And The Pain Ends

A special thanks to my only reveiwer, Jinx, who posts the story missing which is amazing. Jinx posts this story for a friend. I seriously reccomend this story to you guys the first chapter had me bawling like a baby.

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That night Taku had her first dream since entering the world she now lived in. (Yes I know you actually have more than one dream every night but I am talking about the kind you can actually remember.) She was walking through the streets of her home town. The same town she was born in and raised in. As Taku walked down the street she saw people that were like family, friends, and enemies alike. They seemed to look right through her as if she wasn‘t there, like she never really existed there in the first place. Then a woman dressed in all white looked straight at Taku and approached. She seemed to be glowing and looked a lot like Taku’s composition teacher. Before The woman was within five feet of Taku she held up her hands and began to speak. "You are now where you belong. You were never meant for this world but that has finally been corrected. You were born here by accident my dear. You were supposed to be the child of the fourth Hokage but he died before his wife was able to conceive. You were to come close to the end of their lives but by a twist of fate your parents died before it was the time you were meant to come. Therefore your spirit had to find a body to reside in. It chose another dimension and a child born on the same date you should have been the child was meant to be a still born but with your soul it lived. The world you now reside in feels like home because it was the place you were meant to be. Realizing this allowed you to stay in the home you were meant for. Other than in dreams you will see this world no longer." She then turned and slowly started walking away. Taku ran after the woman because she had so many questions to ask but it seemed the harder she ran the farther away the woman got even though the woman was only walking away slowly. Then everything turned black.

When Taku’s eyes fluttered open she found yourself laying with Chouji on his couch. Taku instantly ran up to her room to find a pen and paper. She pulled out a notebook and wrote down everything that had come to her in the dream down to the last detail. After that she left her room and walked down to the kitchen. Taku got out bread, butter, eggs and a small lid. She used the lid to put a small hole in each piece of bread and then buttered it before putting it in the pan. When it was in the pan she took an egg cracked it and dropped it in the hole she made in the middle of the bread. Then she got out some different fruits to cut and slice it while the egg bread was cooking. A few minutes later Chouji walked into the room rubbing his eyes. The smell of food had woke him from his peaceful slumber. "What time is it?"

Taku smiled at him, "Its seven so we have time to eat breakfast and get changed before heading out to the training grounds and my soon to be demise." They both laughed nervously at that, both fearing it might end up being the truth. They were both firm believers in the fact that Gaara could and would kill anyone who pissed him off enough. Taku sighed and put the food on the table. "This is wonderful Taku, thank you for making breakfast." Taku smiled at the love of her life then began to eat, hoping this wouldn‘t be the last meal she would share with the love of her life. She thought back to her dream, 'everything is perfect here because this is where I belong. I finally found my home.'

"Taku, since you cooked I’ll go ahead and do the dishes while you get dressed." She agreed and went up to get into some of her training clothes she then sat and braided her hair in two separate braids, one on each side of her head. Taku sat there looking in the mirror just thinking. Since she had been here she didn’t have to dye her hair at all and in fact it was slowly turning to a darker blue. 'I knew I was right to change my original hair color to blue. It seems this was the color I was meant to have here.' Soon Chouji came up to get himself dressed and she went down the stairs to wait on him. When he came back down she took a deep breath and headed toward the training ground hand in hand.

Meanwhile Gaara was already waiting at the training ground and Mitsumi was hiding in a tree with a video camera. She then turned it on and spoke directly into it. "Hello, I am Mitsumi and today is the fifth of November. To the English it is known as Guy Fawkes day.

Remember, Remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot,
I see of no reason why the gunpowder treason,
should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
T’was his intent,
To blow up the king and parliament.
Three score barrels of gunpowder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By gods providence he was catched,
with a dark lantern and burning match,
Holloa boys Holloa boys make the bells ring.
Holloa boys Holloa boys God save the King!
Hip hip horah!

Yes, I realize I am the only one who celebrates holidays of foreign countries but you guys should try it. It is so much fun! (Sorry I had to put this in I watched V for Vendetta last night and fell in love with the rhyme.) Anyway back to the reason I am making this video. Last night a very dear friend helped me out by hooking me up with a guy perfect for me. Unfortunately though, this friend has now become number one on that wonderful guys hit list because she followed us and took a candid photo right before our first kiss. I mean this is the first kiss for both of ever." Mitsumi then brought the picture up by the side of her face. "I, for my own purposes, am watching and waiting to see what my new boyfriend will do to that dear friend of mine, Taku, when she shows up for training." The camera points to Gaara. "This is my boyfriend, Gaara, he showed up for training early today to be sure he could confront Taku first thing this morning." She does a close up shot of Gaara’s face using the zoom lens. "It seems very lucky for her that she hasn’t shown up yet because my love has a very angry look on his face." She turns the camera back at herself and focuses it before continuing. "What exactly does he plan on doing? Will Taku even show up knowing Gaara will be here? Will she be brave enough to show up?"

Just as Mitsumi said this she spotted Taku and Chouji coming up the road hand in hand so she turned the camera to focus on the girl walking along as if she had no clue what was about to happen. "Here she comes now. She looks like she is meeting a firing squad doesn’t she? I think this is going to be much worse than a firing squad though."

As Taku and Chouji walked up everyone was already there. First thing Gaara walked over to her grabbing her arm and growling under his breath, "You will be training with me today." With that he dragged Taku to the other side of the clearing. As he walked he said in a very low voice, "Thank you for that picture. Now I have something to remember my first kiss by. Tell no one I said this though I will go easy on you but I do have a reputation to keep." Unknown to him though Mitsumi had captured the full confession on tape. When they got to the other side of the clearing the two of them faced off. Taku fought valiantly but with Gaara’s skills and considering she were learning everything from scratch, she just couldn’t help but lose pretty badly. The sand came around her pinning her legs as she got a swift punch to the stomach though she knew Gaara was holding back a lot it still hurt.

