Hiya!D Uhhh yeah. I know it's been a reallllllllllyyy long time. Sowwy '-' And uhh. This chapter kinda sucks. Well.. I think so, anyway. So yeah! Uhh. Hope you enjoy. x.x Review please!!

Chapter 2: The Real Beginning

After the funeral Gaara walked into his house. He took off his jacket and put it on the rack. His dripping clothes and muddy boots left tracks through the house, up the stairs, and to his bedroom door. As he stared at the open door a thought raced through his head. 'I never leave my door open.'

He silently entered the room and grabbed the pistol that he kept in his dresser. he pointed it at the open closet and clicked off the safety. He took a step forward and as he did a small old lady came out of the closet. Her short white curly hair was held back in a clip and her milky blue eyes were filled with fear.

He quickly pointed the barrell of the gun at the floor and clicked the safety on. He put the gun away and sank down onto his couch.

"Sir." her quiet high-pitched voice came from in front of the closet, "Maybe you need to get away from the house for a while. You're a little on edge lately."

He turned to glare at her. "Out." his voice was low, and angry. It almost sounded like a hiss. She quickly left the room and closed the door behind her.

Gaara kicked off his boots and slowly made his way to the bathroom.

When he got out of the shower he put on a baggy black shirt and jeans. He ran the towel through his hair and wiped away the steam from the mirror. He had to admit, he looked horrible. Under the towel his hair was messy and wet. His shirt was hanging to one side on his shoulder and his once brilliant jade eyes were now a faded sad green color.

He sighed and went to his room. After sitting on his bed for a few minute with his face in his hands he looked up at the portrait of the three siblings. 'Maybe you need to get away from the house for a while." The maid's words rang through his head over and over till he finally decided to take her advice.

He grabbed his black and red plaid backpack that he had from when he went to school and stuffed bottled water and money in it then he grabbed his black jacket and stuffed it in there to. He changed into a tight black t-shirt and walked downstairs. He found his maid on the back porch.

"Hey." he greeted and handed her one thousand dollars, "I'm leaving for a while. You have the next seven days off. Do whatever you want with that money. If I'm not back before you then.." he paused, "Well. Lock up the house when you leave." He put on his boots and left the house. When he got to his yellow mustang he opened the door and stopped just before getting in.

-FLASHBACK-

"Come on Gaara. It's your birthday. Be happy!" Kankuro chimed from the drivers seat of the black pick-up truck. Gaara was sitting in the passenger seat sulking because of all the attention. "Temari has something for you anyway!"

Gaara rolled his eyes as they turned the corner onto their road. As they got closer to the house Gaara saw his blond sister perched lightly and the hood of a brand new yellow mustang, smiling. "Happy sixteenth birthday Gaara." Kankuro congratulated and grinned.

-END FLASHBACK-

Gaara backed away from the car and closed the door then made his way down the street and out of his neighborhood. The sky was still cloudy, it had just stopped raining not long ago. He looked up at the barely visible moon and sighed.

As he walked through the mist he couldn't help but wonder who that girl was and why he had never met her before. She was Temari's best friend apparently. In fact. He had never met any of temari's friends. He had met all of Kankuro's, sadly. As he was thinking and looking up at the sky he bumped into someone. He was wearing a big heavy black cloak that covered every inch of him except the lower half of his face.

"Watch it." the person hissed and stopped.

"Sorry." Gaara murmured and kept walking. The person stood there starring at Gaara and his frown slowly turned to a menacing smile then he disappeared into the thick fog.

Gaara walked down the empty street between the two cities. It was dark, and lined with a thin wall of dead trees. The fog swirled and smoked up towards the sky. He caught movement in the corner of his eye and looked over to just barely see a small black figure whoosh through the mist and disappear behind a tree.

'You're a little on edge lately.' the elderly woman's words echoed in his mind. He shook his head. "Yeah, probably." He took about five more steps before hearing an almost creepy sounding hum. He squinted and looked through the fog before spotting a small black figure on the side of the road. It was slowly swaying back and forth and he heard a tune being hummed.

"The night has come, the wolves will play. All the blood has washed away." the words went with the tune of the humming, he heard childrens laughter. With every beat of the hummed tune he grew more relaxed. He soon found himself walking towards the small figure. The child's tune lulled him, made him almost want to keep walking.

