Broken Lives Go So Well Together (Gaara Story)

Chapter 6

We stood there with our jutsu helping us look at the scene. Orochimaru was attacking Sasuke after knocking out Naruto.
I gasped, "I need to help him!" I said.
I knew that once Orochimaru got his chance he'd curse Sasuke.
"Why do you want to help him? If he can't help himself he is weak." Gaara said beside me.
I looked at him and for once it was me giving him the evil eye.
"I want to help him because I only just got him back, I can't lose more family."" I said.
He looked over at me, his eyes still as cold as ice. "We might have to kill him though. If you can't kill him then you are useless to these exams." He said I looked up at him in surprise.
"Then maybe I should not come back to Sunagakure. Maybe I should just stay here and live with my brother." I said, as I looked upon the fight once more.
"Don't." I heard him say.
Without looking at him I said, "Why would you care?"
I was angry at him so I wasn't worried about feelings. I mean Gaara doesn't have feelings anyway, right?
"I would care because you are the only person that I don't feel like killing all of the time." He said.
"I thought I was useless?" I said surprised by what he had said, when he didn't reply I said, "And I think the word that you were looking for was friend."
"That's impossible a monster like me couldn't have friends." He said and for once emotion showing through his voice, it was sadness.
I did something that if I had thought it through I would never do. I turned and hugged Gaara, like a full on hug not a one armed one.
"You're not a monster, and you are my friend." I said.
The strangest thing was that his sand didn't push me away. I quickly realized what I was doing and I pulled away.
"Sorry." I said.
When he didn't reply I looked at my brother's fight against Orochimaru again. 'What is this feeling?' I thought to myself, 'I felt all bubbly and happy when I hugged Gaara.'

I watched in horror as my brother got bitten, and cursed by Orochimaru.
I gasped "No!"
I got into a position to jump off the roof to help. I felt Gaara's sand pin my feet to the roof.
"Let me go!" I yelled at him.
"Don't be so stupid." He said his voice emotionless once more.
I looked at him and thought it through. He was right. If I helped them not only would I not be able to get back in the tower, but I also would give away that I broke the rules to get on the roof. That would be a bad move. I sighed.
"You're right. I just hope that he will be okay."
Gaara released his sand's hold and I fell in despair and transported back inside. I wanted Gaara to comfort me; I wanted him to tell me that it was okay, 'What am I thinking?' I thought to myself, 'I don't like Gaara. I couldn't, could I?' Where I had transported there was a couch. I lied down and I very quickly fell into a deep sleep.

*The Next Morning*

I woke up feeling a presence next to me. 'What the...' I thought I opened my eyes to Shino.
"Umm hello?" I said, 'What is he doing?' I thought to myself.
"Why do I recognize your chakra?" he asked seriously.
I looked at him questionably hoping that he didn't run into me before I moved, well ran away, so long ago.
"I only just met you..." I said trying to be convincing.
"We recognized your chakra from the Uchiha compound." He said.
I looked at him trying to change the subject, "Who's we?" I asked as I saw a bug cross the floor.
"Me and the bugs." He said simply as the bug climbed up his clothes and disappeared into his hand.
I nodded in understanding. I had my hands behind my back the entire time that I had been awake, doing hand signs for a telepathy jutsu, cutting off my sense of touch for the time being. 'Gaara, help!' I said to him through the mental connection I had just made between us.

I sat there trying to get Shino to drop the subject of him recognizing me for a total of ten minutes. It wasn't working. 'Gaara!' I screamed through the connection.
"Who are you?" Shino asked me once more.
"I am Honoka." I said.
"What is your last name?" he asked.
I didn't know what to do. I didn't want to lie. I was opening my mouth to tell Shino when Gaara walked in. 'Thank kage's you are here!' I said through the connection as showing a sign of relief in my face for a split second so only he would see. I stood up and tried to push back Shino knowing that if he didn't let me pass I would just kick his buggy ass, and if that didn't work Gaara looked like he wanted to fight.

He didn't let me pass.
"Bad move." I said to him.
"Well you still haven't answered my question" he said.
"I didn't think I had to." I said emotionlessly.
Now he was holding my wrist, 'I can't do any jutsus!' I thought to myself. Apparently my connection with Gaara was still going though because a second later he was using his sand to remove Shino's hand. I looked at him thankfully as I walked to his side.
"Humph." Shino grumbled as walking out of the door.
I looked over at Gaara, "Man that was creepy!" I said breaking the telepathy jutsu, "I woke up and I think he was watching me sleep and checking out my chakra. He did ask me about it."
The last part was more to myself than Gaara though.
He looked at me bored, "Oh yea, thank you Gaara!" I said while smiling at him.

We began walking down the hallways, and I noticed that more teams had arrived. I didn't take not on who arrived, just that some people had.
Then I noticed who was missing, "Where are Temari and Kankuro?"
"Why should I care?" He replied.
"I know that you might not like them that much, but you must have some feelings for them. After all they are your family." I said as we walked out of the room with gathering people into another empty hall.
When he didn't reply I continued, "After all I only just found out that my twin is alive and all I want to do is protect him."
"Gaara, Honoka, there you are!" I heard Temari say from behind us.
I turned around snapping out of my thoughts, "Were you looking for us?"

"Yea, well I was worried that Gaara would get into some trouble." Temari whispered to me, but Gaara still heard earning Temari a dirty glance. She flinched back at his glance, "That and we haven't seen you since we saw those leaf ninja."
I smiled at her, "Don't worry, I can take care of myself." 'That or Gaara will' I thought.
"Can we go somewhere now? I'm getting hungry!" Kankuro said while putting his hand to his now growling stomach.
"Yea, I'm kind of hungry too! Let's go." I said as we all walked to the next room.
There was food platters scattered across a table. Kankuro looked hungrily at them, I heard my stomach growl. 'When was the last time I ate?' I thought to myself. I looked over at Gaara.
"You hungry?"
"I ate before." He replied. I shrugged and walked over to the food as Temari, Kankuro, and I feasted.

After eating I walked to another window and looked out again.
"He's okay." I heard Gaara say from behind me.
"How did you know that was what I was thinking about?" I asked him.
Ignoring my question he said, "While you were eating there was a huge blast of chakra. It was Sasuke using the curse mark to scare off, almost kill some people that where threatening to kill him." He said but once he mentioned the fighting he began to get a bloodlust in his voice.
'What am I going to do? If Gaara has a bloodlust he might kill one of the other ninja, getting him disqualified from the exam, and ruining our plan.' I thought. 'I have to come up with something quick.'