Chapter 7

Enemies

Gaara POV

I left the house early the next morning. Temari was kind of shocked to see me out of bed before midday.

"What are you doing up?" She asked. "Did your bed catch fire?"

"No. I want to say goodbye to Lee."

"Oh. Alright then. Make sure you eat something before you go, alright?"

"You think I'd forget? I've been hungry all the time just lately!"

She rolled her eyes and went to pack.

I just walked into the kitchen and ate one of the bentos that she had prepared, knowing that she'd yell at me later for it. Once I'd finished eating, I went out onto the streets and looked around nervously in case anyone was going to talk to me. To my relief, nobody I recognised was out and I walked quietly down to the graveyard. On feeling a sudden presence behind me, I spun around, only to be met with the famous Hyuuga smirk.

"What do you want, Neji?" I asked the boy who stood before me.

"Good morning to you too, Gaara. How nice of us to bump into each other."

I glared, feeling the negativity radiating off of him in waves.

"So, where are you headed?"

"That is none of your business, Hyuuga."

"Resorting to addressing me informally now, are you? I know with your father being Kazekage and all, you feel all important, right? There is no need to act like such a brat in the presence of somebody like me, is there?" He ranted, keeping his voice calm, but patronizing. "And let me remind you that the Hyuuga are of higher importance than the Kazekage himself! It should be me acting all cocky now, shouldn't it? Speaking down to your superiors... you make me sick, Sabaku-san."

"Then why don't you fuck off?" I muttered.

"What was that? Are you challenging me?"

I kept silent.

"Gone quiet now have you? Are you scared of me?"

"No I'm not."

"Then prove it." He growled. "Byakugan!"

Shit this was bad. There was no way I could defeat him now. He struck me hard across the face and I stumbled a little.

"Are you going to fight back, you pussy?"

As much as I wanted the smash his obnoxious face in... I couldn't... not with Kaeda. There was a chance she could get hurt.

"I'd better teach you some manners after the way you spoke to me today." He grabbed my throat and lifted me up against the wall. It was hard to breathe, but I tried not to show it. "That all you got?" I asked him.

"You like pain? Do you like it when I punch you? Feels good?" He raised his fist again and paused just as he was about to punch me; then his eyes drifted down to my stomach. "What's that?" He asked. "A-Are you pregnant?"

"N-No I'm not!"

"I can see another small chakra inside you!" He grabbed my wrist and pushed me against a wall hard.

"Stop fucking looking!"

"So it is true." He smirked. "That's pretty messed you know. Male pregnancy. It has only happened five times in this country and that's over thousands and thousands of years. The last recorded case was a year before you were born."

"Are you done lecturing me?" I hissed, trying to walk away, but he held me in place.

"The baby is Lee's isn't it? He fucked you."

I blushed. "Please! Let me go!"

"Well well well. Looks like the son of the Kazekage is pregnant by my ex boyfriend."

I stared at him. "Ex boyfriend? You went out with Lee?"

"Of course." He leant down close to me. "Are you jealous Sabaku-san?"

"No because I knew that Lee loved me."

"Did he?"

"What do you mean?"

"Who would love a Jinchuuriki?" He tightened his grip on my wrist.

"Ow! Stop that! It hurts!" I struggled and tried to push him away, but he got my other arm too and twisted it round. I refused to cry out in pain, no matter how much it hurt. He'd really pissed me off now... so much that I could feel Shukaku slowly stirring from the depths of my mind.

"Get away from him!" Yelled an angry female voice.

Neji turned and dodged a punch from my sister. Temari stood in front of me protectively.

"Lay one finger on him again," She growled. "And you're dead."

"Go back home, princess. Let me teach your little brother a lesson."
"Leave him the fuck alone!" She turned a little to speak to me. "Are you alright?"

"Y-Yeah... just a little shaken."

Neji snorted. "You know what? I don't want to waste my energy on you pathetic brats. It will make a mockery of me. I'm out." With that, he turned on his heel and strutted away, not failing to give me a final glare.

Temari turned round fully to face me. "Did he hurt you?"

"I don't think so."

"You're bleeding."

"Where?"

"On your lip."

