Chapter One

It was just another sunny day outside in the morning, with most of the students socializing and having fun before class starts. One student however was inside, in his homeroom waiting for this boring same old day to start. Sabaku no Gaara was that one student. He watches the clock absent minded every morning, alone. Well sometimes one of his friends comes in to give him some company, where it's not really needed. 'Another boring day, at this boring school. At least the academy in Suna had at least one good fight a day...this sucks.' Sighing Gaara gets out a pencil, some paper and starts doodling random junk. Well not totally random as far as doodles go. Gaara usually stays in the same genres. Fighting, gore and horror, nothing fancy.

"Now sweet heart I want you to have a fun day at school and make some new friends ok?" Belle looks out the window of her father's car barely hearing what her father said. She looks to her father her eyes showing her nervousness. Belle had been home schooled all her life and lived in an area where there weren't really any kids to play with or grow up with. "Don't worry B. I promise to come visit you as much as I can but with my business taking off in the other nations I have to be there to get things set up." Her father tries to comfort her, knowing she will be all alone in that big house for weeks, maybe even months. He hopes his daughter will make good choices, especially in her friends. In her father's eyes she was a very smart and talented student. She'll be fine. Belle looks back out the window at all the other students wondering in the back of her mind 'Why a frickn' ninja school? I'm terrified or petrifiyed of fighting.' "Belle?" she looks back to her father again. "Everything will be alright." Her father says reassuring her with a smile.

She smiles back weakly and nods saying in her light shy voice "Ok D. Love you." She gives her father one last kiss and hugs him tightly knowing it is the last till they meet again. Picking up her bag with four binders filled neatly with papers, a pencil case and lunch bag, noticing the minute it's on it is pretty heavy. Before closing her door to the car she looks back at her father smiling and using her louder regular voice that she uses with people she knows "Bye Dad." Smiling back at his fifteen year old daughter he says one last time

"Bye Belle and remember, no matter what, I love you." As soon as the door was closed her father drives off waving good bye. Belle's smile fades the further the car gets. She turns to face Kahona High. A wave of worry crosses onto her face.

Belle enters the main front doors and spies the office immediately. Walking in a lady with short black hair looks up at her. "Hello there. I believe you are our new student? I haven't seen you around here so I guess you are. I'm Shizune. You're...Isabella Aria?" Shizune asks all cheerful and smiling.

Belle smiles weakly and replies quietly "Yes, but I prefer Belle." Shizune almost didn't hear her, but knew it was just the nerves.

"Here's your schedule, a map and a note your father wanted handed in to your gym teacher, Kurenai Sensei. Well that's just about it Belle. So have a wonderful day!" Shizune finishes smiling happily at Belle. Belle nods, looking at the time she heads off to her home room class. 'Let's see...first class math room 20A Irukia Sensei. Ok, here's room 18A...19A...ok here it is room 20A.' Belle stops at her first class door looking in through the window briefly seeing all the students already seated. 'Shoot! Now people are going to look at me.' Before the teacher could start Belle knocked on the door and was told to come in.

Math class had started and Irukia Sensei was about to assign an assignment. Everyone groans. Usually all the assignments were so fucking long. Gaara hated them so much; they always took so long even for the genius student Shikamaru. Shikamaru was more of a strategist than math genius. Then there was a knock at the door. Perfect timing. Irukia told the person to come in and in walked this girl with brown curly hair held back in a pony tail with curled bangs framing her face. Gaara sensed her nervousness. She was wearing a grey t-shirt, black capri's and a navy spring jacket, undone, with the sleeves rolled up. The girl scanned the class quickly then turned to Irukia. "OH! You must be our new student...Isabella right?" Irukia asks.

She nods her head once and says in a quiet shy voice, kind of like Hinata's but with no stutter, "Yes, but I prefer to be called Belle." Everyone almost missed it because it sounded more like a whisper than anything else.

"Well ok Belle. I'm Irukia Sensei and I was about to hand out a math assignment that is due next day or if you can the end of the period. Since it's your first day you don't have to do the 8 double sided sheets I've had prepared if you don't want to." Irukia offered.

Belle shook her head saying with a little more volume feeling more comfortable by the minute "No I'll take the assignment Irukia Sensei." Everyone looks at like she's nuts, a chance not to do the assignment, and she takes it anyway. Gaara stares at her then notices that the only seat left was the one empty seat on his right. No one was on his left, because he chose to sit in the back corner of the class. Irukia smiles handing her the sheets and points to the seat beside Gaara.

