I don't own Naruto, but don't you dare steal my ideas.
Rating: K
Genre: General/Drama
Pairings: None. Tenten and Gaara.
Summer
She looks to him now, and his cerulean eyes still carry within them a single shard of untainted summer.
From the shadowed crooks of her consciousness, it trickles out. The images are hazy, but all that matters stands vivid. She remembers eyes brimming with wronged innocence, which pleaded for understanding. She remembers laughter that, still now, peals out in her mind to her as the essence of summer.
Once upon a sunny June, from an existence a lifetime ago, when she still had a family who traveled the lands collecting weapons…she remembers Suna.
The weather promised nothing but hot, hot, hot, and so she looked for miniature adventures to take her mind off the desert's summer heat.
A stone towered above her, and like the child she still was, she clambered atop and gazed around, eyes wide while taking in the sea of sand that stretched to the horizons. It is Mother Earth's splendor abounding limitless.
Beauty, however, is only valued when balanced alongside darkness, and so she also saw the solitary figure perched atop a small wooden swing, enveloped by the shade, overlooked by the world.
An action lacking planning, a question without thought later, she stands before him, and a flurry of pure happiness follows, until that laughter rings out, and a piece of summer is frozen in her remembrance to cherish for eternity.
But the sands of time slowly trickle by, despite all that mortals try. And so summer dies, leaving in its remnants nothing but memories to be blown away, dancing dust in the wind.
So now, she looks away from the man who stands before her, eyes highlighted with years of pain, bloody sand encircling his soul, his will to live etched in his face and in his heart. She looks away and pretends to not recognize him as the boy whose eyes lit up so brightly when she'd asked him, eight years ago, if he'd wanted to be friends.
Owari
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Man, I love Gaara. I had to do a story about his changes...it's so SAD. -sobs-
Am taking requests for most pairings, including crack. I'll take requests for themes as well.
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