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Matsuri Vs. Hannah

CRACK! is the sound that filled the air as Hannah dodged to the side, her breath calm as she faced a ragged Matsuri with small tendrils of sweat coming down her face. This wasn't training, this was a battle, and even Hannah couldn't pretend that this was just a small envy anymore. Matsuri had called her after Hannah was done with her portion of the paperwork, and Gaara was still back at the office. Matsuri had said it was only to be a little warm up spar, but she had other intentions when she had brought out her Johyo.

Hannah did the only thing that came to her mind when she saw Matsuri pull out that weapon, she ran towards the woods were she was most comfortable. She knew enough about fan-girls, since they stalked her brother, and Matsuri was a fan-girl. Therefore, Hannah ran, and dove towards the trees only to be chased by Matsuri who had been grinning then in confidence. The only reason she accepted the stupid offer was to patch things up with Matsuri, so she didn't attack, and so she wouldn't hate her. Too late for that plan.

'Damn Matsuri's mad! What the heck did I do now?' Hannah asked herself mentally knowing that if she said it aloud Matsuri would just scream a profanity at her. She ran towards the deeper part of the woods with Matsuri trailing behind her.

'Maybe if I can get her to talk she'll tell me why?' Hannah thought as she flung herself to the side just as a whizzing past by her knowing that was the needle tip of Matsuri's weapon.

Hannah, growing up with sisters and a brother, knew what to do when you pissed somebody off. Especially when you didn't want them to kill you, or call you a chicken for not fighting back. So she ran at a pace to keep Matsuri on her trail, and to keep herself at a nice, safe distance. She ran left, right and kept back tracking, so this put Matsuri off a little as she chased Hannah through the woods, getting more frustrated that she couldn't catch her already.

"Okay Matsuri-" Hannah began, as she twisted a bit and dodged a throw of kunai, "I know that Gaara put his arm around my waist last night, but-" Matsuri growled and tossed some more kunai, but once again missed as Hannah twisted and ducked, "It doesn't mean that you can go crazy and try to kill me!" Hannah finished as Matsuri laughed almost hysterically because Hannah didn't even know half of it.

"You think I'm mad about just that! Ha, I'm mad that Gaara pays more attention to you than me, his student!" Matsuri screamed with and unleashed a snarl as she ran after Hannah once more pouring charka into her legs in order to keep up with the girls speed.

"I'm mad that he smiles and laughs around you more than me, his friend!" She screamed and watched as Hannah danced due to her whipping her Johyo forcing the girl behind a tree.

With another flick of her wrist and a snap of her arm, she threw her Johyo outward. She smirked as it wrapped around the tree sure it trapped Hannah but the Jounin had leapt forward. Diving out of the way as the Johyo's point imbedded itself into the tree right were Hannah's arm would have been. Hannah let out a shaky breath at the sight before she took off one more as Matsuri snarled and began to unwind it from the tree.

"I'm mad because you just show up out of nowhere and Gaara instantly sees you! It took me months before he even really talked to me other than to give me orders!" Matsuri screamed her heart hurting as she admitted the truth about her relationship with Gaara as Hannah ran for cover once more.

Hannah was forced back out of the woods, as she made her way towards the middle of the field, 'no cover, not good' Hannah thought as her mouth found itself set into a grim line and tried to reason once again.

"Look I'm his best friend-" Hannah started trying desperately to explain to Matsuri about her own relationship to the flaming Kazekage only to be cut off by said girl.

"Oh here it is again! 'I'm his best friend!' Well little miss perfect, where were you when he almost died?!" Matsuri screeched her questioned stunning Hannah enough to have enough time to lash out at her. She didn't hit Hannah since she had jerked out of the way but it still surprised Hannah to no end that Matsuri had brought something like that up.

"I was on a different mission, I didn't know-" Hannah stammered to explain since she was hurt my Matsuri's words. She was never there for Gaara when he needed her but this time she had a legit reason not to be.

"Exactly you didn't know! You probably don't care! In fact you're probably just here on a mission for the Hokage," Matsuri shouted as she marched toward the still retreating Hannah whose eyes flashed in anger for a brief moment at the mention of her village. Matsuri didn't notice however since she was too busy patting herself on the back for that excellent statement.