"There's an empty seat beside Gaara near the back corner." Irukia says to her.

Belle takes the sheets smiling and looks at the empty seat beside this red head sitting in the back corner. 'He must be Gaara.' Belle thinks to herself. She sees him looking at her, but then again most of the boys were. It was very disconcerting. Walking up the aisle she takes her seat beside Gaara placing the assignment on the desk while she rummages through her bag for her pencil case. She just catches Irukia saying that you can talk to your neighbour for help or offer it. Immediately she starts working at a nice pace rhythm. The pencil scratches down calculations, equations and answers on the sheets of paper before her. Everything was coming very easily for she already knew this and understood everything perfectly. In order to concentrate Belle blocks out all sounds and noises, focusing on the sheets of paper in front of her. Unbeknownst to her several boys, besides Gaara, tried talking to her but soon realized after seeing how focused she was that she couldn't hear a single word they said. Gaara was fairly amused by this. He wondered how his brother would fare if he tried flirting with Belle while she did math.

It was about 40 mins into the class with about 25 mins remaining. Gaara was only half way through the assignment. Belle on the other hand was already done and just checking through her answers a second time making sure everything was done and done correctly. She silently stood up and walked down the aisle with a completed assignment in her hands, trying to ignore the stares from her classmates following her as she went. Placing the sheets on Irukia's desk she says softly "I'm done Irukia Sensei." Irukia looks up from his book to see Belle standing in front of him and an assignment completed on his desk.

"Did you double check?" Irukia asks not sure if he could believe that a student finished a math assignment before the period was over. Belle nodded. "Um...well, ok then I guess you have some free time then. Go back to your seat and do something or help a classmate with it." Irukia says to Belle wondering what would she consider a challenge.

Belle nods again and starts heading up towards her seat beside Gaara, but before she gets there, a spike haired blonde boy in an orange jumpsuit calls out "HEY BELLE!" She turns to look at the blonde boy who she now noticed had these amazing blue eyes. "Do you think you can help me with this?" The boy asks pleadingly.

"Um...sure." Belle answers in her shy voice. By the time math class was finished she found out that the boy was named Naruto and he understood the math better and made Belle feel a lot more comfortable making her laugh practically the whole time and coaxed her out of her shy voice...at least around him anyway. Gaara starred at Belle with slight interest and glared somewhat at Naruto. Belle seemed unafraid of Gaara which was unusual. Most of the students here were afraid of him. Gaara somewhat glared at Naruto because he was getting close to her even if it is very little.

'Wait since when do I care if a girl gets close to anyone. I've seen plenty of girls get close to guys and didn't care one bit, but this girl...' Gaara was still unsure of his interest in this seemingly normal female, but shrugs it off and gathers up his things. Belle returns to her seat as well to get her bag. She snatches a quick glance over at Gaara seeing him strap this huge thing to his back. He notices her stare as she puts on her bag.

"What?" Gaara asks annoyed, his eyes slightly glaring. Belle flinches. Gaara was very intimidating, but...he was also very handsome. His unruly red hair, sea foam green eyes standing out from the black circles around his eyes.

She blushes lightly explaining "Sorry Gaara. I was just curious on what that thing was you have on your back." Belle looks at him with her mix between blue and green eyes hoping for an answer.

"It's a gourd." Gaara says then walks away, being the first out of the room. Belle heads to the door and looks at her schedule seeing that she has gym class next.

Belle finds the gym and walks in seeing all the other girls and a tall black haired lady with red eyes. She notices that the girls were in her earlier math class that morning. "Ah you must be Isabella or according to Shizune you liked to be called Belle. Well I'm Kurenai Sensei and I'll be your gym teacher. Here's a gym uniform. We'll all be running track or long distance today." Kurenai says smiling and rolls her eyes as all the girls groan. Taking the uniform Belle heads into the girls' change room putting on the white t-shirt and black shorts, both loose so they feel comfortable to exercise in. She grabs the note for Kurenai, but before heading back into the gym, Belle latches on her waist a very discrete looking pouch. Walking into the gym she sees everyone stretching.

"Kurenai Sensei... I have a note that my father wanted me to give to you." Belle says in her quiet voice.

Kurenai takes the note and reads it over. "Hmm...So you aren't going to join us in any sparing huh? Well ok." Putting away the note she continues and calls to the rest of the class "Ok everybody outside and start running!" all the girls exit the gym through some back doors onto a very large track. In the field next to the track the boys were playing a game of flag football. The girls start jogging the track and Belle was one of them. Half way through the period most of the girls were getting pretty tired and breathing heavily, except for one, Belle. She was still going strong barely feeling exhausted.

