Gaara looks around and finds another Sound ninja. Gaara grabs him by the neck. "Where is my daughter?!" Gaara yells. "They left for ...the Sound...Village" the ninja said choking. "Good." Gaara said as he breaks the ninja's neck and lets the body fall to the ground.
He starts to run toward the Sound Village. Kankuro ran behind him. All Gaara could think about was what Matsuri said. "Our baby...is..a girl." Gaara was going to get his child back and Orochimaru was going to pay for kidnapping Matsuri and his daughter with his life.
Soon Gaara sees them. Orochimaru and a woman holding a crying baby walking calmly as if nothing in the world was wrong. He can hear them talking.
"See, now you have a child you've always wanted." Orochimaru said to the woman. 'Yes.' the woman said holding the squirming baby close to her. "If that baby is hers." Gaara said walking up to them. 'Oh my. Is it the Kazekage?" Orochimaru said looking at Gaara.
"Give back my daughter and maybe I'll let you two live." Gaara said. "If I was you, Orochimaru, I'd give back the baby. " Kankuro said standing behind Gaara.
Orochimaru just laughed. "You think you can stop me Gaara? This woman has been waiting to have a baby all her life and you're going to take that away from her?" Orochimaru tsked looking at the woman then back at Gaara.
"I don't care. I want my child back. Now!" Gaara ordered. "Why Gaara? Why do you want this weak baby?" Orochimaru asks looking at his nails.
"I found your spy and he told me everything. I'm not letting you turn my daughter into a weapon." Gaara said in a 'I'm going to kill you' voice.
Orochimaru just smiled. "Very well then. Have it your way." Orochimaru said throwing a smoke bomb at Gaara. "Damn it!" Gaara said and then he jumped up in a tree to get out of the smoke.
He looks but didn't see Orochimaru or the women or his daughter. Then Gaara hears a cry from his daughter. "She's still crying." Gaara said to himself. "There they are, Gaara!" Kankuro said pointing at Orochimaru and the woman running.
Gaara jumps out of the tree and starts to run as fast as he can. Then he use his sand and grabs the woman's leg. She falls but manages to keep from falling on the baby.
" Orochimaru, help!" the woman yells. Orochimaru turns around long enough just grab the baby from her arms. " Orochimaru! What are you doing?' the woman yells.
Gaara runs past her. Orochimaru had his daughter now. "Kankuro take the woman back to the village!" Gaara yells at Kankuro running after Orochimaru.
Soon Orochimaru came to stop at a rope bridge. He turns to Gaara not far behind. "Last time I'm going to say it. Give me back my daughter and I'll let you live." Gaara said walking to him.
Orochimaru walks back on the bridge and holds his daughter over the edge. "One more step and I'll drop her to her death." Orochimaru said.
Gaara stops and watches as Orochimaru walks backwards, still holding his daughter over the edge.
Gaara was thinking on a way to get his daughter and kill Orochimaru at the same time. Gaara had his sand waiting under the bridge. When Orochimaru gets in the right spot. Then he was going to push Orochimaru over to fall to his death and catch his daughter.
Orochimaru got half way across the bridge, thinking he safe now. He turned to run down other half. When his sand was ready, Gaara quickly moved his hand and his sand grabbed the baby first. Then the sand pushed Orochimaru off the bridge to his death while the sand carried the baby to Gaara and sat her in his waiting arms.
Gaara looked down at his daughter. "Stop crying little one."Gaara said holding his daughter close to his chest. "I will protect you." he said. The baby looked up at him and soon stopped crying. Gaara smiled as he saw Matsuri in her toothless grin.
Gaara turns and starts to run back to the village. "Please Matsuri, stay alive please." Gaara prayed as he ran with their daughter in his arms.
