Part 10-Nightmare

Gaara's eyes flickered open. He looked around through the haze in his eyes, as he adjusted to the surroundings he realised that he didn't recognise his surroundings, just desert… everywhere… He sniffed and realised that he was surrounded by the stench of blood. He reached up to wipe the dust from eyes and saw that he was covered in blood. He jumped back and shouted, he didn't know what he said, just that the only thing he did understand was that he didn't understand what was going on.

He ran, for seconds… minutes… hours… days… he lost all track of time, he ran until he could run no more… he stopped to take a breath and looked at the area where he had stopped.

"Gaa… ra…" A voice from behind him called out, Gaara whipped around. It took him a moment to recognise the character before him, half-submerged in the sand, covered in blood.

Green clothes… bandages… bowl cut… fuzzy eyebrows… lower eyelashes… "Rock… Lee…?"

"Are you happy now Gaara? Have you proven your existence now?" He stared at Gaara as the sand encased his body. His glare pierced through Gaara as life died from his eyes

"No… I didn't do this…" Gaara turned around and ran again, he hadn't recovered much stamina yet, but it was enough to get him far away from the sight he had just witnessed. He ran a bit more and stumbled. He landed face down in the sand, he thrashed around a bit, "What's going on around here!?"

"Unusual behaviour… Gaara… sama…"

"Yashamaru?" Gaara looked up out of the sand, there was a head, almost completely covered in sand. Just enough of the face wasn't covered so that Gaara could recognise the face of his uncle

"Why haven't you died yet Gaara-sama?"

"My existence won't be extinguished…" He looked away from his uncle

"Kill… kill only for your sake… Gaara-sama…" The sand encased Yashamaru's face

"What the…" He turned in another direction and ran again. He stopped dead in his tracks and stared at what was before him. A girl, pink hair, green eyes, she was holding a dark haired boy, black eyes. They both stared at him with frighteningly cold eyes.

"Get away from us." The girl tightened her grip around a kunai that she had at her side. The sand was slowly 'bleeding' upwards, enveloping their bodies

"I haven't…" Gaara began; he looked at the pink haired kunoichi. She really cares about him…

"Haven't… what…?" The raven-haired boy looked up at him, there was blood dripping down his face. The sand had almost completely covered his body and was writhing up his neck

"Come to murder someone else? Wind country's greatest, Gaara of the Desert, nothing but a demon!"

Gaara glared at the pink haired shinobi, how dare she talk to him like a… like a… like a… a monster… "What?"

"You kill for the sheer joy of killing, how are you not a demon?" The sand snaked across the contours of her face, across her eyelids, above and below her lips until all that was left were her features that stood out.

"I am not a demon…"

"Are you sure?" The onyx-eyed boy closed his eyes as the sand covered up the last of his features; random patches of red bled through as the sand absorbed his blood

"They should never have brought anything like you into this world…" The sand covered the last of her features

Gaara turned again; he forced himself to run as fast as he could. He felt like he was going to die, he couldn't take this anymore, why was this happening; he couldn't get his head round what was going on.

"Gaara…" A voice stopped him; he swivelled on his heels to look at the boy who called him, "were you able to love?"

"Why should you care?" Gaara hissed at the boy before him, "Uzamaki Naruto…?"

"Stop this Gaara…" Naruto raised his hand to show the sand covering it, snaking up his arms and legs, wrapping around his body

"I have no control over what's happening around here…"

"I suppose you had no control over that either," He gestured to the gruesome scene behind him, Gaara squinted to recognise the two.

"No…" He ran over, faster than he had moved in his entire life, he skidded and landed on his knees, he noticed the boy first. His clothes were almost entirely covered in blood; his face was stuck in a clear expression of shock and fear. There was blood all over his face, almost entirely covering his features. His hood had partially fallen off and his hair was matted to his face, "Kankurou…"

He turned, the second body was slightly less gruesome, or more, all a matter of opinion. He shifted over and looked down at the face. Sandy blonde hair stained red with blood, matted to her face. Dry blood mixed with wet blood, drizzling from her mouth and nose, dark aqua blue eyes swollen with tears, narrowed with mixed emotions. "Temari… Temari?" Breath, ragged, shallow, quick.

"Gaara…?" She managed to choke out, voice, raspy, probably from screaming

"Temari," Gaara propped up her head onto his lap, "are you… okay?"

"Are you happy now Gaara?" Aqua eyes narrowed to slits, brow furrowed, "is this what you wanted?"

"Temari I didn't-"

"I thought you changed… I thought you cared about us but… I guess it was an act… I guess you didn't want to be my brother…"

"Temari please-"

"Just leave Gaara, you already killed Kankurou…"

"I didn't."

"Thanks to you I'm practically dead…"

"But-"

"Go away…"

"You're not-"

"Get away from me!" She shouted, her last breath, gone. Eyes, awash with intense hatred, pain, misery

"Temari? Temari? TEMARI!" He shook her body, lifeless limbs flailed about in the air

"Gaara?"

"Don't die Temari! Please!"

"Gaara!"

"Temari, don't leave me, don't die! I don't want this!" Gaara shook her body again, lifeless limbs thrashed about in the sand

"GAARA!"

"Temari, I didn't kill Kankurou! I don't want you to die! Temari!" He shook her body one last time, hoping, praying that she would take in another breath. Lifeless limbs disturbed the restless sand once again.

"GAARA!!!!"

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A/N-what do you guys think? It's the longest chapter I've written so far, don't get used to this length. I've complied with people's requests for the return of Kankurou in the next chappie, and to people who say that his name is spelt Kankuro, you're all wrong! Firstly, I got his name of an official Naruto site; secondly if you translate the Katakana used to spell his name it is Ka-n-ku-ro-u, so blah!

Disclaimer thingy-I do not own Naruto blah, blah, blah and if I did, whatever I said in chapter 7 and I would have millions of free Naruto products ☻