Chapter 20: Absconder
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Kagome had found her way to a small park just beside the boisterous tavern in the time Gaara had had his back turned, and she wasn't alone.
"Why are you out here so late?" Gaara heard Kagome ask the pig tailed girl beside her. She must have not been from the desert, Gaara decided; she looked about as comfortable as Kagome had in her trailing desert robes.
"I escaped," the girl's hushed whisper reached his ears on the winds wings. Kagome's eyes grew wide as she leaned forward conspiratorially.
"From what?" Kagome questioned with a heartening smile, Gaara frowned disapprovingly.
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