Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of its characters. All I own is my own original character Sonki Ekibyougami.

Naruto

Chapter 4: Three of a Kind

Saga: Death and Rebirth

More rain, more rain to destroy her mood. Her eyes lowered to the ground as she leaned her head up against a wall a few blocks away from the exam building. A few hours had passed and now the streets were empty, well at least in the part of town she was sulking in.

Her glasses slipped off of her face and then clattered to the ground, the glass breaking. One of her hands reached up for the wall in front of her as she put more pressure into it than her head.

Slowly breathing in and out she finally shut her eyes. Feeling the rain come down hard now as it hit her back, while her whole body flinched in protest. Her whole body was soaked now and was clinging to her as it did before. As it did before when it rained.

Eyes now closed as tightly as they would go she flung her other hand up onto the wall, holding up her body as she slid down into a crouched position.

What's the matter? Why is it that your body is so weak and frail now? You seemed fine earlier…

Get out of my head; you're the last person I want to talk too right now.

Is that so? But we have so much in common. It's a waste not to make friends with someone that's going to be stuck inside of you forever…

I'll find a way for you to get out of me… Even if I die trying. I'm sick of listening to your bitching. It's of no help to me…

You'd die for me? I'm so touched.

Shut-up.

What, why are you so rude all of a sudden?

Shut-up.

Come now child, can't we be friends? I will be in you for eternity.

Shut-up! Leave me alone!

I can't leave you alone, not when I'm inside of you.

Shut… Up…

And what if I don't want too?

"JUST SHUT-UP AND GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Sonki screamed out throwing her fists at the ground angrily. Her words echoed the area and then left a few seconds after words. You could hear two people breathing, not just one anymore.

"Sonki?" Gaara asked looking down at her. He saw her frail looking body twitch at the sound of his voice.

Her hands retracted from being fists and rested on the ground open palmed, her eyes huge at the sudden sound of his voice. Why didn't I hear him earlier? Approaching me? How could I have had my guard let down that much!?

"How long have you been standing there," Sonki asked not even bothering to lift her head up to look at him.

"Too long," Gaara answered. He was soaked to the skin too, his hair matted to his head and face, giving off a more sinister look to him. His eyes gazing intently at Sonki, full of grief and confusion. "Why is it… That things seemed to have changed between us? You seem more terrified everyday I see you…"

"I'm not terrified," Sonki snapped back at him, now standing on her two feet. She swayed a little but managed not to fall over. "I just have some thing going on in my head right now…"

"Like back in the exam room?" Gaara asked her, ignoring the rude why she was talking to him. "You were crying, you never cry."

"Shut-up!" Sonki said turning around to face him. "Am I not human! Do I not have the right to cry!?"

Gaara's whole face showed utter rage now, his dark eyes glaring at her intently. But yet he managed not to explode, he managed not to send his sand at her. "You've never cried before! Not ever when we were kids! Never! Not even once!"

"I'm not a kid anymore! I've grown up and become a different person!" Sonki shot back at him; her hands were starting to form into fists now. Why am I yelling at him? He doesn't deserve it…He's just looking out for me. He's caring for me…

"So I've noticed," Gaara answered coldly. "What is it that has made you change so much?" a smile flashed across his face. "You've killed haven't you? You've shed the blood of another."

Sonki just gazed at him horrified. She took a step back, her leg jerking sideways as she fell to the ground, spraining her ankle. Her body curved inwards; ignoring the pain she titled her head down, letting her hair fall over her face, hot tears now streaming down it.

"I didn't mean too! I don't even know why I did it!" Sonki yelled out, her voice sounding so hopeless. "I'm not a murderer! I didn't mean to! I didn't want too! I didn't want to kill him!"

But you are a murderer. You can't change that; you can't take back his pain. Revive his life once more. You killed that boy. He didn't even assault you before you stabbed him to death. This makes you a murderer. And you liked it.

"NO! I DIDN'T LIKE IT!" Sonki screamed out, her lip was now bleeding; she was biting down on it so hard. "I'M NOT A MURDERER!"

Gaara looked at her a little confused as her head thrashed around a little and then finally came back to its original position. "Then you're not." He walked over to her body and then picked it up, feeling her recoil in the process. "Why are you shaking? Why are you scared?"

