Chapter 15: Gaara vs. Sasuke
As Hinata and Naruto were walking up the stairs they could hear people screaming and begging for they're life. Hinata and Naruto looked at each other and then back up to the stairs where they could hear footsteps walking towards them.
"Did someone just get killed?" Naruto thought as he then noticed Gaara walking towards them. Naruto eyes were wide as grapefruits as he looked at the red haired ninja in fear. Gaara turned to Naruto and glared at him.
"H-Hello Gaara-kun" Hinata smiled as she looked at Gaara. Gaara tore his gaze from Naruto and looked at the Hyuuga girl. He smirked as he looked at her.
"Hinata" Is all the red head said. Hinata blushed as she looked at him. Naruto looked bewildered as he looked at the two. "Doesn't she realize what he just did? He just killed someone and she's acting like he did nothing. How can Hinata be so calm around someone like him? He's a killer for Pete's sake" Naruto looked at Gaara and frowned.
Gaara noticed the glare but made no comment about the look. "You better hurry Gaara-kun they are waiting" She smiled. Gaara nodded as he looked at her. He looked at Naruto once more and frowned before walking away.
Naruto fell to the ground. "H-Hinata how can you be so clam around a guy so scary?" he asked as he looked up at her.
"Gaara-kun isn't scary…he's a very nice person" She stated while looking at Naruto.
"No I don't think you understand. Hinata his only nice to you…can't you see that?" He said which was true. Gaara hated a lot of things in the world, he hated his sister, his brother, his sensei, his father, Sasuke, Naruto and even more but Hyuuga Hinata was not one of the people that he hated. Naruto frowned, he didn't like the idea of Gaara liking Hinata nor did he like the idea of Hinata liking him.
"Come on let's go where Kakashi-sensei and the others are" Hinata nodded but she blushed when Naruto grabbed her hand. "N-Naruto-kun…?" He looked at her and grinned.
"What is it Hinata-chan?" He said as he looked at her. Hinata blushed even more when he called her chan. All her life she dreamed of hearing Naruto calling her that, but it was always Sakura. She blushed as nodded.
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Gemma looked at the two boys. "You may begin" Gaara and Sasuke both glared at each other. But it seemed Gaara has problems from the get go, grasping his head and cringing in pain.
"Mother please don't be mad that I made you absorb foul blood. I'm sorry, but this new blood will taste much better" Gaara held his head as he started smirking. Sasuke looks at the red the head like he was crazy.
Sasuke attacks with Shuriken's, but Gaara uses his sand to create a protective replica of himself. Sasuke takes it up a notch, imitating Lee's speed taijutsu and gets a hit in. Lee along with Naruto and Hinata watches in fascination.
"How can Sasuke-kun and Hinata-chan gain so much speed in only a month?" Lee thought to himself as he looks down at Sasuke fighting Gaara. Elsewhere in the stadium, Kiyoshi and Kazuya seemed very impressed with Sasuke's speed as well.
"He's very fast" Kana stated as she looked at Sasuke.
"Was he always that fast?" Kazuya asked as he looked at Sasuke. Kiyoshi shrugged. "Don't know and don't care" He said in a carefree tone.
Sasuke and Gaara match continues with Sasuke dodging Gaara's sand shield to get in another jab, and soon, he starts circling Gaara at Lee's speed without his weights. He is able to use his stamina to maintain speed, while Gaara uses up his fair share maintaining his sand armor. Still Gaara and Lee are skeptical that Lee's taijutsu techniques will alone hand Sasuke the victory.
Naruto stares at the fight scene below. "That guy could easily kill Sasuke if he wanted to. I have to stop this match" Naruto thought as he looked at his sensei.
"Please Kaka-sensei stop this match Gaara will kill Sasuke" Naruto pleaded. Everyone looked at Naruto. While Naruto and Kakashi were talking Gaara shields himself inside his protective cocoon.
"I have confidence that Sasuke will prevail…just watch him" he stated while not looking at the blonde. Naruto looked shocked he looked at his sensei.
