Yeah… This one's for Gaara. NOT only because of the title… Enter Sandman, by Metallica, if you want to know.
Chapter name: Enter (Suna)man
Rating: T
Warning: Cursing and killing
Characters:
Enter Sandman
Say your prayers little one
Don't forget, my son
To include everyone
Tuck you in, warm within
Keep you free from sin
Till the sandman he comes
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Gaara's breath had frozen in his lungs. His heart thudded against his ribcage. "Why can't you leave me alone?" the boy whispered to no one in particular. "Why the fuck can't you just leave me be!?"Gaara knew now that the monster would never "leave him be". It would always be inside him. The monster was him.
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never-land
He took off running, harder than before. He had to get out of the village. People's lives depended on it.
"We are the same, Gaara. Let me take control. They must all be taught why we're beautiful."
Just shut up! I'm not you, you're not me! Don't make me kill anyone! I don't like to kill!
"You will."
Something's wrong, shut the light
Heavy thoughts tonight
And they aren't of snow white
The red-haired boy ran. He stumbled through the desert village, shoving people who weren't quick enough out of his way. He could feel the demon's rage building within him. Something within him, not the demon, yearned for blood.
"Let us teach them why they know the fear!"
"No!" the boy exclaimed, aloud. He sprang from the top of the village wall, landing on a dune. Gaara slid and half-rolled down the side of the dune. He staggered into a standing position.
The boy's eyes were sharp enough to pick out the faces watching him from the "safety" of the wall.
His father was among them. The boy gave a mock bow, filled with annoyance and a disrespectful air.
"What are you doing?! Go back and kill them all."
"No." Gaara turned his back on his village and stalked out into the desert.
Dreams of war, dreams of liars
Dreams of dragons fire
And of things that will bite
He came across a caravan being ransacked in the night. The bandits were nothing more than murderous thieves, attacking and pillaging the family the small train belonged to.
Those men are going to kill that family… Gaara said to himself.
"Let's help, then kill them, too!"
"No." He wanted to say, but his instincts acted before his mind. Sand whipped around the bandits and began choking and crushing them.
Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Off to never never-land
Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the lord my soul to take
The boy's dark shadow loomed over her. She was only a little girl. He didn't want to hurt her, but she had tried to stab him. The sand had acted on it's own. It had squeezed the life out of her.
He held her corpse as her skin began to go cold. The look of horror was plastered across her face permanently. He didn't know what to do, but it seemed Shukaku had gotten his way.
Hush little baby, don't say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
It's just the beast under your bed,
In your closet, in your head
"Gaara, it's simply impossible. People will never see how beautiful we are."
"Because of you. I'm like this only because of you."
"No, it's not my fault. Our strength scares them. We have to show them why."
"No. I don't want to. It hurts."
"Then you admit defeat."
"Never."
Exit light
Enter night
Grain of sand
Exit light
Enter night
Take my hand
Were off to never never-land