I really should stop with the one shots, but this came to me and i wanted to write it - so im sorry people who hate me doing one shots - but tough luck
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Gaara
jumped, the cliff was fairly tall, but still the sand would cushion
his fall before he hit the jagged rocks beneath.
He closed
his eyes hoping this once, the case wouldn't be so.
When he
felt a warm hand grasp his he thought his wish had been granted for
once.
The
jerking of his arm warned him that he hadn't died and the opening
his eyes confirmed it.
Clutching
his arm whist grabbing a branch halfway down the cliff was a pink
haired, green eyed kunochi with a look as strong as steel. It
appeared she had dived off the cliff after him
"Let me
go" Gaara said coldly
She
laughed a cold laugh, one that rivalled his own. It was cut short
when the branch creaked, snapping out of the cliff face.
"It can
only support one, kunochi, I suggest you release me"
Straining
she pulled him up to the branch and deposited him unwilling, upon it.
"Stay
there" she said before performing a one handed seal and
disappearing in a puff of smoke.
Gaara
sighed, and began leaning forward just allowing himself to fall
forward when a noise above caused him to look up. The woman literally
swan dived from the top of the cliff. He almost commanded his sand to
catch her, before deciding not to, after all if she wanted to die,
why should he stop her?
He then
noticed the rope around her hips, and he defiantly noticed when she
wrapped her arms around him and they were both sprung back over.
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"Why?"
he asked later he had walked with her back into a house nearby. She
had given him a hot drink and sat opposite watching the fire lost in
thought.
She looked
at him "Why what?" she asked with a solemn voice
"Don't
act stupid" he snapped "Why did you save me"
The woman
didn't flinch at his tone "Because, I was there"
Something
in her tone confused him "You were there? In what sense"
She was
looking out of the window, staring into space "In both senses"
Gaara gave
a short bark of laughter, how could she ever be 'there'
The woman
must have caught the tone of his thinking so she spoke again "I've
thrown myself from that cliff, hoping that I'll either die or be
hurt so badly that I'll KNOW I'm alive and that this life is not
a nightmare" She took a deep breath now "Tell me, what made you
throw yourself from the nightmare ridge?"
Gaara was
shocked to find himself telling her, everything, everything from his
life, he even told her about Naruto's death, his best friend, and
how it had affected him, how he must always suffer alone
A sharp
feeling on the side of his face startled him and he raised his hand
to feel the redness of where she had just slapped him. Where the
hell is my sand he briefly wondered, it had been absent all
evening
"Don't
ever talk like that" she said tearfully "you're not an island,
no…"
"Monster"
he filled in with his mind
"…..Man
is an island" That said she wrapped her arms around his form for
the second time and hugged him. She quietly whispered in his ear then
"Gaara - I miss Naruto too.." Gaara realised suddenly that
this
was Sakura, the girl he had almost killed when he was younger. She's
changed, she knew who I am and still saved me? "... He was my
best friend, and my brother, he was unique and he was never the
monster the people accused him of being – he didn't deserve to be
killed" Tears were hitting his neck he could almost taste them,
they were different, not the tears of horror, anger or fear, the
mellow tears of sorrow. Gaara wrapped his arms around her. After a
while she sniffed and spoke again "Tsunade slapped me silly when I
jumped from there….I didn't hurt you did I?"
He smiled at her "No…I think….I think you've healed me"