Sasuke makes yet another futile force attack, dodging sand spikes with his Sharingan. Since Gaara's not doing much, Sasuke uses this time to set up his new move. He poises on the arena wall, building up chakra in his arm. Once he has built up a lighting chakra charge, he rushes Gaara's barrier and punches through with a straight thrust.
Hinata watches in amazement as her teammate penetrated Gaara's shield. "That move is called chidori because the ninja moves so fast that it sounds like a thousands birds chirping. Am I right Kakashi?" Gai stated as he looked at the silver haired ninja. Kakashi nodded. Sakura smiles as she looks at her crush fighting Gaara.
"Sasuke-kun is doing a good out there" She smiled as she blushed at the thought of the raven haired ninja.
The crowd stares in awe that Sasuke was able to break Gaara's absolute defense. Even the Kazekage is impressed. Lee and Naruto watch with envy at what Sasuke was able to accomplish.
"I could never learn something like that. Only a Sharingan bearer can see fast enough to dodge the sand spikes while attacking at top speed" Lee thought as his hair made a casting shadow over his eyes. He held his fist so tight that it drew blood. "Hinata defeat someone that I always dreamed of defeating while Sasuke is defeating Gaara someone who I could not defeat" He frowned. Gai noticed that his student seemed distressed so he patted him on the shoulder and smiled at him.
Lee looked back at his sensei and smiled. "Gai-sensei you have always been there for me…Arigatou" He smiled at his sensei.
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"What is this mother? What is this wet liquid?" Gaara said to himself as he touches the wet substance on his shoulder. Gaara stares in disbelief at his bleeding shoulder as Sasuke uses his chidori to pull his arm back outside the cocoon.
"BLOOD…MY BLOOD" Gaara yelled from inside the cocoon. Temari and Kankurou stare in disbelief of what they heard Gaara yell. Hinata also seemed shocked as she watched.
"…Gaara-kun…" She thought. She wanted Sasuke to win the match but Gaara was her friend and she didn't want to see him get hurt but Sasuke was her teammate and also her friend and she didn't want to see him get hurt either.
Suddenly, a monster like arm extends out of the hole and flaps around a bit before pulling itself back inside. Everyone in the crowd remains quiet not knowing what the thing was that they just saw.
A terrified Sasuke peers inside the hole to see a previous of Gaara's transformed self. But not yet. "W-What was that thing" Sasuke asked himself as he watched as Gaara breaks his shell and stands amidst the pile of stand holding his bleeding shoulder.
Hinata clasped her hands together as she looks at Gaara in a worried way. "…Gaara-kun…" She whispers; so lowly that no one hears her.
Suddenly a bomb was thrown down in the arena and screams were heard. Sasuke jumped back since the bomb was thrown near him. He looked around to see that Gemma and Gaara along with him were no longer the only ones in the fighting arena. There were over thirty different ninjas standing there.
Gaara looked around at all the ninja that were surrounding not only him but Sasuke.
"What is this? What's going on?" Gaara asked as he looked at Sasuke.
"How the hell should I know? I'm just about a confused as you" He yelled at the red head. Gemma looked at everyone as he narrowed his eyes.
"This exam is officially over" The girl with purple hair giggled. Gaara and Sasuke looked at the girl. The girl looked at be around the same age as Gaara and Sasuke with purple hair that was in two long ponytails.
"Who are you?" Gemma asked as he looked at the young girl.
"I'm Yoshino Asuka…" She grinned.
"We are here to attack Konoha" The other purple haired kid said as he looked at Gemma. This kid looked to be Asuka's twin.
"Not only that but we are here to fight Kakashi, Sasuke, Hinata, Naruto, Kiba, Sakura, and Shino" The older guy stated as he looked at the three.
"Me? You want to fight me?" Sasuke asked as he looked at the bald man; who looked to be in his twenties.
"Ah so you are Sasuke…" Takaniishi said as he smirked, he had known that this was Sasuke because he had heard that Sasuke was an Uchiha and this kid in front of him had his Sharingan activated.
Gaara was angry he didn't know who these guys were, for one there were acting as if he wasn't even there, second they said something about fighting Hinata, and third they were interrupting his fight with Sasuke.
