This is probably the most awaited chapter in this fic, and here it is!! But, since is such a supa dupa long chapter, I will have to put it in parts...(or chapter..)(p.s. there will be more stuff that shall happen next, so I don't think it will soon finish) (yes, I know I'm evil)
Oh yeah, and I'm starting to put things back in order -.- and I'll soon show you the reason of Gaara's OOC-ness
:D
The sun shone strong in the little neighborhood in the middle of Konoha, positioned in the little alley that wasn't known by most. The birds where chirping, the squirrels where playing, and the Sabaku's where symphonically snoring...until...
BAM!!
BAM!!
BAM!!
With the sudden wake up by an enraged fanned Temari, hysterically banging on the youngest brother's door.
"WAKE UP!! I THOUGH YOU WERE INSOMNIAC!?" she shouted to Gaara behind his firmly locked door.
"WHAT?" Gaara shouted through his white fluffy pillow after hearing screaming.
"I SAID WAKE UP!! YOUR GOING TO BE LATE FOR HI-"Temari got cut off but a door slamming her face as she said 'Hinata'. This had reminded him that he was supposed to get Hinata for the festival.
He rushed right next to her, going down the stairs by 3 steps at the time to get his kimono thingy that he left on the kitchen counter. But to his horror, it was gone. He ran up the stairs again and took the knocked out Temari who was on the floor by her collar and held her up and said "Where's the cloth that was on the table last night!? It was from Hinata, she bought the kimono that I was supposed to wear!!" as he glared to her oh so heinously before he let her go.
"Oh...that...Well, you see...I was doing the dishes...but when I was gonna dry it up, there were no towels...so I..." Temari said after getting up while rubbing the back of her head and avoiding his eyes, she knew it was the end for her.
"You what!?" he said disbelieving.
"...did I mentioned that...Kankuro started a fire whit his supper last night so...he also took it to turn it off..." She now had her eyes close. And at that precise moment, said pyromaniac came into the frame.
"Sup guys? What's all the yelling for?" Cat boy said as he came in whit a cheesy smile.
Gaara turned his head to where he was and had a 'you-are-going-to-die-so-badly-that-you-would-want-to-die-when-you-will-already-be-killed-so-painfully-in-less-then-a-second-and-would-still-be-in-a-world-of-pain-if-you-don't-do-something-about-it-and-you-know-what-I'm-talking-about' glare.
Thankfully, he understood that and quickly ran in his room to find something he could wear that looks the most like the one he had. There was a silence. Gaara looked back at Temari and said "...Don't you have stuff to do?..." and she left.
When he was finally left alone, he sighed and put his two hands on his face and slid down, his back to the door. 'Hina-tenshi will be mad at me even if it was my money...she choose it with all her heart...I'm doomed...and I have a really bad feeling for tonight...real bad...well...at least shukaku won't be there today' He got up and went into his room to look out from his window to maybe get a sight of Hinata. No luck. He walked to his bed and threw himself lifelessly on it. He grabbed his white fluffy pillow, it was decapitated at a corner since it's the same that he had every since he was kid and he used to bite in his slight sleep, and put it over his head, grumbling of annoyance.
A knock was heard. It was Kankuro. Gaara muttered something but Kankuro didn't understood so he went in anyways. "Hey, here's your stupid clothe...and you better give it back tonight, it was given from generation to generation and it was our dad who gave it to me...I know you don't like him, but please, this means a lot to me..." Kankuro said as he give it to Gaara.
"And what makes you thinks I'll do what you ask?" Gaara spat out, every time they talked about their father, it always pissed him off. He hated that guy from the bottom of his heart. He even wished for his death on his birthdays.
"...or..." Kankuro thought "I'll ask Hinata to look over you..." Gaara twitched and said 'fine' and Kankuro left.
Gaara looked at the chunk of cloth that he put aside on his bed. It was plain black and white. He took a part of it and saw that it was still new, the manufactured folds were still visible. 'From generations, yeah right...' But like a miracle, a card fell from the folded top. But it was clearly Temari's hand writing. It was a 'how to wear' guide. He glared at the card. How did she knew that he didn't knew how to put it?
