Gaara's Love
Summary: A year later and the truth about Saahra is finally known. Saahra, Gaara, Temari, and Kankurou travel to Konoha. Gaara learns about who and what Saahra is. This was only written after some asked that I continue it. I'm probably not going to go much further, though. It'll just stretch out.
Rating: T
Genre: Romance/Drama
Chapter 13: Who and What is Saahra?
It had been a year since I found Saahra in that room. She had grown stronger, but her whole body was scarred still. The council members had behaved themselves so Saahra, my siblings, and I were on our way to Konoha for a visit. Saahra walked in front of me, backwards, and was talking with me. Before we rested for lunch, she twisted her ankle and fell. I carried her the rest of the way. We were welcomed into Konoha and Naruto met us at the gate. Sakura treated Saahra's ankle.
"You probably know that this isn't a good time for us," Naruto said after all the pleasantries had been exchanged. "We need to talk in private. Would you mind if Saahra, Temari, and Kankurou stayed at the Hyuuga estate?" Saahra jumped at the name.
"Actually, while I'm here I would prefer if I kept her in sight as much as possible. It wouldn't hurt to at least have her in the room with us."
My blonde counterpart thought for a moment. "Fine," he said. "We'll cast a jutsu on her so she can't hear."
Saahra had been talking with Sakura. She came over to me and hugged my arm, smiling at me. I smiled back.
"How are you, Saahra?" Naruto asked.
She blushed a little, becoming nervous. "Uh… I-I'm fine," she said in a soft voice.
He grinned and turned to Temari and Kankurou. "You will be staying with the Hyuuga's," he said. I assumed I was included in staying there. "You can go there now. I'll send for you if you are needed. Gaara and Saahra will accompany me for now." Naruto turned and led Saahra and I to his office. Tsunade, the blonde Fifth Hokage, was there waiting for us.
"I thought it would just be between the three of us," Tsunade said angrily.
"Calm down, Tsunade-baa-chan," Naruto said. "Gaara won't let Saahra out of his sight."
The Fifth Hokage sighed. "Fine," she said. An illusionary technique was used on Saahra so she couldn't hear us speaking. It freaked her out for a little bit. "It just so happens that she is our topic of discussion. I looked up on her inn my free time over the last year. It turns out that she is a part of the strongest clan in Konoha, the Hyuuga clan."
"Is that why you have us staying there?" I asked.
Tsunade nodded. "Not only that, but she's illegitimate according to their rules. That's why she was in your village."
Naruto watched me for a reaction, but looked confused when I didn't have one. "We're actually worried that she'll be remembered, but they'll have no choice but to house her," the blonde Hokage said.
"There's another issue," Tsunade said.
"You know you are the One-Tail and I the Nine-Tail? Well, she is the Three-Tail. It was the other reason she was exiled from Konoha. They didn't need another monster in the village, I guess."
"They didn't need another one in ours, either," I said. "They locked her in a room and beat her for years. They were more afraid of her than of me."
Saahra had begun looking around the room at the books on the bookshelves. She wasn't trying to read our lips. She picked up a book and looked at it upside-down. I knew then that she had never learned to read. I looked back at my two equals.
"She doesn't know what she is and it's probably best she never know," Tsunade said.
"That's where we disagree," Naruto said. "I didn't know what I was until I was twelve. I should have been told as soon as I could understand because it would've made thinks easier."
"What do you think?" the female Sannin asked.
"I will tell her," I said, agreeing with Naruto. "She barely knows who she is. She has every right to know."