𝐆𝐚𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 | ⁿᵃʳᵘᵗᵒ ˣ ᵇⁿʰᵃ

Chapter thirty-eight

third pov

Gaara punched his punching bag over and over again, sweat dripped down his face and down his neck, Gaara let out a steady breath and finished his set with the punching bag, and got on the floor and started to do pushups. 

after 30 pushups he stopped mid-push-up and picked up a 20-pound plate weight with his sand and brought it over to him and placed it on his back and continued his pushups with a little bit more of a struggle. 

if he can't do this then how can he expect to carry injured citizens when he isn't able to use his quirk, Gaara kept his breathing steady and made sure to breathe through his nose, therefore he won't be gasping for air. 

Gaara clicked his tongue and added another 20 on his back, adding up to forty pounds on his back, he went on for another 15 minutes without a break before he heard a knock on the door, Gaara grabbed the weights off his back and walked up the stairs of the basement

he walked over to the door and opened it, what he didn't expect was to see Denki and Mineta, "hey Gaara!" Denki waved before he took a good look at Gaara "wheres your shirt! why are you all sweaty, and out of breath!" 

Mineta shouted as he started at gaara's body in shock, his body was nicely toned in all of the right places and had a hard-ass 6 pack that made him almost want to touch it "that is so unfair!" Mineta had thick tears run down his face "... I was working out."

Denki and Mineta let out a breath of relief, they got the wrong idea for a second "what are you doing here." Gaara asked, not wanting to talk to them "come to the pool with us!" Denki said with a smile

"we'll get some laps in" "some fun before the training camp," Denki said enthusiastically "why should I" Gaara didn't find appeal to pools or groups of water in general, shukaku was made up out of extremely hard sand and sand and water don't mix well, its only natural Gaara doesn't like it either

"oh come on please," Denki said pleadingly, Gaara kept saying no but they eventually convinced him "fine" "yes!" both Denki and Mineta said 

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"Vlad, we have to increase each of the student's quirks this summer,"  Aizawa said speaking to class b's homeroom teacher "agreed, how about you give me a run down class a's abilities" "if I must" 

Aizawa started to talk about class a's quirks and how they work, when he got to Gaara he went on "then finally there is Gaara, we don't know his last name but he's an exceptional student, his quirk is sand devil and can control sand, with his own sand or the sand from the ground and make weapons with his sand, we don't know the whole potential of his quirk but he seems to know himself"

"and that's it, we should go over class b's abilities next-" Aizawa started "excuse us?' Mineta said "sorry to interrupt, we were wondering about the form we handed in a few days ago about the pool" 

"oh well, you've been approved" "yes! thank you" Mineta, Denki and midoriya ran off to the locker room to change

Gaara stood with everyone when Mineta and Denki ran out the doors to the pools, Gaara saw them look at the girls, he sighed and looked away, he watched everyone train but stood off to the side 

"why don't you join in Gaara?" iida asked him, Gaara turned his head at him "I don't like water" iida nodded "well you should go in anyway, you never know if you come across a citizen in need in the water" 

iida went on about why he should do laps "shut up, ill do it" Gaara took off the shirt he was wearing before and scoffed before diving into the pool and started doing laps, he successfully did 2 laps without going up for a breath of air and did two more

Gaara pushed himself up with the walls and got out of the pool, water dripped down his hair and he scowled and sat back down, he really did hate water but it doesn't mean he can't swim great, he looked over at momo who was looking back at him

she admired Gaara for a good minute before she realized Gaara was looking back at her, she jumped and looked away, Gaara shook his head and walked over to todoroki and silently stood beside him

"you dont like swimming?" todoroki asked "no, sand and water don't go well together, it's only natural I don't like it myself" Gaara explained and he nodded understandingly "I got a new game we might like" Gaara spoke again

todoroki nodded "cool what game was it" "I don't know, I think its called call of duty" todoroki hummed "that's a good game, we can try it after training camp" Gaara nodded "yea"

not too long after the boys suggested a race and most of them agreed, "will you be joining Gaara?" todoroki asked him "no" Gaara sat down "come on Gaara! it'll be fun" Kirishima said but Gaara kept silent 

"you're just afraid to lose to me!" bakugou yelled at him aggressively, he had a smirk on his face but Gaara just ignored him, it was the only thing to do really "don't ignore me, you bastard!" bakugou screamed,

"shut up bakugou, don't you ever get tired of your own voice?" Gaara snapped at him "hahh!? what the fuck did you say to me!" bakugou stomped up to him, Gaara glared at him "I said. shut up. your voice irritates me you fucking one minded piece of shit"

bakugou got in his face "say that again I dare you!" bakugou glared back in gaara's face "guys calm down" midoriya said "shut up Deku! stay out of this" bakugou yelled at midoriya without looking away from gaara's harsh glare

todoroki pulled Gaara away "let's calm down Gaara, just join please?" he gave a pleading look towards Gaara, Gaara sighed and nodded before placing his hand on todoroki's and pulling it off of his shoulder "okay" 

iida smiled and nodded "alright! let's get the competition started" Gaara watched everyone race before he was up to go against todoroki, bakugou and midoriya, he got ready "three! two! one!" momo used the whistle 

Gaara jumped before he fell in the water instead of landing on his sand like planned "huh? what happened. why aren't they using their quirks" sero asked confused "it's 5 pm, your pool time is over and hurry up and go home" 

sero complained "oh come one, the good part was gonna happen" Aizawa glared, "I said it's over" the class easily complied, Gaara got out of the pool and grabbed his stuff and walked out without another word, no need to stay longer than necessary

he hopes he won't have to swim at the training camp, he would rather not

1206 words

there was an alternate version of this chapter that was over 1500 words but I thought it was better differently but ill add it to some other chapter, I also didn't want to do two episodes in one chapter cause I'm lazy