Dances I'm so happy! This chapter's gonna be fun! A little warning, this chapter'll have a bit of Tem/Sas. I know, I'm a nut!
Disclaimer: Naruto and basically everything in this story isn't mine!
Ghosts
Gaara's POV
I'm walking back to the school, Temari's next to me. "Hey, raccoon," Yeah, that's the nickname my sister gave me, it used to be panda but now, to my pleasure, it's not.
"Hm?" I look at her.
"I'm just guessing, but is Naruto your roommate?"
"Urm…no…" I scratch the back of my head.
"Then who is?"
"Sakura…" I mutter.
"Ok, either that's a girl or it's a gender confused boy." She grabs the back of my hoodie and pulls me around. "Which is it?"
"It's a…girl…"
"They put a boy with a girl?! What the hell is that?!"
"Naruto's with Demeter…and it's a long story as to why that is." I try to get her hand off my hoodie.
"Oh God! At least you're not the perverted type of guy, and I'm not letting go." She smirks.
I glare at her, "Fine, be that way!" I pull my arms out of the sleeves and pull the hoodie off. Under it is a black hand-me-down long sleeve with a white wolf with red eyes on it.
"Ooo, cleaver. But, my dear baby brother, you have just made yourself more vulnerable." My sister grins.
"More vulnerable to what?" I cock my head.
"To this," She starts to tickle my stomach.
"Hey……STOP……IT!" I shout between laughs. One if my many problems, I'm extremely ticklish.
"No," She giggles as I fall to the grass. She continues to tickle me.
An unknown deep voice questions, "Temari?"
"Huh?" She says, stopping and looking up. I take a breath, whip a tear out of my eye, and look up to see a guy, maybe two years older than Temari. His hair is a little lighter than mine and he has light black eye liner, his eyes are a pale brown. He's wearing strait black jeans and a loosely fitting gray T-shirt. "Oh my God, is that really you?" She exclaims then jumps up and stands in front of him. "Oh my God, it IS you!" She smiles then throws her arms around the guys neck.
"Jeez Temari, I haven't seen you since you were twelve!" He smiles, returning the hug.
"HEY! WHO ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU HUGGING MY SISTER!?!?!" I shout, feeling Shukaku rearing his ugly head.
I'm not ugly! I'm fluffy and cute!
Whatever!"Oh! Right," Temari lets go of the stranger and smiles, "this is Sasori, I've known him since is was like…three. And Sasori, this is my other little brother, Gaara."
"Isn't he the holder of that fluff ass Shukaku?" The guy that I-don't-like-because-he-had-his-hands-on-my-big-sister's-ass says.
"Yeah, he is. But that doesn't matter! What are you doing here anyway?" Temari asks.
"Collage, I take it you're here for something with the kid." Sasori points at me with the underside of his finger pointing up.
"Mhm, he's stubborn so it has to do with one of the little brats' classes." She comes back over to me and says, "Go back to school, ok?"
"Fine." I grumble, standing up and putting my hoodie back on. I glare at the guy then head back on my own.
I don't like that guy…Neither do I, but he was the best puppet master in all of the Land of Wind.
I care why?I don't know, just saying.
You know how old he is? I think he's twenty-one.Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
In my metal ranting, I ended up walking in a circle; I'm back to where Temari tickle attacked me. Temari and Sasori are still there, but they aren't reminiscing about the past, oh no! Temari's up against a tree and Sasori's arms are wrapped around her middle while her arms are around his neck. Their lips are locked together.
I feel my jaw drop. I want to shout 'HEY, GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY SISTER!!!' but my voice box isn't responding.
WHAT'D I DO?!Nothing you little fool, leave 'em alone. Temari doesn't want her little brother to interrupt her making out.
But…but…NO, just leave.
Oh fine…I turn around and silently run the other way. I run into someone, of cores. This time, I'm not face down in Demeter's breasts; instead I'm just face to face with her. "I've really got to stop running into you like this." I feel my face heating up.
