The Desert Intrigued Me:

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Treasures

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The Desert. It´s a beautiful thing that Nature creates.

"Gaara!"

It holds many secrets, feelings... and certain...

"No!"

treasures.

I feel like a complete fool. I went searching, and... I... captured the greatest of all treasures.

"Please!"

But, this treasure, captured me. It charmed its way inside my soul. I began to obsess over him. And as in turn...

"Don´t kill him!"

... I was blessed with one of his gifts. Everyone anticipated the event. This gift, everyone hoped, would change him. It would make everything better. Except... there was just... one problem.

"I beg of you!"

He told me I had to leave without him: Depart and never come back; To take my gift and run away. He told me he was letting me be free before I could be shackled down.

"It´s not his fault!"

I told him I didn´t mind. It was my choice. My choice... I could have stayed with him, relieve myself of his gift, and never recieve another.

"Let him go!"

But I decided to return home with my gift before anyone found out about the deal Gaara and I had made.

After having delivered and named my gift Taiki, I could live with myself anymore. He resembled his predecessor so much, it hurt to attend to him. I loved him, but he brought back too many hopes that I knew would never come around.

I promised myself I would never let go of him, though. Even if he, one day, hoped to become like him father, I would never give him up... so I gave up on any miracles or hopes that still lingered.

"This is my family, Gaara!"

Three years passed, and I would be forever grateful to all of those who helped me rebuild my life. But I was especially grateful to one, special individual... He may have been contaminated with a bijuu, and everyone was leading me to someone, anyone, else, but he had captured me. And so I fell into a web of ecstacy... again.

"No!"

Naruto was... generous, to say the least. I received Kaito when Taiki was four, Michiyo when Kaito was two, and Asuka when Michiyo was three. They were my three boys and two girls.

We were happy.

We weren´t perfect but we managed to sort arguments out.

We were full of love in our home.

I was as free as Gaara had intended me to be.

I didn´t feel any obligations, only concerns about all five of them.

And after a while, I stopped fearing Gaara´s return and completely removed him from my life.

"You already took Taiki from me! Don´t take him too!"

Naruto escalated to the same stature and Gaara; Leader of his village. They reencountered in a meeting as old friends...

"STOP THIS!"

got along for a while...

"GAARA!"

talked about what they had been up to since their last meeting...

"DON´T DO IT!"

when I entered into the room. Naruto introduced me to Gaara as his wife, me having hid away the indentity of Taiki´s father.

My past hopes and dreams of him coming back and taking our son and me back ran across my memory. I felt disgusted at the flashback and hurried back home with my girls, who were eleven and eight, leaving the boys with Naruto.

With every step I took, a new possible outcome to the meeting appeared on my mind. I didn´t want to provoke Gaara or raise suspicion within Naruto, so I forced myself onward home.

"I BEG OF YOU!"

A few hours passed and my mind had been tortured by pictures of how Naruto and Kaito had been mutilated.

Gaara wouldn´t hurt Taiki. He understood Taiki was his son the moment he set him eyes on him.

I left behind Michiyo and Asuka at Ino and Shikamaru´s house. The only thing that might have given away my destination was when I left by just stating, Take care of them if I don´t come back.´

"I HATE YOU, GAARA! I TRULY DO!"

I arrived to a gruesome sight. Blood was splattered all across the grass. Taiki was crying as he was mostly encaved by Gaara´s sand, uselessly struggling to get out. Naruto was fighting Gaara with tears streaming down his face. And Kaito... my little boy... he was only thirteen... Kaito´s torso was face down in the center of it all and all four of his limbs were scattered around the park grass with blood red sand on top of each.

As I came into view, I tried to fight off waves of sand trying to pull me into safety. One finally caught on to me and pulled me next to Taiki. There, I held on to him, closed and cursed myself. No seventeen year old boy deserved to see his brother ripped apart limb from limb.

Gaara´s sand caught Naruto and held him up inches from his own. As they whispered angry words out each other, I screamed for Naruto´s life.

"DON´T KILL HIM!"

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Gaara looked down to my wife and son and smirked. He looked back up to me and I glared back at him. He had hurt Sakura when he forced her out of his life seventeen years ago. He hurt Sakura by destroying Kaito in front of his own brother.

"See them, Naruto?" Gaara said, "They´re mine. You´re hurting them. If you had never met Sakura, she wouldn´t be here. She´d be at home with me."

"You´re wrong, Gaara," I continued, "You did this to yourself. Sakura´s mine. She´ll always be mine. She chose to be mine. And guess what? She´s happy. Without you."

I saw a deep frown form in Gaara´s face. And when I formed a a small grin, I heard a loud crack from my back.

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CRACK!

"NARUTO!"