had already agreed to whom. Rather bored, I threw my rejections into the respective subjects and made my way to class. While there was no trace of Ino and Sakura, a worried-looking Hinata was waiting for me. "Little one, what's going on?" I asked her and fell into my mother mode, as Ino used to put it. "I don't know, somehow I think I was too happy yesterday.What if this is all just kidding. "" Oh little one, what do you think I asked Sasuke first thing this morning. You should have seen how frightened he was that someone knew about it. "I transformed my inner big grin into a gentle smile for Hinata. She smiled back gratefully and fell around my neck with joy." Yumi, we have a problem, "Temari's voice suddenly sounded from the door Hug, got me up and then sauntered over to Temari, "What is it? "I asked." Gaara is on the loose. You know he's new and therefore doesn't know a girl yet, but he should also experience the ball and since he doesn't want to go alone I thought maybe that you ... "" Stop, stop, time out. I'm supposed to go to the ball with Gaara just because you want him to go? "Temari nodded and put on her dachshund look." Ok, if he asks me voluntarily until the day before the ball, I'll go with him. It doesn't matter whether in writing or in person. Otherwise you can forget about it. And do not forget. Voluntary. Has Shikamaru asked you yet? "Now it was Temari who widened her eyes with surprise and shock." Yes, but how ... "" You know, sometimes I don't notice things, but I even see that you both have a crush when I'm blind. "With that, I went back to class and Hinata.
The next few days passed and now it was the last day before the ball. Thanks to Temari's persistence, I had met Gaara more often, but we hadn't really talked much and he hadn't invited me either. But when I took a look in my compartment before going home today, I discovered that something was not quite as it should. When I was picking up all the things in it, I discovered a letter at the bottom, as if the clerk hoped it wouldn't be found. Amazed, I grabbed the envelope and opened it on my way out. I almost walked past Sasuke the second time I read the letter. It wasn't just an invitation to the school ball, but a real love letter that also contained the invitation. When I saw the signature I caught my breath. Gaara, the letter was from the guy who only talked to me because his sister made him do it. "Hey, where are you going?" Sasuke grabbed my arm and pulled me out of my reading. "Sorry, I hadn't noticed you. But can you explain to me what that is about?" I asked him and held the letter under his nose. "A love letter?" "Very nice, the candidate receives a hundred points and a violet. Just interesting that the letter comes from Gaara, but it contains a few lines of my favorite poem and only you know that." "Uh ...", Sasuke began before he told me the full story. Gaara fell in love with me when our eyes met for the first time. But since he didn't know how to deal with it, he asked Temari and later Sasuke for help.It was only for this reason that Temari introduced him to me and asked me to go to the ball with him. Meanwhile, Gaara Sasuke had asked about me. After all, it was Sasuke who advised him to read the lines of poetry. And I idiot was blind and thought Gaara didn't like me. Somehow I was touched and then our first meeting came back to my mind. How I looked out the window and our eyes met. Back then, his eyes had held a strange fascination for me for just that one moment. When Temari introduced us to each other or got us to talk to us, that never happened. Then why then? "Do you still see Gaara? Since you seem to get along pretty well, you will probably buy your suits together." "Yes, but why?", Sasuke asked surprised. I took a piece of paper and a ballpoint pen out of my pocket and quickly wrote a few lines. Then I folded the note and handed it to Sasuke. "Please give him that from me. Thank you," I called out before I made my way to my great-aunt.
"Yumi, what are you doing here? Actually, you won't be allowed to visit your poor old great-aunt until next week." I had to grin at Great-aunt Kaori's remark. She knew that my mother was not very inclined to visit her, nor did she request it. But father was of the opinion that at least I, as her great-niece, should visit her regularly, even if Kaori never asked for it. "I know, but I just wanted to know if you still have the dress that you showed me back then." "Of course. You know that I only have one wish and that is that I will see you in this dress one day . But why do you want to know? "" Because your wish will come true tomorrow when I get ready for you. Tomorrow is our prom. "Kaori looked at me. She looked quite fresh for her age and in situations like this her gaze seemed to pierce one. "Yumi Sato, you won't have a boyfriend, will you?" She asked in a mock stern tone. Her smile the next moment belied her tone and she pulled me into her arms. Great Aunt Kaori was better than any big sister. "Well, not really. Only there is this newcomer at our school. I thought he hated me at first, but today I found a love letter from him in my compartment in which he invited me to the ball. And since then I have knows how he feels for me, I always have to think of that moment when our eyes met for the first time, it was kind of ... kind of magical. "Kaori smiled at me. "I think you both got to know love at first sight. Oh, and I insist that you get ready here. After all, I would like to see you in this dress once and tomorrow is a good chance for that." I nodded gratefully to my great-aunt and said goodbye.I had to immediately call Hinata, Ino, and Sakura to tell them the location for our meeting had changed. The only one who might not be so enthusiastic would be Ino, but my great-aunt didn't know her.