Maybe was it when he came back and started grumbling about how he never wore a kimono and for years only thought that it only existed for girls, the traditional style. It seemed like he woke up on the wrong side of the bed that morning.
Minutes past and he finally got into it. Gaara looked at the long mirror and found out that he looked somewhat handsome in it. But after all this struggling, he had to brush his 'messier than usual' hair. He rarely brushed it since it was to short to be tangled. But it seemed to have grown longer after these few months. He took his black comb, it was getting a little dusty but oh well.
After all the preparing, he got out of his room and walked downstairs. He yawned as he stretched his arms since it was still 9 am, an hour a bit too early to wake up a Saturday morning. This alerted his siblings of his arrival and they both looked at him amazed. He was, like Temari would describe it, 'fcking hot'. Gaara looked at them puzzled. He could swear that his brother was gonna get a nose bleed. He didn't knew he had such effect in only a kimono.
"Uh...Ta-dah?" Gaara said as he opened his arms and looked aside.
"OMG !! Your so handsome!! I can't believe were related!!...if you weren't my brother, I would totally ask you out... seriously..."
"Yeah, me too!" Kankuro added.
Gaara and Temari looked at Kankuro, both whit a disgusted face. Gaara went down just to eat breakfast and he had to be traumatized for life.
Thinking about that and judging that he's well prepared, he left to go get Hinata and didn't even say bye. Temari walked closer to Kankuro and as she put her hands on her waist and said "If I weren't his sister, I would probably hate him whit that kind of attitude...I wonder why Hinata still hangs out whit him?" Kankuro looked at her and said "...Don't ask me, I'm not a girl" 'and I don't know how girls can say that he looks good and want's to date him, then say that she wouldn't like being whit him...' Temari lifted her eyebrow and said "Well, how do you explain the face paint and the 'Me too'"
Kankuro looked at her whit a 'gasp how could you' face and Temari had a 'intuition' face.
'I wonder what time it is...but I don't want to leave this bed...so warm and comfy...but, I might be late for...the thing I just forgot...darn my half awake conscience...' Hinata though as she felt the sun rays pass through the thin fabric lilac curtains. She growled a bit and rotated herself so that she could face hide her face under her pillow and she brought the covers closer like a cocoon. Miss sleepy head then felt a hand shaking her to wake up. She muffled something that sounded like 'a few more minutes'. The hand started to shake her harder and she went deeper in the covers and replied an almost clear 'I wanna sleeeep...I'll train whit you later Neji...'
She then herd a voice that was clearly not Neji's saying 'Guess again' and she then felt the person's body sit on the mattress as her legs went deeper compared to the rest of her body. Horrified, she fought her way through the pillows and covers to finally see who it was. It was Gaara, sitting on her bed. But as her eyes met his, she stopped in place as she took in the most beautiful sight she has ever seen. From where Gaara sat, the sun ray went from his back as sun rays passed through his messy but somewhat combed hair. It gave an aura of serene tranquility. And top this all, he had one of his gorgeous smiles. If she weren't the shy girl Hinata is, she would have thrown herself on him.
"Rise and shine Hinata" He smiled as he closed his eyes and tilted his head on the left Hinata finally snapped back to reality and covered herself whit the blankets and blushed. "H-how did you came in? I-I thought I locked the door last night..." She asked. She was certain that she locked the doors like every other nights. "Well..I turned the knob and it wasn't locked..." He lied, he had recently made a double of her house key, just for emergency of course. "O-oh...ok then...i-if you say so..." Then it went quite silentBut not awkward, just silent.
Gaara then turned to face Hinata and said "Aren't you going to get prepared for today's great event?" then he got up and left the room then went to the kitchen. "...T-today's great event?..." Then she remembered about the festival. She jumped up in a flash and rushed to her wardrobe to get her kimono that was neatly hanged next to the numerous other colorful yukatas. She laid it on the bed and made a quick shower, brushed her hair, dry it, placed it, put on the kimono, put an extremely light amount of makeup and pushed a bit of perfume, the one that her little sister Hanabi advised her.
