Disclaimer: I forgot to do this for other chappies, so here goes.. I do not own Naruto although my piggy bank is slowly filling up with coins and bills, (wiggles eyebrows)...just don't sue me

I Need To Scratch My Head: Chapter 9 A.K.A Last Chapter

By:DRag0ness

Last chappie, finished this long time ago and didn't update. Oh well, enjoy!

Hinata started to have second thoughts about asking that question for Gaara, maybe Sakura might not answer. And then Gaara will get mad at her, she didn't like it when people were mad at. Many people have been angy at her for her whole life, what if Gaara and Sakura became mad at her?

The bus took a turn and arrived in front of a big white building with big red letters saying 'Konoha General Hospital.' She sighed, she was already here and couldn't turn back, she got off the bus and went to the receptionist. A girl with short black hair was there. She looked up when she heard Hinata coming.

"Good afternoon, how may I help you?" she gave her a warm smile.

"Um, may I know what room Haruno Sakura is in?" she moved her finges around in the way she always did to show that she was nervous. She hated talking to people she didn't know, even if they were as nice as the nurse/receptionist.

"She is on floor 2, room 13 (A/N: unlucky-ducky number), are you one of her relations?"

"Um, n-no, I'm just a friend," she stammered.

"Okay...she is suppose to have serious injuries so you have an maximum time of 15 minutes with her or you'll tire her out, got it?"

"H-h-hai," she managed to stutter before she headed towards the elevators. She was so nervous that she walked into the elevator door right after it closed. She stopped,maybe she should turn around, it's not as late as you think it is, she told herself. But she said that she would do Gaara the favour but she was so nervous.

She slowly made her way towards the stairs, hesitating in between. She didn't know how to ask the question that Gaara had told her. It was a little weird coming from her.

When she reached her destination, she stopped and rested her hand the doorknob. What if Sakura said yes? Then how would she explain it to Gaara? She knew that Gaara didn't understand these kind of things and would probably go crazy but she couldn't lie and say that she said no could she? She took a deep breath in and turned the doorknob. She had to do this no matter what.

When she walked in, what she saw shocked her. She saw a battered and broken rose-haired girl lying on the hospital bed before her. When she heard the sound of someone entering, Sakura immediately awoke from her slumber. When she saw Hinata there she got confused.

"Hinata?"

"Um, hi Sakura, I came to visit you," she trailed off after seeing a disapproving look from Sakura.

"How do I know that you aren't here to bash me again?"

"I'm not! Let me explain," Hinata poured out everything she knew, starting from the beginning, about how they made the plan and were targeting new students, and what they had said about her and how they found out about her and Ino. She eveb told her about what had happened before she came. She told her everything, the dam inside her had broken. She poured out all her feelings to Sakura.

"..." Sakura was speechless, "I never knew, you really exploded?" She couldn't conjure up that icture in her mind but Hinata looked so hurt.

"Can you please forgive me?" she questioned timidly.

Sakura smiled brightly at her.

"You never did anything, don't worry about it."

"Really?" a faint smile played at Hinata's lips.

"Yeah."

"Oh thank you so much! My time is probably up now, I have to go..."

"It's okay, see you some other time!" Sakura waved goodbye at Hinata while she strolled towards the exit of the hospital room. Hinata just remembered the favour.

"Um, I have something to ask you.." Sakura smiled, "Go ahead."

"Well..Gaara asked..." she leaned in and whispered the words into Sakura's ear. She was suprised to hear what she had asked her. It was so strange. Why would he ask her a question like this?

"Tell him no," Hinata sighed in relief, her answer made her life a lot easier.

"Thanks, I really need to leave now," Hinata got up and walked out the hospital room with no turning back or hesitation.

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When Hinata arrived at school the next day. The first person that came up to her was Gaara.

"Did you ask her?" he asked, unemotionally.

"Yeah," she felt a lot braver.

"What did she say?" he demanded.

"She said no," the words struck him, he felt so happy. He walked away without saying another word.

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1 month later...

Sakura was going back to school so she could finish this term and transfer. She got off the bus and walked towards the gates of the school, A.K.A. Gates of Hell. She took a deep breath in and went through the familiar iron gates. She saw many disapproving stares but most people didn't even notice her. Maybe they forgot her. She felt a bit more confident. She entered the school bulding and walked down the hall towards her locker, ignoring all the people who looked at her. But on her way down the crowded hall, she saw Gaara coming her way. They stopped in their tracks and looked each other in the eye. She gave him an uneasy and awkward smile.

"It's not your fault that I did what I did," she told him.

"I know, Hinata informed me," and for the first time in his life, he flashed a genuine smile at a human being. She smiled an even wider smile back at him. They decided that maybe they should hangout more. After that, they continued to their destinations without a good bye but feeling wam and fuzzy inside. They have made a friendship.

Maybe I won't switch schools anymore, thought Sakura happily as she bounced down the hall not caring who she bumped into or what looks she got form everyone else. The most important thing of all was that she got a new friend, oe maybe you can say that he is a little more that a friend.

w00t! Finally done... aww, you always get more reviews when your story isn't finished, that means no more reviews...sniffles. Oh well. Gonna start a new story. And no this doesn't count as a cliffy.

DRag0ness