Breathe In the Rain

Be Footloose

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but I do own Kumo Dokusatsu, Keo Soma and Rio Soma

This is basically the beginning of the climax of the story, for in about... maybe 10 more chapters, it'll be done, maybe more.


Song: Footloose

Artist: Kenny Loggins


Kumo stood in the hall, putting a strob light up on the ceiling.

Gaara's sand held her up in the air as she danced to herself.

Gaara watched intently as Kumo danced and put the strob light up without fear he might drop her.

"This is dangerous" Kankuro mocked, putting up black strips of plastic over their doors covered in spider webs and fake blood.

"This hurts my nose" Gaara growled, glaring at the gallons of fake blood.

"This is fun," Kumo laughed, hooking it up and giving Gaara a thumbs up to let her down.

The sand slowly went down until it dropped her and Gaara caught Kumo Bridal style before putting her on her feet.

Kumo didn't notice.

Taking one step forward, to study her handy work, she tripped over a roll of black carpet and fell face first into a bucket of spider webs.

"GOFFER!" She cried ripping it from her face but it would come off.

Suddenly both Kankuro and Gaara were combing it out of Kumo's hair.

Kumo was sticking what they took out and put it up on the wall.

"You are a klutz!" Kankuro mocked, finishing one of Kumo's pigtails.

"Yea, I know... but I wouldn't be me if I wasn't." Kumo laughed.

Suddenly a song from Kohana came on the radio and Kumo couldn't just stand there.

"GAARA, DANCE!" Kumo cried, grabbing Gaara;'s hand and beginning to dance around and around.

Kankuro howled over with laughter as Gaara was looking at Kumo as if she was crazy.

Spinning and bouncing, Kumo had finally made Gaara dizzy.

"I'm so glad I dared you to change Gaara Kumo!" Kankuro laughed, kicking his legs in the air as he watched Kumo dance.

"Oh..." Kumo stated, stopping and looking at Kankuro before laughing.

"I had completely forgotten about the dare! Besides, Gaara was already a nice person" Kumo laughed.

"So you didn't make him a nice person"

"You can call me as useless as you want, but I believe Gaara is a great person and isn't scary in the least!" Kumo giggled,

Gaara looked to Kumo who smiled at him before looking up and suddenly gasping.

"Gaara, lift me up!" Kumo stated, grabbing a pail of paint and pointing up.

Suddenly she was up and painting on the black tissue paper.

She was painting something nether of the boys could see.

"Is that invisible paint or something?" Kankuro mocked.

"No... Glow in the dark paint or something!" Kumo laughed, dancing as she painting something large that only Kumo could see.

Suddenly she jumped from Gaara's sand screaming,

"GERONIMO!"

And she went tumbling down the stairs and out the front door.

"That... Looked painful" Kankuro whispered, racing after Gaara who was running as fast as he could after Kumo.

"KUMO!" Kankuro shouted as Gaara and him searched the porch and the sand around the house only to have Kumo pop up from the sand with a snake in hand.

On the snake was a mechanical object that was clicking away.

"What the?" Kankuro whispered as Kumo tossed the snake at Gaara and he smashed it with his sand easily before looking to Kumo.

"What's going on?" He growled.

"When I was dancing I heard clicking and stuff but when I was painting I heard it clear-er, and suddenly I heard a hiss in the ceiling. So I rolled down the stars, out the door, under the porch and up a hole in your floor, up the walls into the ceiling and chased this little bugger out here before grabbing him... Explosive"

Kumo smiled proudly and went to walk in the house only to trip over a small hole and fall face first into the sand.

"Smooth" Kankuro mocked, grabbing a puppet off the porch and racing under the house to search for more snakes.

Gaara waiting till Kankuro was gone before pulling Kumo out of the sand and pulling her into a tight embrace.

"Gaara..." Kumo whispered, hugging him back then suddenly the hair on the back of her neck began to rise.

She had a sense of someone watching them, and she couldn't shake it.

"I'm just paranoid" Kumo whispered, looking around the porch from the side of her eye.

"You feel it too?" Gaara whispered back, making Kumo go rigid.

"Did I just say that out loud?" Kumo asked, a sweat drop forming on her forehead.

"Yea" He joked, as Kumo slapped her forehead before letting go of Gaara and looking around, no one was there.

"You think that the person who released the snakes is the one stalking us?" Kumo whispered, looking around the area only to stop dead when the wind blew by and she guessed at who it was.