"The demon inside of me…" Sonki whispered to him. "It won't shut up… I won't quit talking. I want it to stop, I want it to go away…"

"When you become stronger than it, it will," Gaara answered her, his voice was low, comforting. It seemed as though his personality had just snapped into something else.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," Sonki, answered now griping onto his shirt angrily. "You've wasted so much of your time on me… I'm so sorry!"

"Just stop talking nonsense," Gaara said looking dead ahead. "Before you regret saying it latter."

Sonki opened her mouth in protest but nothing came out. Finally she closed it again and hung limply in Gaara's arms. Her eyes gazing over his shoulder as she watched the rain fall to the ground, in the never-ending puddles.

Finally they reached the doorway of Sonki's apartment, stopping right in front of the door. Sonki moved around a little, trying to get her key out of her pocket but instead frowned a little as Gaara kicked the door open instead.

The next thing she knew she was sitting on her couch with the door shut tightly and a blanket wrapped around her. Gaara was standing a few inches away from her, still soaked and standing in a puddle of water that had come off of his body.

"You're…" Sonki begun but then was loss of words as she found him starring down at her longingly. "Dry yourself off… You're going to get sick too…"

Gaara left the room leaving Sonki alone in the dark, with her only her thoughts for comfort and the warm blanket wrapped around her.

Her eyes went to the floor as a sudden wave of grief fell upon her. Her hands griped the blanket around her tighter as she rested her head on the end of the couch. Slowly she breathed in and out, each time her eyelids became heavier and heavier. Finally they shut and never opened again.

Sonki shot out of her bed, flipping the covers off of her body. She looked around the room she was in wide-eyed and a little terrified. It was her own room, the room she once belonged too.

Slowly she got out of her bed and lied her feet on the cold floor below her. Rising up into a standing position she looked around her room once more. Making sure that it was indeed hers, and it was.

A frown appeared on her face, as she took in full depth that she was now back in her previous life. She was back in the life she had tried so hard to get away from. The life she hated so much. Angrily she thrust on a pair of socks and walked out of her room, slamming the door behind her.

"MOM!?" Sonki screamed out, her voice frustrated. "Where are you!?"

No reply.

"Mom…? MOM!? MOM!?" Sonki screamed out now starting to get scared at the none reply. She ran down the stairs in front of her, only managing to save herself at the end from falling over in a state of panic.

She looked around her living room, noticing nothing but utter darkness. "Mom?" She whispered, hoping this time that a reply would come. But it never did. She gulped and then pressed herself forward, feeling along the walls for the light switch.

When she did find it and the light flooded through her house, all she could do was stare in a state of horror. All around her on the carpet and walls was blood. Splattered everywhere, as though she were on the scene of a crime. Holding her hands over her mouth she chocked a little as she noticed the next thing. Her parents lying dead on the floor of the living room.

Her father with his face planted on the ground firmly, lying on his stomach and her mother lying on top of him, positioned in what looked like to be an 'x'. She collapsed to her knees and then shook her head in disbelief.

"No… This can't be happening," Sonki choked out, no tears would come to her eyes.

"But it is…" a scratchy voice spoke out.

Sonki turned her head around slowly, her eyes growing bigger as they lied upon the thing that had just spoken to her.

A wolf.

Blood was dripping from its pure white fur and it's dark red menacing eyes looked straight on ahead at her. Its mouth was twisted into what looked like a smile. Blood and saliva hanging from its mouth, it spoke out to her again.

"Are you scared?" it asked her, still starring at her. "What are you thinking Sonki?"

"Who are you," Sonki choked out at him.

"I am that demon inside of you, that demon who hungers for blood," it replied to her. "Garou."

Sonki just looked at the wolf horrified and shook her head in protest. "This can't be happening!" Her hands shot up to her head as she begun to shake it more violently, now resting it in her lap. "This isn't true! This isn't true! This isn't true!"

"Of course it isn't you stupid girl," Garou said.

"What…" Sonki whispered, her eyes now open as she starred down below her. She was being engulfed by darkness. "NO!" Her hands were now up in front of her face as she fell endlessly, trying to reach out to an invisible figure.

Sonki shot up once more from where she was lying down, no longer soaked but now dry. Banging heads with something she looked around wildly for the culprit. Gaara was starring straight back at her, confused at her sudden actions.

