Himawari-Den
Sunflower Legend
Disclaimer: Don't own it I don't!
Sasuke: FINISH YOUR OTHER CRAP!
Sera: SILENCE!
(I'm in total Sand Sib mood…this is basically my mind wandering to 'what if's' mode….like what if they were to have met people from the actual series when they were young-about Yashamaru and about their home life as siblings and with their father. Oh JOY! If only I could make it into actual Novel form it would be so grand. To put it bluntly to why I am so excited is because I got this idea for this story in my head in while watching the fight between Gaara and Naruto like months ago. Basically it's their miserable and painful past…what a great AU!!!! My cousin read this over and is calling it the "Gaara Novel" ah what fun that would be but it's not. I don't own the Naruto characters-I'm not getting money for this just the satisfaction of getting this idea out of my head after months of agonizing over my messy scribbles of it and sketches that I did for it.)
A little girl with midnight colored hair ran down the burning sand dunes away from the shouting voice that soon followed. Her tiny feet burned from it's touch as her equally small hands wiped at her tear stained face and onto her dirtied clothing.
"I said come back, stupid!"
She ignored the familiar voice as she continued to run as fast as her tiny legs would take her, ignoring the discomfort in her legs.
She saw endless white mounds of sand in each direction not moving and knew that with each step it would burn her feet even more.
She didn't know why she was thankful for that-she imagined it was to keep her running.
"-ta!"
She waited.
"Go…away!"
She shouted.
"No more…"
Her pace stopped immediately, realizing that she had lost sight of the boy who was chasing her and sighed in relief. She lowered herself to her knees, the gritty sand only now becoming unbearable to her sensitive flesh. Realizing that she had run too far into the desert and was alone, she began to examine her surroundings a bit frantically.
She had never been alone before.
"Ah!"
Her eyes landed on a small hut a few meters away.
Standing on her tiny feet she willed her legs to move slightly towards the small hut, if she had not had been less observant she'd had missed it all together-that was how well it blended into it's surroundings. She walked slowly to the thick door and pulled it open the rest of the way.
"Who the hell are you?"
She jumped a bit, from the gruff voice of the intruder, once her wide eyes set on the figure, however, she relaxed.
A boy, three years older then her, with shaggy brown hair, his dark blue shirt hung loosely on him as did his dirty white pants. Which stopped just bellow his knees."Uh-um…I g-got lost."
He rolled his dark eyes and with his head, motioned for her to get inside.
"C'mon in then. Don't want you dyin' out in the desert."
She did as told and came inside, her head slightly bowed.
"Where are you from?"
"Uh-K-Konohagakure."
He tsked under his breath.
"Oh so you're one of those people then. Why don't you have any shoes on? You're totally unprepared for wandering around outside…crazy girl."
She tapped her fingers together.
"Whatever! You're lucky to have found this place, you wouldn't last too long out there, with the dramatic temperature change it'll have by tonight."
"T-tonight?"
The boy nodded.
"Yeah. It's gonna get real cold-always does in the desert…don't they teach you anything where you come from?"
"W-why are you out here?"
Decided to answer her lame attempt at topic change, the boy shrugged his shoulders and placed the pale of water on the floor beside the straw bed.
"I ran away."
"Oh?"
He nodded.
"I wasn't gettin' attention at home, my ma's dead and my sister beats me up."
The girl stifled a giggle, the boy growled.
"Ah my sister is scarier then ya think…she big an' mean an' ugly…"
"I'm NOT ugly!"
Standing in the doorway of the hut, draped in a white cloth was a girl with messy pigtails and scowling face. She looked annoyingly at her brother before turning to the girl.
"You the Konoha girl?"
The child gave a nod.
"The ANBU are looking all over for you. My uncles just outside." Pointing behind her, sure enough there was blond man, draped in ninja gear staring at her with smiling eyes.
It took her a moment to realize that the man was calling her name.
"Come on little Hinata, your father is searching for you."
Hinata was about to go into the man opened arms before she noticed another child. One with red hair a teal eyes staring shyly from behind the mans leg.
"H-hello." She greeted before the brother and sister in the hut yelled out to her.
"Don't!"
"Yeah,, don't talk to him!"
The red haired boy didn't seem to mind, he came out a bit, tilting his head slightly with a blush on his cheeks he waved awkwardly.
"…hi…"
Hinata smiled, allowing herself to be taken by the children's uncle and carried back to Sunagakure all the while staring at the red haired boy, whom shyly stared back from behind his large teddy bear.
"Kankuro called me ugly!"
"Temari's hitting me!"
The man sighed.
"Temari Kankuro be quiet. Cant you be more like your brother?"
The girl, Temari sighed.
"Like Gaara? As if!"
Hinata noted that Gaara lowered his head and hiccupped slightly, about to cry.
Sera: AW! I liked the way I introduced the characters…however easy it was to figure out who was who…it wont be too clichéd as far as any romances go, if any at all…hmmm I'm not saying there wont be…blah I'm babbling! Kankuro was fun to write, I just pictured this rude little kid with a huge chip on his shoulder. Temari wasn't in it as much so I didn't get to go into detail on what kind of kid she must have been, but thinking on it she must have been the bully big sister. As for a shy Gaara? Why not? He was sheltered and never had friends-so he wasn't really people compatible, especially where girls are concerned.
Oh and the boy chasing Hinata? Neji of course! Who else would it be?
Hinata and Gaara are about six so Neji would be seven Kankuro would be nine and Temari would be ten. So they're really young, probably young enough so when they got older they didn't really remember each other…? Hmm…so many things can happen here!
Comment and I will go on. No flames please!