Chapter 3: You deserve better

Hinata woke up in a cold sweat.

"Good it was only a dream." She said.

She got up and got ready.

She looked at her clock. It was 7:23 and almost time for her to go to school.

Suddenly the doorbell rang and she rushed downstairs.

"Oh know I forgot Gaara was going to walk me to school." Hinata said as she got to the door.

She grabbed her stuff off the couch and opened the door.

"Hi Gaara!" Hinata said.

"Hey." He replied emotionless.

"We...uh better hurry before we're late." Gaara said.

"You're right... " Hinata responded not able to think of anything else.

Halfway through the walk to school someone was running behind them.

"Hinata! Wait up!" A guy's voice called.

Hinata turned around and it was Kiba who was waving his arms around.

When he finally caught up they started walking again.

"So is this your boyfriend?" Kiba blurted out, making Hinata turn bright red and Gaara blush a little.

"No! We're-uh- just friends!" Hinata said quickly.

"Hmm...'just friends' huh? Then I suppose he won't mind if I do this-" Kiba kissed Hinata's cheek.

She stopped and was completely in shock.

Gaara didn't stop, nor did he say anything he just walked away.

Kiba laughed at Hinata's reaction and started walking again.

"You better hurry before you're late for class!" Kiba called.

Hinata snapped out of it and quickly ran to the school where she hurried to her locker then to her homeroom.

Gaara and Kiba took their time however.

As Kiba was walking to class Gaara grabbed him and pulled him in a storage closet.

He turned on the light.

"What the hell, man!" Kiba snapped.

"Shut up and listen to me okay!" Gaara growled.

Kiba stopped talking for a moment.

"Now, why did you do that? What is your real motive with Hinata. You can't possibly like her, so why do that?" Gaara questioned.

"What is this an interrogation? I don't have to tell you a damn thing." Kiba replied.

"Tell me or I'll break your nose." Gaara threatened.

"Look I don't have to tell you anything but since I'm a good person I'll tell ya! My motive is like any other guys' motive: to get down her pants. Just like yours and just like any other guy she ends up seeing our motive is one thing and one thing only; sex." Kiba had a wide grin on his face, like he had just won an award or something.

Gaara tightened his fist and with quick speed he punch Kiba as hard as he could in the face.

He fell to the ground and with that Gaara went to class.

As he sat down the bell rung.

"Hmm... has anyone seen Kiba? I swear I just saw him a minute ago. Oh well." Kakashi said. "Alright now everyone get out your homework and pass it up front."

"Now today we are going to go into grammar. I know you've had to learn about this since fifth grade but seeing as most of you, with the exception of Hinata, Gaara, Sasuke, and Tenten, seemed to have failed this portion of you last year test. So, turn to page 235 in your book and read the passages and once you're done do the practice quiz for your classroom assignment and the test for your homework. Don't fret though, because there are only five questions for each." Kakashi said.

Everyone brought out their books and either read it or pretended to read it.

Hinata finished both assignments within 15 minutes so it was no surprise when she gave her papers to Kakashi first.

When the bell finally rang she quickly walked to her Art class.

"Okay class! We have a fun activity for today. We are going to observe copies of famous portraits and try to interpret your own meaning of them!" Jiraiya said.

Hinata was assigned to Van Gogh's: Starry Night.

Jiraiya went to every kid who had a painting and asked for their interpretation until finally he got to Hinata.

"So, what do you feel when you see this painting?" He asked.

"Well, I feel that he was trying to show both worlds of night. Fright and beauty. I think that with so many stereotypes and bad things that happen at night the night is portrayed as scary and dangerous and you definitely get that feeling when you look at the long black plant, but when you look at the setting around it and how beautiful the sky is you get a sense of reassurance and that maybe night isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is." Hinata said.

Jiraiya was silent for a moment then, speaking with a loud voice he said,"Marvelous! Absolutely marvelous! I've never heard such a beautiful interpretation of that painting ever in my years of teacher! An A+ to the entire class!" He said happily.

He was about to open his mouth again but the bell rang. Hinata grabbed her stuff once more and headed out the door.

"Hmm...I wonder what happened to Kiba."

When Hinata entered the science room all the tables had six beakers, one magnet, a pair of tongs, and one burner.

"Alright everyone take your seats. We have an important lab to do today. We're going to mix iron fillings and sulfur powder. After you mix it I want you to use the magnet on the mixture. That alone uses three beakers. I want you to repeat then entire thing but before you use the magnet I want you to heat the mixed chemicals and then use the magnet afterwards. Write down on a piece of paper what happens when you try to use the magnet. Make sure you talk things over with your lab partner." Anko said. She passed out everyone a piece of paper and then began.

Hinata took her seat next to Sakura and began.

After she was done heating the chemicals she used the magnet. Nothing happened.

She thought about this for a second then set the beaker on the beaker-holder.

"Maybe the magnet isn't working." Sakura suggested.

"No, that's not it. It supposed to do that." Hinata said.

Anko came over to their table. "So, what do you think so far?"

"Well, because we heated the iron fillings and the sulfur powder it went under a chemical change making it impossible for the magnet to be able to get the iron filling."

"Very-well put."

"Well class, since all of you did a good job today and we didn't have any accidents, I'll assign no homework." Anko said.

The bell rang and Hinata walked to her next class; Gym.

"Hello my youthful teens! Today we are going to work on your endurance run so please all line up in a horizontal line behind the black line and when I say go, start running." Gai said.

Everyone did as he said.