She held her head in her hands and looked at him with one of her eyes open through her arms in pain.

"Just what the hell were you doing leaning over me like that!?" Sonki shot at him.

"Nothing," Gaara answered looking at her a little taken back. "I was just watching you sleep. You seemed to be having such nice dreams…"

Sonki's face twitched at what he had just said and managed to force a smile upon it. "What ever you say…" She sighed and then removed her hands, looking down at the ground a little awkwardly. "You don't… You don't sleep do you?"

Gaara shook his head and then sat on the couch beside her. His gourd was leaning up against the wall a few feet away from him. This was the first time in a while that he actually remembered taking off of his body other than baths. "I can't or Shukaku will take me over…"

"But don't you get so tired?" Sonki replied, trying to press the subject forward. Even if this was anime she still couldn't bring herself to believe that he existed without sleep.

"I don't remember what tired feels like," Gaara answered.

Sonki then adverted her attention from the floor and then out the window. It was still dark outside; she was guessing the time was around midnight or maybe a little later? It was too dark for her to see the clock.

"Aren't you teammates worried about you?" Sonki asked him. "Shouldn't you be heading over to them by now?"

"What does it matter?" Gaara answered leaning back further into the couch. "I bet they're happy that I'm gone. After all, I am a living monster. They're frightened of me. Can you believe it!? My own brother and sister! Frightened of me!" He laughed a little coldly and then adverted his look over to Sonki. "But you're not…"

Sonki didn't answer him but instead continued to look out the window. "It's still raining…"

"Do you hate the rain?" Gaara asked her, his voice was flat, full of no emotion.

"No, I find it so comforting," Sonki answered, a small smile now on her face but flashed away the second Gaara begun to speak again.

"I hate it," Gaara said causing her to turn around to look at him. "Sure it washes all the filth in this world away, but it does nothing for me. All it does is downshift my mood more."

"Oh…" Sonki answered turning away from him. She laid her feet flat on the ground and then stood up, letting the blanket fall to the ground. She then walked over to the window and rested her elbows on it, gazing out at the vast dark world outside. She could feel Gaara's eyes on her. "What are you going to do when this exam is over?"

Gaara blinked at her a little confused. "Go back to my village."

"Do you think…" she stopped herself and then gazed down at the streets right below her house. A solitary figure was walking down them, but she gave little thought to who it was.

"What?" Gaara asked. "If your going to ask me to stay here with you I'm not. I don't belong here."

"I wasn't going to ask that," Sonki replied. She flipped around and then looked at Gaara, her back resting against the window seal. "Do you think I could come with you!?"

Gaara just starred at her for a few minutes, to taken back at her request. This was one of the last things he would have imagined her saying to him. "What are you saying?"

"I want to go back to the Sand Village!" Sonki said, her hands were fists at her side and her head was tilted down a bit. "I don't belong here either! I was born and raised there! I want to go back to my home! I want things to be how they used to! I want to be around you! I want to play with you like I used to when I was a kid!"

"You can't play with me anymore," Gaara answered, a small smile on his face causing Sonki to look back at him confused. "I've grown up. I'm not that little kid anymore." He rose to his feet and then walked over to where she was standing, stopping a few inches away from her. "Unless that is if you want too…" His eyes moved from her face and then starred at the floor, embarrassed.

Sonki nodded her head happily and then threw her arms around him crying. "I want to go back home! I hate it here!"

Her face was buried in his shirt as he starred down at her taken back. His hands in the air above her head as he tried to decipher what it was that he should do. Finally he rested his hands on her back and then starred ahead, still wondering what to do.

"If that's what you want to do…" Gaara answered her; he blinked and then stroked the hair on top of her head for a second before returning it to her back.

"Then we can live together! We have hang out together! Eat our meals together! And neither of us would have to be alone again!" Sonki shouted out, her hands were now gripping the back of his shirt a little tight. "We could spend our days together! Training, or whatever! It doesn't matter just as long as we're together right! Just as long as we're not alone anymore right?!"