"Yeah," She also turns red.
She doesn't smell scared of you, if Kotonashi DID tell her, she must be disregarding it.
I get up then help her up. "Thanks, what were you running from?" She asks, walking over to the water's edge. The creek opens up a lot from the icky spot. She turns to the side and looks at me, her hair sweeping over her face.
"I saw something I really wish I hadn't." I stand in front of her.
She looks raises an eyebrow, "What did you see?"
"I saw my sister making out with some guy that I don't know."
"Ew, that's something no one wants to walk in on." She slightly grins.
"Be quiet," I knock her on the head playfully.
She smiles and winks. Her braces must have been changed, now they're red and purple. I turn and face the creek, crossing my arms. "When did you get the new colors?"
"Huh? Oh, Wednesday. Now my teeth hurt a little, but I'll get used to them." She's watching the water too. "Uh, Gaara?"
I look at her, "Yeah?"
"I'm sorry for what my stupid brother did. He's over protective and didn't want me to get real close to any boys. He saw what you did." Our eyes meet.
I remember that kissed her forehead, "Oh, it's fine. I'm used to people glare daggers at me."
"You would be with the Shukaku—OOPS!" She slams her hands over her mouth. Her eyes are full of fear.
Knew that was coming.
"I-I didn't m-mean t-to…P-please—"
I cut her off, "I won't kill you if that's what you were going to ask me not to do."
"No…I was going to ask you not to be mad at me. I didn't mean for that to blurt out so loudly. If you think I'm going to be scared off just because you have a demon inside you, you're wrong. I may look like I'm afraid of my own shadow, but I'm a lot braver than I act and look." She sounds convincing, so I'm happy.
"Good, I'm tired of people being afraid of me because of fluff butt in my head."
She giggles, "Fluff butt?"
"Yes, he has a very fluffy tail so I sometimes call him fluff butt."
Demeter giggles again, "You're so weird."
"Shut up, you're not normal either!" I smirk at her.
"I never said I was," She puts her hands behind her back and rocks on the balls of her feet. "I'm just as weird, I call baby ants eenymiers." (Pronounced ee-knee-my-ers)
"Well that's interesting." I turn to her, cup her chin and whisper, "So you're not afraid of me because of Shukaku?"
"Of cores not. Why would I be? Everyone thinks that Shukaku's a bloodthirsty beast, but that's stereotypical. He has a humanoid form and only gets all evil and what not when someone angers him, right?"
"Yeah, how did you-" She puts a finger on my lips to silence me.
"It doesn't matter, Gaara. Don't worry about it." She whispers as her cheeks tint red.
I nod and she removes her finger. She turns and faces the creek again. We stay silent for a while. I sigh, "What did Anko want?"
"Oh, that," She looks at me, "I'm very stubborn, and I don't like the girls' gym uniform. The uniform is short shorts and a tank top. That's far too revealing for my taste. Anko offered for me to wear the boys' uniform, still too much skin showing. So I'm stuck in sweat pants and a sweatshirt. Not only that, but I have to take extra gym classes every Sunday at ten in the morning with the gym teacher you have! Anko is too lazy to wake up that early on a Sunday morning!!!" The girls' teeth are clenched and her chest is heaving.
"Whoa, calm down psycho girl. You won't be the only one in that extra class, I'm stuck in it too." I chuckle at her sudden out burst. Demeter is sometimes like a volcano, you never know when she's gonna go insane. It's actually pretty funny when she does, because she's normally quiet except when she's around me.
"You are? Why? I thought boys loved gym." She raises an eyebrow.
"I don't, I've always hated exercise. It's a wonder that I'm not another Choji. And you also won't be the only person with the sweat suit, I've got it too."
"Again, why?"
I click my tongue.
Should I tell her?
Hey, she knows about me, why not?
