Gaara doesn't go to the funeral.
The people outside his little window look very sad, and they walk very slowly with their heads tilted down, and they are all wearing black. This upsets Gaara, but he doesn't know why. He prefers the color red.
The woman in the white clothes pulls the pale curtains over the window, and Gaara is not upset anymore. He feels lonely because nobody comes to visit him, and the blank white walls make him sad. Gaara closes his eyes so he doesn't have to look at the walls.
There are two people. One of them is a girl with blond hair who carries a fan, and the other is a boy with purple marks on his face. Gaara feels sad for them because they look angry. They talk to him, but Gaara doesn't want to understand the sharp, angry words. He doesn't want to hear them.
They look familiar. Gaara thinks they used to be friends with him. Why don't they ever come to visit? He thinks they have forgotten him. This scares Gaara, and he opens his eyes, staring at the whitewashed walls in fear.
They always disappear when he opens his eyes.
He asks the woman in the white clothes where the purple man and the fan girl are, and if they were friends, and if they could come and visit sometime, but the woman in the white clothes doesn't say anything.
Gaara asks if he has hurt them. He wonders if that is the reason why they never visit him.
The woman in the white clothes closes and locks the door, and Gaara is sad for the purple man and the fan girl and angry at the walls because he doesn't like the color white.
The next day the woman in the white clothes takes him outside. She brings a jacket for him. Gaara laughs because it looks funny and because it is too hot outside to wear a jacket. The woman in the white clothes makes him try it on, and Gaara doesn't like it. The sleeves are too long and sewn shut and tied to his back so he cannot move his arms.
Outside, Gaara sees a pretty white flower tinted pink around its petals. He wants the flower, but cannot move his arms. He wants to go back to the room with the white walls, and he wants the woman in the white clothes to take away the jacket.
Gaara asks to go back to his room, but the woman in the white clothes says she wants to show him something. Gaara is silent, because he knows that if he behaves the woman might take away the jacket and then he can have the pretty flower he found while they were walking.
Gaara doesn't pay attention to the rest of his walk until they stop in front of two stones. There is writing on the stones, and the names look familiar.
Temari
Kankuro
Under each name are the words Rest in peace.
Gaara asks why Temari and Kankuro are sleeping, and he realizes that the names belong to the purple man and the fan girl.
The woman in the white clothes says that they're gone, and they won't be coming back. Gaara asks why, and the woman says it's because they're not alive anymore.
This makes Gaara want to cry, because he liked the purple man and the fan girl and he wanted to be friends with them.
Then he asks if it's his fault they're not alive anymore.
The woman in the white clothes doesn't answer.
Gaara asks where they went when they stopped living.
The woman in the white clothes tells Gaara that the purple man and the fan girl went to Death.
Gaara tells the woman in the white clothes, "I want to go there too."