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Chapter 9: Getting Ready

Hinata woke up in a room unfamiliar to her. "W-where am I?" Hinata whispered to herself. She looked around the room and spotted the pictures on the dresser. She then remember what had happened to her.

She sat up and felt something in her pocket.

"What's this?" Hinata wondered pulling out a small blue leather box. "How'd this get here?" Hinata wondered opening it. She gasped.

Inside the box was a beautiful necklace. It had a side-ways 8 (the sign for infinity) in gold and in the middle was a beautiful dimand on a silver chain. Hinata wondered if it was real or not. By the looks of it, it was real. Hinata took it out of the box and examined it. She came to a conclusion. It was the most beautiful necklace she had ever seen.

Hinata put it on and got out of the bed. she put the box back into her pocket.

She opened the door of the bedroom and walked to the end of the hall and went down stairs hearing angry voices.

"We all know your worried about her!" Hinata heard Temari yelling.

"What?" Gaara asked.

"Oh you know exactly what we're talking about!" Kankuro shouted.

"Why don't you go check on her?" Temari asked.

"Why?" Gaara said.

"Because we know you want to!" Kankuro said. "And we know that you llllllllliiiiiiiiiiikkkkkkkkkkkkkeeeeeeeeeeee her." A tiny pit of pink came onto Gaara's pale face.

"What makes you say that?" Gaara asked trying to fight an even bigger blush.

"Because your going pink..."

Everyone in the room turned around to see Hinata leaning on the wall.

"Hinata-chan..." Gaara said quietly.

"Your awake huh?" Kankuro asked. Hinata nodded.

Hinata looked over at Gaara and blushed. "Why are you blushing?" Gaara asked. "Because your not wearing a shirt..." Hinata said quietly. Gaara realized that he only had a pair of black pants on he went as red as his hair. Gaara left through the nearest exit and ran upstairs.

Temari and Kankuro bursted out laughing. "We told him earlier to get a shirt on! But NO he didn't want to put one on!" Kankuro said laughing his ass off.

"So how are you feeling Hinata?" Temari asked changing the subject. "I'm alright." Hinata said with a smile.

"Good. That's exactly what I wanted to hear."

"Why...?" Hinata asked nervously. "Because, your going to the dance right?" Temari asked. Hinata nodded. "Well we have to get something to wear, unless you where planning on not looking nice." Temari said. "Oh..." Hinata said.

"Sakura, Ino and Tenten are coming to." Temari said, Hinata nodded.

"Should I go call Neji and tell him that she's awake?" Kankuro asked his older sister. Temari nodded and he left. Gaara then came back in, this time with a plain white shirt on.

"You put a shirt on, good." Temari said. Gaara gave her a cold stare.

He then turned his attention to Hinata. He also noticed she had found the necklace.

"Hello Hinata-chan." Gaara said. "Are you feeling better?" he asked. "Yeah Gaara-kun. I am." Hinata said smiling at Gaara. There was then silence.

"So, I heard that your going with Gaara to the dance." Temari said to Hinata with a sly smile. Hinata looked down at the floor blushing. "How'd you find that out?" Gaara asked. "Uzumaki told me, I didn't believe him but..." Temari said looking at Hinata then Gaara. "you just told me." She gave Gaara a sly smile.

Gaara mental kicked himself. He really needed to learn how to keep his mouth shut.

Temari then threw some clothes at Hinata, which she caught. "You should go get changed. There is a bathroom just down the hall." Temari said, Hinata nodded and left the room.

Hinata went into the washroom and got changed. The clothes Temari had given her where a pair of black hip huggers with fake demands down the sides of the legs, the t-shirt Temari gave her was red with a black heart in the middle.

Hinata went back into the room that she had left a few minutes earlier to see that only Gaara was there, sitting on a 2 seater couch with his head in his hands.

"Gaara-kun?" Hinata asked with a tone of worry in her voice.

Gaara's head snapped up making Hinata jump. "Are you alright Gaara-kun?" she asked sitting down next to him. "Yeah I was just thinking of ways to kill Uchiha Sasuke..." He said in a dead whisper. "Why?" Hinata asked. Gaara looked at her as if she was crazy.

"Don't you remember what he did...To you...?" Gaara asked. "Maybe she was in so much shock she forgot?" Gaara wondered. "No..." Hinata said looking Gaara in the eye, he knew she wasn't lying. She knew something happened to her that made everyone worry, but she couldn't remember what he did. "What did he do...?" Hinata asked, she wasn't sure if she wanted to know.

"This." Gaara said. Hinata gave him a confused look, which was quickly replaced when she realized Gaara's lips where on hers. Now Gaara was kissing her!

But this time, Hinata returned the kiss, after a few seconds they broke apart. Hinata looked down at the floor, she was redder then Gaara's hair, if that was even possible. Gaara on the other hand was sort of shocked. He didn't expect her to kiss him back.

