When worlds collide

~Chapter 11~

A few days later

...

Yukia sat up in her hospital bed. A pouty look coming to her face as her arms cross over her chest.

"I do not need to be tied down." She snaps out pointly. Her blue eyes sneering warningly. Up at the titan leader.

Robin held out in front of him. A long, thick brown rope. An evil grin crossing his lips. As he watches the girl.

"Just get me out of here, and I'll be fine," She mutters lowly. A chuckle escapes from Robin's lips

"Prove you can walk, then I'll see if Sakura will let you out early," He says smartly.

A deadpan look crosses the stubborn girls face before she pushes the covers of her. Feeling a small shock, go up her spine due to the coldness of the floor.

Yukia then slowly stands up her legs wobbling a little under her weight, as she tries desperately to hide the sharp pain that comes over her midsection, one of her hands still had a hold of the bed railing, so she wouldn't fall back down.

"I'm up," Yukia states triumphantly, her voice barely able to hide the bits of pain that had come over body at the movements.

"Standing doesn't count as walking," Robin points out, his eyes seeming to roll playfully under his mask. As he watches her closely.

Another pouty look crosses Yukia's face, as she gives the spiky haired boy another deadpanned look. He just had to challenge her, didn't he? Smartass.

"Fine," she growls, a sweet drop rolls down the side of her face, as she pushes off the bed railing, she takes a few steps. Just as she did so, her body begins to sway back and forth under her weight another sharp pain coming over her midsection, if someone wasn't ready to catch her as she falls forwards she would have hit the ground face first, Robin looks down at the girl in his arms, a grin crossing his lips.

"Nice try." He soothes lowly, having to admire her gut to try and walk.

She had only been in the hospital two days now, her being able to stand up was quite impressive but despite her fast healing she still needed rest her body needed time to heal itself up completely, Robin gently helps her back into the bed, Yukia lays back against the cool pillows her eyes half shut

"Just rest up it's what you need," Robin tells her gently.

Yukia lets out a low sigh knowing he was right, her blue eyes now watching him as he walks to stand beside Starfire, a smile coming over the girls lips as she looks over at him getting a tender smile from the boy wonder as he peeks back at her Starfire was the one who was managing to help him keep his anger in check if she wasn't there by his side he would possibly go out and find Debalo on his own which could possibly get him hurt or worse killed.

"You'll get out soon," Cyborg puts in with a cheeky grin coming to his robotic lips.

"Yeah, if I don't go steer crazy and break the windows," Yukia mumbles lowly, her arms crossed over her chest

"Don't make us go get Gaara." Beastboy speaks up a chuckle coming to his lips at the Red-headed girls' expressions.

Her eyes had gotten quiet wide at the mention of the boy's name her cheeks turning a light pinkish color, she turns her head away from her friends trying hard to hide her face beneath the covers she didn't know why her heart seemed to increase at the boy's name. All of a sudden.

"Is he doing ok?" Comes the muffled question from under the covers. Yukia had been up two days now, and she hadn't seen him yet. She wasn't sure why it bothered her so much. Maybe he didn't want to be friends with her anymore? Debalo did try to kill him after all, she wasn't really wanting to think what would have happened to him if she hadn't butted in,

"He's fine." Raven speaks up lowly, her purple eyes glancing out the window as she spoke. The bright sun shines through the window, lighting the room up rather nicely. With its bright covered rays

"Do you wish for us to go get him?" Starfire asked carefully her green eyes, watching her teammate uncertaintly,

Yukia's hands Fidel with her covers nervously, biting at her lower lip

"No, it's ok." She answers a low breath escapes from her lips. The Titans glance at each other, unsure on what else to say.

"Where going to head out" Robin says softly after a few seconds of silence. Easily pushing himself off the wall he had been leaning against. Robin turns to head towards the door.

"Will be back in a little bit," Cyborg pipes up, having noticed Yukia's slight fear. Despite her strong front, he knew she didn't want to be alone. Not that She would admit that she wanted them to stay there with her out loud.

