caught in a cage of sand

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Chapter 4: till death do we part II


A little less than six hours after they had left, the sand Nins arrived at the
hidden leaf village. The guards blocked their path, but still looked scared
even as they tried to put up a strong front. One of them stepped forward to
take the papers that Gaara had handed to him. As he looked over them, one of his
comrades asked, "What business do you have here?" Temari gave him a wink and
said in a flirtatious voice. "Don't ask me. Ask my brother." Both guards
turned to look at the shorter boy. "Well?" the 'boy' in turn asked, "Well
what?" "What are you doing here???" ‘I need to pick up something that this
village has been holding for me for the last 14 years and now I'm here to
collect it. Now hand it over or be destroyed!’ well that's what he wanted to say
anyway. Instead he said, "Simply to enjoy the cooler climates of this
region. Is that going to be a problem?" His voice took on that oily
honeyed tone of someone of pure evil.
The guards blanched at the sound of it and stood aside. Guards who did there
duty would have raised the alarm at hostile enemies, but you have to remember
that this was the village who thought a young boy of 13yrs was a demon fox of
countless age… so yeah, you get the point. They were complete idiots.
As they walked down the street, Temari kept shooting looks at her brother. She
wondered why he wanted to come here of all places.
Gaara knew what his sister wanted. She wanted answers. 'Well tough' he
thought to himself. Kankuro looked from one to the other. 'What’s their
problem anyway?'
"Yo! Bro, Temari, when can we have lunch? I want a hamburger!"
Gaara stopped outside a quaint little restaurant and turned to look at
Kankuro. "Eat here. Temari, you go too. I have things to take care of. I will
try to be back before nightfall. Go to an inn; I will find you there so
don't wait up for me, got it?" both of his siblings nodded there heads and
watched as Gaara turned away and walked into the crowd.
Smiles turned to frowns as Gaara asked about of where Naruto lived. That was
very odd. The red head thought it was because Naruto was so loved that the
people here didn't want outsiders to know. Getting him out of here was going
to be very tricky indeed. Well, he'd think of something.
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In a rundown apartment at the far end of the village, a boy with blond hair
sat down to breakfast with the only food he thought worthwhile to make.
As he poured the water into the Styrofoam cup of instant noodles, he waited
the three minutes. 'Ramen, is there anything you can’t do?' Naruto
thought fondly to himself as he pulled the top off and dug in. Well
actually all it really did was fill the stomach of the blond boy sitting at
his table. But to him it served a crucial roll in his life. It was always
there. Well, until he ate it all or ran out of money to buy more! The thought
of a ramen shortage made his stomach growl; Naruto patted it in sympathy, as
he thought to himself. 'Don't worry. I wont let you go without!' as he
dipped the eating utensils for another mouth full, his chopsticks hit only
the broth of a now empty cup. "Ah man, I was just getting into it too!"
Naruto got up and stretched as he walked to the bathroom at the end of the
small hallway, peeling paint and thread bare carpets marked his worth in the
eyes of his fellow villagers, which wasn't very high at all. As he brushed
his teeth he looked at his reflection. He remembered looking in the mirror
when he was younger and wondering why the others hated him so much. He
didn't look like a monster to him! Was it the marks on his cheeks? No, others
had more bizarre and outlandish marks on their faces then he did. His were
hardly noticeable, so that wasn't it. Later he had learned that he held one
of the worlds most powerful forces within him; an abomination to make
the gods shudder in fear and HE was the one holding it at bay! Yet everyone
treated him like shit! He had saved the village from Gaara of the sand and
had done many 'A' ranked missions. Yet if the people of the hidden leaf had their way,
he'd be dead or sent away into the wild lands. The boy sighed to himself
after he had washed out his mouth with water. He walked back into his
dinning room/bedroom. There wasn't anywhere else to sleep so he had to have
his mat on the floor by the oven to keep warm in the winter. The place was
littered with empty cups and bowls. With another sigh of defeat he tried to
clean up some of the garbage around his sleeping area after he was done he
glanced at the clock: 12:30pm. It was time to go meet up with his teammates
at the bridge.
