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-No one's point of view-
Gaara and Maiha walked into the house and Maiha nodded to the young Kazekage as she went to open all the bedroom doors. They were all sprawled out on top of their beds, snoring loudly. Gaara summoned his sand and wrapped each shinobi like a cocoon then followed Maiha out of the house and to the training grounds. He leveled each cocoon about four feet off the ground then retracted his sand quickly so they could fall onto their backs.
They all groaned and scrambled to their feet disoriented and stumbled back and forth. Maiha tossed their issued blades at them as well as their masks and they looked at her incredulously as they picked up their things. Gaara could tell that she was forcing not to laugh as she crossed her arms and stood by him.
"I told you all that I'd drag your sorry butts out of bed if you got wasted. Lord Gaara is going to help me today with the training. You all need to learn how to sufficiently use a blade just like the ANBU we're teaching. I don't care how shitty you feel, you will work until I say. If you try to take a break, whine, or fall over in your states, I will make the training last til the sun goes down," Maiha snapped as she drew her long double edged katana and a dagger that had been hiding against her lower back under the chest plate.
Gaara drew his sand and started attacking the shinobi like Miaha and he had talked about all night. Both attackers could sense that the hungover shinobi were trying with all their might to not make any noises as they blocked the attacks. Gaara let his sand follow movements from the night before as he watched Maiha spar five of the shinobi. Wondering if she was on full alert, he sent a strand of sand at her, which she dodged by rolling to the side and it hit one of the shinobi in the chest, throwing him across the field.
Smirking, the young Kazekage sent more trails of sand which she dodged perfectly, never even turning her face to look at him, while she attacked her men.
-Maiha-
I couldn't help but smile behind my mask every time I felt Gaara testing my senses with his sand. Soon all five shinobi I was fighting were unconscious by his sand and I turned to look at him and laughed. He was staring at me while his back was to the three remaining men and his sand was still fighting him. He finally uncrossed his arms and knocked all three unconscious.
I walked past Gaara and he followed me as we left the eight shinobi to deal with themselves when they woke up. In the village, many people were already awake so we decided to pick up some breakfast and took it to the highest roof which we had been on last night to eat.
"I'd hate to be on your bad side in the mornings," Gaara teased and I laughed as I pulled off my ANBU mask.
"I did warn them," I defended myself as I started eating.
Gaara shrugged as he smirked, eating his own breakfast.
-Maiha-
We had the training sessions going from dawn until dusk with one break at midday for lunch. They were showing a lot of progress as we made the training become harsher. At the end of the days, the Sand ANBU still had a third of their chakra and energy. Every night, Gaara and I would sit on the roof tops and just relaxing since neither of us slept. I learned that he really was a nice guy, people just misunderstood him because of being a Jinchuuriki.
-Two Months Later-
I stood at the entrance, staring at the patterns of the sand in the light of the dying sun while medics put Kankuro and his puppets on stretchers and carried him back inside. I had pulled off both masks so I could use the full potential of my Kenisho to figure out the patterns of the fight. I knew that Kankuro had been poisoned and there wasn't much hope unless Lady Chiyo came down from the hidden building within the cliffs.
I frowned and felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked over carefully and saw Gaara. He was looking at me, letting a little concern show through.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"I never sensed him coming," I frowned. "All I can tell you is that he is a puppet user as well like kankuro. I don't know if there is an antidote for the puppet poison. Lady Chiyo has been notified of the situation. What if there are more attacks coming and they know something about my Kenisho and playing with weaknesses that I don't know of yet?"
"I highly doubt that there are weaknesses..."
"But there are. I already know one for sure. Once I'm with in a mile radius of a host, I can no longer sense them in any way. The only way I know that it's you all the time is because of your sand. What if something is going to happen, something worse?" I closed my eyes and clenched my fists.
"Maiha, look at me. I need you to see something," Gaara whispered urgently. "I feel like I need you to know now."
I whimpered and lifted my eyes to his teal ones. His memories hit me again but at half scale. I noticed that he was trying to push certain memories towards me and I searched through them. I felt his guilt from hurting me on the rooftops during the chunin exams, all the curiosity, all the gentleness every time he was watching me and the nights we spent watching the stars. He felt a bond with me that no one would be able to truly understand, the start of a relationship.
I closed my eyes abruptly and took a shaky breath.
"Are you okay?" he asked.
"You've had a lot on your mind the last two years, haven't you?" I laughed gently and looked back at him, not afraid to do so any more.
"You could say that," he smiled a little.
I sensed someone coming and turned towards the desert as I pulled my fabric mask back down. Some one came through the Suna Gates and cleared his throat.
"Pardon me Lord Gaara, Captain Maiha, but Lady Chiyo has come down to tend to your older brother. The Daimyo also requests your presence while the ANBU requests Captain Maiha's presence for the night training," the man spoke quickly.
"Very well," Gaara spoke calmly although he sounded slightly irritated then the Jounin ran back to the village. "Guess you'll be busy all night, won't you?"
"Yeah, but as soon as your done with your duties for the night, you can come watch," I spoke as we headed back towards the village.
"I may have to do that. I'd miss your company too much," he whispered and i laughed at how innocent he sounded.
"Oh, Gaara, what am I going to do with you?" I smiled, elbowing his side.
"You'll say you'll give me a chance," he spoke confidently and I stopped walking and looked at him.
His eyes held full seriousness about the statement as he looked at me. I tried to form a sentence but my mind was blank. I closed my mouth and took a few breaths trying to think properly but he started laughing at me.
"You can think about it while you train my men," he smiled then left me at the edge of the village in the swirl of sand.
I appeared at the training grounds, knowing that this night was going to be a long one.
-Three hours after Sunset-
I was standing on the edges, watching them go through the obstacle courses that my men had been working on all day when I sensed Gaara's aura flare. I looked towards the village and saw a huge sand cloud over the village and an explosion hit the top of the cloud. I whistled for everyone to stop as I dashed towards the village. I was unable to sense these enemies for some reason. I saw a blond flying on a huge white bird as he fought with Gaara.
Gaara had himself encased in an orb of sand while sand still shot out at the enemy then I heard another explosion. I watched horrified as Gaara's orb started to fall towards the ground and I saw him fall before the enemy caught him with his bird. I jumped onto the buildings and was about to jump after him until several hands held me back.
"You won't be able to do it alone, Captain Maiha. That man was able to defeat our Kazekage with detonation clay and he would surely be able to defeat you," one of the ANBU that I had been training said.
"I wasn't able to sense him..." I whispered brokenly as darkness claimed me.
