Summary: Have you ever wished that you could turn back the clock to erase what you had done? I do. There was a girl who had saved me from making a big mistake, but when she tried to help me again, I pushed her away. With just a few words, I had made the biggest mistake of my life.
AN: This story is a request from BlackDragonofdarknessflames or Miss. AllSunday Nico Robin. It's actually a story about a love triangle with Sasuke, Usagi, and Gaara, told in Sasuke's point of view.
Disclaimer: Naruto and Sailor Moon don't belong to me, however the plot does.
Flashback
Ayamari(1)
Part1
"Just leave me the fuck alone! Ugh…just why did I ever stay with you?" With those words, I had unintentionally pushed aside a girl who meant the world to me…my guardian angel and the one who I had hoped and dreamt to spend the rest of my life with.
"You don't know what I'm going through! So stop pretending that you understand or know me!" But…I was wrong. She wasn't pretending…she knew and understood how I felt…because she went through the exact same pain that I did. No…comparing to what we had experienced, she had it worse than me…much worse.
Since fateful day, every time that I returned home, I would lie down on my bed and my mind would play that scene over and over again what had happened. My eyes kept seeing those beautiful eyes I loved looking into, but instead of seeing the love she has for me, all I saw was pain with tears threatening to spill from their confinement. My ears kept hearing the soft sweet voice that always brought peace to my heart, but there was no happiness in the tone, only a gasp of pain that revealed her shattered heart before running off. Over and over again, the scene was played as if the fates were trying to ridicule me for my rejection to the salvation that is offered once a lifetime.
(Flashback-4 years ago-age 16)
It was just one of those days; the day where I would forget all the good I have in life and remember my goal in revenge. I had spent the whole day, since the break of dawn, training to the limit. "I have to get stronger, I just have to," was my whole line of thinking as I practiced new techniques I recently learned. I must get better than him, there's no other way of saying it…I just had to. It still surprises me on how the dead last of my class managed to be one of the best in such a short amount of time. More than four years ago, back at the academy, there was no hope or belief that Uzumaki Naruto could ever make it this far, but ever since we've been assigned on the same team, he's been improving and in less than a year, he had already surpassed me and has caught the attention of Itachi. I won't let him or Itachi win. I'll beat them both and this time, I'll be able to complete my revenge and kill Itachi once and for all.
"Sasuke, you should really take a break now," a soft voice said with concern laced in it. I turned around to see Tsukino Usagi , my girlfriend and the love of my life, standing there looking as beautiful as ever.
Her long golden hair was tied in her traditional style of spheres with streamers that trailed down to her ankles with pale blue ribbons weaving around them. Her wide blue eyes held more clarity and purity than anyone I've ever seen, which would be amazing especially if they've been through the horrors she's been through at such a young age. Her soft skin was like a light cream color with a touch of pink. She was wearing a pale pink sleeveless Chinese dress with gold flowers stitched into the fabric and silver rims following the edges and ended at her knees with two slits in the front coming up to her waist; she wore a darker pink colored shorts that reached mid-thigh underneath. Tied to her waist was a disk-like weapon with a sharp edge and her leaf hitai-ate tied around her right thigh and could be seen whenever she walks.
I turned back to the wooden dummy that looked as if it was ready to fall apart with another attack. "I'll do it later, Usagi," I said. I didn't see the saddened look on her face when I didn't call her 'Usa-chan' as I usually did. "I have to get stronger so everything will just have to wait." I was too preoccupied to even notice that what I had just said had started to shatter her heart. Instead I stubbornly and unconsciously pushed her away just so I could get stronger to complete my revenge against Itachi once and for all.
Usagi continued to watch as each minute went by. Her blue eyes watched with concern as I refused to stop for a break. But a smile came on her face when I finally stopped and fell to my knees and with no sign of continuing, she started to walk towards me, however she froze when I stood up again, ignoring my heavy breathing and the quick jumping of my heart as sweat started to pour down my face. My black eyes stared at my target as my vision slowly began to blur from exhaustion. Usagi walked towards me again with her feet making soft footsteps against the dirt-ridden ground and placed her small hand on my shoulder. "You should rest your body, Sasuke," she said, "You're practically at your limit right now."
