Second half of the update also known as chapter 12. Read on and let me know what you think. WARNING LOTS OF ANGST!
Kyuu shuffled around her room sleepily. She had stayed up late into the night training and now was attempting to get out of bed. She thought she fell asleep somewhere around five in the morning and it was now nine when she was trying to force herself to get up. The final exam was officially in three days. She was surprised at how fast the month had flown by, in particular these last two weeks. For the first week (or third technically) it seemed another change had occurred within Gaara. He remained bipolar as ever, if not more so, but he had an extreme increased desire to spend time with her, at least physically. Mentally he seemed far away and was deeply troubled by something. He seemed murderous, sad, and calm, and flipped between the three so fast it made her dizzy. He had become heavily unstable and disturbed again but refused to tell her what was going on. Then with this last week before the exam another change occurred with him, perhaps what all that craziness was leading up to, but now he wanted nothing to do with her at all. He stopped coming around, he avoided her when she sought him out, and if she managed to get him to speak to her at all he was extremely hostile before he vanished from her sight. She didn't know what she did or what was wrong with him but it hurt her greatly that he now was forcibly taking himself out of her life.
Kyuu shook her head to clear it of her now depressing thoughts and started getting ready for the day. When she had finished getting dressed she went into the kitchen. She grabbed herself blood for breakfast and then began preparing bento boxes, just two this time. She had heard that Naruto over exerted himself training and was now in the hospital. So she was making lunch for him and Lee. She doubted anyone else was going to visit Naruto and felt even if he was perfectly fine he still deserved visitors.
"I'll be back later Haku!" She called as she headed for the door.
"Tsuki and I are going to go train this afternoon, try and make it out and join us. We could use at least one more group training session before the final exam." He called back from his room.
"Hai, hai." She shouted back and shut the front door behind her.
When Kyuu arrived to the hospital her mood quickly changed. Something felt off. There was almost nobody around and a sense of foreboding washed over her. Suspicious and concerned she began to make her way to Naruto's room. When she arrived there she found it empty. A fruit basket was sitting on the nightstand though. This suggested someone had visited him and he was still in the hospital somewhere. He hadn't checked himself out yet. Growing more curious and concerned Kyuu headed to Lee's room. Perhaps Naruto had gone to visit him.
When Kyuu reached the shut door to Lee's room she stopped in her tracks. Voices could be heard from inside the room and she recognized Gaara's scent. Why was he here? Instead of opening the door right away she waited and listened, trying to grasp the situation before jumping in.
"Hey what are you trying to do to Bushy Brows!?" She heard Naruto demand.
"I was trying to kill him." Gaara answered simply.
Kyuu was slightly taken back by how calm he sounded about that. What was the matter with him? All of a sudden trying to kill him?
"Why? Where's the need to do that? You already won the match; do you have a grudge against him?" She heard Shikamaru ask.
"I don't. I'm going to kill him simply because I want to." Gaara answered as if it was an obvious reason to kill someone.
Kyuu shook her head. Gaara was definitely in one of his bad moods. She knew the calmness in his words was all just on the surface. He was horribly unstable the last time she saw him, this was just an extension of that, and that worried her greatly. Why was he slipping so far so fast?
"What the hell are you talking about!? Bastard!" Naruto shouted
"You must have had a messed up childhood. How self-centered can you be?" Shikamaru asked.
Kyuu inwardly groaned. Provoking him, bringing up his past? The two were idiots. How long could she wait before she had to get involved?
"If you get in my way… I'll kill you too." Gaara threatened.
"What!? Go ahead and try!" Naruto snapped.
"Hey Naruto stop!" Shikamaru warned.
Kyuu listened to Shikamaru bluff and try to talk the situation down, but Gaara just threatened them again.
"I won't be killed by the likes of you!" Naruto shouted.
"I told you to stop it! His strength is like a monster, don't you understand that!?" Shikamaru warned.
