I stood there for a moment, waiting for a response and after not getting one; I poked Gaara on the shoulder gently. He jabbed me on the shoulder, harder though. Temari stood there impatiently, same with Kankuro. I smiled slightly and poked him harder on the arm, he practically punched me, I decided to try something new, I backed up and tried to focus on moving the water in a vine to make the vine move.
It worked and I poked Gaara in the stomach lightly with it and let it fall back down, before I knew it sand slammed into my stomach, I clenched in and Temari asked, "Are we going to go or not?" Gaara responded coldly, "As soon as she decides to stop poking me.
I took in a breath of air, "I'm good" He started walking, I assumed that meant he took my offer, I smiled a little, I finally had a friend, well… sort of.
We walked for a while, and the forest slowly started to disappear as we entered a desert and we walked through that until nightfall. We stopped and I sat down, thinking we were going to make camp, they looked ahead and then looked at me, I smiled sheepishly and stood up.
"So how much farther before we get…" my voice trailed off as I saw the nearly invisible place, it was amazing really, I started to walk through the gates and looked back to make sure Gaara, Temari and Kankuro were coming. They started walking and I waited until they were ahead of me before I started again.
They walked through the streets, no one gave us dirty looks, I was glad, and they went almost to the kage's place, but they stopped and went into a small shake-like house. I looked around; there were 3 bedrooms and one bathroom. This couldn't be where they lived right?
I wandered around the small house when the door opened, I turned quickly and there was a man with a cloth draped over half his face standing there. I secretly stepped behind Gaara, unsure of whether or not he was safe. The man looked angry after a moment, "Where is it?" he asked quickly.
Kankuro started, "Well… you see, what happened was…" He looked at me hiding behind Gaara and laughed silently. I stepped out from behind Gaara, feeling silly and slightly embarrassed. The man looked at me with disgust, "Who are you?" he asked gruffly.
"I-I'm Hakume… and…" I looked down for a moment, "And, I… uh… it's my fault that little Konohomaru isn't here…" I said quietly, not looking up. I heard foot steps, I saw feet then he said, "Gaara, she is of no use, kill her." I gasped and stepped back, I looked at Gaara who was showing no emotion.
Sand started to wrap around me, I wasn't going to struggle, I stood there solemnly as the sand wrapped around me until I was completely covered except for my head. He mumbled something, I though he said 'friend' but I didn't think so, the sand crushed me, not hard enough to kill, but hard enough to hurt me bad enough so I couldn't move, the sand let go and I dropped.
I watched at the man walked out, and my vision started to blur, I stood up weakly as soon as he left, it hurt to move, but I looked at Gaara, confused as to why he would do that, "Is… there a hospital near by?" I asked quietly.
He ignored me, I stood there and wanted to give him a hug for not killing me, but I didn't want to walk.
I stood there, Kankuro looked surprised, so did Temari, but I couldn't really see clearly, so I wasn't sure if they were surprised or not. I leaned against a wall for support, my entire body hurt from shoulder to toe.
It was quiet for a while, I heard whispering, but couldn't understand what they were saying, I walked over to Gaara painfully and slowly, every step hurting, "Why…?" I asked him with a smile, probably knowing the answer already.
Suddenly my knees buckled and I fell on Gaara, someone caught me and I blacked out.