She finally went down, careful not tripping down on her special shoes, she never had the hang of it. She reached the kitchen and was greeted by a sweet cinnamon smell. Gaara had prepared breakfast, something she never thought to witness in her life. The table had a nice clean white table clothe and was complimented whit a white half opened lily in a tall transparent vase in the center of the table. There was two plates whit french toasts and the maple syrup was between the plates.
Hinata couldn't believed it, she was about to ask him what's all this about, but then he turned around and was bringing to glasses of milk to the table. Gaara then saw Hinata and smiled as he laid the glasses on the table. "I hope you didn't mind that I made cooking." He said as he took off his 'manly' apron and hang it on the stove's handle. "N-no..not at all..." Hinata said in an awe. Gaara approached to where Hinata was and pulled the kitchen chair, leading her to sit. She snapped out of her wonder and sat down when she saw him sitting on his chair.
"Itadakimasu!" Gaara chanted as he started to dig in after literally drowning his french toast in syrup. Hinata then took her fork and knife and ate as well. The french toast tasted like it was prepared by a chef, like he was doing this for years.
"This is delicious!" Hinata stated after swallowing her bite.
"You think so? My sister always critics my cooking...she think that she's the best cook in the world...well to tell you the truth, she's even worst than my brother!" Gaara said then pretended to hang himself and stuck out his tongue. She giggled.
"...I like your hair." Gaara commented when the talk stopped.
Hinata blushed at that. She personally didn't thought that her hair was that pretty. It was held up in a thick loose bun and had ornaments sticking out of it and she let her bangs hang loose. "T-thank you" she thanked him whit a small smile.
"I-I like your outfit...but...what happened to the one that I bought yesterday...w-was it because you didn't like it? I-I can reimburse it if you want..And I'll give you back your money too...and I'll-" While she started talking and looking at her fingers, Gaara walked to Hinata and shushed her by putting his index on her lips. She stopped instantly while furiously blushing s she looked up to his eyes. "It's fine, the one you bought just got destroyed by my siblings, so I got one of my brother's" He explained.
"And besides" he added, "If he would have not lend me this, I would kill him" He smiled and caressed her cheek then left to put the empty dishes in the sink.
"O-oh..." Was all the Hinata could manage to answer. So many information in so little time. First the breakfast, then the compliment, then the shush, then the 'I would kill him' and then the dishes. She could faint but for the past few weeks, she had an 'anti-fainting' exercise, courtesy of the Sabaku's.
'What is he up too!? I never saw him this nice before!! What if he's doing all this because it would be the last time I'll ever see him!? What if he has a super rare cancer that he is gonna die soon!? What if this is a 'goodbye' treatment!?...I'll make this the night he'll never forget...the day that he won't regret it! And I'll do my best today!' Hinata told herself to put her mind in the right place. She has decided that today, would be the day that he will never forget before he leaves, or that's what she thinks this is about, when all this is just because he loves her.
When she snapped out of her thoughts, Gaara was already waiting at the front door, ready to go at the festival. Hinata nodded telling him that she's coming, she rushed to her room to get her mini fan and small purse whit the money and the 'emergency kit' in case that anything happens. Better safe than sorry. She ran back to Gaara despite the special shoes and almost tripping a few times. But as she stopped to walk normally, she tripped and fell on Gaara who majestically caught her in her fall. "Are you ok?" He asked. "Y-yeah...thanks" Hinata blushed due to the close distance between them.
Hinata and Gaara departed to the festival, both having a goal in their mind. Hinata, having promised to herself to make today the best day Gaara ever had while Gaara planned to confess his love to Hinata since he knew shukaku wouldn't be there to ruin the moment.
Yep, it's the end of this chapter.
Sorry for taking THIS long for making this chapter...
And I'll try to push myself to make the other chapter soon...or...sue me...no wait...to much... uh... be very very nice and try to remind me every day
Also, I need your help, I'm in lack of festival ideas -.-
All ideas are accepted. Don't be shy, I never bite and never ignore a review ( I actually worship them )
so...
See you soon :3