Chapter 10 – Midnight Murders
Sorry for the lack of updates, my dog broke my laptop and it had to get sent off, so I was without a computer for a while…
Mia lay on the floor, her eyes fuzzy and unclear. She pushed herself up, before her muscles gave way and she was on the floor again, she gasped when she saw a pool of blood spilling out from her side, pain she didn't even know was there suddenly shot up into her head, making her queasy.
She looked up and the ceiling began to dissolve, showing the black of the night sky, only a full moon to give her any light.
"You try to kill me, you will now die…" she let out a strangled cry when she saw Gaara standing over her, but he morphed into a demon-like creature, with dry sand coloured skin.
She tried to talk to him, to ask what she had done, but no words came out, her mouth didn't move an inch. Her body wouldn't do what she wanted, but them it occurred to her, she wasn't herself, she was in somebody else's body.
She felt herself let out an involuntary scream, as claws came down at her.
Mia shot up, her hair sticking to her head, she looked out of the window, and saw the exact same scene she had saw in her dream. She was hot, and didn't want to go back to sleep, she stumbled out of bed and pulled on her shoes, clambering out of the window.
She climbed to the roof, and gasped at what she saw, the contestant she remembered as Dosu, a sound ninja, lay bloody on the floor, the scene was replayed in her head, she was him. Gaara didn't even glance at her, instead the monster emerged and Mia looked away as Dosu was murders under the full moon.
The Shukaku turned his red eyes to Mia, who shivered lightly and searched for Gaara in it, but found none of him. "Gaara" it came out as a whisper and she jumped when a throaty laugh erupted from the beast, it's eyes twinkled with dark amusement.
"Gaara isn't here anymore, no matter how many times I tell him to kill you he won't" Mia gagged at the smell of the body, and moved around it, so she was on the centre of the roof. "Think you're something special eh? Well you're going to die here tonight"
She breathed a sigh, but didn't move to attack. "You won't be able to hurt me, and you know it. Let him do the exams, you're not worth my father's time"
The Shukaku's eyes hardened and he threw a punch in her direction, she didn't even flinch when the darkness came up to block it off. It creeper up the sandy arm, and began to squeeze, the Shukaku groaned and cursed her before morphing back into the teenage boy she knew.
The darkness retreated, finding no threat, Gaara slumped to the floor, gasping for breath. Mia rushed over and knelt down beside him, pulling his head into her lap, she whispered soothing words to him as he recovered his breathing and opened his eyes, to stare up blankly at her.
"You ok?" he nodded slowly, and sat up, staring out into nothing, a tired look on his face.
"I lost control over him, I let him take over" Mia nodded but said nothing, not really knowing what to say without offending the boy.
She doesn't know how long they sat there, but she yawned and Gaara stood, telling her to go back to bed. She stood and gave him one last glance before clambering back in the window and sliding into the bed, falling into a dreamless sleep.
"Mia wake up!" eyes blinked open, to find Lara leaning over her, a look of worry in her eyes. Sitting up, she sighed and stretched her muscles, they ached from sitting in the cold for that long.
"What's happened?" Santana was making her bed, a plate of food next to her.
"You slept in a while again, we were worried. Dosu was murdered on the roof last night, and the preliminary proctor, Hayate Gekko, was also murdered last night, but we don't know who by" Lara said, looking at Mia with an almost knowing look, a look that said 'we know you know something'.
'Child, it was Baki, Gaara's sensei, that murdered Hayate Gekko. Baki was consulting with Kabuto, and Gekko heard, so he was disposed of, what they were discussing is unknown though'
"Father just told me, that Baki killed Gekko, and I already knew that Gaara killed Dosu" their eyes widened, their mouths hung in unasked questions. "Baki, Gaara's sensei, was discussing something unknown with Kabuto, and Gekko overhead, so he was killed. Dosu tried to kill Gaara, and the Shukaku took over and killed Dosu, I was there, it tried to kill me too"
They nodded slowly, and glanced around nervously, as if asking what to do. "We keep silent, until Baki makes a move, then we'll do something, I don't think he'll do anything before the finals have happened, until then we wait"
Santana sighed, picking up the plate of food, and handed it to Mia "breakfast, you need it" Mia smiled and took it graciously, picking at the bits of food.
"But I thought Gaara was nice, I didn't think he would ally with that monster of a man" Mia clenched her fists, putting the plate on her bed. "By all of the power that has been bestowed in me, I will make this right"
Mia had promised Lee she would visit him again, before the finals started. She slowly walked towards the hospital, watching as day patients arrived and left. When she reached his room, the doors were slightly ajar and there was shouting going on inside.
She heard Naruto, and Shikamaru, shouting at someone else in the room, but surely it couldn't be at Lee. She pushed into the room, gasping when she saw sand swirling around Lee's sleeping body, Gaara standing, a look of rage on his face. He was frozen.
Shikamaru held the same pose, his shadow connecting him to Gaara, Naruto stood at his side. "I don't care if you're like me, if you have a demon in you, like me. You have no right to kill an innocent person, you've done enough to Lee"
"Gaara? Why?" Gaara lifted his eyes to look at her, a look of something unusual in his eyes, but he said nothing. He had already told her too much, and they both knew it, he knew that she had been told too much, for his own good and for hers.
A strong hand on Mia's shoulder made her jump, she spun to see Gai staring at Lee, the sand began to retreat back to Gaara, he looked on with disappointed eyes, walking over to Lee.
"I think it's time for all of you to leave" Gai didn't take his eyes of his pupil, but he knew that they had left as soon as he said to.
Mia sat atop the Hokage mountain, staring blankly down at the street.
She was so angry at Baki, and at Gaara, though she had no proof that he actually had any knowledge of what Baki had done. He killed Dosu, because Dosu tried to kill him, and Shukaku took over.
She was angry at herself, if she had just killed Kabuto, then none of this would be happening.
She, for that split second, wished she was home, in the Land of the Amazons, where nothing was complicated. She wasn't ridiculed or frowned upon where she came from, for who she was brought up by. But everywhere else she went she felt like an outcast.
The one that should dead.