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Tuesday 2/7/15

Never in my life would I have thought Gaara would mean this much to me. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever…

Never in my life would I have thought that I meant so much to Gaara…. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever,

ever, ever….

Today Iruka kept me back in English (4th period) to remind me I owed him an assignment, he is getting stricter, but I haven't handed it in because I don't have my study buddy, he isn't talking to me… but of course, I didn't say that. I just said I'd get it to him as soon as possible.

Then it all happened quickly, I apologized again and sighed, heading for my bench, but I was stopped by a crowd as I tried to cross the tennis court, I wasn't in the mood for waiting for it to clear so I pushed my way across, and form the other side I got a perfect view of who was involved.

Gaara and Sasuke stood about 5 metre's apart from one-another, Temari and Kankuro stood behind him, and practically the rest of the year stood behind Sasuke.

"Stay out of it, Uchiha." Gaara hissed. I knew they had never gotten on, but I'd never seen Gaara this annoyed, even after the time I made him jump in the icy-cold lake.

"Why should I?" Sasuke smirked, but it barely hid the anger behind his eyes that only Naruto and I could recognise.

"Sasuke…" Naruto warned, but Sasuke just shoved him off.

"I mean it, Uchiha, stay out of it." Gaara repeated. He seemed to radiate 'don't piss me off'. His eyes were cold, and now I saw he could kill. I shivered, and power-walked in between them for a moment I fought the urge to run to Gaara.

Their eyes flicked towards me for a second, and I looked at them before walking straight to Sasuke, I grabbed his arm hard, getting his attention. "Sasuke, drop whatever your problem is, now." I didn't ask, I commanded. I knew very well he could get hurt.

"Sora, you stay out of this!" he snapped back, eyes not leaving Gaara, who I didn't dare to look at, I knew it must look like I'd chosen Sasuke over him.

"No. Back off, now." I repeat.

"No."

"Now."

"You really think I will?" He never took his eyes off Gaara.

"I'll shout it."

"What?"

"I'll shout it, Sasuke. Back off now, or the whole year will know your secret." I took a step back into the clearing, in plain sight.

He narrowed his eyes, attention diverted from Gaara. "You wouldn't."

"I would. Drop it. Right Now."

He stepped towards me, and whispered. "Don't you dare…"
"I'll dare, alright, Sasuke, now, back off."

Sasuke seethed in anger. "Fuck you, Takaski." And with that, he shoved me into the gym stairs and the breath was knocked out of me so hard I gasped. A stab of pain ran around my side, and I grasped it, wincing.

The bell rang, and Temari, Kankuro and Gaara waited until the crowd had fully dispersed, and then walked by, Kankuro glared at me as he walked past, snarling profanities, Temari didn't even look. Gaara paused, I stared at the concrete, fighting tears, then he kept walking. I looked up to see his back. "I'm sorry." I whispered, by the way his shoulders tensed, I knew he heard me.

I felt arms around me, and Naruto lifted me up. I cried out. "Don't touch!" I whimpered. "It hurts."

He sighed, and I could see he looked as mad as anyone else involved in this. "I will be having a stern talk about this to Sasuke." He said under his breath as he slung my arm around his shoulder and supported me. "But for now, to the school nurse."

"What!? No, I-"

"Don't worry, for the record, you fell over."

I breathe a sigh of relief. "Okay, I can believe that anyway." His blue eyes were lost, he was thinking hard. I looked at him, more concerned for him then me. "What was that about, anyway?"

"Don't scream when I tell you, okay?" He said, wincing.

I nod. "Yep."

"It was about…" he sighed. "You. It was about you, Sora."

I screamed anyway. "You're kidding!"

He shook his head. "No, I don't know details, so don't ask, but it was defiantly over you."

"Ahh! Why can't they just let me take care of myself!" I say, annoyed.

Naruto dropped me, and I fell to the ground and cringed, fighting back a cry of pain from the rapidly forming bruise on my ribs. "Because they think that will happen every time they drop you."

"You didn't have to be so… forceful to make your point." I say, grimacing as he picked me up.

He grinned. "It was quite dramatic wasn't it?" he was proud, wasn't he?

I sigh. "Yes, Naruto, it was."

The sad thing was, he seemed proud. I sighed even more. Gosh, Naruto liked seeing me in pain, didn't he? I gripped his shoulder tighter, for fear he might want to …demonstrate…. Another point. Another painful point.

We made to the school nurse without any more spills of the demonstrating kind, I tripped once, and got a whole lot of convincing looking dirt on me, which Naruto said would help since when he said 'she fell over' it would be true.

This is where it gets complicated, she immediately sent for a doctor, and we had to quickly tell her she couldn't call my mum because she was on holiday and I was living with Naruto's family who we didn't have the number of, she gruffly accepted his and that Naruto was actually my cousin (again) and he could transport me home if needed.

I was forced to ride all the way in a very drastic looking ambulance to the hospital with Naruto to wait there for three hours in the emergency ward be told I had broken a rib and there wasn't much they could do except excuse me from all sport and make sure I got plenty of rest and took it easy, then they gave me some painkillers and sent me home, by which time it was dark.

Sakura decided it would also be a smart idea to hug me, which I took as abuse and screamed until she let go. Shika just shrugged. Ahh, I always loved Shika more, Naruto left shortly after, with an 'I'll yell at Sasuke for you'. Which I was very thankful for, I knew I could count on Naruto.

I cried. I tried to be quiet to Sakura wouldn't come into my room, I have a feeling I failed but Shika stopped her. I didn't cry because of Sasuke, I didn't cry because I had a broken rib, I cried because of the look Gaara had given me before he walked off. I don't understand what I did, I know it looked back, but why does he hate me for knowing he killed somebody how many years ago?

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11:00pm

I can't sleep, I will forge a note tomorrow excusing me from school.

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Midnight

I miss him

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Wednesday 3/7/15

Sakura volunteered to stay home and look after me, she said she just wouldn't hand a note in, she didn't care. I tried, I really did, but she looked so sad when I told her to go away I just couldn't.

Shika, (I always liked him) went to school and left us alone.

I was submitted to a 'girls day out' which was held inside (ironically) and included movies, chocolate, bitching, boys and manicure's. 90 of all this- actually, I'm taking too much credit, 99 of this was done by Sakura. I took care of the chocolate though.

Though, at one moment when she was chatting on about past boyfriends, I took up this chance. "What about Shikamaru?" I ask slyly. She turns bright red and I grin. "I'll ask no more, that blush told enough." I grin triumphantly for the rest of the day.

You know what? So, in all this madness, I had actually succeeded in bringing to people together. It felt good to actually see something nice going on among all the death and tragedy. So, the sacrifice of one life at my stupidity, Kiba's, was it worth it? No, of course not…. But maybe I'm working my debt off.

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HELLO ALL! You know, I think I may be ruining the sombre mood with my super-happy greetings… hmmm… ok, I shall try again…

"Eh hem… good evening ladies and gentlemen, how are you all this fine day? Good, I assume, my deepest apologies if you did not enjoy this chapter, I shall try as much as I can to compensate next time, and I sincerely wish you a wonderful new-years-eve-eve."

Better? Did I maintain sombre-ness? Hmm. I shall work on that… hehe ;) anyway, THANKS SO MUCH! Love you all! Btw, I THINK new-years-eve-eve is the eve before new years eve, since that is today!

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