Cold Eyes || Gaara x Reader

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

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"Good morning, y/n!" a perky voice hit my ears.

"Good morning?" I questioned as I sat up, I looked around to see I was in a pretty fancy hotel room.

"Hurry up and get into your cosplay! We have to leave to go to the Naruto cosplay panel," the voice shouted. I looked over to them to see them in a Temari cosplay but I couldn't see their face.

"Who are you?" I asked, frowning. The person laughed.

"Did you hit your head or something? It's me S̸̙̮͖͓̭̝̙̠̄͜u̶̧̻̤͉͉̙͎͚̞͖̱͎̫̮͔̹̹̺̪͑̔̓̅̓̔̿̋͐̿̀͆͋̃̅͘ģ̷̩͉̪̱͑́̅͂̆͗̿̾̄̂͐́̌̿̊̿̕̚͝i̸̧̢̭̟̱͚͇͓̙̮̭͖͇̥̹̦̻͇̼̽n̶̻̣̩͈̹̪̳͉̞̜̣͍͖͙͛̃̔̏̈̄͋͜ā̶̧͍̼̺͑̂͐̽͌̒!" the voice spoke. Who?

"R-right sorry, morning memory," I lied before standing.

"Anyway me and Y̷̧̛̘̚ủ̶̺͔̼͓̰̪̠̍̂̍͋́̕͜͝ȩ̷̛͎͒̿̽̒͋̏͝ will be waiting outside for you," the voice told me.

"Another one! Our comrades are falling victim to multiple surprise attacks!"

Who's that? Wait what's happening?

I walked over to the wardrobe and opened it to find my Gaara cosplay sitting there.

My body moved naturally to grab the clothes and change into them. My sight moved to a red wig. I pulled my h/l h/c hair into a hair net and then put the wig on, styling it into the messy Gaara style before grabbing the large gourd resting against a wall and pulled it onto my back. Then I drew some strange symbol on my left eyebrow that I've never seen before. Well not that I know of, at least.

"It's chaos! We don't know who the enemy is!"

Who's that? What enemy?

"Whats going on? It's doubtful they'd launch a night raid when sensory ninja watch each camp and patrols have been increased. So why? Why can't we detect the enemies?"

Who's that? Why can I hear them? Do I know them?

My feet carried me out the room to where the Temari cosplayer was stood along with a Kankuro cosplayer.

"Alright, you ready to go, Gaara?" the Kankuro cosplayer asked, their face moving slightly to make me think they winked at me.

"Yeah, lets go," my voice just spoke.

"Is it some kind of poison? What's the condition of the corpses?"

That voice. Who is it?!

We arrived in front of a building. Two large men noticed us and we all showed them our passes, they nodded and pointed us in the direction of our panel.

"I'm so excited, y/n! This is mine, yours and S̵̩̮̞̈͌̉̐́̂͐̕ū̷̟̳͎̖̊̽̾͒̂̅̀̈̕͝͠ͅg̶̡̧̡̘̞̺͔͇̞̤̯̞͂̏̈̆̍͛̌̍̈́̆̄̅̃͜͝ỉ̵̱̦̦̯̜̻̦̳̭͌́̇͝n̶̢̨̪͇̺͈͍͍̫̖̟͚̼̮̬̦̅̅̀̓̆̓̐͋͊͛̊̏́̑ͅa̶̛̠̙̳̥͂̑̄͛̑̊͠'s first panel!" the Kankuro cosplayer jumped excitedly as we reached the back stage and we had people with no faces wiring us up with mics and equipment.

"Yeah," I nodded, "I'm excited too."

"They received external wounds. They're physical attacks."

"Someone from the outside must be using some kind of controlling genjutsu on some of our ninja."

Ninja? Genjutsu? What?

"Itachi."

"Itachi Uchiha? He is the only one I know of who my sensory unit couldn't detect but could still use genjutsu, to manipulate someone like that... But to control as many people as this in multiple locations is impossible! Even for Itachi!"

Itachi Uchiha? Isn't he a Naruto character? Sasuke Uchiha's brother...

What's going on in my head...?

"Hello, everyone!" the Temari cosplayer greeted everyone as the three of us walked on the stage in character age order, "welcome to the sand sibling Naruto cosplay panel. Feel free to ask questions or ask for skits or anything!"

"Yes, you over there," the Kankuro cosplayer pointed in the direction of someone.

"Wake up y/n!"

"We're trying!"

"She won't budge!"

"It's like she's dead, but not at the same time!"

"Wait, everyone, listen—White Zetsu has been impersonating shinobi of the allied shinobi forces! He's able to mirror our chakra imprints!"

"That explains it."

"Alright. Temari, do you actually like Shikamaru or something else?" the questioner asked.

"I really like him. Yeah he complains too much but it's whatever, right?" the Temari cosplayer replied.

"If any of our shinobi has chakra removed from them by White Zetsu during the daytime fight then the White Zetsu could fully transform into them."

"You over there!" I pointed to someone close. They were staring at me.

"Is your gourd heavy?"

"No. I put chakra into my sand so it's light and easy to move around," I replied before the Kankuro cosplayer moved to the next person.

"Well Shikaku? What should we do?"

"Kankuro, why haven't you got a girlfriend?"

"Because Kankuro is a woman repeller," the Temari cosplayer butted in mischievously.

"It's not that! I just haven't met my perfect match yet," the Kankuro cosplayer crossed his arms and pouted.

"There's no way we can tell friend from foe now. How do we prepare to fight when dawn comes? If we don't discover a way to find out the differences and fast, we'll lose time, and all of our men will be endangered. In the end they could all wind up killing each other!"

"You."

"This is for Gaara."

"Alright," I nodded.

"The character, y/n, how did you meet her? Why did you fall in love with her?"

"Why did I fall in love with her?" I repeated.

"Oh and one other thing, when are you going to Ŵ̶̤͖͍̎̑͘͠͠ā̴̛̲̰̭̮̣̲̈́͂̄̏̃͂̆͑̿̾͌́̕͘k̶͈̄̍̑̓̔̽̂͝ȇ̷̡̡̛̬̩̞̗̦̘̥͕̜̘͚̟̯͇͓̩̜͍̂͊͝ͅ ̶̡̧̙͙̜̥͎̳̙̣̝̭̙̭̮̭̺̂̔̍̒͑ü̴̹͍̪͚̅̃̌̈́̍͆̀̐̾͂̈́̈́͊̔̑̕͝͠͝ͅp̴̰̲̜̻̼̫̱͍̱̝̃̑̋̒̃͊?"

Wake up?

"Come on, y/n, wake up!" someone shook me violently, my eyes opened again. I blinked a few times.

"What the hell was that?" I muttered as I looked into the eyes of C and another ninja.

"What happened, did the land of dreams snatch your soul or something?" C asked.

"No... I think I got caught in a memory," I replied shaking my head, "I could hear you guys in the background. Shouting. But I couldn't figure out who it was or what was happening."

"Sounds like a strange sensation," the ninja who I didn't know replied, I nodded and they pulled me to my feet.

"So you know what's happening right?" Shikaku asked. I nodded.

"I don't believe there's any way to differentiate between friend and foe unless you want to stand around and ask questions only the real person would be able to answer," I told them, "it'll be quite the issue."

"You're right," Shikaku nodded.

"This is quite a troublesome topic," I nodded before sitting down and placing my hands on my knees.

I'm exhausted and I've only just woken up. Just what was all of that?