Gaara's childhood
Disclaimer: I don't own anything Naruto, or anyone who appears here.
A/N: I think Gaara is the cutest bug's ear ever! --, ( face)
Prolog: The future of Suna
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"Kazekage-sama... You do realize what you are doing... You are going to kill her... to put that monster in... Kazekage-sama...She is my sister!!" A beautiful blonde-haired man was yelling.
Another man, with brown hair and a stern face, looked at him. "Yashamaru... Is everyone in place?"
The man tried to argue but clenched his hand and nodded.
"Then do it."
People brought in a tea kettle and carefully placed it down with great care. An woman in her 40's stood over the kettle. She looked for the brown's hair approval and he nodded. Sand slowly started leaking out of the kettle and every one backed up in fear…
5 years later…
A shadow appeared above Yashamaru. Yashamaru woke up and gasped. A petite kid was standing over him. He had red hair and pale peach skin. His bright green eyes had no pupils. He had sleepless dark circles around his eyes. The kid smiled, "Good morning, Yashamaru!!"
Yashamaru smiled back and ruffled his the kids hair. "Good morning, Gaara-sama." He looked outside the window. The sun wasn't up yet. In fact, the moon was still up. Yashamaru smiled, he was used to being woken up at Gaara's will. "Gaara-sama, what time is it?" He asked stifling a yawn.
Gaara blushed and smiled. "Sorry Yashamaru, I just couldn't wait for 4:00 am. It's 1:47 am. Yashamaru, I want you to see something!" Garra eagerly tugged on Yashamarus sleeve. This was Gaara's way of saying "Come on!" Yashamaru smiled, got up, made the bed and stretched. He followed Gaara outside and into the desert. Gaara hugged Yashamaru and smiled.
"I am going to transport us up the mountain, okay Yashamaru?" Gaara said hugging on to Yashamarus waist.
"No." Yashamaru said not looking at him.
Gaara was silent for a little bit after he saw Yashamaru was serious. "…..N-no? Yashamaru….?" Gaara hand clenched tighter to Yashamarus waist. He could feel himself getting that scary feeling again.
Yashamaru looked down and picked Gaara by his waist and hugged him close. "Now were ready!" He smiled at the surprised kid. "You didn't really think I wouldn't want to go with Gaara-sama?" Yashamaru went nose to nose with Gaara.
Gaara gave a breath of relief. "O-only for a little bit Yashamaru… I felt… Scared." Gaara blushed at Yashamaru. "Yep, now were ready to go!" Sand whirled around them as if it was still deciding here to go. It then wrapped around them and they were on top of the mountain.
Yashamaru shivered a little. After all, in the desert when the sun isn't up it can get as cold as below 25 degrees. Gaara noticed Yashamaru shivering.
"Yashamaru? You're cold? Then…." Gaara went to the middle of his mountain and got a blanket. (Gaara calls it his mountain because he is here often and declares its his.) Gaara handed Yashamaru the blanket shyly. "Here, Yashamaru, use my blanket. It is a very warm blanket."
Yashamaru looked at Gaara who was timidly holding out the blanket for Yashamaru. He smiled and softly gasped at how soft it was. That's right, Gaara-sama always gets the best everything. But still… Yashamaru smiled at how soft it was.
"Gaara-sama, this feels like a cloud, its so soft!" Yashamaru wrapped it around himself and snuggled with it. He noticed Gaara had goose bumps on his arms. "Gaara-sama is very kind hearted, I must repay you, come here." He opened the blanket for him. Gaara smiled and ran to Yashamarus arms. Yashamaru made sure both of them had some of the blanket. "There Gaara-sama, we are both going to be warm now…"
Something had caught Yashamaru's eye. A flower that was closed was on top of the mountain. He had never seen a flower like this in the desert or in the greenhouse. Is this what Gaara-sama wanted to show me? He leaned down to it. The flower was a purple color with faint red stripes and a even smaller white streak in it, it also had one thorn. Could it be a new hybrid of a rose and… something else? Looks like it still is growing, its only the bud stage. Its pretty but scary at the same time.
"Gaara-sama… This is what you wanted to show me?" Yashamaru looked back at Gaara in awe.
"Yes, Yashamaru. Isn't that pretty? Its been there for a while. That's why I was always asking for water. I try my best to keep this alive." Gaara sat down next to Yashamaru. Yashamaru put Gaara on his lap and wrapped the blanket around them. Gaara snuggled against Yashamaru and continued his story. "One day a falling star fell down and gave it dirt and then grass started to grow around it and its been watered by the little cloud that comes by everyday to come and see it."
Gaara-sama has a cute way of explaining things! Yashamaru thought to himself. "A little cloud huh?" Yashamaru smiled at Gaara. "I bet that cloud followed your example and shared its precious water and cared for the flower. See, Gaara-sama you can influence so many things."
"Why Yashamaru?" Gaara was smiling to himself. Yashamaru knew when he smiled to himself that he already knew what he was going to say but wanted to hear it anyway.
"Because Gaara-sama…" Yashamaru hugged Gaara. "Because you are special and unique." He kissed Gaara on the cheek. "It saw how good your heart was and said to itself. 'Gee I had always gone over Suna and never shared my water, yet here is this kid who is sharing his water, why?' The cloud pondered over it and said this. 'I will try one day to share my water.' So the cloud did and it felt something it never felt before."
