Door to My Heart (Gaara Love Story)

Genius

Erika POV

We were still heading towards Sand, it would take us another ten minutes and we could already see the outskirts of the village. Urgh…Tired. I looked up at the sky. The sun was setting, and we still hadn’t arrived yet.

Stupid Shikamaru’s fault. That Baka. Dropping my bag in the middle of the forest. And he is supposedly smart. Pshhh…

We were almost there. I could see a crowd of people waiting outside the main gates into Sand. Were they waiting for me? Oh, great. I have a welcoming committee… I sighed.

I’m going to miss my awesome Pajamas…Shikamaru better replace everything that was in that bag. Damn. I’m going to have to go shopping at Sand. Sigh~~~

I looked over my shoulder to see Shikamaru complaining to Asuma about how tired and bothersome this whole trip was. I smiled, and shook my head. Typical.

We finally arrived at Sand and I saw a red haired boy with a Kazekage hat on coming to greet us with a boy wearing a purple hoodie-like-thing and a blonde girl with four pigtails and carrying a massive fan on her back. I assumed it was the Kazekage who I was told I would be staying with.

I was glad.

The picture I had in mind of the Kazekage was a wrinkly old man looking a lot like the Third. I shuddered. To be honest I much prefer this red head over that wrinkly old man. He creeped the hell out of me.

“Kazekage-sama. This is Tanaka Erika. She will be staying with you for the time being.” Asuma said to the red-head.

Ahh~~ he was so young! He looked almost my age, maybe even a bit older. Geez….I hung my head. And I’m only freaking Jounin. I guess everyone’s right, I am weak.

That’s why Tsunade thought I couldn’t handle myself.

That’s why she thought it would be better to have another village protect me.

That’s why everyone is underestimating me.

That’s why they are sending me here.

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Kankaro and Temari were fighting as we all walked through the village market towards their house where I would be staying for the time being, apparently. Argh, so noisy. It is going to be so annoying living with those two fighting all the time.

I looked over at the red-head leading the way. He didn’t look back at those two fighting. Seemed like he was used to it.

He was wearing the Kazekage hat over his auburn hair. I love red hair. So jealous.

He turned around and noticed me looking at him, he started looking at me too for a while before turning back and not saying a single word.

Finally, someone who is quiet, I thought as I continued following him through the village. At least he makes up for those two, looking back at them still going at it. Geez…

Gaara POV

We greeted Asuma, Shikamaru and the ninja who would be staying with us. She introduced herself as Erika.

Tanaka Erika.

She had deep black hair that fell just past her waist and large black eyes to match. She had a very bored and neutral face expression as she shook hands with everyone. Then again, I did as well. Guess smiling isn’t as common as I thought.

Erika and my two siblings were following me as we walked through the village towards our house. Temari and Kankaro were fighting behind us, as usual.

I looked back after a while about to tell them to shut up, but instead noticed Erika staring back at me.

Her eyes were very dark. I couldn’t help but stare at them. She looked like she was thinking about something. I broke away after a while, it would seem weird if I just kept staring at her, even if she was doing the same. People would think we were crazy having a staring contest right in the middle of the street. I continued walking, still thinking about those deep black eyes.

“We’re here.” I said, walking inside the door to our house followed by Temari, Erika and Kankaro. “Make yourself at home.” I said.

Big Mistake. I mean I wouldn’t have said it if I knew that we would have be living with a broken front door for who knows how long.

Everyone makes mistakes, right?

Erika POV

“Make yourself at home.” The Kazekage said. I smirked. I knew they probably wouldn’t like it. Actually I knew FOR SURE that they wouldn’t like it but I did it anyway.

Rebel.

I walked up to the front door and threw a punch at it. It made a huge dent in it and I’m pretty sure I jammed it as well.

I hate doors.

I could have broken it but then they would just replace it with another one. But now that it is jammed and unusable I get to jump through windows everyday without having to explain why.

I. Am. A. Freaking. Genius. Suck on that, Shikamaru.