Chapter two:
As I began to run to the sand village as fast as my feet could take me, I looked down and held my teardrop necklace, "Wait for me Gaara" I whispered to myself as the necklace was glowing once again, "Please wait!"
"Gaara you haven't attended any meetings today, you've barely even talked for the last three days" A young woman with dirty blonde hair asked. She had emerald green eyes and her scruffy hair was put up in four ponytails, her body was delicate that was put inside a black and red kimono with a large fan slung on her back.
"Is everything ok?" she asked with concern in her voice, the Kazekage stood there silently with his arms crossed, he looked over his shoulder and his light green eyes merely glanced at her before he looked back to his village through the village.
"All you've done for the past three days is watch that village of yours, never uttering almost a single word!" She cried confused for her little brother.
The Kazekage, Gaara stood there silent as a mouse for another moment before a few harsh words came from his lips, "Don't act like you don't know Temari…"
At that instant his older sister, Temari knew exactly what he meant. She gasped in shock at the intensity of those only words then her green eyes dropped down to the cold tile floor of his office.
"Gaara…" she uttered his name, "It's been six years… don't you think it's time to…" she was afraid to continue the sentence the whispered, she was afraid to say those words but they suddenly came out by themselves, "move on with your life?"
Gaara stayed silent and ignored what she just suggested to him and continued to watch his ever growing village; something was different here. He wasn't sure what, it wasn't a new birth and strangers hadn't entered his village. It was something so strange to him…
"Temari I'm sorry if this seems unnecessary to you…" he whispered sadly and continued, "But I cannot or maybe perhaps never forget what I've seen… what Ive heard… what I've felt…"
His sister was amazed at his sudden sound of emotion in his hoarse voice. Gaara turned around and Temari was surprised at how much emotion was in his eyes, "I just can't… not now… not ever… she was too important, and even if I have to spend the rest of my life hanging onto memories let it be so, I can't betray her. I can't leave her alone… not after everything she's done…"
Temari's eyes glistened over themselves as he said these words filled with emotion that surely no one would witness the day he dare show them. That means, he must've really meant what he said. She looked down as she remembered the look in his eye when he told them of the lovely Rani's passing, and she remembered the feeling of shock that was in her belly.
"Gaara? Is everything ok?" Temari asked, polishing off her fan before they had to get moving back to their own village. Gaara stayed quiet, his eyes were closed and his head hung low. Even for Gaara, he never seemed so gloomy before.
"She's gone…" Temari barely was able to hear and Kankuro cocked his head to the side, "Gone? Where?" Kankuro asked in the sudden confusion while repairing his puppet, the crow.
Gaara stayed completely silent and Temari's heart ached with sudden sadness for her little brother as she saw a small glistening tear fall from his eye, she looked at Kankuro who was in awe at how much sadness just leaked into the room with that one tear.
"She's run away again… hasn't she?" Kankuro asked sadly, afraid to stir Gaara up anymore. Gaara slowly shook his head and a sudden pang shot into their hearts, "You… can't be serious…" Kankuro whispered to himself, "She couldn't be dead… could she?" Kankuro stuttered, a cold chill going up his spine when Gaara nodded.
Temari shot up and dropped the fan, "How? Rani couldn't go and die just like that!" she cried, trying to make explanations for herself.
Gaara opened his eyes, "its true… I was unlucky enough to see her die… with my own eyes. She died a true shinobi, in battle but I know she was dying not for the sake of the shinobi but for the sake…" Temari saw him grab his heart in pain, "…of those who were important to her…"
Temari sighed and she nodded to her brother as the memories faded away, it still hurt to think of Rani being gone. And if that's how she felt, Gaara's would have been so much more worse, so much more painful and she now understood why he hadn't gotten over it, because she hadn't yet and her memories of rani weren't as near and dear as Gaaras but they still hurt…
She decided to give her brother some time alone, she gave him a thoughtful and sympathetic look before turning around and walking out of his office with the memory of Rani still lodged in her mind. She couldn't imagine how Gaara must feel…
Gaara turned around and watched his village; the more he watched the more couples he seemed to spot. Holding, laughing, smiling, kissing, embracing. Tears came to the Kazekage's eyes as the memory of Rani was tugging at his heart and pulling at his soul. He sighed and tears fell down his face as he sighed, sounding completely helpless. He felt completely helpless… like the child he once was, all curled up in a ball of pain, completely alone…
He looked up to the full moon as the tears streamed down his face and glistened with the moons light, like silver stars…
No matter how much he wanted her, he knew well that the moon never smiled upon the demon. Never…
It was night; I had ran for what seems like for so long. The village was too far away; it had been two days…or three…perhaps even a week. I groaned as my head pounded from lack of water and food, I was dragging my feet across the sand as I stumbled worse then a drunk. I felt extremely exhausted, I knew for a fact I was going to faint sooner or later from my lack of energy and sleepless nights. My eyes widened as I saw something off in the distance, sandy buildings and a dark gate surrounding it, it was a village. The sand village, I finally found it.
I laughed happily and tried to run as fast as I could, constantly telling myself 'just a few more steps and then you can be happy…just a few more steps…' and as I reached the gate my legs had broken on me. There were guards infront of the gate, "what is your business here?" one of them asked me and pointed his weapon at me. I wanted to talk, but my throat was too dry to even whisper an answer. He pointed his weapon at my throat as I panted and shook, "Answer me girl!" he ordered and I couldn't take it anymore. The strain was too great…
My legs shook and then finally went down and I collapsed on the desert ground, sand blowing past my cheek. My faded eyes slowly began to close, "Gaara…" I horsely whispered and my hood fell over my face as I fainted from the pressure.
"She said Gaara!" the other guard observed and the first one nodded, "If she knows the kazekage's name then they must know eachother!" he yelled in the rush of the moment and picked me up, "We must get her to Lord Kazekage at once!"
Gaara's eyes snapped open from his daze and he looked at his hand, the sadness it had faded away. He narrowed his eyes, "Why do I feel… happy?"
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