water. After it was filled I placed one of the dishes in the sink and started cleaning the dish, while humming a song my Mother used to sing to me before putting me to bed.

I finished washing the plates, and almost screamed when two strong, tanned hands encircled my waist and pulled me into their chest. "Isen't it Hanabi-chan's turn to wash the dishes?" I smiled. It was Gaara-kun.

"Hai." I answered simply.

I could almost feel the roll of his eyes after my short answer and I had to smirk. "Well then why are you doing the dishes?" I heard him sniff the air. "And it's Temari-nee-chan's turn to cook breakfast." He said this and kissed my shoulder lightly, causing me to shiver and blush uncontrollably

I sighed mentally before replying. "I am doing the dishes and cooking breakfast because I was up and bored."

I felt him nod against my shoulder and he kissed my shoulder again. I sighed happily. I have never been so happy in my life. I have great friends, an amazing boyfriend that I love with all of my heart, my brother and sister are happy, I got to meet Temari-nee-chan and Kankuro-san who are the most funniest and childish people I have ever met... And with Gaara-kun I finally feel protected. Yea. I was happy here and hoped my life never changed.

I came out of my thoughts when Gaara-kun took hold of my chin and turned my head to the left, where his own head was and kissed me passionately. "I love you." I whispered against my lips.

"I love you, too Panda-chan." I giggled against his lips, until he deepened the kiss even more. Gaara-kun seems to always want to hear those words, whenever he can. But I don't have a problem with that, because I need to hear it from him just as much too. Maybe because everything was just too good to be true... maybe I would wake up at any second now and know it would be all just a dream and I find myself back at my Father's house... I mentally shake my head. Even if this is a dream, I would make sure I don't wast any moment of it.

"Oh God! That is NOT what I want to see first thing in the morning!" Kankuro-san's voice rang out throughout the house.

Gaara-kun and myself jumped away from each other, as though we had burnt each other. We were both blushing but, knowing me, I was, of course, brighter than Gaara-kun. And he was as bright as his hair!

"Kankuro! Shut the hell up damn it! You ruined their romantic moment!" Temari-nee-chan scolded Kankuro while smacking him on the back on his head. He just grumbled a few things under his breath and sat down at the table. Temari-nee-chan turned back to Gaara-kun and myself with a sly smirk on her face. "So when did this happen?" Her smirk grew as we became a brighter colour.

"If ya ask me, it's about time!" Hanabi-chan came into the room with her hands up in the air "Finally!" She also sat down at the table.

"Stop teasing Hina-nee-chan and Gaa-kun!" Yahiko-chan shouted while running up to me, holding his hands out. I scooped him up into my arms and gave him a good morning hug. "Yeah! Listen to Yahiko-chan!" Gaara-kun glared at the other three that were now all sitting at the table and walked over to Yahiko-chan and myself and ruffled his hair, making a cute giggle come from him. Yahiko-chan smiled up at the both of us.

"Hey, Hina-chan! I thought it was my turn to cook?" Temari-nee-chan asked.

I looked up and shook my head. "Don't worry about it." I told her with a smile. She gave me a thankful smile back. I know she hates cooking, even though she's not that bad at it.

"So Gaara-kun." My sister started with a fake sweet voice. "Don't hurt my Nee-chan, otherwise I'll get my Neji-nii-san on you." She said sternly. I really don't think she was kidding. Gaara-kun nodded in understanding.

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I jumped into bed, Gaara-kun following close behind.

We haddn't been able to see much of each other today because Temari-nee-chan had a day off and wanted to go shopping with me. I wanted to stay with Gaara-kun, but Temari-nee-chan had looked so excited I just couldn't say no. I know Gaara-kun went out with Shikamaru-kun, Kiba-kun and Naruto-kun today too because he had told me before I had gone shopping. I was glad to hear that he was going out with our friends and I didn't feel guilty anymore for leaving him alone with our siblings.

Shopping had been fun. I had been pulled by Temari-nee-chan most of the time, but it was still a lot of fun. She had helped me pick out new clothes, even though I didn't need any, but she had insisted, saying that Gaara-kun would love to see them on me. I had said fine. She had completely changed my style of clothes. I usually wore baggy clothes, a skirt only when the day was too hot. But the new styles Temari-nee-chan had told me to buy were totally different. They were thin clothes, that even showed some cleavage... And yet I liked wearing them!

