A/N: I'm suffering from a little case of insomnia right now so I figured I'd put up Chapter 1. I do not own anything except the plot...unfortunately.
Chapter 1: Kira
"Why can't people figure these things out on there own?" he thought to himself as he sat at his desk doing more paperwork than he'd ever seen before.
"Because they're human, kid. You're their leader so they'll ask you everything from where to build a fucking bird house to what color the new academy mascot should be." Said the ever present demon inside him, "If they do ask that make sure you tell them you want me as the mascot."
He sighed and rolled his eyes as he finished the last one, got up to stretch and stared out the window at his village, wondering if they would truly accept him. He doubted it. Just then someone ran into the room.
"Kazekage-sama, forgive me for barging in like this…" the man panted and the flame haired ninja just went on staring impassively through black rimmed green eyes.
"Yes?" he asked slightly irritated.
"There is an urgent situation at the outer wall; most of the men stationed there are dead. We're being attacked, Kazekage-sama."
This caught his attention and he walked out of the room getting his gourd on the way and instructing the man to tell him more.
"It's strange. There's a ninja there too, but fighting both sides…ours and the intruders. It's like she doesn't know who to trust…she's very good."
When he arrived at the entrance to his village all he saw was dead bodies lying everywhere drenching the sand in blood. Something triggered in the back of his head although he couldn't quite place it…something was wrong with this. He then realized that all the bodies were of his shinobi…none others. His brother soon ran out behind him after being alerted that something was not right.
"What is it Gaara?" he asked looking around, fingers and puppets poised and ready.
"Something's wrong." Gaara stated then heard the faint sounds of a battle off in the distance a bit.
He and his brother ran towards the sound to see a woman struggling with a large man who was wielding a long katana. She was so tired she could barely move yet Gaara sensed something in her that was dangerous. It was something to do with her chakra, he could sense it, and realized that she wasn't drained of chakra she was just physically exhausted. He was about to use his sand to stop the fighting but Shukaku said something.
"Don't." the demon stated and prevented him from using the sand.
"Why?" Gaara asked as the fighting continued.
"She's going to win. If you make a move right now she'll try to kill you and the annoying one you call a brother."
"How do you know?"
"I just do. Watch." The demon stated and Gaara looked at the two figures and saw the woman trying not to be killed.
Kankuro made a move to help but Gaara raised a hand as a signal to not move. Kankuro listened and the two of them watched as the man closed in. In a series of moves too fast for the brothers to follow the woman managed to take the katana away from the man. In one quick move she beheaded the man just for the two brothers to see the whole body disappear in a puff of smoke. She collapsed after that, dropping the katana and just falling to the ground.
"Who is that?" Kankuro asked.
"The problem." Gaara answered as his sand shot towards the figure and the figure looked up at him as the sand engulfed it.
He brought the person closer amazed that it wasn't fighting back. He looked down to see a girl about his age (19 in this story) looking up at him so blankly he couldn't even tell what color eyes she had. She looked human, but he knew better. Her long very dark purple hair and chakra gave that away and so did the few black feathers that were sticking out of her hair.
"Oooh, she's hot." Kankuro said and Gaara death glared him, loosening his sand from around her as he did and she just sank to the desert floor, "Is she a human puppet?"
"No." he said as he picked her up and threw her over his shoulder; Kankuro stared at him shocked, "She's has no power left, she's harmless...for now. Get that katana. I want to know if there's anything about it that can tell us who she is and where the other intruders cam from."
His brother only nodded and followed behind him knowing better than to question his actions. Gaara himself barely knew why he didn't kill her; something prevented him from doing it.
"You're getting soft." Shukaku said in his usual teasing manner from within then quieted as if thinking.
"I am not. Shut up." He said but could not deny that some part of him needed to talk to her, know her name, "What can you tell me about her? You're being quiet and you're usually more perverted then Kankuro."
"I have my reasons…now get her somewhere safe before something else bad happens." The tanuki stated.
As he walked back to his office, confused at what Shukaku said, he heard her begin to sing, so softly that his brother heard nothing.
"I am frozen, frozen, frozen. I am frozen, frozen, frozen." Was all she said over and over until they got to his office, leaving Kankuro behind; then she started singing something different, her voice seeming to change a bit, "Sing me to sleep, rock me away, back and forth, swing and sway. Please don't leave me here alone for all the bad things to touch. I am alone, where are you? I am frozen, cold, frozen."
Gaara stared at her, her words hitting him deep. Then all of a sudden she snapped out of it. She looked at him scared and backed up into the wall as far as she could.
"I'm sorry! Don't hurt me please don't!" she begged, "I didn't mean to! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"
He looked down at her as she tried moving further into the wall. He took a step towards her but jumped back when two large black feathered wings appeared and formed a shield around her. After awhile she lowered one of her wings and stared at him.
"W-why?" she asked.
