YO! I got the next chapter all worked out! And here it is! (Obviously...) Sorry, slight lack of sleep makes me a little crazy. ^_^ Anyway, I decided to have this be after New Moon and then connect over to Breaking Dawn (Since Eclipes really doesn't involve the Volturi in any way except for at the very end.) So here it is. Warning: it does contain a flashback and it does jump around a lot, but it stays to Gaara's perspective so I hope that it is not too confusing. Please ENJOY!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Twilight.
Orders to Kill
Gaara looked at all the books that occupied the shelves of the vast library, staring at the foreign words that were printed onto their covers. But his mind was not with him as he recalled the past few days in this strange world.
He had been ordered to read the scroll that had summoned him. The collar forcing an answer to his lips, but all he said was that it was a scroll of summoning and binding of demons. Luckily, Aro had been so distracted with this information that he did not realize that Gaara had not told him everything about the scroll.
So there is a small loophole within the binding. Gaara mused to himself as he walked slowly down the multiple aisles of books. As long as I tell some of the truth, it cannot force all of the answers out of me unless Aro orders me too.
Gaara allowed a small smile to turn up the corners of his lips, feeling a small swell of accomplishment bubble into his chest. But just as quickly as the feeling had occurred it had vanished, his memory taking him back to the first Aro had tried to use his unique power on him.
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"May I see your hand, dear pet?" Aro spoke in a smooth voice, a smile covering his face that brought a shiver to Gaara's frame.
The black collar around his neck glowed a sinister black, forcing Gaara's arm to reach out to the ancient vampire and take the offered limb into his warm hand.
Gaara watched as the vampire went from an expression of expectants to a look of wonder before settling into a look of appreciation.
"How interesting." Aro mumbled, his eyes glinting with an unknown emotion, "This is the second time that someone has been able to block me from their mind."
Gaara felt himself smirk mentally, recalling all of his long hours of training to build up a shield around his mind in order to counteract Shukaku's continuous bloodlust. It had been Naruto's idea, and Gaara could not let his dearest friend down.
"But it seems as if there are two of you in one body, and this other entity has a lot of interesting tastes." Aro's voice crashed through Gaara's mind, bring the entire room to utter silence.
"What do you mean, Aro?" questioned Caius, looking slightly interested as he looked at his brother and newest toy.
Aro tugged Gaara a little closer, staring into his aqua eyes.
"What I mean dear brother," Aro began, a smile crossing his lips, "is that Gaara here actually has a demon sealed within his body, and that demon is what helps Gaara here control his sand."
Gaara felt a shiver run up his spine, causing the hairs on the back of his neck to stand on end as he looked into the cloudy blood red eyes, a feeling of dread stealing over his body.
"Shukaku, why don't you teach Gaara here a little lesson." Aro said firmly, his voice holding authority that caused the collar to glow brightly, his hand still firmly holding onto Gaara's own warm one.
Suddenly, Gaara felt more than heard the mighty roar of the demon that resides within his mind. Then unimaginable pain assaulted his mind as the demon launched waves of attacks against his shielded mind, writhing against his defenses and roaring over and over again. But as quickly as the pain started, it all stopped, causing Gaara to fall to his knees, painting heavily as sweat began to gather at his brow.
His mind vaguely registered his hand was still being help by the ancient vampire, causing him to look up once more into that overly happy face.
"Now, you know your place, pet."
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Gaara felt a tug at the back of his mind, snapping him out of his thoughts almost painfully. The collar that wrapped around his throat started to glow, as the urge to go to the throne room suddenly coursed through him and caused his legs to begin to walk of their own accord. He felt a growl work its way up his chest, he was being summoned to his master's side.
He walked swiftly and opened the large door with little difficulty as he strolled into the large room, not paying attention to any of the vampires that crowded the spacious room. His eyes instantly locked onto the form of a smirking Aro, feeling his skin crawl at the look the old vampire was giving him.
"You summoned me?" Gaara questioned in a monotone voice, trying to not honor the vampire in anyway.
"Yes, my pet, I did." Aro said in a sickly sweet type of voice, causing the hairs on the back of Gaara's neck to stand on end. "I have a little mission for you, pet. You are to go with Jane and a few others here, and take care of a few new vampires that are causing a little bit of a mess in a France."
