Pairings: GaaraxOFCxSasuke, InoxGaixLeexSakura (Ino and Saku die and then Gai and Lee hook up), NarutoxHinata, ShikamaruxTemari, NejixTenten, and more but those are the main ones i think
Summary: a girl with a secret moves to Suna when she is 7 where she makes friends with Gaara. a few years later when the girl is 9 she and her brother is forced to move to Konoha where the girl becomes best friends with Naruto. she stays in Konoha even after her secret is found out. theres heartbreaking, lots of fluff, kissing, and ofcorse Sasuke and Gaara fighting over the right to call the girl theirs alone but whats more importain is whats the girl that Sasuke and Gaara are fighting over doing kissing Temari? well find out when it comes out!
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SnowNeko: -clears throat- alright yeah I know I shouldn't be putting up a new story but deal with it and I'll say this now: UPDATES WILL BE ONCE A MONTH! so every month sometime, sometimes on the first and sometimes on the last days, there will be a new update. I'm not changing that but I'm giving a warning aren't I nice? lol anyway yeah no clue what else I could say so yeah...
Disclaimer: nope don't own Naruto no matter how much I wish to own a few people from Naruto. I only own Aikou, Zack, Their family, Random Ninja, Random Ninja Teachers, Random Village People, and any jewelry or clothes or weapons or torture plans that my characters wear or use or think of. Also I do own your fate thread so review after you read. -grins with black neko ears perked forward and black wolf tail swishing around happily and a black ribbon with a bell and bow around neck-
Chapter One: Enter & Exit Hioshirezu Aikou in Suna
Hitoshirezu Aikou blushes as she stood in front of the class. Her dark blue bangs hung in front of her eyes, hiding them from everyone, as her short barely to the shoulder dyed black hair hung lose. She looks though her bangs at the class and blushes more and bows her head looking at the ground. She glances at the teacher and asks in a small voice "um where am I to sit sensei?"
The guy looks at her and says "anywhere you want. Although the only seat open is beside Gaara-sama." He said Gaara's name with hate in his voice. He looks at the small seven-year-old girl and says "but I don't really want you to sit there."
Aikou blushes and says "it doesn't matter to me. I'll sit by the boy." She then walks up to where the open seat was and sits down quietly. She glances at the shocked class and blushes more looking at her hands that where on the desk nervously. She glances at the boy next to her and whispers "hi."
The teacher got over his shock and says "alright class lets get back to work." he then goes onto the lesson he had planned that day.
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After class, Aikou got swept up in a group of kids warning her to stay away from the boy she sat next to. She just blinks and nods to them before leaving heading over to her older brother who was there to pick her up. She asks "Nii-san do you know who a Gaara is here? Everyone keeps on telling me to stay away from him."
Zack, Aikou's brother, says "they say he has a demon inside of him." He glances at his younger sister before smiling and picks her up putting her on his back and says "don't worry I won't keep you from him." He has short dark brown hair and bright light brown eyes. He is seventeen years old.
Aikou whimpers and asks "so we have to keep my secret a secret still?"
Zack nods and says "don't worry about it Aikou. I'll always be by your side." he smiles at his little sister and opens the door to their home and walks in setting his sister down on their couch and says "now stay here and I'll go get the surprise I told you about this morning." He grins and heads upstairs.
Aikou giggles and sits on the couch waiting with a smile on her face. She looks up at the stairs and squeals at her brother as he held two beautiful small fans that her mother used to have.
Zack walks down, hands it to her, and says "I managed to save them from the fire along with dad's katana that I'm keeping me with. And I saved these." He pulls out one necklace and an anklet both where their mothers. He hands anklet to her and he fastens the black choker with a pure silver crescent moon hanging from a small chain onto her neck and smiles at her.
Aikou giggles as she puts the anklet on her ankle and grins up at him.
Zack laughs and says "you never looked more like mother than now Ai."
Aikou laughs and says "you look like daddy too with his sword on your back."
Zack nods and asks "Wanna go train? I know you must have tons of energy after being stuck in the classroom all day."
