Chapter 2: Pain
"Yeah, good job, Crow!" I heard the guy's voice say.
"Told her not to mess with the Shinobi of the Hidden Sand." He said sure of himself.
"I'm Temeri, and this is Kankuro, we are Shinobi of the Hidden Sand Village." She said to me.
"What's your name?" She then asked.
"M-my name is Rose. I do not belong to any clan that I know of." I said my voice a little shaky from the poison that was now spreading faster through my body.
"Okay, well why don't we take you back to our village for treatment?" Kankuro asked while putting his arm around my neck, so that way he too was supporting me.
"O-okay." I answered him, my voice becoming shakier from the poison.
"Hey, it's okay, we won't hurt you. I promise." Temeri said reassuringly.
"No, Temeri, she's not shaking because of fear she's shaking because of the poison that is now traveling at a pretty high rate through her body." Kankuro said with concern.
"What! Wait, Kankuro is it the same poison that infected you?" Temeri asked with shock and concern at the same time.
"No, I don't think it is, but just to be sure we had better tell the medical core, but not just the medical core also Gaara and we should send out for a team from the hidden leaf village. They'll know what to do if we don't." Kankuro said seriously.
"All right! Report in about what happened here, and her name, and our current situation to Gaara, and tell him to alert the medical core and to send out for a team with a medical ninja from the hidden leave village. And while you're doing that I'll try to bandage her wounds without you looking." Temeri said as if this was a sure plan that she had thought out in her head.
"Okay I'll walk a little ways away and report in while you tend to her wounds." Kankuro said a little awkwardly.
Then he did just as he said and Temeri set me gently on the sandy ground and began unraveling my top.
"It's okay, everything's going to be fine, Rose." She said to comfort me as she wrapped bangdes around my chest.
Once she was done putting the bandages on, she dug through my small bag and got my last pair of clothes out.
"I-it's my la-last pair." I somehow managed to stammer out in between clutching the bandages, because the poison really was starting to hurt.
"Its fine, besides as soon as we're done here Kankuro and I will take you back to our village and I can wash your clothes while you're resting up and being treated." Then she carefully helped me get my clothes on and she put everything back in the bag including the note from Itachi without looking at it, once she was done she slung my bag over her shoulder.
I know she did both of those things because I heard her doing them.
"Are you done tending to Rose's wounds, Temeri?" Kankuro asked when he had finished reporting in.
"Yeah I'm done, how did the report go?" Temeri asked.
"It went fine; Gaara said that he would alert the leave village and the medical core. He also said that as soon as Rose was treated that he would need to talk to her, and to be careful and to hurry, because we don't know how far the poison has spread, or what will treat it effectively." He said while helping me get up.
"Are you all right?" He asked once we were both fully standing, I think the whole reason he asked that was because when we were both up I leaned heavily against him, because the poison was overwhelming as soon as I stood up.
"Y-yeah, the poi-poison just re-really hu-hurts." I stammered out to him.
"Well, just hang on a little longer we don't have very far to go to get to the sand village. Hey! Why don't you look at me when I'm talking to you?" He asked.
"Well y-you se-see ever sin-since I can rem-remember I've been blind. I don't kn-know ho-how I bec-became blind." I stammered.
"You're blind!?" Temeri and Kankuro gasped out at the same time.
"Yeah." I answered.
"But a person that's blind can never become a ninja!" Temeri blurted out loud.
"That's wh-where yo-you're wrong, Temeri. If that per-person works ha-hard enough and is tau-taught properly and if th-that per-person believes in bec-becoming a nin-ninja then th-that person can be a nin-ninja." I stammered out to explain to her and Kankuro.
"But who taught you and what clan are you from? What is your business here?" Kankuro asked skeptically.
"Never mind about that now, right now we need to get you back to the Hidden Sand's hospital for treatment." Temeri said urgently.
"Yeah, you're right, Temeri. Can you walk on your own?" Kankuro asked me.
"N-no, I don't th-think that I c-can." I said shakily.
