Chapter 10
Suna
I sat across the room from Mizu and stared out the glass wall looking up at the rising moon. "So why did your father name you after a sand storm?" He asked. I sighed. I knew he'd eventually ask this question. "One the day I was born there was a devastating sand storm, it killed many… My mother didn't want me to be named after a natural disaster… But my father insisted… And honestly that name has been the story of my life…" I said looking down at the sandy ground. "How so?" He asked. He was so damn persistent. I sighed. "well… when I was young something happened… something bad… something devastating…" I said avoiding the question. "What happened?" he asked. I sighed again. "Stop sighing it gets annoying…" he said with a smile as he picked up my chin. "Well when I entered the ninja academy they made us do an exercise to channel our chakras… but my chakra over loaded and…" I stopped there. "What?" He asked curiously. "Well… do you remember… The day that there was fire?" I asked. "No… I didn't live in Sunagakure at the time…" He said. I sighed. "The school caught on fire… No one ever talked to me after that…" I said looking at the ground. I was caught off guard by what he did next. He hugged me. "Don't worry… It wasn't your fault… They were cruel children to not talk to you because of that… If I had lived in the village at the time I would still have talked to you." He whispered in my ear. I pushed him away. "I doubt you would talk to me when you almost died because of my high amount of chakra being uncontrollable?" I said with an emotion almost similar to anger. I saw the sand in Gaara's room pound against the glass. Apparently we were being loud. "don't be angry…" He said as he brushed away a lock of my hair. I sighed and looked out the glass wall towards the moon. I noticed the moon was high and bright. I pulled my blanket over myself and lied parallel to the glass wall. "Night Mizu…" I said through a yawn. "Night." He responded. I closed my eyes and basked in the moon light as I drifted off into the state of dream.