Kyoko: Wow, a hundred reviews? Thank you all very very much. I actually thought none of my stories would even make it to twenty reviews but you proved me wrong, thanks so much. So for a special present I wrote this super long chapter for all of you, but don't get your hopes up to high, it's not my best and I'm not theres not that much good comedy in here but I hope you enjoy it, read and review please! Oh and there is a special surprise for you all near the end.

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As Sasuke got closer to the bush Hinata had pointed to the aforementioned girl was hiding behind our beloved panda, Gaara who was smirking slightly, why? Because his darling princess was clutching his arm, HIS arm, not Sasukes, HIS.

Ehem, anyways back to Sasuke-teme.

Sasuke held out the stick and slowly pushed the bush aside revealing a….

Bear? Wolf? Michael Jackson? Cannibal? Pervert? Rapist? Diseased infected animal?

"You have got to be kidding me." Said Sasuke, his voiced dripped with disbelief.

With one hand Sasuke reached down and picked up what appeared to be a very cute and sweet fluffy white bunny.

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Gaara sweat dropped and sighed while shaking his head. Gaara was under the impression that this shy girl was all for bunnies and the like, but no, she got scared by them, what was wrong with this Hyuuga?

"Oh so that's what that was.." Hinata murmured softly as she walked over to Sasuke and the little oh so dangerous fluffy white bunny.

"Hinata, did you actually know what was chasing you?" Sasuke asked, trying to keep anger out of his voice.

"Well no.. but.. Isn't this little guy just so cute?" she asked the boys as she grabbed the rabbit out of Sasukes hand and started cradling it like a baby.

"Aww, what a sweetie." She said cooing at the little rabbit.

Sasuke and Gaara both sighed again, which caused them to look at each other and glare, great, knives and daggers, again, will they ever give it up?

"Well, at least we have a rabbit now. Iruka did say something about bringing back food." said Sasuke, eyeing the rabbit with jealousy.

"Sasuke!" Hinata shouted, holding the bunny tighter to herself. "How could you even think such a thing? Besides Iruka-sensei said that was Shikamaru's groups job, so this guy can live, ne?" she asked, petting the bunny.

"Oh fine." Muttered Sasuke, deciding to resume his glare fight with Gaara.

"Yay!" Hinata yelled in celebration, as she did so she held out the bunny in front of her and started spinning, probably not a good idea but whatever.

And just as she stopped spinning, the white bunny still held out right in front of her and suddenly a fox jumped up and snatched the rabbit right out of her hands and ran off, it also sounded like the fox muttered something like "thanks for the meal"

"Oh… my.." was all she said as tears welled up in her eyes, the poor bunny.

"Hey, Hinata-chan look at the bright side, at least he probably didn't feel any pain, and besides he died happy." Said Sasuke, trying to comfort the almost crying girl.

"Died happy?" she asked softly, rubbing her eyes.

"Yeah, because he met you." He explained, smiling at her.

Hinata instantly turned a shade of red and Gaara twitched.

Sasuke smirked at her reaction and was about to lean down to do something to her and that was Gaara's cue to throw a piece of fire wood at the Uchiha.

Bang. Ouch. GOAL.

"What the hell was that for Sabaku?" Sasuke demanded, sneering at the red-head.

"Oh, that? It slipped." Explained Gaara innocently.

"Yeah sure, like hell it did!" Saske was now shouting.

Hinata cringed at his loud and angry voice. Well at least one good thing happened, she wasn't being chased by anybody creepy……. Or so she thinks. Ehehehe.

"YOU STUPID LITTLE BASTARD I'M GOING TO WIPE THE FLOOR WITH YOUR BABOON ASS HAIR."

"OH REALLY? I DOUBT IT. BECAUSE YOU'LL PROBABLY JUST TRIP AND FALL AGAIN YOU STUPID FUCKING CLUMSY DUCK ASS."

"SHUR UP MR. LOOKS LIKE A GODAMN CLOWN! WE ALL KNOW IT'S YOU WHO HAS BEEN TRIPPING ME YOU STUPID FAG! WHY DON'T YOU JUST LEAVE? YOUR PRESSENCE IS ANNOYING!!"

But before Gaara could yell another come back…

"GUYS!" screamed Hinata at the top of her lungs as she went between the two, seeing as they both looked like they were about to strangle each other.

"Pl-please don't fight. I…I… d-don't like it." She muttered quietly, tears now falling down from her lavender hues.

