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Chapter 1

For all of us there comes an important decision that will define us for the rest of our lives. It can be subtle, or it can be glaringly obvious, but it's always there.

There was a hero, a hero who would fight the odds, for his friends, for the world, and for himself. There would come a time when he was alone, hated for something he could not control. There would come a time when he was surrounded by friends, loved for his deeds and his most pure of hearts. And there would come a time when he was alone once more, standing amidst the ruins of a butchered planet, a blade that could shatter the bonds of time held in his hand.

It would take one such decision to bring him to that point, though he would not be the one to make it.

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Gaara was eight years old. He had black bags around his eyes from lack of sleep, though they were not nearly so bad as they would become in the future. Those of his home would call him a psychopathic killer, regardless of the fact that he only ever killed in self-defense. Gaara himself wasn't particularly thinking about death right then. Instead, he was attempting to clean his teddy bear in a stream. As he did he was watched by his two older siblings, who were wondering vaguely if he was about to eat them.

Gaara had been blamed for a lot of things lately. He was blamed for his mother's death, for the corpses of careless assassins that inevitably turned up in the streets each night, even a nasty case of flu that had been circulating around Suna recently, when none of it was particularly his fault. After the thing with the flu, Elder Chiyo had decided enough was enough, and taken the child with her to Fire Country for a good, soul soothing camping trip.

Which brings us to the current situation.

Gaara held the teddy up to the light and examined it critically. "Does this smell funny to you?"

Temari started like a frightened rabbit, as this was the first time in living memory her younger brother had addressed her directly. "Er..."

"Well?" He shoved the stuffed toy into her face, and her nostrils were immediately assailed by the unmistakable smell of fresh urine. Her eyes homed in on where her brother had just been washing his bear, traveled upstream and landed on the final sibling, Kankuro, standing mostly behind a tree. Even from there, she could clearly hear the sounds of her brother relieving himself into the water.

A few seconds later, and Kankuro got to experience the joy of being kicked face first into a pile of sharp rocks. "KANKURO! YOU PIG!"

The catsuit clad boy came up spluttering and sporting a broken nose. "WHAT THE HELL D'YOU THINK YOU'RE-"

"Wait a minute," Both children turned to the side, where Gaara had dropped his teddy on the floor, and was now staring at it in undisguised horror. "You mean you... that my bear was..."

"Oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god, I'M GUNNA DIE!" thought Kankuro.

"CHIYO!" sobbed Gaara, running off in a random direction. "KANKURO PEED ON MR BEAR!"

The remaining siblings looked at each other in confusion. Mr Bear? "Ahem," The two turned around, immediately cringing beneath the overwhelming killer intent the looming figure was letting off. "Kankuro," said Chiyo pleasantly. "Do you understand why I'm displeased with you?"

"ItwasanaccidentIswear," he sobbed fearfully.

"Was it?" said Gaara, peeping timidly around Chiyo's leg.

"Yes, I was upstream and I really needed to go and-"

"Okay, I forgive you." The red haired child walked over to his downed toy and began to poke it with a stick. Chiyo gave a weary sigh, then turned to the eldest boy. "Get some berries. You know what type." She turned away as he ran off, wondering when would learn to stop peeing on things, when she noticed Temari staring at Gaara with a look of blatant disbelief on her face.

She walked up to him. "Gaara," she said quietly, flinching when he turned to look at her. "What are you doing?"

He gave her a sober look. "I'm checking to see if he's still alive."

Her village was terrified of this?

She watched him poke the bear for a few moments more before coming to a decision. "Kankuro's gone to collect some berries... would you like to come along?"

Gaara's head whipped around so hard she was amazed it didn't come flying off. "You want me to come along? Really?"

"Er, sure?" She hated how it came out like a question, but Gaara didn't seem to mind. With a deafening squeal of joy, he leapt forwards and attached himself to her hip, nuzzling into her side adoringly.

"I love you Temari!"

Never again.

Never again would she think her little brother a monster.

Never again.

Gaara watched as his siblings argued amidst the bushes. Was this what it was like? To have a family?

A flash of movement caught his eye.

In an open patch of grass beyond the trees, a group of young boys were surrounding a girl his own age, their intent obviously hostile, with short, bluish hair with two long strands coming down to frame her face. Even from where he was standing he noticed her peculiar eye color, with irises so pale they blended with the whites around them, and no pupils to speak of.

He knew what they were doing, as it or something similar had been done to him many times before. But it was different here, as mother's sand wasn't appearing to protect the girl as it did for him. Did she not have a mother?

"Gaara, where are you?"

He was startled out of his reverie, noticing for the first time how far away his brother and sister had wandered. He looked back at the girl, wondered if he should help...

For the first time in his life, his siblings were treating him as family, as a person, as a human being.

He turned away.

And with that decision...

That single, selfish decision...

The world was doomed.

A new story here. Will contain Super!Naruto, NaruHina, NaruFemHaku (not harem) and occasionally characters from other animes. In particular, this fic was inspired by an anime called 11eyes, which nobody seems to know about. This fic will be relatively lighthearted, with Naruto (while more serious than his canon counterpart) being a bit of a playboy as things go on. He will, however, eventually, settle down, with either Hinata (as tradition dictates) or Haku (who's a girl dammit!)

There will be a great deal of sad moments in this fic, bordering on tragic towards the end. However, there WILL be a happy ending, whether you like it or not.