A flash of red catches the corner of her eye in the next field and she hears the boys' gym teacher, the one wearing a green jumpsuit with a blinding smile, said "Well Gaara you decided to join us today after all."

Belle looks over and sees the red head Gaara glaring at the teacher and says in a low velvety husky voice "I had nothing better to do." That tone of voice made the teacher slightly flinch. It was a very demeaning tone making anyone who is spoken with it feels lesser about one's self. She had not noticed she'd stop jogging and kept looking at the red head that to Belle seemed like such an enigma.

Kurenai saw Belle slowly stop looking over at the boys' gym class and the just arrived Gaara. Kurenai smirks and yells "BELLE STOP OGGLING THE BOYS AND GET BACK TO RUNNING!" Kurenai couldn't help but laugh a little at her newest student's flushed face, beat red with embarrassment and startled jump. She started running again the minute the boys looked over when Kurenai yelled that. Most of them saw her jump in surprise and couldn't help but snicker a little and wonder who she was checking out. Gaara also saw her but only caught her running again and the red on her face, he only assumed to be from running. At the end of the period all but one of the girls was on the ground panting. Belle was still standing seeming unfazed by the long distance running. Kurenai looked at her amazed. She'd never seen such stamina in a young one. "Ok girls great run! Tomorrow we are going to play against the guys in some capture the flag so get a good night's rest!" Kurenai announced. Most of the girls groaned from aching muscles and the thought of trying to beat the guys at a sport come tomorrow. They all got changed back into their normal clothes and headed out of the change room.

Belle was the last to leave, but was soon stopped by a girl with pink hair and another girl with blonde hair. "Belle, right? Good running today. You sure have some stamina there. You did what, twenty, thirty laps around that track and you haven't even broken a sweat." The pink haired girl complimented.

"Ya, no duh Sakura. I bet she can keep up with Lee if he started doing all those running challenges around the village again. By the way Belle, I'm Ino and this bubble gum freak is Sakura." Ino says pointing at a very mad Sakura.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY INO-PIG!" Sakura gritted through her teeth. The two girls started yelling and poor Belle had no idea what to do. So in a desperate manner she decided to say goodbye and leave.

"Um...I'll see you guys later. I better get to class. Nice meeting you Sakura and Ino." Belle says just loud enough for them to hear over their arguing and walks away.

All the ninja students now had genjutsu class and since Belle was the only non-ninja here, she was enrolled in different classes. Vocal class is what she had at the moment. Belle loved singing and her father often complimented on her voice when she practiced on the piano. She entered the room to find that there was a note on the desk waiting for her. It said:

Dear Isabella Aria,

I am afraid that there are no music, art, and drama teachers for you. In the absence of appropriate staff, you are welcome to use this room designed for all the arts, at your disposal. Sing, dance, act, play and create visual art to your heart's content. I will stop by at the end of each month for you to show me what you've been working on and I may pop in now and then to check on you. Just to let you know the room has been corked, so that you don't have to worry about your volume because anyone in the hall would think of it just as a murmur. Well good luck and have fun!

Sincerely,
Lady Tsunade-sama

Belle looked around the room at all the various instruments, supplies and full length mirrors. She knew this was going to be a good year, as she gazed upon her sanctuary in this school in short she could never truly fit in. Everyone here was a ninja with their own special talents in the ninja field. Belle didn't really have any that she knew of. The only closely remote thing she had to being a ninja was with a kunai or shuriken and a one special ninjutsu her mother passed on to her. Especially the new kind of shuriken and kunai her father developed for her so she can defend herself, as long as she wears the special gloves or body suit. Setting her bag aside Belle closed the door and walked over to the piano where she decided to play warm up music for her vocals. The sound of the piano filled the room and then Belle sang her warm up staying in beat and in tune with the piano all the way.

Gaara was walking aimlessly about in the halls skipping the stupid genjutsu class he had right now. He really didn't use genjutsu so there was no point in going to it but something intrigued him. Walking by the room he noticed that that new girl Belle wasn't in there. Not like he cared or anything. Everything was quiet in the halls till he heard this melodic murmur coming from one of the rooms. Curiosity drove him to seek out the sound. Stopping in front of a door, the sound is much better to hear and he could tell it was a piano and a girl's voice singing. The voice sounded so angelic and sweet. Peering inside he sees that it was Belle all alone in the room playing in the piano. Carefully he opens the door without making a sound and is bombarded with the piano and her singing. She seemed to be doing some type of warm up. Gaara waits patiently till she finishes playing. He watches her hands move along the keys with deliberate motions knowing which key to press. Her voice, lifting into the air, mixing in perfectly with all the notes of the piano. Spying a chair, Gaara silently sets his gourd on the ground and sits in the chair, watching her every movement. He closes his eyes and just enjoys the music and her singing voice.

