The Phantom of the Desert

(I don't own anything from Naruto or The Phantom of the Opera)

9. The Phantom's Goodbye

He brought her back to his world in the field under the night sky. He wouldn't let go of her.

Gaara touched her face and she shuddered.

Hinata: "Master…"

She never called him that before.

He turned her around and she looked into his eyes.

Say you'll share with
me one
love, one lifetime . . .
say the word
and I will follow you . . .

Share each day with
me, each
night, each morning . . .

Say you love me . . .

She sang so softly. But it resonated throughout his mind.

Gaara: "You know I do…"

He laid her in the grass and sat down beside her.

Tears started to stream out of Hinata's eyes. Her emotions were overwhelming her.

He leaned in closer and kissed them off her cheeks.

He looked into her wet eyes and saw stars shimmer in her white orbs.

Hinata: "I'm yours, Gaara… I love you."

Gaara leaned it to kiss her bust stopped when their lips were so close to touching.

Gaara: "Promise me, Hinata. Promise me that you'll never forget me…"

Hinata: "I promise…"

He kissed her. They loved each other and needed no one else. But it was a sad kiss. While tears streamed out of Hinata's eyes, tears fell from Gaara's eyes too.

Gaara wanted to touch every part of her. He wanted to make love to her. He wanted to make her his.

But he couldn't.

His fingers were laced in hers. He looked down at Hinata.

"She looks so beautiful lying there…" he thought. He would never forget that image of her.

Gaara: "H-Hinata……… I'm leaving Konoha at sunrise."

Hinata's body trembled. She tried to say something, but a whimper was all that came out.

Gaara touched her shivering face.

They both couldn't leave their villages for the other. They both had their own duties. Gaara was kazekage. Hinata was the Hyuuga heiress.

Gaara took off his mask. Under that mask was the man Hinata loved. His eyes were still wet from his tears.

He placed the mask in one of her hands.

For the whole night, Hinata stayed there with her angel. It would be the last time she ever entered his world.

The darkness of the night was more beautiful than ever for the angel and his pupil.

The hours seemed short. Gaara held onto her and wished for the sun to never appear.

But it did.

Gaara and Hinata stood there in the field just looking at each other.

Gaara: "Goodbye, my love."

Hinata: "Goodbye, my angel."

An embrace or a kiss was too painful. The pain was already shown in their eyes.

And so he disappeared in a whirlwind of sand.

Hinata wiped her tears away. She looked up and saw the moon hardly visible in the morning sky.