My fists clenched rightly as my fingernails made crescent moon imprints in my palms, slowly drawing blood. I listened to her soft pleas for me to stop, but my mind was full of my brother and how his attention was no longer on his "worthless" little brother but was on Naruto.
"Sasuke, I know what you're going through and I can understand why you want revenge, but you shouldn't go and train yourself to death just to be stronger," Usagi said, joking about the last part.
"You understand?" I repeated. My exhaustion and anger at myself clouded my mind and blinded my vision of whom I was talking to. "You don't know what I'm going through! So stop pretending that you understand or know me!" I shouted irritably at her. A heartbroken gasp reached my ears, but my mind ignored it. I turned around and continued, "Just leave me the fuck alone! Ugh…just why did I ever stay with you?" The minute those words came out of my mouth and the sound of her running away from me, I had finally realized just what I had said and whom I was walking to. This wasn't Sakura, who was love-struck with me just because I was there, because of my looks and my grades at the academy; this was a girl who truly loves me for who I am. I turned around, hoping to see that she didn't run too far, but my pride made me stop and told me that by tomorrow everything would be all right…but that didn't get rid of the nagging feeling that I had forgot something, something very important.
(End Flashback)
Man, was I wrong. It wasn't until the next day that I realized that that day was June 30, her birthday and the anniversary of when we had confessed our feelings towards each other. Not running after her was a big mistake on my part. My pride was what kept me going after my clan's murder, but it was her presence and the love she held for me that helped me the most. Tsukino Usagi, unlike those girls who claim to love me when they hardly even know me, never acted like she loves me anymore than her family and friends, not even when she was first introduced to our team.
(Flashback-eight years ago-age 12)
Naruto, Sakura, Kakashi, and I had just returned from our mission of protecting the bridge builder, Tazuna when the third hokage, Sarutobi, called for us. On our way there, we met up with his grandson, Konohamaru, who looked extremely excited for some unknown reason.
"Yo, Konohamaru, whatcha happy for?" Naruto asked.
The seven-year-old turned to his idol and rival and exclaimed, "Nee-chan's coming back from her training! I haven't seen her since I was three. I can't wait to see how much stronger she became!"
"Nee-chan? I thought you're an only child," Naruto said, scratching his blond hair.
"I am," Konohamaru shouted, "She's my god-sister, baka nii-chan!"
"Hmmm…so she's coming back now, is she?" Kakashi said.
Sakura and I stared at our teacher. "Sensei, you know who Konohamaru is talking about?" Sakura asked, "Who is she?"
Kakashi glanced at the pink-haired girl. "You guys don't know how she is? Hmmm…" He lifted his head towards the sky. "And here I was sure that you would know about the little prodigy of Konoha," he mused with a smile hidden behind his black mask.
"Prodigy?" Naruto repeated.
Sakura stared at me and then at our silver-haired sensei. "You mean like Sasuke-kun," she said.
I rolled my eyes and turned around, about to leave for the missions' room when I heard Kakashi's answer, "Nope…more like Uchiha Itachi." I froze as I heard my hated brother's name. "She became a genin at a really young age, around the age of seven, just a few months before she turned eight. She was trained by all the best ninjas in the village, including her clan. She was just eight years old when she was taken to travel the different countries to train."
"She's probably some old hag," Naruto said, getting angry when Kakashi spoke about how people had often envisioned her to be the next hokage when she comes of age.
"What do you mean 'old hag'?" Konohamaru shouted. He opened his mouth to continue when he realized something. "Hey, nii-chan, what are you doing here anyway?"
"Huh? Oh, the old geezer asked to see us," Naruto replied.
"Who, by the way, we are late to see," Kakashi added in.
"AHHHH!" Naruto shouted as he grabbed his head.
Sakura and I jumped and stared at the hyperactive blonde annoyingly. "What the hell is your problem, baka?" I asked, glaring at him.
