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Bloody Tears	By : bloodyreign Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 1170 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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I could finally activate my eyes at will. It wasn’t hard anymore. The best thing is that it couldn’t have happened at a better time. Tomorrow the Chuunin Exams started. All the teams that were attending were here. I was almost able to hold my own against Neji’s Byakugan with my own now. I wasn’t as good at it as he was, but I was getting there and that was something.
He launched an attack at me and a wall of sand just suddenly appeared between me and him, spiking as Neji hit it. The spikes narrowly missed, but a giant hand came out of the wall, pushing Neji back. He hit the ground hard, shaking his head.
I looked over, eyes wide, to see Gaara standing about twenty feet from me, hand held out and eyes deadly on Neji. Behind him were his teammates. “G-Gaara?”
He walked over to stand in front of me, arms crossed. “Don’t hurt her,” he growled.
I touched his shoulder. “It’s okay, Gaara. We’re sparring. Neji’s a friend of mine.”
He looked back at me, eyes questioning. “Are you sure?”
“I’m sure. I’m okay.”
He looked back at Neji, made a small, nearly invisible nod and moved so that he wasn’t blocking me anymore. “Your eyes are different,” he commented. “You’re a Hyuuga?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know what I am, really. My dad and mom are dead.”
A small nod. “I see.”
“Neji is teaching me how to control my eyes.”
“Hm.”
I looked over at Neji. “Are you okay?”
He was standing, stoic, unharmed. “I’m fine.”
“So what are you guys doing?”
“We wanted to take a walk around the village. Gaara saw you fighting that boy and he wanted to make sure you were okay,” Temari said.
I smiled at him. “I’m fine,” I said, mentally strangling Sasuke because he was right. “Don’t worry about me.”
“Is he your teammate?” Kankuro asked.
I shook my head. “Nope. I have three teammates. Kakashi-Sensei was the only one they thought would be able to handle four Ninja at once.”
“Four teammates? Boy, I think I’d hate having four Ninja in one group!” Kankuro replied.
“So who is on your team?” Temari asked conversationally.
“My team consists of Uzumaki, Naruto, Uchiha, Sasuke and Haruna, Sakura.”
“I’ve seen the Uchiha around.” Kankuro grinned. “He seems like someone who’s way too full of himself!”
I smiled. “He is, but he’s not that bad once you get past his attitude.” And the part where he has to constantly be right.
Gaara studied me. “Is he another of your friends? I’ve seen you arguing with him.”
“He has a very brash manner, which causes us to fight more often than not. I don’t know if I would say he’s my friend, but I can say I don’t mind him.”
“I see.”
I smiled. “Naruto is annoying, but he’s really not that bad, either. However . . . Sakura, I could do without. . . .”
“Not technically. Without Sakura, what would happen to the team?” Temari seemed to be watching Gaara’s reaction to that.
He blinked.
I noticed what I’d almost done. Maybe I should watch myself around him. “I suppose. I just don’t get along with her. She’s not too bad, though.” That was a lie. I despised her. Though, not as much as I disliked Ino. Ugh.
“Gaara, come on, we want to see the rest of the village.” Temari smiled at me. “It was nice talking with you again. Once more, thanks for the cupcakes.”
I smiled back. “Any time you want more, just come get me.”
Kankuro nodded. “I’ll probably take you up on that offer!” He beamed.
I laughed, waved as they moved away.
Neji moved to stand beside me. “Cupcakes?” he asked.
I blushed slightly. “Gaara saved my life and I repaid him with two dozen cupcakes and a cake.”
“Interesting. I didn’t know you baked.”
I nodded. “I love baking.”
“Ah. I didn’t know that.”
“You bake?” a very familiar voice asked. I turned to see Sasuke walking with Naruto. One brow was raised and Naruto was beaming.
“Wow! Are you any good?”
“Yes, I bake and, yes, of course I’m good.”
“Cocky,” Sasuke commented.
“For a reason.”
“You know, I just had an idea!” Naruto’s grin widened. “Why don’t we have a party? Star could bake for it! It could be like a celebration of all of us making it to the Chuunin Exam! We could get all the teams together and have some fun, get to know one another!”
“Actually, that’s a good idea,” I commented.
Sasuke scoffed. “How would you get all of the teams together?”
“Come on, Sasuke! Use your imagination! We could get Kiba and Sakura and Ino to help! The three of them would be the best because they’re so outgoing!” He grinned. “Come on, let’s do it!”
“I have better things to do,” Neji said, turning away.
“So do I.” Sasuke started to walk off.
I touched Neji’s arm. “Neji, please?”