Aikou nods and stands up and runs up to her room to change out of her school clothes and into her training cloths. She walks back down in a black t-shirt and white shorts on. Her hair was held back with clips but her bangs still covered her light brown eyes. She had her weapon pouch and kunai holster on along with her two new fans on her lower back to where she could reach to pull them out quickly. She also had to daggers hanging from her waist. She was still wearing her mother's jewelry too.
Zack grins and says "alright lets go!" he takes her hand and they walk out onto the streets heading to the place where Zack trained alone.
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Aikou giggles as she walks next to her brother with an ice cream in her hands.
Zack smiles down at his sister and asks "alright now how about the park?"
Aikou nods and says "yeah!" She finishes off her ice cream right as they reached the park entrance and head into it. She runs up to the swings and sits on one giggling.
Zack walks up to his sister and starts pushing her gently on the swing. He smiles at how carefree she was despite what had happen to her when she was three. He looks to his left to see a little boy with red hair and teal eyes sitting on the swing next to his sister. He looks at the boy and asks kindly "do you want me to push you on the swing?"
Aikou looks to the left and grins before saying "hi Gaara right?"
Zack looks at the boy and smiles before saying "Aikou is this the boy you where talking about?"
Aikou looks at her brother and says "yeah."
Gaara, the red head, glares at them and says "Go away."
Aikou looks confused and asks "why would we?"
Gaara looks at both of them, saw the surprise on their faces, and says "why would you want to stay with a monster?"
Aikou slips off the swing she was on, hugs him, and whispers "don't cry." She steps back grinning at him and says "I don't see a monster. I see a boy that needs a friend and I wish to befriend him!"
Zack chuckles and says "Aikou stay here while I go pick up dinner for us alright?"
Aikou grins at her brother and says "alright Nii-san!"
Zack nods and says "it was nice meeting you Gaara-sama. Take care of my sister while I'm gone too." he then leaves heading for the market place.
Gaara blinks looking at the girl and asks "why would he trust me to look out for you?"
Aikou looks at him weirdly and says "he's my only living family member so if he trusts you to look out for me then he really trusts you." She grins and says "come on let's go play!" she grabs his hand and pulls him over to the slide with a grin as they start to play.
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Zack smiles as he walks back to the park and found his laughing sister playing in the sand with Gaara. He grins as he walks over and leans against the swing's pole watching them. He laughed as his sister pouted when her sandcastle fell down. He watches before grinning as the sandcastle rebuilt itself and Gaara's smiling face at his sister. He grins and walks over saying "I'm so sorry to do this but Ai its time to go home. You have school in the morning remember."
Aikou nods and says "bye Gaara-kun! C ya in school tomorrow?"
Gaara looks at her, nods smiling at her, and says "bye Ai-chan!" he looks up as his uncle comes into the park.
Zack picks up his sister and says "bye Gaara-sama." He then leaves nodding to Gaara's uncle.
Gaara looks up with a smile and says "I made a friend!"
His uncle smiles and says "I saw. Come on its dinner time."
Gaara nods and stands up walking next to his Uncle heading for his home. He heard laughing and saw his new friend and her older brother enter a house smiling. He looks down at the ground sad that he couldn't have that kind of relationship with one of his own siblings.
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The next morning, Aikou walked into the classroom and took her seat next to Gaara and grins at him and says "hi Gaara-kun!"
Gaara looks up and smiles at her before looking back at his desk. He mumbles "hi Ai-chan."
Aikou blinks and asks "whats wrong?"
Gaara says "nothing."
Aikou smiles and says "I know something is wrong but I'll leave you alone about it."
Gaara nods and looks out the window.
Aikou looks out the window too, since she had came early and knew the class wouldn't start for another fifteen minutes. The fifteen minutes passed by quickly and soon the teacher came in and started the class.
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Aikou giggles as she stood next to Gaara while waiting for her turn to practice throwing kunais despite her already knowing how. She watches Gaara and smiles softly as he does before she steps up and does the same hitting the middle right by Gaara's. She steps back next to by him and looks at the ground to hide from the looks she got from her classmates and teacher.