I sigh, "If you really want to know, I'm kind of under weight by a lot. Not only that, but I've got a lot of scars and all kinds of shit like that on my arms, legs, stomach, chest, and back. It's not that I'm accident-prone. I was…abused, physically, mentally, and…sexually," I whispered that last part. I look up at Demeter, her eyes are closed and tears are coming out of them. "Hey, why are you crying?" I ask, lifting her chin again. She turns her head away from me. "What's wrong?"
You are such a foolish boy…
A new voice whispers in my head. It's a female, and she has a slight German accent.
Who're you?
No answer.
That was weird…
"Demeter, what's wrong?" I whisper while turning her head towards me. "Please tell me."
She opens her eyes, "It's nothing," She whispers in a surprisingly steady voice. With the back of my hand, I caress her cheek. Her face heats up and looks like my hair does. She faints, I catch her.
Whoa boy…Help me out here!
Take her under a tree, in the shade.
Uhh, right.
I move my one arm so it's about at her shoulder blades, then I slide my other arm under her knees. I lift her up with great ease.
She's light…too light…
Demeter's POV
Moan W-where am I? W-what happened?
You passed out dearie.
Oh…
My eyes are closed; the smell of grass is all around me. There's two more smells, one is the smell of a weeping willow, the other is a males' scent. But not just any male, it was Gaara's. I slowly open my eyes; I'm in the shade. I slowly sit up. "Glad to see you're finally awake." Gaara's voice fills my ears.
I turn my head and see him sitting against the tree trunk, "How long was I out?"
"Hm," He shrugs, "a good two hours, what happened to you?"
Gaara's POV
"Well," She begins, "I guess…I just pasted out from lack of sleep…"
"What? Naruto told me you go to bed every night, what do you mean 'lack of sleep?'" I ask, a little harsher than I intended.
Demeter doesn't cringe, but she moves to hugging her knees, "Just because I lay in bed doesn't mean I'm asleep."
"But why not?"
She looks at me, "Let's just say I have…nightmares…really bad nightmares. They're so bad that I can't even bare to fall asleep and have one of those horrible videos playing in my mind."
"So have you slept once since you've been here?" I ask. I think Temari was right, I think I do have a…crush on her because I'm truly concerned about her.
"The last good nights sleep I've had was in late October, and that was only from passing out…" She looks at me. "You don't get much sleep either, right?"
"Yes, but my reason is because Shukaku doesn't shut up at night. Either that or I get flashbacks that wake me up." I stand up, and then sit down on my knees next to her, putting my hand on her back. "But what do you mean by nightmares?"
"Well, sometimes there are beasts in there that make Shukaku looks like a fluffy little rabbit. Or other times, they're just really odd. The nightmares are like things that…people in psycho wards think of…sometimes I think I should be in one of those farms (1) in the happy room with a strait jacket on."
You and me both…"Demeter, you aren't crazy like that. You're not mentally ill, if either of us has to be in that place, it should be me."
Great, now I just scared her right?
Maaaaaaaybe.
"You're not nuts, you just had a nutty life. It's not like you murdered when you were six…" She looks away.
Apparently, this girl never got out much if she doesn't know what I've done. I sigh, "What if I told you…I did do that?"
"Well, then most people would say you were deranged. I won't say that because not many six year olds do that just because they want to, you would have to have a reason. An average six year old doesn't have the mental capacity to understand what true black hatred is, the thing that triggers the yearning feeling for killing with out a thought. Of cores, you probably weren't a normal six year old…but…Basically, I don't think you're insane, you're too nice for that." She's still not making eye contact.
I wonder…is she really just like me? Did she kill someone when she was six because he was sent to kill her?
Dunno, maybe.
"Uh………thanks…Hey, Dem."
Now she looks at me, "Hm?"
"I think…you should go to the nurse, she probably has some kind of dreamless sleeping thing that I think you really need."
"No, I don't want anyone else to know about my sleeping problem," She whispers.
Now it's about ten at night, I'm wearing my nightclothes and sitting in the small lounge. Guess who walks in. I look up at her, "Random question, do you own any girl clothes?"