"I have a real monster in me; I won't lose to the likes of him." Naruto retorted.
"Don't go there Naruto..." Kyuu muttered to herself. She was ready to get involved before Naruto spilled a bit too much about himself. Before she did however, Gaara spoke up again and curiosity caused her to stop and listen more.
"A monster eh..? Then…it's the same for me. As you said, I had a messed up childhood. I was born into this world by taking the life of the woman I would have called my mother… To become the ultimate Shinobi, my father attached the incarnation of sand upon me through ninjutsu. I was born a monster. Shukaku… the one tailed beast, sealed within me before I was even born."
"A jutsu that allows one to be possessed before birth… to go that far… that's crazy." Shikamaru responded. "Heh... That's something a parent does? What a strange expression of love." He added.
"Love?" She heard Gaara ask.
Kyuu mentally groaned again, things were spiraling now. Naruto had to be seeing Gaara in a different light now, seeing their similarities, but that didn't mean it was a good thing, they were still so vastly different and now Shikamaru continued to prod on touchy subjects for Gaara. How far would this go?
"Family… you wanna know what kind of connection that is to me? It's simply pieces of meat connected to me with murderous intent and hatred." Gaara responded and there was a slight pause before he continued. "By sacrificing my mother's life... I was created as the village's greatest masterpiece, the Kazekage's son. My father taught me the shinobi secrets; I was spoiled and allowed to do as a pleased. I thought that was love…. Until that incident occurred." He finished.
"That incident…?" Shikamaru asked.
"What was it?" Naruto asked "What happened?" Naruto demanded again. Kyuu knew he was seeking a way to understand Gaara now, logic behind the crazy, the same way she did when she found out the truth.
"From the time when I was six years old… my own father has tried countless times to assassinate me!" Gaara answered.
"Huh?"She heard Naruto gasp.
"Wha? But you just said your father spoiled you…what do you mean?" Shikamaru asked.
"A being too strong can become an existence of fear." Gaara began and Kyuu knew Naruto understood that as deeply as she did. "Through jutsu, my spirit was unstable, the idiots in the village finally realized there was a problem. To my father, the Kazekage, I was the village's trump card, but… at the same time I was also a very dangerous being. It seems that by the time I was six it was determined that I was too dangerous. As the village's dangerous tool… to them I am simply an object from the past that they wish would disappear." He finished explaining.
Kyuu knew by his tone of voice he was slipping more. He was way too talkative. This explanation of himself wasn't like him and she felt it would end badly. She'd only be able to listen in for so much longer before she had to step in and do something. Gaara spoke up again before she moved though and she kept listening.
"Then why do I exist? Why am I alive? When I thought about this I could find no answer. But as you live you need a reason. Otherwise it's the same as being dead." He spoke and there was another pause before he continued. "I then came to this conclusion: I exist to kill every human besides myself. I finally found relief within the fear of death of never knowing when someone would try to assassinate me... By continually killing the assassins I understood the reason to continue living. Fighting for only yourself, living while loving only yourself. If you think that everyone else simply exists to allow you to experience that feeling, nothing is better than that world. As long as there are people in this world for me to kill and continue to feel that joy of living… my existence will not vanish."
Kyuu listened, they were quiet now. Naruto and Shikamaru were taking in what he was saying. She figured now would be the best time to step in before things got any worse. She reached for the door handle but froze at Naruto's next words.
"You say you only love yourself, only care about yourself, that you're alone and your sole existence is to kill. What about Kyuu?" Naruto demanded.
"What about her?" Gaara responded in indifference.
"Don't you care about her? You two have been inseparable since you came here."
"No I don't." He answered matter-of-factly.
Kyuu felt her heart sink into her stomach at his words. He could write her off so easily? Without even the slightest hesitation? How?
"What!?" Naruto shouted; angered by what he said.
"Naruto calm down." She heard Shikamaru urge.