"Well that's fine, we'll help you walk." Temeri said.
So we all kept on walking until we reached the entrance of the Hidden Sand Village.
"Gaara! Aren't you supposed to be filling papers?" I heard Temeri ask.
"Well I was, but after Kankuro told me what happened I came out here to wait for you guys." He answered while taking me from Kankuro and Temeri.
"It's okay; we're going to take care of you. I'm the Kazakage of the Village Hidden in the Sand." He said to me and then added to Temeri and Kankuro "Team 7 consisting of Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, and their sensei Hatake Kakashi have arrived and Sakura just finished making a few different sample antidotes for the poison to find out which one works." He said while looking at me.
"Umm, Gaara she's blind, so make sure that you're careful while taking her to the hospital and be sure to tell the medical core and team 7. I'll tell you more about it later; you should focus on her now." Kankuro told him.
"Let's go inside and get you cured." Gaara said while pulling me alongside him into the sand village.
Gaara told Temeri and Kankuro to go get cleaned up and to wash my clothes.
Then they left, when we started walking through the village people stopped what they were doing and started to stare at us, well mainly me, because they were murmuring about me.
"What are you all looking at!? There's nothing wrong here, she won't hurt us." I heard Gaara say to some people.
Then people continued what they were doing, because there was a lot of moving around.
Gaara started hastily walking through the sand village, a little too fast for me.
"Hack!" I coughed up some blood by the sickening smell of it.
"Hey, hang on!" Gaara said worriedly, but I wasn't listening.
I couldn't focus on his worried voice.
To me his voice was 3 voices talking at once and then fading away when he stopped his sentence.
Then an enormous wave of pain from the poison overtook me and I started to cough twice and blood came out both times and I started to fall from exhaustion.
"Hey!" I heard Gaara gasp and he caught me before I hit the sandy ground.
He then picked me up in his arms and started running towards the hospital.
When he started running with me in his arms several people asked if he needed help, and he told them that he could handle it.
I kept hearing him saying to me that it would be okay and for me to hang on; he kept running through the sand village towards the hospital.
"Gaara…" I said weakly.
"It'll be okay, Rose, hang on for a little longer, we're almost there." He promised me.
"I ca-can't ho-hold on." I said even weaker.
He started running even faster when he heard me say that.
"Yes you can!" He started to yell at me.
My eyes were starting to close and then I felt very sleepy and light as if I weighed nothing at all.
It felt nice.
Then I started feeling someone shaking me roughly, desperately.
"Rose, don't leave, you can't leave now!" I heard Gaara yelling desperately at me.
"B-but Gaara I feel so li-light and v-very sleepy." I protested weakly.
"No you're strong, right? So you can hang on long enough for me to get you to the hospital." He said a little breathlessly.
He stopped shaking me and started to focus on running, because his speed picked up even more.
The sleepy and light feeling was beginning to fade away now and I felt the wind rushing up against my face.
It was a very warm, but fast breeze.
There must be a sandstorm near the area.
Thank goodness that Kankuro, Temeri and I weren't stuck in it when we were traveling here.
Then I felt a cold, sharp wind blow through, and I ducked my head a little bit away from it.
"Help! I need help!" Gaara was shouting, now out of breath from all of the running.
Then I felt someone take me from his arms and he was telling someone, the same person that now held me what had happened.
"Okay! We will get to work right away! And we will let you know the outcome!" I heard a girl's serious voice say.
"Thanks, Sakura." Gaara said sincerely to the girl that was holding me, which he called Sakura.
Then I heard Sakura's voice say "You'll be fine; we'll work our hardest to find a cure. I promise." Then I felt a bed underneath me and a prick on the back of my hand.
I heard Sakura filling some others, whom I assumed were the medical core about everything that she had been told, and while she did this she was working on what sounded like getting some antidotes ready that she was going to use to try to cure me with.
Soon I began to feel very sleepy and then I drifted off into the welcoming darkness…
Yes!!! Chapter 2 of Love is Blind For Gaara is complete! R & R please!