"That's true I'm here for the Hokage, but on a request-" Hannah began anger building at her village being disgraced in front of her. It didn't bother her about being cut off she was use to it; her sisters usually cut her off all the time. She still loved them of course no matter what they did to her or others such as pranking their friends.

"Oh a request! Did it say to seduce the Kazekage? Or just to sleep with him, you slut!" Matsuri sneered her face twisted and contorted into a nasty snarl mixed with a smirk. Hannah bit back a laugh since the face didn't help the younger girls look, if anything it worsened it.

Hannah calmly shrugged before she twisted from some kunai before pulling a kunai of her own in order to protect herself from those she couldn't dodge. Matsuri growled her anger swallowing her while Hannah was just glad she stopped making remarks against her village. She would rather have her name dragged threw the mud than have her village insulted right in front of her.

"Matsuri thank you! I rather not swear, so thank you for taking the words right out of my mouth!" Hannah shouted smiling smugly as she did so, knowing that it would make Matsuri pissed and of course, it did.

"Why you bitch!" Matsuri yelled almost in shock since Hannah hadn't really used any insults during the whole duration of the fight.

"I know YOU are but what am I?" Hannah challenged a smirk on her face as she laughed a little. While Matsuri got angrier at the remark, a five year old would make

'Susie I own you one, even though you're only four!' Hannah thought as she ran on with a mental shrug and a memory of her niece as she broke through the tree line once more.

Gaara had entered the training grounds just as Matsuri asked Hannah where she was when he had died for a moment. He saw the anger flash in Hannah's eyes at the mention of her village and heard her last remarks to Matsuri before she ran off. Gaara had decided that a good fight would help lower the tension by letting them get out their anger; although he would intervene when it got really bad. Mainly he figured that if Hannah and Matsuri fought then Matsuri would finally stop attacking them. So with a leap to the low branch of a nearby tree and the summoning of his Third Eye he watched as the fight progressed. Hannah had control of the fight from another person's point of view, but for some reason he still felt irritated at Matsuri for attacking Hannah without her being ready.

'She can do it, she has this under control.' Gaara thought as he tried to calm himself down. He wanted to fight, but was it because of Hannah or Matsuri? Gaara had a feeling it was Hannah, every time Hannah dodged a hit he felt relief rise in his chest, but that quickly vanish as another one came at her.

'What the hell is wrong with me? She has this under control!' Gaara thought with a mental shout at himself, as anger took over his emotions, until Hannah's voice rang out.

"Ha! Catch me if you can Matsuri! Hannah teased over her shoulder with a wild crazy grin etched on her almond face while Gaara felt déjà vu, until he remembered…

-Flashback-

"You can't catch me Gaara!" A five-year-old Hannah teased the same crazy wild grin on her face. They were playing tag though and so far, Gaara had been it for most of the game.

"Hannah, time out!" Gaara yelled with a huff as he sat down to catch his breath. He was a little surprised that his father hadn't taken Hannah away like everything else he had as said girl came over with a small smile toward the fallen redhead before her.

"Okay, hey is there something wrong?" Hannah asked her eyes full of what Gaara was pretty sure his uncle called concern. Gaara didn't really understand why though, he was tired sure, but other than that, he was fine.

"Yeah just a little tired." Gaara replied a little breathy as he smiled up at a still standing Hannah, who returned it with one of her own.

"That's good! At least you didn't sprain anything!" Hannah shouted her smile getting bigger and so did Gaara's. He had been so happy the past few days now that he finally had a friend!

"Hannah! It's time to come home!" Hannah's mom shouted waving an arm in the air as she called her daughter's name. Most people thought that she didn't care for her kid since she let her play with a monster. She didn't seem to care and the two friends didn't care either they didn't think Gaara was a monster at all.

"Well that's my mom, I better go!" Hannah muttered, with a pout sad that she had to leave and disappointed since they couldn't finish their game as she offered her hand to Gaara to help him up.

"I wish my mom was still alive," Gaara muttered a frown of his own developing although he wasn't sure why he said he just felt like he should tell her.

