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Kira slammed into her sister's house, the house she grew up in, the house that no longer held its homey comfort.
Suna was her home, because Gaara was usually there to calm her down, to make her feel better, to make her laugh.
"Kira?" Kakashi's voice said.
The copy-nin had moved in when he and Anko got engaged and Kira was happy for the pair, she just didn't want to deal with anything right now.
"What?" Kira snapped, picking up Aiko and cuddling the small puppy (remember she and Temari bought a puppy in Suna? Well she bought it with her!).
"Is Gaara okay?" Kakashi asked softly as Anko appeared from the kitchen, covered in flour, she didn't have her sister's talent in the kitchen, though she was trying.
"Yes, he woke up," Kira replied dismissively, looking down at the black ball of fluff in her arms.
"Well that's good isn't it?" Anko said, hands on hips.
Kira shrugged and headed up the stairs to her room, freeing Aiko from her hold as she did so and setting the small puppy on the ground to go outside.
Anko and Kakashi looked after the girl confusedly, she waited three weeks for the Kazekage to wake, and when he did she came home and acted as though she couldn't care less.
'Teenage girls are confusing,' Kakashi thought before sitting down in the sitting room and reading his Make-Out Paradise book and Anko went back to the kitchen to 'cook'.
The trio then jumped as someone banged on the door.
"Kira! Answer that!" Anko ordered.
"Kakashi! Answer the door!!" Kira shouted down to the copy-nin.
Kakashi sighed and got up, still reading his book, and answered the door.
"Hey, Kakashi," Tsunade smiled, "Kira here?"
"Kira, it's for you!" Kakashi called up the stairs.
Kira sighed and trudged down the stairs, looking slightly surprised when she saw the Hokage, then worry took over.
"Is it Gaara?!" she panicked, "oh god, what's happened, is he okay?!"
"He has a message for you," Tsunade grinned.
"Oh," Kira said, 'he better be saying he's sorry and that he'll do anything to make me feel better and that I can have whatever I want,' she thought.
"He says sorry."
Kira shrugged, "close enough," she muttered, then spoke to Tsunade, "I'll be at the hospital in an hour!" she declared, bouncing happily up the stairs.
Kakashi watched after her, "teenaged girls are weird," he mumbled, "would like a drink of sake, Hokage?"
"I think I will," Tsuande nodded, "I deserve for patching up the Kazekage and Kira's relationship."
"Right," Kakashi said, heading for the kitchen.
Kira skipped into the Konoha hospital, her newly washed purple hair swaying in the slight breeze.
She went up the stairs to Gaara's room and slipped in, ready to startle him.
She got up to the bed where Gaara was staring out the window, was about to shout when:
"Hello, Kira," Gaara said calmly.
Kira screamed and jumped backwards, consequently landing on her butt.
"How did you know?" she whined as she stood and sat in the chair beside his bed.
"Saw your reflection in the window," Gaara smirked as Kira pouted.
"Damn," she muttered, then smiled slightly, "how you feeling?"
Gaara nodded, not wanting to admit the wound hurt a bit.
"Temari and Kankuro are taking care of everything back home," Kira said softly.
Gaara smiled faintly as she called Suna home.
He nodded, happy to listen to her voice.
"Tsuande sent a message to them, telling them how you are," she carried on, propping her elbow on his bed and resting her chin in her hand, never taking her eyes from his, "she says you go can go home in a couple of weeks, but I'm going to stay here for a bit longer-"
"Why?" Gaara cut in, frowning slightly.
"Anko's wedding, she wants me to be Maid of Honour," Kira explained, "oh, and you, Temari and Kankuro are invited, so I'm staying until the wedding which is in a month."
"What's the date today?" Gaara asked, looking round the room for a calendar.
"Uh, 16th of June, why?" Kira answered, her brows creasing slightly.
"I missed your birthday," Gaara observed.
Kira shrugged, "oh well, I didn't do anything anyway, I never do, though Sakura, Ino, Tenten and Hinata tried to make me go clubbing," she giggled, "it doesn't matter, to me it's just another day of the year, though I like other people's birthdays."
"Why?" Gaara asked, smiling slightly.
