A/N hey guess what guys?! I suck at biology tests!! Yeah, I took mid-terms recently and well I didn't do so hot in biology OR French. Sadly that really made me well sad. So I was taken the 'privilage' of the internet so that kind of sucked the good out of my week, and month. But the long awaited update is here.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Just some bad grades.

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She blushed a couple of times and I swear I caught him whispering something in her ear, so I decided to follow them………..

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'What is she doing?' I asked myself as she continued to walk with that 'thing.' So what if his hoodie was sleeve-less and showed all of what every guy works for everyday?

"Hey, Haru-kun, could you go and get some tomatoes?" he made a sort of grunting noise and walked away. She smiled and kept looking at the magazines.

I started to creep up towards her as the 'thing' came with a dozen of tomatoes. I hid behind the information cart of soups. I can hear her turn around and laugh at something the 'thing' mumbled. When I was sure she was far from the aisle, I sighed and sunk to the floor.

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I drop the grocery bags on the dinner table and walk out. "Thanks Kamoku!" I heard my mother say as I go up the stairs to my room. My room just has to be on the farthest wing of the second floor. As I pass Rei's room, I hear giggling from the closed door I shake my head. I stop a few feet from Rei's door and open mine. I don't even take two steps inside when I hear a voice from my closet. Who the hell would be in my closet? As I get closer, the door opens and out comes a body. I squint to see whom it is in the dark to find lavender eyes look up at me.

"Hinoiri, what are you doing in my closet?" I half ask, half yell.

She gets up and brushes off any stray articles of clothing when she looks at me again; tear stricken eyes. She then looks straight at the floor. Her body began to shake as teardrops began to appear on the carpet below her. She stayed like that for about ten minutes, until she looked up at me again. I know her well enough understand that something was wrong and she wasn't going to leave until she told me. So I asked, " What's wrong?"

She moved to my bed and sat down. She looked every which way but at me. Finally, after a while of silence, she spoke, "how's your mom doing?"

I looked at her in amazement. It must be serious if she wants to change the subject. "Hinoiri, seriously," I said, sitting next to her.

She looked down at her lap. "Has you mom ever begged my daddy for a mission?"

"Yeah, thousand of times, but I still don't know where you're going this."

She looked up at me, "Just follow me. Has he ever granted her the request?"

"Yeah, a bunch of times."

"Has she ever come home looking really badly beat?"

"Yeah, a couple of times but not a lot."

"Even close to death?"

"Not that I can recall. Why are you asking me all of these questions?"

"My mom wanted to go on a mission and well she came back today."

"Oh, yeah? How is Hinata-san?"

"Well she's a bit……….under the weather."

"How so?"

"Want to go see her?"

"Yeah let's go!"

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"So where are we going?" I asked Hinoiri.

She looked back at me and gave a small smile. "Hold on, you'll see."

I really thought we were going to see Hinata-san but we're headed towards the old cemetery near the hospital my mother used to work in, before it was closed down. The front gates give it an eerie look with from the golden-red tint of rust and by the way the ivory was consuming each individual grave.

"Hinoiri you told me we were going to see your mom!" I finally exclaimed after we stopped in front of a freshly dug grave.

She turned to me, tears in her eyes, as she spoke, "we're here mother. I brought a friend today," she spoke to the grave, " you remember Kamoku, right? Well he came by to say hi."

She moved away from the grave for me to get a good look at the name imprinted on the stone. I was extremely shocked to read the word, 'beloved wife, mother and friend, R. I. P. Hinata Hyuuga-Uzumaki.' I felt tears escape my eyes as I looked down at a loved one in my life. If I felt this bad about someone that was like a mother to me then Hinoiri must be heartbroken. I looked over at her to see that she was looking down and shaking, tear drops dampening the ground she stood on. I walked over to her and put my arm over her shoulders. Her head dampened my shirt. We stayed like that so long that I lost track of time until I saw the sun start to set behind the Hokage Mountains. We had sat down under a tree; her head was still lying on my shoulder. I checked if she was still awake to find her sleeping. I shook her shoulders a bit to awaken her but she only fluttered her eyelashes and feel deep into slumber. I sighed a deep sigh and stood up. I took her upper body and began to lift her in my arms. As I had a good grip on her, I jumped up into the tree and began my journey to the hokage's house.

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I'm a couple of steps from the hokage's door when it burst open, revealing the least likely person I would ever to be here without her best friend, who happens to be in my arms. Her golden-brown eyes widened when she saw me. Tears began to pool in her eyes.

"Tatsuki, this isn't what it looks like." I said as I saw Yoru peek from behind the couch.

She raised a perfectly tanned hand to her mouth to stop from quivering as she spoke, "then tell me what I'm supposed to be seeing."

