-Gaara-

I stared at her in shock.

'Did she just say her inner demon? So then she's like me?'

I wondered.

"I-Inner demon?"

I asked after a while and she nodded.

"I'll tell you my story Gaara, but you have to let me finish."

She said and I nodded.

"Well, I was born with an inner demon named Raja. Everyone in my family has had an inner demon within them since the dawn of time, it's in our blood. We have relatively good control over our demons unless our emotions get in the way, which is what happened to me when I was younger. Some kids had been picking on me, calling me a freak and a monster, but when they said no one could love me I lost it and Raja took over."

She said and I watched as her eyes took on a far away look as if she was reliving it as she was telling me.

"I chased them down and killed all three of them as well as their mother, but I didn't stop there. The entire village treated me as if they hated me, because they did. I was the strongest from my family to be born and it made people fear me, and that fear turned into hate. I was only nine when I wiped out my entire village."

She said and my eyes widened in shock. She was like me.

"After that I wandered the desert where I'd grown up. One day a group of people stopped me. They were wearing black cloaks with red clouds on them. I didn't know who they were, but they knocked me unconscious. When I woke up I was strapped to a machine of sorts and heard them talking about extracting the demon within me. Raja helped me get out, but he was taken from me in the process."

She said and I saw tears in her eyes.

'So she had a demon like me, but also lost it like I did.'

I thought as I listened to more of her story.

"I should have died afterwards and would have except for the fact that Raja's last words kept repeating themselves over and over in my mind. He wanted me to live, so I did. I wandered the desert, stopping from time to time in villages but only staying long enough to get food and water before leaving. If I stayed in one spot for too long I started to think of what had happened to me and the pain was too much. I had stopped at one village and stayed and got a job, but once I caught wind of the group that had taken Raja from me I was gone. I hunted them down and killed them. I killed them and destroyed the machine they'd used on me to take Raja from me. They'd been talking about taking other tailed beasts from their hosts, so it was an added bonus that I killed them and destroyed the machine so they couldn't use it on anyone else."

She said and I couldn't believe it. This girl had wiped out her entire village, got captured by the Akatsuki like I had, lost her demon like I had, but had gotten her revenge and stopped them from being able to hurt anyone else like they had us.

"I moved on like I always had, but this time the pain of losing Raja finally caught up to me and I couldn't move anymore. I was starved, dehydrated, and my body was exhausted. That's when I collapsed. When I woke up I was in a bed here, you know the rest already."

She said and I stared at her in wonder. She'd had a childhood much like my own, but she never had friends like Naruto or siblings to help her. She'd even been taken by the Akatsuki and had her beast taken away from her, but she still kept moving all on her own.

"I'll understand if you want me out of your house and out of your village."

She said, bringing me out of my musings.

"No, that's not it at all."

I said and she looked up at me in a mix of shock and confusion.

"What, why? Everyone else hates what I am, aren't you afraid I'll kill you too?"

She asked and I smiled up at her sadly.

"No, I'm not."

I said answering both her questions, but she just continued to stare at me confused.

"You're life has been a lot like mine."

I said.

"When I was born my father put a demon inside me hoping to be able to use me as a weapon for this village. It made me bloodthirsty and I'd grown to hate everyone even my own siblings. I'd killed thousands of people and didn't even think twice about it because Shukaku enjoyed killing them and I'd grown to enjoy it as well. But I met a certain blonde haired idiot who made me see differently. And when I lost Shukaku recently I'd actually died, but a healer brought me back at the expense of her own life. Naruto and everyone else was really worried about me and that made me realize I wasn't as alone as I'd first thought. Sakura, Kankuro, Temari, Naruto, Lee, all of them had come to try and get me back from the Akatsuki. When I'd gotten back the village rejoiced. I'd have thought they would have been happy I was gone, but they saw the change in me that other people had a part in. No matter what your past is, there's always going to be people in the future that will make it better."

I said and she just looked at me shocked.

"You….you had a beast as well?"

She asked and I nodded. I watched her as she got up and walked around the island and stopped in front of me.

"What?"

I asked, a little uncomfortable under her intense gaze.

"I…I've never known anyone who's been through what I have. I've always been shunned for what I was, for what I've done."

She said and I was shocked when I saw tears in her eyes again. I wanted to reach out to her, but I was afraid she'd rebuke me. I used my sand instead. I used it to wipe away her tears. She squeaked in surprise and looked at me wide eyed.

"You can control sand?"

She asked and I just smiled at her.

"It's one of the perks I still have from when I housed Shukaku within me."

I said and moved my sand around me to show her what I meant. She didn't seem all that surprised, her chakra actually felt relieved which made me confused.

-Fayre-

I couldn't believe it. I wasn't alone. Gaara had had the same kind of life I'd had and he'd said his life got better. When he'd used his sand to wipe away my tears it had surprised me. I wasn't the only one with that ability either. I could see the confusion in his eyes and smiled at him before using my ability to control sand to move a part of his sand away from him and circle around my waist. I heard him gasp and my smile widened.

"You're not the only one who can control sand."

I said before sending his sand back at him. I saw it all gather together and watched as a gourd was made on his back that was strapped to his back.

'That's convenient.'

I thought. I'd usually only used the sand around me, though now that I thought about it that would be a whole lot easier.

"I'm telling you, I smell food."

I heard Kankuro's voice coming down the stairs and I froze. I sensed both his and Temari's chakra and looked back at Gaara.

"Night."

I said before heading for the stairs.

"Wait!"

He said and I stopped and looked back at him.

"What's your name?"

He asked and I smiled as I realized this entire time he hadn't known my name.

"Fayre."

I said before walking into the next room and jumping up the stairs as Temari and Kankuro reached the bottom. I walked into my room and laid down. I couldn't believe it, I wasn't alone. I smiled before closing my eyes and falling asleep.