He walked slowly. When he got to the figure it had a cloak on. He pulled the hood off of the child's head to see two big grey-blue eyes, staring up at him. The girls voice rang through the air as she repeated the same phrase, "The night has come, the wolves will play. All the blood has washed away." Her short dark blue hair swayed as she did. She reached her hand out and as she did, Gaara's hand met hers. She stopped singing and they walked into the dead woods.

Gaara didn't recall what he was thinking. He only remembered finally being able to think straight when they stopped in front of a house. It was huge. It was white and it glowed in the light of the moon. The door was red. It almost seemed like a warning, to not enter the house. But the little girl looked up at him and smiled like there was nothing wrong.

The door opened by it's self. A tall guy with long black hair stood in the middle of the dark room. His white skin seemed to glow in the dark and his lips pulled back over his teeth into a scary grin. The little girl looked up at him again, smiling, and started to walk towards the house. Just as she did, the bushes beside the house shook. A quiet, high-pitched snarl was heard then everything seemed to move in slow motion.

A little blond girl, about the same age as the one that was holding his hand leaped out of the bushes, snarling and snapping like a monster of some kind. She tackled the blue-haired girl to the ground. The blond girl clawed at the other one and tried to rip out her throat. Gaara took a step toward the two tumbling, fighting girls when he was also tackled to the ground. He wasn't hit, or clawed at though. He was only held down. He looked up to see a pair of black eyes staring down at him. He tried to get up, but the pressure of the boy on top of him was enormous. His slim figure couldn't possibly be this heavy. It was how strong he was. The boy, who's black hair stuck up in the back, was holding him down with the strength of a bull dozer.

The girls were hissing at each other and growling, trying to rip each other apart. Slinging each other against trees and pinning each other against the trees and the ground. Landing punches here and there. Fighting with the strength of grown men, and the blond moving with the speed of a cobra.

Gaara looked back into the deep, aggravated black orbs in front of him. He glared at the boy, "Get off." he hissed and tried to get free. The boy smirked and put just a little more pressure on Gaara, making it almost unbearable. He flinched and closed his eyes for just a second. The wait of the other guy was lifted off of him completely. He opened his eyes and looked to the left to see him slam into a tree and fall forward. Gaara stood up and looked to his right to see a brown headed boy with a red lip-ring, growling and baring his teeth as the black haired boy got up.

"Sasuke." the brown haired boy hissed and stepped in between Gaara and the boy named Sasuke.

"Kiba." Sasuke mused and smirked.

Kiba launched himself forward tackling Sasuke to the ground. When Kiba stood up there was a black man-sized wolf in the place where Sasuke should have been. Kiba growled and backed up as the black wolf stood up. It turned to face Kiba and made a growling noise that sounded more like a laugh. "Weak as ever. That didn't even hurt." Gaara couldn't believe it. The wolf was talking.

"Sasuke, if you think for one moment were going to let you murder another person, you're dead wrong." Kiba warned in a low menacing growl. Kiba took a step towards the wolf and crouched down. His muscles tensed under the tight dark blue t-shirt he was wearing. He lunged towards the wolf and as he was flying through the air a sharp short scream rang through the trees. Kiba hit the wolf and slammed it into a tree then wheeled around to face the two young girls. They had stopped fighting. The blond girl was lying against a jagged boulder. she was bleeding from her head badly and her eyes were shut.

"Ino!!" Kiba shouted and ran to her. He kneeled beside her and grabbed her shoulders softly. 'Wake up, Wake up Ino.' he though while he shook her. "Ino, Ino wake up. Talk to me." his worried eyes looked over her, she had small cut and scratches on her arms from fighting.

The blue-haired girl stood about four yards away, panting and leaning over with her hands on her knees. Her cloak was cut open in a few places and there was blood on it.

The wolf stood up his black lips curled at the edges revealing razor-sharp white teeth. He lunged at Kiba. Gaara could only watch as he hit kiba in the back and clawed him open. Gaara found his muscles almost paralyzed. He couldn't move. The wolf jumped back and tackled Kiba again clawing at his chest. He then slammed Kiba up against the rock next to the little girl - Ino. Kiba tried to get up but instead, his eyes slowly closed and he sunk into unconsciousness.