Cyborg turns to follow after Robin. The other three titans follow behind them.

"Bye, bye, for now, Yukia." Beastboy waves back at her. As he shuts the door quietly behind him. Yukia cast her eyes towards the window, laying further into the warmth of her hospital bed. Sleep slowly, making its way over her body.

...

The next time Yukia awoke, Naruto and Sakura sat beside her bed, bright grins coming to their faces when they spotted her awake. They jump forwards wrapping the red headed girl in a tight hug there chairs falling backwards on the ground, a low thud echoes of the walls as the chairs hit the marble floor, Yukia in hails sharply she hadn't fully healed up yet and them hugging her, actually hurt, she gently hugs them back though trying hard to hide the sharp pain that rolled up her spine, she wasn't wanting to be mean to them, or them to think she was mad or something, both teens release her and go to grab their chairs

"Sorry," They both say at the same time. Apologetic looks on their faces. Once they noticed the slight painful look on the red-headed girls face. Both ninjas plop down in their chairs.

"I'm glad to see you doing better, Yukia Chan." Naruto chirps loudly. A bright grin graced his lips. "You were out for a long time."

"Yeah, getting stabbed in the stomach does that," Yukia puts in sarcastically, her arms crossing over her chest.

As a deadpan look crosses Naruto's face, having not been expecting her to be sarcastic with him. Sakura lets out a small giggle before leaning back in her chair.

"At any case, you look to be doing better than when you first came in," She points out softly.

Getting a small nod from Yukia, a small thought popped into her head.

"So, does that mean I can get out of here now?" She says brightly. Her lips turned up into a huge enthusiastic grin.

Not waiting for the pinkette to answer. Yukia quickly pushes the covers of her. As she goes to stand up. Sakura swiftly pushes her back down. A scowl crossing Pinkett's face.

"No, you have to stay in bed," Sakura tells Yukia seriously. Her arms crossed over her chest. As she rolls her eyes upwards.

"B... But... But... I'm... Fine" Yukia sobs childishly. fake tears streaming down her cheeks.

Sakura shakes her head once. For someone who could shift into a huge blue wolf, Yukia whined a lot, especially about being in the hospital. Naruto watches on with some amusement in his blue eyes.

"I didn't mean you could get out yet, you have to let lady Tsunade come in and check to make sure you're going to be ok" Sakura explains a sigh escaping from her lips, as her hand runs over her face.

"But I snuck out before, Yukia points out childishly. Earning herself a hard glare from Sakura.

"You're the one who broke the glass out of one of the hospital rooms last time?" The Pinkett questions getting a slight nod of confirm from Yukia a sweet drop rolling down her head at Sakura's sudden rise in anger.

"Yukia Chan, you might want to be quiet now, Sakura Chan isn't the best to get mad" Naruto speaks up getting a glare from the Pinkett which causes him to freeze up as he looks back at her.

"Shut up, Naruto," Sakura hissed, at her blonde teammate, before turning her attention back to Yukia.

"If you don't behave, I'll have someone come in and tie you down to the bed," Sakura says darkly. With that said, Sakura stands up from her chair and turns to head out of the room. the door slamming loudly behind her. Almost sounding as if it would fall off the hinges.

Sakura's loud footfall echoes off the hallway walls as she stomps down the hallway. sweet drops roll down Naruto's and Yukia's face as they both glance at each other.

"She's quite scary when she is mad," Yukia points out lowly, getting a nod of agreement from Naruto

"At least you didn't get the full force of her rage. She can be a lot worse," the blonde states as he goes to standup from his chair. His arms stretching up over his head. Before both arms fall back down to his side.

"I'll see you later, Yukia Chan," Naruto says with a bright grin back at her. The blonde then turns and walks towards the door. Waving over his head back at the red-headed girl.

