The Sand Siblings

Chapter 1

The two stand and look at each other. The heat of the sun is harsh and the blonde girl looks a the pale redhead with his arms crossed.

Temari leaned on her fan and smirks at her little brother, "Don't expect me to go easy on you, Gaara.

The sullen boy looks at her and only crosses his arms at her, "Enough of your jokes, Baki wants us to spar."

She rolls her eyes at his remark, "Sorry for starting a conversation."

He simply stats, "Your annoying me already. Make your move."

She opens her fan a bit and swings at him, sending a gust of wind at him. Gaara only stands there as he a sand shield is formed around. Her wind is able to knock some of the sand away, but he stands there unphased by her attack.

Gaara simply looked at her and commanded more sand to come and attack her. Temari's eyes widened as she used to fan to defend herself from the rapid sand attacks coming at her. She was too busy defending against the upfront attacks and she was unable to see the the sand coming for her feet.

The sand grabbed her feet and pulled her down on the ground, she fell down and landed on her back. More sand came in and was covering her whole body in sand.

She started to panic, "Gaara stop. I surrender!"

The sand grew heavy and was starting to crush her. She cried out more begging him to stop as soon she found it difficult to breath.

The sand covers her whole and she is still screaming for mercy. She's crying still begging her baby brother to stop and not listen to the sick wishes of the tailed beast sealed inside of him. She's crying so much that her voice goes hoarse.

She utters a setence she thought she would never have to say in her lifetime, "Gaara stop. Your going to kill me."

Her cries are loud enough to hit him and his eyes widen. The sand goes away and he frees her from the and prison. He is only able to muster, "Sorry."

She sits up and gasps for air. She backs away from him, fear in her eyes. She shouts, "Get away from me."

"Temari...I'm-"

She cries out as she backs far away from him, "Stay away from me."

He walks closer to her, "Temari-"

She shouts, "Stay away!"

Gaara stands there frozen as she heard those words. It stung like poison at him. He is only able to look down on the ground and mutters, "I'm sorry."

The walk home was filled with silence and Kankuro looks at her and notices her sullen look. He looks at her, "Okay Gaara looking off in the distance, but what's with you?"

She snaps at him as she quickness her pace, "Nothing. Just drop it."

He catches up with her and grabs her arm, "Temari, what happened?"

She breaks free from his grip and glares at me, "Never grab me like that ever again, Kankuro. I'm fine drop it."

He looks away and mutters, "If you say so, sis."

She rolls her eyes and pushes him away as she starts walking ahead of Kankuro looks at her for a split second and looks back at the ground as they walk back to their home. She then goes straight to her room and slides down with her back on the door and buries her head in her knees.

She sits there and cries as she is unable to feel. She clenches her fists and cries more to herself. She feels a selfish feeling as she feels more hatred for her baby brother.

In the pit of her stomach she feels awful about the amount of hatred she feels for him. That is enough to make her cry and much more harder.

She sniffles and wipes the tear with her sleeve and goes to her bed. And cries until slumber takes her.

***

Years pass and that memory still plays in her head on repeat. Some days she even wakes up as she is unable to forget the day when Gaara was so close to ending her life.

She can never fully look at him the eyes, unable to get the death stare that he had on that fateful day. She shakes that feeling away when she sees that he is starting to change for the better

He changed so much in that time. The blonde boy clad in orange named Naruto became his friend said he understood his pain of being a Jinchurki.

Something about him saying that caused Gaara to change. She silently thanked him for that. She finally had her baby brother back and she was thankful for that.

More change even happened, Gaara was soon feared of the tailed beast trapped inside of him. When they came back home from Lady Chiyo's sacrifice. He loudly announced to her and Kankuro, "I'm going to sleep."

Kankuro turned around and looked at him, "Are you sure?"

Gaara smiles, "For the first time in my life, I am able to sleep."

He slept for three days and more time passed and he was more open to them. Telling her and Kankuro how much he loves them and that he's sorry for everything that he's done.

"Then one day after years of the last day they sparred with each other. He asks her a question, "Temari, let's spar."

Temari stood there frozen in place. She gulped hearing the simple request that came from Gaara's mouth.

He looked at her with a frown on his face, "Temari, what's wrong? All I said is that I wanted to spar with you."

She shook the uneasy feeling off and forced a smile on her face. "Of course I would train with you Gaara. Why wouldn't I?"

He sighed aloud, "Don't humor me. You free me still, don't you?"

"She simply scoffs at his words, "No. I'll spar with you."

"Gaara frowned and hugged her. She stood there shocked at his sudden affection. He mumbles, "Please forgive me, Temari. I'm sorry, for everything."

"

She smiles at him and pats his back. She gulps as she decides it's time to get over her fears, "I forgive you. Let's spar."

Gaara pulls away with a shocked expression on his face, "Really?"

She smirks, "Don't tell me your scared already?"

Gaara just shakes his head, "The question is sister, are you afraid?"

She only smirks and ignores the thoughts in the back of her mind. She scoffs, "As if. Come on baby brother."