"No, fuck that, I won't stand here calmly if he's saying he doesn't give a rat's ass about Kyuu. Everyone's seen how she is towards him. If he's saying he's just been leading her on this whole time... I won't stand for it!" Naruto yelled.
"Kyuu's nothing to me." Gaara stated again and Kyuu felt as if the world suddenly slipped out from under her feet. She dropped to her knees in disbelief and felt tears welling up.
"Then why the hell have you been playing with her!? You've lead her on for over a month! Spending everyday with her, hell I've seen you stalking her! So why say that's nothing? Has it just been some type of sick game to you? Are you done playing with her now? Have you gotten bored of her?" Naruto demanded, furious that he had the nerve to treat Kyuu that way.
"Naruto you're going to get us killed." Shikamaru urged again.
"I don't care. I want him to look me in the eyes and tell me he doesn't feel anything at all for her."
"I don't." Was all Gaara said before the tears began to roll down Kyuu's cheeks and she felt a heavy pain in her chest. So that was the truth? He'd just been messing with her? He stopped coming around because he was bored of her now?
Kyuu continued to cry softly. She was vaguely aware that they were still talking. She heard Naruto yell a bit more and Gaara make sharp retorts but their words didn't register in her brain. It was only when the room went silent that her attention focused back on the room in front of her. The next sentence she heard was enough to get her back on her feet.
"Now… let me feel alive..." She heard Gaara speak with a rustle of sand.
Kyuu was up and threw the door up. She leapt into the room and moved too fast for Gaara's sand. Gaara had a split second warning before he found himself being hit by two boxes of food. Bits of food poured all over Gaara while Kyuu slid defensively in front of Naruto and Shikamaru deflecting Gaara's sand with her sword.
"Kyuu!" Naruto and Shikamaru exclaimed in surprise.
Gaara looked at his stained front and then glared at Kyuu. How dare she hit him, let alone hit him with food. He was slightly taken back to find her glaring at him with a tear stained face. Though there were no tears in her eyes, only hard anger, her cheeks were obviously tear stained. Had she been listening?
"What the hell do you think you're doing Gaara?" She demanded, not lowering the sword she pointed at him.
"That should be my question. You're pointing a weapon at me? And hit me with food." He retorted, livid.
"Yes I am, you threatened my friends; no one does that. I don't care who they are." She snapped back.
"Didn't you claim I was your friend? Yet you're threatening me right now."
"Are you really my friend though? Judging by what I overheard I'd say probably not."
"So you don't consider me your friend after all?"
"No I do, though it appears one sided. You are my friend Gaara… or I thought you were..."
"Yet you're pointing a blade at me?"
"Yes because you have the nerve to try to harm people I care about."
Gaara glared at her and clutched his head as if in pain. "So you don't care about me after all? These fools are more important?" He demanded.
"I never said I didn't care, I do. I care about so much it hurts." She answered back, blinking away tears. "But…. NO ONE threatens Naruto in front of me. I don't care what my feelings might be for them. You try to hurt him, Lee, or even Shikamaru, and I won't hesitate, Gaara." She finished, grip tightening on the sword she had drawn and her other hand gripping the sword still in its seethe, ready to be drawn.
Gaara just stared at her and then clutched his head tighter and let out a pained scream. How could she point a weapon at HIM? How could she threaten him? She claimed to care about him so much how could she not hesitate to turn on him? If what she said was true why would she willingly hurt herself by harming him? Why was she willing to get hurt for the others?
"You make no fucking sense." He growled out. She'd stand against him despite how she felt just to protect someone else? She'd willingly sacrifice her own happiness for someone else's? She'd be in pain so they didn't have to be? No, that didn't make sense, that wasn't right. It had to be that he was right all along and she had just been pretending to care for him. That was the only way it made sense. He released his head and fixed her with a murderous glare before sand shot at the three of them.