Demeter sits down next to me, "Um…other than the school uniform, underwear, and bras…no." She blushes. "Why?"
"Just wondering," I shrug.
From upstairs, we can hear an argument, "WHAT'S WRONG WITH RAMEN?!?!?!" That would be Naruto.
"EVERYTHING YOU LOSER!!!" I think that's the younger Uchiha.
"RAMEN HATER!"
"IDIOT!"
"COKKATOO HEAD!"
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSE TO MEAN?!"
"IT MEANS YOUR HEAD LOOKS LIKE A COKKATOO, YOU FAGGOT!" I think that's Hinata.
She must be mad.
Sweet…
"WHO'RE YOU CALLING A FAGGOT, YOU BLUE HAIRED WHORE?!"
"WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL MY FRIEND?!" Ah, now it is, Tenten is involved now!
"HE CALLED HER A BLUE HAIRED WHORE, BUN HEAD!" Ooo, that's a tuffy…um…I think that's I don't know who that is…
"YOU BETTER SHUT UP, MAN-WOMAN!" Ok, that was just Sakura. The guy before her was Deidara; he looks like a male form of Ino but with darker hair.
"EEEEEEENOUGH!" Ok, that's Anko. Every night she goes thru the house and makes sure all the students are here. "I'm missing two kids, any of you guys seen them?"
"Do you mean the candy ass haired faggot and the little weakling girl?" Sasuke asks. "I think they're downstairs or something."
In a minute, Anko appears at the archway, "Good, thought I lost you two."
"Anko, what the hell was going on up there?" I ask, tilting my head.
"No clue," She leaves.
"Well, all righty then…" Demeter mutters.
I take her arm and pull her closer, then wrap my arms around her like I did this morning. She curls up in my arms. I can't help to grin at her innocents. After a while, she's asleep.
Well then, I see that she truly is at ease while I'm around…
I fall asleep too.
NEXT MORNING!
It's ten twenty, both Demeter and me are in the gym, running around it with Guy ginning stupidly. "You two youths are very fast for people that never participate in this class!"
Yeah whatever weirdo…I roll my eyes and continue to run. Demeter's only a little bit behind me. Whenever my father let me out of my rat hole room, it was at night. I would leave the house and run my brains out. That was really the only thing that'd calm me down; I would run even if I had large gashes on both my legs. So, I'm really fast. It's amazing that she's keeping up.
After another hour of other exercise things, Anko walks in. "For the finally part of today's extra class, you'll be having a fight with the tenth grade's top student, Sasuke Uchiha." The Uchiha walks in, wearing the gym uniform. "Now, since Demeter Ice comes before Gaara Sabaku in alphabetical order, she'll go this week while Gaara goes next week."
"Please, I could cream both of them in ten minutes," Uchiha smirks at Demeter.
SPEAK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ HUH?!
Ha!
He goes over and stands in the middle of the gym, Demeter stands up from the bleachers we're sitting on. She stands across from him, looking completely relaxed. "Ok, here're the rules!" Guy shouts, "You can do pretty much anything, Nin-jutsu, Gen-jutsu, or Tai-jutsu. The only TRUE rule is, don't try to kill each other, I'll stop the match if it gets to gruesome looking! Begin when ever you're ready."
Sasuke grins at her, "Listen, I'll go easy on you because you're so weak."
"Fine by me, it only makes my job easier," She tucks her hair behind her ear.
"Whatever," He closes his eyes then reopens them, "Sharingan!" His eyes are now red. "Now anything you do, I'll see it!"
"Doubt it."
He growls, then runs at her, throwing three shurikens at her. She doges them easily, she's now facing me, standing slightly in front of where Sasuke was. Her expression is the same as mine is while I'm fighting, bored. She puts her hand behind her back and when it's in front of her, there're three needles in between her fingers. She throws them and Sasuke cries out in pain.
There's a needle in his left wrist, one in his side, and one on his leg. Demeter smirks, "Since I'm not aloud to kill you, I'll didn't hit three vital areas."
