At first I couldn't decide whether to make this a sasuke fic or a Gaara fic. In the end I decided on Gaara. Written to Avenged Sevenfold's Bat country (I have already done a bat country songfic before, but I'm using it again, because I'm bored)

Becoming the beast

Caught here in a fiery blaze, won't lose my will to stay.

I tried to drive all through the night,

the heat stroke ridden weather, the barren empty sights.

No oasis here to see, the sand is singing deathless words to me.

I look down at the person who used to be my "friend". She hated me all along. But no matter what I do, I can never end this pain.

Can't you help me as I'm startin' to burn (all alone).

Too many doses and I'm starting to get an attraction.

My confidence is leaving me on my own (all alone).

No one can save me and you know I don't want the attention.

Everyone...hates me. They all want to get rid of me. I'm like a reminder that everyone wats gone. Then, a voice in my head speaks to me, "You can always rely on me, boy." The voice is right, the demon is right. My face hardens as I begin to think about it.

As I adjust to my new sights the rarely tired lights will take me to new heights.

My hand is on the trigger I'm ready to ignite.

Tomorrow might not make it but everything's all right.

Mental fiction follows me; show me what it's like to be set free.

I stand here, watching people glare at me. A man walks up and starts to yell at me for something, I can't clearly remember what. So I kill him. "This is what I can do to people...I like it," I say to the beast in my head.

Sometimes I don't know why we'd rather live than die,

we look up towards the sky for answers to our lives.

We may get some solutions but most just pass us by,

don't want your absolution cause I can't make it right.

I'll make a beast out of myself, gets rid of all the pain of being a man.

I have been killing people for years now, and I live for it. It is my reason for existance. I've had, "Companions," join me, but not because of this 'love' that woman had spoke of. They stuck around because I wouldn't kill them. I am the true beast now. It get's rid of some of the pain.

So sorry you're not here I've been sane too long my vision's so unclear.

Now take a trip with me but don't be surprised when things aren't what they seem.

I've known it from the start all these good ideas will tear your brain apart.

Scared but you can follow me I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die.

They...care. I am a beast, a Jinchuuraki, and they still stick around...that's why they're still around. Maybe...I can learn to like this.