Sandy, Bloody, Cookie Sweet Love

Chapter 12

Mizumii's POV

Gaara started turning into Shukaku, the sand demon he was possessed by. He was getting covered in sand, his eyes changed from their icy bluish green to a sandy color with a four-pointed star pupil. I looked at him and my heart skipped a beat, I admit I was a little scared, but I also thought that it was kinda... cute.

He rammed Sakura against a tree and detached it. The hand was slowly crushing her, but she was knocked unconscious. I stared at Gaara the whole time this was happening. I don't even know if I was blinking. I was hypnotized by his fighting style.

I closed my eyes for a quick second and when I opened my eyes I saw an explosion. Gaara's mini-Shukaku form was all messed up. He said something about knowing the weak spot being at the base of the tail. Then it his me.

"YOU SHOVED A KUNAI WITH A PAPER BOMB ATTACHED UP HIS BUTT!" I was trying to hold back my giggles. Then the worst happened. Shukaku came out the rest of the way and Gaara fell asleep. Temari ran away, but I jumped onto Shukaku's head to be next to Gaara.

"Who are you?" Shukaku asked me, trying to knock me off his head and away from Gaara.

"My name is Mizumii. And I'm one of Gaara's friends. I'm making sure he doesn't get killed." I replied.

"Don't wake him up whatever you do." he said. I heard a poof and saw a giant toad.

"A giant toad. Great. I WANNA PET IT!" I said, but stayed still. He was talking to Naruto and then started hopping at us. Naruto did some weird thing and then there was a puff of smoke and Kyuubi emerged from the cloud of smoke.

"Transformation, with a toad, cool...shit" I said after I realized what was going on. The transformed toad grabbed onto the racoon-dog as Naruto jumped on his head.

"You little traitor." he said to me.

"Correction, I'm not a trader because I'm not helping them, I just wanted to help my friend heal, but at the same time I'm not helping because I don't wanna hurt my friend. And he's like the both of us, knows the loneliness we felt, only for a longer time. I won't hurt a fellow outcast. And it's his mission, that's it. He doesn't want to do this, neither do his siblings, and I know when people are lying, they weren't." He looked at me, then apologized.

"You can wake him up if you want." I said. And that's what he tried to do, before he had to deal with sand, but eventually head butted Gaara on the head, causing him to wake up, and making their foreheads bleed. Shukaku disappeared and the toad left.

Naruto and Gaara landed on the tops of two trees, which were about 10 feet apart. They were breathing hard because of the chakra drain, but had enough strength for one more attack.

They both jumped off and went to punch the other, Naruto's fist was faster and hit Gaara across the face and then they both fell to the ground, Gaara on his back, Naruto on his stomach.

I had landed in a tree halfway in between them and Jumped down as Gaara started screaming because Naruto was dragging himself with his chin closer to Gaara, who was 100% scared of him.

Naruto told Gaara that he knew his pain. That he knew the life of being rejected and treated like a monster. I looked at Gaara, whose head was now on my lap.

"I know that feeling to, only I understand more on your level. The village AND my family treated me like an outcast. Naruto had no family so they couldn't do that to him. You said that your uncle lied about loving you and tried to kill you to avenge his sister's death, me and Naruto don't know that feeling, but Naruto knows what it's like to not have a mother. Our pain may not have been and may not be as bad as the pain you've felt and feel, but we still know the pain of being an outcast. Gaara, I'm gonna say this because I mean it, I love you, because you are like my brother, and you and Naruto are the closest to knowing my pain and are like me in some ways, so you two are my family." I said, tears falling from my eyes as I spoke.

Temari came and I gave Gaara to her, she had heard what I had just said, and sighed. She knew that my feelings for him were stronger than that, but neither Gaara nor me knew what our true feelings for each other were, so she left it alone. As they lifted I heard Gaara apologize to his siblings.

The village was safe, but I didn't know about the tragedy that was waiting at home. We got back to the village to find that the third Hokage, was dead.