Hello everyone!!!!!!! This is my very first fanfic EVER and I am so very spazzilly excited to see what you think of my first chappi
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I stepped toward the building reviewing the mission in my mind. I was to protect my charge from all harm at all times. I would be able to read her files at my leisure and I was to try and collect any information I could that would help our researchers to understand her. I was to keep my identity a secret, a given in my field of work and every full moon I would send any new data through. Depending on what they thought on the other side a messenger might be sent over with new visuals for me. The charge was my life now, taking care of her was my only purpose.
A purpose...that should be a nice change for you. (a steely voice echoed in the back of my skull)
What are you talking about, my life has always had a purpose, I've completed as many missions as you are old Shukaku. (And here I was arguing with the echo)
You calling those missions your purpose in life only further proves my point. All your life has been is killing, training how to kill, or finding killers and then killing them. I know far more about killing than you ever will. I love killing as you do and that is why we are feared, but it is not my purpose in life and certainly not yours. And as far as how many missions you've completed compared to my age, dream on young pup, you've got a long way to go before you even get close to that high a number.
If killing isn't my purpose in life then what is? And what is yours?
Mine is none of your business and yours...you haven't found it yet, but you will.
Could you be a bit clearer? Maybe give me some sort of hint? Or even just tell me?
Soon
That's it? Could you maybe go out of your old cranky demon way to give me a little more?
No
Fine
Knowing I wouldn't get any more out of him I shook myself as I registered my surroundings, having not done so earlier. I looked up for the first time at the building I was supposed to be going into. It was a very nondescript structure built of brick with bland beige stucco covering sections of wall. A large dent in the straight planes of the walls lead past a metal staircase to some glass doors through which a mass of very small children, middle age mothers, and sleepy teenagers flowed. They did this in a mindless fashion that said that they had made these motions countless times and no longer needed to bother to put thought into them. Watching an older sister lead her little brother across the crosswalk and up to the door I thought of the parting conversation my sister and I had shared...
"Gaara..." I looked over, "Yes Temari?"
Looking carefully away from me she said, "You've just been transferred from the Strike unit to the Dog unit, and I know you're upset about it." Feeling the waves of agreement rolling off me she hurried on, "I know you want to know why they transferred you, and that makes sense; you were a great striker. I don't why either but," taking a deep breath she turned towards me and staring straight into my eyes said, "I'm glad they did."
Startled, I jerked back and growled, more in surprise than anger, "Why?"
"Because," she said smiling, "in the Striker unit you had to be cold, you worked alone and you couldn't trust anyone, even if you had been allowed to there was never the time. You would go in, accomplish your mission as quickly and quietly as possible and then leave and no one would even know you were there. And you were good at it too, and it's because you were so good at it that you're lonely. The Dog unit will be different. You'll be guarding someone for a very long period of time; you're encouraged to form bonds of trust, even more so because you've been assigned to the research wing. I mean," she said excitedly, "the bonds between Dog's and their charges are even protected in the Morei Dante! This is your chance to become close to another person, to form a bond with someone outside of me and Kankuro." Her face then changed from jubilant to somber and concerned, "Gaara, I do want you to try and get to know your charge but, much more importantly, and something I know will be much more difficult for you, I want you to try and let your charge get to know you."
I looked down while I absorbed this, while I tried to think of a response. Finally I looked up into her eyes that were intently searching on my face and all I could say was, "I'll try"
I thought on this while my feet carried me to my first class (I had already received my schedule). Thinking back on that conversation now I knew that I had done a very stupid thing in saying those two tiny but oh so very powerful words. Temari would now expect me to try and become close with this girl, my charge, and I knew that was simply not possible. The only people who I trusted were my siblings, Temari and Kankuro and my mentor, and they themselves could not say that they knew me completely. If the only three people that I loved in all the dimensions couldn't say that they really knew me, how was I to let a complete stranger get to know me?
mhhmhhmhhh....( a metallic laugh clanged in my mind)
What are you laughing about?
You'll find out.
Find out what?
Poor pup, you have no idea what you're in for. Such a long and difficult road...
And you can't be bothered to let me in on what that would be?
Nope.
Shaking my head again ( I've been told that doing that's a habit of mine) I sat down in a desk just inside my classroom door to wait for my charge to arrive. Temari, for you I will try, but I will fail.
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now that I have written more I feel that this chapter is a little akward
but I'm not really sure what to do with it
oh well