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Temari watched her brother as he turned a corner. Only then did she go into
the restaurant to find a seat next to Kankuro who was already sitting at a
table. The waitress walked up to her. "What will it be sugar?" startled by
the pet name, Temari was caught off guard. Not that Kankuro was, "Yeah, I'll have the
double cheese burger, extra meat, medium rare, hold the pickles, light spread.
Change the fries to a large order of onion rings with a large red bean
drink!" the waitress wrote it all down with one eyebrow raised at the boy’s
greed. "Will that be all?" Kankuro thought a moment. "Oh yeah, and a large
chocolate shake on the side with extra whipped cream and FIVE cherries on
tope and hot fudge on top of that!"
The lady made a 'hmf' sound before turning towards Temari. "And you? What
will it be?"
"Oh, um, just a salad thanks. Oh and a water with a lemon slice in it. Please
and thank you." the waitress gave her a smile before picking up the menus and
walking away. When she was out of earshot, Temari turned on her brother. "YOU
IDIOT!" she whispered in an angry voice. "What do you think your doing
ordering so much? Don't be such a pig! We only have so much money to spend
and if there's not enough left to last us the 2 to 3 weeks that we’re going to be
here, Gaara's going to kill you!"
The boy looked at her with a bored expression. "Yeah yeah. Don't worry about it.
There are plenty of funds."
Just then, the waitress came back with their meals and all talk stopped as
they went to work at eating, both lost in their own thoughts. One about
dessert, the other about what her baby brother was doing.
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At that very moment her 'baby brother' had spotted Naruto coming out of a
shabby apartment complex, 'hmmm why would the hero of this village be there
for?' Maybe he was such a nice guy that he visited the poor people. Yes, that
had to be it. He would do something like that. He was willing to help anyone.
He should know. The boy had saved him from his inner demons (no pun intended).
Gaara decided to go see the person Naruto had no doubt cheered up.
As he walked in to the building he saw a plaque with all the tenets that
lived there. As he walked up to get a closer look, his green eyes widened in
shock. There, on the plaque next to the room number was the name: 'Uzumaki
Naruto.' How could that be? Gaara was sure that the boy would be living in the
finest house in the whole village, yet here he was living by the look of it,
in the most shitty place there was! He looked at the room number and started
up the stairs. When he got to the top floor, he found the door locked up tight
so he went outside and broke through a window. As he climbed into the room, his
shock kept on growing. peeling paint, broken tables and chairs held together by
duck tape, chipped dishware, and even holes in the roof! "WHAT THE
FUCK??!!!" The scream could be heard in every room in the entire building. Gaara just
stood there in shock. What was this? Did they know about what he had planned and
this was just some trick? He looked behind him to see if there were any
traps. There wasn't. Why did he live here? He had to find out. He was just
about to jump out of the window when he looked at the door. dead bolts, 3 locks,…
even a bar that went across the door! 'Huh?' he turned back to the window. He
would find out about that as well. When he landed on the ground, he started
walking in the direction he had seen Naruto go.
Pretty soon he was able to see him. he stayed behind and watched in growing
horror as he saw a man push the blond roughly out of his way. When the boy
tripped into another, this time a lady, she shrieked at him to get away and
not to touch her ever again, the filthy beast! A man grabbed Naruto from
behind and threw him to the ground yelling about how he should not defile
his wife! Gaara watched at the displays of aggression towards his sooner
than expected prize, but first he would need to get him out of there because
the people around Naruto had started to draw there weapons and advance upon
him in a menacing way. He had to act now! Right as the first person slashed
at the boy, walls of sand were thrown up around him and Naruto was than
dragged under the ground by Gaara's sand. The boy appeared again in his arms.
The people turned to look and started shouting for him to give the boy back
to them. Gaara just smirked and turned away. He jumped upon the roofs towards
his siblings. They were going home. The unconscious boy in his arms was already
starting to heal. The foxes doings no doubt. There was nothing else here he had
wanted. He stopped outside of the restaurant just as his siblings
came out. Both did a double take as to what they saw in there brother’s arms.
He didn't say a word and they were smart enough not to ask, at least not when
he was so angry. They could feel it coming off him in waves. The blood lust
was even worse than before Naruto had knocked some sense into him. Gaara
than turned from them and started to run in the direction of the gates with
Temari and Kankuro close behind. Yes, he would make this village pay for the
ill treatment of HIS toy!
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