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The walk to Konoha was uneventful. Gaara, Naruto, and Kankuro took turns carrying me between them. Despite my constant attempts to walk, I was forced to stay still. The dirt paths and the trees just seemed to never to cease, on and on. Many villages passed by, but we never stopped.

"Are we there yet?"

I broke the never ending silence for the eleventh time with the same question, much to the annoyance of my traveling companions.

"No, stop asking."

I was answered by three different voices. Three annoyed Sakura, Gaara, and Temari. Pouting in the arms of a cheerful Naruto, I tried to get comfortable. Naruto was chattering away to Kankuro about the usual...ramen. Uninterested, I tried again:

"How much longer?!"

An audible groan responded to my question. Temari turned to Gaara annoyed.

"Can we knock her unconscious?"

I rolled my eyes at her statement, but Gaara responded first, glaring at wind nin.

"No."

"Why not?"

"Because she is already hurt, why make things worse?"

His tone of voice came across like he was speaking to a child. More of a that should be obvious. Their bickering was interrupted by a previously silent Sasuke.

"You know, If we need I can use my sharingan to put her to sleep. It wouldn't hurt her."

They all looked to me, child – like eagerness written on their faces. I could only shrug in response.

"Do it."

All spoke in unison. A little to excitedly! Gently Kankuro placed me on my feet and I found myself face to face with crimson eyes. Swirling...the eyes were...swirling. My body felt heavy, my eyelids slid closed. In seconds, I was out like a light.

Naruto's annoying cries of home coming woke me from my blissful sleep. Opening my eyes to the glaring sun, I was greeted by practically the entire medical staff of Konoha hospital, a blonde busty woman leading the group of medic nins. She motioned to three men, they rushed over, picked me out of Kankuro's arms and laid me on a stretcher.

"My name is Tsunade, I am the Hokage and head doctor at the hospital."

The busty woman introduced herself me. Before I could so much as bow my head, the nins carried me after her into the white building. I could feel, rather then see, Gaara walk beside the stretcher holding my hand. Warm and there. Reassuring.

The room I was put it was cold. The men laid me on a bed gently and bowing to the Hokage, left the room. Tsunade looked, noticing Gaara's hand intertwined with mine.

"You can stay, but she is going to have to take her shirt off."

A small smile passed over her lips as she explained.

"I will stay." Gaara mumbled.

"Very well, Amaya, please remove your shirt."

Sitting up on the bed, I pulled off Gaara's black t-shirt. That done, I sat on the bed, shivering in my underwear. Trying very hard to ignore the burning in my face.

"Do you know how long you had been kidnapped for?"

"A week? Maybe two?"

"A month, you were gone for a month. In that time the healing process should have started but because it was left like it was it has gotten infected."

I heard a ragged gasp, unknowing it came from me. A month!?

Tsunade gently lay her hands on the burn and poured her green chakra into the wound. A different warmth spread as I felt the pain and heat of the burn leave my body, a feeling that nothing could compete with. The healing process was being sped up, a thousand times as fast as normal. I watched as within minutes new baby pink skin replaced the raw, angry, infected, dead flesh.

"Thank you so much!"

My voice was filled with a certain giddiness.

"But you can't push yourself, the skin on the outside is healed, but the burned flesh underneath still needs time to heal. I say some rest and lots of food on those bones of yours is what you need, now shoo."

Gaara and I were pushed out of the room. I just stood there speechless a moment, before a realization hit me.

"Umm... where am I supposed to sleep?"

Gaara chuckled, a small smile playing on his lips. Gently, his hand in mine, he led me out of the hospital.

"I have a house for when I am here on business."

When Gaara said house...he meant mansion! It was settled in the forest on the outskirts of the village. The wood house had wide windows and beautifully furnished rooms. Dark green hues with accents of white and black. The redhead led me by the hand into the room, which was clearly the master bedroom.

"Sleep in here for now."

Well, who was I to protest!? Happily I padded to the bed and plopped into the thick mattress. Enveloped in the warmth and softness of the mattress and blankets, my eyelids grew heavy and I drifted to another blissful sleep...

I was running. Running through the halls of my previous prison. The walls were suffocating me. I kept running and running...no escape! Windowless and no doors were to be seen in the hallway where I ran. There had to be something...! Keep running...

"Don't stop running Amaya, I will always be coming for you."

I turned to the voice, skin crawling. My father was making his way towards me. In fear, I ran, trying to get away from him. Every time I turned around, he was closer. Every single time! I must keep running! A door! A small distance away was a door! Before me, the door was a grimy white and covered in deep scratches and smudges of blood. The handle was slick beneath my fingers, stubborn to open. I rammed the side of my torso into the door, desperate. I needed to get away from him! The door flew open and I fell through. The blue walls of my room in the prison were what awaited me on the other side of the door.

"You can run as far as you want, but you will be always be mine Amaya."

Bolting awake in a cold sweat, I could hear screaming, chilling me right to the core. A nightmare, it was just a nightmare... But the dream felt so real...! Cold hands were wrapped around my own and I flinched. Gaara. It was just Gaara. He spoke no words as he pulled me into his chest. His arms held me close. Protective and sure, a promise of protection and confirmation everything was alright. In Gaara's arms, I clung to his shirt, sobbing away my fear of the nightmare...the stress and horror of the last month. Thank god, it was just a dream...

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