"He probably has a great mission for us!" he shouted in reply. I shook my head in pity as Naruto continued to rant about someone taking his nonexistent mission, but then again, it turns out to be one of the best mission I took in my life.
/-/
Team seven was standing in front of the aged hokage, as the old but powerful man smoked on his pipe. "I'm sure that you know that she has returned, Kakashi," Sarutobi said, "If you haven't heard about it, you should've been able to sense her charka signal." Kakashi nodded his head as the rest of us looked on in silence. "I know she's already above this level but she asked to be put under the team you're in charge of."
"Hokage-sama, you normally don't do something like this so easily," Sakura said. She looked at him with concern, but her inner self just tossed it aside. "She probably went and seduced him. Jeez, what a perv."
Kakashi sighed and just shook his head. "She did it again, didn't she?" he asked, "And here I thought that you were immune to her secret weapon."
"How can I be immune to something that makes me feel like I was the one who…/cough/ anyway back to business, your team will have her included," the hokage said, quickly when his eyes landed on us.
My black eyes narrowed when he changed the subject so quickly. Just what was he trying to say before? As I tried to think of a few theories, my concentration was thinning from Naruto's ranting of not wanting an old hag on his team and Sakura's ranting of her getting a headache from his shouting, never minding the fact that I'm getting a headache from their useless chattering. I was about to scream at them to shut up when the hokage cleared his throat to get our attention.
"First of all, Naruto, she's not an old hag; she's actually the same age as you three. And also she comes from a long line of powerful ninjas," Sarutobi said as he breathed the smoke out, "She may be my god-granddaughter, but her father is the fourth hokage's second cousin. Her mother is the head of a wealthy and powerful clan of ninjas and is the first hokage's great-grandchild and the second hokage's great grandniece."
As he started to go through the different techniques this mysterious girl has learned, all three of us stared in complete shock when we heard of her lineage. "So she's related to all four of our hokages, blood and spiritually," I mused silently, "I wonder just how powerful she could be."
"At first I thought that she would be much older so I wasn't very worried, but now I find out that she's our age," Sakura said silently, panicking from the discovery, "What if Sasuke-kun ends up falling in love with her?"
"Oh great, we're gonna get another Sasuke-crazed girl on the team," Naruto whined mentally.
Ignoring the flustered preteens, Kakashi talked to the hokage, "I'm guessing that she had completed her training. So how is she doing right now?"
Sarutobi's eyes darted to the side doors and then back to Kakashi with a grin on his face. He had heard the fast pacing coming towards the doors. "Why don't you ask her yourself?" he suggested, with a small knowing smile on his face.
"Kakashi-nii!" a young girl shouted as she pushed the doors open to the side. Her long golden strands of hair were pulled into a unique style of a bun on each side of her head with the streamers coming straight down to her knees and light blue ribbons weaving in the long pigtails. Her eyes were a bright clear blue, almost resembling the sky above us. She wore a short dark blue kimono with silvery stars stitched into the designs; it had wide sleeves and the bottom ended at her mid-thighs. She wore a leaf hitai-ate that was strangely tied around her right thigh over black shorts that ended to her knees. She raced over to the twenty-six year old with a speed that surprised us and leaped up, grabbing a hold of Kakashi's neck from behind. "I missed you so much, Kakashi-nii, did you miss me?" she said, "You won't believe what I've been through." And with that, she went through a whole description of the lands she'd seen and the people she'd met.
"She's just as hyper as Naruto," Sakura muttered in shock.
"She's the girl who everyone was talking about?" Naruto asked softly in a disbelieving tone.
"She fast," I thought silently with my eyes narrowing while I studied her, "Too fast." As she slid down to the floor, I then took notice of the long golden strands and, when she turned to face her grandfather, her wide blue eyes. "She is pretty cute, though." My cheeks flushed a deep red color when I realized what my mind had just whispered to me. I shook my head from side to side roughly, which, thankfully, went unnoticed by my teammates.
The girl then turned her head and with her attention on us, she pulled gently on Kakashi's hand. "Kakashi-nii, is this your team?" she asked.