I wiped it away with the back of my hand. It made a little crimson streak down my wrist.

"I don't want you walking alone here, okay? What if he comes back?"

"Yeah whatever. I'm fine."

"We're leaving right now."

"What?"

"That's right! Just wait until father hears about this..."

I sighed and followed her back to the house where she got our belongings together.

"Gaara, where's that bento I made this morning?"

"Um... I ate it."

"That was supposed to be eaten tonight!"

"W-Well I was hungry..."

"There's stuff in the cupboards, baka!"

"Sorry."

She rolled her eyes. "Gaara you will never learn will you?"

"Learn what?"

"Nothing."

"Well if your going to teach me something, you might as well tell me what the fuck I'm meant to learn. Don't you think?"

"Gaara, don't swear!"

"Okay, I won't ever fucking swear again."

Temari sighed at me.

I shook my head. What was wrong with me? Why did I just snap at her like that? Was it because my hormones were all over the place? Great. Now I felt like crying. "I-I'm sorry Temari. I didn't mean to yell like that. I don't know w-why I'm acting like this."

She hugged me. "It's okay bro. You're tired. We'll get going now and you can have a nice sleep in the car, yeah?"

"Yeah." I wasn't looking forward to leaving. It took about half a day to get to Suna and I hated travelling. Usually, the travelling lasted about two hours, but since I'm pregnant it would take a lot longer as we'd have to stop to eat and stuff.

3

As night fell, the journey in the car became hell. I just felt so tired and sad and kept crying for no reason; mainly because of the incident I had with Neji. But the thing that hurt the most was that I missed Lee so much and never could I know that losing someone would hurt so intensely as this. Letting out a sigh, my eyes drifted to the window and I leant my head against the icy class. Rain was hammering down. Typical Konohagakure weather. Maybe being back home would make me feel better.

I remembered that the first time I stayed at Lee's house in Konoha, I was freezing. Being so used to the heat, the weather in this new place had shocked me. Lee could see I was cold and we cuddled up together with a blanket. Those memories now were so precious because I knew that we could never make any more together ever again.

I just never thought I'd need anybody so much, He was my everything. When we were apart, My life didn't even feel complete and I would count the days until I got to see him again. It made me wonder if the person who was driving the other car that smashed into ours feels any remorse. Did they know that they'd killed somebody?Why did they take my Lee away from me? Now he was gone, I really wished I could just hear him say those words that made my day.

"Aishiteruze, Gaara-kun."

Before I knew it, I'd fallen into a dreamless sleep that was soon interrupted by Temari.

"Gaara... we're back." She said, lifting me out of the car. I was carried into the house and set on the sofa. My father came into the lounge.

"Made it back alright? How are you both?"

Temari sighed and explained about the Neji incident.

"There's no point in charging him for this. He's a Hyuuga." I told my father.

"I don't care! Nobody treats my kids like that!"

"At least nobody got hurt."

"That's not the point, Gaara! He could've done anything to you!"

"And you think that I wouldn't have fought back?"

"You just told me that you were scared in case Kaeda got hurt!"

"Yeah, but if he really started to hurt me, I would've hit him."

My father sighed and ruffled my hair. "As long as you're alright."

"Didn't I already say that?" I mumbled.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"Do you want anything to eat?"

"Um... I'll get myself something." I knew how bad his cooking was. The last thing I needed was food poisoning.

"Are you sure?"

I nodded and got up, then searched the kitchen for any food that Kankuro hadn't already eaten.

Ramen, Ramen, Ramen and guess what? More Ramen.

In the end, I just settled for some Teriyaki noodles. Oh actually, I'd forgotten how to cook them. Great. Fucking great. Not like the instructions were any help either.

"Here, let me help you." Temari was stood behind me.

"Thanks."

"No problem. Just sit down in the lounge and I'll shout you when they're ready." She told me, starting to fry the noodles.