Belle still hasn't noticed Gaara and finishes up her warm up. Relinquishing her fingers from the piano she goes to her bag to withdraw a piece of sheet music with the lyrics on it. She loved the song, for one it was a duet of a man and a woman. Also the music for it was amazing. Before she touches her bag she feels a cold gaze upon her. Belle finally notices Gaara sitting there with his emotionless eyes locked on her.

Heat rushes to her face as she whispers out in the silence "What are you doing here Gaara? Don't you have genjutsu class?" Gaara looks into her eyes seeing her nervousness and curiosity swirling within them.

His answer is short and blunt "I could ask you the same thing."

Belle looks at him, retaliating with two words "Touché Gaara." They both stare at each other and Belle is unsure of what to do now that he is here. 'One thing's for sure I'm not singing in front of him. Darn myself consciousness. Maybe I can do some drawing.' She thinks as she takes out her pencil case, blank sheet of paper and walks over to a desk sitting down.

Looking down at the white emptiness of her paper she thinks of what to draw, but is drawn out of her thought by Gaara's rough voice "Why did you stop playing and singing?" The question was so sudden it caught her off guard for a moment. Gaara was still in the chair looking boringly at Belle with slight curiosity in his eyes even though it was minute. Belle wasn't frightened by Gaara, but more intimidated by him, because of his glare and rough demeanour.

She gathers her thoughts on how to answer and decided to give him something to think about. In a normal clear voice she challenges "Why do birds fly? Why does one choose to be who they are or allow idiots to tell them what they are and eventually become just that?" Belle continues but notices that there was a slight change of emotion in his eyes before they became ice once again, "Why do the good die and evil thrive? Why did the first Hokage choose this location for the village? Why do wars start when they can be prevented by looking through another's perspective of things? Why does one with so much already wish to take more from those who have naught? Gaara; people, things and events happen for a reason unknown, sheer stupidity or knowledge or greed, jealousy, ignorance. There are many questions and many answers but some questions can be easily answered from what is known or observed and the question asked." Belle stops, smiling slightly at her accomplishment in challenging him like that. She couldn't help but chuckle at the confusion in his eyes as he tries to make sense of what she just said.

Gaara mulls over what she said, looking blankly at the smiling and chuckling girl at the desk. There was no fear in her eyes when she challenged him, just confidence and triumph in what she just did. His eyes narrow into a glare to stop her smiling and chuckling at his expense, but it only subdues her laughter, leaving the ever present small smile on her features. Rolling her eyes at him she returns to the blank piece of paper before her and starts sketching lightly with her pencil. Gaara growls in frustration "You couldn't have given me a straight answer?"

Belle does not look at him but answers "Nope." Using her lips to pop the p. Mumbling incoherently, he turns his head back facing the piano as he tries to form an answer to his earlier question from what she has told him. He finally comes to an answer just as the bell to go for lunch rings.

Turning to face her he says "You stopped, because I entered the room." Gaara sees a light blush creep across her cheeks as she looks at him still smiling and nods.

"Don't feel bad though. I'm just self conscious." She says softly not wanting him to feel bad, but as he stares at her, her blush deepens.

Ripping her eyes away from his, Belle stares at her finished work, her smile growing a little more and giving a silent chuckle. It was a funny cartoon strip of her and Gaara's conversation with Gaara looking blank, frustrated and pouting slightly, while she was at the table looking triumphant, smiling and chuckling. The comic strip was also fully coloured. Before she could put it away it was yanked out of her hands swiftly. Gaara looks at the comic then at Belle raising a nonexistent eyebrow saying "I do not look like this." With his dead pan voice.

She chuckles "Um ya you do Gaara, in the drawing anyway. It is just an interpretation of our conversation earlier." With that said she grabs the sheet of paper out of his hands and walks off, but then walks back saying without a hint of nervousness anymore "You coming to lunch or what?"

