Author's Note: Fourth chapter! I'm totally continuing this story! Thanks to the people who added this story to their watch list! I feel special! Wait… Not that kind of special the good kind of special ya know?
I DO NOT own the Sand Siblings or any Naruto characters that I use in this story!
"I love you," said Temari again.
"You're lying!" Screamed Gaara and sand flew at Temari ready to kill.
The sand definitely hit something, or rather someone. It was not its intended target. Gaara was a little shocked to see that Kankuro had blocked the sand, protecting Temari. Memories of Yashamaru and the time he had blocked the kids from getting hurt from his murderous sand. Gaara put his head in his hands in pain. He was losing control.
Kankuro stumbled backwards. "Gaara…"
"Kankuro you need to be more careful… He isn't stable right now!" She said. Temari slowly walked up to Gaara. "Gaara listen…"
Gaara screamed. He felt weak and slid to the ground, tears flowing down his cheeks.
"I'm sorry… The council gave me orders to kill you… But, I want you to know that I would never obey an order such as that! You are my brother, my friend and in all a wonderful person! I can see you are trying to be better. I can see that you are refusing Shukaku. I can see that behind the mask of no emotion you put on every day, is a kid just wanting to love and be loved in return! I love you just like any sister should!" Temari said putting her hand on his shoulder to comfort him.
Gaara's head felt like it was about to pop. He almost wanted to give into Shukaku. She is lying! He screamed in his head; he couldn't talk, all that came out were screams. She is going to betray me just like Yashamaru!
"Gaara… I promise… From now on I am going to be there for you! I want you to know I will never hurt you…" Temari calmly said.
Gaara heard the sincerity in Temari's voice but, he couldn't decide if she was lying. I can't take it… Why is she saying all of that…? Please… Stop… But, she is right… I want to be loved! To Temari's surprise, she felt Gaara pull her into a hug. He sobbed into her shoulder. "I'm sorry!" He wailed. "Promise me you won't leave me…" He cried. She hugged him back.
"I promise," She said.
Kankuro stood there completely astonished of what was happening. Gaara is… Crying? He thought to himself. No he's bawling! Wow… Kankuro had a completely blank face but, on the inside he started to pity Gaara a little bit. He just felt bad that he had never acknowledged his brother like Temari had. On top of that, he had never even realized his brother had any other feeling than anger!
"Guys… We should go…" Kankuro awkwardly said.
Temari nodded. "Come on Gaara… Let's go home." She said.
Gaara nodded the tears were still falling out of his eyes. Temari helped him up and then the siblings began to walk home. All the way home Gaara was silent but the tears still fell.
2 Months Later
Gaara sat on his bed listening to his IPod. I wonder when Temari will be back... Maybe she will bring cookies! Gaara thought to himself. It was Saturday and Temari had gone to the early morning market. It had been two months since Gaara had a break down. He felt much better that he let it out. Even better, Temari and Kankuro had even trusted him more. The only thing that Gaara was worried about was Shukaku. It had seemed to disappear. Shukaku had been completely silent since that night.
Gaara heard the door open to his room. "It's about time Temari!" He smiled and looked up to see an explosive Kunai flying straight at him. He dodged it rolling backwards off the bed as it exploded. What? He looked over to see a masked man holding two more explosion kunai. An assassin? Gaara thought the assassins had stopped since his father died. This was the first one since.
The assassin threw another kunai. There goes my mini garden on the balcony… Gaara thought and directed his sand at the man's feet sending him to the ground. Gaara jumped up and grabbed the man's hands pulling them behind his back. He then pulled the man's mask off revealing a young man maybe in his twenties. His eyes were fearful.
"Who sent you?" Gaara asked.
The man did not answer.
Gaara pushed the man's head hard into the floor and asked more sternly. "Who. Sent. You?"
"It was orders from the Kazekage!" The man said.
Gaara sighed. "Of course…"
"Please don't kill me!" The man fearfully said.
"You're pathetic," Gaara shook his head. "I'm going to let you go now. But, don't try to kill me. Understand?"
The guy nodded and relaxed. Gaara let the man go and sat back. "Go tell the Kazekage there is no point in trying to kill me." The man then rushed off.
Gaara stood up and looked at his blown to pieces room and sighed.
"I'm home!" Temari shouted walking through the front door. Kankuro was coming down the stairs carrying chunks of wood.
"Oh hi sis!" He said going to the back door.
"Uh… What are you doing?" asked Temari.
"Oh yeah! Gaara got his room blown up!" Kankuro said rushing out the back door dumping the wood in his hands in a pile. "This is his bed!"
"Oh my god!" Temari said and put the bag of groceries on the counter and rushed up to Gaara's room to see the place completely torn apart. The bed, dresser, and balcony were gone. Temari stood there a little shocked.
"It was an assassin," Temari heard Gaara's voice and turned around to see him standing against the doorway.
"What?" Temari almost yelled.
"Whoa, whoa don't freak out!" Gaara said putting his hands up in defense. "Just an assassin!"
"Just an assassin?" Temari screamed. "What the hell is wrong with you?"
Talk about overreaction… "Just calm down and let me tell you what happened," Gaara said calmly.
"I am calm!" Temari yelled. "How could they do this to you? What is wrong with them? Those crazy bastards!My god, they don't know who they are messing with! They mess with you, they mess with me! When I get my hands on them..." Temari's rant went on for a couple of minutes.
"Are you done?" Gaara asked.
Temari sighed. "Yes…"
"Good, I was just listening to my IPod and the door opened then… BOOM!" Gaara said putting his arms out to his room.
"Wow…" Temari sighed.
Gaara sighed. "Well, help me pick up the remains of my dresser,"
6:00 PM
"Temari?" asked Gaara coming into the kitchen while she was beginning to cook dinner.
