Desert Flower

Binding Sand

  As I jumped from a tree branch to the ground, my vision narrowed in on a boy standing in a small clearing with an expressionless face. '....Pretty aka....' I thought while glancing at his spiky hair. His eyes widened a small fraction, but there was no hint of fear anywhere on him. Digging my claws into the dirt, I lowly growled while baring my teeth. 'Hungry.' Pouncing, I swiped my claws at his face, but I instead made contact with sand.

  Sand?

  Kicking out, sand swelled up from the ground and effectively blocked my attack. 'Power.' I mentally purred. 'Hungry....' He remained standing there, unmoving as his arms hung at his sides. The boy calmly watched as I failed every attempt to hit him, being stopped by sand each time. Jumping back, I flexed my claws and stretched, hearing the vertebrae in my spine popping.

  Quickly running at him, I jumped and spun while throwing my foot out. My heel broke through the sand as it seemed too slow for my speed, but my foot was still too far to land a hit on his face. Hopping behind him, I jumped onto his back faster than the sand could react and wrapped my arms around his neck as I placed my feet onto the large gourd on his back.

  "Power...." I purred before licking his cheek and tasting the chakra coursing through his body. Sand wrapped around my torso and threw me back into a tree. Landing on my hands and feet, I clung to the bark while hungrily licking my lips. "Hungry." I lept at him once more. He calmly raised a hand, and sand snatched me out of the air and pinned me to the ground. Growling as I clawed at the small grains, more just fell in place wherever I had swiped my hands.

  I couldn't kick my legs out due to the sand, but that didn't stop me from trying as I struggled against the soil while the boy calmly stepped toward me. The smell of the power he possessed made my stomach clench with hunger as he got closer. There was a pulse that radiated out from my body, and the sand shuddered. Breaking through, I tried to escape, but as I was rising from the ground, sand wrapped around my arms up to my elbows. Encasing my legs up to my thighs, my limbs were trapped as I was trying to jerk them free and get to the boy.

  Though young, he smelled delicious- Even better than the others I had chased down. Practically drooling as he stood a foot away and still out of my reach, he grabbed my chin in a firm hold and forced me to look him in the eye. Oh....

  "You're attracted by chakra?" His voice was low as he blankly stared down at me. Sticking out my tongue, I licked at the fingers on my chin, tasting that power again as a shiver ran up my spine. "And you feed off it...." He trailed off as his eyes wandered over my face.

  "Gaara!" A female voice called out as another person burst into the clearing. "Don't just disappear like that!" And she stopped in her tracks while going wide-eyed at what she saw. "What....?" Another person, male this time, followed close behind her. Sure, they had quite a bit of chakra themselves, but it was nothing compared to the boy in front of me.

  "You look like a wolf." The boy calmly stated before glancing at his free hand as it rose in front of him. "You'll just annoy me if you stay like this." He added, knowing that I'd keep coming after him now that I had his scent. Looking me dead in the eye with that emotionless face, the boy then covered my mouth with his free hand, and I felt the chakra building up in his palm.

  Greedily devouring the chakra as he was forcing it down my throat, I felt my skin buzz from the build-up of power. Warmth swirled in my belly as I feasted, and the boy seemed unfazed by the amount of chakra he was pushing into my mouth. Not really concerned about his well-being, I only focused on wolfing down the chakra smoothly running over my tongue.

  However, for some reason, my body felt as if it were growing heavy the more I ate. As my stomach filled, my eyelids were growing rather heavy and were half-closed by the time the boy pulled his hand back and wiped his palm off on his pants. Panting as I licked my lips, I felt so tired....so....sleepy....