"Well I wish that my Grandma was too but you know what my mom tells me?" Hannah asked, a small smile on her lips as Gaara took her hand and together they pulled him up from off the ground.

"No, what?" Gaara curiosity playing in his warm cyan eyes as Hannah grinned her seashell pink lips pulling into one as though she was about to him a juicy secret only she knew.

"She says the people you love never truly die, because they're live here," Hannah said, and poked Gaara in the chest right over his heart and at that age Gaara knew what she meant…

"Well, I don't have a heart so she's not with me," Gaara said as though it was a simple fact known by everyone yet that didn't stop the hurt look that crossed his face or how the glow in his cyan eyes dimmed a little at the thought.

"That's silly! We all have hearts, even you do! If you didn't then we wouldn't be friends, and you wouldn't be alive!" Hannah shouted her young face marred with disbelief as she waved her small arms up and down in the air.

"How do you know?" Gaara asked a slight smile playing along the corners of his lips since he thought Hannah looked ridiculous doing that.

"Because every living thing has a heart of some kind that's what my mom tells me!" Hannah shouted once more before she turned as her mother yelled for her again. "I got to go, see you tomorrow Gaara!" Hannah shouted one last time as she with a grin before she waved him goodbye and ran off toward her mother.

"Bye!" Gaara called back and grinned knowing he would have to ask his uncle about the theory Hannah had told him later.

-End of Flashback-

Gaara smirked a little at the memory thinking about the comparisons and contrasts that the younger Hannah was to the older one. Many things were different about and for him sure but Hannah… he was almost positive that she hadn't changed. If Gaara was honest to himself as he leaped off the tree branch and onto another one in order to get a better view he was glad that she was the same. Everyone needed a constant in there life and so far Hannah was his.

"You little bitch! Get back here!" Matsuri shouted using more of her many, profanities that Gaara was starting to wonder were she learned them all as Hannah merely laughed.

"Well it takes one to know one! Wait I'm not one… so I have no idea where that leaves you!" Hannah laughed as she shouted over her shoulder knowing that lame comeback would only make her angrier.

"Oh, yeah! Well try this on for size…" Matsuri muttered to herself, and began to rapidly utilize hand seals while Hannah looked back confused by the sudden stop when she realized that Matsuri was signing. With a slight smirk, she moved her body weight on her left leg ready to run yet froze and shared Gaara look of surprise as Matsuri shouted.

"Fire Style: Fire Flame Jutsu!" Matsuri shouted a triumphant gleam in her eye as she snapped her right hand as fire shot out towards Hannah. Gaara looked towards Hannah knowing she was fast enough to dodge it.

'Move.' he thought as he watched but Hannah didn't, although she still had time to use a jutsu against it. 'Move!' he was practically shouting in his head now but she still she didn't move. Gaara watched from the safety of a tree as stared wide-eyed at the fire continued to come at her frozen solid. Hannah did nothing. 'MOVE!' he thought as his sand rustled noisily around his feet and finally she did. She closed her eyes.

'Close your eyes…' a voice that wasn't hers whispered in her mind. The voice was soothing and reassuring, and reminding Hannah of her mother's voice. However, Hannah had learned to never fully trust it. However, this voice had saved her life a hundred times, so Hannah decided to trust the voice once again. As she took a deep, breath gave a leap of faith and closed her eyes.

Matsuri didn't see it she was too busy trying to control the jutsu, which was going very slowly considering the size of it. Hannah didn't see it she never did; it was gone the very moment she opened her eyes. However, Gaara saw it; he saw just a moment before the fire hit, just before he was going to send out his sand. A large body of water that looked as intangible as mist and as solid yet wavering as a lake. It appeared in front of Hannah just as the fire jutsu hit, steam filled the air. Gaara didn't see Hannah's eyes twitch a little at the hissing noise yet they remain closed as the steam hissed in the air.

With a flash of her eyes, the shield died away and nothing was there, but Matsuri charged towards Hannah. As said girl prepared to run away that was until sand rushed forward. Soon a large circular wall of wall was up in front of Hannah to stop Matsuri's attack.

