My third kiss and yes...I'm keeping on with chibi-ness madness! I entered a fanart contest which was GaaMatsu chibi and the theme was Halloween, so I drew Gaara as a pumpkin and Matsuri as a witch...Hehehe
When I upload my entry, I will put the link here.
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A short girl with long brown hair, the brown of the desert's sand piles was running with all her might, her tiny fists tightened and her arms almost stuck to her body.
She ran and ran, like the Devil himself was chasing her. But her pursuers were demonic, or at least, their thoughts were.
"Hey! Stop running like that! You're gonna trip and fall!"
"And then it will be easier for us to get you!"
"Which means no fun!"
"Yeah, right! Hahahaha!"
"Come here girlie! Dun be'fraid!"
Alright, they were just kids, like her, but Matsuri was afraid of them. She was nearing the playground now, and her ears reached a strange melody, and she could make out the sillhouette of another kid, next to a small black box. She didn't know if he was good or bad, but he was her only hope.
"Hewp!" The word shining in her mind, it came out of her kips in a scream, heading it for the other kid. "Hewp me!"
The kid turned his head towards her, and Matsuri almost dropped dead on her tracks from surprise. Those eyes! What was this kid, insomniac?
"What's wrong with you?" The kid asked when Matsuri had finally entered the playground. She collapsed exhausted next tohim nd crawled behind him. He had red hair, she noticed.
"Hewp me...Pwease..." Matsuri whispered, the space between her missing teeth making a whistling noise when her breath left her lips. "They'we aftew me! Pwease..."
"Don't worry! Don't be afraid! I will protect you! What's your name?"
"They'we comin' cwosew! Eh?...Oh, I am Matsuwi! You?"
"I'm Gaara. Hey! Stay behind! They're here!"
Matsuri nodded in compreention and hid behind hi, watchng the kids who chased her standing in front of that Gaara child who wanted to protect her, even though he had just met her.
"So, so, so! Come on kitty, give the thing to us and we'll let you off the hook!"
"Yeah, you're in debt to us, chickie!"
"Go on! Give it!'
"I didn't do anything today! I sweaw!" Matsuri murmired, scared.
"Leave Matsuri alone." Gaara said.
The other threechildren blinked, and the one who seemed to be their leader smirked. They crossed their arms and smiled ironically.
"Oh yeah?" Spoke their leader. "And what makes you thin we will?"
"If you don't do..."
"What, you're gonna tell daddy? Oh, how scared I am!...You freak!" The leader squeeled, addressing the insult to Gaara. Matsuri brought her hand to er outh. Although she didn't know why, she felt this would hurt her protector deeply. The kid did look frightening, alright, but freak?
"The Kazekage doesn't care about the problems I have...He's got other kids as well and he cares more about them..." The Gaara kid spoke, pain obviously consuming him. "I've learn how to do things on my own. Matsuri is my friend. I won't let you harm her."
"Ohaha! The guy wants to p[lay it hero! Look here, little brat! You freak, give us the girl and we'll let you live! She owes us!" The other children lifted stones from the ground around them.
"Get away! Matsuri shouted, frightened to death. "I towd you I have nothing fow today!"
"You filthy liar! our pockets are full!"
"Its sand, it's just sand!"
"Liar!"
"Get her!"
"Matsuri stay behind!"
And the kids threw the stones to them, and lifted more, and threw those as well. Matsuri closed her eyes, waiting to feel the cold earthy objects hit her, but the feeling never reached her. Surpried, she looked up and saw Gaara, and in front of him, a sand pile. A sand pile that stood in front of both kids like a shield.
"What's that? The kid on the front of their enemies asked
"G...GAH! It's sand!" Panicked, his comrades brought their hadnds on their mouths and they ran away cowardly.
"Whre are you going? You cowards! Come back!" The ir leader yelled, grabbing another stone.
"It's useless! He's...He is protected! You can't beat him, you can't get throuh that sand!" His comrades shouted. But the boy wasn't obviously listening.
When the sand went down, Gaara was holding the little black box in his hand. Matsuritook a closer look at it and now she saw that it seemd to be a bit like some kind of...radio-cassete player? Of course. He was the Kazekage's son. Matsuri didn't even have ahouse, a roof over her head, she couldn't even dream of owning something like a cassette player...
"Wh...what are you going to do with that?" She asked frightened.
"Give up. You can't get Matsuri. I won't let you!" Gaara said. "Don't make me hurt you."
"Wah? What are you talking about? You're the one who's gonna be hurt!"
"Oh really? TAKE THAT!" Gaara said and threw the cassete-player to the kid.