"Huh?" The jounin glanced at us as if finally remembering that we'd been standing there, being completely ignored by everyone else. "Yep, this is the group I baby-sit. The blond idiot is Uzumaki Naruto . The pink-haired girl is Haruno Sakura and she's obsessed over the loner over here, his name's Uchiha Sasuke ." Paying no heed to the annoyed look on our faces, he placed a hand on top of Usagi's head and patted it gently in an affectionate way. "This little angel over here is Tsukino Usagi , the newest member of our team."
I watched her as she studied each of us carefully when her eyes finally landed on me. I grimaced slightly as she continued to observe me. "Please tell me that she's not gonna go all 'Sakura' on me," I pleaded silently.
Sakura glared at Usagi. "How dare she go and stare at my Sasuke?" she shouted angrily in her mind, "I won't let her get him. He belongs to me."
"Aw man, I was right," Naruto complained silently, "We're gonna have another Sasuke-crazed girl on our team."
"He looks a lot like Itachi-nii," Usagi said unexpectedly as she pointed to me, "But Itachi-nii is much cuter." Everyone fell down to the floor when they heard that statement.
I got back to my feet and stared at her in complete shock and disbelief. Is she for real? Does she even know what that bastard brother of mind did? All these questions arose in my mind. I stared at the hokage and saw him sending me a silent message that she's not as naïve as she seems, making me wonder, just what kind of secrets is she hiding from us.
For that day, we were giving time off to spend it together. We sat in the middle of the park and watched as Usagi was playing with a stray puppy. As we continued to watch her, we glanced at each other in disbelief, before looking back at her. It's strange that Usagi was completely different than what we had pictured her as. We were told that she was very strong and skilled as a ninja, but Usagi appeared more like a frail child-like girl.
"Ne, Usagi, is it really true that you're related to all the hokages?" Naruto asked.
"Hai," she replied, glancing up from the grass with the puppy sitting on her lap. "Let's see, I am Konohamaru's god-sister, so that would make the third hokage my god-grandfather. Tou-san is the fourth hokage's second cousin. Kaa-san is the first hokage's great-grandchild; and since the first and second hokages are brothers, kaa-san is also the second hokage's great-grandniece. Kaa-san is also the head of the Planetary Clan and comes from the Tsukino part of the family."
"How large is your clan?" Sakura asked.
It happened quickly, almost like a storm that appeared suddenly during a bright sunny sky. The smile on her face had vanished and her eyes staring at the ground with a clouded expression. She closed her hands tightly into fists, leaving small crescent moon impressions on her palms. Just when we thought that she was gonna start crying, Usagi lifted her head up and smiled at us, but the sparkle had dimmed greatly. "You guys wanna come and see?" she asked. Usagi jumped up to her feet and started to walk without even waiting for a reply. We all followed after her and each started to study her quietly, each of us were making different observations about her.
Naruto was studying Usagi, or to be more precisely, her features. It's really rare to see another blonde in Konoha, well not that rare since there are other blondes, but he had never seen another with bright golden strands like his. Not to mention that they have the same shade of a bright blue in their eyes. If he didn't know better, he would've thought that she was more like the fourth hokage's daughter, rather than his niece. "Ya know, if we were raised together, we could've been twins," Naruto said with a smile on his face. "Too bad we're not related 'cuz you could teach me some of the techniques you've learned."
Usagi glanced back at the blonde. "I can still teach you, if you want," Usagi said, "The only thing I can't teach you are the techniques from my family passed down each generation."
Sakura's blue eyes narrowed as she watched Naruto cheering and leaping in the air. She then glanced around their surroundings and saw that as they traveled through the village, grown-ups were all smiling and offering Usagi small gifts as welcome back presents. "Why is she so popular?" she seethed silently, "I mean, she is pretty and everything, but I'm much prettier than her!" She turned to Sasuke to see that he wasn't paying any attention to Usagi and cheered silently. She clenched her left hand into a fist and held it to her chin. "Yes! He's not looking at her, so that must mean that he's not interested," she applauded wordlessly.
