Aki is just staring at the clouds when all of a sudden she heard some kid screaming, "AHHHHHHHH! It's Gaara's fault, everybody run!" She runs toward the voices & saw that there was blood everywhere. Staring blankly at Gaara she could tell that he felt even worse than he already did. As she watched him run-off she realized that Riku was hurt badly. Aki hurries over there to assist Riku to see if she mortally injured. As she is shoved out of the way so the adults could get to Riku, 'cause she wasn't really doing anything to help anyway. To Aki's astonishment she sees that the sand is moving on its own. She started to follow the grains that led to Gaara. The only thing that Aki could tell is that there are tears falling down Gaara's face, she tries to comfort him but the Suna no Tate (Shield of Sand) stops her from touching him. Aki looks puzzled as if you were being bitched slapped across the face. As she turns around & walks off she realized that she didn't care if she got hurt. As soon as the Suna no Tate (Shield of Sand) was down she ran head on to him to see if he was ok. Not knowing what had happened with Riku she assumed that she charged at him, & got what was coming to her. As Aki picks up speed, she notices that the sand is already up. And its too late to do anything about it. Aki's face splats into the wall & Gaara looks up at her puzzled.
"Why did you do that?" he asked with a quivering lip. "Why are you doing this? Don't ya see that I'm not able to control the Suna no Tate? It does it on its own. Just leave me alone."
Aki couldn't think straight. The questions 'Why do you want to be alone? , Don't you want somebody to cry with?,' kept circling in her head without stopping. After a few minutes past she decided to leave him alone.
As she walks away from Gaara, one of the children that witnessed the whole thing asked, "Why are you with that demon? He hurt Riku. Don't you care about that?" As you look at him in disgust, you responded without thinking "How can you say that? He's just a kid. He doesn't know what he was doing!" As soon as you realized what you had said, it was too late to do anything about it. The boy just looked at you in confusion.
Aki decides to ignore it so she just goes home to sleep.
'Why did you do it? Huh?' Why did you do that? Now he probably hates you now.' These were the thoughts running through Aki's head as she fell into her not so peaceful slumber.
Huff Huff 'Why am I running? No. Who am I running from?' thought Aki. "Wait I need to tell you something! Wait. PLEASE! Don't run from me I have ... " the voice faded out. Aki thought that the voice had stopped following her. She stops to catch her breath. She looks up & saw that it was Gaara following her. She looked like she could die of embarrassment. "I'm sorry that it seemed like I didn't like you like that but I have to tell you that I love you & trust you, Aki." Gaara said while embracing her. Gaara looks straight into Aki's eyes & says "And it would be a pity to let our lives to become corrupted by the lives of others." He grabbed a blade from his belt & forced it down your spine.
"AHHHHHHHHH!" Aki wakes up in a cold sweet. "Oh my god ... why did it feel so real?" She said with you quivering voice.