Gaara was helpless as the collar around his neck began to glow once more and his voice was forced through his lips, "Of course."
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(France)
Gaara could just feel the eye roll coming on, the way these vampires acted was just ridiculous. They were all standing around sharing pleasantries, even though his group was here to simply tell these newborns to stop breaking the rules of the vampire world.
He listened vaguely as they continued on their conversation in a language that was bizarre to the Kazekage's ears. His mind wondered to the last command that Aro had given him before he left, "You must obey any order that the guard members give you."
Suddenly, raised voices drew Gaara back from his thoughts and to the conversation at hand. He looked on as the discussion began to steadily get heated to the point where the newborns before them were all crotched in agitation, snarling out their anger.
"We have done nothing to warrant such a sentence as death." One of the vampires spat out, anger lacing every single one of their words.
"Oh, but you did!" Jane excitedly stated, smiling her trademark smile. "By simply existing."
Then the group dissolved into chaos, some of the newborns launching themselves at Gaara, who instantly raised his sand to shield himself from their oncoming attack.
"Gaara! Capture all of them!" came the commanding voice of one of the guard members, as he dodged two other newborns, who were attacking wildly.
Gaara felt his collar glow, his eyes widening a fraction, as his sand reacted and grabbed every single one of the growling newborns, seven in total. As Gaara looked at their surprised faces, he spotted one of the cloaked figures of his travel group flick a lighter to life.
"Tear them to pieces, Gaara." came Jane's happy voice, commanding the collar to life.
Gaara watched as his sand ripped them limp from limp before fire consumed them.
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"How was your trip, dear ones?" Aro greeted them, his arms spreading wide in order to embrace Jane in a gentle hug.
"Everything was taken care of. There were no new powers among them so they were easy to eliminate." Jane responded, pulling away slightly in order to scan around the banquet room before landing onto Gaara who chose to stay near to the doors.
"Gaara did well on our mission. Did everything we told him to, to the 'T'." Jane complimented the redhead, but it fell on deaf ears.
"Did he now?" Aro pondered, casting his eyes over to Gaara. "All of you may go and rest. But Gaara please stay."
There were looks of confusion, before each one of the guard bowed lowly and exited the room, leaving Gaara with the ancient King of their world.
"So, my pet, how was your trip? And speak honestly." Aro spoke in a sweet voice, gliding over to Gaara.
Gaara tried to fight off the pull of the collar, but it was to no avail as he heard his voice slip between his lips, "It was not what I had anticipated. And I quite frankly did not enjoy it."
Aro reached up to stroke Gaara's cheek as he hummed his acknowledgement, his eyes shining with an emotion Gaara did not recognize.
"Well, I guess we are just going to have to send you out until you can enjoy them, for I intend to keep you for as long as you live."
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(Brazil)
Gaara stared apologetically at the screaming vampires that were trapped within his sand, forcibly held in place until the fire could be built that would ultimately destroy them.
"WE'RE SORRY!" shrieked one woman, her frightened red eyes pleading him to release them. Her body convulsing from her dry sobs that coursed through her body. "P-Please let us GO!"
A cruel chuckle escaped one of Gaara's companions as he laid more wood around the trapped duo, sickening Gaara to the core.
"You should have thought of that before you decided to go walking around in the sunlight and getting spotted by villagers. Because of you we got to have such a nice feast but now we have to make sure that you do not do that again." Jane's soft voice stated with an almost too happy ring to it, as her red eyes glowed from her recent feeding.
"NO! PLEASE SPARE US! We will not do it again. PLEASE!" begged her sister, her eyes shining with the truth of her words.
Gaara clenched his jaw, fighting the binding that glowed around his neck and that was preventing him from releasing the vampires. He watched sadly as Jane flicked open a lighter, as their companions stepped away, and tossed the lighter into the wood setting it ablaze as the pained screams assaulted their ears.
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(Australia)
"There is no way I would ever yield to some old vampires!" snarled the newborn crouching in an aggressive position and barring his teeth in a menacing snarl.
Gaara winced internally at what he knew was about to come. He glanced over at the small vampire standing next to him, watching as a wide smile spread slowly across her face, her eyes locking onto the offensive newborn.