Sasuke ignored Sakura, who was staring at him with heart-strung eyes, and Naruto, who was going on about learning new techniques. The only thing on his mind was this mysterious girl, who is as strong and very powerful as he himself wanted to be, but at the same time, she is as hyper and cheerful as Naruto. His brother had always told him that in order for him to get stronger and defeat him would be to grow up with hatred towards Itachi. He then thought back to Usagi's family, he remembers somewhat what his family had talked about the Planetary clan, a large and powerful family with different branches of other clans underneath it, and the powers passed down each bloodline, like the Uchihas or the Hyuugas.
"Here we are." When Usagi said that, Sasuke snapped out of his thoughts and realized that they were standing in front of a large wooden gate, barring the clan's home from the rest of the village. Usagi stood there, staring at the gate with a smile on her face, as the three of us wondered why no one had ever noticed this part. "This gate's the entrance to the part of the village the Tsukinos had owned."
"But this place is locked," Sakura said, "No one has been able to get in for the past four years, not even the skilled shinobis."
"That's because I wasn't here so the shields activate themselves to protect this compound from enemies," Usagi said. Usagi pulled out gold key hooked to a necklace from underneath her dress and held it out. "I am Tsukino Usagi, as heiress of the Tsukino clan and with the powers by the moon and the planets, I order you to open," she said. The key glowed as the large wooden gates opened, allowing them entry. Usagi walked into the compound with us following and the gates shut closed behind us.
It was amazing; it was like a smaller version of Konoha, almost like the Uchiha territory, that was hidden from the rest of the world. There were buildings of high stature and beauty with courtyards of flowers. Shops of restaurants and crafts were lined up one after another. There were also playgrounds and training grounds with trees and flowers surrounding it. All in all, it was wondrous, but there was something amiss that the three of us had noticed as we walked further into the region.
"Um, Usagi, where are all the people?" Sakura asked, glancing around the place carefully, as if expecting somebody to ambush them.
Usagi didn't answer her, but just continued walking until she stopped in front of the large mansions that stood farther into the ghost town. "These houses are where my clan once resided in." Nine large mansions stood in absolute glory, there were all buildings with only different colored roofs, doors, and window frames that separate them from one another. "Our clan was divided up into nine different families. The Mizuno stood for the planet Mercury, specializing in the jutsus of ice. The Hino stood for the planet Mars, specializing in the jutsus of fire. The Kino stood for the planet Jupiter, specializing in the jutsus of wood and lightening. The Aino stood for the planet Venus, specializing in the jutsus of love. The Tenoh stood for the planet Uranus, specializing in the jutsus of earth and wind. The Kaioh stood for the planet Neptune, specializing in the jutsus in water. The Meioh stood for the planet Pluto, specializing in the jutsus of time and space. The Tomoe stood for the planet of Saturn, specializing in the jutsus of death, rebirth, and destruction. And the Tsukino stood for the moon, specializing in the jutsus of everything combined."
"What are those?" Naruto asked, "I never heard about some of those jutsus before."
"Neither have I," Sakura said, "And I've looked through a lot of scrolls on justus."
Sasuke stared at the larger mansion of the nine with his black eyes. "That's because those jutsus are blood related. It can't be taught by any outsiders of the family," he said, "Only those within the family can learn those attacks. However, only females are able to use those jutsus for some reason. All the men were either born into the family or they married into it. And it was said that their family had shared with other clans, such as the Nara family and taught them their shadow techniques."
Usagi nodded her head. "That's correct, Sasuke," she said with a smile, "Each clan has the ability to learn a specific type of jutsu base on the planet they represent. And since I'm from the Tsukino and heir to the whole family, I was taught how to use all of the attacks."
"All right, all that aside, just where is everybody?" Sakura said. Her long pink hair was flying from side to side as she shook her head to glance around the surroundings. "Everything looks like it should be thriving with people, I mean the gardens and playground looks like it was weeded and taken care of. The houses all look clean and spotless. But I didn't see anyone since we entered this area."
