Kazekage's Bride

Prologue

"AVA! WAKEY WAKEY!" An excited 5-year-old boy jumped on the sleeping figure.

The figure, who's actually a girl sat up with tired face, glaring half-heartly at the giggling boy.

"Garvin...." She said, slowly dragging the name as she got ready to pounce, "Run!" She ran after the laughing boy as he ran away from her.

Purposely, running slowly, she pretend to catch him and smiled As his laugh echoed in the hall.

She shook her head smiling fondly at her brother's antics and when back to her room getting ready for the day.

"Hey, Mom!" She called out as she walked into the livingroom, making sure she had her watch on her wrists, "Is Garvin ready,yet?" Her friends wouldn't be their for another two hours.

Her mother looked up from the thing she was crocheting, informing,

"In just a few minutes. Why?" She shrugged.

"I'll drop him off at his school..." She plopped down, looking up at the TV and seeing Grey's Anatomy playing. Leaning back she closed my eyes, yawning.

"You putting your shoes on yet?" She jumped, startled. Garvin had snapped her out of her thoughts. She nodded, wide awake, and stumbled as she stood, tripping over thin air as she fumbled to get to her sneakers. She put them on, double knotting them, and made sure she had her phone.

"Ready to go, champ?" He nodded enthusiastically jumping in the car, slamming the door shut.

It began to rain five minutes into the drive. He began to talk about the game, Ava smiled and nodded occasionally at his stories.

Garvin turned hid head to look at the road, only to freeze when he looked into the side view mirror.

"Ava-Ava! Look out!" She looked confused before she glanced into the rearview mirror, eyes growing wide. She made to hit the gas pedal, but wasn't fast enough before they were suddenly slammed into from behind, the car spinning on the road and being thrown against the railing-flipping before landing on all fours and crashing into a tree. She wasn't too sure what all happened during that. It seemed in slow motion yet all too fast at the same time. All she know is that when her buckle came loose and she saw the glass break, she grabbed onto the steering wheel, holding on for dear life and trying to throw herself in front of her little Brother in fear that he would die, too.

Next thing she knew the car stopped and she tasted iron, blood bubbling up her throat like acid. She coughed, spitting it out, and tried to move to make sure Garvin okay-having fallen into her lap upon landing. The airbag protected him much better than she had, but she did keep his stomach from getting impaled.

Of course, that just meant she was the one who got stabbed by shattered glass instead. "C... Champ?" She forced out, finding the action of speaking almost too difficult. Breathing had never felt so painful before in her life, for everything time she breathed her stomach moved and pressed against the glass in her side. "Garvin?" Her vision was blurry, her eyes burned and stung with tears and blood from a head wound. She hit the airbag, trying to get it to deflate, and after a few minutes it did so. She painfully raised an arm, inhaling sharply as she tried to sit up, and pressed a hand against his neck to feel for a pulse.

He was alive. Unconscious, but alive. Shr began to laugh, but ended up choking on her own blood soon enough as she cried tears of relief and fear.

'I think I was going to die'.

"C-Champ... Garvin, Garvin-come on, wake up." A thought hit her. "Wh-Where's my phone?" She fumbled for it, getting dizzier and weaker by the second. Finally finding it in her sweater pocket she pulled it out and struggled as she tried to remember her pass-code. Her mind was mess. Luckily her fingers seemed to remember the pattern and she quickly went to contacts, dialing 9-1-1.

For a horrified second she thought no one was going to pick up. Dark spots danced in her vision, along with a strange blue-green light. "Hello? This is 9-1-1, what's the emergency?"

"C-Crash..." She choked, before hacking up more blood. The glass She had in her just dug deeper and deeper, but she was too terrified to try and pull it out in case she made it worse or bled out faster. "S-Somewhere near S-South...Hanson.. Elementary School. I-I don't know how long I-My brother is-he's unconscious and-and I-" her eyes went wide and she toppled over, the phone dropping out of her hand and falling to the floorboard.

"Hello? Hey, can you hear me? I'm sending an ambulance out right now-stay with me! What's your name? Can you tell me that? Are you okay? Hello? Are you still there?"

'My... my name... is...' "A-Ava." She whimpered, clinging onto her brother's body. She couldn't stop crying. She wanted to scream, but she felt as though she lacked the strength. "H-Help..." I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

This is all my fault. If I had been paying more attention to the road, then we might have been able to avoid this. I... "Help is on the way, Ava. Just stay awake, alright?"

"T-Tell... tell my family... I... love them and that... I... I'm so sorry."

"Ava? Hey, Ava! Ava, stay with me!" she tried to keep her eyes open, but they forced themselves closed against her will. Her ragged breathing slowed down and she whimpered, just clinging onto Garvin as tight as she could before she lost all feeling and went limp, everything just going black.