The teacher asks "Aikou how could you do that if you didn't got to a ninja school in your last village?"
Aikou blinks and says softly "um… I was trained by my family. My mother started training me when I was three."
The teacher nods and asks "so you have been training for five years?"
Aikou nods and says "Hai sensei."
The teacher nods again and says "Alright. Next!" the new kid steps up and throws.
Gaara glances at his friend and asks softly "how come you're here and not a genin already?"
Aikou glances at him and says softly in a whisper "I was about to take the genin test before I had to leave." She glances at him again and whispers "I wanted to be on a team of kids my own age rather than being with older kids is why I'm here and not a genin."
Gaara nods and moves closer to her as if to protect her from the looks that the other kids where throwing at the two of them.
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Later after school, Gaara was walking next to Aikou as they headed for her home to play there for a little bit. Zack walks up to them when they where halfway home and says "I'm sorry Gaara but Aikou can't have friends over tonight." He looks down at his sister and says "shes grounded for the next couple of days."
Aikou looks at the ground scared. Gaara looks down at the ground too but hugs his friend and whispers "bye. See you in class tomorrow."
Aikou nods and smiles at him giving him a hug back and watched as he left. She looks up at her brother with tired amber eyes and walks next to him back to their home. She picks at her food before looking at the time noticing it and whispers "I hate this."
Zack nods and says "I know. I hate it too but its something that has to be done since the attack." He stands up leading his younger sister that didn't deserve what was gonna happen to her. He opens the door to the basement, walks down with her before putting the chains on her wrists and ankles along with one around her neck, and looks at her sadly backing up as she curled up into a ball moaning in pain. He reached the steps and winces when he heard her bones break and saw her starting to transform into what bit her five years ago, a werewolf. He heads upstairs hearing the bone chilling howl that came from his sister and he closes and locks the basement door. He goes into the kitchen to clean up their dinner and then sits down to read for the rest of the night untill sunrise.
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In the morning, Zack goes back down to the basement to see his sister bleeding and he felt his heart breaking that she had to go through this every full moon. He unchains her and picks her up gently taking her up to the bathroom to clean and bandage her up before putting her to bed. He sighs sadly hating have to do this and hate having his little sister goes through with it. He knew that nothing worked to control the beast within her but that didn't stop him from trying to find a jutsu to help her out. He yawns and goes into his bedroom to rest. It was a promise they made after their parents died: if one couldn't sleep, the other one couldn't sleep. He was always up before his sister though just because it was a habit of his to be up and ready for the day before his sister got up.
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A few hours later, knocking at the door woke up Zack and he went and opens the door to see Gaara and his uncle standing before him. He yawns and asks "can I help you?"
Gaara asks "can I see Ai-chan?"
Zack wakes up fully then and says "I'm sorry she can't come to the door. She is resting right now."
Gaara's Uncle asks "resting? Why would she need to be resting?"
Zack says "she was training all morning since before sunrise. Something about a promise to our dad about becoming a strong ninja... I don't know for sure or anything."
Gaara asks "Can I still see her? I don't care if she is resting I just wanna see her."
Zack smiles softly and says "Be quiet she is sleeping. Shes upstairs in her room the door is open."
Gaara nods and runs upstairs to make sure his friend was alright. He stops in the doorway looking at her and gasped when he saw the bandages around her and the scratches on her face. He walks over to her bed and gently touches one of the scratches and then takes a step back before turning and running downstairs and asks "what happen to her?"
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Zack says "she was training with a clone… I had to end the fight when I woke up."
Gaara's Uncle looks at Zack and says "if you're hurting her then it's against the law here."
Zack stares and says "I would never hurt my sister. She is my only living relative and if anything I would kill to protect her!" He glares at the uncle and says "take my word that if anyone was to hurt her I would be the first to hurt them back, if they lived after my sister got done with them."
Gaara looks at him before saying "I'm staying here untill she wakes up then!"
Zack looks at Gaara's uncle and says "it's fine with me if he stays."