I nodded and left the kitchen, then went to join my father in the lounge. I felt so tired and hungry. Hopefully, the pregnancy would be over soon. Women on TV always tell people how 'beautiful' pregnancy is. What's so great about being hungry all the time, having hormonal rants and needing to pee every five minutes? The only good thing about it was the child you got at the end. The thing that worried me was that I had only gained very little weight. Well, I guess it's better than gaining none at all. The pregnancy hurt as well. In the past few hours I had a bit of cramping in my low abdomen which was probably normal. The cramps were quite painful and I couldn't concentrate on the TV or anything.

"Can I take some painkillers?" I asked my father.

"Why, what's wrong?" He replied.

"Stomach cramps."

"Is the baby okay?"

"I think she's fine."

"Well you never take painkillers so I'm guessing it hurts quite bad?"

"N-Not yet, it's just annoying..."

"Is the baby okay?"

"I don't know... I'll ask Shukaku."

What is it, brat? Pregnancy giving you a hard time?"

"Shut it. I just came to ask if Kaeda is alright."

"I don't see what you are concerned about. Your daughter is fine."

"Well why am I getting pains?"

"Why do you think, baka? Males weren't made to carry children and your body is trying to adjust to it! Now do you realize why I made you carry the baby instead?"

"So you could see me suffer."

"Haha! Aren't I the sadistic one? I enjoy your pain."

"I'm out. See you later Shukaku."

"Already?"

I ignored the demon and came back to reality.

"Gaara! Are you fucking deaf? I told you that heavy metal crap you listen to had it's fucking consequences!" Kankuro practically screamed down my ear.

"And didn't I fucking tell you that listening to Kankuro's venomous trap he calls a mouth damages your eardums? Especially after talking to your fucking Bijuu!"

My brother smacked me across the face for that. "You have a mouth like a fucking trashcan!"

"Like you're the one to talk!" I retorted, punching him in the stomach.

Kankuro practically leapt on me and we had one of our fights; which usually included a lot of punching, slapping, kicking and biting. Not to mention rolling around on the floor and swearing at each other. If it got really bad, we'd usually end up bleeding heavily and nursing broken bones for a few weeks. I pushed him into a wall and in turn, he kicked me insanely hard between the legs, making me cry out in pain.

"That fucking hurt, you asshole!"

"Good! How about I decorate my fist with your fucking teeth?"

"I'd like to see you try it!" And we were off again, this time, practically kicking each other to death. "Now I can park my foot up your ass!" Threatened Kankuro. "Actually, on second thoughts, a faggot like you would probably get some kind of sick pleasure from it!"
"As fucking if!"

"Getting lonely now no-ones shoving their cock up your ass?"

I felt tears in my eyes. To mention it, what he just said was really hurtful. "Shut up!"

"Or what, faggot? You gonna cry to daddy?"

"Please stop it! What do you have against me?"

"Uh, let's see... You let that little gay boyfriend fuck you-"

"Don't you dare talk about Lee like that! You didn't even know him!"

"I knew he was a bad choice for you Gaara."

"He meant the world to me!"

I heard someone come in and then Temari's laughing. "Come on, Gaara! Punch him!" She cheered.

"Temari, don't you encourage them! Okay guys, break it up, break it up!" I heard father say. He had to jump in between us, earning a few accidental punches in the process.

"Faggot!" Kankuro screamed at me.

"Bastard!" I shouted back.

"Hey, hey! That's enough, both of you!" He yelled.

"You busted my fucking lip, you little shit!"

"Yeah, you can go whining about it! Now look who's bleeding?"

"Kankuro! Gaara! That is enough!"

We both shut up, but that didn't stop us glaring daggers at each other.

"I don't what's gotten into you two, but you're driving me insane! Just go and sort out whatever is bugging you. I don't want to see any more fighting! Understand?"

Kankuro nodded.

"Gaara?"

"I need some air." I growled, storming out of the house.

"Get back here!"

"No!" I retorted, slamming the door. The night air in Suna was always cold; just how I liked it. It's a wonder my anger didn't stir Shukaku; especially on a full moon like tonight. Kankuro got lucky this time, but who cared if I was gay? Why couldn't my brother, of all people just accept me for who I am? Was he ashamed of me? We used to be the best of friends and he always looked out for me; but ever since I started dating Lee, he seemed to suddenly turn cold and distant... like he no longer wanted to know me... Like he had...

Disowned me.