He turned to look at me, eyes evaluating me. “You really want me to come?”
“Yes.”
“That’ll cut in to my training time, and yours, as well.”
“Please?”
He shook his head. “I’ll think about it. That’s the best you’re getting out of me.”
I smiled. “Okay.” I turned my sights on Sasuke, who’d walked a good distance away by now. Naruto started to go after him, but I grabbed his arm. “I’ll get him.” I ran after him, catching up in a matter of second. “Why don’t you want to come?”
“I have training to do.”
“But it could be fun.”
He glanced at me. “You don’t like parties any more than I do, so why even bother trying to convince me?”
I didn’t really understand that, myself. Maybe because Naruto had been so excited about it. “It could be fun,” I reiterated.
“I’m not going. You may be able to convince Neji to go, but I’m not him.” His voice sounded so firm, so sure.
“Why not?”
“I don’t want to go.”
“Why?”
“I have other things to do that are more important to me than a useless party with people I don’t even like.”
“You don’t like anyone,” I pointed out.
He said nothing.
“Come on, Sasuke. Do you really want to miss out on this? It could be really fun. What can I do to convince you to go to the party?”
He studied me. “Nothing.”
“There’s got to be something.”
“Do you know what would happen if I went to that party with Sakura and Ino there? You’re asking me to spend time near them and the rest of the mindless fan girls when I could spend my time training.”
“I know, but it would be worth it.”
“How could it possibly be worth it?”
“You could have fun. Maybe make new friends.”
“I don’t want new friends.”
“Come on, Sasuke. You might enjoy it.”
“I’d enjoy training a lot more.”
“If you don’t come to this party, I will singlehandedly make sure you never have a spare moment.”
He scowled at me. “What does that mean?”
“It means, I’ll tell each and every one of the fan girls that you love them, but you’re too shy to admit it.”
“You think they’d buy it?”
I grinned. “I’ve seen your handwriting, Sasuke. I can forge a note or two by you.”
“I’m not going to the party.”
“Please?”
“No.”
“Why?”
“I don’t want to.”
“Why?”
“Because more than likely, if you ask Gaara to go, he’s going to show up because you asked him to. I don’t want to be in that close proximity to him because if he does show up to that party, he’ll stick to you since he knows you and feels safe with you and doesn’t know anyone else,” he said in an angry rush. He said it all quickly, angrily, as though it had slipped out or he had wanted to make sure he wouldn’t lose his nerve.
I stared at him. “You’re worried about being near Gaara?”
“I don’t like him.”
“So you’d pass up something just so you wouldn’t have to be near him. Don’t you think that’s a bit cowardly?”
He stiffened.
“Letting his presence dissuade you from doing something . . . I don’t know, that seems like a coward’s way out. . . .”
“I’m not a coward.”
“Then why are you letting him run you off?”
“I’m afraid I’ll kill him.”
I gave him a look. “Come on! You can’t let his presence ruin it for you.”
“I’m not going.”
Dammit, he was hard to persuade. “This is silly. Why-”
“I don’t want to be near him while he’s glued to you.”
“That sounds more like jealousy to me than fear,” someone else said from behind us. We turned as one to see Naruto behind us.
“I am not jealous. And I’m not afraid. I just simply do not want to be in his presence.”
“Please?”
“No.”
“Please? Please, please?”
“No.” But I saw his eyes waver slightly. “No.”
“Come on, please? It’ll be fun! Please?”
“I am not going.”
“I don’t understand what’s so bad about him,” Naruto said. “From what I’ve seen, which admittedly isn’t much, he’s not bad.”
“He’s not bad? Are you kidding me?!” He growled, turned. “I am not going to your stupid party and there is nothing you can say or do to convince me.” He took off.
I started to go after him, but Naruto grabbed my arm, shaking his head. “He’s not coming.”
“But-”
He shook his head. “He’s too stubborn.”
I growled. “Fine! I’m going to find Gaara and invite him,” I shook off Naruto’s hand and went in the direction Gaara and his siblings had taken off in. In moments, I was coming up on them from behind. “Hey, Gaara!” I called.
He turned, eyes widening when he saw me running to him, then narrowing a moment later. He took two steps to me, grabbed my arm to stop me from running--which caused both pair of eyes behind him to widen in disbelief--and asked, “Why are you upset?”
I stiffened. I hadn’t thought he would notice that. “I got into an argument with someone, but that’s not important. We’re having a party tonight to celebrate everyone getting to the Chuunin Exams. Every team is invited. I wanted to deliver the invitation to you personally. Will you come?”
“Who did you argue with?”
I shook my head. “Really, it doesn’t-”
“Who?”