Hoping it wasn't who she thought.

The scent was familiar,

So familiar that she almost thought she was hallucinating.

"No..." She whispered, pulling Gaara with her as she raced into the city, bare footed covered in sweat and sand.

"Kumo?" Gaara asked, looking around only to be yanked harder as Kumo raced further into the town, looking for who it was that was stalking them.
"KUMO!" Keo and Rio cried, racing forward toward Kumo, a piece of paper in their hands.

"What is it? I'm kind of busy" Kumo whispered, looking to them before going wide eyed, there was a bounty on her head.

Someone wanted her dead.

But it wasn't a sand piece of parchment, all parchment like that would have to be official with the sand stamp on it, but the stamp on that piece of parchment was from the Leaf village.

With the Hokage's signature.

"THAT FRUITCAKE!" Kumo snarled, ripping the paper up and glaring at the shreds.

"He never intended to have me alive, he thinks I'm dangerous to the world and deserve to be dead! FRUITCAKE, BANANA, APPLE, RAWR!" Kumo exploded, kicking the sand and looking around.

Bring it.

Bring it on, whomever you are.

"I've worked my butt off to be a normal person and he thinks I'll kill the village despite my vow... I'll show him,..." Kumo whispered, glaring to the sky,

"But... it gets worse" Keo whispered.

"There is a wanted poster for Gaara, worth so much more from the Leaf village" Rio stated, handing Gaara his.

Gaara narrowed his eyes on it.

They weren't just after Kumo, he was a bigger target.

But why?
And why did they choose to try and kill him when he was actually happy?

Kumo squeezed his hand and looked around.

She must not look like herself, for who she thought was trying to kill her would know her on the spot and would never hurt her.

Well..

Her skin was darker, and her hair had definitly lightened, that and she washed with a cherry scent now instead of a beach scent, plus she had cut her hair a bit.

She also wore new things now.

She hair her pigtails braided now-a-days, wore eye-liner, ripped jeans shorts with rainbow tank-tops and red fish-nets that had small rosed sewed onto the intersections onto it.

she must look like another person,

Plus, the person always thought Kumo would hate it in sand, while she was actually enjoying it.

That night Kumo sat in her room with the lights off and the window open.

Fully dressed under the covers with a kunai in her hand that was under the pillow.

Suddenly there was a form above her, but before they could attack, Kumo forced the Kunai threw their arm and flung them onto the floor and covered their face with a potatoe sack, tied it and their limbs.

"HOLD STILL!" She snarled, punching the persons chest only to hit a pair of boobs, instead of muscles and go wide eyed.

There was more than one person following her.

"Let me go!" the bagged person cried.

Kumo hit the light switch with another kunai and suddenly she went into shock.

"Sakura?" Kumo whispered, her eyes going wide.

"That means...." Kumo glared to the window as two bodies flashed and disappeared from her sight.

Kumo jumped up, shut the window and dragged the girl by her ankle to Gaara's room.

"Hold her tight while I remove the sack." Kumo demanded as Gaara watched with curiosity.

With the bag gone Kumo was certain.

The same clothes, same eyes, same hair.

"Sakura Haruno!" Kumo snarled.

"How do you know me?" Sakura snapped, wiggling from inside the sand that Gaara held her in.

"You don't recognize me...?" Kumo whispered, suddenly her face washed over with sadness and Sakura's eyes went wide.

"NO... Kumo?!" Sakura cried, looking to Kumo who took a breath and glared at her.

"Why are you here, and who are the other two with you, why are you trying to kill Gaara and I?" Kumo demanded.

"The Hokage gave us orders... Gaara murdered 5 of our ninja's from Leaf, and the Hokage said you were a terrorist! planning to attack us over the summer"

"Gaara never killed anyone and I would never!" Kumo cried.

"He killed 5 of our men, 3 Anbu black ops, and 2 elders! He slaughtered them with the same sand he's hold me with!" Sakura spat.

"No he didn't! YOU'RE LYING!"

"Kumo... You're destined to destroy the village and he already took out some of our best men, you two are a hazard and it's our mission to get rid of you!" Sakura hissed.

"Well, good luck...if it's a monster you're looking for, I'll give it to you!" Kumo snapped, feeling a floating feeling as fire raged threw her veins.

For once, Kumo finally believed the demon in side of her, for she heard voices and felt clawing at her insides for something...

Something evil...

to come out.