Wish

Chapter 13

Date, alcohol and…

MaiAki sighed as she watched Alix practically jump around towards the coffee machine. She was a little bit too hyper for her own good… Either she had an epiphany of some kind, or something must have happened to her adoptive family. She tilted her head to the side.

"Alix-chan…?"

Alix came to a stop, wincing as she hit the wall with her injured shoulder. "Hm?"

"Are you alright? You seem a little bit happier than normal."

Alix shrugged lightly, closing her eyes for a moment. She was acting really preppy, but she knew it. Hell she had a date with the hottest person she'd ever seen, Gaara, the Kazekage. She wasn't denying it, but slowly the feelings were creeping into her mind and heart - though it was happening all too fast. Sure, he saved her from her 'brother's' attack, took her to the hospital, and she told him what had happened with her adoptive family. Hell, she didn't even tell MaiAki about it. She didn't want to worry her own sister. It was too much of a hassle, and it'd involve her getting mad at her again and storming out. She didn't need that. Not 3 days before her birthday!

"Nothing, don't worry about it." She grinned and looked towards the coffee machine, placing her hand over it in remembrance with Mike and his beloved coffee. She closed her eyes for a moment, giving a silent prayer to herself.

"So…? Come on Alix-cha! Tell meeee." By this time MaiAki decided to latch herself onto Alix's leg.

"I have a… meeting of a sort with Gaara."

"The Kazekage?" MaiAki jumped up and looked down at Alix… How she hated being short.

"Yes..?"

"Oh…My…. God… Alix-chaaaaann!" MaiAki started to squeal which led to Alix almost falling over, throwing off some random plates, them hitting the ground and breaking, then the sound of the door being swung open and arms wrapped around MaiAki protectively. Alix landed on the ground.

"Oh, nice, no one saves me.."

"Holy hell, what's going on?" Batman looked between the two.

"How come your always randomly showing up… are you stuffed some where's in a wall outside the room or something?"

Batman shrugged lightly, smirking.

"Alix-chan has a date with your brother!"

Batman choked on air, actually letting go of MaiAki to take a step back as if Alix herself was the spawn of the devil.

"What?" Alix slowly stood up from her position on the floor and brushed herself off.

"You're… Going on a date… with… Gaara… Wow… The worlds coming to an end!"

"The more you pause, the more I get bored, you know that?" Alix sighed, running her fingers through her hair, eyes catching glimpse of the clock. "Shit! Oh god… I'm late. You son of a bitch! You wasted moment's of my life… Moment's I'll never get back!" She pointed at Batman which only gave her a confused look. With that said, she had vanished in a poof of smoke.

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He'd managed to get out of the office early and was now sitting in the back of the restaurant, waiting for Alix. She was late by a minute, but it wasn't to a point where he actually cared if she was late… he was just getting impatient.

"This way Miss!"

The sound of the preppy waitress that had served him earlier came back with Alix in tow who was now apparently glaring at her. The waitress pointed at the seat, smiled at him and glared at Alix.

"I'm so tempted to rip your eyes out."

Her eyes widened and she walked away. Slowly, Alix turned to face him and smiled.

"Hey, sorry I'm late, got held up at the house with Batman and MaiAki."

He shook his head to indicate he wasn't mad or angry.

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They had talked about various things, actually had a in depth conversation about Gaara's live. Still Gaara had managed to scare her with his paragraphs long speech. He seemed shifty about telling her his past, but managed to talk about it anyways. After all, they were alone in the back when they arrived…

()()()()()()()()Flashback ()()()()()()()()

"When I was born, I had killed my own mother. Because of me harboring such a demon and the stress she endured was too much. Though, her death is still on my hands, she had cursed me and told me to hate the village. My father had loathed me, and my sibling's didn't bother to come around me; I was feared by everyone in this village, called a monster, or a freak because I harbored Shukaku. I had killed assassin's after assassin's because my father had seen me as a threat.

"I wanted to be acknowledged then, feel loved and secure, but apparently I couldn't get that because of Shukaku. My uncle had been an assassin and was trying to kill me, but I managed to kill him first. He was wearing a mask so I couldn't see his face. When I pulled it away, I was shocked to see it was him. He told me he never actually loved me, and hated me for my mother's death. Then he killed himself, trying to get rid of me. Of course, I didn't die.

"That was where I started become cold, and emotionless, thinking that the only love I needed was from myself, and to know my existence was to kill. That is until I met Naruto. We had a fight, and he taught me that friends are important. He became my first friend.

"Akatsuki managed to get a hold of me 3 years ago ( Akatsuki being a fear clan of a sort who is after every tailed demon's to get powerful ) and they had extracted Shukaku out of me, killing me. My grandmother ((A/n: I think it's his grandmother, I have no idea.. Correct me.)) gave her life to bright me back, with the help of Naruto's chakra…" He let out a breath that he never knew he was holding.