"What is it?" She said getting out pots and pans obviously preoccupied.
"Well, I was wondering if I could help you cook?" Gaara said shyly. Asking to help was something he never did. He finally got the courage to ask.
Temari stopped surprised that Gaara had asked something like that. "Uh, sure?" She smiled.
Gaara smiled (something he was getting better at). "What can I do?"
"Oh, just get out an onion and um, chop it finely," Temari said awkwardly. "The cutting board is in there," She pointed to the drawer by the sink.
Gaara nodded and got an onion from the fridge and the cutting board from the drawer. He washed the onion and then made a knife out of his sand.
"Wait!" Temari shouted.
Gaara stopped before cutting.
"I don't want sand in the food! Use this," Temari handed Gaara an ordinary kitchen knife.
"Oh!" Gaara said as if it made a lot more sense. He took the knife and started cutting the onion.
Temari sighed and continued what she was doing to prepare the meal.
"I'm back!" Kankuro yelled from the door. "I got Gaara another dresser! I'm gonna go put it in his room!"
Temari looked at Gaara to see him wiping his eyes but, taken aback by it only stinging more. She sighed and went over and got a wash rag wet. "Here…" She said and wiped his eyes gently. She looked into his light green eyes seeing something new in his eyes that she had never noticed before.
"Uh…" Gaara said awkwardly.
"Oh! Sorry!" Temari looked away realizing she was staring a little too long. She laughed nervously and grabbed the chopped onions pouring them into the frying pan.
"What should I do now?" Gaara asked.
"Oh, uh go help Kankuro. He's probably going to kill himself getting that dresser up the stairs!" Temari smiled nervously.
Gaara nodded and went to the bottom of the stairs to see Kankuro half way up madly trying to get the dresser up the next step. Gaara sighed and went to help lifting it with Kankuro.
"Thanks bro!" Kankuro smiled as they walked up the stairs.
"Kankuro, can I talk to you about something?" Gaara asked his brother.
"Uh, sure! You can tell me anything!" Kankuro laughed and smiled as he dragged the dresser into Gaara's room.
"Well, also could you keep it between you and me?" Gaara asked. He had never shared anything with his brother secretly.
"Uh yeah! Totally!" Kankuro still smiled. He liked the new Gaara.
"Well, it's about Temari," Gaara started.
Kankuro's mind totally went the wrong direction with what Gaara was saying. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Hold it!"
"What?"
"You don't…" Kankuro shut the door to Gaara's room. "You don't like Temari?"
"What? I like her, she's my sister," Gaara said a little confused.
"No! I mean like like her?" Kankuro whispered.
"Oh my god! NO! Why would you think that?" Gaara freaked out.
"Oh," Kankuro felt really stupid. "Sorry buddy continue…"
What the heck? "Well, Temari keeps looking into my eyes. I mean making eye contact is one thing but, she keeps looking into my eyes like she's trying to see something. I don't know what she is looking for. It's weird. I was wondering if maybe you knew why she was doing that?" Gaara pulled the dresser to the spot he wanted it.
Kankuro made his thinking face.
"Dinners ready guys!" Temari shouted from downstairs.
"Well, I don't know what she is looking for or what she sees," Kankuro was still thinking. "Let me look into your eyes!"
"That's stupid," Gaara laughed.
"It's not let me look!" Kankuro said getting closer to Gaara.
Hell no! "No!" Gaara said.
Kankuro then jumped and tackled Gaara onto his back. "I said let me look!" Gaara tried to get Kankuro off but, couldn't. Kankuro grabbed Gaara's arms and pinned him. Gaara was so surprised his brother could even do that that his eyes were wide with surprise. Kankuro looked straight into his brother's and saw it. Something that he didn't see before and understood why Temari had been looking.
"Guys come on!" Temari opened the door and everybody stopped. "Oh! Am I interrupting something?" Temari looked away her mind going other places. Gaara head butted his brother making Kankuro yelp and fall away from him.
"Temari that was not what it looked like!" Kankuro screamed.
"Really?" She looked to Gaara.
"Yes! Really!" Gaara screamed freaking out.
"Ok," Temari said embarrassed and completely not even knowing what to say. "Can we all just go and eat before the food gets cold?"
"Yes please…" Kankuro got up and ran downstairs.
Gaara got up after him. There is something wrong with my siblings… Gaara thought and walked past Temari and went downstairs.
"What the heck…" Temari went downstairs after them.
All dinner was silent. The siblings all thought about making some small talk but, it was all too awkward!
9:00 PM
Gaara was on the roof looking up at the night sky while Temari and Kankuro were watching TV.
"Temari?" Kankuro said awkwardly afraid she was still thinking about what had happened earlier.
"hmmmm?" She said sipping some water from her glass.
"About earlier… Gaara was asking me about something that involves you… I said I wouldn't tell but, I think it's important…" Kankuro said.
"What is it?" She now had to know.
"He was concerned because you lately you have been looking into his eyes like something is there or that you are searching for something. He was wondering what it was. I had to tackle him just to look clearly in his eyes but I understand now what you saw," Kankuro told Temari.
"You saw it too?" Temari asked surprised.
Kankuro nodded. "It hasn't been there before… It's something new…"
"I don't know what it is… I keep looking so maybe it will come to me but, I just can't…"
"I think I know what it is," Kankuro stated plainly.
Temari only looked at him with wide eyes.
"It's love," He said.
First off, this is not going to turn into something gross! I just wanted to represent that life has its awkward moments and misunderstanding plus it's kinda fun! So, sorry that it took me so long to update. I got sick and have been recently writing my own original story. School is starting in a couple days for me so the updates will be slow… Grrrr… Well, hope you enjoyed! Review please!
~Until next time~