Gaara's Wolf - Thrust into the Naruto World

Chapter 18

Over the next one and a half years, Gaara quickly progressed through the ranks. Most people could see the change in him, the longing to do right and be accepted. It helped that he was powerful, stronger than most of the other Sand shinobi, and level headed. 

He gladly did all missions given to him, successfully proving to the council that he had Suna's best interests at heart. By the end of the 1 and 1/2 years, he was named the 5th Kazekage of the Hidden Sand.

Also during that time, many people tried to kill Gaara. Temari, Kankuro, and I kept him safe, no matter the cost. Most of the would-be assassins were narrow minded Sand ninjas who were now severely injured and in prison.

 The others, the ones from the Hidden Cloud or the Hidden Stone, we're more ... persistent. We had to kill a good bit of them. The first few times I had to do this, it broke my heart, but I managed to harden it toward them. If I had to choose between Gaara and some other random person, I would always choose Gaara.

After Gaara was appointed 5th Kazekage, Lady Tsunade sent Kakashi to the Sand. According to the letter she sent beforehand, he had some information from Gramps Hokage for the Kazekage, as a show of allegiance. I wasn't too worried, for all I knew, this could have happened in the timeskip, but I should have been.

Kakashi arrived about a week after Gaara officially became Kazekage. I hadn't left Gaara's side since then, looking out for any new attackers. Now that Gaara was Kazekage, the in-country attacks had dwindled to almost nothing. The people might not all trust Gaara, but they do trust the council members, who Konoha don't seem to trust very much. I'm blaming Danzo.

Anyway, Kakashi arrived to tell Gaara some secret. I didn't get it at the time, but I think you can guess. Yup, it was to tell him what they discovered about me. It was a strange conversation, to say the least. It went like this:

"Welcome to Suna, Kakashi Hatake." Gaara said in his usual bored tone when Kakashi made it to the Kazekage tower.

"Hey, Kakashi!" I greeted, remembering that he could understand me.

"Lord Kazekage, Kira." He greeted back, confusing Gaara. No one ever greeted me as well. I might have been smart and able to understand people, but they didn't greet me: the Kazekage's pet.

"What is the information you have come to deliver? It must have been important for Lady Hokage to have sent you so quickly."

"Yes, it is. While your 'pet' was at the hospital during the chunnin exams, the veterinarian who was treating her discovered something quite interesting. Lord Third had some of his best people look into it. We were going to inform the Fourth Kazekage, but he turned out to be Orochimaru in disguise, forcing us to wait to inform the Sand until the next Kazekage had been inaugurated."

Gaara glanced down at me, obviously wondering what they could have found out that was so important. I just stayed silent, seeing what would happen. I wasn't sure how Gaara would react, but knew there was nothing I could do to stop this. 

Because of Gaara's past, he was still very sensitive to being lied to. I probably could have found a way to have told him, but he most likely wouldn't get it if I tried. Besides, I cared about him and was scared to be sent away or be unwanted, so I kept silent.

"Kira is actually a human. As far as the Third could figure out, it seemed that someone used a forbidden jutsu on her, turning her into a wolf. The fact that she doesn't remember what happened also supports this theory. There is more information in this scroll."

Kakashi handed Gaara a small lavender scroll with a wolf pendant on it. As Gaara read the scroll, he kept glancing at me. Uh oh, he knows everything now. If that scroll has all of my information, he must know about my special knowledge and my part in the chunnin exam attack. He must have a lot of questions. I hope Kakashi brought some translator pills with him.

As I was thinking about this, Gaara finished reading the scroll. "Thank the Hokage for this information for me. And thank you for delivering it swiftly. Is there anything else you were to report?"

"No, I had nothing else to report, but I did bring a gift. Hana Inuzuka made some translator pills you can use to understand Kira with. I brought a sample with me so you could have them reproduced here and understand Kira." With that, he gave Gaara a small sack before bowing and leaving.

As soon as Kakashi was gone, Gaara turned toward me. "As soon as we verify this information, we are going to have a talk. If the part about you being human is true, then the rest of it should be true, too."

He took me to the hospital to get a blood test, but a better one than the Leaf's. Hana had only gone far enough to discern that my blood was human, while the Sand hospital was going to see if I was related to anyone if my blood was human. 

When the results came in, it was surprising, even to me. According to the results, I was related to the Uchiha, Uzumaki, Senju, and many other clans. In fact, there were hardly any clans that I wasn't related to. I had thought that I wouldn't be related to anyone, seeing as how I came from another dimension or something.

Seeing my shocked face (I'm not quite sure exactly what that looked like on a wolf) Gaara asked, "I'm guessing you didn't know that either, huh?"

"You can say that again. I honestly didn't think I'd be related to anyone."

"Why is that?"

"I remember nothing about my past, only that I have a mother or brother somewhere. If I had a clan, wouldn't they have tried to find me by now?" 

Then, I noticed that he couldn't have asked why I thought something if he hadn't heard what I said. "Hey, did you take one of Kakashi's pills and not tell me?! That's rude, you know."

"As I told you earlier, we need to talk." Just perfect. What am I supposed to tell him?