Chapter 3
Gaara's POVI wake up from the nightmare of a flash back I just saw. I grab my covers and pull them off me, I wince, at the pain in my hands. I look at my palms. A red circle of dried blood in the middle of my palm, four different sized triangles come out of the circle forming a cross. The triangle's lines are rosy and healing faster then the middle wound.
I get up and pick out what to wear today. I look in the mirror at myself, you can hardly see the line on my neck so I don't have to cover that up. I pull on a gray shirt and, dark blue jeans. I also put on finger-less gloves. I slip on all my rings, and put on a belt, then head out to get my school bag.
Once at school I head straight to my first period like always. A couple of minutes later the blonde comes in, cheerful as ever. "So where did you go last night?" He asks me. I look at him with shock, did he see me and my dad leave yesterday?
"No where." I say simply. He lets the subject drop.
"So it's Friday, you should be happy!" I say nothing. "Are you doing anything this weekend?"
"No….why?"
"Well I thought we could hang out a little, if you ain't busy and shit. What do you usually do for fun?"
"Nothing."
"Oh, sounds fun!" Naruto says sarcastically. "Can you swim?" He asks, I nod my head.
"Cool, wanna go swimming then? There's a bayou not to far away from were we live."
"Sure I guess." I should have said no, but I didn't and don't know why. The blonde smiles and the bell for the school day to began rings.
Later on in German class, Naruto and I were partners in a in class project. He couldn't pronounce stuff worth shit. But we past with a B, so that's fine. At lunch he actually goes into the lunch line to get some food. So I'm by myself for a short while, not that I mind.
"You don't ever eat." He says, handing me a bag of chips. I protest but in the end, eat the chips. Most of lunch he was quit, but once he was done eating he started to talk.
"So what's up with the gloves." He asks taking my hand. I pull my hand out of his grasp, he's so touchy. Has he not heard of personal space?
"Just felt like wearing them." I mumble. Then it hit's me. If I go swimming with him tomorrow he'll see my hands. The bell rings, and I'm dragged to the next class. The blonde rambles on about something, and I try to cut in.
"Naruto….I…." I try to get his attention. Once we're in the room I have a chance to speak. "Naruto I c-"
"Class has started, no talking." Mr. Orochimaru snaps at me. I didn't get the chance to tell the blonde that I can't go swimming after all. I tried looking for him after school, but I couldn't find him.
I go home, and just sit in my room till dinner. I hate dinner on Fridays, because that's the only day father comes home early, so we all eat together. We all sit around the table, Father is asking Tamari about her grades, and Kankuro about his sports, just like any normal family. I don't eat much, my hand hurts really bad and holding the fork irritates it. It was hard enough to write all day in school.
"Gaara, how is German going for you?" My father asks casually. I hate him so much when he dose this. When he acts like he's never done a thing to me.
"I'm doing good in the class." I answer quietly.
"That's wonderful. It's good to learn another language." He says. I drop my fork a sharp pain going through my right hand. Temari picks it up for me, and wipes it off with her napkin. She hands it to me, a sympathetic look on her face. Kankuro only glares at me.
"You shouldn't be so clumsy." My brother tells me. After dinner I go to my room, and turn on my CD player. There was a knock on the door.
"Come in." I say, my father steps in. I sit up on my bed, he sits next to me. He takes my hand and pulls of the glove. He runs his finger over the design, I wince.
"I do it because I love you." He says. I would have laughed at the statement. How is this love? "I wish it would go away, but it seems to want to stay in your body." He tells me. I pull my hand away from him, and glare at my father. I wanted to yell at him, tell him that he's sick. Tell him that there's nothing wrong with me. That he just made this all up in his head. But I don't.
He takes my hand again, and reaches for something in his pocket. I start to panic, not knowing what he is going to do. I try to get away from him.
He pulls out a tube, and I calm a little. My dad laughs a little. "See what I mean? The demon in you thought I'd get out holly water didn't he?" He say, as if it made perfect sense. It doesn't. he puts the tube in my hand, it was to help heal my hand. He then gets up and leaves my room.
I look at the thing in my hand. I don't use it. To be honest I was afraid he'd get out some water. He's done it before. The 'holy water' just so happened to be salt water. And it's not pleasant to have that put in you wounds. Though me yelling at it, just shows his followers that my 'demon' is reacting to it.
I lay back down on my bed. After a while, I decided to us the ointment my father gave me after all. I still need to come up with an excuse to call of the swim I'm suppose to take with Naruto tomorrow. I rub the white paste on my hand, and it already feels better. After that I change into my night cloths and go to bed.
The next morning I get up around ten o'clock. I laze around in my pajamas for a little while, watching TV with my brother, then I go change. I don't know what to tell Naruto when he comes over. But a part of me doesn't want to call the swim off. Yeah he'll see the mark, but this is the first time anyone has asked me to hang out with them. I really shouldn't get to attached to the blonde, and I should be careful too. After all we don't want him to find anything private out about my family.
