ಌMonstersಌ(Gaara Love Story)

9.Chapter 9

I only want sympathy in the form of you,

Crawling into bed with me.

-Dance Dance,Fall Out Boy

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  The final rounds were tomorrow.Gina had mastered her new Mangekyō Sharingan(picture) and could now summon cats.Yamaha was like Gamabunta,who Gina had see Naruto riding on a few days ago.Yamaha was smaller,but when on her hind legs,was a lot taller then Gina.She was black with a white diamond on her head and white star in her tail.Yamaha wore a blue crystal necklace.With that,she could protect Gina like Gaara's sand protected him.Anything Gina wanted protected would be safe cocooned in a blue diamond box.

  Also Gina had now mastered the wind chakra nature thanks to her Sharingan.She could destroy nations with a simple flame.

  Itachi informed Gina about what was happening to her with Gaara.She was his protector.

  "With every jinchūriki,there is made a protector made to protect the host.You have been picked as the protector of the One Tails.That's why when he's hurt,you are hurt worse since you are not doing your job.And when you appeared in front of him,that was your spirit doing it's job."He explained to her."In return when you some of the beasts power when needed.Like if you're physically incapable of protecting the host on you get a share of the power and to help the jinchūriki.Usually  the protector is someone who is calm.If you are to get worked up or angry,the beast will try to take over you.You wont be able to control yourself. Also if the host is to die,you have four days until you are sent into a kinda spirit meeting.Things get evaluated by 'the spirits' and decide what to do with you.You'd know,because you'd cough up blood,and feel weak as if you were dying."She didn't believe him at first but all the signs led to it.

  Gina was Gaara's protector.

  She didn't tell him when they spent the nights up on the roof.Gaara didn't tell her about the time he killed her opponent,almost killed the boy he had fought in the preliminaries or that he paid a visit to her twin brother.Itachi was there and he told her.He wanted to see where his little brother had been all month and found him on the rocks using a justu Kakashi had just showed him.So naturally,Itachi copied the jutsu with his sharingan and showed in to Gina.

  "Man I wish I could use water,the this would be even stronger."She said smiley widely.

  "Baby steps Gina,you're a little too strong.Remember you're only good for two blows,three is pushing it and will almost drain you."

  "A little bit is never enough."

  Itachi and Gina mostly spent days inside the house where no one would find out an Akatsuki member was in the village.Gina would be in some serious trouble if anyone found him.It didn't worry her that Gaara had seen him.He probably wouldn't say anything anyways.Today,Itachi took Gina out for a walk around Konoha.Nothing has really changed about the village since Itachi left.There was still Ichiraku and the dango shop.Gina's favorite clothing store is still right next to her favorite restaurant.The Hokage mountain still had four faces on them.Nothing appeared different.But then again everything had changed.

  The Uchiha clan was not as highly admired.There was no Konoha Military Police Force.Neither was there an open and happy Uchiha compound.It was now dark and gloomy with 'DO NOT CROSS' tape everywhere.Some buildings were broken and covered in dry blood.Itachi wanted to take a visit down memory lane,naturally Gina took him there.There was no memory more permanent then that one.

  He said nothing when he got there.The silence that fell was deafening.Memories flooded back to their minds.

  Screams.

  Cries.

  Blood.

  The cold,sickening feeling of metal swords burned on their hands.It all left bitter tastes in the siblings mouth.

  "Itachi."Gina said as if she was warning him she was going to break down.

  "Lets go."They never said a word to each other the rest of the day.Just glances over the table,across the couch and flashes of onyx orbs over coffee mugs.

  Gaara's POV

  Three and a half weeks passed and each night,I went through the same routine.I left the house at twenty to midnight and waited on Gina's rooftop.She joined me at midnight,we talked a little and she fell asleep next to me.Once she'd fallen asleep,I felt the demon inside me settle;safe in the knowledge that the prey was in reach and that she was growing to trust us,to trust that I wouldn't kill her.She was just naturally quite happy,full of excitement for the Chunin exams now just a few days away,heartbreak from the loss of her family,admiration as she described her village and all the pathetic losers in it,giggly the night she came up and she'd been out with Temari again and drank far too much Pepsi and ate too many pieces of dango,annoyance the day she found out one of the sound ninja had  beaten a child from the academy.I'd never admit it but she was kinda cute when she's mad.Gina likes to think she's tall but she's not.Her anger makes her a like little ball of rage.And smiling, she was always smiling.But she never once,ever showed me fear,something that washed over me like cool water on a hot day,refreshing and pleasant.I had been so used to being feared that while at first it irritated me that she wasn't scared of me.I grew to respect her for it.It wasn't that she was ignorant of my power,it was that she wasn't afraid of death.

  Some nights,we didn't tell each other anything,we just sat there,in each others company,with only Mother's voice in my head,admiring the way her pulse pumped beneath her fair skin,the lavender scent her hair gave off when she swung it behind her head.When she was asleep,strewn across the rooftop,I would imagine her naked,imagined myself fusing our bodies together and holding her waist so tightly it might break in my hands,clutching her hips so tightly they cracked.

  I didn't hurt her.Sometimes,after I'd been with her all night,I'd kill a helpless civilian in the morning to decrease the tension in my body.I was never sure why I was doing this.I told myself it was that I was savoring my prey,keeping her until the very last moment.I told myself it was because I was under orders.

  I couldn't pinpoint why I kept thinking of her so sexually,why a part of me felt so good when she bent over and her cleavage was exposed to me,as it was in the preliminaries.I concluded it was the monster inside me,burning for her,admiring the innocent things about her that made her look like an easy target like her big onyx doe eyes and her slender body.

  One nights before the third exam,on the rooftop,I'd completely ignored her attempts to talk,so disgusted at the monster inside me.She stayed up all night that night and by dawn,she had me talking a little,describing the dunes of the Land of Wind and the frequency of sand storms.

  "Gaara?"She asked out of the blue."Would you kill me,if we had to fight?"I wasn't quite sure how to answer that.Yes,I planned on killing her tomorrow but should I tell her that?

  "Yes."She snickered then.

  "God,I'd hate to be your girlfriend."She giggled a bit again.Instead of asking I let the puzzling look show on my face."I would constantly want to kick your ass for that damn emotionless face and your straight forwardness."A lazy smile spread across her face."Gaara have you ever smiled?"

  "As a child."

  "That's it?Come on give me the details."Gins said.

  "Go to sleep.:"As always she did as I said,laying on her back and leaving it to my breathing and the trees to lull her to sleep.

  Everything will change tomorrow.I kept saying in my head.It was true.Everything really was going to change tomorrow.