Gaara tugged on his sleeve looking up at his uncle. "What did the cloud feel?" His eyes were bright n' big.
Yashamaru smiled. "The cloud said. 'Wow, does it feel this good to help some one all the time? From now on I will bring water everyday for this flower, Thank you Gaara-sama for your model!' With that your cloud had decided to share its water with this mountain!"
Gaara was smiling to himself. He was very happy, Yashamaru knew Gaara liked hearing people complementing him.
A few hours later, precisely 10:27AM…
Gaara smiled as he was holding Yashamarus hand. They were walking to the training ground, near the Academy. Gaara looked up at Yashamaru. He smiled and gasped when he saw he was looking at him. Yashamaru titled is head.Yashamaru then smiled at Gaara. Gaara ran ahead to hug Baki.
"Bac Bac!!" Gaara hugged Baki's leg. He snuggled against his leg and looked up at him. Baki was a seasoned war veteran with a veil over his left eye. He had two purple war paint markings on his lower cheeks. Baki gave a yell of surprise when Gaara hugged his leg. He lifted his leg up to find Gaara holding on.
"Gaara-sama... Its not 'Bac Bac', its Baki." He said looking at Gaara still lifting up his leg. "Your father is already at the field." Gaara was looking up at Baki. He wanted him to do something. "Oh." Baki patted Gaara's head and smiled.
"Bac Bac, you love me?" Gaara looked up timidly at Baki.
"Of course Gaara. You ask that to every one every day. My answer won't change."
"Yeah!" Gaara smiled to himself and ran off. He waved to those two and ran off.
Gaara ran to the field to see his Father taking to Temari and Kankuro, his older sister and brother. He ran behind his father and looked at the two people who was with him. "Good morning Temari and Kankuro." Gaara said very quietly.
"Good morning." Temari nodded to him. She had four pony tails that were spiky. Her hair was in the desert flower style. She had teal eyes, blonde hair and peach skin. She carried a giant fan on her back, her weapon.
Their father had to give Kankuro a stern look to make him say good morning.
"Morning." Kankuro said quietly and gruffly. He wore an puppet theater outfit, a black, puffy body suit with a pointed hood resembling cat ears. Gaara didn't know why but Kankuro always wore paint to match his puppets face. He always kept his eyes squinted so Gaara couldn't see his eyes. He has never seen his hair either too. Come to think of it, Gaara has never most of Kankuro's body, only his wrists, neck and parts of his face that wasn't painted.
"You two practice. Temari, good job getting that weasel into your fan. Learn to work with it. Kankuro… just practice your tumbling. Leave." Those two left arguing to each other. Gaara looked up at his dad. The dad had brown hair, brown eyes and peach skin. He wore very thin eye black liner. (It was powder to keep his eyes healthy but when he wiped it, it left a smudge.)
The fathers expression changed to a happy dad who loved his son very much. "Gaara! What took you so long?" He said in a cooing voice. "Learn anything new?"
Gaara nodded his head. "I can now use all long, short, medium range, disarming, crush, strike, defensive, throwing and hand to hand combat weapons! Oh, I now how to control my chakra now! But, no matter what I do I still can't produce chakra strings…" Gaara said reviewing his list of things he could do.
"Very good! You are learning a lot faster than I expected! Are you a prodigy or something? Don't worry about the strings, its not really important. It is somewhat hard for sand priest to use chakra strings." He said to reassure Gaara. (Except Gaara didn't know it was a lie.) Kazekage said looking over his lesson plans for Gaara.
Gaara smiled to himself. " Nope. I just learn fast! I also have you as a teacher! Its easy to fight and its fun." Gaara said looking up at dad to see if he heard his compliment to him.
It took a while for the Father to realize Gaara was looking at him. "I heard Gaara, thanks. Now you can learn more sand moves today. What have you learned so far?" his father said, reading a sand scroll.
"Mmn… how to move it with my mind, will and my movements. Um, how to grab stuff, make it do waves, how to make it move like a sandstorm, quick sand… let's see. Oh and make my third eye!" Gaara recited what he could do cutely and confidently.
The father looked up from his papers. "Gaara, I didn't even teach you that." He thought about it. "That's good…very good, in fact. So your proficient in every weapon, you can control sand at my level, you become and can adapt like sand. That is a very good trait to have. Its very good that you can find ways around every situation. That's my son, Gaara!" Kazekage said in a happy voice smiling at Gaara.
Then he resumed a serious face. "Today is just tumbling today."
Gaara had a serious face too. He learned to always be serious in battle. Gaara nodded
and started to stretch.
Gaara is all Suna's has for a future… if he is a success than we can start taking over Konoha… though he is advancing a little too quickly… Kazekage smiled. All the traits of a weapon should have.
Gaara was staring to do safety rolls that turned into cartwheels. Kazekage was watching the future of Suna. He was confident that Gaara would do wonderful things for Suna.
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I will explain a little later why Gaara says Yashamaru at every sentence. …I hope it isn't to bad to read… I liked the story about the cloud… yeah, see ya next time I guesses! ( That's not misspelled, its how ye say it, cute way eh?) Stay tuned!