Damaged Not Broken (TodoGaar a Naruto and BNHA Crossover)

Chapter 11 ~ I'm a Jinchuriki

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     After arriving back at Aizawa and Yamada's house they deposited the books into Gaara's room.

     The twins went to their respective rooms to do homework, all the while Kankuro complained, "Who gives out homework on the first day of school?!  Like that's illegal!" Aizawa just shook his head as he and Yamada made their way back downstairs. Gaara hesitated in his room before following the pair down the stairs.  He heard the front door shut as he reached the kitchen. Present Mic was pulling out a huge black pot that looked like it could hide a body while he hummed.

    "Oh, hey Gaara!" Present Mic said, noticing him.  Gaara looked questionably at the pot, wondering just what he was doing with it.

     Present Mic tracked Gaara's gaze to the pot.  "Oh! We are having stew tonight! Shota just went to go get some more beef and bullion!" Gaara had never met a person that put as many exclamation points in his speech than the man before him.

     Gaara saw carrots on the table with a cutting board and knife.  Again Mic saw him looking. "Those are for the stew, gotta chop 'em up!" Mic looked at Gaara with curiosity, "Would you help me?"

    Gaara shrugged, he did feel like doing something and felt uncomfortable just sitting in his room, and having to listen to his siblings bicker across the hall, so he might as well.

     Gaara sat at the table and picked up the knife, pausing before pushing the knife into a carrot.  

     With a snap, the two halves separated and flew in opposite directions before landing on the floor.  

    Gaara stared at the knife, then to the carrot halves on the floor.  Present Mic started laughing while Gaara just watched the knife that was still in his hand.  

     Gaara grabbed another carrot and sand started to form around him.  The sand suddenly headed towards the carrot at breakneck speed.

    “Woah, Whoah, WHoah!!  No sand in my kitchen!” Yamada suddenly shouted, jumping towards the carrots.  Gaara froze, sand just millimeters from the carrot. He was quite confused as to why Yamada would be so upset.  Gaara sent him a puzzled look. Yamada let out a sigh. “Listen Gaara, I know you wanted to help, but I don’t think you should be cutting the carrots.  At least not if you plan on using sand,” Yamada tried to put it lightly.

    “Why?  I have control over the sand and it would be more efficient than a knife,” Gaara tried pragmatically saying.  Unfortunately, Yamada was not convinced.

    “Well… see your sand has been a lot of places, and is made up of crushed rocks… so it isn’t very sanitary… like at all,” Yamada said.  He found himself unable to be mad at the small bean.

     Gaara still didn't see the issue, seeing as how the sand would be in contact with the food for such a short time, and it would also be boiled, which would burn off them anyways.  However, he could tell Yamada was not happy with his method, and seeing as how he wasn’t proficient with a knife, he decided to leave him alone. Yamada said nothing as Gaara walked off in the direction of his room.  Yamada didn’t want to pressure Gaara when he already had stepped out of his comfort zone, so he let the boy go.

    Once Gaara had gotten back to his room he pulled the top textbook off the stack of books Temari had forced upon him earlier.  The textbook's title was Earth Science, and featured an overdramatized picture of the planet.

    As Gaara cracked open the book and started reading, part of his consciousness started to think about the day's events.  Gaara sighed with the thought of having to deal with his obnoxious classmates in the morning. This train of thought led him to remember the boy from the library.  He had been acting very strangely and Gaara did not know how to feel about it. The boy had been staring at him with his strange two colored eyes, even when Gaara was not facing his direction.  Shukaku would usually have said something at a time like this but he had been strangely silent since the incident with Aizawa. Gaara's head was churning with all these thoughts.

   After about thirty minutes, Aizawa came up the stairs.  He had come home to Mustachio eating what looked like to be a half of a carrot with the other half lying on the opposite side of the kitchen.  

    "Um… Hizashi?" Shota started.

     "Yeah love?" Hizashi asked while stirring his pot of vegetables.

    "Why is there a carrot on the floor and why is Mustachio eating it?" Shota questioned back.

    "OOOHHHH….. oops I forgot that was still there after the whole sand debacle." Hizashi remembered scratching the back of his head.  Shota grabbed a new cutting board and knife while beginning to trim the beef he had bought.

    "Sand what?" Shota inquired as he now pulled out a frying pan in order to brown the meat after he had trimmed it.

     "Well you see, Gaara had come down so I offered to let him cut the carrots.  The force he exerted on the carrot caused it to fly apart, reminds me of a certain someone when he first started cooking," Hizashi explained eyeing Shota misheviviouly. "Well after that happened he decided to ditch the knife in favor of his sand, so… I told him… he couldn’t bring sand in… the… kitchen," Hizashi’s voice trailed off as he noticed Shota's disapproving look.  “What? Sand and food don’t mix!” Hizashi defended. Shota just shook his head.

    After Shota finished browning the meat he came up behind Hisashi and put the meat into the pot.  "You managed to turn a disaster like me into a somewhat successful cooking assistant, so why didn't you try to help him?" He asked into Hisashi's ear.

    "I didn't want to overstep his boundaries, I wasn't sure how far I could go." Hizashi answered, moving to grab the bullion in the grocery bag.

    "I understand that, he is very closed off, it will probably take a lot to break down those walls of his." Shota mused.

    The stew was finally done after a while simmering in its pot.  Shota kissed Hisashi's cheek. "I'm gonna go get the kids for dinner."  He said walking away.

  When Aizawa walked into Gaara's room, he found him engrossed in a textbook and blinked in surprise.  "Did you already read a quarter of that textbook?" Gaara looked up at Aizawa, slightly irked at the disturbance before glancing at his progress and giving a slight nod.

    Aizawa was quite surprised.  That book was pretty advanced for someone with barely any education to be reading that fast.

     “Well, dinner is ready if you’re willing to part with the book for about an hour,” Aizawa said before heading to the next room where Temari was also reading.  Temari almost jumped when she heard his light knocking.

    Temari put a slip of paper in her book to mark her page and got up, opening the door.
    “Dinner is ready, go get Kankuro then come on down”   Aizawa yawned. "Has Haara always been able to read really well?" He asked as an afterthought.

    "Yeah," Temari said inquisitively. "Gaara’s always been a fast learner, tearing through books and anything he is given.  I think it’s because of how much he reads and gets practice since it’s all he does at night. Kankuro thinks he’s just a genius though, but you know Kankuro’s an imbecile.  He does love a cactus,"

    “HEY!” Cried Kankuro from the bathroom where he had overheard the conversation. "Number one, our brother IS a genius.  Number two, I am NOT an imbecile, whatever that means… and number three, my cactus deserves all the love anyone could ever give it, okay!"

    The twins continued to bicker as Aizawa exited the room and went downstairs to eat.

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