Gaara of the Desert × Reader (Complete)

Chapter 2

It has been a while since she was working continuously. She hadn't eaten or even drunk water. I didn't why I cared so much. I knew she was familiar, I knew she had held my attention like noone else but I didn't know it didn't understand the reason behind it.
I couldn't just stand back stand worry.
"I am the Kazekage. Nobody can question me. Shikamaru will help me with the paperwork anyway." I thought to myself and made my way towards her workspace.
"On second thought, why should I concern myself with this particular human. I mean if I have to concern myself with someone at this time, it should be Temari" I thought again and turned back from the door.
"But I wanna see if she's okay and there's no harm in just checking." I thought.
"It's night. I have to do the paperwork with Shikamaru."
"But there's no paperwork remaining!" I thought again.
I was tired of this tug of war in my head and I decided to go check in on her.
I walked up to her room, feeling a sort of weird exhilaration. Like the one I usually have when Temari says something nice to me, once in a while, or I had when shaking hands with Naruto for the first time.
The room was unlocked, so I stepped in and turned on the lights. She was facing the lights and when I turned them on, she screeched a little and started rubbing her eyes which made them water and moving around like a fish. I gentle used my sand to scoop her up and turned away from the lights.
I immediately shut off the lights again.
"I'm so sorry. I didn't intend for that to happen." I apologized to her.
"It's okay, Gaara. I just need to splash them with water in the bathroom" she wasn't mad at me. She automatically understood it was a mistake. She already trusted me enough, only having met me once, to know that I wouldn't want to hurt her.
I stepped a little closer to her as she tried to get off the sand but her leg was tangled into the nets and cloths and everything that she was working with.
She stepped down, but as soon as she tried to walk, she couldn't move one of her legs and lost her balance.
She fell right on to me and I held on to her. I have never had a woman this close to me ever. Her eyes had stopped watering and she looked at me. Her eyes became bigger as she stared into mine and a blush ran across her cheeks. It was a similar one that Temari has on her face when Shikamaru says something nice to her.
But I hadn't said something nice to her, plus her face looked like someone I had met before, but I couldn't think. My brain had stopped working the moment I touched her.
I hadn't ever touched a woman like this. I felt the fabric on her body, I realized how light she was, I felt her hands on my shoulders. Her hands were very delicate. She looked like she would fall and shatter like a vase. Her eyes had much more to them that anyone else's. Her eyes were deep, they had fear in them but not the actually scared of me fear, they had this excitement in them, they had love in them. Her eyes were like some I had never seen before.
Her body was so close to mine. All this was so new, I didn't know how to react. I slowly sent sand you get her leg untangled.
"I'm so sorry" she apologized for some reason.
"I know you" I said looking at her. I knew she was familiar. But this familiar had to mean something. Her touch didn't feel alien, her words didn't pierce me but they soothed me, the tears in her eyes gave me an intense pain somewhere around my chest.
"Ahem ahem" Kankuro said opening the door. "If I'm not interrupting anything, but it's dinner time."
"We'll be there" I told him not being able to let go of my hands off of her.
"Ummm.... G-G-G-Gaara, you can let me down now" she stuttered. I liked watching her flustered and blushing like this.
"No." I said looking for a reason, "If I let you down now, you'll try to walk and ruin the clothes."
I had some sand remove the tangles from her leg slowly and gently, but she could even feel that. I guess women are more sensitive after all. But instead of it hurting her, she started laughing. She moved a lot, little too much.
"Don't move so much" I instructed her. But somehow my voice didn't scare her. I tried my best to sound authoritative,but it didn't intimidate her. She kept laughing but also answered me intermittently,
"I'm... sorry...It...just...tickles..." She managed barely.
She was laughing a lot and moving a lot. I couldn't maintain my balance. Her hand slipped off my shoulder and her entire weight was on me. She fell on me and I fell on the sand. I just turned a little, so now, she was on my side. My hands still on her waist, she rested on the sand. Her face was strikingly red.
Once the untangling was done, I helped her down.
"Are you okay?" I touched her forehead and mine at the same time. Her forehead was also hot.
"I think you're overworking yourself. You should get some rest, but first dinner" I told her.
She said, "Okay" and just when I was about to let go off of her, she couldn't stand straight anymore. She lost her balance, closed her eyes and collapsed to the ground.
I panicked, I didn't know what to do! I didn't know what had happened to her! So, I did what any guy would've done. I picked her up, supporting her neck and knees. I took her to the infirmary.
"Take care of her." I ordered the nurse there.
The nurse scurried over to her and started checking her.