“Just Sasuke. He didn’t want to come to the party and I tried to convince him, but he won’t come. It doesn’t matter. So will you come?”
He looked away. “I don’t know. I don’t think many people will be happy to see me there.”
“I’ll be happy to see you there. I don’t care what anyone else thinks.”
That made his eyes flash to mine. A moment passed and he said, “I’ll attend.”
“We’ll come, too,” Temari spoke up. I liked her. I smiled at her and she smiled back.
“I’m glad you’ll all be coming.” My smile withered. “Hey, Gaara, can you do me a favor? It’s kind of big, but it means a lot to me.”
“What is it?”
“If Sasuke comes, can you try to be nice to him? I mean, not really nice. Just pretty much ignore him. Don’t talk to him or anything. I want everyone to have fun, so I don’t you two getting in a fight.”
He nodded. “I’ll try my best.”
I smiled. “Thanks. And, uh, don’t kill anyone, hm? I don’t care if you wound anyone, that’s fine. Some people are retarded.” I made a face. “But don’t kill anyone until after the party.”
That made him smile very, very slightly. “I won’t.”
“Great! Now, it’s a party. If you’ll excuse me, I have to invite more people. Come to my house around five. Everyone will be meeting there. ‘Kay? Bye!” I hugged him--which caused his brother to gasp and his sister’s eyes to widen--and turned and walked off. “See you later!” I took off running. I was halfway to get Kiba when Ino stepped into my path. Her eyes were burning. I skid to a stop, glaring at her. “What do you want?”
“I heard you invited that psycho Gaara to the party.”
“Yes, I did. He’s my friend.”
“He’s a psychopathic freak.”
“Look, Ino, he’s my friend. If you say something to him, or do something to him that causes him not to come to the party or that makes him upset in any way, you won’t have to worry about him getting you because I’ll be there first. He is my friend. You will show respect to him while you’re around him or I’ll make him look tame by comparison when I get to you.” I stepped up close to her, glaring. “And I can guarantee that you will regret anything you say to him if I get to you before he does.”
She glared at me. “That’s not funny.”
“Think I’m being funny? Really? I’m not. I’m not joking. I’m being 100% serious. You say or do something to him, I’ll make you pay for it. He doesn’t deserve to be hurt by someone as lowly as you.” I pushed on her shoulder, roughly enough that she stumbled back and fell, and walked over her as she sat, dazed, on the ground. I kept walking.
Someone was behind me. “Star, wait!” It was Temari.
I turned, eyes wide. “Temari? What’s up?”
“I heard what you said to her,” she said, catching up to me. “In all honesty, I was coming to find you to give you the same message.”
I smiled. “I would do the same thing.”
“You did do the same thing. You really care about my little brother, don’t you?
A nod. “Yes. I sense that he’s had a lot of pain in his life. He doesn’t deserve to be treated that way. He’s a great guy. He just needs to let more people see it.”
She nodded. “You’ve been good for him, these past couple of days.”
“Have I?” I let my surprise show.
She nodded again. “Yea. Three days ago, if someone had tried to hug or touch him, the sand protecting him would have killed or hurt them. You get through that sand with ease, not even trying, and the sand doesn’t even attempt to hurt you. Three days ago, even if the sand hadn’t killed whoever tried to touch him and they’d actually succeeded, my brother would’ve killed them. My brother would’ve killed anyone who tried to talk to him or who even looked at him. Now he’s more calm. Three days ago, he never would’ve even thought of coming to a party. You ask him and he’s suddenly all for it.” She studied me. “I don’t know what kind of spell you’ve put on my brother, but I’m not complaining. I am worried, though. About you. And him. My brother isn’t the most stable of people. Tread carefully around him, okay?”
I nodded. “I would never hurt him.”
“No, I don’t think you would. What I mean is, earlier today, he would’ve killed that Hyuuga boy, if he hadn’t had a problem with you seeing his more ruthless, murderous side. The only reason he didn’t kill him was because he didn’t want to kill someone in front of you. My brother has never shown such consideration before. Now that he has, I’m afraid for you. If you have any other kind of relationship with any other boy, I suggest you keep it hidden. I don’t know how my brother would handle jealousy.”
I stared at her. “Are you saying he would kill me?”
“No, I don’t think he’d ever hurt you. I’m saying, if he decided he wanted you, he’d kill whoever he thought was in his way.” Her eyes hardened. “Even if there’s no real threat to his life or his chances with you. If he even thought there was a chance you’d choose someone over him and he wanted you, he’d kill the person he thought had that chance.”