Kyuu readied herself to deflect the sand again but this time it was stopped by another person bursting into the room and everyone turned to see Gai in the doorway. "That's enough!" He shouted. The whole room stopped and froze while he spoke. Gaara clutched his head glared venomously at him but finally Gaara's sand returned to his gourd and he headed for the door.
"I'll kill all of you... Just wait..." He hissed as he left.
When he was gone everyone was silent. Kyuu let out an extremely heavy sigh and seethed her weapon. It took her all she had not to drop down to her knees in front of the others. Her voice had been calm and steady, her nerves fueled by anger, but inside she was in turmoil. Her brave front didn't waver, but she doubted herself on whether or not she could have actually gone through with it if Gai didn't intervene. Could she fight and if need be seriously harm or even kill Gaara? She said she would for the sake of the others but she doubted herself. And what of what had been said? How could he right her off as nothing? She truly believed she had some sort of affect on him but it turned out she was wrong. She meant nothing to him after all….
"Kyuu…?" Naruto asked hesitantly, unsure of what to say.
Kyuu forced a smile on her face and turned to look at him. "I'm fine Naruto." She responded. "I'll see you guys later." She added and headed for the door before her composer gave away.
She glanced at them all before leaving; Gai seemed confused by the whole situation, Shikamaru looked at her in surprise and pity, and Naruto looked troubled by all these events. Lee remained fast asleep, how he managed that, Kyuu had no idea. When she left the hospital she quickly headed out of town. She needed to be alone right now.
Kyuu ran to her spot under the giant tree and collapsed under it with another heavy sigh. For a long time she just sat there, her knees pulled to her chest and arms hugging herself, gazing off into the valley below without really looking at it. Her mind was far away. Did Gaara really mean those things? Sure, she could've believed that in the beginning, but she was so sure she had gotten through to him a little, made an impression on him, and might have changed him a little bit. Was she all wrong? Did he really just use her for his own amusement? Or did he just have a bad episode and later would find her and take everything back? Her heart hurt so bad feeling like she had been lied to. She couldn't stand this.
"Stupid…" She sniffled, whipping away a few tears that managed to fall and looking up at the sky.
She hadn't realized night had already fallen. Had she been lost in thought for that long? With one more sigh she stood up to go home. So much for meeting up with Haku to train. She managed to make about two steps away from the tree before she suddenly found sand swirling around her and the next thing she knew she was pinned to the tree by it.
"What do you want Gaara?" She demanded in exhaustion, she wasn't emotionally ready for round two.
"You turned on me in the hospital, sided with those idiots instead of me." He stated as he appeared in front of her.
"Those 'idiots' are my friends that you tried to harm; of course I'd defend them. Besides, you made it pretty easy to decide which side to pick with what you said in there." She retorted.
"So you were listening." He stated, rather than asked.
"Yes." She responded and sighed once more. "Did you really mean that?...That I'm nothing to you?" She asked hesitantly.
"Yes." He responded indifferently and Kyuu did her best to hold back her tears.
"Why? Why than have you been this way towards me!? Why act like you care? Why pretend to be my friend? Why spend so much damn time with me!?" She demanded "Why lie to me for so long…" She muttered.
"I didn't lie, unlike you. I've never once said I care about you Kyuu. So I've never lied."
"You still think I'm lying?" She asked in disbelief, blinking away a few tears. "I've never lied and for the record Gaara, you don't have to lie with just words. You've ACTED like you've cared. That is lying. And hell, yes you have said you do. Right here, after the preliminaries, you told me all those things part of you wanted. You made it sound as if part of you… part of you might have started to love me…" She responded, mumbling the last sentence, but Gaara heard her.
"I don't love."
"But you said all those things. You said-
"There's a difference between love and lust Kyuu!" He snapped at her and she bit her lip fighting back both tears and anger.
"So that's it then? That's the truth? You've only hung around me because you were lusting after me? You've been leading me on because I'm sexually appealing to you? And now you're bored of me you've lost interest and so stopped coming around." She demanded.