Taku kept on fighting trying her hardest and never giving up .She punched, kicked, threw weapons, and used every Justus that Shikamaru had taught her but it just wasn’t enough. She had scratches on every inch of exposed skin from the sand rubbing against her. She fought with absolutely everything she had and in an hour she fell to her knees unable to continue. "I’m finished Gaara, my body really cant take a beating like this I have to learn everything from scratch you know." He walked over and gave her a helping hand. He walked her back over to the others who were sitting around under the trees eating lunches of instant Ramen that Temari had bought. High in the treetops close to where the two of them had been training Mitsumi turned her camera to face herself yet again.

"This tape shows a lot about the people in it. Gaara as you can tell is as grateful to Taku as I am even though he refuses to show it. This tape also shows that the sweet and innocent Taku is also very strong. She has to learn everything the others learned in school basically on her own and after only one training session she held her own with Gaara for a full hour." She turned the camera back at the group sitting under the trees using the zoom lens to focus on all of them. "Each person in this group is strong in their own right but the strength they have comes from love. Each one of them found love in an unusual place. Temari and Shikamaru found love in people from villages other than their own. Ino found love with a man who is in all ways half beast. Gaara found me, not only from another village but a girl who couldn’t pass the test to become a genin. Finally, Taku and Chouji, they found the love that truly can break through anything. Taku is not from this world and used to be able to only visit us in her dreams but their love was so strong that it broke the barriers between worlds and brought her to us. Though they seem like a unlikely couple they have got to be the most perfect for each other out of all the couples in Konaha because of the strength of their love. It doesn’t matter to her what Chouji looks like and he doesn’t care what dimension she was born in. This must be love in its truest form. So for now I will leave you. This is Mitsumi signing off and have a good night."

After finishing off her tape Mitsumi ran straight to the Hokage’s office to make a special request for the tape she had just made. Back at the training grounds everyone was back at it but Taku and Gaara. Taku realized she had done enough for the day and pushed herself too far. She sat under the tree taking a nap while Gaara watched the others in their sparring sessions. A few hours later Mitsumi came to clearing to bring them all to dinner. Her approach woke Taku and they all headed for a restaurant in the middle of the village. Taku sat by the window and gave the waitress her order. She saw a large television out in the street and began to wonder about it as the waitress brought out the food. Suddenly, she saw the television light up with Mitsumi’s face. Taku almost Choked on her food as she saw what was going on. She pointed it out to the others and they all sat there watching the movie Mitsumi had made during their training session that morning. Taku smiled knowing Gaara’s evil boy reputation was going to die because of this.

Taku giggled a bit when it got to the part where Gaara admitted his feelings about the picture. She began eating and watching the intense battle between herself and Gaara. Everyone knew he was holding back but even still she were surprised that she lasted as long as she did because he was still very strong when holding back. Naruto who happened to be in the restaurant at the time looked up and said, "if that is how he treats friends who do things that make him happy I would hate to see how he treats his enemies." Everyone in the restaurant laughed at this. At the same time Gaara was blushing furiously. Taku thought in her head that nobody would mistake him for a panda bear right now with cheeks that red, she was thinking back to all the fan art she had seen during her life. This caused a new peal of laughter to erupt from her.

The movie then showed the ending quote where Mitsumi explained that the strength of each of the ninjas came from love. Taku scooted closer to Chouji and slightly kissed him as she began to speak of the special circumstances of your love. She was right Taku really didn’t care about Chouji’s looks. The thing is though when you are truly in love with someone you stop seeing what the mirror shows them as. You start to see them differently, they say love is blind but the truth is it has the best vision of all because it doesn’t see the outside of the person it sees the soul projected to the outside. To Taku Chouji was not fat or even big boned as he called it. To her he had the perfect build for what she wanted and the most handsome face she had ever been privileged enough to lay her eyes on. (This is not a lie. I have seen it myself I would meet someone and think they weren’t good looking at all but as I got to know them their appearance changed showing more of what they would look like if the outside matched the soul rather than what was truly there. When you really get to know a person the beautiful can become marred and the ugliest can become very beautiful.)

This is a gift that love gives us all so we can end up with the people that we truly deserve instead of some beautiful jerk. After the movie finished they all went their separate ways Gaara still blushing red as a tomato. On their way home Taku spoke up, "Chouji, you know she was right. Even if I saw you as the things other people see you as It wouldn’t matter. When I look at you though I see beauty on the outside as well as here." Taku said this while taking her finger and pointing it at his heart.
"I feel the same about you Taku. Most girls with beauty to match yours have charred hearts. You, your different though. You have a heart of gold.” Chouji smiled at her. After the two of them got home they both took showers. Taku went to her room after her shower. She had left her hair in its braids so she just picked out a big shirt and pajama pants to put over her underwear. Taku heard the shower turn off and two doors open and close.

She got off her bed and smoothed down the covers before grabbing the stuffed tiger. She thought the cuter and more innocent she looked right now the better. Hopefully, Chouji would agree to your request. Taku knocked on his door and he said come in. She opened it and stood in the doorway clutching the tiger to her chest. Taku pouted out her bottom lip and widened her eyes using the old puppy dog face. She also decided sounding like a four year old might help her plea. "Chouji, can I pwease sweep wif you tonight?" He smiled at her and nodded. Taku screeched and ran in jumping on his bed and bouncing before slipping herself under the covers next to him. Taku snuggled up her back to his chest and his arm over her waist. Lying in this position she soon found herself asleep and in a dream once again.