AUTHORS NOTE:

I'm sorry to say but I've decided to discontinue my story Hope. The reason is simple; I've lost my inspiration for the story. I'm very sorry to all my readers, but if I continue I don't think I would be able to 'put some feeling' into my work. I think it would just be better to not continue it than write a boring story. Though I would like to thank all of you who have took the time to read and review my story. I really do appreciate it, and to show my appreciation, I will tell you how I was planning to end the story (I just didn't now really how to get there).

How It Would Have Ended:

Some time after Thanksgiving, the Akatsuki would have kidnapped Gaara again. For five days they would have tortured him and telling the police that they wouldn't give him up unless they handed over Hinata. They wanted Hinata because she is the daughter of an important businessman, which meant that they could get a lot of money off of her. Though Gaara managed to escape thanks to Shikamaru.

Two days after Christmas Hinata would have gotten a call from her father about how Hanabi is dying of some time of disease. She decides on going to see her sister, even though that means leaving Gaara. So she goes back to Japan. Six months later, her sister dies from the disease and Hinata is completely devastated. Because of that, she refuses to leave Japan, even to visit Gaara, since she doesn't want to leave home, afraid that her dad or Neji might die next.

Then the epilogue would have been three years later, about how Gaara went to Japan to be with Hinata and how she's just getting over her sister's death. So yeah that was the direction I was thinking about going in. But like I said again, I just don't have the interest to finish it. Thank you one last time for reading and review my story, Hope.

-Alex