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Chapter 7 - Bloodlust
Kyo raced back to Temari's, where Oni's only cure lay. Oni's face was turning pale, the only other colors in her face now was the blue burn under her right eye. "Oni, we're almost there..." Kyo silently prayed that she would not go out of controle before he got there.
The light over Temari's door was still lit, all they needed would hopefully be outside, or on top of the bulb-shaped house. "Kyo-" Oni began in a hushed tone, "Where are we going?". Kyo smiled, she really had no clue what was happening to her.
Every 28 days Oni had to go to special training with Gaara, they would go into a building where they would stick her in a room with him, but to all of Oni's knowledge, all he did was meditate the whole time or stare at her while sitting on the ground. When actually, Oni was keeping the Kazekage's son in controle of himself, just her being there was enough.
It frightened her sometimes when he stared at her with his overly calm eyes, or sometimes she would catch him touching her face when she closed her eyes to sleep...
If they were apart for too long, they would each experience extreme reactions to the extra chemicals and forces in their small minds, the beasts inside of them would go out of their controle and take over their bodies. It had only happened once...-
Kyo finally saw it, a sphere of sand on the top of the house with the full moon's light reflecting off of it, now all he needed to do was get up but how to do that...
Dripping water was one of Kyo's options a wave of cold air rushed toward the pipe- then it stopped short 'But why take a chance like that?' he thought quickly going to another conclusion. Maybe Temari was still awake, she'd let them in. Kyo went to the door, but before he could knock he heard a slithering noise behind him -
-WACK Kyo went flying across the front of the house, and losing contiousness. Oni was beginning to feel like herself again as the slithering noise came closer to her she bowed her head submissivly, she refused to scream or yell, sounds of pain would only feed the monster within him.
So, Oni sat, she sat there and took the crushing sand over her small body, being held off of the ground then thrown bacdk down and having her body pumled by Gaara's sand, because Oni knew that the real Gaara would never hurt anyone, she new that the Shukaku was making him do this. The pain she felt was only a side effect. Suddenly the sand stopped and the small boy yelped and gripped his head...
Kyo woke up at dawn to the sight of his little sister's small body in a heap about ten feet away. "Oni!" Kyo lept to his feet and kneeled next to her. Her breathing was normal, like she was sleeping, but her clothing was covered with blood making her once blue shirt red. "Oni," Kyo shook her awake and she looked up with an exhausted smile.
"Why are you waking me up so early?" a normal response from Oni. Kyo held her tightly.
"Kyo really I'm fine!" Oni protested, Kyo hoisted her over his sholder and was carrying her to the hospital. "Oni, you must be kidding, you are covered in blood!" Kyo stated "You are going to get checked out by a professional,".
Oni bitched the entire way there, when they got to the hospital, it turned out that Oni was correct. She was fine. Oni had not one scrape on her entire body, a bruse or two, butthose were only from fightin her brother to get away from the hospital in the first place.
"See! See! I told you!" On taunted Kyo after putting on some new clothes, "Yeah, but you aren't ever going to that place again. I don't care whatthe doctors said, you are not going near that Gaara ever again either!"Kyo explained twisting 'It's' name to make a bad taste his mouth.
Oni tears stung the back of her pupil-less eyes, Kyo never yelled at her seriously, never.
Kyo knew what would happen if she did not see Gaara. It was dangerous, and now that Shukaku had tasted her blood, the bad side of him would never come back again for her again 'I hope so...' he thought.
Oni had no clue why she thought this, but over the next couple of days she saw nothing of the Kazekage's trio. She did not even see Temari and Kyo on their every day walks. Now all Oni had was her puppy, Banshee, they had made a few new games together, but soon they grew boring and Oni and her puppy sat there on the front step of their house.
"Oni? What is wrong?" a familiar voice called.
"Oh, nothing Uncle, Kyo won't let me play with him and Temari. So I'm stuck at home." Oni shrugged. Koi's face bunched up in thought. "Why don't we go for a walk then?" He said in a gentle tone softening his face. Oni's face lit up, someone wanted to pay atten to her, finally! Koi took out his walking stick and they walked down the street.
"Oni? Are you going to be a ninja like your brother?" Koi asked while they were on the trim of the village. Oni looked down, she would never be as talented as Kyo, but on the other hand she would get to be around Gaara durring school hours. "No, I don't think so." Oni said shortly.
Koi gave her a worried look "But sweet Oni, if you are trained in the ways of the ninja, you may be able to controle your abillities better." Koi urged, "But, you have plenty of time to think about it, about two years actually," He added with a smile.
Banshee's bark broke through their serious conversation, she was chasing a dead ferret on a string, someone was teasing her, again. Oni's brow creased, why wer people so mean? Oni chased Banshee behind some scrub bushes to find-
"Temari, why is your little brother so crule to every one?" Asked the dark-haired Genin. Temari looked up she knew that Kyo understood Gaara's inabillity to controle himself, thus he stayed away from him. Everyone else in the village had the same idea, when Gaara walked in a crowd everyone gave him a ten foot radius so he would not hurt them or anyone else, they were afraid with a good reason.
