It's only three a.m. in the night, but not everyone in the house is asleep. In this house, there's always one person awake, because of the ancient curse. But this time, there's two.

He senses the other and doesn't do anything about that. It's only ten minutes later when Gaara simply skips around the roof, counting the stars, when he notices his father standing on the balcony. He is calm and looks like usual, but the redhead smells the blood. As it comes, on the closer inspection, all fingers in one of his hands are broken. So it was either an impossibly hard material or a blow that knocked out the brain out of the skull.

He was sure that it had to bruise. Daichi notices Gaara but does nothing of that. In his room there's another person, the one who took the blow and who gave it. He feels his eye stinging. It would surely give him a bruise tomorrow.

Gaara watches them for a moment, then slowly walks away. The red moon rises and stares at the ground, cold and useless as yet another murder takes place in the Hidden Village of Sand.