Despite the odd stares they received from others Belle and Gaara ate lunch together, even if it was in silence, in the lunch room. Gaara hadn't brought a lunch like usual, but forgot to eat breakfast that morning as well, so he stared longingly at Belle's food. Noticing this she offered some of the better parts of her lunch to Gaara. Cautiously he accepted and they once again ate. "Gaara. Do you always eat lunch alone?" Belle asks looking at him with soft eyes. Gaara looks at her eyes seeing the worry and sympathy in them. He's never met anyone besides his siblings that gave him those eyes, those caring eyes.

"Only on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays." He says looking into those eyes that held no fear, resentment or disgust. Gaara couldn't fathom what he felt inside when he looked in those eyes. For once, though there was a person without fear towards him. All he knew was that it felt nice.

"Why?" Her voice held question as did her face hold curiosity.

Not really thinking he answers "I just want time away from the few friends I have and any disturbances." Gaara had finished the part of Belle's lunch she gave him and she had everything packed up and was sipping from a pop can, her smile gone from her features, her eyes locked on the can in her hands. Biting her lip she gets up and looks at Gaara with sadness.

Turning she walks away but after saying "Sorry if I was disturbing you Gaara." Her voice was sad as Gaara watches her walk away out of the lunch room. A terrible feeling gripped him and he'd never felt such a thing before. Then another thing registered in Gaara's mind. 'The lunch room is crowded, but when she left... It felt emptier.'

Naruto was watching the two from the corner of his eye the whole time, as were Saskue, Sakura, Hinata and Ino. None could hear their last conversation, but they saw the sad expression Belle had when she left Gaara. Being Naruto he wanted to know what the hell happened. So he walks over to Gaara demanding an explanation, but Gaara wasn't paying attention to Naruto at all. His eyes were focused on where she left the lunch room. "Gaara are you even listening to me?" Naruto says annoyed. Gaara gives a quick glance at Naruto, but returns his eyes to where they were focused before. His mind was elsewhere as he tries to figure out why she left and why she looked sad.

Then it hit him and one word exited his mouth "Crap." Naruto looked at him confused but backed away as he rose and strode out of the room.

The bell rang for class to start again and Gaara hoped to see her in ninjutsu class, but to no avail she wasn't there. Before the teacher could get there Gaara was out of the room again. He was planning to skip that class anyway. He heads back to the room where they spent genjutsu class and just as he thought she was there, but this time getting out some art supplies. Gaara enters the room and Belle looks up at him.

Neither of them moving, until she broke the silence with her voice saying "Um...Hi Gaara. Let me guess. You don't need to learn ninjutsu?" Gaara nods unsure how to approach her with something he's never really done a lot of. Belle sees his uneasiness in his sea foam eyes. Her own eyes soften and she smiles worriedly, asking him "You ok Gaara?" He doesn't respond.

Awkwardly Gaara says to her "Um...about earlier...about me being alone at lunch I...I didn't mean to imply that you were disturbing me. Sorry if I hurt your feelings..." he said the last part quietly mentally thinking 'Since when do I care about some girl's feelings? Shit this is confusing. Any other girl it wouldn't seem like such a big deal, but the sadness in her eyes...I didn't like seeing it.' A blush graces both Belle and Gaara's face. He smiles inwardly as a smile of contentment lightens up her face.

"So that's what made you uneasy. You didn't need to apologise...I'm just glad you let me eat lunch with you and have your company as well...it was nice." Belle also says the last bit quietly as her face turns a deeper shade of red. Gaara felt Shukaku stir slightly inside him. He nods and takes a seat where he was last period, placing his gourd beside him. She returns to her art supplies placing them on a large table.

"Gaara?"

"Hn?"

"Say the first thing that comes to your mind."

"Sand."

"Sunrise or sunset?"

"Sunset."

"Oasis or none?"

"Oasis, and what's with all the questions?" Gaara asks absolutely confused, looking over at Belle to find her busily sketching on this huge canvas, with a smile plastered on her lips.

She quickly looks up at Gaara answering his question, finally, "I couldn't think of anything to do." Then resumes sketching on the canvas. There was utter silence in the room other than from Belle working diligently on her art work. Both of the teens just sat there in the silence enjoying each others' company although Gaara did find it quite boring. As class was about to come to an end Belle had just finished cleaning up the supplies and admired her work. Gaara walked over to see what she had done this time. He didn't say anything about what he saw. It was a sunset at an oasis in the desert, much like the ones he witnessed all his life, but more beautiful and surreal.

Belle grew anxious as Gaara starred at her now finished painting and wasn't saying anything so she asked "Is it that bad?"

He took his eyes off the painting and looked at her and replied "Looks hell of a lot better than the desert sunsets I've seen." He looks at her seeing a faint blush cross her cheeks. Belle looks at her work and chuckles slightly with amusement.