"'Cause I can do stupid stuff and not get remembered for it 'cause it's not my party," Kira grinned, folding her arms on the bed and resting her head on them, watching as the sunset out the window, "I missed the Konoha sunsets, it looks the best from the top of the Hokage Mountain, with the sun setting right behind Konoha, it's so beautiful."
Gaara nodded in agreement, though his eyes were focused on the girl next to him, the way her skin was glowing in the dying glow of the sun and her eyes were half closed, as if she were about to fall asleep.
"But I like Suna sunsets more," she muttered sleepily "on the roof."
Gaara nodded again.
Kira yawned slightly and shut her eyes as small sleepy breaths escaped her as she let the world of slumber rake over.
Gaara smiled faintly and gently lifted her onto the bed, ignoring the pain rushing through his body at the move, he held her sleeping form close to him and despite the fact he still didn't like sleeping even though Shukaku had been removed, he slept too.
Tsunade walked down the hall to Gaara's room briskly to change the young Kazekage's bandages, she opened the door and stopped at the sight before her.
Kira cuddled in Gaara's arms, both sleeping peacefully.
The blonde Hokage smiled at them, before carefully making her way over to them, she placed a hand on Kira's shoulder and shook her awake first.
Kira opened her eyes slowly, yawning as she sat up slowly, smiling at Tsunade before realising where she was, in Gaara's bed, in his arms, in front of the Hokage.
She blushed heavily and jumped off the bed, causing Gaara to groan slightly and roll over.
"Gaara," Kira muttered, poking him in the shoulder, "Gaara wake up!"
Gaara sat up, grumbling and yawning.
"Cute," Kira muttered, smiling softly at him, then blushed and slapped her hands to her mouth as Tsunade and Gaara looked at her, "eh, I'm going to go get a coffee, see ya!"
She bolted out the room, leaving the two Kages watching after her, one with a slight frown, the other with a smile.
"I've got to change your bandages," Tsunade grinned, placing a roll of fresh bandages on the bed and unravelling the old ones from Gaara.
"Hn," Gaara grunted, not fully awake and concentrating on what Kira said, he was not cute, he was Sabbaku no Gaara goddammit! He wasn't cute!
"Men and their pride," Tsunade tutted, repeating her words from earlier in the day.
Gaara scowled at her, she simply smiled back at him, examining his wound carefully.
"Couple of weeks, you'll be out of here, then another week or so you can go back to Suna," she said, applying the new bandages.
As she finished Kira came back in with three cups of coffee.
"I got one for everyone," she muttered, setting them on the chest beside Gaara's bed.
"Thank you," Tsunade chirped, picking up a cup along with a little tub thingy of cream and poured the cream into the coffee before gulping it down.
Gaara nodded and drank his coffee black, it was a force of habit to keep him awake.
Kira smiled and sat in the chair beside the bed as Tsunade left, waving at them cheerfully, saying she would be back in four hours.
"You should go home and sleep," Gaara muttered to Kira who shook her head.
"I'll stay, I'm not tired, besides, you can't sit here all alone, you'll get bored," Kira grinned.
A couple of hours later a Konoha Chunnin came bursting in, a look of panic on his face.
"Miss Kira! The Hokage needs you in her office immediately!" the young boy panted, he'd obviously run from the middle of town where the Hokage office was.
"Why?" Kira asked, standing and walking toward the put of breath boy, "what's happened?"
"It's the Uchiha, Miss Kira!" he answered, "the one who went to Orochimaru!"
Kira's eyes widened, "I'll see you later, Gaara," she said, running out the room.
She pumped chakra into her feet as she ran to the Hokage Tower after collecting her black katanas from Anko's house.
Kira stepped into the office and saw all the Rookie 9 and Gai's Team, along with their sensei's.
And someone about her own age, as well as the Rookie 9,with ebony hair and onyx eyes who was smirking at her, she glared at him.
"You wished to see me, Hokage?" Kira said, forcing all emotion out of her voice as she turned her eyes to the blonde Hokage.
"As you can see Sasuke's back," Tsunade answered, her voice missing its usual teasing quality, "his first wish was to see you."
