Now a NEW scene was playing, and she had no idea what was going on here either.
"He got away," grumbled Temari.
"Good," said Gaara.
"He was the first one to even TRY in a long time," grumbled Temari. "I'm fifteen and a half! By typical mountain-village-young-maiden standards, I'm almost an old maid!"
"We're ninja from Village Hidden In The Mountain Next To The Cursed Springs," said Gaara. Left unsaid was what you could do with 'typical.'
"I thought he was kind of cute actually," said Temari.
"Killing him would have been too kind," said Gaara.
"You also kept killing off potential suitors," accussed Temari.
Gaara shrugged.
"Now I've got to go find him," said Temari. "When we find him, DON'T kill him or scare him off."
Gaara didn't say that being related to some idiot like that would set him off on a killing spree. His look managed to convey that quite sufficiently.
Sakura opened the door. "Who? Oh, it's you." Sakura turned back towards the rest of her house briefly. "It's not them. It's whatshername."
"My name is Hinata Hyuga," said the girl, looking unhappy.
"Oh yeah, Neji's sister," said Sakura. "Look, this really isn't a good time."
"I'm sorry... but I thought you ought to know," began Hinata, her voice trailing off as the door was shut again. "Oh bother. That my brother was planning something tomorrow..."
Hinata slumped as she turned away from the door. She seemed destined for being ignored, forgotten about, overlooked.
THWAM!
- bodyslammed by a giant panda that had just jumped over the fence and seemed intent on just standing on top of her. Yes, Hinata thought, her life truly sucked. Why couldn't she run into -
WHAM! CRASH! "Hey, are you okay?"
Hinata blinked. Someone had knocked the panda off of her? Someone had picked her up? Someone was concerned about HER? Somebody was... fairly cute.
"I- I- that is," managed Hinata Hyuga absolutely flummoxed for an appropriate reaction. "Hi?"
"Baka! I think you hurt her!" yelled the boy at the panda.
Hinata managed to get her feet to support her, swallowing nervously a few times. "I'm so sorry!"
She was aware of the boy looking especially puzzled as she fled. However, she was completely unaware that the panda's name was Genma. Nor was she aware that the boy's name was:
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