When Gaara got back to the village he ran to the hospital. Inside he saw Temari. " Temari, where is Matsuri?" he said as he run up to her. "Gaara! Thank God you're OK!" Temari said. She looked at the baby in Gaara's arm. "Is that her?" Temari asks. Gaara nods. "Matsuri? Where is she?' Gaara asks again. "This way." Temari said showing Gaara where she was.
Gaara runs in the room and saw Matsuri. Her eyes were closed. "Matsuri..." Gaara said walking to her with the baby still in his arms now asleep. The doctor walks in. "We put her in a Healing Jutsu. She has been asleep all day, but she can still die even in the Jutsu. I'm sorry." the doctor said. Gaara gazes at her. "Please Matsuri, don't die." Gaara says softly.
The doctor walks up next to Gaara. "Can I look at the baby to see if she is healthy?" the doctor asks holding his arms out so Gaara can hand the baby to him. "Her name is Kali." Gaara said handing Kali reluctantly over to him. "I will stay with the baby and you stay here with Matsuri." Temari said as she walked out with the doctor holding Kali.
Gaara sits next to the bed and holds Matsuri hand. " Matsuri, I'm back and so is Kali. She looks alot like you and she is beautiful just like you." Gaara said hoping she can hear him. "She needs you and I need you." Gaara said as tears run down his face. "Please Matsuri, I never asked for anything in my life and now I'm ask you to stay with me. All I want is you." Gaara whispers as tears fall from his face.
A few hours later, Kankuro came into the hospital. "We talked to the woman. She said she couldn't bear a child so Orochimaru made a promise to her by telling her she can have a baby if she helped him." Kankuro said then he walked over to look at Kali as Temari held her.
For three days, Gaara never left Matsuri's side. Kali is still healthy and Temari showed Gaara how to feed and change her diaper. Gaara waited for Matsuri to wake up.
On the fourth day. The doctor walked in to check on Matsuri. "It has been four days now and Matsuri is still asleep?" the doctor asks. "I'm afraid she will die in the Jutsu." When the doctor said that, the color drained from Gaara's face. He grips her hand. " Matsuri, don't leave. Please stay." Gaara said. Temari stands behind Gaara, her eyes starting to fill with tears. "Please, Matsuri, please. I beg of you. Don't leave me. Don't leave Kali. Please" Gaara said tears rolling down his cheeks and falling from his face.
He starts to hear Temari cry as well. "Please Matsuri. I can't go on without you." Gaara said. Dropping her hands, he gently grabs her shoulders, pulling her to him and holding her close as his eyes close. Tears still pour out from his eyes.
When something moved in his arms, Gaara opened his eyes. Looking down he watches as Matsuri's eyes slowly open to look up at him. "Ga...Gaa..Gaara.." Matsuri says, blinking a few times, still half asleep. "Oh Matsuri. Thank god! You're alive! Don't ever ever do that to me again." Gaara said with an order as he held her.
"Gaara let her get some air." Temari says walking to the bedside. The last thing they needed was for Matsuri to die from Gaara squeezing her to death. Gaara let her go as she takes in a deep breath.
"Let her hold her baby now." Temari says, turning to pick up Kali out of her little baby bed. Matsuri smiles watching as Temari walks over to her with Kali. "Kali. My baby. " Matsuri said holding out her arms.
Temari hands Kali over to her. The doctor smiles. "We looked and she has no demon in her, but she can control the sand like her father." the doctor said. Matsuri cries and holds her baby. "Thank you! This means so much to us." Matsuri said. Gaara smiles looking at Matsuri and Kali. His own family.
Matsuri looks up at Gaara "And thank you Gaara. I love you." Matsuri said looking at him with love filled eyes. "I love you Matsuri and I will always love you." Gaara said as he kisses her. To be loved was what Gaara has always wanted and now he loved in turn. Matsuri and his daughter Kali were his and no one could sunder the love he felt for them at that moment.
"Ah! Lovey dovey crap! I think I feel sick!" Shakaku whines at the back of his head. This makes Gaara smile even more as he hugs both Matsuri and Kali.