"I could ask the same." He said and sat on his desk.
"Why didn't you kill me? Or hit me?" she asked staring at him with two big brown eyes filled with tears.
"Why did you kill all of my guards?"
"Why are you still asking questions?"
"Why are you here?"
"What is love?" she asked pointing to his forehead.
His face instantly got a shocked expression and he looked at her.
"I don't really know."
"Why not? It's on your head; you should know what it is." She said and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Why do you ask so many questions?"
"Why do you?" she asked
"I'm the Kazekage, you attacked my village, killed my men…it's my job to see to why you did then stop you from doing it…and doing lots of paperwork." He said and she laughed which for some odd reason made him feel strange, "What is your name?"
"Tsukino Kira …I'm a monster." She said looking at her reflection in the window.
"I am Sabaku no Gaara…you are not a monster." He said kneeling down by her and she cringed, "I won't hurt you, but until I know why you did what you did you are staying with me."
"Why?" he smirked at that, "I didn't kill all of your men…the Hunter nin clones did too…but where am I? What is this place? Why did you bring me here? Why do you have Love on your head if you don't know what it is? You're eyes are strange looking…why?"
He tried hard not to start laughing at her non-stop questions, which was rather confusing to him since he rarely laughed, and stood up offering her his hand and she took it but nearly fell back down since she was so weak.
"I can't walk." She said, "Kaminari took it all."
"I did it for your own good child…" the demon inside her stated wearily as Kira's eyes started to glaze over and stare into space, "You'll be much stronger if you listen to me for once instead of trying to push me out."
"You just want to kill…" Kira stated as Gaara scooped her up in his arms, "You just want to spill people's blood…why are you so angry at everything?"
"You'd be angry too if you've been through what I have. Just because I'm a demon does not mean I don't care about things…why else am I trying so hard to keep you alive?" The demon asked wearily.
"Because if I die so do you. As for the caring thing all you care about is killing and bloodshed." Kira stated defiantly.
"After 19 years together you'd think we'd stop arguing by now…now I do admit I love a good killing spree with plenty of bloodshed…but so does the Kazekage here…"
"What do you mean?" Kira asked looking up at Gaara who was looking down at her curiously and just a tiny bit shocked.
"Those days are in my past, demon." He said and started walking home and Kira looked at him shocked and confused.
"Unfortunately…" Shukaku stated, "She's confused kid…"
"I am like you Kira. I have a demon sealed inside me too, Shukaku the One-Tailed Tanuki. You can talk to us like this because we're touching and we both have a strong bond with our demons…whether or not we like it." The Kazekage stated still walking out of the building ignoring all the stares and giving death glares to the ones he couldn't ignore, "As for the arguing…it never stops completely."
"How long have you been listening?" Kira asked, too nervous to speak out loud as well as feeling that Gaara might want to keep this conversation private.
"I've been listening since I picked you up. To answer your questions from before…you are in Sunagakure, the Village Hidden in the Sand in the Wind Country. I'm assuming you already know what a Hidden village is. I'm the Kazekage, like I said before, so I'm the boss so to speak. I brought you to my office since it was closer than my house. My eyes are 'strange' because of Shukaku. He's raccoon-like so I have raccoon-like eyes. You should know that all Jinchuuriki have at least one trait of their demon inside since you are one. I'm guessing yours is the hair since I've never seen anyone with purple hair before…pink I've seen and I've seen blue, but never purple." He went on and looked down at her looking around and caught a small purple glint in her eyes, "Maybe the eyes too."
"You never answered why you didn't kill me or why you have Love carved on your head." She said and glared at him a bit making him glare back.
"You are infuriating, woman." He said and she narrowed her eyes a bit, "I didn't kill you because something stopped me. It might have been that you didn't fight back and I saw no point in killing you since you were helpless. I really don't know the reason yet. As for the other thing…drop it."
"Gaara-sama…I'm getting the strange feeling that Shukaku and Kaminari are hiding something important right now."
"What could we possibly be hiding?" Shukaku asked indifferently.
"Everything. It's what we do…besides…I don't want to go through the same thing again even though it's already started…."
"I'm getting confused…my head hurts and I'm tired." Kira stated.
"You asked." The demon stated.
"Shut up and go back down into her so she can rest." Shukaku and Gaara growled confusing him.
"You've gotten soft Shukaku…how very…disappointing...and yet…no…I hate you." The demon stated as they all felt it sink deeper and disappear from Kira's conscious state.
"Thank you, Gaara-sama, Shukaku-sama. Thank you." She stated and drifted off to sleep as she laid her head on his chest.
A/N: Chapter 2 might not be up for a few days, so R&R to tell me what you think...pweeaaasssee? Oh and from now on, I'm either going to open or close each chapter with a random quote that either inspired me or I think is relevant to the chapter.
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. ~James Stephens, The Crock of Gold