There was an ear splitting scream of agony that cut through the air, making Gaara's skin crawl as he watch the vampire drop to the ground and writhe in pain.
"Hold him, Gaara." Jane's innocent sounding voice came, never removing her eyes away from the screaming man on the ground.
Gaara allowed his sand to come out of his gourd and wrap around the squirming form tightening his hold to stop them from breaking free. He watched as wood was placed around the still screaming man before the fire consumed him, his screams of agony only increasing tenfold as he was still tortured by the twisted little vampire that stood next to him.
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Gaara sat in his room, staring at the scroll that had summoned him to this crazed world. He looked at the words scrawled there, trying to find a loophole that could maybe send him home, but finding none in the graceful brush strokes.
He sighed, setting it down as the faces of all those he had condemned to death in this world assaulted his eyes.
How long have I been here? Gaara wondered to himself, the days had blurred into a stream of screams and torture of people who had caused innocent crimes.
All the vampires that he had sentenced to death had been newborns, individuals who had no training and no knowledge of the world that they had just been placed in.
Gaara had been a mindless killer in his world, he could understand all the things he did wrong in his youth and regretted all the lives he had taken during that time. But he was a Kage now, he could see and understand the suffering of the people around him so much better. He could see the problems that his people faced and could guide them accordingly so that they could become better people themselves.
"What kind of rulers, punish those that do not know the law? Where is the justice in that?" Gaara whispered to himself, knowing to pitch his voice lower so that no vampire ears could pick up the words.
He suddenly felt the familiar tug at the back of his mind, which indicated that Aro wanted to speak to him about something. He sighed again, before rising to his feet and walking the hallways to the throne room. He entered and instantly walked over to Aro, noticing that it was only Aro, his brothers, and a woman who were occupying the room.
He raised one nonexistent eyebrow at this but said nothing of it as he stopped a few feet in front of Aro, ignoring the looks that were being shot at him by the woman.
"Yes Aro? You called for me." Gaara stated in his usually emotionless voice, watching the emotions that flickered across the vampires face.
"Ah, yes, Gaara." Aro cooed in an excited voice, "There seems to be a coven of vampires that has just broken one of our highest laws!"
Gaara corked another absent eyebrow at this news, wondering why Aro would be so excited over such a small thing.
"Which law did they break?" he probed carefully, not entirely sure what to make of Aro's mood.
"They have created an immortal child." The woman spoke for the first time in Gaara's presence, drawing the redhead's attention to her.
"Yes, Yes. We all know the havoc and chaos that immortal children can cause and that is why the child and the entire coven must be dealt with!" Caius snapped clearly annoyed at the situation.
Gaara turned his eyes back to the three kings of the vampire world, his eyes instantly traveling to the one that held his chains in this world.
"I'm being sent out to handle them alone." Gaara assumed, seeing as there was no one else in the room.
"Oh no, no, no, my dear pet." Aro purred to him, gesturing for Gaara to come closer.
Gaara felt his feet move against his will, carrying him closer to the twisted man and having him stop right next to his throne. Gaara watched, his eyes not revealing the revulsion he felt, as the man reached up and brush his cold papery fingers across Gaara's right cheek, before settling there so that the hand was cupped around the warm flesh. Gaara wanted to pull away, to slap the hand away, to do something to remove that vulgar appendage from the man that sat before him.
But he stood motionless and rooted to the spot, only able to take even breaths into his body.
"No, we are all going together!" Aro supplied, smiling happily at Gaara.
Gaara's eyes widened marginally, staring at the man who was once again stroking his cheek.
"Together?"
"Yes! All of us are going. Us, the guard, the wives…" Aro listed off, his voice fading from Gaara's ears as his mind went slightly haywire.
Why would everyone be going? Gaara's frantic mind tried to sort through, trying to find an explanation as to why everyone had to go to handle one child and a coven of vampires.
"Which coven is the one that is being eliminated?" Gaara questioned, cutting off Aro's apparent ramblings.
The smile that crossed over Aro's face was one that would most likely haunt Gaara for the rest of his life.
"Why it is the Cullen's."
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Whoot! Another down! ^_^ Sorry if it is a little confusing or if there is any mistakes. Hope you liked, and please REVIEW! Even if it is only to tell me that you hate it. Thanks for reading!