"What are you trying to kill people with that glare of yours" Asuka asked as she looked at Gaara. Gaara frowned as he looked at the girl.
"Shut-up Asuka…" Renton said; her twin. She nodded as she looked at her brother.
"Ah what do you know it's been a long time ne Sasuke-kun" The voice said as he looked at Sasuke grinning.
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"What's going on?" Naruto asked as he looked around and noticed that everyone seemed to have fallen asleep. "I had to use ki to wake you Naruto…Konoha is under attack" Sakura stated as she looked at Naruto.
"W-What? Where is Kakashi-sensei and Hinata-chan" He asked as he started to sit up. Sakura pushed him back down when a kunai flew they're way. "Get down…and stay down…Kakashi-sensei and Hinata are fine" She looked over to see Kakashi using ki to wake up Hinata.
"Hinata I need you to go and wake up Kiba" Kakashi said as he looked at Hinata. Hinata nodded. She woke up Kiba and Akamaru and watched as they woke up. "H-Hinata…?"
"Shh…" She hushed him as she looked around. He looked at her and then around the stadium to notice everyone was sleep and that they were tons of ninja on the arena floor.
"What's going on?" He whispered.
"Not sure…" Hinata whispered.
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Sasuke's eyes widened as he looked at the person. It was none other that Yukki and Maiki. What were they doing here? Sasuke looked at the two.
Yukki glared at the raven haired ninja as he then looked at Gaara. "Sorry for interrupting your little fight here with Sasuke…but we have some business that we to take of" Yukki said as he looked at Gaara. Gaara frowned as he looked at the younger boy.
"Where is that brother of mine" Yukki asked as he looked at Sasuke. Sasuke said nothing as he glared at Yukki. Yukki frowned.
"Answer me when I'm talking to you…" Yukki lifted his kunai and threw it at Sasuke but before it could even hit him another kunai deflected it. Yukki looked at the person who threw their kunai.
"Hum the examiner wants to play protector…well it doesn't matter I think I know where Naruto-niisan is anyway" he then disappeared.
"Maya, Takaniishi, Renton and Asuka…go and have fun that applies for the rest of you as well" They all nodded and grinned as they all disappeared.
"Why are you even here?" Sasuke asked as he looked at Maiki.
"To fight Konoha and Naruto…and I still haven't forgotten about that young Hyuuga girl that I promise to come back for" Maiki grinned. Gaara glared at the man.
"You will not touch her" He hissed. Sasuke looked at Gaara in shock. Maiki looked at the red head and smirked. "Why…do you love her? Are you willing to protect her from me?" He asked while looking at Gaara.
"I love no one but myself" He stated still not answering his other question.
"Hum love only yourself…you sound like Yukki" Gaara ignored him not knowing who Yukki was and clearly not caring.
Kakashi along with Hinata and Sakura appeared down near Sasuke and Gaara. (Just in case you're wondering Gemma left to go fight one of the ninjas; I failed to mention that earlier...gomen).
"Ah Kakashi what a pleasure to see you…ah where is that blonde haired ninja that is older brother to Yukki?"
"They are currently fighting" Hinata stated as she looked at the man. Maiki looked at the Hyuuga and smiled. "Ah Hyuuga you're one of the main reasons I came here" he smirked.
Hinata frowned as she looked at him. Kakashi stepped in front of Hinata. "I'm the one that you are going to be fighting" He said as he looked at the man. Maiki smirked. "Very well then…let us fight" He smirked as both ninjas disappeared.
Sakura ran towards Sasuke. "Sasuke-kun are you okay?" She asked as she looked at him. "Hai I'm fine…" He said as he looked at her. Hinata walked towards Gaara and looked at his shoulder.
"G-Gaara-kun…your shoulder" She said as she looked at the blood. Gaara covered his shoulder while Sakura frowned while looking at Hinata.
"Hinata you shouldn't be worried about him, you should be more worried about your teammate…not the person you teammate fought" She frowned. Gaara shot a glare at Sakura.
