Here is the next chapter! I think Im almost done with it so yay. Cause now I gotta another idea for a fanfic, but here's a kicker. Its for a different show . Just have to work on a the summary and title. Enjoy

I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR WHAT THE NIGHT KNOW THEME BY DEAN KOONTZ

Later that night it was a sense of disturbance in the home for Gaara. Everyone had gone to bed while he surveyed the house. He checked and checked everything. Looking outside the window watching the snowfall to the ground almost like it was saying it was going to be a calm night. He didn't let it fool him though. He knew they were still in danger. They will be for the next month. Nevertheless, this night was doing a number on him. This was the night he lost everyone in his family.

20 years ago.

On school nights, Gaara was allowed to stay up for as long as he wanted. The same way as Temari and Kankurou did as well. The only rule was that they couldn't watch T.V. and that once it was time to get-up it was time to get-up. He thought it was the best thing in the world and since he was a night owl, it really wasn't a problem for him. Being eight and staying up for as long as you wanted was a dream come true. However, that night he outright told them he was tired and went to bed early. It was around nine. However, that wasn't the case with Gaara tonight. He lays awake waiting for his parents to close their door for the night. His room was across the hall from his parents, but his window faced the front of the house. He slipped out the window without a problem. It wasn't latched and he could open it without any trouble. Gaara never did follow the rules and wanted to do things his way. Therefore, for the past couple of months he had been sneaking out. He always went to his friend Nagato's house. He was about a year and a half older than Gaara, but they were best friends. Nagato was actually Gaara's first real friend. They stayed up in the tree house that was in Nagato's backyard and played all sort of games. It wasn't until around three when he left. When he got home, it was four. He would've then gone to sleep to get his normal two hours of sleep. His parents told him how unhealthy it was for him not to get enough sleep, but it didn't seem to affect his health or his schoolwork, but it resulted in dark rings around his eyes. He laid in bed for a while, but as he drifted off to sleep, he heard the sound of chimes.

They sounded faint and almost foreign to his ears. At first, he thought his mind was playing tricks on him, but then he heard them again. He got up, leaned against his door, and heard their twinkling sound. Something didn't feel right about it. He eased his door open and saw light in the hall coming from his parents, Kankurou, and Temari's room. Temari's door was opened while the others were closed. That wasn't the weird part though. In the hall laid a pistol. Gaara knew about guns. His father liked to go hunting sometimes, but the weapon before him didn't belong to his father. He heard a noise coming from Kankurou's room and figured that the source of the noise was still in there. There wasn't any screaming or crying going on and had he thought about what the sounds actually meant he would've frozen or not even have the mind to act, but he focused on the weapon in his hand and what needed to be done.

Without his mother knowing, Gaara's father taught him how to shoot. It was extreme, but his father always told him it was never too early for a young boy like Gaara to learn how to fire a weapon. His parents knew that Gaara was different from most kids. He was a bright kid and a genius with a socially awkward personality. He always thought outside the box and had a way of figuring out problems in the easiest and shortest way possible. He wasn't interested in the normal things like eight-year-old boys were. He liked crime and mystery novels. He always seemed to have a mind of a detective. When Gaara's father told him that he wanted to teach Gaara how to shoot his mother flipped her lid saying Gaara was too young to be exposed to such an extreme thing. So in secret his dad taught him.

With the pistol in his hand, he slowly opened his parent's room. They were lying in bed all bloody. Shot in their sleep. He felt his heart beat faster, taking in the sight. The eerie silence of the room filled with chimes. He went back into the hallway breathing slowly and holding onto the pistol. Getting closer to Kankurou's room the chimes still rang into the night. He opened his brother's room and saw the same scene from his parents. Amazingly, he didn't scream or freeze up. It was almost as if he knew what to expect. The last room left was Temari's, the only place where the intruder might be. Stepping into the doorway, he saw her body. Temari was lying on the floor dead. She was worse than dead. The sight was gruesome enough that Gaara wished that he could go blind. To unsee the scene before him. He also wished for death so that he may reunite with the family that was forced to leave him behind. Over her body was the killer, he rang the chimes with their taunting melody. As the melody faded, the killer looked up at Gaara. His face was a twisted smile and his eyes as dark as the night. He looked over at Gaara with a sinister smile on his face. His voice rough and menacing, "Ha! This beautiful creature right here told me you were gone to a friend's place for the week. " He lets out a crooked laugh.

Had he known that Gaara was coming back, he would've waited in his room. Even with her life on the line, Temari had the mind of saving her young brother with a lie. She died in hopes that Gaara may live. As he stood, Gaara stood in shooting-stance. His heart was beating fast. He felt the pistol and his body shake while his target stood in front of him. Slowly taking a step toward Gaara, the killer said. "I can't wait to even kill your unborn family too. It'll be a great pleasure." It was as if the killer knew that he was going to die. That's when Gaara fired. The first shot sounded like thunder cracking in his ears. Despite the trembling, the shot hit the killer and he fell over. As his brain was on autopilot, he fired repeatedly at the body of the killer. He heard nothing just seeing the body suffer the wounds of the bullets.

There was no memory of him going to the den and getting one of his father's guns. Gaara wanted to end his life. He realized that if he did Temari's death would be in vain. She died in hopes that he would survive and he couldn't let his life end in such a cowardly way. He heard the sirens that the gunshots had alerted. There they found an eight-year old boy on his knees and crying.

