Finding Her Heart

The next day Hinata awoke to find a pouting Kankuro and a very cross Temari. She knew they had every right to be mad but she just didn’t care or at least that is what she kept telling herself. These emotions he was making her feel made her hate him more. She did her duty that day and guarded over the Kazekage but she refused to make eye contact with him. He just smirked at this.

‘Damn him he …he…just makes me so damn mad.’ She thought. ‘I wish he would quite staring at me with those gorgeous eyes. Oh no! No! No! I did not just think that.’ With that she slapped herself on the head. This caused Gaara to laugh. “Problems today Lady Hinata?“ he smiled .She just ignored him her lips pressed firmly together.



The day seemed to drag on forever. Just when she thought it couldn’t get any worse counselor Taro showed up. Besides the fact the man was always leering at her with lust she just felt something was off. An odd vibe came from him. Yet she could not figure out what it was that unnerved her when he was around. She sensed that Gaara felt the same way. By the time night came she was exhausted. Making her final checks of his bedroom. The whole time she had to deal with him staring at her and on top of that he had the gall to ask her for a goodnight kiss. Crawling into bed she just fumed. ‘He’s so damn infuriating. Sexy but still infuriating. Wait I did not just say he was sexy ughh!’ She groaned burying her face in her hands.



She awoke from her nightmare the scream still on her lips. She shivered in the cold desert air.

‘Damn that dream again! Would it haunt her for the rest of her life.’ She could still see the blood that covered her hands. So much blood…their blood. No matter how hard she tried she could not stop the blood from leaving their bodies. “Shino…Kiba…Kurenia…I am so sorry…I failed you!” she cried out loud. No she would not cry… never…she had no right to. She failed them she deserved no sorrow only pain. Getting up she quickly got dressed she needed to relieve the pain in her chest and she only knew one way. She had to think who was in need of a major ass kicking…. Ahh councilman Taro! Wrapping the blue silk cloth she used during the day around her head and over her mouth disguising her face she ordered Akamaru to stay and watch over the Kazekage. With that she jumped from the balcony up to the roof and ran off toward the main part of the village. When she found Taro at his home he was not alone another man with black and white hair was talking with him.

“Damn!” Hinata cursed. “I guess I can’t take it out on an innocent bystander. But then whom?” Wandering around the seedier part of the village she came upon a rather noisy bar. Taking the cloth veil from her head she wrapped it around her hips to help hide her sai’s. Going up to the counter she ordered herself a sake. Leaning her back against the bar her eyes searched the crowd for someone who deserved a ‘major ass kicking’ as she liked to call it. After waiting around for a half hour she gave up. Granted enough low life’s had hit on her but they just didn’t qualify for the ass kicking she needed to give to get the pain in her chest to go away. Finishing her drink she headed back she couldn’t leave the Kazekage alone for long. Thinking about Gaara led her mind down a frighting path causing her chest to hurt more. Her hand pressed to her chest she bent over to catch her breath thru the pain. That is when she heard the woman. Following the woman’s cries she turned the corner into an alley. There stood a young girl crying surrounded by five guys.

“Oh, come on sweetie how about a kiss.” One of guys said grabbing the girl as she screamed no. Hinata smiled she had found her target. This was going to feel so good. Granted five against one would possibly be pushing her limits if she was dealing with jounin and if she restrained from using her jutsu. None of them wore a hitai-ate so she knew she was dealing with your typical hoodlum not ninja‘s. This would be so easy. Pulling her Sai’s out she whistled. All five turned around facing her. The young girl seeing them distracted ran.

“Well now boys it seems you have been very naughty so I am just going to have to punish you!” Hinata yelled as she ran straight for the nearest guy. Her foot swung up and she knew she had broken the guys jaw and possible his nose by the amount of blood pouring from it. She laughed as one of them tried to take a swing at her. Dropping down she knocked him off his feet the back of his head hitting the pavement with a loud crack. Hinata knew she could just use the gentle fist but it was much more fun this way.

“Two down three to go!” She taunted them. The third guy pulled out a knife but Hinata easily blocked his moves with her sai. Flinging it out of his hand with her sai’s blade she caught the knife by its handle and sent it straight into the guy’s leg. The man dropped to the ground screaming. She knew it was not a fatal wound with a quick kick she knocked the guy out. This left three more. She noticed these three seemed to be stronger since they had stood back studying her moves. Flipping her sai’s in her hand she took her stance waiting for their next move. Two of the guys attacked her. She was so busy having fun she made a fatal mistake. When she saw the umbrella she realized. The third guy was a ninja from the rain village how could she have been so stupid. Before she could think he had already used his senbon rain jutsu. She tried to move but she knew she was out of time. Waiting for the piercing needle pain to end her life. She was shocked when she only felt a few hit her arm and leg. Looking up she saw him in all his glory. Subaku No Gaara his sand protecting her. Before the rain ninja could run Gaara’s sand had snapped his neck. With the adrenal leaving her body and the needles that did get her she felt herself sway. Before she hit the ground Gaara had caught her lifting her up into his arms he raced them back home.