She looked into Kyo's insanly green eyes, "The only thing I know about him is that when our Uncle Yashamaru died trying to kill him, he went crazy." Temari did not understand Kyo's sudden interest in her brother "Why? Have a little crush on him?" She giggled, of course knowing that he didn't.
"Very funny, and no, but I want to find out more, how to keep him and Oni under controle without them having to be near each other." Kyo stated humorlessly. "Apparently you are kinda pissed, why what did he do this time?" Temari's female curiosity kicking in.
Kyo sighed, Gaara always did something when he and Oni were together, but this time it struck him harder than ever. "He attacked her, but made no marks. I don't get how she can just ignore that kind of pain." Temari looked at him with her eyes half open, obviously bord of the conversation
"You worry too much, he has never really hurt her before, so why would he start?" Kyo looked up at the dark red sky, desert sunsets were the most beautiful...
-"Kankuro! Why are you bothering my puppy?" Oni Practically jumped the puppet user when she found him. Kankuro was only three years older than her and loved teasing her whenever Kyo wasn't around to beat him up for it.
"Oh, come on, you're going to get angery about something like that?" Kankuro asked nearly falling to the ground with laughter, Oni was seething, you could practically see steam comming from her ears. Kankuro felt the air grow cold,'uh-oh,' he knew what would come next. Oni slapped him in the face leaving a stinging red mark, Banshee was happily playing with the dead ferret.
"She's just a puppy! Leave her alone! I'm going to train her to bite you, then you'll be sorry!" Koi could hear his small neice screaming at the Kazekage's middle child. He moved over to the scrub bush when she was done yelling "Oni, you should really be nicer to him, he was just teasing." Koi started.
"Only Kyo is allowed to tease me..." Oni grumbled. Kankuro was laughing in the sand behind the bush, and Oni gave him a glare that resembled Temari's. Kankuro stopped like he had been shot in the heart, his face was pale and was staring at something behind her-
"Kyo, aren't sunsets beautiful" Temari began. Kyo blushed "Y-yeah, sure," he turned hi head away from her, her face looked so gentle in the perfect, fading sunlight. Temari smirked 'Yes! He totally likes you!' she thought in accomplishment.
Suddenly a couple of girls came rushing up to them, "Kyo! Kyo! I want to show you something!" The girl on the right with dark brown hair said loudly. The second one was making a face at the first, "Oh Kari! Shut up you know he dosn't want to hang out with you when he can be with me or Temari." The first girl glared at Temari who just made a loud fake laugh "Ha! You two don't stand a chance againced my superior flirting power!" Temari taunted.
Kyo's eyes were closed 'I try to have a serious conversation and get somewhere with Temari these two numb-skulls have to appear'. The second girl kneeled in front of Kyo "Kyo sweetie, would you like to work on our team work one on one?" The second girl's pale green hair falling in front of her face in a way that she thought was sexy.
Kyo sighed "SeiMei, can you take Kari and go away, Temari and I need to talk about something serious." Kari and SeiMei got jelous faces on "You are part of our team" said SeiMei, "And that means that anything thats serious for you is serious for us!" Kari finished.
When they opened their eyes to look at Kyo, he and Temari were walking down the street. The girls turned away defeated "You win this round Temari!" they shouted together.
Light green pupil-less eyes with tired black eyelids were what Oni saw when she turned. "Oni-Sumei" He said quietly as he looked at her, Oni felt strange being so close to someone, his nose was almost touching her's. His eyes were playfull and lonely, not the same anger and pain from a few days ago.
Oni blinked "Hi Gaara!" She might as well have screamed n his face. Gaara took a step back, 'Whats wrong with this girl, why isn't she afraid?' He quickly regained his composure and looked at her in the eyes again, "You didn't scream," he stated flatly. Oni looked at him, puzzled, "Did you want me to scream?" She asked in a happy tone.
His gaze turned dark in self-thought, he didn't know, did he want her to scream? Or was he relieved that she didn't? Oni continued her happy-go-luckylook 'He doesn't talk much does he' she thought completely oblivious to the situation. The small red-head turned away from Oni and dissapeared in a swirl of sand.
Kankuro let out a loud breath as did Koi, Oni looked at them, confused. Kankuro, Oni, and Koi walked back to the center of the village, where hey said their good-bye's. Koi and Oni were virtually silent on their way back to their house 'What don't they understand?' She thought.
YIPPEE 6th one done!
Gaara: you're making me look soft...
Kt: Nah, you'll stay all like "I'm going to kill a puppy" but not quite that mean...
Gaara: O.O I wouldn't kill a puppy!
Kt: hmmmmm, maybe i should make Kyo come over here...-takes out cell phone-
Gaara: NO! thats ok, I won't complaine...
Kt:-( hands cookie making material) - Here make cookies for the reviewers
Gaara: But-- (is glared by Kt) -OK! fine!
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