lostmoonchild: I have absolutely no idea why I decided to post this or even WHY it was written but I guess its because I love Gaara fanfictions and I wanted to do one about him and his siblings. Anyway, I don't own Naruto.

Brother and Sister

"Why?"

It had been a simple question, something that had been on Gaara's mind for quite some time now. He needed to know exactly why they loved him when he knew perfectly well that they were afraid of him. Why did they put up with him knowing that if they pissed him off, they were as good as dead?

Kankuro looked at Gaara before looking at their sister. Temari put her scroll down and motioned for Gaara to come over to them. "Aw, c'mon!" Kankuro protested knowing he was risking getting killed. "You can tell him while he's over there."

Right now, killing Kankuro was an option but Gaara chose to ignore that option as he walked to his brother and sister, hiding his shock when Temari pulled him onto her lap. "You've gotten so big, little brother." Temari said with a small smile.

Gaara didn't answer or show any emotion at Temari's comment. "Why?" Gaara questioned again.

"Because you're our brother. We love you, believe it or not."

"But you're afraid of me."

It was obvious that both teenagers hadn't anticipated Gaara knowing they were afraid. Granted, they probably didn't do a very good job of hiding the fact they were afraid of him. "Sometimes, Gaara, we don't know exactly what's going on in your mind. I mean, you kill whoever gets in your way so we try to stay out of your way so we won't get killed."

Gaara silently thought of his sister's explanation and silently admitted to himself that she was right. He didn't let them know what was going on inside his mind so it was understandable that they were partially afraid because of that. Slowly, he nodded. "You could leave me." Gaara said softly.

"But we don't."

"Because you l-love me." Gaara answered, stumbling a little over "love" since he rarely used the word.

Temari nodded and said, "Yeah. You're our little brother. Believe it or not, baby brother, we have a job as older siblings to make sure you're safe. Even though you can take care of yourself."

Gaara nodded also and looked over at Kankuro, not at all surprised to see that Kankuro wanted Gaara to go to a different part of the house. "Do you love me too, Kankuro?" Gaara asked.

"Umm.."

"He does. Even though he doesn't want to admit it anytime soon." Temari said shooting a glare at the puppet controller.

The look in Kankuro's eyes told a completely other story for a minute before he silently showed Gaara how he felt. "Okay." Gaara said finally satisfied.

"Now I know you don't sleep but the rest of us need to." Temari said with a gentle smile. "So jump down so I can get to bed."

Gaara jumped off his sister's lap and followed his older siblings, making sure they didn't fight. "Night, Gaara. Night, Kankuro." Temari said yawning.

Kankuro and Gaara didn't answer but Temari knew perfectly well that they had silently bid her goodnight. When the older siblings were in their rooms and hopefully going to sleep, Gaara went back into the living room and sat in the chair Temari had been sitting in. They loved him but at the same time feared him. What was it that somebody said once? That love conquers all?

Well, he didn't know if that was true but he knew that someday he'd show his brother and sister that he cared for them too. Right now, though, he wasn't willing to admit it to anybody…including himself.

lostmoonchild: Okay, I tried to make them as accurate as possible but I haven't seen all that many episodes of Naruto so I"m a little "duh" about the characters and places. Read and Review, flames are accepted.