Chapter 9~

"Hinata."

Hinata's eyes were filled with curiosity as she peered up at him and bit her bottom lip. The rain grew thicker, eventually pouring down and Gaara silently pulled off his jacket, placing it over to shy Hyuuga's head. She noticed this and stood up, leading him towards a café so that he wouldn't need to get way. Well… At least it looked like an old abandoned café. The inside was covered in dust and it was slowly falling apart. Though it was in bad condition, it provided some shelter which made it worth staying. She stood beside Gaara in an awkward silence and gave a soft sigh, peering up to him.

"W-Why did you carry me h-home last night, Gaara-san…?"

Gaara kept his eyes forward, hearing his name being spoken by such a familiar voice. He side glanced at her and spoke in his much deeper voice, "You're not from this world, are you Hinata…?"

Her eye widened as the question repeated itself in her brain. He knew that she didn't belong to this world… But how on earth was that possible? In the other world, she wasn't best friends with that Gaara Sabaku so how on earth was she friends with this one? It wasn't making any sense to her at all…
"If you need an explanation, it's simply that the Hyuuga that I knew was currently staying in Sunagakure but one day she left abruptly. My dear friend had left without saying goodbye so this raised obvious questions. I traveled here to Konohagakure to find you and oddly enough I wa—"

Gaara silenced himself and looked off in one direction, sensing some approaching people. Although he regretted it, he forced himself on Hinata, pinning her down against the wall but very gently. Hinata was thoroughly surprised and was about to push him off with all her strength but then she heard his sincere voice.

"Don't move… People patrol the village and I'd rather not let them know what we're talking about… Please… Just bear with me."

Hinata didn't understand at all what he meant by that until she was lifted off the ground and was ordered to wrap her legs around his waist. The shy Hyuuga gave an immediate head shake but when she heard the approaching footsteps, she pushed aside her morals and wrapped her legs around his waist, her arms around his neck. He gave a soft grunt in approval and pressed his face against her neck, making it look believable to people who just passed by the… erm… couple.

Hinata could hear the people who passed by snicker and once they were out of sight, Gaara gently put her down and apologized for his doings. His cheeks had shifted to a soft pink as he ran a troubled hand through his hair. The man that stood before her was tall and oddly attractive. How could she trust anyone, let alone a man, in a sex village? Hinata knew that Gaara had a demon inside him and he could easily be possessed or something and rape her. Hinata wasn't very knowledgeable when it came to the jinchurikki's but she was attempted to be raped several times. She had faith in the red head and hopefully she was wrong about what she thought he was going to do.

"I-It's alight, Gaara-san… L-Let's g-g-go to my apartment… S-So we can talk in privacy…"

"Are your cousins there…?" Gaara questioned, narrowing his eyes slightly at the thought of the two.

"H-Hai… I-Is that bad…?"

"Yes. Those two hate me terribly. Along with Haku so I hope you trust me enough to come to my place. I'm asking a lot, I know but I don't want to run into those two…"
Hinata was a bit hesitant at first but she shrugged off this feeling of worry. He knew about Haku… So that meant that he knew somewhat about her and he wasn't trying to get into her pants, right? She sighed and gave a slight nod of the head, allowing Gaara to lead the way to his apartment. Hinata followed behind slowly, men not much people being out because of the rain. It was a surprise but this village looked like her old one except for the multiple erotic shops that littered the buildings. They walked up the stairs to the apartment and he silently let himself in as well as her. She kept her coat on and Gaara looked over to his kitchen frowning a little.

"I would offer you some tea but… I dun know how to make any…"

She gave a soft giggle which caused Gaara to look up and she silently made her way over to the kitchen, looking through the cupboards until she found some tea to make. She began to make tea for them both and Gaara gestured to the seat in front of him.
She was cautious but she smiled and sat in front of him, her cold wet back pressed against the couch. He nodded and gave a soft sigh, getting ready to explain to her his whole story.

