Kit: I just got back from Florida yesterday night. I have the worst sun burn.
Sasuke: Then why are you typing?
Kit: I didn't have the computer for a week straight, I was almost having a computer craving.
Sasuke: You're an addict.
Kit: It's the sad, sad truth. What else is horrible is that I have sunburn all over my knees, back, it went up my arms on my wrists and a little on my hands and fingers! Anyways. On with the story!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
Chapter Three
Her lavender tinted eyes stared at them with pure curiosity in them. Her teammates were acting immature and over protective, again. This didn't stop her from observing Sasuke, Naruto and Sakura. They had grown much more since she had seen them. Sakura's pink hair seemed to have grown longer than it was before. But she still had the same air that she had before and her green eyes kept darting back to Sasuke. And for some reason she kept looking at Hinata with envy. Nothing seemed to have changed about Sakura, but she did seem a lot more confident. Hinata smiles kindly at Sakura and steps forwards with her hand out.
"It's nice to see you again, Sakura-san." She said pulling her own confidence by the roots. Sakura looks surprised by the sudden gesture at kindness. She was highly paranoid about it. She, hesitantly, shakes her hand.
"You too, Hinata-san." Sakura said pulling kindness from her own heart. She was used to being sarcastic and angry, but she had no retort to this. Hinata releases Sakura's hand, and looks towards Naruto and Sasuke.
"It's nice to see you too." She said with a small smile. It was only a smile with no teeth. Naruto didn't seem to notice, but Sasuke knew that smile. It was a sad smile. Ginosuke jumps up and glomps onto Hinata. A light blush dusts her cheeks and Gaara's non-existent eyebrow twitches. Daisuke just stared and began to rub his temples from the head ache he gets from his brother everyday. Ginosuke nuzzles Hinata's cheek and grins from ear to ear.
"Let's explore this villiage!" Ginosuke said jumping off of Hinata excitedly. Her lavender tinted eyes raft to him with a look of un-certainty.
"I dunno." She says rubbing the back of her neck as her eye shifted to look at Daisuke. He had a small smirk on her face as he walked over and wraps his arm around Hinata's small waist. She looks at him with a raised eyebrow, Gaara nearly growled.
"Let's go explore." Hinata lets out a small sigh, then smiles.
"Fine." She says running into the villiage. She disappeared into the villiage in the blink of an eye. Ginosuke's smile turns into a sly smirk as he ran into the villiage after Hinata. Daisuke ran after her at almost the same time as Ginosuke.
Sakura and Naruto just stared at where they had run from. Then they looked into the villiage. There were large crowds of people. Were they supposed to find them? Temari looks at them with a slight smirk.
"So you're going to let Sand Ninja explore your villiage?"
Then it hit them, the Sand Ninja had no idea how to get around the villiage. Almost immediately, they took off.
OoO
A flicker of midnight blue hair flitted around the corner of the building as she explored more. Her feet barely touched the ground as she made her way around the next corner. Her lavender tinted eyes glittered with pure excitement as she jumped on top of a building to get a better view.
"Wow, this place is soooo green!" She said as she took everything in. Sunagakure (sp?) was a desert and that was what she was used to. Other than the travels that she had before with Zabuza. There were so many people there, it was so crowded and rushed. She seemed to be entranced with wonder of this new place. Something seemed so familiar about it, like a nagging memory.
Shaking her head, she jumps down and almost immediately bumps into someone. Her lavender tinted eyes shift to look at that someone.
"Gomen." She says softly as the person turned to look at her. He had long, silky, brown hair tied into a pony tail at the very end. His forehead protector was odd to her. Not that she hadn't seen any that looked like that. He was a good head taller than she was. But the one thing that befuddled her to the most was his eyes. They were the same as Her's, but whiter. But she didn't pay attention to it for long; his hair reminded her of one she missed most. Tears gathered in her eyes as she staggered backwards.
"Gomen." She repeats as she rushes away from him. The one instinct that remained intact in her was the fact that he was following her. She stops right in her tracks and turns to look at him with a glare that took a lot to muster up.
"Wh-Why are you fo-following me?" She stuttered out clenching her fists tightly. She was trying as hard as she could to keep her tears from falling. They eventually hardened as she looked back up at him as she clenched her fists tighter. A memory nagged at the back of her head as she looked up at the boy. Her eyes met his confidently and he took a step back. He had a surprised look on his face.
"Hinata-sa-"
Before he could finish, Hinata did a Jounin level jutsu that made her disappear in a poof of smoke. Veins began to pop up around the boy's eyes as his eyes swept over the villiage. He didn't even sense a trace of her chakra signature. He blinks a couple times before he heard his name being called out.
"Neji-kun! Gai-sensei needs us!" An enthusiastic boy's voice called out. The boy named Neji let out a small sigh and reluctantly went to his team mate. That girl seemed so familiar.
OoO
"YOU LOST HER?!" Ginosuke yelled at Daisuke with a vein popping out of his forehead. Daisuke glowers at Ginosuke as he clenched his fists at his sides.
"Hey! It's not my fault!" Daisuke retorts in a seething tone. His eyes were narrowed and his appearance pretty much summed up to two words: Pissed Off. Although Ginosuke could make the same look, he didn't have the menacing aura that his twin brother had. But he wouldn't give in. Both boys were infatuated with Hinata. Ginosuke was obvious and Daisuke was a more discrete about it. It was like they were looking in mirrors; their angered expressions were almost exactly the same. Daisuke's was cooler and settled, but he seemed much more menacing than his brother. Ginosuke had anger etched into every detail of his face. He was trying to tower over his twin, but wasn't succeeding due to the fact that they were the same height. He was trying to make himself seem more menacing. It wasn't working.