Alix just sat there, stricken by what he said. That had to be the worst childhood she had ever heard summed up into 3 and a half paragraphs… she really thought she was having a heart attack, her chest hurt so much. The hurt in his eyes were so apparent it made her want to cry. Slowly she stood up - and because they were in the back where no one was - she hugged him. Her arms wrapping around his neck. She could feel him tense once again, like the other night before he relaxed in her arms, his own wrapping around her waist to pull her forwards, closer to him. He had to stand up by that point.

"I'm sorry to hear that. No one deserves to live a life like that - hell I can't even compare my life even close to yours…"

He didn't say anything, just stayed quiet, enjoying the feeling from being hugged from her. Slowly his eyes closed and lowered his head into her neck. It was obvious he was tired, he still couldn't sleep, and it had been a while since Shukaku was extracted from him. Her scent made him want to fall asleep.

This was the comfort he felt when she was near him…

She ran her fingers through his hair slowly, as if to put him to sleep, but she knew that they had to leave soon. "Do you mind if I walk with you to the office?" She felt him shake his head and she slowly pulled away from him. She watched as he slowly opened his eyes to look at her. She caressed his cheek before pulling away and grabbing onto his arm to drag him out to the front of the restaurant before letting go of his arm and walking outside with him right behind her.

()()()()()()()()End Flashback ()()()()()()()()

She looked at Gaara and smiled lightly when he looked at her.

"Alix-chaaan!"

"Oof-!" Alix was flung back onto the ground by the sudden glomping of a certain female that knew her all to well. She sighed. "MaiAki! Don't do that, my god damn shoulder hurts enough!"

"Ooooh, right, sorry." She laughed nervously before getting up and helping her up. "Kazekage, Alix, were going drinking tonight!"

"What?"

"Hn."

Alix looked at Gaara. "Is 'hn' even a word?"

"For Gaara it is."

"Shut up Batman no one asked you!"

"What?"

"I'll fight you!"

"Alix, stop." Gaara was getting tired of the fight.

She pouted lightly, actually crossing her arms over her chest and glared at Batman. "I'll go tonight, but so help you god if I get drunk, I will murder you." She grinned.

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So the four of them sat around a table, MaiAki next to Batman, which happened that he was next to Alix who was currently trying to stab him with a fork in the leg and Gaara sitting next to her.

"Stop trying to stab me!"

"Who says I'm stabbing you?"

MaiAki sighed and hit Batman's arm. "Would you stop? Alix's birthdays is in …3ish days, it's time to drink!"

Alix sighed and nodded, grabbing a bottle of Sake and Sambuca ((A/n: I know it's not a Japanese drink, but hell it's the best thing I've ever had.)) she then handed the sake to Gaara, who filled his glass up and drank it down. Alix filled up her glass and downed that.

For the next hour and a half, Batman, Gaara and Alix all had a contest to see who could have 10 shots of Sake without passing out or throwing up. Alix gave up at 5, Batman gave up at 8, and Gaara got to 10. MaiAki just judged, she didn't want to get hammered tonight.

MaiAki stood up from the table, waved goodbye to everyone, kissed Batman on the cheek before leaving the bar. Alix had placed her arms on the table, before sliding more onto it and passing out. Gaara noticed, but had to finish his contest with his older brother. Gaara lost to no one!

Too bad, Alix didn't see the visions…

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As MaiAki left the bar, she walked around the corner of the building, trying her best not to breath in too much sand right now. She had left herself completely off guard and didn't bring any weapons with her, and her Taijutsu wasn't all that good. And her having alcohol in her system didn't help her Chakra one bit.

If only she brought someone with her, they probably would have back off. 5 Shinobi's jumped from the shadows, surrounding her, indication of their level was their Jounin jackets…

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The sounds of blurred yelling entered her mind and she spun in her bed, laying face down in the matriss.

"Alix!" It paused for a moment before the person started to shake her violently. "Alix, god damn it wake up! This is important!"

Alix only mumbled something incoherent and managed to get her leg out and kick the person back. She was tired and had a huge headache, most likely a hangover from all the alocohol she consumed last night with the two guys. She burped and it tasted extremely sour.

"Alix! It's about MaiAki!" The voice was no desperately urget by now, as if it was a life or death situation.

"What?" She sat up abruptly, her head started to spin and she almost fell back onto the bed, but the fuzzy figure in front of her was holding her up.

"MaiAki is in the hospital! She's dying."

"She's what?" That cleared her vision fast and she stood up, ignoring the blood rushing to her head. The medic in front of her, nodded her head and grabbed onto Alix's arm and dragged her up to the room ( Gaara had brought her to the hospital and put her in the 'waiting room' so she could sleep ) As she entered, she saw Gaara sitting by Batman who seemed to be dead, and MaiAki in the bed. Her eyes widened.

"Jesus Christ… MaiAki…" Tears started to brim her eyes. "…I can't lose you either.."

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Omen:Le gasp: Cliffy. And my longest chapter yet! 2021 words! Ah… The drama with death… How sad. I'd like to thank Gaara's-pandachan101 for the review; I'm so glad you like my Alix char.

You know the drill, R&R.