If he was a proffessional archer, he wouldn't be more accurate.
"AAW! OUCH! OUCH! OUCH! You freak! YOU DAMN FREAK! MY EYE! MY EYE! I'm bleeding! I'M BLEEDING! WAAAH!"
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Later that day, Gaara and Matsuri were switching turns on the one lone swing. This time, Gaara was pushing and pulling the swing so for Matsuri to move.
"Um...Gaawa, was it?" Matsuri sked him. They hadn't talked at all when the kids left Matsuri alone.
"Yes?" Gaara replied. The swin came to him again and he gave it a slight push.
"Why...Why did you hewp me back then? I mean...It's not that I do not appwesiate what you did fow me, but...You hawdwy know me."
"Well, you came to me with sincerity and asked me to help you. This means that, evem though you knew nothing about me, you trusted me. This has never happened to me before. They're afraid of me, but I dont know why yet..."
"Wew, when you tuwned, youw eyes scawed me a it...But that cowow inside was mowe powewfuw and I saw something...And besides, you wewe my wast hope. I wouwd be dead if they caught me befowe I found you."
"Why were they chasing you?"
"...It's a wong stowy. I am an owphan. They wewe hewping me in the beggining, but now that I gwew up, they say that I have to pay them back...Ad they fowced me into steawing."
"Stealing? But why? It's impossible for them to want you to do it!"
"I know...Ano ne, isn't it youw time to sit?"
"No, not yet."
"But I've been hewe fow longew! And besides..." Matsuri's stomach growled. "I've got to go searwch fow somethig to eat..."
"Search?"
"I don't have pawents to feed me, so I have to seawch at the bins to find the leftovews of the othew famiwies..."
"But that's horrible! Hey...I got an idea! Gaara said and stopped the swing, holding it tight in his tiny fists the next time it came. "I'll share with you my food. Besides, I was never able to eat it all alone!"
"Wo...You mean it?" Matsuri's eyes filled with tears of happiness. There was a day where she would not starve! "I love you so much, Gaawa!" She said and turned on the swing's seat, so to be able to face him, andgave him a tight hug.
Gaara stood frozen in her arms. Love? A hug? And...She said she loved him? Was he dreamng?
"Ehe...Matsuri...Aren't you afraid of me?" He asked as he helped he et down from the swing, and then they walked to a peacefull corner of th payground. There, Gaara took a small pack out of his pocket and unfolded it on his lap. He took one of the two apples he had and gave one to Matsuri. "Here. It is all yours!"
"Wow! An apple! Thank you so much, Gaawa!" Matsuri gave him a warm smile and bit the fruit, her tiny white teeth hungrily diving into its flesh. "Why wouwd I?" she asked, her mouth filled and he cheeks flushed.
"Well...Because of my sand?" Gaara asked hesitently.
"What's so stwange about it? It's gweat! The sand is pwotecting you and you dont have to wun away fwom peoplw who want to huwt you!" Matsuri smiled, and then swallowed. "Nee, Gaawa?"
The red-haired kid looked upto her troubled. His eyes were solemnly looking at her. "What?"
"You did so much fow me today, and I still haven't thanked you." Matsuri said, the bit apple in her hand, s bit of its juice left on the corner of her mouth. "What can I do to thank you, Gaawa?"
"You dont need to do anything, Matsuri. You've thaned me by trusting me., By not fearing me. You love me, right?" Gaara asked. He lifeted his arm and brshed his hand on her lower lip, and then her chin, wiping off the apple juice.
"Yes! love you, Gaawa! We'll be fwiends fwom now on! Nuu, that's not enough! Oh! I know!" she smiled, and once he had taken his hand, she reached him in a sudden move and kissed him on the cheek. Surprising both herself with her courage, and him, with her immediate response.
He looked as if a thunder had hit him, though.
"Huh?" Gaara touched his skin on the spot her lips had been for an instant. It felt warmer, and cooler in the same time. "What did you do that for?"
"What? You didn't like it?" Matsuri asked, her brows furrowing in worry.
"It's not that..But...No one has ever kissed me..."
"If I wemembew well, my mommy used to tell me that thewe is a fiwst time fow evewything!" Matsuri said, smiling. And then she repeated the movement.
But this time, no one of the two was surprised. Gaara grabbd his apple and gave it a big bite as well, making Matsuri share with him one of her warmest smiles.
Wheoo! That was it! The third kiss! Hope you liked!
Oh, a kind of note here, the parts where there is "w" in Matsuri's words, its either an "l" or an "r".
