BELONG TO ME
By: Nousama
PROLOGUE
3 years after Akatsuki…
It was another late night at the office. He was behind in the paperwork but it didn't really needed to be done as a priority. The paperwork was something to keep him busy.
For three years since the Akatsuki attacked him and targeted his friend Uzumaki Naruto from the Kohona Village, there had been peace. Fighting the Akatsuki was one of the hardest things he ever faced. Being beaten by one of them was still a shameful thought. However, he was grateful for the alliance with the Kohona shinobi, without them, he wouldn't have made it.
Getting up from his chair, he walked over the window and looked down at his village. His mind still raced with memories of the past every time he looked at it. The dark past where the village was a prison he grew up hating.
Thinking himself silly, he shook the memory away, he changed. The village was his home and he was the protector. He loved the village and the people, he learned to open his heart and share his emotions. Fighting Naruto taught him friendship, hardship, and most of all hard work.
The Sand Village was no longer scared of him, they praised him and respected him. The children ran to hug him when they saw him, and the men honorably bow their heads as he walked by. The women welcomed him to their decent homes and offered him food. He was content and happy for finally he had somewhere to belong. He was their Kazekage, Gaara of the Sand.
Taking a deep breath Gaara stepped away from the window. Even to the current day, one memory from the past still haunted him. A memory that clung to him every day and every year that he grew older. He remembers the day vividly as it happened just yesterday.
He stood on one of the balconies watching a fight. It was during the Chunnin exam and the first time Gaara ever traveled into the Kohona Village with his stepsiblings, Kankuro and Temari.
The fight was between two cousins from one of the most powerful clans in Kohona Village. Their battle was savage and brutal, almost causing one's death. Gaara began to close his eyes to recollect the memory of the fight, the moment he closed his eyes, the memory of the person he continued to remember to this very day also appeared.
The memory of those pearl white eyes determined to prove her way of the ninja.
...to be continued...
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