Naruto: What is Love?

Naruto vs. Gaara: Ookami's Determination!

As Ookami ran through the forest, following her nose, she glanced at the sun. 'How long was I out cold?' Suddenly, her ears perked and her eyes grew wide for a moment. She heard a whistle, a special whistle pattern that was made just to get Ookami's attention when she was far away or couldn't be located. But what got Ookami worried was who blew the whistle pattern. 'Temari...something is very wrong.' Ookami's eyes narrowed and picked up to her max speed. All that could be seen behind her was dust. As she ran, she flinched as her wrists started to throb intensely. She bit on her tongue. She took in a deep inhale and she almost fell over as she skidded to a halt. Her violet eyes were as wide as could be.

"Shu-Shukaku...is out..." She stammered. She darted off in a yellow blur. Little did Ookami know, Gaara was no longer fighting Sasuke, he was fighting someone important to her. Someone who could change everything.

~One of Gaara's Flashbacks~

Gaara was 6 years old. It was dusk and he was walking on the dirty sandy street all alone. He was starting at the ground as he walked. He was sad, hurt, lonely. When suddenly, something white was infront of him. He stopped walking and looked at the white thing. Glowing violet eyes stared back at him. 'Oh..pretty.' The eyes belonged to a shaggy, small white wolf pup. The pup wagged her tail at the boy. 

"Hello there.." Gaara said almost timidly, not wanting to scare away another creature. She sat down at his feet, staring up at him. 

"Where did you come from? We don't have wolves around here. Are you lost? Maybe...maybe I can help you get home?" He smiled and slowly reached down to pet the soft looking beast. 

But, right before his hand touched her white fur a drunken man, who was stumbling around the street kicked the wolf pup, resulting in her to yelp, tumble then take off running.

"Oh no!" Gaara watched the little wolf disappear sadly. 

The drunken man then stopped and looked down at Gaara and said. "Hey! Watch where you're going you little brat!"

Gaara's sea foam eyes glared up at the man. The drunk man seemed to instantly become sober. He looked terrified now.

"H-hey! Your-your that kid!"

The way her looked at Gaara, the way he just hurt that poor cub with flinching, Gaara couldn't take it. His sand shot out at the man and wrapped around him, then squeezed him to death. Gaara walked away like it was nothing. 

~End of Gaara's Flashback~

Suddenly, as she was closing in on Gaara's scent, it was if she could hear 50 Naruto voices speak at once.

"Na-ru-to Uzumaki Barrage!"

Seconds after hearing this Shukaku/Gaara was smashed to Ookami's feet. Her eyes were wide and she stopped breathing for a moment.

"Gaara.." She whispered to herself.

Gaara didn't even notice her as he angerly stood up, out of his hole in the ground. He yelled, "There is absolutely no way I'm losing to a guy like him!!!" 

His sand shot up, growing, smashing all of Naruto's shadow clones and having the real Naruto land in a tree. Ookami did back flips away as Gaara was no more and Shukaku had emerged. His yellow eyes pierced through the dust and sand.

"I never thought you'd bring this out of me." Shukaku still had Gaara's voice. His sand then wrapped around Naruto.

"Naruto!" Ookami shouted, making Temari and Sasuke notice her.