Chapter twoness!
This is Gaara's point of view of last chapter, enjoy.
Gaara looked at the crumbled body in front of him. He crept closer, touching a lock of hair and pushing it behind a tanned ear.
He knew that face. It was Uzumaki Naruto, the boy who had changed his life.
What was he doing here?
Gaara cocked his head to one side in confusion. He carefully rolled Naruto onto his back and studied him.
He didn't look too injured, a few minor bruises but that was it. Gaara let out a breath he hadn't realised he'd been holding.
It never occurred to him that he'd grow to care for the boy. And yet he did. Gaara occupied himself by running his fingers through Naruto's hair.
The blonde looked distressed even unconscious, maybe he could soothe him.
Gaara sighed to himself. Not only was he trapped in this terrible place, but now Naruto was.
The question was, why?
Gaara was here because of the Shukaku, because the Akatsuki wanted his demon.
But Naruto was just a normal genin. An extraordinary genin, but a normal one nonetheless.
This was a place for the tainted and monstrous, Naruto didn't belong here.
He remembered the blonde's last words to him last time they'd met.
~small flashback~
"It's almost unbearable isn't it? The pain of being all alone…I've been there, in that dark and lonely place…"
~end small flashback~
But why? Why had Naruto gone through the same pain Gaara had? How did he know his feelings?
Naruto wasn't a monster, why had he been exposed to such pain?
It made no sense to Gaara.
Unless he was a jinchuriki.
No! Gaara looked down at Naruto. This angel couldn't be like him, couldn't be a jinchuriki, there was just no way.
But it was the only answer Gaara could think of.
He saw Naruto stirring and went back to the corner where he had been before.
Naruto opened his eyes and sat up, obviously in pain. He looked around, blinking in the dark.
The boy saw he was trapped and growled, throwing himself at the walls in an attempt to escape.
Not that it would help. Naruto cut himself on a rock and Gaara hissed quietly.
Shukaku smelled the blood and began smashing at the sides of Gaara's head.
Gaara had to fight to keep him in.
"Don't bother. I already tried that," he said.
Naruto turned to him, blinking to see him.
"Gaara…that you?" he asked.
Gaara glared as Shukaku attempted to take over his mind, he focused all his energy on fighting him back.
"W…What's that look for?" Naruto asked looking worried.
"That." Gaara pointed to the cut. "It's driving Shukaku insane."
He watched as Naruto scrambled back. He almost sighed. So Naruto, in the end, was afraid of him too.
Gaara closed his eyes, slowly but surely fighting Shukaku back to the recesses of his mind.
"I can fight it. But it's difficult." He said after a pause.
Naruto visibly relaxed. "Where are we?" he asked.
"At the moment, the Akatsuki hideout," Gaara replied opening his eyes.
"Akatsuki? Those bastards after the jinchurikis? Argh I can't believe I let myself get caught by those jerks!" Naruto fumed.
So Naruto was a jinchuriki? Wait…that orange chakra during the Exams…Kyuubi maybe?
"Calm down, I was caught too." Gaara said.
"Oh. And you're like…way stronger than me, so I guess I can't really talk can I?"
Gaara tilted his head to one slightly. He knew very well who won their last battle.
Naruto was far stronger than him, who looked after his friends and protected them before himself, he was stronger than Gaara by far.
But he said none of this to the blonde. No reason to let him know, it would foul up his humility.
Naruto sighed and turned away from Gaara's staring.
"Can't you bust us out of here?" he asked irritably.
Gaara looked away. "They took my sand," he said in a small voice.
He revealed a lot more weakness with that statement than he would have liked.
Naruto's eyes narrowed.
"But can't you make sand out of earth?" he asked.
"I can, but this place…whatever it is it's not earth. I think it's metal," Gaara replied.
"Huh. And there must be something blocking our chakra too," Naruto said.
"Add to that we're surrounded by water, so even if we did escape it would be pointless, I can't swim." Gaara sighed.
Naruto looked at him. "You can't swim?" he asked.
Gaara raised an invisible eyebrow at him. "I live in a desert and you expect me to be able to swim?" he asked dryly.
Was he really this stupid? Surely not.
"Oh." Naruto laughed nervously. "Well what are we going to do?"
Gaara shrugged. "The same thing I've been doing I guess. We wait."
"Wait for what?"
Gaara didn't answer. He didn't want to think about it, and he didn't want to scare Naruto.
Naruto shivered. He was scared anyway.
"I don't suppose anyone would find us, even if they were looking," Naruto said sadly.
"Mmm." Gaara agreed thinking of his siblings.
Gaara looked at him as he looked away, he looked at his huddled form and felt rage.
Rage beyond anything he'd ever felt. He didn't care who these Akatsuki were, he wouldn't let them hurt Naruto.
He'd been hurt too much. He deserved no more.
And that was final.
End of chapter!
Okay I'll do another chapter from the wall's point of view next time!
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No I'm kidding, next chapter we meet the rest of the jinchuriki!
Note that while I know the jinchuriki have names already I don't know them so I'm going to make them up. I'm putting in the three tails, the two tails and the six tails. That's all.