"Okay… This is how it goes… A few days ago you were living in Sunagakure with your siblings but they were reduced to dolls so that kept them quiet for the time being. Hinata, you and I are best friends. Well… I was best friends with the Hinata Hyuuga that was with me a few days ago and I even contacted Haku to question him about all of this. He had a guess and he didn't want to tell you but this is what he said: "I think that Hinata and Hinata both did something at the same time that caused them to go into each other's worlds which leads to the confusion now." This means that you are a Hinata from a different world. That also means that our Hinata is your world which might not be very good."

This was all swirling around little Hinata's head. She was fairly confused with this talk about different worlds and two of herself… It was quite frustrating for the little Hyuuga. She simply nodded, acting as if she didn't get a migraine from these thought's and he continued.

"Look, in the castle in your realm, We need to go there. You have a library there, right? We can look through your books and see if there's anything about any of this."

"M-My realm…? I-I have no idea of how to g-get there… H-How do you expect me to g-get us b-b-both there?"

Gaara furrowed his invisible eyebrows and placed his chin in his hand. "Hasn't the heartless taught you anything, yet?"

She thought back to the previous moment when she officially met a heartless for the first time. It was small and black with luminescing yellow eyes that would bore into her lavender ones. It told her to just place her hand against a solid object and imagine where she wanted to go. She bit her bottom lip and stood up when she heard the whistling of the tea pot. Walking over to the stove, she turned the burner off and took off the teapot to cease the horrid whistling. Giving a light tip to the pot, she poured some tea into two glass cups and placed the pot back on the burner.

"T-The tea is ready, G-Gaara-san."

"Don't call me that… It reminds me of the first time you and I met and… I don't want to have to work so hard like I did before just to be able to be called your friend…"
His sea green orbs lowered down to the floor and they widened slightly when a tea cup was gestured toward him.

"I'm not the same H-Hinata… B-But I'll still be your friend."

He glanced up to her and tilted his head only slightly in curiosity. She was so kind to him even though he was cold and rough… She was a lot like the old Hinata and it made him happy… Almost happy enough to smile but that was for another time. Instead, he merely took the cup and appreciatively thanked her. He took a soft sip of his tea and gave a soft sigh of happiness. It's been awhile since he was able to drink such lovely tea such as this.

"O-Okay Gaara; I will try to take us to t-this castle t-that you're s-so set on… B-But if I c-can't do anything, y-you can't get mad…"

"Never… Hyuuga-hime."

That was his nickname for her and being called a princess just made her cheeks redden. She nodded slightly and took a last sip from her tea, stepping over to a wall and pressing her hand against it. Gaara did the same, walking over to her and holding her hand in his. He wore a small reassuring smile and at this, Hinata brightened up, focusing on the wall. She tried imagining the lone castle that stood by itself in that overwhelming darkness and slowly she could feel something envelop her hand. Her eyes widened as the darkness began to crawl up her arm and she had the want to pull her hand back in fear but Gaara squeezed her hand reassuringly. Hinata frowned, looking back between Gaara and the darkness and decided to just to close her eyes, wanting to imagine that this wasn't happening at all.

"Hyuuga-hime, open your eyes, we're here."

She listened to Gaara's deep voice and slowly opened her eyes only to be familiar with the surrounding area. The dirt was unfertile yet it was able to support these twisted trees. The whole placed represented Death to her and it saddened her because this realm was her realm. Gaara looked around to see hissing heartless glaring and cackling in the direction of the two but when they noticed Hinata, they minded their own business and scurried off to scavenge for impure hearts.

"Come on Hinata… We need to go there."

Hinata watched as he pointed towards the large castle that stood before them both. The both made their way to the distanced castle until finally they reached the large door. Gaara reached for the handle but when he made contact, the knob singed his hand and caused him to draw back, hissing softly in pain. Hinata noticed this and being the worried wart she is, she picked up his hand and examined the mild burn only to see it burn with purple fire; but her touch easily made the fire dissipate. Hinata examined his hand once more with curiosity until he took his hand back and spoke to her.

"Hinata-hime… Only you and Haku are able to open the door. Open it so we can get in."