Yukia watches after him a little smile on her lips. As he slips out into the hallway. Heading to follow after his already vanished teammate.

...

Four days later

A bored look crosses Yukia's face. As she watches, many shadows pass by the huge hospital window. O how she longed to be outside. Yukia wanted so badly to get out of this room. Her distaste for this cursed place was growing more and more each day. She didn't know how much longer she could stay in the small square box room. Without breaking something, possibly the window. Glass was so easy to break when you could turn into a huge wolf.

But most importantly. Yukia wanted to be with her friends she had only seen them a couple of times when they came to see her. In her mind, that wasn't long enough. And though she wouldn't say it out loud, she wanted to see him she hadn't seen him ever since she was placed in the hospital. Yukia hoped he wasn't mad at her.

Maybe now he was starting to hate her cause of Debalo. If it hadn't been for her, Debalo wouldn't even be here in the first place. A sad look crosses her face. Why was it bothering her so much? anyways he was just a friend, nothing more, nothing less. And yet she couldn't shake him from her head. Sighing lowly, Yukia hangs her head, a dark cloud coming over her head. The sound of the door opening up slowly causes.

Yukia, to snap her head up. Her eyes suddenly widened at the thought male. Stepping into her room. An emotionless look on his face. Yukia watches him as he walks up to the bed sitting down in the chair that was already by her bedside, his arms crossing over his chest. His eyes not once looking up at her.

Yukia cast her eyes down to her covers a nervous look coming to her face, she was unsure of what to say to him she hadn't really thought that far ahead, she wasn't thinking he would actually come and see her. And now that he had, she was almost speechless. The words that swarmed in her head only seemed to die down every time she would go to speak,

"You ok?" She heard him finally speak up, his voice sounding hushed.

"Yeah," She mutters lowly, her eyes gazing over at him from her lashes. A smile seems to grace her lips as she peers over him, he looked to be ok. That was great knews to her. Except she could tell there was something else bothering him.

It wasn't something she was completely good at, but she could tell sometimes when someone was in a bad mood or good mood. Perhaps it could just be a wolf thing? She could somewhat tell that He was in a somewhat bad mood. If his fist being halfway clenched was anything to go by

"Did you see the red stuff around Debalo's sword?" Gaara questions darkly, his eyes finally gazing over at her, making her heart jump inside her chest, her head turning away from him.

"I thought it was just some kind of new power. He's always been good at obtaining new power out of nowhere," She answers to him honestly with her shoulders shrugging.

"It wasn't his power." He mumbles lowly for the first time since Yukia had met him. She could see a bit of nervousness come to his pale face. His eyes cast down to the ground . "he was trying to drain my chakra."

Yukia's eyes seemed to widen, but she remained quiet, waiting on him to continue.

"When you showed up, he had managed to get some of my demons chakra," he explains lowly, his teal eyes hooding slightly as he spoke.

"Demons chakra?" Comes the low question, from her lips, her head tilting to the side as she listens to him interestingly. Gaara nods his head, a low sigh coming from his lips

"Inside me is a demon named Shikuku, he was placed inside me before I was born, my mother died, my whole village feared me, afraid I would let the demon out or either kill them, my siblings had nothing to do with me my father tried to kill me several times" He explains his heart seems to ache slightly at the memories running through his head.

Yukia looks back at him, a sympathetic look on her face, though she stays quiet as he continues to talk.

"I was a monster from the time I was born, a weapon to my village, I killed many people and not caring if I did, I would let Shikuku out without much hesitation and he would usually go on a rampage, however I came here to the leaf village a while back on a mission to destroy the village, after I had a tuff fight with Naruto, I decided to change my output on life, I managed to turn my life around though my village still fears me"

Yukia continues to stay quiet, her mind processing the information he was telling her.

"I can understand if you fear and hate me now as well," He says lowly. Her silence making him believe she was coming up with reasons to hate him or fear him but she was too afraid to tell him out loud his eyes moved back to the ground not wanting to see the hatred he had grown so use to seeing in the villagers eyes.

