Omg! Sorry for taking so long to update, but no ideas really came to my mind…writers blocks suck…anyway! Enjoy! (I say that a lot, don't I? …)
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Unwanted
Chapter 24 – Cagalli's Past
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Two more days until the next rounds of the chuunin examination, that's what Lady Hokage had said, it would have been sooner, but again she had something to take care of. People were starting to wonder what could be so much more important than the chuunin exams.
Some didn't care, and actually welcomed the brake, and the time to train. Others didn't like it, they were too anxious. But then some were too hung-over to give a shit.
Cagalli sat with Naruto, finally over their hangovers. They looked at the water in the river run by, and they talked of the chuunin exam.
"Cagalli?" asked Naruto.
"What is it?" she asked, curious about his tone.
"I have a personal question to ask you…" he said, she listened, "why…why on earth
do you love Gaara?"
"Hn?" she said, leaning back on the bench they sat on. "Well…you love Katya, right?" he nodded. "Then you should know that there isn't any way to explain it; you just do. Your heart knows, and in they way your chest aches when you think of the person and they aren't there with you, it's as if it could explain your feelings better than you could. If only it could speak."
"I know what you mean." he agreed. "But…you had to start liking him somehow. You couldn't have just seen him and fallen in love with him, I mean; he was so anti-social before like, yesterday or so."
"Yeah I guess so. It would seem weird…" she replied, thinking back. "I can tell you, if you really want."
"I was six…" she began.
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Flashback:
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Cagalli ran through the streets of Sunagakure. She was being chased by a mob of mad villagers. ((A/N: makes you think of Frankenstein, doesn't it?))
She had been practicing near the village, and a stray ball of fire had hit a house sending it up in flames. Only one person had escaped the flames from that house; four others had died. Immediately the neighborhood got mad and started to swear at her, and when someone came at her with a club she began to run, which started the chase.
The villagers were gaining on her; after all, she was only six years old. She felt she should fight back, but knew she was outnumbered and didn't want to kill anyone else. Cagalli began to wear out. Her house was not too far away, but it seemed like forever until she would close that door and let her brother handle the mob.
Cagalli had been adopted into a medical ninja family. Her brother was adopted into that family also, but from a different family. Her brother always protected her, he was a ninja, and he taught her everything she knew.
Except for her 'powers'. Like Gaara, Cagalli had a demon placed inside her. The Kazekage had thought, 'if this works, why only have one when we can have two
super ninja? And if they go out of control, well, it's just two children…' So six and a half years ago, a team from Sunagakure set out to the land of fire, and they heard the legend of a phoenix.
They captured this phoenix, and like with Gaara, they placed it into a young girl. This girl was named Cagalli.
They thought, that she should have a different upbringing than Gaara, to test various ways of producing the ultimate ninja. So she was given to a medical ninja family. They gladly took her in, plus they already had a son, not of their own, though.
She saw her house up ahead, but she was too tired to continue. She collapsed on the ground.
"She's down! Kill her!" yelled a man in the mob.
"She killed my baby! She should die too!" yelled the woman whose house Cagalli had burned.
They were now around her, kicking her around like dirt.
"Why did Lord Kazekage let this girl roam free anyway?" asked another.
"Stop it." they heard someone say.
"Whose against this girl's death?" asked someone else. "They should die too!"
A small redheaded boy squeezed his way through to the middle of the circle, to where Cagalli was.
"Are you ok?" he asked, she didn't answer, she thought it was someone mocking her. "It'll be fine now. You people…" he turned to the mob.
"It's that kid!" exclaimed someone in the crowd. "He'll kill us all!" with that comment everyone scattered. Soon the street was clear of people, and only Gaara and Cagalli
remained there.
"Why did you save me?" she asked as she sat up.
"Because," Gaara replied, "Yashamaru would've wanted me to."
"Whose that?"
"Never mind," he smiled, "so why were those people attacking you like that?"
"I accidentally burned down a lady's house," she looked grimly at the ground, "and killed her husband and three children."
"That's terrible…"
"You can kick me if you want, like they did." She replied.
"I wouldn't do that." He helped her off of the ground. "That's mean. It was an accident after all, right?" she nodded.
He helped her home, then said bye and left. She swore to herself that night that she would never forget him, ever."
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"Oniisan?" she said to her brother the next day.
"What is it, sis?" he replied.
"Why do people die?"
"Well…" he thought for a moment. "It's the nature of things. That's just how it works.
If we all lived forever, then all the bad people would live forever too."
"Yeah I suppose…" she mused for a minute. "So why don't the bad people just die?"
"We're not lucky enough." He replied with a smile.
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End Flashback:
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"No offence," said Naruto, "but that sounds like a happy ending."
"But it's not done." She replied. "See, one year from then, my oniisan left me to find a 'new life'."
"What do you mean?"
"He joined Orochimaru."
"Oh…is he still alive?"
"Yes, he's still alive. And from what I gather, he's pretty high ranked." She replied.
"So is that why you're a ninja…to kill him for betraying you?" he asked.
"No way!" she gasped. "I'd never kill oniisan! I became a ninja so I…could bring him back. But now I see…Gaara won so easily in the preliminaries that I know I'll never
get to be strong enough to bring him back. I thought I could at one point, but now…"
"You lost from exhaustion, right?"
"Yeah…I can't sleep at night." She replied. "Every night, I get one, sometimes two hours of sleep. I can't fight because of that, I always collapse if I train for more than an hour and a half."
"What was that technique you used in that match?" he asked. "Does it have something to do with that phoenix inside you? Like my fox does things for me and that raccoon does stuff for Gaara?"
"Yeah." She replied. "Because of that phoenix, it's name is Kuraikaton, meaning 'dark flame', I can control fire. I use a simple Katon jutsu, and I can mold the flames into whatever I want. If I make the flames hotter, they eventually turn blue."
"I saw that." He said. "So you love Gaara because he saved you?"
"…"
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"Yeah…"
"That was an unsure answer…" he thought. "There must be more to that story than what she told me. It sure seems like it…oh well."
"What's your brother's name? You always call him oniisan…" he asked.
"Oniisan's name is…" she paused for a moment, "Yakushi Kabuto."
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Thanks for reading!
For that phoenix's name, I just combined 'kurai' meaning 'dark', and 'katon' meaning 'fire'. So I'm not so sure it would actually mean 'dark flame', it just sounds cooler than 'dark fire'.
And for all of you who don't know, 'oniisan' means 'brother'.
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