"I-I…" She knew that Sakura was right but she couldn't just ignore Gaara…he was hurt badly and wanted to know if he was okay.
"Shut-up girl and leave her alone" The girl said as she jumped down and glared at Sakura. "She can be worried about whomever she is worried about. Can't you tell that she is friends with this kid" Kana stated as she looked at Sakura standing in front of Gaara and Hinata in a protective way like someone was trying to attack them.
Sakura looked at the girl in shock as did Sasuke. "Who are you?"
"I am Kana teammates with Hinata's cousin Hyuuga Kiyoshi" She stated as she looked at the girl. Sakura frowned as she looked at the older girl. Kana turned back to Hinata.
"Hinata-chan your cousin and Kazuya-kun are currently fighting someone and Kiyoshi-kun told me to protect you and that's why I am here" She stated. Gaara frowned at the word 'protect' as he looked away from everyone. Hinata nodded.
Kana looked at Sasuke, Sakura and then Gaara. "All of you stay with me at all times" She stated.
"What are we babies that can't protect ourselves?" Sakura asked as she looked at Kana. Sasuke nodded in agreement. "She's right we can do just fine without following you…each one of us standing here are strong we don't need you help" Sasuke stated. Sakura looked at Sasuke and blushed.
"Sasuke-kun just agreed with me…again. I think he might be falling for me he hasn't even yelled at me or anything" Sakura blushed while looking at him.
"Fine then…stay here die and see what I care because I won't" Kana stated honestly as she looked at Hinata. "Hinata-chan come with me" She said as she looked at the Hyuuga. Hinata nodded.
"I'm coming as well…" Gaara mumbled. Kana looked at the red head for a while and noticed his facial expression as she smirked.
"Okay…Gaara-san" She smirked; only knowing his name because Gemma pronounced it when it was his turn to fight. Sasuke looked at Gaara and frowned; there was no way he was going to let Gaara go with Hinata and protect her. He wanted to protect her.
"I'm coming as well" The raven haired ninja stated while having a glaring contest with Gaara. Sakura looked at Sasuke in shock.
"B-But Sasuke-kun?"
"Tch…whatever I'm tired of standing here talking with all you brats…except you Hinata-chan and you Gaara-san, let's go…oh and keep up if you can…I'm not slowing down one bit for none of you" She stated as she started running. Hinata nodded. She was now as fast as Kana maybe even faster and it was no trouble for her to keep up and she ran to catch up with her. Sasuke was pretty fast now himself but not that fast.
Sasuke, Gaara and Sakura all stood there knowing that they would never be able to keep up with those two if there are moving that fast; they couldn't even see where they were.
"Well let's go" Sasuke stated as they all nodded and ran. Gaara didn't really want to work with his enemy and this other girl but complied anyway seeing that whatever was happening was dealing with Hinata and that's all he needed to know.
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Naruto was currently in his fight with his brother Yukki as the each of them exchanged blows.
"You know Naruto-niisan you're quite strong" He smirked as he looked at his older brother. Naruto smirked back as he looked at the young boy.
"Same to you as well…" Yukki and Naruto stared at each other for a few more seconds before running towards each other.
"Kage Bunshin no jutsu" Naruto yelled as he made five clones of himself. Yukki grinned in excitement.
"Clones huh? Alright then let's make this more interesting little brother" Yukki smirked as he made some hand seals. "Kage Bunshin no jutsu" He yelled as he too made five clones.
Each clone ran towards the other. "This is going to be fun" Yukki grinned in a sadistic way as he ran towards his older brother.
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Kana and Hinata were way ahead of Gaara, Sasuke and Sakura and they weren't slowing down anytime soon. Sasuke frowned he was getting a little jealous that Hinata had become much faster than him.
"Slow down!" He yelled at the two girls only to see them both make a sudden stop. Kana turned around to look at Sasuke.
"It's not our fault that you three are too slow to keep up. Either don't follow us or you can-"Kana was cut off when an explosion seal was thrown their way. The explosion was so huge that it sent each of them flying down to the forest grounds.
