Chapter 4

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*Bang*

"Kiyomi! Kiyomi, please open the door!"

*Bang*

I jolt from my bed at the sound of Gaara's fist banging against my front door.

I'm sitting in my bed, looking at the clock in utter confusion. It's late at night. What is he doing up at this time?

*Bang*

"You hate me too? Don't you!"

The intensity of his fist against my door grows. I rise from my bed in fear seeing his sand seep from underneath my front door. My heart begins to race at the intensity of his chakra from outside my home.

Before I could respond, Gaara breaks the door down with his sand. The child in front of me was not the sweet face I grew to love. It was hatred.

"Sweet-

"Silence!"

Gaara's sand tries to grab me, but naturally, I dash around the room in defense.

"Sweet face! Please...Talk to me!"

I run from every blow the child tries to make towards me. From the living room to my bedroom, he won't stop. I watch as he stops to grip his face in agony.

"You hate me! My uncle said no one could ever love me!"

I stop running in shock. What is Gaara saying? Why would his uncle say that? I shake my head profusely and deny Gaara's uncle's claims. 

"Why would I hate you? Your uncle is speaking nonsense!"

I attempt to walk towards Gaara, seeing his guard is down. A dark chuckle coming from him makes me stop. His sinister laugh continues as he holds his hand over his right eye and looks me in the eye with the other.

"No, you see my mother, died because she couldn't stand to be with me. If the person who is biologically programmed to love me chooses not to, then I am not loved."

"Gaara, Stop!"

I can't watch this child who was smiling at my place a month ago become dark. I haven't seen him for a week, and he's completely changed. The light in his eyes has darkened.

"This leaves me in the position to not trust. How do I even know you're the real Kiyomi everyone in the village talks about?"

"I am the real Kiyomi Namikaze only child of the great Fourth Hokage." I retort back proudly.

Gaara releases another dark chuckle and murmurs the word late. Before I could respond, I watch him raise his hand, putting me in defense mode.

"I don't care! All I know is that I don't trust you, and if I can't trust you, then your existence is not meaningful to me anymore."

I dash into the other room running from Gaara's trail of sand. It's too late. I can't stop him. He's become consumed with hatred, and he's too far in for me to pull him out of it.

"No matter how fast you're, I will kill you."

I hid underneath my bathroom sink in fear. I could teleport out of my home, but that will risk me being seen by other villagers. I watch through the closet as Gaara enters my room, looking for me.

"You can't hide from me forever, Kiyomi."

I grip my chest in fear of the unknown. What has my life become? I want to be back in my village with my parents in my room. I close my eyes, wanting to flashback to the place I called my home.

"Just as I thought you're just like Yumiko and the others... you're afraid of me."

I look up and see Gaara has found me. His seafoam-colored eyes pierce into my dark blue eyes. He gives me a cold stare for another few seconds before sighing and walking away. His golden sand trails behind him, and he leaves my bedroom and, eventually, my home. My body was stiff with fear. I couldn't move. Did he finally give up? I'm not afraid of him. I'm scared of how fast he changed within a week.

The fear I feel at this moment is the same amount of fear I felt seeing Itachi standing in a pool of blood with his clan members spread out on the ground in front of him.

I rise onto my feet and place a finger onto the floor searching for Gaara's chakra and I sense that it's gone. I leave my closet and clench onto my bedsheets.

"Damn it!"

I scream into my pillow, not knowing what my fate is. I can't run away. I can't turn myself in. My kunai can't transport me back to my village. I decide to cry myself to sleep, not knowing what else to do.

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"Kiyomi Namikze!"

A deep voice shouting my name makes me shuffle in my bed. I rub my eyes to see three men towering over me. The men had traditional sand village ninja attire, yet their faces were covered with a cloth. The only thing visible to me was their cold eyes.

Exhausted from what happened with Gaara last night I didn't even put up a fight.

"How did you get in my house?" I ask laying back down in my bed.

"What are you doing? You're supposed to be scared of us!"

"Shut up Haru! No one is going to be scared of us if you have to remind them stupid!"

I watch through sleepy eyes as one of the men hits the other man in the back of his head. My eyes start to shut until I hear the third man speak.

"She must really be the real Kiyomi Namikaze she's not even threatened by us."

It's not that at all. I'm just exhausted. These idiots are ruining my beauty sleep. I put my hand over my ear wanting to not hear them bicker.

"Look, let's just kidnap the girl. This is what the Kazekage ordered us to do. "

Before I could look up, I felt them strike one of my chakra points, causing me to lose consciousness.

~~~

A splash of cold water causes me to wake up into my body again. I cough profusely not knowing where I am mentally and physically.

I look around and see nothing but sand. I can see the sand village from a distance if I look close enough.

"So you're the great kiyomi my son has been talking about?"

A man with auburn hair towers over me with a stern disapproving look on his face. Is this man Gaara's father? He's the Kazekage?

He places his hand on my chin closing my mouth that I unconsciously left agape. "Something tells me you might actually be the real Kiyomi"

He pinches my nose and chuckles which causes me to clench my teeth in anger. "Something tells me you're more than capable of attempting to assassinate your own son."

"I'm more than capable Kiyomi. I am capable of doing anything to protect my village as it's Kazekage. Knowing this I see you as a threat being you're from enemy territory."

"You know what I'm capable of." I hiss in fear as I feel a kunai trace along the side of my neck. I try to break free from the rope wrapped around my wrist but it's pointless.

"Let me show you what's behind you, Kiyomi."

The Suna anbu pick me up like a feather and turn me around to see what was hidden to me before. I look to see that we've been standing on the entire time was the edge of a cliff. Is this how my fate ends? I did all that training and homework in the academy just to end like this. Boy does this ninja life suck.

"Now remind me who you're again?"

Tears begin to race down my cheeks. He thinks I'm going to deny who I am just like all those other imposters probably did at this point. A part of me wishes I wasn't the fourth Hokage's legacy. Why did Itachi leave me here in enemy territory?

"Hey, brat! I'm talking to you"

A smack to the back of my head causes me to revert back to reality. I lift my head high and say proudly, "I am not just the fourth Hokage's daughter! I am Kiyomi Namikaze a powerful Kunoichi!"

"Prove it." A hard kick to the back of my back sends me over the edge of the cliff.

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