Hinata didn't wait for them to respond and she did the only thing that registered in her brain, she ran off, she ran the heck away. She couldn't watch anymore, she didn't like the tension and hate between them and somehow she knew it was her fault, she knew she was the cause for all the yelling, she was the cause again.

FLASHBACK

"Hinata, why do you have to be such a failure?!!? Huh?! Why do I have to have such a pathetic and weak daughter like you?!!?! Your own sister who is five years younger then you get's better grades!! You're such a disappointment!!!"

END FLASHBACK

True, her father was nicer to her now and he didn't yell or say such cruel things to her anymore, heck he even showed that he cared. But his words still haunted her sometimes, and that fight between Gaara and Sasuke just made it all come back.

She was still running, dark indigo hair whipped behind her in the forest air, she just kept going, she didn't know where she was headed or what she might encounter, she dreaded that but she did not stop, she wouldn't. She would not hear those angry voices, the angry voices of two people she cared about.

Suddenly and eerie feeling encased her, a feeling of renewed dread came over her. At first the dreadful feeling was unrecognizable but then it hit her. She was being watched, someone was watching her. Realization kicked in and she started running all the faster and then she started hearing a maniacal laughter. Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit. OH SHIT.

"We found her Onii-san, we found her again, let's eat her this time!"

Two gnarly looking men jumped out of the bushes right in front of the extremely frightened Hyuuga. One of the men who was about two feet taller then the other had a plaid shirt that had rips and tears everywhere, his jeans were dirt covered and his shoes had holes, it was pretty much the same for the other man.

"Y-you two.. I know you.. SHIT!" she screamed as she remembered the two cannibal men from her last camping trip. Déjà vu hit the girl. She started to back away as they got all the closer.

"I don't want to be eaten." She muttered in horror as she continued to back away.

"We failed to eat you last time," the taller one began, "but we'll definitely devour you this time girl." finished the shorter one.

Hinata had by now fallen and was leaning her back against a hard tree, her lavender hues were silently pleading with them to let her keep her life but they two didn't seem to notice. The cannibals now had out knives and forks and were drooling; the shorter one was actually foaming from the mouth, gross.

They were getting closer now, just inches away from her. She could even see her reflection in their knives. She would have fainted but she couldn't bring herself to do it. But then again what could she do? She was just helpless without people with her, unless of course the oh so lovely and bitchy Hina-ikeike came out but she was too scared.

"Get away from her." Said a cold voice from what Hinata would assume was an angel.

"Who are you red?" asked the taller of the two freaks.

'Gaara-kun?!'

"I said get away from her!" the voice repeated loudly.

"Hey I don't who you think you are but this is our meal so back off red."

Gaara twitched some.

"Your meal? Are you stupid? Unless you want to get firewood shoved up your fucking asses I suggest you get away from her." He growled, walking closer to the scene.

"Onii-san, he looks scary, maybe we should just leave." Said the short one, taking a step away from Hinata.

"No, this is our feast, she is ours." said the older cannibal.

"That's it, you're going to get your ass kicked." said Gaara as he approached the three.

Both men instantly charged towards Gaara, Hinata squeaked as fists collided with faces, and groans of pain and snarls of anger could be heard. She thought Gaara might be done for, because he up against two grown men but the panda seemed to actually be winning, finally Gaara kicked them where it hurt most and then whacked them over the head with one of the larger pieces of wood he was carrying, knocking them unconscious.

"I'm saved." Hinata breathed a loud sigh of relief; her body was still shaking though.

"Hinata, are you okay?" asked Gaara as he ran over to the poor girl.

"I'm fine. Gaara, thank you, thank you." She said to him, suddenly flinging her arms around him.

Gaara blushed at her sudden action, she did as well, but she kept her arms around him and being the emotional girl she was, started to cry.

"I was so scared Gaara-kun, I…I… I thought it was the end for me.." she sniffed, crying into the crook of his neck.

Gaara wrapped two comforting arms around his princess and patted her back softly.

"It's alright Hinata, I'm here. I wouldn't let anything happen to you. I promise, I'll keep you safe." He murmured into her ear.

Hinata released Gaara and leaned against the tree again, she wiped her tear stained eyes and gave a grateful smile to Gaara, who returned the smile… slightly. Because you know Gaara is Mr. I'm-to-cool-to-smile.

"Thank you Gaara-kun." But before Gaara could say anything back Hinata realized something. "Gaara-kun, where's Sasuke-kun?" she asked, looking around for any sight of Mr. Egotistical.

"Oh him?"

FLASHBACK

Gaara POV

"GUYS!" screamed Hinata at the top of her lungs as she went between the two of us, probably noticing that we were about to kill each other.