"Those are Naruto's words, not mine. He said those things."
"Then tell me the truth! Tell me why in your own damn words. Tell me what I really mean to you."
"You're nothing to me Kyuu. You're nothing but a pretty face that tells sweet comforting lies." He answered and at this point Kyuu couldn't keep the tears back any longer and began to weep. "I used you Kyuu. Your lies and your presence, they helped calm my demons. For awhile, I could escape everything with you. But that's all you were, a way to distract myself from who I am and what I do. I am no longer interested in that distraction. You got inside my head; I allowed this…obsession with you to run its course so I could have the satisfaction of destroying it in the end. Nothing I ever did or said had any feelings involved."
Kyuu stared at him and shook her head in disbelief as she cried. "You're such a bastard." She gasped, tears falling freely. She looked up to the sky as she shook her head again, she couldn't believe the pain she was feeling right now. Each word felt like a knife to her chest and she felt as if the world stopped spinning and was trying to throw her off of it. This couldn't be happening. He couldn't possibly mean all that. It was just too much, she couldn't take it.
Kyuu's tears fell heavier before she spoke up. "You know… I wanted to believe so badly that you were different…. I was so sure that somewhere in that twisted heart of yours there was still something good, something to be saved." She stated, turning her gaze back on him. "But I was wrong! You have no heart." She gasped, feeling the onset of more sobs coming. "….and I wanted to give you mine…" She sobbed closing her eyes as she cried.
Gaara blinked in shock at her words. What was she saying? His surprise caused the sand holding her to the tree to release her and she fell to her knees, now crying into her hands.
"I tried so hard. I really did. I wanted to believe I could save you. I saw myself in you. I thought I could rescue you because I could understand you. I wanted to rescue you like Naruto did for me, and then I could be more like him, more pure if I could save another lost soul. I really did try. I showed you kindness and compassion, went out of my way for you, I told myself that you weren't beyond saving. I told myself everyone was wrong about you, that good still existed somewhere in you. I was so foolish to think that….foolish to think I could be the one to bring you to the light. You're lost in such darkness, I knew it wouldn't be easy, I knew it was going to be hard, but I still wanted to try. I went at it with everything I had, anyway I could try to get through to you I tried and I thought it started to work. Then… then…. I… I fell in love with you, I tried not to, I knew you wouldn't feel the same. I'm not even sure how it happened, but it did. Please, I love you Gaara. Please believe me, don't think it's a lie. I'm on my knees in tears for you. Don't say that all this was nothing, that I am nothing. You know its not true." She begged as she cried.
Gaara stared at her in disbelief. What was she saying? She loved him? There was no way. It couldn't be real. No one could love him…. It didn't matter anyway. Everything was ending now and he wasn't capable of feeling the same. "Kyuu…" He began and Kyuu picked her head up out of her hands to look at him, waiting to hear what he had to say in response to her confession. "I do believe you." He stated and only hesitated for a brief second before continuing. "I believe when you say that you love me, but you need to believe me when I say… I don't love you Kyuu and I will never love you."
Kyuu's tears stopped flowing. It felt as if everything came to a screeching halt. There was a ringing in her ears and she felt as if her heart had just been ripped out from her chest and shattered. She sat there, frozen in shock and despair.
Gaara stared down at her and frowned. She wasn't crying anymore, she just sat there with a dead look in her eyes. The sobbing was better than this. Watching that gleam and light leave her eyes, replaced with these blank, empty depths to match his own, it didn't satisfy him like he thought it would. Breaking her like this began stirring something in the back of his mind. He grew more agitated as she just continued to sit there. She broke her, it was done now, why wasn't she leaving? Why did she just keep sitting there? No tears, no anger, nothing. This just made him angrier, the life gone from her now; he wanted it back, anger, tears, something, anything.
