Cold Eyes || Gaara x Reader

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

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A year later_

It's been a year.

A long... long year.

I'm now 18, Gaara is 17, Kankuro is 20 and Temari 21.

Baki for some reason, tried so hard to become my friend—or at least friendly. It was not well received, and he looked just as uncomfortable as I felt so we decided to go back to our usual act. Just a little less hostile now.

A month after the war, everything had almost settled and everyone was happy again, to an extent, I mean—it's the shinobi world, there's always something to argue about.

I also left to travel the world and actually see it through simple jobs and just for fun. Sometimes Temari or Kankuro came with me, but they mostly stayed with Gaara to rebuild the stability of the village. I didn't travel the entire time, but I did see a lot and what a beautiful world this world was. After about two, three months, I started to just stick around the village again and mostly lounge around but somehow I got stuck with temporarily teaching a team of genin while their sensei was recovering from injuries from, you know, the war... Couldn't really say no at that one really so I just went along with it.

It was fun, I guess. But I'm definitely not sensei material and everyone realised that really quickly. I almost felt back for the little brats but hey-ho, you get what you get and in this case they got me, y/n of the Hidden Sand, there's no way they didn't expect a little chaos.

... I didn't... totally get over losing my entire 16 years' worth of life and existence but I learnt to accept it, especially while I was travelling and could just... think uninterrupted. I decided that I'd just be whoever I wanted to be and didn't really change much about myself, or so I hope, not quite sure—ah, there's one thing I am sure about, apparently I brought stuff here with me from wherever it was I lived before but only one thing was still here. Some instrument. Honestly, I thought muscle memory would take over but turns out nope. I cannot play it and so it's been relegated to a shelf. Memory shelf, I think Temari called it. Sweet gesture I guess.

Temari's gotten closer with Shikamaru and now it's my turn to absolutely destroy her with teasing... I just hope that if she decides to move to the Leaf for him that we'll not lose what we have. I don't know how I could cope losing my sister after all of this.

Kankuro's still single though, no worrying about losing him. He has many excuses, I just don't think he wants to admit that he's not finding a partner any time soon if he keeps locking himself away in his shed—sorry, workshop. But as long as he's happy, then we're happy too.

Speaking of partner though... today is the day.

The elders bugged us every day, in every month for the past year about our wedding. Didn't matter how many times me and Gaara told them that we were taking a year long engagement they kept bugging. And now, today, one random day in the third month of the year, we're finally getting married.

I've gotten a lot closer to Gaara that I don't even feel worried about this. I know a lot of women and men tend to feel worried on their wedding days but not me. I'm calm, tranquil. I know that he is exactly who I want to be bound to for the rest of my life.

"Ah! Look at you!" I heard squealing coming from behind me and turned to see Hinata, Sakura, Ino, Tenten and Temari all stood in the doorway in some really nice dresses.

"Hello to you too," I nodded at them with a smile before yawning and facing forward again.

"What time did you go to bed last night?" Temari asked almost accusingly as they all took a seat around the room.