"I think I have to change my mind about your great-aunt," said Ino, while she pinned up the last strands of her hair. "Why, what was your opinion about me?", Kaori asked, who just came in with a big box. A slight shimmer of red lay on Ino's face and she turned to her, caught. Meanwhile, I took the box and opened it. Hinata looked at me curiously and Sakura put the brush down too. The dress that was in it couldn't have been more beautiful. It was made of black silk that seemed to swallow any light and looked like a corsage sewn to a skirt. The gloves were also black. Nobody said a word while I unpacked and put it on. When I turned to the mirror I couldn't believe that I was the woman in the mirror. The black hair fell loose over her shoulders. Her face was made up dark. A dark, mysterious beauty stared out at me from the mirror, who happened to have the same ice-blue eyes as me, but who could never be myself. "Wow Yumi, I never thought how beautiful you are", Ino said, who was the first to break the silence. Maybe it was me after all. When I got over my first shock, I turned to the others. They too had made themselves chic and I noticed especially with Hinata how pretty she could look. "Oh what. You look just as good," I finally replied. "No, you are so beautiful and the dress suits you," said Sakura, shaking her head. "I thought you would like it," said my aunt. "Yes, that really suits you. I will never be as beautiful as you," said Hinata, a little sadly. "Oh dear little one, you look good enough to eat and besides, he's not so superficial that he only likes you because of your looks." Hinata smiled gratefully at me while Ino and Sakura looked back and forth between us. We didn't tell them who invited us. Sure, Hinata knew about Gaara and of course my great-aunt, but Ino and Sakura had enough to gossip when we were at the ball. I knew that Ino had finally given Kiba her OK and Sakura had chosen Naruto. "I think if you don't want to be late you should go," Kaori tore us out of our thoughts. Sakura finished her make-up and Ino checked her hairstyle again and then we made our way to the ball.
Ino and Sakura were amazed when they saw Sasuke next to Naruto and Kiba, who had greeted Hinata as a matter of course. Still, they hadn't attacked her and I knew they were secretly happy for her, even if they would never admit it.I hadn't discovered Gaara outside and so I went in alone. A staircase led down and at the end of it I saw Gaara talking to his brother. Kankuro spots me first, stopped talking and stared at me, then Gaara turned around too, who had been standing with his back to me until now. He froze in mid-motion and looked at me. If my feet hadn't moved on their own, I would probably have stopped too. However, because I lost myself in his eyes again, in his beautiful jade green eyes. The other conversations also slowly fell silent and soon I had the feeling that everyone was staring at me. Gaara held out her hand to help me down the last steps. It wasn't necessary, but it was a nice touch. "I hope I didn't keep you waiting too long," I said with a shy smile. "No, but you are beautiful," he said softly. I felt myself blush. "Do you want to dance?" He asked and I nodded. His eyes still held me in their spell and I couldn't utter another word. As he pulled me onto the dance floor, something was just beginning to slow. He put his hands on my hips and I put my arms around his neck. Everything around us seemed to be blurred. There was he and I and a lot of white, but nobody else. I didn't notice how we got closer and closer until his lips finally gently and somewhat hesitantly touched mine. For a moment I was surprised, but then I returned the kiss. As the song came to an end, I gradually returned to the room. Just a moment ago Gaara and I had broken our kiss and I could already feel how most of us were staring at us. Since it was getting a bit on my nerves, how all of my steps and the boys followed the Gaaras, I pulled Gaara with me outside into the garden. We seemed to be the only ones there. He gently put his arm around me. We still hadn't said a word, but we didn't need to. We just enjoyed