Matsuri continued to charge thinking that Hannah had somehow used a Genjutsu on her while there was still steam. Hannah smirked as Matsuri hit the wall of sand and realized that it was not a Genjutsu. Hannah prepared to run again but sand stopped her again, soon Hannah was incased on all sides of Gaara's sand, either it was to keep Matsuri out or to keep Hannah in, she wasn't sure.

"Stop!" Gaara voice rang out as he walked over to them; he didn't like the way Hannah had frozen or the fact that Matsuri had used a jutsu on her.

"It's about time Gaara!" Hannah shouted to Gaara as she sank to the ground in the middle of the sand wall. She was tired from running and had known Gaara was there the whole time. That was why she kept to the forest knowing that Gaara could stop the fight in case things got out of hand.

"G- Gaara! Hi! M-Me and Hannah were just havi-" Matsuri stammered trying to explain, and save herself but Gaara cut her off with an impatient wave of his hand.

"Matsuri… were did you learn that fire jutsu?" Gaara asked accusingly his beautifully colored eyes narrowing in confusion. He didn't teach Matsuri that technique, so someone had to.

"Sari was learning it and so when I trained with her, she taught it to me. I was going to show you but then that was the day that she came!" Matsuri explained ending with a spat and a glare at Hannah, who acted as if she couldn't hear what the younger girl had said.

"Hannah what happened?" Gaara asked turning to Hannah who finally stood up and moved through the sand easily. Gaara didn't need the sand to keep her from running right now.

"Matsuri called me here to do a warm up spar and she pulled out a weapon. We were only to do a hand-to-hand spar. I wasn't ready, then she proceeded to chase me and I evaded. Also you were hiding in that tree and I raced by that tree like twenty times and you did nothing." Hannah explained as she pointed to the very tree Gaara had concealed himself in while he was watching the fight.

Gaara sighed wearily pinching the brim of his nose with his thumb and forefinger, "I wanted you to fight because a good fight between two people can sometimes ease the tension when they release it in a less than nasty way." He muttered as he took his hand from his face to look at both the girls before him one indifferent while the other looked nervous.

"True and are we done yet? I want to go home." Hannah said simply as Gaara suppressed a smirk. Hannah just came out of a fight somewhat unscratched and now she was complaining that she was tired! That was one of the things Gaara found amusing about Hannah.

"No, one more fight, between you two and then you can go home." Gaara murmured since he didn't want this contest anymore. He just wanted them to get along, even if there's probably no way of that happening.

"Fine what are the rules?" Hannah asked with a small sigh since she was tired and fighting Matsuri didn't exactly sound like the greatest thing to do right now.

"No jutsu just weapons and Taijutsu! Got that?" Gaara asked the question a little more directed at Matsuri who when Gaara was talking rarely never listened. When she didn't listen she just stared with a kind of look that fan girls get when they stare at him which annoyed him to no end.

"Yes we get it! So let's begin!" Hannah shouted back with an eye roll knowing she was being disrespectful but she was about done with all of this. With a slight wave of her hand, she walked toward her end of the field.

"Fine but only to show Gaara that you're weak!" Matsuri shouted back with a glare at Hannah for disrespecting Gaara but Hannah merely shrugged.

"Begin!" Gaara called as Matsuri opened her mouth for a response, which was probably just more profanities that he did not want to hear anymore.

"Gladly!" Was all Matsuri uttered as she raced towards Hannah who stood there as if nothing was happening.

Hannah swerved out of the way, as Matsuri brought out her kunai. She figured she might stand a better chance with a kunai than her Johyo. However, it didn't matter, Hannah was fast enough to dodge all her attacks, which so far were a series of complicated slashes, and twists, which surprised the older girl, yet she still was able to dodge. Hannah sighed as Matsuri charged again knowing that the younger girl was much to slow to keep up and wondered if she could end this now.

'Might as well try!' she thought and with a new resolve, waited for Matsuri to charge again and this time instead if dodging she ducked and did a leg sweep. Matsuri fell backwards as Hannah quickly pinned her down with a kunai of her own to her throat.

"Stop Matsuri before this gets ugly!" Hannah growled, and Gaara was a little taken back. Usually all he heard from Hannah were light friendly things, not threats like this.

"Never you bitch! In fact," Matsuri began as a thought slipped into her mind before she pushed Hannah off of her, and hopped away.

