Wish

Chapter 18

Truth

Gaara never heard her voice so cold; different even. His eyes narrowed - his concentration was completely shot and Alix was on his mind. Her chakra was a lot different from the day before and it was starting to put him on edge. The only good thing from it was that she could possibly protect herself some more due to the increase. She seemed more like him than he thought.

He sighed, leaning back in the over-sized chair and closed his eyes. The events that happened yesterday floated into his mind. Watching them over, he picked something out that seemed out of place - she had lied to him.

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"Where are you going?" He seemed to be worried.

"Rain."

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For one to come up with a quick answer right away seemed to be planned out as if she knew he was going to ask her where she was going. But why should she lie to him? No, she couldn't have., but of course females are mental assassin's, so his brother told him. They could always pry there way into your brain, but you could never pry into theirs.

His hand moved to his forehead, rubbing it lightly. A headache was starting to form just by worrying and trying to figure her out. Standing, he opened his eyes and looked out over the darkening city of Sand. His home. 'What is Alix's home like..?'

The other thing that had pried itself into his brain was his constant worrying for her - his constant need to see or be with her, but managed to keep tamped down. Sure he acted different around her and only her, hell even his siblings didn't get to see him be remotely nice other than taking missions to fill for Temari when she needed it.

Which brought up another situation - Temari had been gone to Konoha for a while and she wasn't back yet. He had gotten one message from her, one, over the span of the time Alix and her team had been here. Something must be up, she was captured, killed, or with Shikamaru. He came to terms with Shikamaru and his sister together, but he still wasn't all good with it.

Like someone had been in his mind, someone knocked on the door, causing him to turn his head and glare at the door. He mumbled an 'enter' and the doorknob turned and in walked his sister with the brightest smile he had ever seen on her face.

"Gaara, hey." She gave a small wave. Though, she was still wary, she wasn't going to let it show to her brother; she had to be the older sibling and act like it and not fear him - he wasn't a monster anymore.

He nodded his head. "Temari." Slowly, he turned around and crossed his arms over his chest, still glaring daggers at his older sister.

"Yeah, I know. Sorry about the lack of information and my well-being. But we've got information on a notorious village east of Sound. Called the Hidden village of Azure."

That caught his attention as if he had been set on fire. Temari took noticed and questioned what was wrong.

"Tell me what this information is."

"Apparently they are highly skilled in all elements and can control it perfectly. The village is pretty small, but they have about 200 Shinobi's ready and willing to fight like four villages put together. Word is that they are looking for suitable villages to ally themselves with. They've already been to Konoha, and they will be going to Sound. They were to travel three countries, but we can't find out which is the other one. We should be on high alert, they might want to kill you and get Sand."

Gaara stood there, emotionless mask still in placed but inside his head he was freaking, his heart was beating like he was having a heart attack. Alix and her 'sister' could be here to kill him, and take his village? Would that be the reason why she was getting so close? His eyes narrowed. He got to close, and now he was in shit, deep shit. If they could control every element known, perfectly - would he be able to stand up to Alix and MaiAki alone? There was also Kankuro, because he was with MaiAki… He shouldn't tell him now… He wanted to get down to the bottom of this.

"Alright. Temari…"

"Yes?"

"Do not tell Kankuro about this. I will do so myself when the time comes."

Temari looked at her younger brother confused. "But-"

"Don't tell him."

She nodded and left the room, leaving Gaara to his thoughts.

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Alix sighed, her body wanting to fall to the ground and stop breathing. She had been training all day, and now she was starting to suffer from dehydration. MaiAki stood off to the left, training with Batman, while she was stuck with wood from random things, dunes of sand and fake punching bags she had to create, but made them too hard, breaking her knuckle.

"Ow… Why did I do that?" She poked the knuckle before collapsing into a sitting position with her legs crossed. Lowering her head in front of her, her long hair cascaded down her face, a sand-filled gust of wind passed, letting her hair swing back and forth in front of her eyes.

"Oi, Alix-chan!"

She raised her head at the sound of Batman calling her name and looked over her shoulder and at the two, apparently waving at her.

"We're grabbing some dinner!"

