Abandon Memories

A GAARA LOVE STORY

SPLAT! Water trickled down my long brown hair and dripped to the sandy road below me as it steamed from the sizzling sun hovering over us. "DAMNIT SARAH!!! Why the hell did you do that?" I hollered as the cold water granted me an icy shiver which traveled up and down my spine.

"You looked hot...?"

"Shut up. You're cruel and inhuman." I scowled at her outsized water bottle with a malicious frown that would make even the toughest man, cringe. We were going to see Sarah's boyfriend, Kankuro, and his older sister, Temari to throw a surprise party for their little brother, who I still had no clue who he was. Oh joy this is going to be fun…

"Okay, I'm sorry. Let's just hurry up. Let's take the short cut! I don't want to be late for my Cookie Bear!" Sarah sang contently while the sun sustained to roast the sand which we roamed on daily.

"The shortcut is scary. No one goes there and what's with the Cookie Bear? Can't you just call him his name instead of a weird love nick-name? Besides, he won't care if we're a little late." I whined, not sure that the wasteland before us would be reliable enough to stroll through.

"No, we can't be late! Kankuro will think I'm a lazy idiot who will always be late! That's unacceptable and I can't let that happen!!! " she wailed out, thinking if she did arrive late, what would he say?

"But you are that kind of person… I'm just saying that he's the last person who would care about being late; he does it all the time! Just don't freak out on me! You're scary sometimes…" I mumbled, running for the 'shortcut' at full speed to escape the wrath from my intimidating best friend.

We were talking about what the surprise party might be about when I glimpsed a strange man behind an abandoned house, that's paint was flaking in large clumps. Being me, of course, ignored it but soon I noticed him pop up more often in the short amount of time we wandered about through the diminutive but extensive street. He was stalking us. Oh my God…crap.

"Sarah, there's someone following us." I murmured looking back to see the man dart across the stretched avenue, behind a garbage can that shone in the sun's rays of light. I told Sarah not to look back, afraid that he would pursue us but, she did anyways. As I suspected he might, the man began to walk faster; I noticed this immediately and screamed at Sarah.

"RUN! Go get Kankuro! Hurry!!!" I yelled as I ruthlessly pushed Sarah forward. She scampered away just as I felt the man's bulky hands on my trembling shoulder and mouth. I bit down hard on his sweaty hand and tasted his salty blood in my mouth. He threw me downward on the ground, and with my luck, just happened to fall on a sizeable rock, knocking me out with a sharp pang.

SARAH'S P.O.V

"Kankuro! Temari! HELP!!!" I screamed frantically trying to piece together what had just happened in the dreadful road behind. Kankuro wrenched the front door open in a clear panic and dashed to me hastily.

"What happen? What's wrong?" he asked horrified seeing the shocked look in my blurred and dry eyes.

"Kankuro, help, Sa, Satu, a-a man, he, he took her!" I choked out, realizing it.

"What? Where? TEMARI GET OUT HERE!!!" he screamed. Seconds later she pushed the door open and spilled out as I filled her in, my panting and choking voice crackling under the tremendous pressure of finding Satu alive and unharmed. She was just as panicked as Kankuro and I. "Hurry, we need to get there as soon as possible! Sarah, where were you two?" Temari questioned.

"I-I don't know what it's called but I do know where it is! We were just walking when a man came and grabbed her. She pushed me away just in time."

We rushed to the location where my best friend was kidnapped to find it entirely disserted, without a speck of evidence. "SATU?" I cried out. Nothing. I began to cry feeling utterly guilty for what had happened to her. Then suddenly, I observed the ground trembling, no, it wasn't the muddy earth that was moving, it was me, shaking with fright and horror. I fell to the hard and unwanted ground as all my strength drained from my body rapidly in a tiny and horrible gasp. I heard Temari shriek anxiously for Kankuro who was, at the moment, trying to sooth me. Seconds later, there was a massive explosion which shook the soil violently as more tears rolled along my stained and freckled cheeks.

TEMARI'S P.O.V

I whizzed around, trying to pin-point where Satu had been hidden when I heard a small snap ahead. I hollered for my brother as I swung my fan frantically at the man I spotted concealed behind a splintering wood door. "You shity fuck head! Let her go!" I screamed at him, fuming. He blocked my wind attack and pursued to strike me with just his sheer force. Luckily Kankuro arrived just in time as his puppet blocked the intense blow. "I could have dodged it myself you know!" Let the battle begin you perverted bastard.