Gaara's Uncle nods and says "Very well. I'll bring clothes for the morning because he has to go to school in the morning." He then leaves heading back home.
Zack nods and says "Alright." he looks at Gaara and says "I guess you can stay in her room watching over her untill morning. I'll bring food up for you if you wish."
Gaara nods and says "I'm gonna go up to watch her." he then turns and heads upstairs going back to his friends room.
Zack yawns and heads into the kitchen to make some food. He knew his sister would be waking up in a bit and knew she would be hungry.
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Meanwhile, up in Aikou's room Gaara sat on the floor watching his friend. He jumps in surprise when she opened her eyes and groaned. He walks over to her bed and looks down at her asking softly "Ai-chan! Are you alright?"
Aikou blinks and asks "Gaara-kun?"
Gaara says "yes. What were you doing training for so long and hard?"
Aikou says "I wanted to become stronger." She sits up and winces but looks to her door as her brother walked in with a tray of food for both of the kids.
Zack shakes his head and says "Stubborn girl." he sets the tray of food down on his sister's desk before propping her up with pillow's so she could eat. He then picks up the tray setting it down over his sister's lap and takes off Gaara's food setting it on a fold up table by the bed. He smiles at both of them and says "eat up." he then leaves.
Gaara, who had watched everything, says "it looked like he does this a lot." He looks at his friend and asks "does he?"
Aikou nods her head and says "I get sick atleast once a month for some reason it's always around the full moon. So he takes care of me when it does happen." She eats her food quietly, as does Gaara.
Gaara asks "have you been to the hospital for your sickness?"
Aikou nods and whispers "they don't know whats wrong. I spent the first week I moved here in the hospital. My brother and I move around a lot after our parents died."
Gaara nods and says "right." he looks sadly at his food and finishes it off before asking "what can you do while staying in bed?"
Aikou looks up at him and says "play board games and read. Normally Nii-san is the one playing with me." she finishes off her food and looks to her door and asks "Nii-san can you play a game with us?"
Zack smiles at his sister and says "ofcorse. I'll bring the games after I take these dishes back to the kitchen." He cleans up after the two and heads back to the kitchen to get their dessert and heads back up to his sisters room with the games and desserts.
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After a day of playing games and such, Zack smiles at his tried little sister and says "Get some sleep so you can heal. I did put healing herbs in your food today but you still need rest to heal the best." He looks at Gaara and says "you can sleep in here. Theres the window sill that Aikou sleeps on sometimes." He tucks in his little sister and gives her a kiss on the forehead and says "good night my Ookami." He then leaves heading to his room.
Gaara looks at his friend and asks "why did he call you his wolf?"
Aikou yawns and says "I've always liked wolfs. I used to have a wolf as a pet when my parents where alive." She closes her eyes and says "good night Gaara-kun." She then falls asleep.
Gaara sat on the windowsill and looks out at the sky and sometimes glancing at his friend.
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In the morning, Aikou gets up quietly and slips out of her room heading to the bathroom and gets ready for the day before going back to her room and jumps in surprise that Gaara was awake and looking around the room for her. She giggles and says "hi Gaara-kun!" she smiles at him before going into her closet and getting dressed in a pair of jean shorts and a light blue t-shirt. She still had bandages on her arms and legs but she didn't care right then. She comes out of her closet and grabs her jewelry.
Gaara watched her before asking "how can you be up and ready after something like that? You could barely move without any pain yesterday."
Aikou grins and says "my brother is a medic nin so he knows how to take care of my wounds and what herbs will heal me faster and he adds them to my food to help me heal faster." She looks at him with a smiling face.
Gaara nods and says "we better get to school." He stands up from his spot on the windowsill and walks out with his friend next to him. He glances at her noticing the weapons she had on her and asks "why are you bringing those?"
Aikou says "Nii-san and I are gonna train after school. So I'm taking them with me so he won't have to along with his own." She smiles at him and enters the kitchen to see her brother already sitting at the table drinking coffee and eating and already had two plates of food set out along with cups of orange juice. She takes her normal seat and looks at Gaara who was standing in the doorway looking unsure. She smiles and says "come on its just breakfast!"
