Impenetrable {Naruto Fan-Fic}

My Only Weakness

Gaara's POV

I had overheard some unsavory rumors about her. After the exams, proctors and examiners talked about her saying she was a real genius and something about her clan. I hadn't seen her abilities with my own eyes but considering what these people were saying, she must be amazing.

But when I heard she was barely grasping for life, I didn't know what it was inside of me that turned over and exploded. I didn't exactly know what happened but I heard she brutally murdered the sound participants.

It left me somewhat confused also, she had saved those Rain ninja and said she didn't like violence yet she goes ahead and mindlessly kills people. It probably was an accident, she seemed genuinely serious about being the peace maker.

It's been about a week since the preliminary exams, I was to fight Sasuke Uchiha, her comrade, for the third round of the chuunin exams in a month, so for now we were heading back to Sunagakure, but before that, I decided to drop by the hospital to see her condition.

Don't know why, it was just a feeling that told me I should.

Arriving to her room, I felt a sort of uneasiness inside of me. She was connected to so many wires and medical equipment, the horribly slow beeping noise from the heart monitor made it worse. Just the look of it all would make anyone pretty depressed.

But why did I feel this way? Why did she make me feel confused about my whole life? Had I met her somewhere? I felt like I might have known her somewhere, and she was important. The confusion of it all made my blood boil, the same way it did when that idiot sensei saved that Rock Lee guy.

"Just kill her Gaara, what is she to you?"

It was the stupid one-tails, the perilous feeling of it inside me had always subsided when I was with her; however right now was a whole different thing, it was raging to come out.

"Why would I want to kill her?"

"Why wouldn't you? She's a burden, she's useless, she makes you uneasy about yourself, about your whole existence."

"..." the beast had it's point, but that didn't make me wasn't to kill her.

"Gaara, you don't love anyone or care for anyone, all you have to do is live for yourself, kill her in order to do so."

"What difference will it make for me?"

"It will make you feel alive, if you have even one person holding you back you won't be living for yourself, but for them."