I go into the bathroom and get out some band-aids. Seeing as I didn't want to call off the swim, I'll hide the cuts. I'll make up some story to tell him.
It was one o'clock when I finished covering up most of the cuts, and the door bell sounds. "Gaara it's for you." Temari says with a hint of amazement in her voice.
"Coming!" I yell back down. I Go into my room, grab a bag and pack towels and other things I need. I quickly go change into my bathing suit and, put my normal cloths back ontop of it; before going down stairs. Naruto was outside sitting on the door step waiting.
"Sorry, my family isn't big on letting people in the house." I apologize, feeling ashamed that my family is somewhat rude in that sense.
"That's all right, you ready to go?" The blonde asks cheerfully. I nod my head.
It was a perfect day for swimming, and Naruto even pointed this out in his ramblings. I wonder if he ever gets tiered of listening to himself talk? We walk along the street, some boats pass use by as we get closer to the bayou. We take a turn into a large pass, it leads to the boat ramp. Once we get there we walk far away from the ramp to a place were it's not busy with people and such.
We both slip off our cloths , both wearing our bathing suits underneath. I feel a little exposed. I hardly ever go swimming, and feel sort of naked without a shirt on.
"Well come on let's get in the water." Naruto pulls on my arm.
I stop him. "Hold on I get sunburned easily." I say walking back to my bag. I get out sun lotion. It's waterproof, most people usually always get burned when they are in the water. I put the lotion on my arms. I swear I could feel the blonde's eyes on me. I squirm a little, feeling uncomfortable. But I tell myself it's just my imagination. I rub it in my shoulder, reaching as far back as I can to try and cover my back.
"Need some help?" Came Naruto's voice. I turn to look at the blonde, and then nod. I hand him the bottle, and he rubs it into my back. I feel strange, and I tingle runs up my back.
"Ok all done." He announces throwing the bottle in the direction of my bag. Then he takes my arms and yanks me up. "Now lets get into the water! There're some cute girls over there, and I think they were checking you out." The blonde muses pulling me into the water. And true to what he had just said, there were two girls in the water also.
One was on a wave runner, the other in the water next to us. The one on the wave runner had short blue black hair and seemed kind of shy. The other had her hair in two buns, she didn't seem so shy.
"Hey ladies." Naruto says confidently. The short haired girl blushes some what.
The girl with her hair up giggles. Her eyes running over me and then looks at Naruto. "Hey yourself." Her voice has the same confident tone as Naruto.
"Lovely day isn't it?" The blonde tries to start up small talk.
"Sure is." The girl answers then looks at me again. "Can I ask for your names?"
"Naruto! And my quiet friend here is Gaara."
"Oh, I'm Tenten, and this is Hinata." The girl introduces herself. The one named Hinata only nods at use as a greeting. Naruto was about to say more when another wave runner comes up. It makes a big wave, and the water hits the girls and us.
"Neji you ass!" The one named Tenten yells, then gets on her wave runner. "It was nice meeting you two." The two wave runners speed off.
"Man it'd be so cool if we had wave runners." Naruto sighs. I swim into the deeper part of the bayou. I look around while swimming, there are a lot of people out today.
Naruto's POVI watch the little red head swim off, and I follow him. He has pretty skin. I know it's kinda weird to think of, but it's soft and so pale. I came to the conclusion last year that I'm both attracted to women and men. Yeah, love is love, right? Though I act straight most of the time, so I don't have to deal with ass holes.
I dive under the water, and catch up with my friend. I faintly hear a yelp as I pull the red head down with me. When we both come up for air, I meet green eyes glaring at me. I only grin from ear to ear, before splashing water on the boy. He dose something I didn't expect, he splashes back. And we get into a fight.
"Stop you childish idiot." The red head announces, and I do. Only to have water land in my face. I can't believe I fell for that. Gaara swims along peacefully again and I follow him. We head back to the shore and then grab our towels. I dry off quickly, the red head takes his time. I watch him, and notice something on his hand. I grab it.
I get a quick look before he pulls it away. He doesn't seem to like being touched. "What happened?" I ask.
"Nothing. There was some glass on the floor, I fell on it."
I make a hissing noise. "That must of hurt." The boy only shrugs. I watch him pull on his shirt, and go through his bag. He pulls out a small watch and looks at the time. Then he sits down.
"What time is it?"
"Ten minutes till one thirty." He mumbles.
I lay back on the ground. "What time do you want to go back home?"
"I don't care." He says quietly.
"You don't like home much do you?" I ask. Is there something there he doesn't like? The boy doesn't respond, and just gets up to his feet. He grabs his things, and makes to leave. I hurry after him.
A/N: That's it for now, please review. Thank you.