Cold Eyes || Gaara x Reader

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Edited: 28/05/24
Reuploaded: 30/05/24

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I arrived at the leaf village within four days. It took longer because I... got lost but managed to find my way back onto the road.

"Y/n, thanks for coming but I should warn you, Naruto isn't here," Tsunade told me, "he's training on Mount Myoboku."

Damn—I'm late. But it's good to know...

Soon everything will go crazy around here and Konohagakure will be destroyed. Chaos will soon come back.

"I see, well, I'll go dump my stuff in my house and I'll just wander around then," I told her, she smiled and nodded as she passed me the key to our usual place, but then I got an idea. I've watched Pains attack on the village numerous times, so I have information. But I can't give them too much that makes them suspicious. Don't want to accidentally seem like I'm part of the Akatsuki, now that would be a true nightmare.

"Can I help out with anything? There were rumours that you brought in an Akatsuki member," I asked her, she looked at me shocked, "I have a high chakra count and I can force it to search for answers more than most."

"Maybe..." she pulled out a pole.

"A chakra rod?" I frowned, she looked at me closely as I "tested" it. My hand started glowing pink and the rod started to react to the chakra.

"It's a receiver rod," I nodded to myself, praising myself for remembering what those were, "if someone were to use these, they'd have to use it on a dead body because one of these in a living one and all your chakra can be sucked out in one quick move."

She just looked at me curiously.

"That's about all I can get from it. I'd say having one doubles the chakra, but having more it makes the chakra almost, if not as high as a tailed beasts chakra," I told her before sighing, "anyway I'll be off now."

After leaving her office I went to the usual hotel room the sand siblings use and threw my bags down before walking out into the village again.

I was walking through the village when a loud explosion sounded not too far away from where I was walking.

"What was that?"

"Are we under attack?"

"We should check that out and fast."

I frowned.

The attack has begun? So soon?

I just got here. Surely things haven't progressed this quickly...

Just as I was about to investigate, someone screamed, alerting me to the sudden appearance of a giant, orange and black centipede with a chakra rod going through its head.

It was going after a little girl.

Thing certainly have progressed this quickly—perhaps I've lost track of the days, no. It'd be more accurate to say I didn't calculate them at all. Word about Jiraiya's death will have taken a while to reach the sand, and then my travelling here from the sand... no. Everything's right on time. Damnit—

Quickly, I jumped in front of the little girl and looked up, four large roots shot up from around me and impaled the centipede.

"Are you ok?" I asked the girl, she looked terrified.

"Thank you so much," a lady ran over and scooped the girl up.

"Get to the evacuation places," I told her loud enough that everyone in the street around us could hear as well, they all started running and I was about to jump away when I found myself pinned to the wall by my neck.