Gaara's Love
Summary: Temari has called Naruto, the Sixth Hokage, to come to Suna, against the wishes of Gaara. Gaara's feelings start to show.
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Drama
Chapter 3: Konoha Trio
The girl slept during the day and stared at the door at night. When she slept on her side, her hair fell over her face. I moved it sometimes to watch her sleep. I ignored the council members because they only wanted to put her back in the room. My siblings dealt with them.
"Maybe you should ask Sakura to come look at her," Temari suggested.
I remained silent on the offer. I didn't want to bug anyone outside of the village. Of course, three days later, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura appeared in the door to the girl's room. I could only sigh at them.
"Temari wrote to us," Sakura said, sitting next to the girl and looking her over.
"Once we heard you got a girl," Naruto said, in his stupid voice, "we couldn't help but come over here and congratulate you."
I glared at Naruto, whose boyfriend hit him in the head. I looked back at the girl as Sakura finished her analysis.
"She needs lots of rest and I need to bandage all of her wounds," the medical ninja said. "It would take up too much Chakra to heal them all at once. When was the last time she was awake?"
"Before the sun came up," I replied. "She's only awake at night."
Sakura nodded. "Has she eaten anything at all?"
"I haven't seen her eat," I said, "and I really haven't left."
"We'll bring her food when we return here," Sasuke said. "We're going to go to get a room in a hotel."
"I'll bring lots of ramen," Naruto shouted. Sasuke grabbed him by the back of his shirt and pulled him out of the room. Sakura smiled at me and followed after them.
They returned as they said they would and the girl woke up at the same time. She hid herself under the blankets. Sakura forced them away from her and threw them on the floor. The girl was terrified and she refused to listen to the other girl's words of comfort. Naruto was deep in thought, while Sasuke was just watching the girl. The girl let out a shriek as she fell off the bed. I jumped slightly to catch her, but my red sand was faster. It caught her quickly and set her back on the bed. She looked at me a little frightened, but glad. I couldn't help but smile softly. She blushed and looked away from me.
I heard Sakura giggled and I looked at her confused. "That was cute," she said.
I glared at her for a second and then turned away.
The girl let out a few shouts and gasps as her wounds were treated. She ate, but was very wary. Naruto tried to get her to talk, but she refused.
"Why don't you guys rest?" I suggested when Sakura yawned. "I'll send for you in the morning."
"Just behave yourself," Naruto joked, receiving another glare.
"Maybe you can get her to talk," Sasuke said, smirking. "We could find out where she's from just by that."
I didn't say anything and had my eyes closed. They were gone in a few minutes and I opened my eyes.
"Thank you, G-gaara." I looked at her, unfazed. She blushed a little. "I was called Saahra by the people who were hurting me."
I smiled slightly again. I didn't say anything because I'm not used to chatting, it is useless to me. Plus, she already knew my name so I had nothing more to say.
"W-where am I?" she asked, looking around.
"In a hospital room," I answered.
"What village?"
"Village of the Hidden Sand. Do you remember anything from before that room?"
"I remember the red ball and red sand," she whispered, looking down. She was fiddling with her hands in her lap. "I saw red hair, but I don't recall the red kanji."
I put a hand on the exposed side of my forehead over my scar. I had a quick flashback to the moment I got it and then sighed with closed eyes.
"What's wrong?" I heard her ask. I opened my eyes and saw her worried face.
I shook my head and stood. "You should rest some. You can't keep sleeping at night or you'll never go to a normal routine."
"I don't know normal anymore." She sighed and lay down. I picked her blanket up and put it over her. For the first time, I left the room, but didn't shut the door. I lay on the bed in the room across from hers. It was obviously empty. I didn't sleep, but I drifted off into memory.