Then a hand came out and punched both of them in the head. Both recoiled with their hands over their head and looked towards the source with the same word: Ouch! There stood Tsukiko, her solid black eyes had a steely look in them. One hand laid lankly by her side, the other was raised in a fist. A scowl present on her god-like features. She glares down at her twins with the same steely look.
"Did I just catch that you lost track of Hinata?" She practically hissed. Ginosuke and Daisuke cowered in fear of their mother, mothers scare everyone. Take note of that. Tsukiko was incredibly stubborn for her own age, but Hinata was like a daughter to her. That and she was hoping for Hinata to marry one of her twins. But there was one other reason, the one reason Hinata had never been to Konoha.
OoO
A blur of midnight blue hair whirled past Gaara, Kankurou and Temari out of the villiage. It took Temari and Kankurou a moment, but Gaara recognized it almost immediately and raced after her. Whenever she was like this, it wasn't anything good. The cork from his gourd had come out from it and the sand made him float really fast towards the direction where Hinata had disappeared.
Since when did you care?
Shut Up Shukaku.
Why should I? You never cared before.
Then why would you care now?
Don't answer me with questions, it's annoying.
Deal with it.
Bastard.
I know that already.
Answer me. Now.
No. Go away. Now.
…..
A small grin appears on Gaara's face from the satisfaction of getting Shukaku to shut up. It disappeared from his stoic face as soon as it had come. He breathes in from his nose sharply to pick up her chakra signature. He couldn't sense it. She must be hiding it. He thought to himself as he searched almost frantically. Then a sudden memory rang back onto him.
FLASHBACK
"Get away from him!" A young woman exclaims pulling her young son away from the younger red headed Shukaku container. Everyone in the park at Sunagakure made a pathway for Gaara to walk down with feared expressions on their faces. Frustration hidden behind the glossy emeralds as he ran down the path and up a building. His rage was building more than anything. It pissed him off greatly that everyone was scared of him and were mean to him for absolutely no reason.
Once he was done jumping from building to building, he stops on one of the buildings to stare at the back of the head of a midnight blue haired girl. He could smell the salt water gathering in her eyes. Her pale skin seemed to glow in the light of the sun set. She seemed to sense him behind her as she turned to look at him. She was definitely new. She stared into his glossy emerald eyes with her liquid opals. She quickly wipes her tears away. She began to walk towards him with a look of concern.
He stared at her with a look of incredulously and immistakeable annoyance mixed with anger. The last person to look at him like that was his mother. She continued to walk forward as she winced at his hard look. After a couple steps, she leaned in and wrapped her arms around him. He glares at her for a good few moments and he latched his hands onto her arms. He digs his fingers into her arms and she winces against him. This only makes her grip tighter around him.
His eyes widen and a tear slips out of the corner of his eye. No one had ever held him before, not even his mother. He slowly let his grasp on her arms and wraps his arms around her. She allows her grasp around him to loosen slightly. She continued to hold him until the aura of anger and sadness left him.
When she looks up at him, she gently wipes away one of the tears threatening to slip off his nose.
"Gaara-san, Are you ok?" Her angelic voice was the cherry on top. He looks down at her and almost smiles. Almost. He lets out a small smirk as his glossy emeralds stared down at her lavender opals.
"I'm better now." From then on, He didn't like it when she was out of his sight.
FLASHBACK OVER
Gaara let out a very, very, small smile on the memory. It was the start of everything. She was the only one close to him and he was going to keep it that way. Ever since she had done that, he had learned everything about her. Her father being the legendary Momochi Zabuza and her brother being the lethal weapon, and loyal servant to Zabuza, Haku. They were adopted of course, but she had absolutely no clue who her real family was.
His smile disappeared as soon as it came. He could sense two different chakra signatures that weren't Hinata's. They were headed towards the forest. Then the scent of salt water caught him. He made his sand float him towards the scent. It kept getting stronger as he followed it. Soon, he was right behind her. Not that she didn't notice his presence.
"G-G-Ga-Gaara-k-kun. P-P-Pl-Please g-go-go a-a-aw-away." Hinata stuttered through her tears. Before he knew it, he wraps his arms around her and she hiccups in surprise as she buried her face into his chest. She clutches the cloth of his shirt in her fists with tears brewing from her eyes. He set his head on her shoulder tilts his head so his face was right at the crook of her neck. This reminded both of them of how they became friends.
There was one thing he didn't notice when he was closing his eyes, the strange markings that wrapped around her neck…..
OoO
"Should we get her now, un?" Deidara whispers from up in the trees where he and Itachi were hidden for now. Itachi shakes his head.
"We'll get her later." He said, but he couldn't help but stare at the markings circling her neck.
THERE! THERE! THERE! THERE! THERE! THERE! THERE
Kit: I finally updated! I hope this is long enough for you!
Sasuke: Is something WRONG with you?!
Kit: What?
Sasuke: This has absolutely NO sasuhina in it!
Kit: So? There was Gaahina. And I said I would put Gaahina in this too!
Sasuke: You are so wrong!
Kit: I actually felt good about writing this one. MidnightRose Konouchi, is it okay if I updated this one instead? Their names are so familiar, that I forgot which one I was updating.
Sasuke: You're an idiot.
Kit: -rolls up sleeves and grabs Sasuke's demon shuriken and has a crazed look in eyes- Insulting me when it's my time of month isn't exactly the smartest thing in the world, now is it?
Sasuke: -runs-
Kit: -chases and throws-
Hinata: Leave ten reviews please.