I nodded carefully. “I-I’ll be careful. I don’t have any relationships with anyone, nor do I know anyone that I would even be tempted to have a relationship with, but I’ll be careful around him.”
“Just don’t hug anyone around him until I’ve decided if it’s safe. If my brother killed one of your friends, what would you do?”
I’d fight him. I said as much.
“And if you became a threat to him, he’d lose control and he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from killing you. I don’t want to know what would happen to my brother if that happened.”
“Is that why he didn’t want to spar?”
She nodded. “If it became apparent that you were strong, his instincts and the Demon inside him would take over him and he wouldn’t be able to stop them from killing you, thus removing any possible threat you had to his life.”
Demon? “He has a Demon sealed within him?”
“Yes. That doesn’t make you fear him, does it?”
“Not at all.”
“Good. Don’t start fearing him. Just act the way you do around him now. If you start to fear him, I don’t know what would happen. Like I said, my brother is not the most stable of people.”
“I understand. I’ll do my best.”
“I worry for him all the time. He doesn’t know it, but I care about him. I just want what’s best for him.”
I smiled. “I think he does know, in some way.” That reminded me. “Hey, did Gaara bleed you and Kankuro a few days ago?”
“Yes, why?”
“I’m sorry about that. That’s my fault.” I explained.
Her eyes were slightly wide. “I see. We thought he was just in another of his homicidal rages, but that does explain why he bottled the blood.”
“He got more from you than Kankuro, didn’t he? The scent in the cup was more yours.”
“Yea, he did. Not because I was bleeding more, though. Actually, Kankuro got the worst of it.”
That made me smile. “He let Kankuro’s blood go to waste, while he took yours. That means he thinks you’re stronger than Kankuro is.”
“I am stronger. I didn’t think he’d notice that, though.”
“He notices more than you give him credit for.” I smiled wider. “I bet he even knows that you do love him.”
“I hope he does.” She looked back, as though she heard something. “I have to go. Don’t tell anyone about this talk, Star. Stay safe.” She took off running.
I watched her for a few minutes. I felt strangely as though she’d been trying to warn me about more than what she’d said. She’d warned me against trying to fight her brother. Why would she do that unless she thought I would need to?
I shook off the thought, shrugged, and continued to search for Kiba. I knew where he would be. He and Akamaru would be in the park right now. I found him easily and Akamaru found me before he did. He pounced on me and I knelt to hug him. “Hey! It feels like it’s been ages!” I kissed his forehead.
Kiba sat beside me. “What’s up?”
“Where’s Hinata?”
He shrugged. “Probably training. She does that a lot now.”
I felt bad about not knowing that. “I wish I was on your guys’ team. . . .”
He put his arm around my shoulder. “Don’t worry about it, Star! Hinata and I know you love us. So what’s up?”
“There’s a party we’re having for all the teams to celebrate graduating to this level. You are coming.”
He laughed. “I’ll come, you know that.”
I grinned. “Of course I know that!” I caught sight of something--something that made me shrug off Kiba’s arm and stand. “So you’ll come?” I said, louder than needed.
He nodded. “Of course.”
I almost hugged him, but the thought of Gaara watching and the warning Temari had issued held me back, so I smiled. I’d noticed the narrowing of Gaara’s eyes when Kiba had his arm around me. “Great! Be at my place at about five. Got it?”
“Yea. You’re acting a little strange. Are you okay?” He’d noticed that I’d restrained myself from hugging him.
“Yea. I’m fine. Just excited and in a hurry. I have to go tell Hinata and convince her to come.”
“Want me to come?” he asked, standing.
I shook my head. “No, I’ve got it.” It would be a bad idea. Akamaru jumped up onto my leg and I knelt to kiss his head again. “You guys stay and play. I’ll go get her. Besides, I’d like to have a little girl-talk with her!”
He groaned. “I hate it when you use that excuse.”
“Well, I want to know how she’s doing and maybe take her shopping or something. She is my best friend, like you are.”
He nodded. “Yea, but . . . come on! Girl talk. That makes me feel left out!”
“Don’t worry. You’ll get enough attention at the party to make up for it,” I said, laughing. “I’ll see you at the party.” I hurried off, still feeling Gaara watching me. When I was far enough away that nobody else could see me, he came into the open, started walking toward me until he was beside me. “Hey, what’s up?” I asked.
“Who is that guy?” he asked.
“He’s my friend. I’ve been friends with him since I was a kid. He and Hinata were the first two to accept me as a part of the village.”
“Do you like him?”
I couldn’t help it. I laughed. “Like Kiba? I hope you mean as a friend.”
“No, I mean, is he your boyfriend?”
