Chapter 11 - "Pulling Down (FINAL CHAPTER)"
Recap: The door opened suddenly, making Sakura jump and stare at the man- the MONSTER- in the doorway...
Gaara was back. "Sakura? What happened?"
When Gaara started to run forward to embrace her, Sakura stopped hugging Kira and started backing away from Gaara, nearly falling off the piano in the first place.
"Sakura?..." he said quietly.
"D-don't touch me!" she yelled. "Dont get anywhere near me! GO AWAY!"
"Sakura, what happened? What did I do?" Gaara glanced at Kira, who, sensing Sakura's fear, growled at Gaara angrily.
"And what's with Kira?"
"I said GO AWAY!" she yelled again, tears pouring out of her eyes. Sakura jumped off the piano and grabbed Kira, backing into the wall.
Gaara moved forward, leaning over the piano to let out his hand, offering to help her. "What's wrong?" he asked gently.
"YOU!" she finally yelled. Sakura ran into the bedroom with Kira and locked the door.
Gaara followed her, wanting his answer. What had happened? What had she done to herself while he was gone? "Sakura, I just want to help!" he yelled from the other side of the door, clenching his fist.
"YOURE A MONSTER! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
"Sakura, I don't know what you're talking about!" he clenched is fist harder, unknowingly making local sand shift slightly.
"OF COURSE YOU DONT, YOU NEVER DID! ALL YOU WERE WORRYING ABOUT WAS MAKING IT OUT ALIVE OF YOUR KILLING SPREE!"
Gaara's eyes widened. How did she figure it out? How was it-...
Then it hit him. 'Naruto Uzumaki!'
(That little PUNK!)
Shukaku cursed several times. 'This is...' the words came back to him: "you monster, leave me alone!"
It hurt, badly. It wasn't like any other pain he had felt before. It made him want to cry, and he did. He quietly let tears fall down his face. He truly DID love her.
Sakura suddenly opened the door, Kira in her arms. Her tear stained face breaking his heart, if it could break any more.
They stared at each other for a moment, before Sakura jumped over him and ran out the door, sobbing.
He just sat there, curled up in a ball. Crying...
/Sakura's POV\
I don't know where I'm going, and i don't care!
I have Kira in my arms, she looks as sad as me. Like she had been betrayed like me... Raped like me...
I got to a park and walked over to a swing set, sitting down and singing a bit more.
"You used to captivate me, by your resignating light. Now I'm bound by the life you've left behind... Your face it haunts, my once pleasant dreams. Your voice it chased away, all the sanity in me..."
(At The Hokage's Mansion)
"Men, I want you to find this man!" Naruto held up a picture of Gaara. "When you find him... Put him in the electric chair."
"Yes sir!" Ninja's split up from all directions and went on their mission.
(At Apartment)
Gaara was still sitting there, he could still smell her, taste her... Only if he could feel her.
Shukaku growled.
'What...' Gaara asked sadly. 'What could you possibly want?...'
(Boy, I may be a perverted jerk of a demon but you LOVE her! And you're just gonna sit here and cry? I thought better of you!)
Gaara stayed silent for a moment before answering, 'What's the use in loving if no one loves you back?'
(No one loves you back? Are you joking? She cried because she loved you and you HURT her!)
Gaara continued to stay silent. Then... Anger arose. He didn't want to admit it, but Shukaku was right... He had to find her, he'd do ANYTHING for her.
With that, Gaara ran out of his apartment, on a search for Sakura.
Sakura was still singing, resting her head on the chain of the swing. Kira had fallen asleep, but Sakura still sung, just to calm herself. She had eventually stopped crying, but she still had tears.
'My love, my hopes, my dreams, my everything, my Gaara... My ghost...'
(I-I can't even believe it.)
Sakura didn't reply. She then heard someone call out her name. "Sakura!"
She jerked her head up to see Gaara walking down the sidewalk, looking in all directions for her.
(He does truly care...)
'Even love...'
"Sakura! Sakura? Sakura!"
'Can over look death...' But before Sakura could get up and run to him, five ninjas jumped out of no where and captured Gaara. They held him up by his arms and kept a good grip on him so he wouldn't get away.
Gaara cursed. "I'm looking for someone! Let me go! Now!"
Shukaku was enraged. They cuffed Gaara from all angles they could and started to drag him away.
"Gaara..." Sakura whispered. She shrunk back into the darkness and began to cry again. She couldn't move. Everything was frozen.
"LET ME GO!" boomed a voice from far away.
That triggered Sakura. She set the sleeping pup at the top of the castle play ground and told her that she would be back.
Sakura ran towards the source. Gaara was getting louder with each second. She knew he was close. (That sounds REALLY sexual)
Finally... She reached the prison. It wasn't any prison though, it was a mental prison. They had Gaara in there.
Sakura heard Gaara yell in enragement. He cursed and screamed, he kicked and punched. She could head the people struggling to keep him calm from inside the prison.
She ran inside and ran down every coridoor, every hallway, every cafeteria. She could hear Gaara's voice getting closer.
When finally she reached a steel door, shut tight. She pushed at it, attempting to get on the other side but it wasn't happening. She then heard... Naruto's voice. "Very good, men," she heard him say.
That set her off. She pushed harder. And harder. And harder. Then... She heard energy flowing through all of the prison, and a very loud scream. The door finally opened, showing two Jounins.
Then... She saw Gaara, on the other side of a glass wall. He was being shocked to death.
He was in between growling and screaming in pain.
He slowly turned his head and saw Sakura, staring in shock. Falling to her knees. Breaking. He slowly closed his eyes. 'Sakura...' was the last thing he thought. "Sakura..." was the last thing he said. Sakura was the last thing he saw. Sakura was his last everything.
Sakura fell to the ground in heart-ache. She didn't want to believe it. She wanted to turn back time. Not get angry, not let this happen, not break down, not see the only man she loved die.
As his screams slowly deceased, so did he. As her heart slowly broke, so did she. As they both entered different worlds, a ghost did too.
The day after Gaara died, they buried him. It was a short funeral. Gaara's family barely made it. Only his brother and sister.
Sakura sat there, at the end of his grave. Clutching his Teddy bear.
"I love you..."