"Great," Katara muttered under her breathe, "I'll see you later Gaara, I better get my team ready to move out."
With that Katara flipped off the building and ran the other direction
"Come on," Katara yelled upon entering the small room the four boys were resting in, "we're heading out tonight."
"What?!?" came the chorus from the boys.
"Don't question me, just get ready," Katara sternly stated.
"Alright."
All of them scrambled to prepare for the mission.
Shinobi ran through the moonlight of the desert as they headed to the moon village. A dangerous mission lies ahead of them. No one knew the dangers they were about to be upon. The closer they came to the moon village the closer they come to the awaiting danger.
'I have this strange feeling like something bad is coming,' Katara thought as she ran alongside her team, 'right now we have no idea what is going to be waiting for us the closer we get to the moon village's boarder. How can we just run in thinking that nothing could be waiting us? We shouldn't be letting out guard down.'
"Keep your guard up, I have a feeling something is about to happen," Katara instructed her team.
"You're just being paranoid. We're miles from the boarder! No one's going to attack us," one of the sand village ninja said.
"Thinking like that is what gets people killed," Katara huffed.
"Touchy!" the ninja said putting his hands in the air.
"Shut up over there!" Kankaro yelled at the sand ninja.
'Stupid fools,' Katara bitterly thought.
A mile away from the boarder was a surprise of shinobi waiting for the group to come. Katara's uneasy feeling continued to grow.
"Kankaro!" she finally called out to said man.
"What?!?" he called back.
"I believe it would be to our advantage to stop here the night and strategize better for a proper attack," Katara advised.
"I think that might be advisable," Kankaro replied.
The shinobi stopped and pitched a quick camp before strategizes were thrown around.
"Where did Gaara go now?" Kankaro asked upon noticing the absence of the red head.
"I'll go find him…..again," Katara volunteered.
"Alright."
Katara walked a little ways among the green of the forest searching for the male she barely knew, yet felt some unreeling feeling of unknown emotion towards.
"Gaara, what are you going up in the tree?" Katara yelled to the red head, but there was no response.
Katara then jumped into the tree next to Gaara.
"Gaara? Hello anybody home?" Katara asked waving a hand in front of Gaara's face.
Navy orbs met sea foam green ones; a new feeling enveloped Katara, one of understanding and concern.
"Gaara, why do you always stay away from people?" concern washed over her tone and eyes.
"Everyone hates me," came his monotone answer.
"Why would they hate you?" Katara was confused and showed it.
"I'm a demon!" Gaara balled his fists. "My father the lord Kazekage sealed the sane demon Shukaku in me while I was still in my mother's womb. I killed my mother in birth. I was born as the ultimate weapon to save my village, but soon people found that I had emotional problems and soon became a threat to the village I was suppose to save. My father tried to have me killed when I was only six years old. I soon found that to ensure my own existence I had to kill others."
"Gaara, I know what it feels like for everyone to hate you for what you are. I have the dragon demon Chusi sealed in me to save my family. I know how it feels to have no one there to support you and show you love. My family was massacred when I was very little. Gaara, you don't have to kill others to be useful. You can show your father that you are still a human not a demon, or monster," Katara tried to coax.
"I'm a monster!" Gaara screamed as he threw Katara to the ground.
Twigs snapped under Katara as she hit the ground. She never expected him to lash out like that. Katara stared wide-eyed as Gaara hovered over her.
"Gaara," she said wearily.
"Gaara! Don't think it!" yelled a blonde haired girl that looked older than Gaara.
"whatever." With that he walked away which shocked the girl that yelled at him.
"Are you ok?" she asked once she got closer to Katara.
"Yeah," Katara answered rubbing her back as she stood up.
"I'm Tamari by the way," The blonde stated.
"Katara," she replied.
'Gaara, I wish you would see that killing will just destroy you?' Katara thought before returning to the camp with Tamari.