Keep It Silent
Chapter 5
The Last Chapter...
After Gaara had told me what had happened to the baby, I was astonished. I couldn't focus correctly. I was too shocked to speak. I wouldn't listen to anyone, I kept spacing out, and Gaara was getting terribly worried about me. I was depressed for the first few weeks. I'd just sit in the room Gaara and I had started setting up and sit at the bay window overlooking Konoha... I was really looking forward to having my second child. Damn that Sasuke...
-A Month After The Accident-
Well... There Anika was. She was feeling better about the whole situation, but she still felt sick a lot of the time. Half the time Anika felt like she was being sucked into a giant black hole... Everything was dark in her own world. She had gone back to secretly cutting. Gaara was getting suspicious.
Anika felt as depressed as the first few weeks that were now in the past. She headed up to her old room and locked the door behind her, pulling out a kunai. She poised the blade above her wrist and carved the letters 'A N I K A' into her skin. Blood flowed lightly from the wound as she heard the door start to unlock.
Gaara was standing outside of the door, the sand picking at the lock. A few more turns and...
Click!
There! Gaara opened the door to meet his wife's eyes. He looked at her wrist and gapped at her. "Anika...?" The girl looked at him and darted out of the room, jumping down the stairs and running out the front door in tears. She had been rather emotional over the past month and at the slightest tone in her name would make her run off crying. Gaara chased after her...
-Hokage Mountains-
Anika was on the edge of the mountain side, trying to catch her breath and stop herself from choking on sobs. Gaara hugged her from behind, his embrace warm and forgiving. "I know what you're going through, Anika..." Gaara whispered in her ear with a soft voice.
"No." She said suddenly, "You don't understand."
"What...?" Gaara questioned in slight surprise.
"You don't understand what it's like. I'm not the cheerful Anika you're used to. This is the real me. I crave this pain. I need it, Gaara..." Gaara shook his head at her words.
"Stop this. I know you're better than this. You're just upset. Just stop..." Gaara pleaded, looking at her with worried green eyes.
"No."
Gaara sighed at her stubborness and pulled out a kunai and started slashing at his arm. "Fine. If you won't stop, I'll slash until I bleed to death..."
"Gaara! Stop!" Anika cried out, trying to pull the blade away from him before throwing herself into his arms. He then dropped the kunai and held her close.
"Does it really take me threatening to kill myself ot make you stop?..."
-Home-
As Anika and Gaara entered the crowded hotel-like house, Shikamaru smirked at the two. "Have fun cutting?" He asked with a chagrin.
"Cutting...?" Anika asked in 'surprise'. A total lie in her part.
"Yes. I saw you two cutting at the top of Hokage Mountains." Shikamaru said. Well Anika and Gaara certainly couldn't have Shikamaru blurting out the truth! It was totally wrong ot tell the truth! Er... um... You get it. Of course the young married couple won this battle with a totally insane lie. But that's how it went in this insane house...
Everything was perfect for the next few years. Everyone was happy. I had forgotten my sadness and was now twenty, Gaara being twenty-one. We never cut after that incident with my depression, and made eachother promise ot tell eachother anything if something was wrong. Insanity happened, yes. Did it ever get old? Never. Maybe a little insanity in someone's life is good... Ha... Everything was perfect for all of us. But don't tell anyone to live like this... I mean it. Maybe it'll be best for you and your comrades to... Keep it silent
(( I thought that was a good ending. :) Well, off to bed! I'll write another story as soon as I can get a good theme! Love you guys:D ))