"How's your slut of a mother doing?" A smirk lit her face in glee as she took in Hannah's face marred with shock and her mouth agape as she dropped her kunai in the plush grass.

"What did you just say?" Hannah half asked half screeched at Matsuri her tone incredulous since it was one thing to call Hannah, herself, a slut it was another to say her mom was one.

"You heard! I'm sure you heard of the saying 'like mother like daughter'! I figured that's where you got it from!" Matsuri called the same gleam in her eye from last time and Hannah's eyes widened and she shut her mouth.

'You are fucking stupid as shit to think that you're getting away with that you bitch!' Hannah thought her eyes narrowing and once again, she waited for Matsuri to charge.

'I'm sorry mom, but it was worth me swearing this time!' Hannah thought and made a mental note to say sorry to her mother next time she saw her for swearing.

Gaara hadn't thought that Matsuri would drag Hannah's family into this. He stared at his student and wondered if she really did love him enough to go this low as to bring someone's family in this. He didn't really think low of Matsuri but now…. The option of thinking low about her despite the fact that she his student and he was her sensei was all too tempting…..

With a small battle cry, Matsuri charged but Hannah was ready. As Matsuri raised her fist with a smirk, playing on the edges of her lips Hannah glared defiantly. Instead of dodging as Matsuri had expected she grabbed her wrist, and using the momentum Matsuri had when she started running towards Hannah, pulled Matsuri forward.

Before Matsuri and Hannah collided, Hannah's clenched fist met its target. The motion of Matsuri movements, combined with Hannah pulling Matsuri forward, and her fist colliding with her face sent Matsuri flying back the way she came…. Which in turn sent her knocked her right in the middle of a tree.

Gaara watched surprised that Matsuri had been knocked that far and looked at Hannah. His eyes were a little wide as Hannah walked towards a moaning Matsuri who was on the ground. Her head in her hand as she tried to sit up a gleam of red in between her fingers. Gaara stiffened as Hannah walked in front of his student covering his view of the situation.

"Next time bitch, don't drag family into this or it will get ugly!" Hannah hissed the promise with a hatred that could rival Matsuri's. Her voice so icy and full of hatred and anger that Gaara wasn't sure that it was the real Hannah.

Hannah bent down towards Matsuri, "I'm not a bad person like you although in my family we would have made the wound worse… no one says anything about my family without a near-death experience." Hannah muttered a slight smile on her lips and her eyes glowed a sky blue. Carefully she waved her hand slowly as water gathered around her digits before she touched tapped Matsuri on her head letting the water sink through the girls fingers.

Soon Matsuri was fully healed and Hannah's eyes were no longer blue. Gaara noticed with a relief that her voice had gone back to normal although she did have a little ice in it. Which Gaara was sure would stay until Matsuri apologized about her family. He hadn't heard what Hannah had said about her family and near-death experiences. Hannah had made sure he didn't.

"Gaara can we go now?" Hannah asked once she had made sure Matsuri was fine before she rose to a stand arms crossed like his own.

"You guys can go, I'm going home!" Matsuri shouted as she left having enough of Hannah for one day and she didn't want more any time soon.

-Five Minutes Later-

Gaara and Hannah sat on his mansion's roof the sun was just setting by the time they got there. Hannah needed to be by someone calming and with her brother not near she thought Gaara would do. So far, it was working as she let out a small breath of air while taking her seat. Gaara himself had questions that needed answering so dragging Hannah up here with him was a good excuse.

"Gaara, first of all, don't you dare say sorry for what happen! It's not your fault that Matsuri is jealous of me being extremely awesome!" Hannah shouted once they were situated on the stonewall happy that being next to Gaara was exactly as she expected: calming.

"It was me who you guys fought over," Gaara muttered in return as he stared at the sunset before him guilt rising in his chest over the fact that it was his fault.

"True but Matsuri was fighting for your love not friendship!" Hannah pointed out with a slight wave of her finger and a grin. She couldn't care less about love since she didn't want it and she didn't want to find it.

"Well are you going to be okay? I saw you flinch…" he trailed off his eyes boring into the side of her head as she sighed and closed her eyes a moment letting the memory wash over her before telling him the reason of why she flinched.