When Kana opened her eyes she only saw Sakura but not Gaara, Hinata and Sasuke.
Kana looked up only to be punched in the face. She looked at the person her punched her as she frowned. "Who the hell are you" She hissed as she wiped her mouth.
"That doesn't matter…fight me" He hissed out as he then looked over at the unconscious girl on the ground. "Or she dies" He smirked as he looked back at Kana.
Kana then smirked. "Kill her for all I care. I don't know who she is and don't care I was sent here only to protect one person and that's it" The man looked shocked as he looked at Kana.
"Hum well I only see one kid where is the one that you were sent to protect?" He grinned in a devious way. Kana frowned. "Forgive me Kiyoshi-kun I couldn't protect her…but I know that she is safe" Kana thought as she got into her fighting position.
"You want to fight me…come at me then" She smirked.
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Hinata opened her eyes to see both Gaara and Sasuke lying on the ground as she remembered that they both tried to protect her.
Flashback
The explosion sent Hinata flying down but as she was falling she felt not only Gaara's arms around her but Sasuke's also. They were both trying to protect her from the fall.
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She crawled over to both boys as she shook them. "Gaara-kun…Sasuke-kun" She cried out as she continued shaking them trying to wake them.
"Hey…shut up I'm okay" She looked at Sasuke who was smiling weakly at her as he struggled to sit up while Gaara finally opened his eyes to looked at Hinata as he too sat up.
She smiled as she looked at them both. "I'm so happy that you both are okay" They both looked at her smiling both then they realized that sitting next to each other.
Sasuke moved away from the red head glaring at him. "Idiot, what are you doing here anyways? Why do you want to protect her? I can protect her she doesn't need some crazy guy like you as her protector" Sasuke yelled out at the red head.
Gaara frowned as he looked at Sasuke. Hinata looked at both boys trying to say something to prevent them from starting a fight but she couldn't get herself to say a thing.
"What's your problem? Do you like her or something?" He glared at the Uchiha. Sasuke blushed but then the blush quickly went away as it turned into a frown.
"No I don't she is my friend and my teammate so that means only I will protect her" He hissed out.
"P-Please s-stop it you two, we are in a very serious-"
"Shut-up and stay out of this" Sasuke hissed out as he glared at Hinata who was now looking at him in shock.
"S-Sasuke-kun…." Gaara looked at Hinata for a moment before looking back at Sasuke as his sand started to come from out his gourd.
"You bastard, I will not allow someone like you to talk to her in that way" He hissed out. Sasuke and Hinata eyes widened when they realized that Gaara's sand was coming towards Sasuke but before it even come close to Sasuke someone had came.
"What do we have here. I found myself a Hyuuga" The male spoke as he looked at Hinata. Gaara sand stood still as he looked at the male.
"Are you Hyuuga Hinata?" The male asked. She said nothing as she watched the male come closer. "I said are you Hyuuga Hinata?" He hissed out as he ran towards Hinata. Sasuke frowned as he ran in front of Hinata as he charged towards the man.
"Stay away from her!" Sasuke yelled as he raised his fist to punch him but when he hit him the man turned into liquid. Sasuke and Gaara looked at the water on the ground.
"What the hell?" Sasuke mumbled to himself as he watched the water come up from the ground but it divided itself into two as the man was once again standing in front of them only this time it was two of him.
"Nice try kid" The man smirked but then he frowned as he punched the Uchiha across the face sending him flying some feet back.
"Sasuke-kun!" Hinata yelled as she turned back to the male and frowned. "I won't let you hurt my friends" She stated in a determined tone. Gaara looked at her in shock as she got into a tiger stance.
"I will not be defeated so easily" She smirked as she looked at the man.
"So you say" He then ran towards Hinata. "Let's see how strong Hyuuga Hinata really is" He laughed in a crazy tone as he was running towards her.
Gaara frowned as his sand came from out he's gourd. Hinata noticed this as she looked back at him.
"Let me handle this Gaara-kun" She stated without smiling…her expression was more like determination. He stared at her for a moment a little angry that she wouldn't let him help her.