A sad grin appeared on Usagi's face as she turned to the others. "They're all gone," she replied forlornly, "Me and my mentor the only ones left." She crossed her arms behind her and turned around. She started to walk in a slow pace as we all followed her, silent with shock. "They all passed away when I was eight trying to protect me," she said, going towards her home in the middle, "Being the heiress to the clan, my existence means everything to them."
"But I heard that you were a pretty good ninja at a young age, wouldn't you be able to protect yourself?" Sakura asked.
Usagi placed a hand on the white door and glanced at the building. She turned her head back with the grin still there on her face. "It was because I was foolish, still too gullible to be tricked," she said, "All that remain was just the Tsukinos, but then even they were destroyed not too long after that."
I stared at her, unable to see how she could had witnessed all that and not be overcome by grief and the need for revenge as I had been. I glanced over at my teammates and noticed that they were staring at the still smiling girl as if she had just implied that she is actually the fifth hokage in secret, which I highly doubt would be true. There's just something about this girl, I don't know whether it was the way she managed to keep her anger and depression in check or if it was the way that she was able to smile as if nothing was wrong.
(End Flashback)
I sighed and got up from my lying position on my bed. I glanced at the drawer by my bed and picked up a picture that was taken just a few days after Usa-chan had joined our team. Kakashi was standing in front of us as Usagi stood between Naruto and me as Sakura stood on my other side. But that was when we were just twelve, eight years ago.
I stared at the bright smile on her face and couldn't help but smile back. She was perfect, absolutely perfect. Usa-chan was very pretty and had managed to charm everyone she had met, whether they had just met or knew each other before her journey. And she hasn't changed at all, still the kind and caring person who is willing to stay by someone's side, no matter what they do.
When I first saw her, I thought to myself, "She was cute", but there were a bunch of other girls who were cute as well. But there was just something about her that kept her in my mind, I never was able to find out what it was so I just assumed that it was the way she didn't go all boy-crazy over me. However, that doesn't exactly explain why I felt that way…
(Flashback-4 years ago-age 12)
It was just then when Kakashi-sensei told us that we would be entering the Chunin Exams, well excluding Usagi, who was already a Chunin. Usagi was spending time with her grandfather while the rest of us had been completing lower missions. Well…Sakura and Naruto were off fooling around and got into trouble with a couple of sand ninjas, Temari and Kankuro and I got them out of it. And then I met him…Sabaku no Gaara.
Gaara glared at me as I glared at him back. He was about to speak when a pair of pale arms was wrapped around his waist, making him pause. Temari and Kankuro stared in shock at the person behind Gaara as the rest of us were wondering how was daring or stupid, in Gaara's sense, enough to go and hug him like that. Gaara turned around with a good mind to attack the person interrupting him, but froze when he saw a familiar smiling face. "Hello Gaara," Usagi said, still hugging him around his waist. "I didn't know that you guys were coming here until I felt your chakra signals."
"Usa," Gaara said softly. A smile so tiny that only Usagi noticed was appeared on his face as he turned around and embraced her gently, almost as if he was afraid that if he hugs her tightly he might break her. I watched as a strange anger arose in me, I couldn't explain it, it was as if when she refuses to adore me with the same affection that those girls often did, she was willing to shower it on someone we've never met.
"Usagi, you know these weirdoes?" Naruto asked. Sakura hit him over the head for his idiocy when Kankuro, Temari, and Gaara glared at him.
Usagi laughed and hugged Gaara tighter. "Know them? I practically stayed a whole year and trained with them," she said with a smile on her face.
Gaara's empty eyes stared at the three of us and then landed on me. I guess he saw something that I didn't even know was in me because he went and glared at me with all his might. Almost as if to spite me or something, his arms tightened around Usagi. "Usa, who are these people?" he asked.
Usagi pointed at us and said, "That's Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke. They're my new team members."
"I thought you said that you didn't need a team," Temari said, "Didn't your mentor say that nobody could reach your potential or level or experience?" We all stared at her, wondering why she had said that. Temari stared at us once again. "Besides these guys are just plain rookies. All they'll do is hold you back," she said.