"When I was seven… Cece got mad and I was outside doing laundry. She did a jutsu that she couldn't really control and it was aiming for me... I flinched and closed my eyes like today, and that was the first time that ever happened to me. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time though but I don't usually flinch anymore." Hannah finished as Gaara merely gave her a look of sympathy since he knew how older sisters could be like now.

"Gaara before you say anything just quit apologizing all the time!" Hannah said loudly although she was smiling, Gaara gave her a small smirk, happy that she was happy, instead of mad.

"Okay, fine I'll stop apologizing to you but I'll still do it for others," Gaara said smiling, he felt a little like a five year old, but he didn't care right now so as long that he had Hannah there.

"Okay… oh and one more thing, stop rescuing people from falling! If you cannot help, it grab them by their wrist or something! People can get hurt once in a while Gaara!" Hannah said waving her arms in the air and Gaara restrained a chuckle; she looked so ridiculous it was funny.

"Fine… are you still mad at Matsuri?" Gaara asked since he didn't want his student and his best friend to fight anymore, let alone, try to kill each other.

"It's fine I'm starting to feel better." Hannah murmured as she watched the colors dance in the sky mixing and blending in such a way that you rarely ever saw nowadays. Gaara stared with her as they sat in a comfortable silence. Neither of them were really good with words so silence was the best option and they were content with it.

"Oh Gaara you know what! Instead of grabbing each other by the hand we should do it by the wrist!" Hannah exclaimed once again breaking the silence as Gaara turned his confusion cyan gazed towards her.

"What?" he asked incredulously as Hannah merely grinned at his question.

"I mean that, well, if I fall you would grab me by the hand… let's grab the wrist instead, that way it's safer!" Hannah said smiling as Gaara shrugged in response he figured that it was better that way no one would get the idea of them dating or something.

'She looks a little tired...better wrap this up.' Gaara thought as he gave Hannah a sideways glance and sighed sad about the thought yet he didn't really understand why….

"Well I better go bye Gaara see you to-" Hannah started to say as she watching the last colors of the sun start to fade when Gaara but her off his gaze hardening as he looked at her.

"No, I want you and Matsuri to rest…. You don't have to come in tomorrow." Gaara said not wanting Hannah or Matsuri to overdo things when they both needed to rest and relax.

"Okay but I'll still come in at the last hour of the day. I'm pretty sure that if I'm gone for a day my best friend might get attacked!" Hannah said teasingly as she got up from her spot. Gaara glared, but gave a small smirk; there was a little truth in Hannah's words about the fan girls.

"Only for an hour." Gaara said firmly since Hannah maybe his best friend but he was still the Kazekage and he had to remain firm in some places.

Hannah merely nodded and with a wave of her hand and a goodbye, she left. Leaving Gaara with a slight smirk on his lips he looked forward just in time to see Hannah leaving the building a few of his villagers stared after her while she left yet continued on their way. It was amazing how well she was able to blend in with his village and with one last smirk, her retreating figure Gaara calmly went inside replaying the day's event in his mind.

'You didn't need to heal her.' the voice said and Hannah knew that she wasn't going crazy because all her siblings had a voice too. It wasn't like a normal subconscious voice most people had but a different voice all together.

"I'm not unkind, nor mean, so I don't really care. I already know it's going to probably be the end of me. However, it didn't happen yet... So please be quite and let me go to sleep," Hannah whispered to the thing inside of herself since she was drained as she crawled into bed only having enough strength to shed her vest, shoes, and pull her hair down, before she collapsed on her bed.

'Goodnight then Hannah you should tell that boy he deserves to know.' the voice replied as thought it was all knowing which annoyed Hannah a bit yet she pushed the feeling aside too tired to really care.

"Goodnight." Hannah mumbled as she drifted on the verge of sleep 'I'll tell Gaara as soon as I get permission to... it's not just my secret.' she thought before sleep could claim her and with that drowsiness overcame her and a deep, deep, sleep claimed her.

Oh cliffy... sort of! XD Anyway did you expect it to explode like that and what about Hannah's family? Review I love feedback! Until next time! Bye!