"Let the girl fight while you fight me" Gaara turned slightly to look at the other male. It was the same guy that Hinata was fighting but his clone. Gaara frowned as he's sand started going towards the man.
"How about we fight somewhere else" The man then disappeared. Gaara slightly frowned since he didn't to fight anywhere else but he disappeared as well to follow the man.
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Sasuke was slowly getting up. When he looked up her saw as Hinata was fighting the man who just attacked him but Gaara was no where to be found.
He stood up as he watched Hinata fighting the male. He was very proud of her. She has become so strong just one mouth but he was a little jealous since Hinata seemed to become a little stronger than he is…which he didn't like one bit.
He pushed aside his jealous thought when he saw Hinata being thrown across the forest grounds.
"Hinata!" He yelled out as he ran towards her. He was about to help her help but she slapped away his hand which shocked him.
"I can do this without your help" She stated.
He looked at her in shock. The look in her eyes…she was truly angry. He watched her as she stood up walking in front of him to face the smirking man.
"I can do this just fine by myself. Just because I was struck down doesn't mean that I lost the fight…because I haven't" She turned to look at Sasuke while slightly frowning. "This is my fight" She stated as she looked away from him as she started to walk towards the man.
Sasuke looked at Hinata in shock. He has never once seen her act like this. "…Hinata…" He thought as he watched her once again start fighting the male.
The male smirked in a devious way as he looked at Hinata. "You're pretty determined kid…say why don't you use your Byakugan? I want to see it and I want to know why Maiki wants you so badly" He stated.
"I don't need my Byakugan…" She then pulled out her crossbow as she pointed it towards the male. The male eyes widened as he jumped back when she fired an arrow, which shot at the ground.
"That was a close one…it happen so fast I almost didn't see that coming" He thought as he looked up at her smirking face. He then looked back at the ground to notice that the arrow had gone into the ground.
"Huh…where did it go" He thought out loud as he looked around for the arrow.
Sasuke also watched the scene before him wondering where the arrow had gone. All of a sudden the arrow came up from the ground right up under the male that Hinata was fighting.
The male dodged the arrow just in time. "Chakra seekers…?" The male looked back up and Hinata to notice that Hinata had seven arrows in the crossbow and she was getting ready to fire them at him.
His eyes widened as the arrows were all sent flying at him. Hinata watched as all the arrows attacked the male as he small explosion surrounding the man happened. She smirked as she looked back at Sasuke.
"I told you that I could handle him by myself" She smirked as she looked at him. He smirked as he looked at her but then his eyes widened.
"HINATA!" He yelled out. Hinata turned around only to be stabbed with a sword in the stomach. Sasuke watched in horror as blood gushed out everywhere coming from Hinata.
"Heh…you had thought that you defeated me? No one can defeat me" He grinned in an evil way as he started spinning around as he was stabbing Hinata in everyway he could.
Hinata screamed out in pain as she was being stabbed. Sasuke watched in horror as he watched the tears coming from her eyes as she was being stabbed. He then felt anger towards the man who was trying to kill her.
Sasuke's curse seal activated as he stood up as a dark aura of chakra surrounded him. Sasuke watched as Hinata fell to the ground as she was surrounded by a puddle of her own blood.
He looked back up at the man. "You will pay for what you did to her" He hissed as he started walking towards the male.
The male just smirked as he watched Sasuke walking towards him. "What do you take me as a joke? I see nothing funny I will make you suffer for killing her" He Sasuke yelled out in anger as he was in front of the male as he grabbed both of the male arms and turning him around as he pulled the males arms up and he stepped on his back pulling his arms in the process while breaking them.
The man yelled out in pain as he fell to the ground. "Y-You bastard" He hissed as he tried standing up while holding his arm. Sasuke just glared at him but then his curse seal started to act up causing him to hiss in pain as he fell to the ground holding his neck.
"Tch…you weakling is that all your power?" The man asked as he got ready to walk towards Hinata.
"And for your information…she isn't dead yet. But let me end her life now" The man laughed as he raised his sword to end her life.