"What do you mean ROOKIES?" Naruto shouted. He waved his pointed finger at Temari quickly and continued shouting, "Just you wait, I'm gonna be the best ninja in the entire village. I'm gonna accomplish my dream of being a hokage!"
"Good luck with that," Temari replied indifferently, almost as if his exclamation didn't change her view.
Sakura hit Naruto over the head, hissing to him to shut up. She turned her attention to the sand siblings and placed her hands on her hips. "May I ask what you three are doing here? Judging by your hitai-ate, you're from the Sand, so what business do you have to be here?" she asked.
"Silly Sakura, they're here for the Chunin Exams," Usagi said.
"Chunin Exam?" Naruto asked, "What in the world is that?"
Temari looked indifferent as Kankuro wondered if the rest of the ninjas were about as pathetic as this one. Gaara looked annoyed enough to attack them or possibly kill them with the way his glare probably deducted several years from their lives. Usagi shook her head and wondered what her teammates were taught in school, she haven't been to school, or even in the same village, for the past four years and even she knew what the exam was for. "The Chunin Exam is a test all genins must take in order to become a chunin level ninja, like Iruka-nii," Usagi said, "I already took the test a few months before I left on my journey."
"WHAT? HOW COME?" Naruto shouted. Sakura and I stared at her in silent shock as well. We all knew that Usagi was very strong and had great potential from all the stories they had heard, but we didn't actually know that she had took the Chunin Exam. Naruto clenched his hands into tight fists as he started to complain, rather loudly to the our chagrin and Usagi's amusement, "That's not fair! How come you get to take the test before us?"
"If you think that was impressing, then you don't know the half of it," Kankuro said. He patted Usagi on the head and smiled at her. "She took the test and passed it on the first try at the age of eight."
Temari stared at us as if trying to size us up. "I still don't see why placed you in a team of rookies," she said, "They're clearly under your level and I'm not even exaggerating."
"I know, Mari-chan, but I asked to be put in Kakashi-nii's team," Usagi said. She took a step away from Gaara and held onto his hands, not once noticing the angered glare I was giving him. "Why don't you guys come over to my home to stay if you don't have a place yet?"
"Sorry, Bunny, but we already got a place," Kankuro said in an apologetic tone.
"Oh," Usagi said sadly, looking down to the floor. She sighed and released Gaara's hands.
Gaara felt his hands grow cold when Usagi let go of them. He didn't like the sad look on her face. Gaara remembered the times when Usagi had always cheered him up whenever he was upset, so he figured it would be his turn. "How about dinner?" he asked. Kankuro stared at his younger brother in shock when he heard Gaara say something else rather than "Shut up" or "Die" or anything along those lines. Temari just shook her head. Usagi was always the only one who could get anything out of Gaara or get him to do anything.
A bright smile appeared on Usagi's face, making Gaara smile gently back. She jumped up and down and cheered. "All right!" she said, laughing, "I'll make your favorite foods. Mari-chan, Kuro-chan, are you two coming?" The two older siblings sighed at the same time before nodding their heads. Usagi clasped her hands together. "I better start buying the ingredients and make dinner," she said. She quickly reached into her pocket and pulled out a piece of paper and wrote down the address. "Come over at seven, dinner will be ready by then," she said.
Gaara took the paper with a soft smile, one that he only bestowed on Usagi, and nodded his head. Usagi laughed and started to run towards the store as she waved goodbye to us. When she was gone, the seriousness returned to Gaara's face as he stared blankly at the rest of us, not just my team but at his siblings as well, however, his stare seemed to deepen into a glare more on me. But he wasn't the only one, since I was glaring at him right back.
(End Flashback)
TBC
(1) Ayamari means mistake in Japanese.
AN: I meant to put this out a lot earlier but a lot of things came up and I didn't get to finish it. For those who are waiting for the updates in my other stories, please be a bit more patient. My laptop broke down so I kinda had to retype my new chapters out again. Send your reviews! I want to know if this is good or not.