-Chapter 1- "Voices"
Sakura was walking down the street to get back to her apartment, when she thought she heard screaming. She continued to walk until she heard it again. She thought of it as nothing and continued to walk back home.
When she walked through the door she found everything the same. Same desk with case files on it, same regular TV, same couch on which she watches TV, and same kitchen in which she... Orders Chinese take-out. Maybe even some ramen at times. But not usually since it reminded her of her ex-boyfriend, Naruto.
Sakura walked up to the TV and turned it on, turning up the volume a little so she could hear it from the kitchen. She hung her jacket up on one of the many hooks and pulled her hair out of her pony-tail.
In the process of picking up the phone to order her regular Chinese food, she heard the news report a mass murderer on the loose.
"When you get indoors, lock your door at once. When you're walking, make sure you're accompanied. And at work, make sure your security gaurds are aware of this man. We do not have a photo of this man so be on gaurd at all times," she heard the reporter say.
Hmph, she thought. He's really that scary? I'll have to find out who this "mass murderer" is.
Being her hard-headed self, she didn't want to believe that a man THIS dangerous was out there. Enough to put nearly all of Konoha on lockdown? Psh, ya right.
After she ate, she turned off the TV and went to bed.
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Gaara woke up sweating. Another nightmare, he thought. Why does my past haunt me?
He got out of bed and took a shower. He was completely confident that nothing was going to go wrong in his plan. He had started killing...
It was just the only way in his mind. He wasn't an assassin... Oh no. He needed to kill to get rid of the memories.
Gaara got out of the shower and brushed his teeth, combed his hair, and ate breakfast. Regular thing... Until on the morning news, he heard something quite desturbing.
"This monster needs to be found! He's killing the good people of Konoha!" yelled a blonde man on the TV. "I will put the best detectives on the case! I'll do anything!"
The Hokage... Gaara thought. Uzumaki Naruto... He's another obstical. They don't know what they're doing. Blocking another citizen from their sanity... Idiots.
Gaara walked into the kitchen and picked up a knife. He'll be next, he thought.
(Whoa whoa whoa, you don't gotta kill him. That would be the stupidest move you've made in a month!)
Shukaku... You don't understand! My sanity depends on it.
(Just trust me...)
Ugh... Fine!
Gaara walked out of his house to his car, feeling a bit lonely along the way.
(One needs a mate and pups to survive a life this long)
I'll be fine for now... I'm making my way fine without a... Mate and pups
Gaara drove off to work, forgetting his demon's words completely.