Hinata frowned and eyed the knob suspiciously before grabbing a hold of it and swinging the door open with all her strength.
The door oddly opened easily and the two made their way inside. Several species of heartless eyed the two and eventually a Soldier came running along in the odd fashion they all ran in.

"Q-Queen! I-Is there a-anything I-I am able t-to do," cackled the ebony little being with his scraps of armor and all.

Before Hinata was able to answer, Gaara butted in and growled towards the creature, "Take us to the study. That is what she wants."
The soldier gave a slight tilt to the head towards Hinata in a need of approval and Hinata gave a slight nod. Smiling in an odd fashion, the Soldier skipped away towards the stairs and Gaara followed behind with Hinata. Eventually the two stopped in front of large doors that had a lock protecting it and the Soldier gave an odd laugh.

"Only Hinata-sama is able to break locks other than the key blade."

Gaara rolled his eyes to the blabbering of the creature and pressed Hinata's hand against the door, darkness traveling through the door and attacking the lock from Hinata's hand. Hinata stood there shocked as the locks dropped with a loud crash and disintegrated. Gaara pushed passed the door and was amazed to see how large and how full of books this study was.

Truly amazing.

But this would also be a pain considering how he couldn't go through every single book. Instead of starting his search, he looked towards the soldier and pointed at him.

"You, imp, get all the books that deal with different worlds."

"G-Gaara, be nice to him, please," Hinata murmured as the Soldier ran inside and zipped through the study. He came back with about three books, two looking rather dusty and the other looking cleaner than the others. Hinata thought to herself as she studied the books and frowned a little. The cleaner book would've meant that someone had been pulling it out a lot more than the other ones.

But honestly, who could've been in here enough to pull out that specific book and wasn't the door locked? Haku could've but how would he get in and out of the study? Questions arose as Hinata took the non-dusty book and read the cover.

"The switching of other Worlds."

Such a blunt title. Hinata flipped open the book and noticed that one page had a creased edge. She quickly flipped to that page which happened to be the beginning of a chapter. The chapter had no particular title so she continued to read but she did notice the heartless symbol marking on the chapter and on the book. How odd… She continued to read, flipping passed a few pages as Gaara did the same but with the other books.

"These books have useless information in them… Another dead end."

But that wasn't what Hinata saw. As she continued to read, she slowly began to understand just what was happening but there was on single sentence that made her stiffen up slightly. Before she was able to respond, she heard something behind her and turned her head to meet the familiar emerald eyes and upside down triangles.

"Miss me, Hina-chan~? I see you got passed my lock… So have you now found out the secret? Hmm?"

Hinata's eyes remained widened as the sentence repeated itself in her head. Gaara turned to her curiously and glared at Axel in complete hatred, knowing that Hinata and her heartless were enemies with Organization XIII. It was only natural that he placed a secure hand around Hinata and pulled her away from him. He didn't want this man too close to Hinata then he finally comprehended his sentence. Hinata found out the secret? Was it in the book she was reading? He took the book from her and scanned through the paragraphs, his eyes narrowed as he skimmed the lines confusion until he finally understood just what they were saying.

"Did you do this, Axel? You heartless fucker!"

"Hey, hey. That hurts you know. I want a heart and you're rubbing it in my face that I don't have one? How rude! But no it wasn't me…"

He smirked and leaned closer to Hinata, placing an index finger under her chin and pushing it up so her widened lilac eyes could look into his emerald ones.

"You lose your cherry here, you'll be enveloped in an eternity of darkness and won't exist in this world… Or the other."

How was Hinata to so that when sex-crazed maniacs roamed the village she inhabited? Eternal Darkness…

It reminded her of the horrid nightmares that would invade her dreams at night.

Darkness for eternity…

Dono yō ni kowai...

Dear readers,

Yaaay. I updated this chapter~! So…? How is it? Hm? Hm? I'll be posting up two new stories soon but I have to update all the stories before I post up even one story! Le gasp~! Well… Just keep a close eye on your updates because Ima writing! Anyways, I love you all and thank you for the support. It means a lot… Anyways…
Ciao!

-Aku-chama~!