Sasuke glares at her, "I'm not about to lose to an eighth grader!" He pulls the needles out. The one that was in his wrist bleeds a lot.
Demeter's eyes widen and she starts to shake. With her left hand, she grips the side of her head and snarls, "Let's finish this!" She closes her eyes. When they open again, her eyes look like they belong to either a dead person or a porcelain doll. She tilts her head a bit, Uchiha passes out. She blinks and her eyes are back to normal.
I stare wide-eyed at what I just saw.
What did she just do?
I can't believe it! That jutsu, it's…it can't be!
What?
That jutsu she just did, it's called Glass Eye, and it's a form of Gen-jutsu. What it does varies from male to female. To girls it scares the hell out of them, she doesn't blink and I guess you could say she looks like something from a Horror movie. To guys, it hypnotizes them; she becomes in their eyes the most beautiful thing in the world. That jutsu takes YEARS to master, even for a demoness! The only way a thirteen-year-old girl could have mastered it is if her demon is the one that developed it! The only problem is, I don't remember which one did!
You…never mind…
Anko's standing there with her mouth hanging open, "Oh my God…that's not…what are you playing at?!"
Demeter looks at her, still gripping her head, "W-what?"
"That's not possible! How old are you?!"
"T-thirteen?"
"Whoa!"
"Damn, that was great, I didn't know you were that…tough!" I smirk after the class, she's wearing black jeans and a red boys' long sleeve. I'm in black cargos and a black hoodie; really I don't have many articles of clothing! She blushes. "But I still have one question, why did you do the 'I drank my slushie too fast' thing?"
"The what?" She gives me a weird look.
"Uh…I do that and my sister calls it that when she's not talking to me, I hear it. So why?"
"Er…I'm a hemophobic, o-or I'm afraid of blood." I think she's lying, she stuttered. I'm not pestering her about it though.
Wednesday
Eighth period, History with Kurenai. Class just started, and I'm already bored as ever. I already know all the junk we're learning about.
At least Kurenai's hott.
Whatever.
Kurenai has blacking grayish hair; I think she's the second youngest teacher in the school, the youngest being the computer teacher Kabuto. Her eyes are red and she always wears a little bit of purple eye makeup. She's mostly every students favorite teacher, the girls like her because she has the 'older sister' like image. As for the boys, welllllll she's always wearing low cut dresses and shirts, need I go on?
HOTT!
Urg…
Anyway, there's a rumor that Kurenai and the seventh, eighth, and ninth grade history teacher, Asuma, are dating. Boohoo… A sudden chill goes up my spine. I turn around in my seat. Standing behind Sasuke Uchiha is a creature. The creature is white and see thru, it's female. She's wearing a long eighteen sixties style dress. Her hair's down and she's smirking.
What's she doing here?!
The ghost waves and her smirk turns into a smile. I notice Sasuke looking at me so I turn back around.
Sasuke's POV
Little, faggot, what the hell were you looking back at me for? The candy haired fag boy turns around and, when I look right at him, he whips back around. His eyes resembled what deer's look like in headlights.
He's hott, I mean really hott. I bet it'd be great to screw ya.
He glance's back again, I smirk at him. His face turns red and he turns back around. He's probable imagining me without my shirt on, the dirty little boy. I bet he's got the hots for me, why doesn't he just join the 'Sasuke Fan Club?' Faggot. I feel myself hardening in my pants.
Oh man, I hate school, I want him now!
Gaara's POV
I bet that Sasuke thinks you're crushing on him.
And he calls me a faggot…
Why do people call each other bundles of sticks?
Not sure.
It's hard for me to focus while a ghost that I've known since I was six is in the room for no apparent reason. I start to rub my temples, frustrated at the ghost of a seventeen-year-old Irish girl named Erin. I turn and glance at her again. She bobs her head happily, knowing that it makes me mad. Sasuke makes eye contact with me again; he brushes his fingers under the desk, no doubt on a bulge in his pants.
