[:] It hurts... [:] ~A Gaara Love Story~ [:] Deep inside.. [:] ||Chapter seven||[:]

In the last chapter, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke were digging Kilaru up.

~Kilaru's POV~
I started hearing noises.
[Finally! They began digging me up!]
'Yeah, it's a relief.'
[I totally agree with you, Yume!]
'Well, of course. Tsss... I couldn't guess...'
I waited for about 5 minutes.
[Well? Did they bury me THAT much???]
'Mhmm... This may take some time.'
[*sweatdrop* Geez, thanks for stating the obvious...]
Suddenly, I felt the coffin move.
[What? Are they here already? It was about time.]

And, with a lot of noise, the coffin opened up.
I looked up to meet Naruto's eyes.
"It's true! It's really true! You're alive!" Naruto shouted. He suddenly started crying. "I was so scared! I really thought you were dead. Oh and euh.. Thank you.... For...You know...The dream." He smiled and blushed.
I hugged him.
"It's okay to cry, right?" I smiled.
"H-hai.."
I felt him smile below my shoulder.
His eyes opened wide.
"Well, we should get going now. If people see a whole, what'll they think?"
"Wait!" Sakura screamed.
"What is it?" I asked and blinked several times.
"Could I... Check something?"
"Like what?" I asked her, tilting my head on the right.
"Your heartbeat. 'Cause the doctors said that there was none. And last time, too, when I checked."
"Oh, that. Well of course, you can."
My demon chuckled.
'Ha, what will you do now?'
[Just you wait. You'll see, won't you?]
Sakura resumed her actions.
I saw her sweating. Her hands were shaking too. She then gulped. Her hand reached me.
Suddenly, she relaxed.
"There is one. There's a beating!" She screeched happily.
Naruto only nodded, for he felt it when we hugged, and Sasuke relaxed too.

I felt my demon's surprise.
' How did you do that?'
[I had planned this for a little while now. I managed to create a kind of jutsu that makes one's heart beat once dead or gone. I perfected it and now, it'll "beat" whenever someone is at 10 meters away from me, even though my heart's not there anymore. And even when I'm knocked out, it beats when people come close to me.]
'Oh I see... Great idea. You're the first one I've seen who has ever thought of something like this.'
[Huh? The first one? There were others? What do you mean—]
'Oh, nothing.'
[... Okay.]

"Well, what do we do now?" I asked.
"Maybe we should go tell the Hokage about this." Sakura suggested.
"Yeah! Let's go!" Naruto shouted.
Sasuke nodded and we left.
[Heh... That's it. Tell everyone I'm not dead.. Argh. That means I'll become sort of popular. I hate this. *sigh*]
'You should stop catching attention, you know that, right?'
[Of course I do.. But how could I explain the fact I am alive?]
'Well, I don't know. Find yourself.'
[That's what I just did.] I smirked.

We arrived at the Hokage's office.
"Hokage-sama, as you can see, Kilaru Lumazaru is alive." Sakura declared.
He looked at me with amazement.
"H-how could it be?" He asked me.
"Well, when I fainted back at the bridge, I felt darkness all around me, and suddenly, after some long hours, I felt light surround me and I woke up, only to realize I was in a coffin."
"Tell me more. What did you see in the darkness, in the light?"
[Argh..]
Yume laughed at me.
'Good luck to you.'
"Well, I don't know to explain. In the darkness, I saw... I saw a snake. It was looking at me with its yellow eyes. And then, I saw Konoha. But, the Leaf Village was different. I saw panic in people's eyes. I felt like nothing could be done. And it was a real nightmare. But then, I saw Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura, and all the people whom I cherish the most. That's when the light appeared. When I woke up, I felt dizzy and called Naruto."
"How did you call him?" The Hokage
"I don't really feel like telling more. Maybe you could ask him?"
While Naruto was explaining, I collapsed on the floor.
[Darn it, I'm still weak from not using my body lately.]
And everything went blank.

---::A few weeks later::---
I woke up.
[W-where am I?] I didn't know why, but I felt like this happened before. [Oh right, now I remember. I'm at the hospital, after collapsing in the Hokage's office.]
The light of the sun passed through the window and went right on my face.
I slowly got up. I saw my clothes and dressed up.
I left my bed and went out through the window.
[There's no way I'm staying in there!]
I quickly ran through the streets and into my house.
My house was a double-storied old house, for I wasn't rich, and hardly anything was in it. There were only the essential things, like a bathroom, kitchen, and some furniture, my bedroom at the second storey, and two other bedrooms, but empty.
In my bedroom, there was a mirror, a bed, a window, of and course, a closet. My whole house was made of wood.
That's all there is to know. But, somewhere well-hidden, there was a picture. In one of the room, a single picture was there. It was placed at the middle of the bedroom.
Well, enough talking about me.
[[Let's go back to the story now, shall we?]]

Later, I went outside to take a walk when I met Naruto and Sakura.
Some kids were following them... Or more like, following Naruto.
[Teehee, how cute!]
I ran at them.
"Naruto! Sakura!"
They looked at me.
"Kilaru?" They asked in unison.
"Hai! In person!"
"How did you get out of the hospital?" Sakura asked.
I grinned.
"One word: Window."
They both sweatdropped.
Konohamaru whispered to Naruto asking if Sakura was his girlfriend.
Naruto, like an idiot, smiled and told Konohamaru that he was sharp.
Sakura didn't like that a lot.
She punched Naruto.
Konohamaru called her a witch and suffered the same fate.
Naruto got up and Konohamaru said something again. He said she was... UGLY.
[Holy...]
Sakura looked like a robot and started running after them.
I started walking after them the faster I could.
It took me a while, but I finally reached them.
When I got there, I saw Konohamaru was being held up in the air by the collar.
The one who held him up wore some kind of black clothes that formed some kind of ears on his head. He wore purple paint on his face.
A blonde girl with four ponytails was telling him to put the kid down.
[They..! I remember them!]
"Kankuro! What are you doing? Put Konohamaru down!" I yelled at the guy.
Everyone turned to look at me.
"You know him?" Naruto and Sakura asked.
Kankuro and the girl looked surprised.
"And you, Temari! Why aren't you stopping him!?" I screamed.
She looked taken aback.
{She knows my name?} Both Kankuro and Temari asked themselves.
"Of course I know you! You're from the Sand Village."
Suddenly, Kankuro received a rock on his hand that was holding Konohamaru and he lost his grasp.
Sasuke was on a tree close to us.
Kankuro didn't seem happy.
[But, if Kankuro and Temari are here, then maybe—]
"Who are you?" Kankuro asked.
"Aww... You don't remember me? Oh so sad... To be forgotten like this."
They said nothing and Sasuke started talking to them... It almost felt like arguing.
And suddenly, a red head talked. He was upside down the same tree that Sasuke was, except on the other side.
"Kankuro, you're a disgrace to our village." He said.
He then disappeared from the tree, where Sasuke seemed surprised that the guy was there, and reappeared next to his siblings.
"I was right! Gaara! It's you!"