"He's seen me, therefore I can leave," Kira replied, turning to leave, but someone caught her wrist, she turned and punched the person, sending them flying across the office, "now, I must leave."
"Still have a temper I see, Kira," Sasuke smirked, wiping the blood from the side of his mouth as he stood, "and it's the middle of the night, what have you got to do?"
"None of your business," Kira snapped, clenching and unclenching her fist, wanting to kick the shit out of the smirking Uchiha in front of her.
"I want to come back to Konoha," he said softly, his onyx eyes boring into her green ones, "I left Orochimaru."
Kira shrugged, "I don't care," she said indifferently, "I don't live here anymore."
Sasuke's eyes widened for a second before going back to normal, "oh, is that so? Where do you live now?" he asked.
"In Suna," Kira answered, "with the person I love."
With this she left, leaving Sasuke gaping after her, "who is it?" he demanded of Naruto, turning to face the blonde who was grinning.
"Gaara," Naruto replied simply.
Sasuke growled and threw himself into the seat he previously occupied, his mind full of angry, bitter thoughts.
Kira walked slowly through the streets of her birthplace, her mind reeling.
Sasuke was back.
The first person she had ever loved.
And she thought he loved her, but he left and didn't come back.
She had gotten over him long before she went to Suna, yet she still felt angry about him leaving and wanted to hurt him for leaving her when she saw him sitting there in the Hokage's office, looking like it was just yesterday they were sitting there together, being briefed about the next mission they were going on.
She scoffed at herself.
She was twelve, she didn't know what love was at twelve, she knew what is was now, with Gaara.
The way she felt every time she saw him, kissed him, when she touched him, even if it was just the brush of their fingertips against each others it sent shivers down her spine.
Kira skipped up to Gaara's room and bounded in, grinning happily at him as he turned to face her.
She stopped in front of him and placed her lips to his softly, savouring his taste gladly.
They pulled apart slowly and smiled at each other.
"So, the Uchiha's back?" Gaara questioned.
"Yeah," Kira nodded, sitting in the chair beside Gaara's bed, "and still a twat."
Gaara chuckled lightly then looked out the window at the dark night sky where the stars sparkled innocently down at him.
"I don't know why Tsunade called me, even if he did want to see me" Kira grumbled, leaning back in her chair.
Gaara turned his head so fast he was sure he got whiplash.
"Why did he want to see you?" he demanded, his voice dangerously soft.
"It's a long story," Kira shrugged, really not wanting to explain about her past relationship with the Uchiha.
"I have time," Gaara growled.
"We used to be together," Kira sighed, watching Gaara clench his fists, "but I hate him, he's a traitor, he's nothing to me."
Gaara nodded stiffly, slowly turning to look back out the window, his fists still clenched.
"Gaara," Kira whispered, "I'm sorry, okay?"
Gaara shrugged, "it was a long time ago," he muttered, fighting to keep voice impassive, when he just felt like throwing the damn Uchiha off the Hokage Mountain and watch his body go splat.
Heh, splat.
No more Uchiha.
Yay!
"Are you fantasizing about killing someone again?" Kira sighed, knowing from the smile on his face she was right.
"No," Gaara said hastily, not wanting to have one of her rants about how it wasn't healthy to fantasize about such things.
"Don't you lie to me," Kira snapped, "how many times do I have to tell you, it's just not right to imagine killing people, you're the Kazekage Gaara….."
Gaara tuned her out as she ranted on, her voice stern and sounding tired of telling him the same thing over and over again.
He generally fantasized about killing Haru after he betrayed them and went back to Iwa.
Gaara decided to shut her up.
By kissing her.
Kira stopped ranting and kissed back happily, though knowing he hadn't listened to a word she had just said, she pulled back.
"Don't you try and distract me," she smirked, slapping his arm gently, "it's not right, you should listen to what I have to say it could be important……….."
Gaara sighed and tuned her out, knowing she'd be going on for ages, only one way to stop her now.
"I love you, Kira," he said.
Kira stopped and smiled softly, this was the first time since the battle it had been said, on both sides.
"I love you too," she said hugging him gently, resting her head on his shoulder.
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