She looks at him her eyes gentle and says "Then you've never seen a sunset with your eyes and mind open." Before Gaara could ask her what she means the bell rings and she leaves the room swiftly, almost like a ghost.

The last two periods pass quickly with silent reading for English and map reading for geography. All the ninjas had the same schedule, including Gaara. He always seemed to have and empty seat beside him in all his classes so Belle ended up sitting beside him in each of them. There was slight excitement as Monday came to an end and everybody exited the class room. Belle tidy's up her things and puts on her back pack, turning to Gaara beside her just as he puts on his gourd. "Bye Gaara. See ya tomorrow!" she says with her regular voice with a friendly smile on her lips.

Gaara couldn't help but respond murmuring "Bye." Her smile stays plastered on her features as she waves slightly as she exits the room.

Belle was about to walk off the grounds when Naruto stops her and introduces Belle to Hinata and Saskue. "H-hello Belle. Y-you w-were impressive in g-gym today. Y-you have a l-lot of s-stamina." Hinata stutters. Belle smiles nicely and thanks Hinata for the compliment.

"This duck butt haired guy is Saskue Uchiha." Naruto says pointing to a boy with black hair, onyx eyes and wearing a dark blue shirt with white shorts. He was looking pretty pissed that Naruto insulted his hair, yet again.

"Hello Saskue." Belle says pleasantly. Saskue just looks at her slightly with a glimmer of interest in his eyes.

"Hn." Is all he says.

Belle gives him a confused look then says "Sorry guys I better start getting home. I live just outside the village so I gotta go. See ya later!" she jogs off the property and keeps jogging till she reaches the gates of Kahona. Greeting the guards and telling them where she was heading she leaves the village and goes down a long dirt driveway, arriving at a fairly large house. The house itself lays on a very large piece of beautiful land with a garden, orchid, an amazing pond with clear warm water, all enclosed by forest. Belle enters the dull, big house, the sunlight just entering through the windows enough to shed some light inside. Just this morning it was home to two people, but now it's just home to one. Dropping her bag at the door she heads straight to the music room of the house to grab her guitar and a piece of music she wrote about a year ago. The music room was a bit of a mess with blank music sheets here and there, rough drafts, notes, ideas and lyrics. "I really should organize this place, it's such a mess." She says to herself cutting through the silence of the house. Belle tunes her guitar and sets the music some where she can review it later. Leaving her instrument and music in the music room she heads out to read more of her book The Host by Stephanie Meyer.

Night fall comes and Gaara leaves the house to walk around in the night, since he doesn't sleep at night. It was a full moon tonight, but he no longer lusted for blood. He walks without a real destination till he gets near the gates of the village. Faintly on the wind he heard music. Using chakra he enhanced his hearing, only to hear guitar strings being plucked in a slow, sad rhythm coming from just outside the village. Curiosity drives him to leave the village quietly, walking down a long dirt driveway to come across a large house in a clearing with a grove of fruit trees beside it, but that wasn't what caught his attention. In the shimmering moonlight a top on the roof was a girl with a guitar looking up at the night sky. Gaara stays hidden in the shadows watching, listening to her play the guitar as she stares up at the night sky filled with stars and the moon its focal point. Concentrating on the figure he sees that it was Belle, with the reflected light of the moon on her skin. Her eyes so focused it was as if she wasn't even there in her body. A familiar voice penetrates the night air in a sad but musical harmony with the guitar.

(I wrote this song)

Moon Mother

Moon rises, sun sets
Another day is gone, another night is here
Another night without you, Mother dear
With the moon shining down on me

Mother, do you know how much I miss you?
Miss your love, your warm embrace
If only just once more, I can touch your face
And hear those words, I love you

/Chorus/

But now I can't, your way up high
Looking down on me, as the face in the moon
With starlight, shining bright
Lighting my way, my way in this life

How I love you, if only you stayed
You risked your life for me, just one too many times
Hearing my cry, you came to me
And died, saving my young life

/Chorus/

Moon rises, sun sets
Wish you didn't go, but you still seem to be here
Every night, holding my soul tight
From the heavens above, you are my moon mother

Gaara could hear the sadness in the song, but mostly in her gentle voice. Tonight Belle's voice was that of a sad angel, a sad angel's voice that penetrated something deep in a supposedly demonic demon boy's heart. Gaara felt the pain that he had suppressed, the pain of losing a mother.

ok this is my second story hope you like it so far.