"Okay now, on my mark! Get set! GO!" He yelled.

Everyone began to run or jog except for Shikamaru of course.

When the class was over everyone was exhausted and they quickly grabbed their stuff to go to lunch.

The rest of the day went by quickly but in all of her classes she didn't see Kiba, and Gaara was staring at her intently.

When the dismissal bell rang Hinata went to her locker and got her stuff. She waited for Gaara to get his stuff and then began walking.

"Gaara, is everything a-alright?" She asked curiously.

"No."

"W-what's wrong?" Hinata asked sheepishly.

Gaara sighed. "You let him kiss you. He doesn't even deserve you. He's an ass!"

"What do you mean he doesn't d-deserve me?"

"I talked to him earlier today and he said that all he wanted to do with you was... was get down your pants. That's why he was acting so nice." Gaara said clenching his fist.

"H-he told you that?" Hinata said shocked.

"Of course! Do you really think I would make something like this up!" He responded getting more angry.

"No of course not! I just can't believe that he acted so nice to me because he want to..." Hinata couldn't finish her sentence.

"It doesn't matter anymore he deserved what I did to him."

Hinata looked at him with a confused face.

"Gaara...wh-what did you do exactly?"

Instead of going the short way they went the long way through the grove of trees.

"I punched him, like I did to Sasuke." He said.

She didn't say anything she just kept walking.

Suddenly Hinata slipped . Gaara tried to catch her but ended up slipping and falling on top of her.

Hinata was frozen. She couldn't help but blush.

Gaara was blushing too.

They were both breathing heavily and their hearts were racing.

Neither of them even thought of making the attempt to pull away.

Then, no longer able to control himself, Gaara leaned in and kissed her.

Hinata didn't hit him. She actually liked it.

Gaara could smell the sweet scent of lavender on her.

Abruptly, Hinata pushed Gaara from her.

He got up and offered to help her but she got up on her own.

"I'm sorry." Gaara said.

"I-It was my fault. I should be sorry." She said looking down.

"Of what? You didn't do anything." Gaara yelled.

"If I hadn't of fallen you wouldn't have slipped... and if I wasn't so gullible you wouldn't have had to hurt Kiba. I'm just a burden on you." Hinata said.

Gaara started to get mad again.

"Damn it! Don't you get it? I like you. That's why I act like this, that's why I kissed you, and punched two guys for messing with you, it's because I like you Hinata Hyuuga!"

Hinata didn't say anything which wasn't helping Gaara's mood.

"I'm going home!" Gaara yelled angrily.

Hinata watched him go, wanting so badly to tell him 'wait' but didn't.

When he disappeared Hinata felt her heart beginning to hurt.

It started to rain but Hinata didn't seem to notice at all.

She began to walk home again.

Only a few minutes passed when she fell to her knees.

"I'm so stupid! I-I can't believe I just let him walk away." Hinata shouted no longer able to hold back the tears that were falling from her face.

She crawled under a large tree and sat there, with her hands around herself and her head on her knees; crying.

She cried until she couldn't cry anymore and then, in the rain, she laid her head on the ground staring at the wet grass.

"Hey, are you alright?" Someone said as they ran over to her.

She looked at them.

It was Itachi.

She got up quickly and grabbed her stuff.

"I-I'm fine." She said. She tried to walk away but she began to lose her balance.

Itachi went over to her and helped her stand.

"You don't look fine. Maybe I should call someone for you." He suggested.

"J-just stay away from me. I want you and your brother to both stay away from me!" She said.

She pulled away from him and started to run away from him.

Itachi ran after her.

"So this is the girl Sasuke got punched for." Itachi thought to himself.

Hinata looked behind her and saw that he was chasing her.

When she turned back around she tripped over a root and hit her head.

Her vision began to blur.

Gaara...

"Where the hell did she go?" Itachi wondered. "She must've went home."

"Damn. I shouldn't have left her out there alone. I better go back before she gets herself in trouble." Gaara thought. He turned around and started to walk back.

After a few minutes of walking he saw something on the ground.

"What the- Hinata!" Gaara shouted.

He turned her over and saw that her head was bleeding and that she had two huge bruises on her leg.

"What the hell happened. Shit, I need to get her to the hospital." Gaara said.

He picked her up and ran her to the nearest hospital.

As he busted into the door the receptionist jumped out of her seat and called a doctor immediately.

The doctor rushed over to Gaara with a stretcher.

Gaara placed Hinata on it.

"Alright tell me what happened." The doctor said.

"I don't know. I found her this way in the grove of trees outside of school. I was walking with her and then I got mad and left her there. When I came back I saw her on the ground."

"Hmm. Well let's hope it's nothing serious." The doctor took took Hinata to the emergency room and started to look at her.

One of the nurses there made Gaara stay in the waiting room until the doctor was finished.

After an hour the doctor came out with blood on his hands... Hinata's blood.

Something in Gaara stirred but he didn't know what. The scent of lavender and blood filled his nose and lungs.

When the doctor spoke he snapped out of it.

"Well, she'll be alright. A cracked rib, some minor lacerations, and a couple of stitches; but she'll be alright. She needs to be more careful next time and she needs to go to her family doctor to get her stitches removed in six weeks. Her ribs will heal but it's gonna be painful so I suggest she take some pain killers. Just try to take care of her until then." the doctor said. "Usually we would keep patients like Hinata over night but she insists on going home so we're gonna let her."

Well I hope you enjoyed and sorry it's been a while. I've been sick and dealing with a lot of stuff lately... Well see you next time!