"Pl-please don't fight. I…I… d-don't like it." She muttered quietly, tears now falling down from her lavender hues.

But then before I or that stupid duck ass could say anything, she ran away, faster then I had ever seen anyone run. Watching her retreating back I sighed deeply, feeling extremely guilty for making tears fall down her lovely face.

Now that she was out of sight a turned my attention back to Sasuke, glaring at him.

"Look what you did idiot." He said to me, in that infernal obnoxious voice of his.

"What I did? You started it you shit face." I retorted.

"Me? You're the one who threw the fucking wood at me dumbass." Sasuke snapped.

"What fucking ever!!" I snarled and without thinking much about I pushed him back into the river.

In my fury I didn't wait for him to get back up and I ran after Hinata. Knowing her she'd probably encounter something or someone dangerous.

END FLASHBACK.

"Well, we sort of separated." Gaara replied.

"Oh, then we should probably look for him, it's really getting dark." Said the Hyuuga as got up and dusted herself off.

"Plus," she continued, "I don't want to be here when they wake up."

"Yeah, right. Come on then Hinata." Gaara said to her, picking up the fallen firewood as he walked away, Hinata close behind him.

The two teens had been walking for quite a long time, Hinata had to wonder if Gaara even knew where he was going, but none the less she continued to fallow him. Gaara had made many turns by now and Hinata was getting tired and as far as they kept going still no sign of Sasuke, she hoped he was okay.

Gaara sighed. "Hinata, I think we should rest for a little, okay?"

Hinata wanted to protest and say that they should keep looking for the Uchiha but she herself was exhausted, so she sat down on a nearby log and nodded her head. Gaara started to dig a hole in the dirt and put some rocks around the hole, he then put some twigs and some sticks into the hole and pulled out a cigarette lighter from his pocket and lit the twigs and sticks, causing some warmth to fill the area.

Gaara gave her a crooked smile and then sat right next to her; she blushed at his closeness but appreciated his warmth.

"Hinata…." Gaara's voice was not the cold one Hinata had heard so often but a soft one.

He lifted her chin towards himself and looked at her with is mint green eyes, his expression unreadable, he licked his lips slightly and leaned down closer to her.

Hinata's eyes widened in shock and her face turned a delicate shade of bright crimson, she realized what he was going to do but she wasn't ready for this, it's not that she didn't like the boy, but she just wasn't ready.

"I….I….I…." she tried to speak some sensible words but nothing would come out, now his lips were just inches from her own.

"You know grapes are really good!" She blurted out and scooted away from him as she did so.

Woops, denied.

Gaara sighed softly, so the girl really didn't like him. He was hurt and humiliated but he didn't say anything to her, he simply looked away and returned to his cold façade.

"Gaara, let me.." but he cut her off.

"We should probably look for Sasuke now." He said, his voice seeming emotionless.

Hinata sighed and nodded.

Gaara stomped his feet on the fire to put it out and once it was out he started walking away not even waiting to see if she was fallowing him, but she was. They only needed to walk ten minutes until they found the campsite, and to Hinata relief Sasuke was sitting on one of the logs by the fire. Gaara sneered at the Uchiha as he set the collected sticks by the fire, after that was done Gaara simply walked towards his tent.

"Hinata-chan, are you alright?" Sasuke immediately asked, ignoring his hatred for the red head for the time being.

"I'm fine Sasuke-kun, how are you?"

"Good, now that you're here." He grinned at her.

She blushed at his comment and smiled shyly.

"I'm a bit tired I think I'll head to the tent for a moment." She said, as she began to walk in the direction Gaara had headed in but she didn't get too far because Kiba, Lee and Naruto rushed over to her and grabbed her.

Kiba started singing something that sounded like a mix between a dying cow and a yodel and Naruto and Lee started dancing around the poor confused girl like crazy Indians.

Hinata felt dizzy as she watched the three, she wanted to laugh, blush and smile but she couldn't bring herself to do it, and unexpectedly she fainted.

"Woops." said the blue-eyed Uzumaki boy.

"I seduced her with my sexy Mexican voice." said Kiba, after he stopped yodeling.

"Seduced?" asked Naruto, "You made Hinata-chan faint you sounded so terrible."

"Oh and like your little Indian dance didn't help?" retorted the Inuzuka pyromaniac.

"Our dance was very youthful!!" cried Lee.

Neji, the over protective 'girly-bastard' cousin ran up to his fainted princess and whacked all three boys over the head.

"What the hell are you three idiots doing?" Neji demanded as he picked Hinata up bridal style.