Sasuke tried to make himself move but he couldn't the pain in his neck was too much. "HINATA!" He yelled out to her as he watched the male getting ready to thrust his sword into her once more.
"AHHHH" Sasuke watched as the man was sent flying back a few yards into a tree. Sasuke looked up to see a male that he recognized seeing before but never met him.
The red head looked down at Sasuke. "We can take it from here?" Sasuke looked at him.
"W-We?" He asked.
"Yes 'we'" Sasuke looked up to see Kiyoshi standing next to him but he wasn't looking down at him but looking at Hinata instead.
"Can you stand?" Kiyoshi asked Sasuke still not looking at him.
"I-I…yes I can" Kiyoshi started walking towards the male that stabbed his little cousin.
"I want you to take Hinata-sama to the hospital…" He stated. Sasuke watched him as Kiyoshi continued walking towards the man with the killing intent in his eyes.
Kazuya glared at Sasuke. "What are you waiting around for? Hurry up and take her to the hospital she doesn't have much time left. Hurry the hell up!" He yelled out at the Uchiha.
Sasuke stood up as he ran towards Hinata and picked her up and dashed off into the hospital.
Kazuya looked at his best friend. "Kazuya…let me handle this guy and you go look for Kana" Kazuya nodded as he quickly leaped off in search for his other best friend.
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Sasuke looked down at Hinata. "It's all my fault…if I were strong enough I would have been able to protect her" He burst through the hospital doors.
"Someone help me! She needs help" He yelled out. A doctor and two nurse's came towards Sasuke. Sasuke had tears streaming down his face and he didn't care he was truly worried for Hinata.
"Please help her….please save her" The doctor looked at Hinata and then the two nurses.
"Get the medical staff here now! This girl doesn't have much time left. Hurry!" The two nurses ran to in search of a medical team to help.
The doctor took Hinata from his arms as he saw the medical team coming. He laid Hinata down on the bed as the medical team room to the emergency room.
The doctor looked at Sasuke as he placed a hand on his shoulder. "We'll do the best we can to save her"
Sasuke couldn't stop the tears from flowing down his eyes. Just the thought of losing Hinata was hurting him.
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Hours had passed as Sasuke was in the waiting room for Hinata who was still in surgery. He had his elbows rested on his knees with his face buried in his hands.
"Sasuke we came as soon as we heard. Where is Hinata-chan? Is she okay?" Naruto asked as he looked at Sasuke. With Naruto were Sakura and Kakashi along with Gaara.
Sasuke didn't respond which was making Naruto angry. "Sasuke-teme where is she?" He yelled causing Sakura to put a hand on his shoulder.
Naruto looked over at Sakura and noticed how she was looking at Sasuke with concern. Naruto looked back at Sasuke and noticed that water was dripping on the floor.
"Is Sasuke…crying?" The blonde thought as he looked at Sasuke in shock as did Kakashi, Sakura and Gaara.
"Sasuke-kun…" Sakura whispered as she was about to start talking but Sasuke cut her off.
"It's all my fault…if-if I were stronger I could protect her. It's my fault that she's in here…she's on the verge of death because me. I-I don't want to see her die" He stated as he never lifted his head. He didn't want them to see the tears coming from his eyes even though they all knew he was crying just by the tone of his voice.
Sakura looked at Sasuke in concerned. It pained her to see that Sasuke was in pain.
"Sasuke-kun…" She whispered as she looked at him.
Kakashi was worried about Hinata as well. Although Hinata was his student he thought of her more like a little sister than his student. They have become close since she lives with him now. He was praying to kami that she would be okay.
Naruto was now on the verge of tears as well. Just the thought of Hinata dying…it hurts him.
Gaara looked at everyone, he noticed that all of them had a sad look on their face. He was just as worried about Hinata as Sasuke was but he kept his blank emotionless expression on his face but deep down he was really worried about her.
It was silent for about forty-five minutes and the doctor was walking towards everyone. Everyone looked at the doctor waiting for him to say if Hinata made it or not.
"Is she okay?" Kakashi asked as he looked at the man. The doctor looked at everyone.
