Authors note: Okay, this chapter is going to be marginally more interesting then the last. So, yeah. I hope you like it, I know I will. Please read the Authors notes! They are rather important!

Disclaimer: I don't Own Naruto; if I did I would have made Naruto wear florescent purple clothes.

Bitter sweet memories;

Chapter three: Memories of the lost and found (part two)

Staring out of a small window placed on the opposite side of the room, Gaara laughed bitterly, it seemed everyday his memories would haunt him, but they had never been so bad and to reduce him to tears and locking himself in the first room he could gain access to.

It wasn't like he could do anything about the past, so, why was it bothering him so much? Closing his eyes and tilting his head so he faced the ceiling slightly he sighed once more.

Running through the street of the village hidden in the sand, Gaara reviewed his conversation in his head 'Hey, Yashamaru. I have a favour to ask.'

'What is it?'

'I want ointment' Gaara replied.

He had been too deep in thought to notice a lavender eyed girl watching from the stairs of a house, her eyes seemed to be glistening with curiosity, soon enough she lifted her pencil and wrote a few more words in a small red book, she smiled to herself as she stood.

Knocking on a door of a house Gaara waited silently and eagerly for it to be answered, when it was answered he ignored the wide-eyed look he received from the girl "I'm sorry about before. It hurt, right? Here, this is ointment. Use it if you want…"

The girl frowned deeply and furrowed her brows "Go home!" she stated irritably and shut the door in his face "monster" at that Gaara slowly bought the bag back to his side with a hurt look on his face. He turned to leave and gasped at the sight before him.

Stood before him was the lavender eyed girl from the park, she was smiling at him – Smiling! She took a few steps forward flicking her dark brown hair behind her. She knocked on the door.

A few moments passed and the door was once again opened by the young girl "I though I said-"

"You told Gaara-sama to go home, yes. I am not Gaara-sama." She stated coolly.

"He's still here?"

"Hai, in fact, he's here to make a mends" with that she gently tugged on Gaara's arm and pulled him so he stood next to her "he offered you ointment as an apology, and I think it would be polite to accept it".

The other girl scowled from behind the door and took the ointment grudgingly from Gaara's grasp "happy?"

"I would be much happier if you didn't call Gaara-sama names either, especially when he has no control over what he was blessed with" the lavender eyed girl smiled a little too sweetly and waved goodbye dragging Gaara along with her.

Smiling to himself Gaara wiped a tear from his reddened cheek. That had been the first time someone had stood up for him, ever. It was also the first time someone had refused to the sand-nins abilities as a blessing.

Wondering down the road back towards his own home, with company as the girl had yet to leave his side "a-ano…what's your name?" he asked.

"Ruuno Suki"

"Suki…" Gaara choked out through sobs.

"Doesn't Suki mean love?" Gaara asked, his eyes glittering.

"Hai"

Just then a mumbling drunk wondered past, he bumped into Gaara and grunted "What the…be careful! You stupid kid…" the drunk gasped as Gaara turned his head to look at him "You're…"

Gaara's eyes widened slightly thinking to himself 'again… "Go home, monster!" those eyes again… "You're…" why…? Why?!' sand began to rise form the ground and he vaguely registered a gasp from beside him.

"Hey…" the drunk whimpered, shaking with fear, he dropped his bottle of alcohol

A hand placed itself of Gaara's cheek and his head was turned to Suki, she smiled sadly at him "it's okay; he didn't mean any of it..." Gaara smiled back slightly and let the sand fall to the dirt road, the drunk by now was long gone.

From behind them they heard mumbles of things like "Did Gaara just let someone live?" or "What is that girl thinking?" or the plain and simple "What the hell?"

Chuckling at the thought was it always beyond his people comprehension that he may never have wanted to kill them, at the time at least. Had they never thought he could be a nice person? Clearly not.

The pair stopped their banter has they began to pass a tall man, wearing noting but black, Gaara looked up to meet his brown-eyed gaze sadly. It had been then that he realized the man was looking at him with something akin to disappointment 'Father…' he thought sadly and averted his gaze.

At which point Suki had taken his hand and smiled at him encouragingly and tugged him forward, it was quite obvious the elder man didn't want Gaara there. Once there backs were turned Gaara's father raised an eyebrow, clearly wondering if the young girl knew what she was getting herself into. He sighed and ruffled his brown hair.

Huffing loudly Gaara gritted his teeth with an audible click. Even his father didn't believe he could have friends? Or anyone else around him that wasn't ordered to be there? Such as Yashamaru.

The only reason he was even able to notice his fathers reaction was because he had caught a glimpse of it over his shoulder.

A few minutes had passed and Gaara was now sat on the rook of his home, alone. Again. 'It could've gone worse…' he mused to himself sadly 'if Suki hadn't been there…' he looked at his shaking hands 'Why do people think I'm such a monster, Suki doesn't, I wish she didn't have to go…'

Gaara sighed knowing that the only reason she had to go was because she said he father would not be very pleased and she had also said that she didn't want to be punished. Why Suki thought her father would punish her was beyond him.

He covered his face with his hands, ready to cry 'what am I? "the thing that can heal a wound of the heart…is love" Yashamaru…' he gripped a hand over his chest above his heart as he wept…

Tears fell from his eyes as she gasped at the memory, this was one of his most painful, he hated it so, so much, she couldn't control the flow anymore, in fact, by now he was loud enough to had attracted both Temari and Kankuro back to his door.

Sand flew up from behind him and he gasped, surprised and terrified as to what had caused the sand to react as such.

He turned and looked at his attacker, unfortunately, there wasn't much to look at, it seemed he hand taken great care in hiding his appearance 'Nani…?' he thought too terrified to move. The floating Kunai were very, very intimidating… 'Why…?' Gaara gritted his teeth angrily 'Why do I…Why am I the one to have to go through this!' Gaara narrowed his eyes and took a standing position, ready to fight.

The masked attack then sent three Kunai at the young boy; unfortunately his blow was blocked by a wall of protective sand, shielding the young sand-nin.

Gaara's arm flew forward with an open palm sending the sand forward to wrap around his victim, the attacked struggled as he was held in mid-air. Gaara closed his fists without hesitation. Effectively, crushing the enemy.

Staring wide-eyed at the man on the ground before him, Gaara asked "who are you…? Why…?" Gaara's eyes stopped scanning over the bloody body of the assassin as his gaze fell upon a small bandage wrapped around his wedding finger. Gaara gulped and stepped forward removing the man face veil.

His breath hitched as he tried to hold back tears…his attacker…the assassin…was Yashamaru himself…

"You are strong, as I expected…Gaara-sama" Yashamaru said weakly.

Quickly Gaara gripped his heart an muttered "Yashamaru" before letting out and anguished cry…sand flew everywhere in a wild frenzy…

(A/N: Yet another long chapter huh? Gosh, can you believe this is all from one episode? Heh, Well, it's not over yet, keep an eye out for part three, to be honest I was expecting to finish it in two, but, meh. I hope you liked it).

(A/N: Also, I would like to ask for your help, for those that are interested, on my profile I have a section called 'New project plan one' I need help deciding on a pairing before I can start work on it and to be honest, all the options I had mentioned I could make work one way or another, But I can't decide, see, I love them all. Please read it and give me your oppinion, I could really use it, thank you again! please PM me)