? Point Of View

I watched silently as the girl, Akuma, grabbed at her head painfully. The encounter with the sand siblings causing old memories to stir deep in side of her head. Memories Shiku tries to hide and keep far away from her prison. After all I would know everything about her from watching her for all of these years. I ran my hand through my snowy hair before sighing. If she doesn't recall her family soon I will be forced to make her remember less than kindly.

Personally I would like her to recall them on her own. I've seen her during her lows, her highs and even put a stop to her psychotic ones, not that she would be able to remember me. Shiku suppresses each encounter with someone from her past, however she seems to have finally lost control over Akuma's memories. The encounter with her siblings is proof enough of that.

Soon I shall make my appearance. Soon I will reveal myself to her, her silent watcher. I'm sure that she has noticed a constant presence near her even if she couldn't recall who it was. Hopefully she will return back to that bubbly little girl from the sand. The little girl who offered cookies to strangers, although no one would take one. The child who never let all the hate and assassination attempts get to her.

However finally a plan finally seemed to work. To get one of the twin demons out of the village hidden in the sand. A staged kidnapping by bandits. Bandits who were actually prisoners sentenced to death in the sand. Told that if they could kidnap and dispose of the girl they could run free. The kazekage knew that they would fail, as had all his other attempts on his two children. He decided the next best thing would to at least separate them.

Akuma has been alone for a vast majority of her life, only few years held in the company of her brother. Quite silly the Kazekage planned to attack the village in which his daughter was taken in and raised. Little did he know he was giving me the perfect opportunity to help her become a normal person once more. I smiled, readjusted my hidden sand hitai-ate and disappeared back into the forest. In two days I would appear into the tower as a passing genin team although I was already above that level. In three days my team will enter the final stages of the chunin exams. After that I would not be taking part in the attack on the leaf as I team would be.

Akuma's Point Of View

I gripped my head in pain. Shiku was urging me in full force to kill the presence I have felt near by for years, the only presence to have stayed this long and not attempt to kill me. First the sand boy causes her to waken only for this presence to stir her up even more. The pain was shooting through my head in waves before it just vanished.

I let go of my head and turned to find the red haired sand genin. We stare at each other for a few moments, his sea foam eyes staring directly at my onyx ones. Our faces showing no emotion, giving no signs of what we were thinking. I could hear his sand stirring in his gourd. With a low growl, I walk slowly past him. My hand barely grazes the edge of his own, before I was lost in a long forgotten memory.

~Flash Back~

"Come on Gaara!" A young me called to a familiar red head who lacked the mark on his head, just as I lacked mine. In my hand was a small bag of homemade cookies. "I wanna play!" I called to my brother who was walking slowly.

"I'm coming Akuma." Gaara called back to me right before I bumped into a boy. Gaara came running up as the boy and I dusted ourselves off.

"I'm sorry. I wasn't looking where I was going." I looked upwards to find a pale boy about two years older than me with snow white hair that fell down to his shoulders. "Would you like a cookie?" I asked holding out the bag to him.

"It was my fault really. Thank you but I shouldn't. Any kind of sugar make me sick. I'm Yukiteru by the way." The boy, Yukiteru, smiled. "Everyone calls me Yuki."

"My name is Akuma. That's my older brother Gaara." I smiled, happy to make a friend since most wouldn't even speak to me. "He is really quiet but once you get to know him he is really nice."

"It was a pleasure to meet you Akuma, Gaara. My father is likely looking for me. I must go." He smiled. "I hope to see you again soon." Quickly he ran off in pursuit of a tall man with black hair.

"I like him." I say to my brother once Yukiteru could no longer be seen. "What do you think Gaara?"

"He is… Interesting." Was all he said. I shrugged and continued to the park.

~Flash Back End~

I slowly lost consciousness after that, a new seal I had placed on my shoulder holding plenty of chakra to keep Shiku under control until I awoke. I decided due to the amount of times Lee has almost knocked me under I would need a fail safe. Never would I have thought I would have needed it so soon.

Hey guys!

Happy holidays/Merry Christmas/Whatever you celebrate (I don't know them all. Sorry.) I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Also did you all notice something? There wasn't a song in this one. I have written and rewritten this chapter tons of times and I could not find one I liked until I wrote this one. If you don't like drop a comment don't below so I can improve or in box me. Actually any thoughts in general would be nice. I hope you all have a great day and have a wonderful holiday/break.