Normal P.O.V.

I detected an explosion close to me and I aroused to a blur of colors. My head throbbed, a lot. I tried to stand but I was tied up as a hostage and victim of an unfinished crime. Damn that bastard, who the hell does he think he is? I had my hands as well as my feet fastened to a cold metal pole and could almost taste the rust in the air. I couldn't move. Damnit, how do I get out of these cursed ropes? I hate ropes, they suck!

All I could do was sit and watch the fight persist. To my utter horror, the man scurried to me and put a sharp blackened blade to my throat. "One more move and I will slit her neck." he hissed dangerously. We all froze from his bold command. I felt my legs prickle and become numb. The tension was so great that you could cut it with a dull butter knife.

"Please let me go." I requested hopefully. He towered over me, making it clear that I was in no position to negotiate. I nodded. Surprisingly, he began to undo my ropes and jerked me up violently.

"Follow me and do whatever I say or I will kill you and your friends." he muttered warningly into my scratched ear. I agreed with a small whimper and followed him out the destroyed house into the sandy road. He dug his hands into my waste rashly and began to jump away without warning. I felt the others gaining on us easily; after all, they were the best ninjas in Suna! I was scared and unaware of the sharp blade in his huge hands that was almost touching my bare stomach from when I accidentally ripped my cloths on the shattered door. "

Damnit! Fucking ninjas, I'll show them." the man grinned as he stopped atop a tan roof. I saw the others stop before us and prepare themselves for battle once again. The man began to laugh intensely. I thought: What's wrong with this guy? Is he freaking crazy?

"You fuckers think you can win? Well, since you want this pretty little thing back, I'll give her to you, but I'm afraid she won't be alive." he chuckled. I froze, the sudden realization that he was going to kill me sinking in. I braced myself for the pain I expected to receive. I was right. I felt my skin burst open, feeling shaky and wet but I couldn't feel the pain, I was too shocked to feel anything. But I still could feel the blade inside my stomach, sinking in deep, then twisting slowly and retreating out.

He licked the blade clean, bent down, and licked the gash of skin that was oozing blood and began to drink it. I couldn't think at all, everything was numb. His head rose back and let go of his strong grasp around me so that I would drop off the roof but before he let go, he whispered something into my ringing ears...

"Now my puppet, we are connected in the most twisted way possible. I shall be apart of you for now on, your blood runs through my body." he stated as he dropped me, and I fell, the only thing I felt was the cool breeze of night brush my skin lightly. "SATU!!! NOOO!!!" screamed Sarah as I felt the strong hands of Kankuro close on my falling body. I slipped into the welcoming darkness as I knew I was in gracious arms.

LATER ON

"Satu? Are you okay? Satu can you hear me?" It was a familiar voice. I knew I recognized it, but couldn't put a name to it. I slowly opened my eyes. It was difficult and took a couple tries to completely get my heavy eye lids open again. It was bright and I didn't like it. Suddenly, I recognized the face, it was Sarah's. She was crying and I suddenly knew why. The pain in my stomach was almost unbearable now, even with antibiotics.

"Why can I feel so much pain?" I tried to holler out, but it only came out as a faint whisper. My stomach was pulsing and stinging with pain so that I couldn't even breathe easily.

"The medical ninjas couldn't heal your wound. They said it was probably a poisoned knife. They can't heal this poison; it's to advance for them." Sarah cried, tears pouring out of her silver-gray eyes. It was then that I knew I was going to die. I smiled to reassure her that I was okay with it, which unfortunately took a lot of energy. It was then that I felt my vision start to become dreary and blurry. I knew this was the last time I would see Sarah.

"Satu?" Sarah questioned when she saw her best friend go limp. She knew she was dead and bawled into the white sheets of the bed, soon to be damp with her mournful tears. "Sarah, she's in a better place and she can't feel the pain anymore. She didn't deserve that, no one did." Kankuro comforted Sarah with his calm voice but he felt a part of him shrivel up and dissolve with every muffled sob of his beloved girlfriend.

A mysterious face watched his brother and sister cry over a dead and anonymous woman, young but beautiful, lying in white sheets.

This mysterious man's name was Gaara.