I shook my head wildly. “No, way. Kiba’s my friend, but I wouldn’t date him. That would be a bad idea.”
“Why?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know. He’s like Neji to me-I think of them as brothers, as the family I don’t have anymore.” That was a lie, but I figured it would keep them alive.
“I see.”
“Right now, I’m going to try to convince Hinata to go to the party. That’ll be hard to do. She’s really shy.”
He said nothing, just silently walked beside me.
I was about to ask him if he needed something when he veered off, headed back to the park. I almost turned around and followed him, but I trusted him not to do anything. I prayed I was right to trust him as I came upon Hinata training in the forest by our usual spot. “Hey!”
She turned, ran to me. “Star!”
I hugged her. “It feels like it’s been forever.” I pulled back. “I miss talking to you every day.”
“Me, too.”
“So I’m having a party. . . .”
She blushed. “And you want me to come?”
“You can help bake for it. I need some help with that.” I smiled.
She thought about it. “I’ll come.”
“Great. Let’s go buy what we need for the party, unless you want to train a bit longer? I have two hours before I have to get ready for the party.”
She shook her head. “No, let’s go. We’ll need every minute to prepare.”
“Awesome!” Then I thought about it. “Ten or fifteen minutes of training time wouldn’t be too bad, though.”
She laughed at my hopeful tone. “Okay, we’ll train for a few minutes.”
We were sparring, my eyes activated, hers activated, when Kiba and Akamaru ran through the trees and nearly collided with Hinata. I turned, panicked, to see him blushing and out of breath. “What’s wrong?”
“That guy is creepy!” Kiba exclaimed. “I thought I was going to die there for a minute!”
“What happened?” I asked, worried.
“This guy just comes out of nowhere up to me and Akamaru. Akamaru was so scared, he hid in the bushes and wouldn’t come out. He started asking me all these weird questions.” He looked at me. “About you, actually.”
“What?”
“He asked me if I liked you, if I wanted to date you, how I felt about you. Stuff like that.”
My eyes widened. “Was his name Gaara?”
“Yea.”
“What did you tell him?”
“I said I already had a girlfriend and that I thought of you as my little sister.”
“Who did you say your girlfriend was?”
At this moment, he looked toward Hinata, then looked away. “I said Hinata was my girlfriend. . . .”
Hinata’s face flushed with embarrassment. “What?!”
“It was the only thing I could think of. I thought he was going to kill me. He was so intent on finding out if I liked Star, that I had to say something to throw him off. You’re the only girl I know that I could ask to pretend to be my girlfriend until he leaves.” His eyes widened in a plea. “Please?”
She blushed darker and nearly fainted, but held herself together.
“I know you like Naruto. I know this may destroy your chance with him, but if I didn’t say something, I think he would have killed me. Please, Hinata? You might be saving my life. I’d owe you big! I’ll make Naruto like you.”
She nodded. “I-I’ll do it . . . but not to make N-Naruto like me . . . I’ll do it b-because I don’t want you hurt. . . .” She was still blushing. “Don’t make Naruto like me . . . I-I am not doing it for that.”
He nodded. “Thank you so much, Hinata!” He took three, quick steps and hugged her. “You’re a life-saver.”
“Y-you’re we-welcome,” she sputtered.
“Who else is coming to the party? I’ll help out by sending out invites.”
“Everyone who’s in the Chuunin Exams.”
He paled. “That means that guy.”
I nodded. “Gaara’s my friend, actually.”
“W-what?!”
“He saved my life and now we’re friends. His sister thinks he might like me.”
“If he ever found out that you were dating someone, what would happen?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know. I’m not worried, though. Not really. I don’t think he’d do anything rash.”
“I don’t know about that, Star. You didn’t see the way he was asking questions.” He shook his head. “It doesn’t matter. If he’s a friend of yours, I’ll try to like him.”
“He’s really nice when you get to know him,” I defended.
“Nice to you, maybe, but you’re not a guy that could be in his way!” Kiba said, eyes wide. “That guy is powerful. I don’t want to be on the receiving end of that power.”
“It’s okay, guys. He’s a really cool guy. It’s just that he’s been through a lot of pain. He’s really great.”
“Like I said, I’ll be friendly and even try to make friends with him, but he still scares the crap out of me.”
I kind of couldn’t blame him. “I understand. Don’t worry. He won’t hurt you.” I sighed. “Okay, either way, I guess Kiba can come shopping with us.”
“And Akamaru,” Kiba chimed in. “Wait, shopping? Nah, no thanks, I’m out!” He smiled at both of us, gave Hinata another grateful hug and was gone.
I turned to Hinata. “Well, you ready to go?
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