"I was seducing her with my sexy Mexican voice." said Kiba, grinning, rubbing the bump on his head.

"Naruto-san and I were doing the youthful dance of love for the youthful Hinata-chan." explained Lee.

Naruto nodded his head vigorously in agreement to what Lee said.

Neji shook his head, my god these boys were idiots. After whacking them all one more time on the head Neji left them and carried the Hyuuga hime to her tent, he opened the tent door only to be greeted by a pair of glaring mint green eyes.

Neji sat her down on her own sleeping bag and then sat down next to her.

"What happened?" asked Gaara impassively.

"Let's just say Kiba, Naruto and Lee are idiots." sighed Neji.

Soon after that Neji got up and started heading out of the tent but before he was completely out he gave Gaara a serious warning.

"I'm going to get some water for her; if you touch her or do anything perverted to her I will beat you with a bat, and a metal one at that." And with those words the genius boy with awesome hair left.

Gaara peered at the unconscious girl with a sigh, he then just laid down on his sleeping bag still looking at her though.

Neji went over to the far corner of the campsite where he, Chouji and Naruto put the water from the river, he pored a little bit of it into a water bottle and started walking back to the tent only to be stopped by Mr. pushed-into-water-a-lot.

"How's Hinata-chan?" he asked.

"What do you care?" Neji replied icily.

"Just fucking tell me Hyuuga." Demanded Sasuke, snarling at the lavender eyed boy.

"No." was Neji's curt reply as he started to walk away from the enraged Sasuke only to be blocked by the three idiots, Kiba, Naruto and Lee who were currently in a dumb argument of their own.

"Where is my dope yo?" came Lee's voice.

'What the hell are those idiots talking about now?' thought inner Neji, sighing.

"Yo mamma ate it hoe." came Narutos voice.

"You're funny Naruto," began Kiba, taking a dramatic pause, "funny looking!!"

Neji couldn't believe his ears, were these seriously the people he hung out with? What retards. Neji went up to each of the three knuckleheads and whacked them over the heads again.

"You guys are infernal." Stated Neji before walking away.

Hinata's thick eyelashes fluttered open revealing tired lavender eyes, she then turned her gaze to see Gaara staring at her. She immediately turned red.

"Gaara-kun… I…." he cut her off yet again.

"It's okay, just forget it." He said and started walking out of the tent.

"Gaara!!!" she shouted, as she got up from her sleeping bag.

"What?!" he snapped.

Hinata cringed at his loud voice been continued to go towards him.

"Gaara-kun, it's not that I don't like you… I r-really do." She said to him, her blush deepening

He looked at her with shocked pale black rimmed eyes; he opened his mouth to say something but just ended up closing it.

"I really… really do like you Gaara-kun." She stated getting ever so closer.

And suddenly without really thinking about it she kissed him and he kissed her back, subconsciously arms wrapped themselves around necks and fingers entwined themselves with hair.

But the two didn't know is that there were two very pissed boys watching them.

"Hinata-sama, no... no way!!" Neji gasped, his heart sort of breaking.

Sasuke simply glared at Gaara, he couldn't believe this, that stupid red head kissed his girl, HIS GIRL. Haha, you wish water boy.

Hinata gasped and released her arms away from Gaara but he kept his arms possessively and protectively around her.

"What?" Gaara asked coldly, ignoring Hinata's bright red tomato resembling face.

"Why. Are. You. Kissing. My. Cousin?" snarled Neji, he was holding up a metal bat.

Hinata 'eeeped' as her eyes rested themselves upon the bat.

"Neji-nii-san, I.. I kissed Gaara… honestly." She said softly, her eyes focused on the ground.

Neji's jaw literally dropped as he gaped at his cousin, he could not believe what was coming out her mouth, he would not. He decided that Gaara must have put some sort of voodoo spell on her.

Wait Neji, isn't that the kind of thing you would do?

"That's right Hyuuga, she kissed me." Said Gaara smugly, slinking one of his arms around Hinata's waist and pulling her closer.

That tears it, all of the self control Neji had snapped and he swung his metal bat straight at Gaara, who with his amazing reflexes pushed Hinata out of the way and dodged it himself at the same time.

Gaara ran from the tent and Neji was close behind him.

"GAAARA GET YOUR HAIRY RED ASS BACK HERE!!!" was the last thing Hinata heard before blacking out yet again.

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Kyoko: So tell me, what'd you all think? Gaara and Hinata finally made a move. I know it was rather soon but I couldn't help it. Please review and give me your honest opinions.