Chapter 27: Gaara of the Sand

I woke up in the middle of the night with an overwhelming feeling surrounding me. so much blood lust… could it be Gaara? Oh yes, I haven't met him yet! I ignored my body's warning and rushed to the source of the chakra. I walked into the empty preliminary room noticing someone standing in the middle. Yaay! It is Gaara. "Hey there." I said going down the stairs towards him. he turned around and looked at me with such a cold gaze. "You're Gaara right? My friends told me about you." I walked over to him with my hand extended. "I'm Elle." I had the most cheerful smile on my face. "What do you want?" he asked in a hoarse low voice, completely ignoring my hand. "I don't know. Nothing really. I just thought you might want some company." His gaze didn't falter for a second and neither did the bloodlust in the air. Poor thing, he must be so tired. "umm I know this is a weird question, but…how are you sleeping?" his eyes widened for a second before going back to their usual emotionlessness. "it is none of your concern." He turned his back to me and started walking away when I talked again. "I might be able to help." It was low, but he heard it and stopped in his tracks. One more push and he might finally crack. I walked over to him again and put my hand on his shoulder. His sand instantly surrounded it, but I didn't pull away. "please…let me help." he looked back at me. "why?" I smiled sadly. "I want to show you the kindness that nobody showed me." He looked into my eyes before looking in front of him. His sand moved from my hand to my waist, holding me

It took him a second before he turned to me again. "how?" I smiled at him, happy that he actually accepted my help. I grabbed his hands and pulled him down with me. I sat and pulled his head onto my lap. "I might kill you." he said hesitating to fall asleep. "You won't kill me. I trust you." With that I pushed his eyes closed gently, and put my hands on his forehead. I started releasing chakra around him, covering him completely. I sent some to block Shukaku's chakra like I did with Naruto. I took a deep breathe. "This is my first time trying this so it might not work right away." I felt him nod and closed my eyes. While covering him with chakra, I started preforming medical ninjutsu on him. It was tricky at first, but I was able to slowly spread it around his whole body. I felt his body relax slightly at the feeling. It was calm and quite so I blocked my senses and started cultivating more chakra, directing it towards my medical ninjutsu. Within a couple of minutes, I was overflowing with chakra. It was swirling around me creating a sort of dome around us. Soon Gaara's sand joined it circulating around us as well. I had my senses blocked, a feeling of serene peace taking over my body. We sat there, me meditating in peace, and Gaara finally asleep.

Sasuke's POV

I shot out of bed at the feeling of Elle's chakra. A flashback of that day crossed my mind, the day I found her almost dead. I shoved the memory out quickly and rushed around trying to find her. I walked into an empty big room. The chakra seemed to be coming from there. I looked from the balcony in the room. What I saw left me stunned. In the middle of the room, a huge amount of green chakra swirled around with sand, circling around two people. I couldn't see through it properly so I turned on my Sharingan. My eyes only widened further. Elle was sitting in the middle with Gaara asleep on her lap. Both of them were glowing green, covered from head to toe in medical ninjutsu. I heard footsteps from behind me, "Sasuke, where did you go?" sakura called rubbing her eyes half asleep. "what's with all the chakra?" she finally opened her eyes properly, standing next to me. "OH MY GOD! WHAT IS THAT?" she screamed so loud I would've been annoyed if I wasn't completely mesmerized by what I was seeing. "sakura, why are you screaming so early in the… HOLY COW! WHAT'S HAPPENING?" Naruto joined us staring in awe. Gaara's teammate walked in after Naruto. "Can't you idiots keep it down. Some of us…" the guy with the face paint froze along with the rest of us. "TEMARI, COME QUICK!" we heard hurried footsteps before she stumbled into the room. "Is that Gaara?" she asked shocked. I shook my head. "it's not him, he's asleep. It's Elle…" everyone was quiet for a couple of seconds letting the scene sink in. Thankfully we all seemed to snap out of it, jumping down and rushing to them.

Elle's POV

Without noticing it, I had created a sort of chakra field around us. My chakra had infused with Gaara's sand, it was truly amazing. I felt a disturbance in the chakra. Unblocking my senses and looking around, I saw both our teams standing there, staring at us. I smiled up at them. "hey guys. What time is it?" sakura spoke up in a low voice, "Around 6…" they all seemed to be in a sort of daze. "how did you…?" Temari's voice trailed off. I giggled slightly, "he looked sleepy so I thought I would help him sleep." I slowly brought my chakra along with Gaara's sand under him, lifting him off of my lap. That only seemed to make everyone's eyes widen further. I stood up and stretched, looking at them weirdly. "You guys are kind of staring. What? Do I have something on my face?" Naruto shook his head and rushed over to me, squishing me in a hug. "you are so awesome! Believe it!" I hugged him back and laughed. "how did you get him to sleep? And how did you move his sand like that!? Just who are you!?" Temari asked. "oh that was easy. My chakra suppression jutsu and some good old medical ninjutsu were enough to get him to sleep. And the sand, he lent it to me while he slept." I looked over at the chakra swirling around. What the hell am I supposed to do with all of that? "umm, you guys want some chakra? I kind of over did it." I scratched my head sheepishly pointing at the swirling chakra in the air. "Oh I want!" Naruto answered jumping up and down. I looked over and they were still staring at me, "I will take that as a yes." I attached chakra tubes to them and gave them most of the chakra, leaving only what I can keep in my body and in Gaara's sand. "well, I gotta go put him to bed. please be quite so that he doesn't wake up." I said and left the room with Gaara's body floating next to me on his sand. What the hell is up with everyone? I placed Gaara on one of the beds in a room upstairs and put the sand back in his gourd. I turned around to leave only to be met with all of them. "umm… you guys need something?" They didn't answer. Sasuke was glaring at me for some reason. Sakura and Temari looked at me with awe. Naruto had his usual goofy grin on his face and Kankuro just stared at his sleeping brother. Seriously, what the hell is up with everyone?

That's pretty much how the next 4 days went. I trained during the day, and helped Gaara sleep during the night. We didn't become friends or anything, but we sat with each other in silence a lot. Whenever he would want to sleep, he would send his sand to me and I would follow it back to him. The training was also going pretty well. Gaara's sand gave me an idea for a new jutsu that I wanted to develop. A lot of times when I was training, sakura would stick around and train with me, asking me about all sorts of things. Sometimes even Naruto would stick around and spar with me. It honestly helped my taijutsu a lot. I even tried to teach Temari my chakra suppression jutsu. It didn't really work but at least she knew the technique and she could practice later. It was a really fun couple of days, except for Sasuke avoiding me like the plague, but other than that, it was great!