Alix raised her hand and waved lightly, saying 'bye' or, according to MaiAki 'Go do whatever you want, I don't really give a shit.' Sighing, she pushed herself up, wincing slightly as she put a little bit more than enough pressure on her broken knuckle, but managed to get up anyways.

"Okay, now…"

Enclosing her fist tightly, she punched the sand dune and it exploded before swirling around her body. Her eyes widened - the sand wasn't supposed to do that, she hadn't even put that must chakra into her fist to do that. Suddenly, she felt as if she was hit by many, many cars and her breath caught in her throat. Something was squeezing her to the point where it was about to break every bone in her body.

She finally realized she was encased by the sand, her eyes widening.

'Get out of here, Alix!'

'I… I can't move, Omen! Do something!'

'Fi--'

"Alix."

Her eyes snapped to the side, looking at who it was who said her name. Gaara. Why the hell was he doing this? Did she happen to do something she had no idea? Or was…

"You lied."

"…L-lied?"

He didn't say anything but caused the sand to squeeze her body more, causing her to scream out in pain, before biting her lip hard. She winced incredibly.

"Who are you?"

"Alix?"

He growled. "Who are you."

"Rage Alix… Shinobi from Azure - I told you that!" She paused her eyes closed for a moment, her breathing becoming labored.. "Gaara… let me go.."

"Kazekage-sama." He corrected her. His eyes narrowing.

"What…?"

"I didn't stutter, did I?" His question was rhetorical.

"Your hurting me Gaara, stop, please!"

'Alix, he'll kill you. His intent to murder you is incredible. I will step out soon.'

"You lied to me; I got too close to you. You're making me weak."

Everything in her body, mind, soul and breathing just stopped - as if time itself had stopped. Her eyes widened, and like a film, her dream flashed through her eyes..

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"Why…?"

"You slow me down. Your making me weak."

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She didn't say anything, just let her head drop, her hair covering her face. She let her body fall limp, she stopped struggling. If she was going to die, then it'd be better if it was him who did it.

'Alix stop being a fool!'

'Why stop it?'

'I'm not dying by a Child.'

"Well then Kazekage-sama. What is your motive for attacking us?"

Gaara's eyes narrowed. "Us?"

"My name is Omen. The demon bound to Alix's soul for the time being." Alix's head raised, and her eyes were no longer gray, but the chameleon-color. "Did you know I could kill you by looking at you?"

Gaara's fist tightened, only causing this 'Omen' to smirk. He watched as his very own sand just collapsed around her, on the ground. She tilted her head to the side, taking steps towards him.

"So, Kazekage-sama… Did you figure out the truth - and now you feel as though you've been cheated and betrayed?" Omen smirked. "I assure you, we're not after you. If we had been, I would have been awakened sooner and killed you without her knowing… Would've been easier on the child."

"Why didn't she tell me?"

"You should know when on a mission, you gather information, but you never say anything to anyone. She didn't want to worry about you. Poor thing likes you, so she worries. It's a pity really. Had I been human I probably would've fallen for ya."

"Keep your thoughts to yourself."

"Kazekage-sama. Will you kill her, once I leave?"

Gaara stayed silent. He had acted out of rage towards her - just because she lied. But then again everyone else lied to him when he was younger, everyone hated him, looked the other way and feared him… Why was it when Alix lied to him, it made him more mad than his entire childhood?

She smirked. " 'I'll never hurt you' " She paused, shaking her head. "Good way to destroy one's friendship…"

And like Omen had arrived, She vanished, causing Alix herself to drop to her knee's like she was dead before breathing properly and leaning forwards on her hands.

"I guess we're even…"

Alix's eyes looked up at Gaara, tears brimming her eyes. "I guess we are.."

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R i d e r: Hooray, there's tenseness between the two. Cliché for them to hate/be mad at each other the day before she leaves. Though my internet was being a total and complete son of a bitch, I was debating on re-writing this and making it more violent… but I'm not in the mood to take everything out…

Mint Irachi - Yay, I'm glad you like my story! I didn't think it'd be 'unique'… More along the lines of amateur, but Meh. Thanks! Oh, and no, the review didn't seem preppy. Every other person is hyper, like SugarSnike.

SugarSnike - lmao, can I steal 'snazzy' from you? I'll give you… more candy..?

You know the drill Soldiers! R&R