A light smile slowly starts to form on Yukia's lips. Was he really thinking she was going to hate him now? After all the times he had helped her without being asked, nothing he told her was going to change her mind about him. He was her friend.

Yukia, pushes the covers off her and climbs out of bed Yukia still felt week, her legs wobble just a tad underneath her weight, Luckily she wouldn't be walking to far yet, she kneels down on the floor in front of him, sucking in her built up nerves the ones that still filled her body.

Yukia places her hands gently on top of his, making him pause his eyes slowly gazing over at the small hands now on top of his. A stunned look coming over his face. Despite everything he had told her, her touch was still so gentle towards him. Yukia could feel her heart beat quicken in her chest thumping against its ribcage rather hard. If it was possible, it would have popped out of her chest about now. a tiny red crosses her cheeks.

"I will not let Debalo hurt you anymore I will protect you with my life if I got to" She speaks up firstly a kind smile gracing her lips she then clears her throat before speaking again a little lower. "And I don't care what you did in the past or what's inside you, you're not in the past no more, and you're not the demon inside you either, I lo.. Like you just as you are"

Gaara finally looks her in the eyes, a surprised look crossing his face at her words. Yukia holds his intense gaze with her own blue eyes almost feeling lost in the beautiful color of his teal ones, she could see the loneliness that lingered in them along with some pain confusion hurt sadness, the pain in his eyes causing her own heart to sink. Back when she was with her pack, she held those same eyes. He sits up in his chair, breaking her from her thoughts. Her cheeks seemed to burn due to how close he was to her face.

"You don't care about Shikuku?" He questions lowly, his teal eyes not moving away from her.

"Well, shifting into a huge wolf is not necessarily a normal thing," Yukia points out with a low chuckle escaping from her lips at her claim. Plus, Debalo, being her uncle, seemed bad to. Not that she was gonna admit that out loud.

His eyes narrowed slightly at her words. Before a small smile comes to his lips, it was a rather cute smile. One Yukia had not yet seen before. She felt happy being the reason, or she hoped the reason he was filling better.

"I see," He mutters lowly. As He moves closer to her, a light blush comes to his cheeks. Unnoticeable by anyone else unless you were close to him like Yukia was. It was the first blush she had ever really seen on his cheeks.

He lifts a hand up and gently rubs it over her cheek, the sudden motion making her freeze up, her blue eyes going wide as she stares back at him, her eyes not once able to blink or break the eye contact she now had with him. The spot on her cheek where his hand still remained almost felt like someone had taken a match and lit it on fire. It was vurning. Who would have thought for someone who could be so emotionless at times had gone through as much as he had. Could have such a gentle touch. His other hand carefully moves a piece of her red hair, the lock having fallen down into her face. back behind her ear. That hand then falls back into his lap. Yukia continues to watch him, her eyes not once leaving his. More less, she was unable to make them leave his. However, before anything else could be said or done.

The doors to the hospital room suddenly burst open, causing both teens to jump slightly, mostly Yukia. She hadn't been expecting anyone to walk in. Her mind to focused on the boy in front of her. To even notice her friends there. The boys hand quickly left her cheek, though to her, it still felt like the skin was still burning. She blinks her eyes at him. Her head tilting to the side barely. A few questions roaming through her head, though she was unable to ask any of them. Words didn't seem to want to come out.

"Oh, are we interrupting?" Beastboy's voice booms from the door. Once more, making the girl jump slightly

Gaara's face quickly goes back to its normal emotionless state trying hard to hide the small embarrassment that filled inside him, though he continues to watch Yukia her blue eyes hooded as they look at the ground an unsure look on her face.

"Um, friend Yukia? are you the ok? Why are you sitting on the floor?" Starfire questions innocently a flash of concern coming to her green eyes,

"I... I...i..Am... Ok" Comes the stuttered reply. Yukia wasn't sure how to answer the question on why she was on the floor she wasn't entirely sure herself. Maybe the best way to be eye level with him he was sitting down after all?