Sakura had been on the computer. There was actually a way for her to be able to read Kabuto's journal that the police found years back. Least to say some of things that he wrote was gruesome. Her facial expression was pale from all the details she had been reading. "You're family should've been the third not fourth. He meant to kill another family and then yours." She tells him. He didn't understand what she said, but it got him on alert. "Your family was supposed to be third, but there was a police cruiser on your street and he got spooked. He went to another place instead. Thirty-three days later he came back for your family." Gaara feels unease. Almost as if, there is a sniper with a gun to his back. Trigger just begging to be pulled. Sakura's eyes widen. "If we are third, then we don't have until December. We have thirteen days." She looks at him with worry in her eyes. "Then why is he going back the first order?" She asks him. "Its something he wants to do. He wants to do it like it should've been done in the first place." Sakura didnt seem to get it. "What? Care to explain that." She asks him. "It's a serial killer thing. Its something that we and even they cant understand." She shakes her hand brain rattling. "But today out of all days. Today it was twenty years ago," she says trying to figure out her thinking process. "If he can change the order and make us third then that means he can change the day. This day could even a bigger victory for him." Little does Sakura know that she is right because the threat is waiting for them right inside.

Tenten hears the sound of the target couple. She remains outside the door to listening to the strained voices. She feels the master giving a smile knowing that his victims at least making this a game for him. A game that he hasn't been able to play with all the other families that he killed. The sound of shuffling in the room the voices continues and Tenten continues her journey to kitchen. Reaching the kitchen, she sees all the nice sharp objects that the house possessed. Kind of a dangerous place for a child to be, but its no matter the child won't ever have to face this kind of danger, she thinks to herself. She makes a smile. The same smile she made when her dark side is about to come out. She grabs a cleaver that she finds while searching in the kitchen. Perfect. However, since the master didn't have a hold onto her she needs his help in locating the everyone in the house.

Hinata and Naruto came back before Tenten even made it into the house. When they got home, they heard Sakura and Gaara's voices. In hopes that they were patching things up they left the two alone and went to the East Wing of the house. After settling down Hinata felt something. Something wrong and evil. Naruto notices her change in behavior. "Hey are you okay?" he asks her. "Something bad is going to happen." Hinata says. "Did something happen?" She shakes her head. "It's the house. Something is in the house and it wants to get us." She says. "What exactly is in the house?" Naruto has a feeling he understands what Hinata is talking about, but he was hoping the exact opposite. "I have a name for it. Its called Devastation." "Um, what? Are you kidding or something?" Hinata looks at him. "Naruto this isn't something I would play about. Especially with the experiences I have been having." She holds onto a dream catcher she made within a dream. It puzzled her at first when she woke up and found it in her arms, but she dared not questioned it. "Where did you get that?" Naruto asks pointing at the catcher. "From a dream and before you say anything, don't question it just accept it. We are going to need this tonight at all time." He scratches his head, looking at her. "Hinata, sometimes I swear you are creepy." She laughs at him. "Oh please, its one of the many things you love about me."

Back in the mini-library, Sakura kept the computer on an entry from the journal. Gaara reaches in the drawer for his extra hidden pistol. Sakura too began getting another from a cabinet where it is well hidden. Some files seem to have fallen out as well. Sakura has a guilty look on her face. "Are those what I think they are?" Gaara asks. "Yes, they are." Sakura says without shame. The files were the cases that Tsunade gave to her. "Why am I not surprised." He says. "It was to be expected." She says smiling at him with mischievous eyes. She cocks the pistol in her hand. Gaara seeing her with a gun and with her bulging belly nearly fainted. She isn't the meek girl he thought she was. With her pregnancy glow, the fierce look on her face and with that devious smile she looked like a warrior ready to fight. "Admire the scene later. There is something we need to do first." Gaara nods at the statement. "Hey where are Naruto and Hinata? They completely abandoned us this morning?" She asks. "I think I heard them come in earlier so probably in their rooms." He says. "We need to stay together. Its wants us apart from each other. But sadly its not going to get what its wants." Gaara says. Sakura starts handing him some shell cases. "Before I forget this I need to give you something." Gaara reaches under the rug that the computer desk stood on. Under there was a compartment. He opens it, pulls out a bulletproof vest, and hands it to her. "Gaara-" She starts, but she is cut off. "Sakura, for once do what I say. Since you won't leave, I want to make sure that you and our baby are as safe as I can get you. Do you understand?" Sakura reluctantly takes the vest. "Gaara you need it more than I do. After all, its you that he is after." Sakura says. Gaara looks at her. Her eyes filled with fire and worry at the same time. He places a hand on her cheek. "I don't care. Naruto, Hinata, you and this baby are my number one priority. I'm protecting this family with all my might even if it means putting myself in danger." Sakura was about to protest, but she is silenced by the kiss Gaara places on her lips. "End of discussion." He says helping her put on the vest.

In the quiet of the room suddenly filled with a singer's voice. It wasn't just any voice it was Ino's. Her voice was coming from the computer speakers. They look over at the computer. The monitor no longer had Kabuto's journal, but a picture of Gaara's mother, then his father. "What is going on?" Sakura asks. Gaara's father disappeared and next was Kankurou and Temari. The pictures rotated in big blurs. The screen was showing old photos from graduation to prom, to graduation to medical school, to graduation from the police academy. Then the screen when blank, but Ino's voice still fills the room. Then pictures of Naruto and Hinata flash on the screen. Gaara and Sakura pictures next. Lastly, the final picture with the gang at the beach flashes up. "Its happening." Gaara says. "Yeah. Well we are finishing it." Sakura says.

Honestly, I thought it would've been ending this fanfic by now. However, Im not :P. Shocker. I promise to finish this one up by the middle of March…maybe. Secret Life of Teenage Thief is reopened do me a favor and at least vote if you aren't going to review.