But I'm glad to be in bed again.

Gaara-kun pulled my back to his chest and he nuzzled my neck. "Goodnight Gaara-kun. Love you." I whispered to him.

He must have been half asleep because I don't think I was meant to hear him say. "I love you too, my little Hina-hime."

I smiled and hugged his arms that were around my waist. He thinks of me as a princess? And his own princess!? I fell asleep smiling goofily.

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I was pulled out of my sleep by a hand shaking my arm and sobbing was heard. "H-Hina-nee-chan." 'Yahiko-chan?'

I opened my eyes and looked down at the small brunette haired child. He was standing by the bed, his teddy bear in one hand and his other hand was shaking my arm and he was crying. I sat up and held out my hand for him to come into a hug. He gave a watery smile and climbed onto the bed and into my arms. I sat him in my lap and made gentle "Shh"ing sounds to ease his pain. "What's wrong,Yahiko-chan?" I whispered to him, not wanting to wake Gaara-kun up.

"I-I hand a bad dream." He also whispered.

"Aww, baby. What was it about?" I asked him, still whispering.

"I-It was about a big scary hooded m-man and sniff he had a gun and was pointing it at you." More tears. "H-He shot you in front of me a-and laughed after he checked if you were dead. sniff You were dead!" He shouted the last part out, waking Gaara-kun instently. Gaara-kun's eyes found us and his eyes showed concern.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"He just had a bad dream that's all." I told him then went back to Yahiko-chan. "Hey, Yahiko-chan! How about we go down and get a cup of warm milk? It always helps you get beck to sleep." He nodded and I turned toward Gaara-kun. "I'll be back soon." I told him. He nodded and kissed me on the cheek, whispering in my ear "Don't be long." I nodded and walked out of the room, Yahiko-chan in my arms.

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I poured the warm milk into the glass in the kitchen. Yahiko-chan was in the living room watching T.V with the sound turned down to low. I was so tired, but this has happened before, and I know it will happen again, so I'm used to it by now. I let it cool off for a minute, before walking back into the living room with the glass in my hand.

I walked through the door, and dropped the glass at the sight that met me.

Yahiko-chan was in the corner of the room, knees up to is chest and whimpering for me to come and make everything safe. But I wasn't listening. I was to preoccupied on the other person in the room... My Father was holding a gun and pointing it at Yahiko-chan. As soon as the glass had fallen to the floor, broken, my Father had turned the gun toward me.

I sharted shaking. "F-F-Faath-Father w-what are y-y-you d-doing!?" My stutter was back, and I'm not surprised why.

He walked agonizingly slow toward me. With every step he took, I stepped two steps back, until my back finally reached the wall of the living room. I gulped hard and thought back to Yahiko-chan's dream. Was I really going to die here!? And in front of Yahiko-chan!?!? I shook even worse. He would have to go through the same things I went through in life. I saw my Mother die... and he would see me... die...

"You want to know what I am doing!?" He didn't shout so that he wouldn't wake anyone else up so that they could phone the cops on him. "I have been hiding from the cops since the last time I saw you. I gave you a home... I gave you money to buy your food... And this is how you repay me! Calling the cops on me!? Well if I'm going to jail, it will be for a real crime."

He aimed the gun straight at my heart and I had to use all my self control to keep my legs from buckling.

As he was about to shoot I heard a loud smash. I looked my Father in the eye, wondering where the noise had come from, until he fell forward, gun flying into the air. Gaara-kun was standing behind him with a bleeding hand where the vase had connected with my Father's head and the shards got stuck in his hands. I could hear Temari-nee-chan calling the cops and ambulance and Kankuro-san was running toward my Father... But I saw none of that.

My eyes followed the gun in the air. It spun around in the air before gravity took over, making the gun fall down to the ground. I heard a gun shot and the last thing I remember was myself screaming...

"YAHIKO-CHAN!" ...Before darkness took over.

Well whaddy think? Horrible cliffy I know, but I just couldn't help myself!! R&R and the next chappy will be out sooner!