I sighed, "look, I rather have Hinoiri awake when I explain-"

"Explain what? That you like to play with girl's hearts? That-that you like to deceive them and make them think that for a second, you could actually like that person a lot and turn around to find them carrying their best friend home from who knows where? No, you know what? I don't want to hear an explanation from you or Tatsuki." Then she began to run out of the house and into the street.

I growled. Then, I felt a tap on my shoulder; it was Yoru. "You can go chase her; I think I can handle my sister." I nodded and handed him Hinoiri to begin running in the direction, which I last saw chocolate brown hair flow.

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I ran, for who knows how long, until I found her; she was in the training grounds. By this time, it had started to rain. When I saw her, she looked as beautiful as ever, even if she was soaked. Her hair was loose from its buns, dripping and clinging to her tan face, she was couched on the ground, knees at her chest, as she had her headrest on her folded arms. Her eyes showed that she had been crying for a while. I walked closer when she began to sob again.

She turned to me, puffy-eyed, " what do you want now?"

I sighed, "I didn't do anything I wouldn't do with Hinoiri in front of you."

She began to laugh and cry at the same time when she looked at me, desperation in her eyes. "Why should I believe you?"

"Because I've known you since we were little kids and you know me well enough that I wouldn't do anything as rash as what you want to think I did. Which I didn't, by the way."

She continued to cry softer now, "I really don't know what to believe anymore, Kamoku." She turned her head so as not to face me.

"Well what about that guy you were at the market with?" I said, abruptly.

Her head shot up and she turned so fast I thought she would get whiplash, "How do you know I was at the market today with 'some guy'."

I looked at the ground. The way she put it, it made me sound like some kind of stalker or something. "Look," I said looking at her face, "my mother asked me to get her some groceries after you left, I didn't think I would run into you and that thing there."

She looked at me with some amazement for a while, until, gradually she began to laugh hysterically. I looked at her while she just kept laughing. I must have an expression that read what I was thinking, which fueled the laughter even more. I grinned and sat down next to her, still in the downpour of the rain. My hair was beginning to cling to my face, as were my clothes to my body.

I looked over at the laughing girl and smiled, " why are you even still laughing, Tatsuki?"

She calmed a bit, "Because of your jealous rage on poor Haru-kun."

When she said the things' name I growled. She only giggled. "What?" I growled again.

"Aw is poor little Kamoku-kun jealous of Haru-kun?" she cooed.

I glared while she laughed. "Look I'm not jealous of that thing, ok?"

She rolled her eyes while answering, "sure you aren't jealous. I bet you're dieing to know what I was doing there with him anyway. But I'll tell you, if you tell me what you were doing with Hinoiri this afternoon."

I sighed, "I told you that I rather have Hinoiri here with me when we tell you."

"How bad is it that you can't tell me, your best friend?"

"You really want to know?"

"Yes!"

"Hinata-san isn't with us anymore."

"What do you mean? She's on a mission, of course she isn't with us now but she'll-"

"No, you don't get it. She isn't with us anymore."

"Oh," she said looking down.

"Do you understand why it would have been better if Hinoiri tell you herself?"

"Yeah, I see your point. But honestly, she was acting a bit particular before. Earlier, when she went to go look for me and found me at your house she said she needed to tell me something but didn't get the chance, since her boyfriend came and interrupted. She had to report to the tower while he had to buy groceries for him and his cousins. I didn't get a chance to see her after that, I guess she went to find you-"

"Wait did you say boyfriend?"

"Oh, yeah, did I forget to mention that Haru is her boyfriend? Well I call him her boyfriend because their so close but they don't date. She's to 'in your face' and he's so 'not in your face'. You know?"

"What can I say, opposites attract, right?"

"Hm? Oh, yeah. Kamoku, are we going to be alright?"

"You mean as us or as friends?"

"I-I don't know."

"Honestly, I wouldn't mind having you as more then a friend. "

"Neither would I."

"I really do like you a lot but you're not sure of your feelings for me, are you?"

"No, I'm sorry, Tatsuki."

"Well that's ok. I can be your friend but if it takes to long for you to return the feelings, I would have to move on, you realize that, right?"

"Yeah, but I think for know that we should just worry about getting out of the rain."

"Ha-ha. Yea we should, my mother is probably worried sick about me, probably about to send a ninja's missing person report out."

"Well, I don't want my mother to do that either, and if she's at the hospital working a late shift then I can only safely assume that Rei is in charge so I don't think I'll be in so much trouble."

"Ok, well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow, right?"

"Most defiantly. I'll see you tomorrow."

We got up and hugged. Even in the rain, she was as graceful as ever. But I don't think I could tell her that. She doesn't know it, but I truly do love her.

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A/N well I actually like the ending. I'm sorry if it wasn't to your personal liking but I promise the story will pick up and get more interesting! So before you go back or exit, click on the little button to review! Reviews are like medicine to a sick authoress. We need it to get better. So until next time! Bye!