Chapter 5

"Good," he said with a satisfactory smile. "You may carry on, then."

He took a few steps back and jumped to the nearest building faster than the eye could follow, making it look as though he had vanished. Very pleased with how things were going, he started hunting for prey. Maybe he'd get Gaara something.

He looked around as he jumped from building to building when he heard a scream only audible to his super-human ears. That voice… it couldn't be… Hinata?

'How lucky…' Gaara thought while he was hunting. He had just found the easiest prey to hunt in history, ever. A girl with dark-blue hair and pale skin seemed to be lost or something. She was heading straight for the woods, the most solitary place in the village where screams would rarely be heard. Naruto had said that it was the best place to feed in the entire village, and the only place where you could hunt freely, but people rarely went in there. 'I am having great luck today,' he thought.

He followed her a little while longer, until she got right in the borderline between village and forest. Then she stopped, looked at a piece of paper and looked around, confused. Gaara smiled smugly. He jumped down perfectly silent and tapped her shoulder.

Hinata turned around to meet the mint-green-eyed redhead boy. Gaara smiled innocently and put on the typical concerned face of someone who wants to help out someone.

"Pardon me, miss but… are you lost? Do you need help?" he said with his best fake-concern, innocent voice.

"Ah… um… Actually, I-I heard this new store opened a-and I wanted to t-try see how the prices for the groceries are… and the quality… and t-then compare but… um… I think I… I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere…" she explained.

"Oh, you poor thing," Gaara said while trying his hardest to hide his triumph smile. "But I think you didn't take the wrong turn, you should keep on going. This store you're talking about is, uh… a few paces down into the forest." Gaara mentally cursed himself for giving the worst story ever. It didn't make any sense for a grocery store to be in the middle of the forest… maybe he should just feed right here, it wouldn't be fun but…

"Oh, is that so? Thank you so much!" she said, smiling.

Gaara was dumbfounded and did his best to try not to laugh hysterically. 'This is definitely the easiest prey ever,' Gaara thought. 'So clueless and naïve… it's perfect.'

"Oh, you are very welcome."

She headed off in the forest and after letting her walk around inside for a little, the hunt was on. He leapt into the forest, going from branch to branch and in less than a second, he was already just a few steps behind her.

He purposely made a branch crack beneath his foot so that she would turn around… just as he leapt to the ground in front of her. When Hinata turned around she jumped in surprise at seeing him suddenly.

"Oh, my God! Why did you do that?! How did you do that?!"

Her heart was now beating so fast. Pumping more and more blood faster and faster through her veins. Gaara licked his lips in anticipation. His teeth became long and sharp right in front of Hinata's eyes and then shock and recognition flashed through her face. A predatory grin spread across his face and Hinata knew she was in trouble. She tried to back away slowly and then started running.

'Just perfect…' Gaara thought. He enjoyed the chase more than anything… well, except the actual blood, that warm blood sliding down his throat, soothing his pain, calming his thirst. He licked his lips again and started chasing. It was so unusual to get to chase your prey, since you can't attract attention, and he liked to play around with his food, so he let her believe she could actually outrun him for a little while. The fear and adrenaline was only making her heart beat faster, her face and throat become red. Then, when he couldn't stand the temptation anymore, he went straight for her throat as she screamed in terror.

'It hurts!' Hinata thought. It wasn't like when Naruto-kun did it. When he did it, she felt a tiny sting but then it wasn't painful at all, all she could feel were his soft lips on her neck and blood flowing out. But this time it really hurt, she was so very aware of her life being drawn out of her. He was sipping so fast it hurt so much and she could feel his sharp fangs tearing out more flesh to draw more blood. She screamed in pain even though she knew no one could hear her. Her vision was starting to get blurry and she felt light-headed. She was dying. She was slowly losing all her strength…

"Stop!" she heard. It was his voice.

Naruto had chased those screams as fast as he could and seeing Hinata like that, he was now completely enraged. He punched Gaara as hard as he could, making him fly into a tree.

"What the hell?!" screamed Gaara, blood dripping from the corner of his mouth.

"You can't touch her," he said. "Not her. I won't let you."

Gaara was shocked and angry. Nobody was going to tell him what he could and couldn't do or what he could feed on and what he couldn't. That was his prey. He chased it, he hunted it. It was his.

Hi again :) I am so sorry I took so long to update this! This time it really was a really long time. It was like a whole month or more! I'm so sorry . I had last-minute projects and final exams and it was a mess T_T Now that I'm on summer break, I promise to do my best to update every week! Thank you so much for reading my story! Please tell me how I could make it better, review! BTW help me choose, would you like Gaara to use red chakra to fight? Or stay with his sand?