"Get up! Stop looking so pathetic and stand up!" He demanded, yanking her to her feet.
Kyuu blinked at him slowly. "This isn't real. It's all a mistake…." She muttered.
Gaara scowled and shoved her into the tree, trying to get a rise out of her. "It's very real Kyuu! I'm telling you it's over, this game. I don't care about you and I want you out of my sight. I never want to see you again." He snapped and tossed her to the side. She fell to the ground. She'd just let him shove her around like a rag doll? Not fighting back at all? This just caused him more anger. "Forget about me, because I will forget about you. I will never want anything to do with you again." He barked.
"I… I can't forget about you Gaara! After all this, I can't go back to how I was before I met you. You affected me and I know I affected you too." She responded, getting off the ground.
Finally a response, Gaara grasped it and tried to push her further. "No you didn't. I swear I'll kill you, Kyuu. If you don't leave now I'll kill you!" He threatened; his death threats would always get a rise out of her.
"Then do it and be done with it." She responded blankly.
Gaara raised a hand but then lowered it. "No I rather you suffer." He was furious he still couldn't get a real rise out of her and get her to fight back. Was this what it meant to truly break her? Why did it anger him now that he'd done it? It's what he wanted all along... So why did he feel so uncomfortable seeing her this way… Frustrated and furious he shot sand at her, hoping she'd dodge or block it or do something. Instead she let it hit her and knock her back to the ground. She got up to her knees and stared at him, anger was there inside her wanting to surface but she felt too broken to let it release. He shot another wave of sand at her and she let it hit her again, falling back to the ground.
"Do you understand yet?! You're nothing!" Gaara shouted at her as he shot wave after wave of sand at her, each time a blow hit her shouting "nothing". A small voice in the back of his mind, asked him if he was trying to convince her or himself of this, asked him if he was angry at her or angry at himself for what he was doing. He refused to acknowledge that voice and what it was stirring in the back of his mind and just let his anger flow and lash out.
Finally after the tenth time his sand hit her, her anger surfaced. Kyuu glared and when the next wave of sand came she dodged it. She disappeared and reappeared behind him. "You're horrid." She hissed at him and kicked him in the back hard, harder than Lee could have possibly kicked him in their match. Her blow hit him before his sand could block it and sent him off his feet and soaring across the clearing. He crashed into the trees and through several before finally coming to a collision with an old oak and stopping. His sand protected him from a good amount of the damage but Kyuu knew he felt that one. With one final glare and with tears still flowing down her face she turned on her heel and ran. She ran fast back for home, she couldn't stand being around him for a moment longer.
Kyuu ran and ran; she went straight into the village and ran for home. She bumped into people as she went, blinded by tears, but not stopping. She felt like she was going to vomit and just kept crying while she ran. She was vaguely aware of Mitsune's voice calling out to her in concern as she ran by a group of people but she didn't stop. She ran home and barreled through the front door.
"Kyuu!? What-
Haku never got to finish his sentence as she ran right past him and into her room and slammed the door shut.
"Kyuu! Kyuu what's wrong!?" Haku demanded, banging on the door.
"Leave me alone!" She shouted back, she couldn't get her sobs under control now.
"Please tell me what happened!"
"Go away!"
"Kyuu-
"LEAVE!" She screeched at the door and finally Haku let her be.
Kyuu paced around her room, sobbing and clenching her fists. She let out a scream of frustration and sadness and threw a book across her room. She continued to cry and break things. Having a tantrum seemed to be the only way to let out the turmoil bubbling over inside. She ripped a pillow to shreds picked things up at random and threw them across the room; she smashed her desk chair, and punched a hole in her wall before collapsing on her bed in sobs. She bit down onto her arm hard in an attempt to calm herself but she just kept crying, though quieter now. It was then that she could hear voices from the living room.
"I saw her running through the streets in tears. Is she ok?" She heard Mitsune ask. She must have followed her.