"She is just fine…we were able to save her" Everyone sighed in relief. A smile appeared on Sasuke's face when he heard she was okay.
"She is resting now but if you wish to see her you may" The doctor stated mainly looking at Sasuke since he knew that Sasuke was the one who brought her in.
Sasuke wiped his eyes as he stood up. Everyone looked at him and noticed his red eyes from crying. "You all may go in if you want?" The doctor stated.
"She is in room 219C" He noticed that Sasuke had already left to go to her room.
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When Sasuke came to her room he opened her door as looked at her. A smile appeared on his face as he looked at her but then a sad expression came over his face as he looked at her. He then looked around only to see his one chair in the room so he walked over towards the chair and pulled it over towards the bed.
He grabbed her hand as he used his other hand to caress her face. "Hinata…I'm sorry if only I wasn't able to protect you. I didn't even get up in time to save you. Please forgive me Hinata. You don't know how I felt at the thought of losing you. I don't want to see any of my friends die" He said to her as he removed his hand from her face but kept holding her hand with the other hand.
"From here on out I promise to protect you…I don't want to see you die Hinata" He whispered as he looked at her sleeping face.
At this moment Kakashi, Gaara, Sakura and Naruto came inside. Kana did come in the hospital with Sakura and Kazuya but told Sakura that she was going with Kazuya since he was injured pretty badly in his fight trying to protect her.
Gaara watched as Sasuke was holding Hinata's hand but refrained from saying anything knowing this isn't the right place or time to say anything.
"Hinata-chan…"Naruto whispered as he looked at her sleeping face. At this time the doctor came inside but it was a female doctor.
"She lost a lot of blood…she won't be waking up for sometime now" Sasuke never took his eyes off of Hinata while Kakashi looked at the doctor.
"Sometime now? Can you maybe predict a day when you will wake up?"
The doctor thought about his words for a moment before speaking. "Well most likely in two weeks from now…the soonest I would say is the end of this week" She stated as she looked at Hinata.
Gaara looked at Hinata. He was really worried for her but is happy is know that she's okay. For a moment he felt anger towards her when she wouldn't let him help her. He wanted protect her. He never once protected anyone before and wanted to protect because…he cares for her. He looked at the Uchiha and noticed how he was still holding her hand and hasn't taken his eyes off of Hinata since they arrived in the room.
"Okay now I'm sorry to say this but Hinata needs her rest and I'm going to ask you all leave. You may come by tomorrow to visit her if you like but you must leave now. Visiting hours are now over" She stated.
They all took one more look at Hinata as they all started walking towards the door but the doctor's voice caught their attention.
"Excuse young man but I'm going to have to ask you to leave" She stated while looking at Sasuke who hasn't moved an inch.
"I'm not leaving" He stated causing Naruto and Gaara to look at him in shock as well as Kakashi and Sakura.
"Well I'm sorry you're going to-"
"I said I'm not leaving! I'm staying here and that's final" Sasuke hissed as he glared at the doctor with his Sharingan activated. Everyone looked at him in shock.
Of course actually wasn't going to attack the nurse but he just wanted to intimidate her.
The doctor sighed as she closed her eyes. She could tell that everyone was truly worried about her but this one…he was worried the most for her.
"Fine then…stay the rest of you leave now!" She stated. Naruto frowned as he looked at the doctor.
"Hey that's not fair how come-"Kakashi placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder as he looked at him. Naruto noticed the look and decided to not say anything else.
Sakura looked at Sasuke partially worried for Hinata and jealous that Sasuke cares for her so much.
They all looked at Sasuke and Hinata once more before walking out of the room leaving just Sasuke and Hinata.
Sasuke looked at her as he smiled weakly at her. "I won't leave your side Hinata. I will stay here until you wake up. I promise you that" He stated as he looked at her.
Okay that was this chapter. In the chapter Sasuke is shown spending all most all his time with the Hyuuga girl. The next chapter will be up soon. Please leave reviews.
Edit: 9/19/10: Thank you for everyone's reviews and support. Sorry for taking so long in updating this. Please check out my other stories n.n