Yukia slowly climbs to her feet, her legs starting to sway a little under her weight. Before she could fall. Gaara quickly catches her in his arms, having jumped up from his chair before the girl could fall backwards. He still hated that she had been hurt protecting him but luckily she was doing better, he would not allow her to be hurt again, as long as he could help it Debalo would never get to her again, another heat comes to her face as she looks up at him. A smile gently coming to his lips as he gazes back at her. He helps her back into her hospital bed before he sits back down in his chair, resting his head on one of his hands, his teal eyes still watching her carefully.

"Anyways, we brought you some ramen." Cyborg interrupts his eyes, gazing over the two teens suspectedly. One eye raised. Shaking his head, he holds a small bag up as he walks over to the bed, placing the bag on the bedside table beside Yukia's bed, getting a pleasing grin from the red headed girl. Her eyes slightly sparkling.

"...Thank you..." She murmers in a very low shy voice. Still finding it hard to talk.

"It's really great ramen," Beastboy says, a dreamy smile coming to his lips. It wasn't too long since him and the others had, had their own bowl of the tasty stuff at the small shop, they had seen Naruto eat at almost daily, he wouldn't have minded for another bowl later maybe.

"Thanks, guys," Yukia repeats. Ripping her eyes away from the red-headed boy sitting beside her.

"It doesn't look like you will be getting out of here anytime soon," Robin points out smartly, a deadpan look crossing Yukia's face.

"Don't remind me," She pouts lowly a chuckle coming from the spiky-haired boys lips

"Don't worry, I will come see you till you're out," Cyborg states brightly, his thump held up in front of his face.

"Just don't disappear like you did last time." Raven puts in dully, her eyes sort of hooked on the book in her hands.

Raven had just gotten it from one of the village shops. She was glad to finally have something to read in this world. It was a bit boring just sitting in the hotel room all day.

"As long as the nurses don't pull any more needles out, I'll be fine," Yukia mutters lowly to herself. She hated the pointy things with a burning passion. It was really unclear why. Gaara tilts his head slightly to the side, she was afraid of needles but not of him? Strange.

"There not meant to hurt you," Beastboy says with a sweat drop forming on the side of his head, at the playful glare on the red-headed girls face as she looks over at him

"There scary," Yukia mumbles lowly, her arms crossed over her chest lending back against the coolness of her pillows, her eyes casting slightly to Gaara.

His eyes quickly flick away from her when he notices her eyes on him again, standing up from his chair. Yukia's eyes seemed to follow his movements as he did so.

"I should go," He murmers in a low voice as he turns to head towards the door.

Yukia watched him as he walked, biting at her lower lip nervously. She really didn't want him to leave, but she wasn't going to force him to stay either, if he would rather leave.

"You don't have to go, you know," Yukia tells him lowly, her voice shaking as she speaks to him she still had not fully recovered from the earlier events. His head turns to face her, a little smile coming to his lips.

"I can come back later." He insures her calmly, lifting his hand up to the door he easily tugs it open

"Ok," Yukia lowly mumbles. Her head slightly nodding.

The boy leaves the room shutting the door softly behind him, Yukia listens to his footsteps echoing in the hallway listening till they completely vanish from her line of hearing, the four Titans seem to chuckle lowly their hands covering their mouths. Getting a small playful glare from Yukia, her brows raised in silent question.

Raven continues to read her book easily, avoiding what was going on around her.

"I think it's great you like friend Gaara." Starfire pipes up a bright smile coming to her lips

A small blush finds its way onto Yukia's cheeks as she pulls the covers over her face, trying hard to hide her embarrassment from her friends.

"It's not like that Star" Comes the muffled reply from under the covers "he's just, a well he's a um..." A small silence falls over the room."He's a great friend, is all,"