God…
When class is over, I stand up and, just before I make it to the ghost girl, Sasuke gets in front of me. He's taller than me, like mostly everyone else in the school. "Hey, faggot, why were you looking at me all class?"
"That's none of your business, now move!" I snarl.
"I think you were because I interest you, isn't that right faggot?"
"No, I hate you, now get out of my way." I try to stay calm as the demon half of me starts to get antsy.
"Lie all you want, but I know the truth."
"If you knew the truth, then you wouldn't be in my way." Too late, she's gone. I push past him and leave the room.
The math wing is in the basement, so when I get to the main floor, I'm across from the art wing. Naruto and Ino have art class together, they come out of the wing looking like they…well like they just saw a ghost. "Naruto, Ino, what happened?"
"Shhhhh! Too many people!" Ino shushes.
"Yeah, Gaara could you round the others up and meet up in my dorm?" Naruto asks.
"Sure? But Demeter won't be there, she has a detention with this bitchy history sub that has a spiked stick on fire up her ass." By others, Naruto means the other people in our little 'group.' It's me, Ino, Naruto, Sakura, Kiba, Hinata, Demeter, and Tom Dpoi; we call ourselves 'the click with out a name.' Creative isn't it?
When everyone is rounded up, we're all sitting somewhere in Naruto's room. Sakura's on Demeter's bed with her legs under her, Hinata's on the edge of the same bed, and Ino's laying on her stomach there too. I'm leaning against the wall with my arms crossed over my chest, Naruto's sitting Indian style on his bed, Kiba's sitting at his desk chair backwards, and Tom's sitting on Naruto's bed with his elbows resting on his knees.
"Ok, why were you all white faced?" I ask.
Sakura's the first to speak, "Well…I saw something in computer class. I-I was doing my work when I saw a crazy looking woman, all white; h-her hair was like she had her finger in an electrical outlet. She had a wicked grin on. Tom, you saw her too right?!"
Tom nods, "But I think we were the only two that did."
"Ok, what about you Hinata?" I look at her.
She gulps, "Ok, Kiba and I saw a man that looked like he was burned to death. He was all gray and was glaring at us thru out all math class." Kiba nods in agreement.
"Naruto, Ino, you guys are last." I see Naruto's face turning greenish.
"Ok…" Ino starts, "I was cleaning paint brushes in the sink. I was letting the sink fill up with water. I looked down and saw…I saw a little boy in the water!" She starts shaking madly. "H-he had blonde hair and brown eyes, but there were bubbles coming out of his mouth like he was being drowned!"
"Yeah, I saw a shadow of a boy playing with a ball on the wall." Naruto mumbles. "What about you? Did you see anything?"
I click my tongue, "Well, yeah, but it didn't really scare me. I don't matter. Are there any…old buildings around Konoha?"
"Yeah, there're like…four or five. There's an old hospital that went under in the twenties, an old Hospital for the Criminally Insane that went down around the same time, a Maximum Security Jail that went bankrupt or something in the seventies, and…I think there's a factory too." Kiba explains.
"Then that's it. That's where these things came from." I say matter-of-factly. "The ones Ino and Naruto saw were from the hospital, Sakura and Tom saw one from the mental place, and Kiba and Hinata saw one from the jail."
"One what?" Ino asks, cocking an eyebrow.
"A ghost of cores, I saw one from the factory. I say we investigate these places."
"I'm in," Kiba puts his hand up with a grin.
"Same here believe it!" Naruto shouts.
"Why not?" Tom grins.
Hinata bites her lower lip, "Oh alright, as long as I can be with Kiba."
Sakura nods, "If I can be with Tom, I'm in."
Ino bobs her head, thinking it over, "I guess I wouldn't kill me, if I can be with Naruto I'll be happy."
I nod, "Then it's unanimous, we are checking these things out."
A day in a half to do this! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!! Don't ask… Please R&R!