A.N.
Disclaimer: Naruto does NOT belong to me.
Anger
She placed his mug on his desk and took hers to the couch right across from him. Miaka sighed and took a sip of her tea as Gaara read over a few last minute changes to the new addition to the ninja academy. The sun was just beginning to set as the two sat in comfortable silence.
"Oh! Gaara-kun," she sat put her mug down on the small desk beside her, catching Gaara's attention. "…I almost forgot to tell you, tomorrow after work, I'll be taking a late night shift at the hospital. So I'll just pick up whatever documents you have signed for the evening in the morning."
Night shift? Something in his chest made him feel uneasy. The feeling resembled what he felt when she had been kidnapped. Fear, Gaara learned, was not a feeling he enjoyed experiencing. He frowned and narrowed his eyes. "No."
Miaka gaped at the man sitting before her. "No? What do you mean, no?"she asked, her tone low and severe.
"I mean that you can't take that shift." He said simply and returned to his papers.
Miaka tensed and crossed her arms. "I'm not asking for your permission, I'm telling you." Well that caught his attention. "I am doing this after work hours, you have no say in what I do and do not do."
"Miaka-chan…" he warned.
"Give me one good reason for me not to take that shift." She challenged.
The redhead stood to his full height and leaned across the desk, answering her with a completely calm tone. "You won't get out until dark. You don't know who could be out there at night to try and hurt you."
"I can defend myself. Need I remind you that you have been teaching me self defense for some time now?" her voice
"And it wasn't any help when you were alone with Minamoto, now was it?" again he replied calmly and it only seemed to aggravate her more.
Miaka looked at him with a mixture of shock, sadness, and anger. Did he think of her as weak? That she couldn't stand up for herself? Did he seriously have such little confidence in her? She stood up and glared at him, hands clenched into fists before stalking off, slamming the door behind her.
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