"I don't know, she locked herself in her room and won't talk to me. It sounds like she's been on a rampage in there." Haku responded in concern.
"Well then break the door down if you have to." Mitsune retorted and Kyuu heard her knock on the door. "Kyuu? Open up."
"Go away."
"Tell me what's wrong." She demanded again.
"Leave me alone already."
"Damn it, Kyuu! Open up or I'll break the door down!"
"Go. Away. Now." She barked back and heard Mitsune sigh.
Suddenly her doorknob was ripped out of the door and Mitsune swung the door open. Kyuu was taken aback by her surprising strength but was too distraught to give it much thought at the moment. Mitsune looked over the destroyed room and to Kyuu's bleeding arm. "What happened?" She demanded again and she and Haku came in.
Mitsune and Haku sat down on the bed with her and Kyuu stared at them, biting her lip before she threw her arms around Mitsune and cried into her shoulder. Mitsune blinked in surprise but hugged her back and Haku began to stroke her hair comfortingly from the other side. "What's wrong?" He asked softly.
Temari jumped in surprise as Gaara burst into their hotel room. He nearly threw the front door off its hinges when he opened it and slammed it so hard the walls rattled when he shut it behind him. "You ok?" She asked both, concerned and fearful at why he was so angry.
"I broke her." Was all he said before storming out of the room (with a slight limp).
Temari watched him leave with sad eyes and Kankuro shot her a confused look. "What the hell did that mean?" He asked.
She then decided to fill him in on what she spoke to Gaara about and what had obviously happened. She was surprised Gaara looked so upset about it. Maybe it wasn't as easy for him as he claimed it would be.
"You're cruel Temari, telling him to do that to her. I thought she was your friend?" Kankuro commented when she was done explaining.
"She is…or was… we have a mission to do. I don't like doing that to her. I didn't want him to hurt her but what choice is there? One way or another we're all going to hurt and betray her and this way increases our chances of success. It was a cruel move I don't feel good about, but it needed to be done." She responded.
"I suppose you're right." He agreed and glanced at the room Gaara disappeared into. "Doesn't look like he enjoyed it too much." He commented.
"No it doesn't. For all his claims of wanting to kill her and wanting to break her…."
"He had a hard time doing it I'd say." He finished for her and she nodded.
"Hope this doesn't make him even more unstable. We need him ready for the plan." She added.
"Seriously. He hasn't been this unstable in a long time. If he gets much worse… you know what it'll lead to…" He agreed.
"I swear I'll kill him!" Haku snapped in anger when Kyuu had finished explaining. All gentleness was gone from him now, if someone thought they could get away with hurting his precious person, they were sadly mistaken.
"I'm so sorry Kyuu." Mitsune commented hugging her tightly.
"Please, I told you guys now just leave me alone…" Kyuu responded, she was done crying now and just felt exhausted.
Mitsune and Haku looked at each other and nodded. "Ok. We'll be in the other room if you need us." They responded and left her be.
Kyuu watched them leave and looked around her room. She'd need to replace the things she broke, fix the hole in the wall, and replace the door. Great…. She'd worry about that later though; all she wanted to do now was sleep. She stripped down into her shorts and a bra, threw on a baggy t-shirt from a drawer and crawled into bed. With a glance at her window she cried herself to sleep.
So there you go! SO MUCH ANGST! What will happen next? You'll have to wait and find out! FEEDBACK PLEASE!
I feel I should also state, in regards to Gaara physically harming Kyuu, that I of course, in no way condone violence against women however given that at this point in the manga he's a raging psychopath that has no problem killing people without hesitation (and attacks Sakura during his fight with Naruto and Sasuke) it kinda goes with his character. Fear not though! That will change when he changes! (And Kyuu got her own blow in too, doing twice the damage to him as he did to her). Also don't think she'll be super easily forgiving when that point in the story comes along either... *SPOILER SHE'S NOT*