Gaara's First Love
I was blind and I was a fool until love showed me the path...
Chapter 1; The Lifeless Flower
"YOU'LL DIE YOU SCUM BAG!" Gaara shouted at Sasuke. "Sasuke," Ino asked trembling "why did you kill her?" "Sakura? She was weak and pathetic; she had no reason to live so I did her a favor." Sasuke replied. Ino gasped at Sasuke's words and steped back. Gaara stood frozen with shock, Why would he do such a horrible thing? Doesn't he have any pride? Killing someone so innocent without a reason. How dare he! "B-But-" Gaara started but was cut off by Naruto "YOU IDIOT! WHO CARES IF SHE IS WEAK! SHE DIDN"T HAVE TO DIE! SHE COULD'VE DONE SOMETHING GREAT AND YOU RUINED THAT!" Naruto yelled with rage. "I dont have time to waste with you weaklings," Sasuke said "I need to report to Orochimaru. Bye Bye." With a puff of smoke, Sasuke had vanished.
After Naruto and Ino had left, Gaara knelt next to Sakura's lifeless body and grasped her hand, "Oh Sakura..." Gaara whispered, "I'm sorry... I'm so sorry... please come back..." Gaara started to cry. "H-Hey are you okay?" a voice asked. Gaara looked up and wiped his eyes and asked, "Who's there?" A small girl with white hair in a white dress came out of the bushes and said, "You don't have to be so sad, but I do understand what you are going through. I've seen the murder of this person by that Uchiha. I wish I could have stopped it, but I was too late. The blade was already in her body when I arrived. I am truley sorry for your loss." The girl gazed up at the full moon. "I have suffered this too," She said after a few heartbeats "My whole family was murdered two moons (months) ago." As she turned to leave Gaara yelled, "WAIT! WHAT'S YOUR NAME!" She replied, "ARAMI!" Gaara picked up Sakura's body and started to head back to his house in the Hidden Sand Village.
People shreiked and hid in the stores at the sight of Sakura's dead body on Gaara's shoulder as he walked home. "MURDERER!" a Citizen shouted as other's joined in. Gaara ignored them as he walked in his home. Konamaru opened his mouth when he saw Sakura's body. "Don't even ask..." Gaara glared at Konamaru as Gaara went to his room. Gaara placed Sakura's body down on his bed and placed his gourd in the empty corner of his room. Gaara pulled out a mat out of his closet and set it on the floor and lied down. I hope this is all a dream... he thought as he fell asleep.
"NO DON'T! PLEASE!" Gaara heard a cry. That sounds like Sakura! Gaara ran twoards the voice. He then stopped dead, he saw Sasuke choking Sakura while pressing her against a tree. She was bleeding all over, her body covered with blood and tremendouse gashes on her arms and legs. Gaara tried to move but he was stuck frozen. Gaara stared in horror as Sakura's lifeless body fell on the ground, the only signs of life clinging to her were the heaving gasps from her flank. Sasuke said, "You're pathetic..." Then Sasuke started to beat her with a thin branch that was like a whip. Saskura yelled and shrieked in pain as the Sasuke whiped her legs, back, arms, and face. NO! STOP! STOP! Garra yelled in his head and squeezed his eyes shut. When Sasuke stopped beating Sakura, she looked up at Sasuke and whispered somehing Gaara couldn't pulled out his sword and stabbed her in the heart. Sasuke smiled and laughed "Good ridens you stupid girl!" Then mist warped around Gaara and he woke up finding himself on the floor of his room with Sakura's body on his bed. What is this feeling that is making me want to be with Sakura all the time? It's odd as if... I can't escape this feeling like it was destined for me...
After the burial of Sakura's body Gaara went back to the place where Sakura was murdered. "Hey are you here!" Gaara yelled. "Of course!" Arami said jumping down from a tree "Whatcha' doin' here, Gaara?" "Um did you by any chance see what happened before that girl died yesterday?" Gaara asked. "Yes in fact I did." She replied slowly. "Then-" Gaara asked, "-why didn't you stop it?" "I didn't have a weapon with me unlike you ninjas who carry then all the time," she said. "I ran back to my hut as fast as I could but when I returned I was too late," she finished with a sorrowful look in her eyes. Gaara saw that she was telling the truth so he didn't blame her. I just wish that she was faster so that she could've saved Sakura... "I understand Arami, it's not your fault." Gaara reassured her. Arami looked up at him. "Thank You, Garra, for not blaming me, but i still feel like it's my fault your friend died..." Arami looked down at her feet and sighed. Gaara placed his hand her shoulder and said, "If I ever need someone to help me, I'll ask you." Arami looked up and smiled, "Okay!"
"OH, SAKURA!" Gaara cried in his pillow. I can still smell her scent in my pillow... oh Sakura! How could this happen to you! "He's taking this hard..." Naruto said to Konamaru. "I know!" Konamaru replied, "It's annoying the heck out of me!" Naruto snapped his eyes twoards Konomaru and shouted, "WELL THINK ABOUT IT KONAMARU! MAYBEE HE WAS REALLY CLOSE TO HER! BELIEVE IT!" Naruto snapped, "WHAT IF YOUR TENSAI, GAARA, OR BOTH DIED? WOULD'NT YOU BE ACTING THE WAY GAARA IS!" Konamaru, stunned with shock, replied, "O-Oh! N-Now I see!" Gaara crawled over to the empty part of his room and sat and hugged his knees while sobbing. "Gaara? Can you hear me?" a familiar voice spoke to him. Gaara looked up to see a clear figure of a woman with pink hair standing in front of him. "S-Sakura!" Gaara asked the woman. "Yes! It's me! Sakura!" Sakura replied in relief tht Gaara remembered what she looked like. Gaara stared wide-eyed that the ghost was Sakura. "SAKURA!" Gaara cried with happiness. I can't believe its her! Sakura knelt beside of him. "It's okay, I'm here now..." She said while stroking his back with gentle strokes. "Oh, Sakura. You must've known how much I've missed you!" Gaara cried. "Yes, I do know," Sakura replied. "I would spend more time with you but I'm a ghost. I can't stay forever." Then Gaara looked at her face clearly and then he felt his face grow pale. He saw the wounds on her face and on the rest of her body. He could see the gash on her stomach that killed her. He could even still see the blood slowly leak out of her mouth like before. Gaara ran out of his room with tears falling down his face. Naruto, smashed behind Gaara's bedroom door, yelled, "Ouch! Was he just talking to himself?" "He's weird." Konamaru replied.