Gaara walks in and sits next to his friend and started eating after her. He was amazed at the love and kindness that the brother and sister had and kindof wished that he had that kindof relationship with his siblings.
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Months passed with school and everything about exactly two years later Zack got a letter from the Hokage in Konoha for him and his sister to come live in The Village Hidden in Leaf. Zack looks at his sister and saw his nine-year-old sister walking with a nine-year-old Gaara. He sighs and hated to break them up but he knew his stay in Sand was gonna end soon and that his sister and him would have to move to a different village. He saw them enter the house and says "I'm sorry."
Both kids look up at him and Aikou asks "what do you mean Nii-san?"
Zack hands her the letter and then leaves the room with his head down sadly and he says "pack because we have to. The Kazekage found out Aikou… he said to leave once we got permission to enter one of the other Hidden villages." He then disappears upstairs to his room.
Aikou reads the letter and gasps as silent tears went down her face. She turns around and hugs Gaara with her face buried in his chest.
Gaara wraps one arm around her, took the letter from her, and reads it himself. He tightens his grip around her and says "no you can't leave! How could my father do this!" he growls as his sand started to swirl around the two of them angrily.
Aikou sniffles and says "he found out that I'm a werewolf. I know you already know but didn't know for sure, so I'm confirming it for you." she looks up at him and whispers "thanks for being my friend. Nobody wants to be a friend with a werewolf or a weird girl like me."
Gaara looks down at her into her darker brown eyes and says "I'll never stop being your friend." (1) He lets go of her and steps back saying "you should go back. I'll see you off." He then leaves with his head down.
Aikou whimpers before heading upstairs to start packing her stuff.
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A week past and everything was packed and sent ahead since Zack and Aikou where going on foot for the training purpose. Aikou looks back at the village hopeing that her friend would show up like he said he would.
Zack stops and says "we can wait a little bit longer but not that long." He looks down and says "I'm sorry about taking you away from him."
Aikou nods and says "I know you are but it doesn't stop it from hurting." She closes her eyes and felt something warm being pressed against her cheek. She opens her eyes to see a blushing Gaara standing before her and she blushes when realizing what he had done.
Gaara says "here this is for you." he hands her a box and says "open it."
Aikou opens it and stares at the silver anklet that had a broken moon on it and with the name Gaara engraved on it. She looks at him and hugs him tightly and whispers "thank you Gaara-kun." She gives him a peck on the cheek and steps back away from him with a blush on her face.
Gaara hugged her back and blushed from the kiss she gave him and says "I have the other half that has your name on it." He holds it up and put the two broken parts of the moon together so it fit perfectly before giving her half back to her and says "I'll never forget you Ai-chan." he then disappears in a swirl of sand.
Aikou bends down and fastens on the anklet on the ankle that didn't have anything on it. She smiles softly at the village behind her and whispers "I'll never take it off Gaara-kun." She knew he heard her and she turns leaving with her brother.
1 A/N: now remember this! It's important! As a side note: now if only they where older than nine would I put that they kiss passionately but since they are only nine I can't do that. It's so sad to because that would be perfect!
SnowNeko: alright heres the first chapter... just because I'll give a little preview for the next chapter.
Aikou is getting introduced to another class but this time who will she befriend? wait thats too common I mean come on who doesn't know that she will befriend Naruto? -blinks seeing a few hands- ok yes she could befriend Sasuke but that doesn't come untill later in the story. i mean come on she kindof has to befriend Sasuke at some point or else this wouldn't be a good SasukexOFCxGaara story now would it? Aikou befriends Naruto and -rereads the next chapter since she forgot what it was about since it has been a couple months since she wrote it- well thats about all the next chapter is Aikou befriending Naruto and her and Zack training some.
Thanks for reading this far... no really thanks it lets me know that all thirty minutes to an hour to type this didn't go to waste! anyway R&R and c ya in a month! unless ofcorse if I get 100 reviews then there will be a second update this month.
Edit note: this chapter was out on April 6th, 2007