Cold Eyes || Gaara x Reader

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Edited: 30/03/24
Reuploaded: 30/03/24

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Old (left) – New (right)
¬ Vine Cage (landscape jutsu) = Vine Ensnarement Jutsu
¬ Natural Hearing (tree dance) = Leaf Whisper Jutsu
¬ Root Grab (landscape jutsu) = Root Snare Jutsu
¬ Steel whip (tree dance) = Steal Whip Jutsu
¬ Natural surveillance (tree dance) = Natural Surveillance Jutsu
¬ Plant army (tree dance) = Plant Army Jutsu
¬ Liana clones (tree dance) = Liana Clone Jutsu
¬ Shallow plant (landscape jutsu) = Plant Phasing Jutsu
¬ Tree tracking (landscape jutsu) = Tree Tracking
¬ Tracking tools = Tracking tools

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"Where the hell do you think you're sitting?" Naruto yelled. My ears rung violently from the sudden noise, and I tried to push myself up from the stone below me.

He's just as loud as I expected him to be.

"Well so much for that mystery," Deidara started, "this kids the jinchuriki. He's the one who bursts in and barks first alright."

"Seriously, Itachi was right on the money, ah?" he continued with an amused tone.

Sasori just stayed silent. Staring at Lady Chiyo.

"Gaara! What the hell are you doing? Come on! Why are you just lying there?" Naruto yelled. He knows. We all know. Gaara's dead. Naruto stop shouting.

It was so emotional to watch in person.

As I managed to sit upright against the wall I couldn't help but to allow tears to slowly roll down my face.

In my room, it was different, I wasn't here, I didn't know Gaara personally. They were simply just characters on my screen that I'd grown attached to in a more distanced kind of way. Sure, I cried when I watched this back at home but... I don't know, it was different.

And now I'm crying at it right in front of me.

"Get up! Gaara! Answer me... What are you? Deaf?" Naruto kept pushing it.

Sakura looked at me and saw my tears. Her face hardened with a mix of sadness and frustration.

I need to reach Naruto. I tipped my wrist forward and created another plant man. The thing was smaller than the other and seemed to be extremely clumsy. But it made its way to Naruto and grabbed his ankle. He looked down.

"Please stop. He's not of this world anymore," my voice travelled through the plant, he just glared and kicked it out of the way. The last of my chakra weakening even more as it was so violently destroyed.

I'm going to pass out at this rate, I can barely keep my vision in focus.

"Come on, knock it off already—" Naruto yelled again but this time Kakashi was sick of hearing it.

"Enough Naruto!" Kakashi snapped, stopping Naruto from doing anything rash, "you know full well that..."

"Your friends right, and you know it too. He's been dead for a while now and that girl in the back will be joining him real soon. You should've saw her. Fighting so hard through the poison just to reach him. How touching," Deidara says in a provoking tone while hitting the side of Gaara's face.

This tipped Naruto off the edge. Those eyes that I've only seen on TV, blood red and a black slit. The eyes of the nine tailed fox. They appeared as his anger boiled over his limit.

"Well..." Sasori finally speaks.

"Oh yeah, that's him alright," Deidara says as if he hadn't confirmed that Naruto was the jinchuriki host earlier.

"Give him back," Naruto growled.

Damn it—come on, y/n. Get up!

I managed to pull myself to my feet and pick up one of the kunai that had been pinning me to the wall I was now heavily leaning against in order to keep myself stood. I threw it towards Naruto and he snapped out of his anger for a moment. His eyes return to their natural before Deidara provoked him again and pulled the anger back up.

"Stop being angry... It's leaking out," I tried to say but my voice was barely a whisper.

I just closed my eyes and dropped to the floor again.

Damn it, I shouldn't have come after Gaara. I just ended up being useless anyway.

What use is the knowledge of the future if nothing I do will change it anyway?

Well... I've accepted that I'm going to die here, but I'd rather die in the darkness of my own unconscious mind than while watching a fight.

Sakura's PoV

I watched Naruto and then peered over to the sand ninja behind the two Akatsuki.

They said that they did what they'd done to Kankuro to her So she's suffering that poison. If I can just get to her, then I can help her. But these two bickering Akatsuki are in my way.

The two Akatsuki had started arguing about what was art and what wasn't art before they started arguing about who will take Gaara. In the end, the blonde took Gaara, having a bird of white (that he'd created) swallow him and then fly away.

Naruto being the knuckle head he is, sprinted after the Akatsuki carrying Gaara away and Kakashi ran after him. Barely stopping to say:

"Naruto and I will take the one on the outside, Sakura, you and Lady Chiyo take the one on the inside. Try help the shinobi in the back and don't do anything rash until Team Guy comes to help!"

"Right you got it!" I replied. We stood in silence after that before I looked at Lady Chiyo.

"I just need to get to her for 3 seconds and then we can focus on the Akatsuki," I told her she shook her head. They both just ignored me for a moment while they spoke.

"The way I'd heard it... You'd retired a long time ago," the Akatsuki spoke.

"I suddenly longed to see my grandsons face again," she replied.

Grandson? Then that must mean this man is Sasori of the Red Sand.

He gave me a deadly look. The stare alone made me freeze and allowed me to see how different and how wide a gap we had in our battle experiences. He had definitely been up against more people than I had.

He'd killed a lot more.

Like he lived for killing.

My eyes were drawn to the girl in the back again, she had her eyes close.

Don't be dead! Not yet!

Just hold on for a little longer!

"Sakura. Do not fear," Lady Chiyo started, "I am here with you, you just step back dear. Go help that ninja. I will deal with him."

Lady Chiya walked forward and put her hands in her sleeves before pulling out a long string with about 9 or 10 kunai threaded on.

I wanted to tell her no, but this will be my only chance to help that ninja. So I just nodded and ran around the outside of the cave, keeping near the wall, trying to keep out of range of both the old lady and the boy she called grandson.