Cold Eyes || Gaara x Reader

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Edited: 08/05/24
Reuploaded: 10/05/24

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Gaara's PoV

"You mind?" I asked, y/n shook her head and sat up, I sat where her head was previously and watched as she manoeuvred herself, so she was sitting normally beside me, staring down at her hands on her legs.

This is awkward...

We were sat in silence for a while before she spoke up, breaking our long-lasting silence.

"Why did you look for me for so long?" she asked, not moving her gaze from her hands.

"Because... I don't know," I sighed, kicking myself mentally for not being able to put my feelings into words.

"I see..." she mumbled, her face showing that she was quite clearly disappointed at my answer. Almost as if she was waiting for a specific answer from me. My heart seemed to crumble at her disappointment. I've seen people hug others when they can't seem to put their emotions and thoughts into words. Well—Temari and Kankuro do.

"Well, excuse me Lord Kazekage. I'm sure you're extremely busy," y/n said quickly, standing up. I frowned and watched as she grabbed her case and started walking to the door.

Quickly standing up, I flicked my wrist towards her, capturing her wrist lightly in my sand and held her in place while I moved and hugged her from behind. I felt her stiffen but she relaxed after a few moments.

"I have feelings I can't explain, I don't really understand them either because it's the first time I've felt something like this," I started, "but I've seen Temari and Kankuro express themselves through their actions when they couldn't put it into words, so I hope this explains this to you somehow."

She didn't respond. She didn't move either.

I was going to give up when she placed her case on the ground again and turned around and hugged me back.

"It does," she whispered to me.

She wants to be here with me, that I know. If she didn't, she could've just shook the sand from her wrist. It wasn't holding on nearly strong enough to stop her.

She stopped for... me...

Kankuro's PoV

"You're saying that you didn't finish the paperwork?" Temari asked me as we walked through the hall, I just turned to her with a mischievous smirk.

"Of course I did, who do you think I am?" I asked her before leading her outside.

"I think you're Kankuro, meaning you're useless at doing paperwork on time," she replied, pointing at me accusingly before letting out a small yawn and glancing around, "where are you taking me then."

I looked at her with disbelief.

"The whole time you two were gone, I spent the whole time teasing Gaara about y/n, you know, because he kind of needs to realise his emotions at some point," I started, hopping onto a roof near Gaara's office and looked in, "they weren't going to talk to each other if we were there so..."

I pointed through the window, Temari joined me and smiled.

"Wow, I guess you can be smart from time to time," Temari said. Wow, leave it to Temari to compliment you with an insult.

We watched as Gaara did his paperwork for about 10 minutes before we started to get bored.

"This is boring, nothing's happening," Temari sighed before I shushed her and pointed at Gaara who'd stood up now. We leaned forward a little and watched as he went and sat on the floor leaning against the arm rest of the sofa next to y/n's head.