Lonely Desert

Unsettling dreams

Y/n's POV:

Dream:

"Oh y/n.... You know I could never love a demon such as you. You're worthless to me!" Gaara began, yelling and spitting in my face. My eyes began to tear up and the salty liquid spilled down my cheeks before landing on the ground despite me trying to stop them. Everything went pitch black before images began to show, the horrible events of my parents death began to flood into my mind. Kara was standing there with an evil smirk on his face before laughing maniacally, then the kneeled down form of my mother began to manifest and the same grin that Gaara had provided. Her head began to raise up to meet my eyes with her own crazed looking crystal blue eyes.

She began to speak;  "You brat! You murdered your own parents who did nothing but love and protect you! You are such a disgusting person and a disgrace to this family! I wish you were never born!" She continued to scream at me whilst laughing, her head flying back as she laughed this gesture revealed a very dark smile on her face. I began to scream out in horror and terror at the sight unfolding before my eyes . "...... n-no.. No.... NOOO! No! No! No!" I screamed, covering my ears and my eyes widened in fear, trying to block out the noise although it didn't do all that much to stop myself from hearing them both chanting my name quietly.

Gaara continued to laugh at my now huddled over body whilst my hands were pulling at my hair and I began shaking. "Y/n.. y/n.. y/n.." Then after a few seconds only Gaara was chanting over and over before I felt like someone was gently shaking me. In a daze I woke up and shot out of bed, a cold sweat present. My face was stained with tears and my body was trembling. I glanced around and noticed Gaara was by my side, his hand still on my shoulder. A look of wordy and concern was present on his face.

Gaara sat on the bed beside me and I leaned into his chest whilst hugging his waist. Gaara hugged me back and placed his head on my own while he rubbed circles on my back. I continued to silently cry into his shoulder.

This happened often when Gaara would come and comfort me considering he never slept because of Shukaku, the one-tailed beast. This made me wanna slap the living daylights out of the demon. Gaara had stayed overnight before but he would just make sure I was safe and wake me up if I was having an unsettling dream. Although I would usually just go back to sleep and he would sit on my bedroom chair, I always felt bad for him. Suzuki let me sleep in peace but Shukaku would take over if Gaara even tried.

As I lay against him and closed my eyes, I was brought to the gate of Suzuki. Because I trusted her it was already open and I could use her chakra whenever I needed to. Turning around I saw a certain redhead and a much larger raccoon-like biju, as big as Suzuki. In person Shukaku looked a lot more menacing, guess that's where Gaara got his cold stare from. Gaara looked shocked to see me and Suzuki. "So you really are just like me huh?...." He mumbled to no one in particular.

"So it really is you Shukaku.... Haven't spoken to you since when all of us were required for a meeting....." Suzuki hissed towards the other tailed beast. Shukaku cowered in fear, now this is something you don't see everyday. Said biju scampered behind Gaara like a pup to its mother with its tail between its legs.

"NO NOT HER!! GAARA SAVE ME!" Shukaku then tried to hide his body behind Gaara, which didn't help his case in the slightest as he towered much taller than Gaara. He then poked his head out only to see the silver cat glaring back with the ghost of a smirk on her face. Gaara stood in front of the now shaking Shukaku, with a look of awe and confusion present on his small face.

I glanced behind me at Suzuki to see she was forming a large ball of chakra before she pounced over Gaara and hit Shukaku with it. "TRANSPORT SEAL!" Suzuki screeched out before her and Shukaku tumbled onto the ground causing it to shake slightly. Suzuki was the first one up and hopped onto her four soft paws before hissing at Shukaku and leaping back behind me where she began to clean herself. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FO-!?" He began but was cut off by a stern glare sent from Suzuki.

Suzuki then nipped her paw and wiped the chakra filled blood onto the floor and yelled "Sugata o Kesu!" Which resulted in Gaara and myself to gradually fade from the world although Shukaku and Suzuki stayed in the dark oblivion. Shukaku looked bewildered began to ask what she did but Suzuki knew exactly what he was going to say before he even said it. "I put a special seal on you that I came up with, it allows me to transport to Gaaras mind and to you whenever I see fit. This also means I can stop you from unleashing yourself onto this village and stop yourself from giving Gaara a hard time so he can finally get some sleep without you coming out. I will be here every night and day if I must." Suzuki exclaimed through her gritted teeth. Suzuki enjoyed being able to scare Shukaku just by looking at him, it some what humoured her to see such a defenceless beast.

After being taken back to the room, both twelve year olds felt dizzy and tired. Even Gaara was feeling the drowsiness of sleepless nights and wanted to close his exhausted eyes. "Don't worry Gaara *yawn*, I know that Suzuki will keep an eye on Shukaku so he won't attempt to leave, I know *yawn*, how much you care about this village" as my eyes fluttered closed and I fell into a deep slumber.

Gaara seemed to follow my example and drifted into a dreamless, it was so peaceful for us both and Shukaku didn't even make a peep. Nightmares from my past didn't even attempt to make themselves known.