I sat down next to her bed in the infirmary. I was still panicking. What had happened?
"Is everything alright? I asked the nurse.
"There's no sign of any illness, Kazekage-sama" the nurse told me with a confused look on her face.
"I think it's because she hasn't been eating or drinking properly." She continued.
"I'm gonna wait until she wakes up." I said to myself but Shikamaru entered the infirmary.
"Oi! Gaara! Let's finish up the paperwork and head for dinner." Shikamaru gestured me to come along and moved ahead.
"But Shika-" before I could say anything to him, he had disappeared in the corridor and now, I had to leave her here and go sign and stamp some papers.
I swallowed my worry, for her for now and went to do the paperwork with Shikamaru.
He noticed right away that I was thinking of something else.
"Oi! What's the matter?" He put his hand on my shoulder.
"The patient who has fainted, is my responsibility. She fainted because of me and now I am here, trying to be oblivious to everything and just stamping papers and signing papers like everyday." I told him.
"Should I send someone to check?" He asked concerned.
He called an official and sent him for a check. "Keep notifying us every half an hour whether there's progress or not." He instructed.
We were stamping papers for a while before the next news came. Half an hour, she didn't wake up. One hour, she didn't wake up. One and half, two, three hours and she still had woken up.
My attention was constantly on her and I couldn't pay attention to what Shikamaru was saying.
"The patient has gained consciousness." The guard informed us.
"Okay. Thank you." Shikamaru sent him off again. He turned to me, "You go check in on her?" He asked.
I just looked up to him confused.
"I don't know what to do, Shikamaru" I just clutched my head sitting at my spacious Kazekage table.
"Will checking on her make you feel better? Will looking at her being okay ease the pain in your heart?" He asked me with a smile sitting down beside me.
"I do not about that, but sitting here when she is not okay over there is not making me feel good."
"Oi! Oi! Don't make such a sad expression." He patted my shoulder and muttered "This is going to be  troublesome."
"You go check on her, I'm going to talk to Temari. Only a girl can help you with your problem." He said and left for Temari.
I entered the infirmary to the nurse giving her some advice about taking rest.
She said, "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
"Very perceptive, nurse" I acknowledged.
She asked me to take care of her because apparently she wasn't listening to the nurse.
"Do you mind?" I asked her interrupting her yelling and pulled a chair to sit.
"O-o-o-ofcourse. Please, Kazekage-sama" she gestured me to take the seat.
"Just Gaara is fine." I smiled. I didn't want to be Kazekage-sama for her, I wanted to be her friend. I wanted to be just Gaara for her.
"I'm gonna go to my-"
"Nope. You're not going anywhere." I said sternly. I wanted her to get her rest.
"But Kazekage-sama! G-G-Gaara!" She made a face at me. The face gave me fuzzy feelings in my heart. She was so expressive and open, even around someone like me.
"If I can do it for you instead, I'll be happy to help" I offered.
"But Gaara! You're the Kazekage! I can't just, you know"  she tried to explain with gestures but I didn't quite understand what she wanted to say.
"You can't accept my help because I'm the Kazekage?" I asked her.
"Yes" she replied.
"I don't want you to think of me as the Kazekage, now. I want you to think of me as bride's younger brother." I told her. I wanted to do something for Temari. Temari was my sister and this wedding was a life changing event for her. I wanted to make it better for her, not just by stamping papers and signing  papers. I wanted to be real help. Help with planning, decorations, catering but all these were already being done by Kankuro. So, that left the dress.
"Fine. I'll talk to Kankuro-san." I smiled when she said that. She smiled back, and I instantly felt better. I felt relaxed. I felt completely at ease around her.
"I'll send Kankuro for you. I'm sure he'll listen to you." I smiled at her remembering how much her and Naruto were alike.
I secretly left an eye, to make sure everything was okay. I walked over to Kankuro's office.
"Kankuro," I said calmly, "I want you to go and see the girl making Temari's dress. She has a request to make to you."
I straightened my clothes and left his office.
Kankuro shortly went over to her office and I followed him secretly.
I didn't want to interrupt their talk, so I silently watched the eye and as soon as Kankuro mouthed, "You convinced me." I started to the infirmary.
I entered the infirmary with Kankuro almost yelling at her saying, "I'll talk to Gaara."
"Talk to me about what?" I asked him. I was very angry at that moment. I didn't like the way he behaved with her. I didn't want him yelling at her. I also felt bad about myself that I brought this upon her.
He explained me how we should do something more for Temari's wedding and thus, my escapade for the dress started off.