Gaara looked into the house at the man with the long black hair and glowing white skin. He was smiling still. His eyes were fixed on Gaara, making his flesh crawl with uneasiness. Gaara tore his eyes away from the man and looked back at Kiba. He was still lying unconscious, but instead of a wolf Sasuke was standing there buttoning up his white long-sleeve shirt. "Hinata, Come." he beckoned and walked towards Gaara.

His muscles finally started working again. But only after Sasuke's iron grip was locked around his arm. Sasuke brought him into the house and sat him in a chair. He found himself not able to move again. Sasuke smirked as Gaara's body went limp from the neck down.

"Master Orochimaru." Sasuke greeted and bowed his head, then looked at the little blue haired girl standing next to him. "Get Tobi and Karin and get rid of..them." he ordered. She bowed for a moment and silently left the room. He then looked back at Gaara. "What do you know about Sakura Haruno?" he asked and smiled mockingly.

"Who- Nothing. I don't know anything about her." Gaara said, acid dripping from each word.

Sasuke punched Gaara in the jaw and smirked again as Gaara cringed away. "Tell me what you know about Haruno. I know you know her, and if you don't tell me. . . I'll kill her." he threatened.

Gaara's eyes widened. He didn't really know Sakura. But he didn't want her to die. He thought for a second that Sasuke was only bluffing, but then he remembered what he and that little girl-hinata- had done to Ino and Kiba. He shuddered at the thought. "I. Don't. Know. Anything." he hissed, glaring at Sasuke.

"Guess I'll be off then." Sasuke said and walked to the door. He stopped at the door and grabbed a knife off of the table beside the him. Orochimaru cleared his throat in an excuse-me kind of way. Sasuke stopped and looked back at him.

"I didn't tell you to leave. And Miss Haruno is not the point here." Orochimaru's voice was quiet, creepy, and cold, but very clear. "Do you believe in Werewolves and Vampires boy?" he asked Gaara.

He was silent for a moment, reluctant to answer, or even talk for that matter. "No. I don't." he said dryly.

"Well. They are real. Very real." Sasuke added.

"Vampires are blood sucking leaches and we. . . the Werewolves. . . are their enemies." Orochimaru informed him.

Gaara's mind went blank for a minute. He didn't want to believe that. But it would explain the extreme strength and speed of the four outside earlier. He shook his head and looked up at Orochimaru. "Whats your point?"

"You- What's your name?"

Gaara waited for a moment, he wasn't going to answer, but he had no choice. "Gaara."

"Gaara." Orochimaru repeated and smiled. "You, Gaara, are going to join us." he paused, and his smile faded. "Become a Werewolf." his already creepy gold eyes narrowed.

A chill ran through Gaara's body. 'Become a Werewolf?' he thought. 'I don't want to become a wolf.' he thought again.

"You have to." Said Orochimaru.

'Did I say that out loud?' Gaara thought confused as to why Orochimaru was answering his unsaid thoughts.

"No, you didn't. Your thoughts are not safe around me." Orochimaru's lips curved into that creepy grin again. All of a sudden his glowing white skin started to crawl, black and white fur started rapidly growing and his face grew out into a snout. He got on all fours and in a split second a huge wolf stood in front of Gaara. Its gold eyes burned into his. He had black fur and his belly and face were covered in white fur. Orochimaru took a big step forward and was less than a foot away from Gaara. He pulled his lips back to reveal long, razor-sharp canine teeth. He moved forward again less than an inch away from him, he opened his jaw and closed in.

Just as his teeth grazed the surface of Gaara's shoulder the big red front door crashed to the ground and several people fled through it.

"BACK AWAY YOU FILTHY MUTT!" yelled and obviously angry voice. It was a female voice. Gaara turned his head to see long pink hair flowing around the small frame of a body, down to her knees. He looked up at her face and her blazing infuriated green eyes met his.

"S-Sakura?" Gaara choked out.

"Sakura!" shouted Sasuke.

Just as Gaara started to look at the other six people in the room he heard a noise and looked over to see five wolves emerge from the shadows. Had they been there the entire time?

Was it to short? O.e I couldn't tell. And please reveiw! o.o

-Vampire'sEclipse