"Yeah…" Gaara answered. She's afraid to be alone. She's afraid to be forgotten. But then again… She never really did understand that loneliness is the human condition. That, which is the true form of living…

Sonki laughed a little angrily and then detached herself from Gaara. Falling to the floor on her knees. Her hands resting on the ground as hot tears rolled down her face, landing on the floor. "It's all their fault! It's all my parents fault for making me this way!" she was now referring to the couple that had first found her outside of the gates of the village. To only see them die a year latter. "They did this too me! She's such a fool! That's what you're thinking isn't it! That I'm this stupid little girl that doesn't deserve an ounce of your attention! That's what you're thinking! Isn't it?!"

She was now in hysteria and nothing seemed to be able to stop her now. On her feet once more she was back in front of Gaara, pounding on his chest in anger.

"Is that what you are?" Gaara asked pulling her into an embrace, the first time he had ever done this to anyone. Not even to her mother's brother when he was still alive. "A fool?"

Sonki choked back tears and then grabbed onto his shirt once more. This time her face blank, her tears had stopped and she seemed to be starring off into space. "No… No I'm not."

"That's what I thought," Gaara answered pulling her in tighter. "You're just scared. It's normal to be scared of something. Such as I fear to fall asleep. Shukaku will awaken if I do, and that is what I fear. You fear being alone, being forgotten… Am I right?"

Sonki nodded her head in his arms.

"Well isn't that just cute…" a voice rang out. It sounded angry and bored at the same time.

The two drew themselves away from each other and then looked at the figure standing a few feet away from them. It was Sasuke.

"What do you want," Gaara hissed at him angrily. He had seen him showing the slightest bit of affection to someone and more of the fact he had gotten into the room without him knowing it.

"A words with her," Sasuke said pointing at Sonki. "We need to talk, now."

"I…" Sonki begun and then shook her head. "Why? Why do I need to talk to you?"

"Because you are part of me team," Sasuke answered. "And as part of my team I think I would be aloud a little more information about you Sonki. Appearing out of nowhere nine years ago in front of this village? It's a little suspicious don't you think?"

"It's none of your business," Sonki answered to him. "If you've come in search of answers you're not going to get them. I've chosen not to tell any of you anything for your own sake."

"But what if we want to know," Sasuke answered. "What if I want to know who and what the hell you are? That little act you pulled back in the exam room didn't go un noticed Sonki. What you said afterwards I didn't forget. What did you mean by 'I am reborn'?"

"It's nothing," Sonki replied. "Don't worry about it. It's of no concern and you should just forget about it."

"Then tell me one thing," Sasuke said glaring at her angrily.

"What is it," Sonki said looking back at him, their eyes met.

"Are you like Naruto?"

Sonki didn't answer him but instead shifted her eyes away from him and then over to her door, which was now wide open. The wind had started to pick up.

"Are you like Naruto! Do you also have a demon sealed inside of you!?"

"How did you figure it out?" Her eyes were still starring down at the ground, her face showed disappointment.

"Your chakara… It reminds me of Naruto. It always just seems to keep on going and going. Tell me… What is possessing you?"

Tell him Sonki. It's not as if you could keep me a secret forever, now was it?

You just keep quite. It's not as though I'm doing this for your sake.

"Garou," Sonki answered, her face turning into a frown. "Garou the Wolf demon."

"You and Naruto are a lot more alike than I thought," Sasuke said answering her, turning his back he left through the door. Not even bothering to shut it behind him.

"Naruto? Who is that?" Gaara asked. "Don't tell me it's that loud annoying little blond headed kid who was shouting during the exam… Was it?"

"That's him," Sonki answered. "Yeah he's annoying, but he's actually a very good person to have around. He's like us. He has a demon trapped inside of him. The Fourth Hokage to this village sacrificed his life in order to seal the demon inside of Naruto when he was a kid…"

"He's like us then… Feared and hated?" Gaara asked.

"That's exactly right… He's been treated the exact same way as us," Sonki answered. "Feared and hated. But then again he's trying to defy the odds. He wants to become Hokage, so everyone will respect him…"

"He won't be able too…"

"But he's not as weak as you may take him to be! You've never had the chance to fight or see him in battle!" A smile flashed across her face. "If he becomes Hokage then no one will fear us anymore! Because we'll be just like him!"

Gaara just looked at her for the third time that day taken back. Maybe… Just maybe she's right.

End, end, end. Sorry it took so long to post this chapter!