They sat in silence for a minute before the door bell rang. Temari answered it. A few seconds later Neji came into the room looking relieved to see his cousin was awake.

"Hinata-sama. Your awake." He said looking at his cousin in the eye. "Yes...I'm sorry if I-I worried y-you niichan..." Hinata said quietly.

"Your sad about worrying your cousin but not us?" came Tenten's voice as she, Sakura and Ino entered the room, fallowed by Temari.

"So, shall we go?" Sakura asked Hinata. "Where are you going?" Gaara asked. "The dance is next week remember bro?" Temari said. "Yeah so?" Gaara responded "Well we have to get some stuff for it! Common Hinata let's go." Temari said grabbing Hinata's wrist and pulling her out the door. "Bye Gaara-kun!" Hinata was able to say before the door closed behind the 5 girls.

"What was that about?" Gaara asked Neji who was still standing there, staring at where his cousin had just left. "I have no idea..." Neji said.

The 5 girls had gone to the nicest dress / jewelry store they could find.

Temari had picked out a light purple dress with a sleeve on the right arm and a spaghetti strap on the left arm. It went down to her ankles and it had a glitter like substance on the bottom half of the dress. She had got a pair of purple flower earrings to match.

Sakura had gotten a red spaghetti strap dress that went just above her feet and had got a silver heart necklace with a ruby in the center to match. Ino got a dark, almost navy blue dress that was very similar to Sakura's dress except it had short sleeves instead of spaghetti straps and got a coat type of thing in powder blue to go with it and a pair of royal blue earrings.

It took the girls longer to find Tenten and Hinata their dresses because neither of them really wore dresses and had no idea what to get, lucky for them, Ino, Sakura and Temari did wear dresses from time to time so it was easy for them to find something for them.

They didn't actually get Tenten a dress, she disliked everything they had picked out for her, so they decided to get her a nice shirt with a skirt. They had picked out a baby pink t-shirt with a sort of low cut and a bit fleecy at the bottom, the skirt they picked was black that went down to just past her knee cap, it wasn't that great.

For Hinata they picked out a beautiful lavender colored dress. It looked like it was made for her. It had no sleeves but it wasn't spaghetti straps (A/N: I can't remember what it's called, sorry.) it went down to her ankles. It wasn't tight but it wasn't lose either, it was just right. It also went with the necklace she had found earlier. They also bought her a pair of lavender earrings.

"Ok now that we're done...Let's go!" Sakura said.

"Go where?" Tenten asked.

"To get make up of course!" Sakura replied.

Tenten and Hinata groaned

It had been about a week since the 'Sasuke incident' and Gaara never let Hinata out of his sight now. He didn't want that to ever happen again.

"The dance is tomorrow! The dance is tomorrow! THE DANCE IS TOMORROW!" Sakura kept saying. "We know! Shut up!" Temari snapped, she had had enough. "You actually sound excited about this thing, and your going with Naruto, how can you be so happy?" Temari asked.

"Oh don't be that way Temari! Sakura's right! Just cause your not the dance kind of person doesn't mean we aren't." Ino said. "Hinata do you agree with me?" Ino said. "I...I don't know...I wasn't really listening..." Hinata said looking at Ino.

"You mean you don't care either? Oh come on! Your going-" Ino made a gesture towards Gaara "-with him and your not...Happy at all?" This got Gaara's attention, he had been wondering if Hinata really wanted to go with him or not.

"I never said I wasn't happy about going with Gaara-kun..." Hinata whispered turning red. Gaara smiled...Inside his head...there was no way he was going to smile in public. Ino looked shocked, she didn't think that Hinata would answer.

"Humph! Fine! Shika-kun you agree with me rrrrriiiiiiigggggghhhhhhtttttt?" Ino said in a sort of baby voice. "Yeah-yeah..." Shikamaru muttered making Ino smile. "Troublesome woman..." Shikamaru muttered to himself.

"Alright before we go to the dance where should we meet?" Temari asked. "With our dates of course." Sakura added.

"Hmm...How 'bout your place Hinata / Neji?" Tenten suggested. "I guess." Hinata and Neji mumbled.

"Alright it's settled then! We meet at the Hyuuga Mansion at 6:30!" Naruto said punching the air.

End of Chapter 9: Getting Ready

A/N: Ok, ok this chapter was sort! But don't fear! The next chapter will be longer!

And yea I know, I suck at describing dresses and stuff, because I'm not that girly so I don't really know this type of stuff. Anyways, I hope you liked this chapter!

NEXT CHAPTER WARNING: THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL HAVE SMALL SMUT SO IF YOU READ THE NEXT CHAPTER, YOU MIGHT WANT TO SKIP TO THE ENDING.

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