Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Red White Blue ❯ Red ( Chapter 1 )

Red White Blue

AN: Made (And translated, because the original is in Dutch) because there are not enough English GaaNejiSasu-stories out there!

Disclaimer: Naruto and characters are not mine.

Sabaku no Gaara was a very red person.

Red - for blood.

Blood is the most essential thing in our lives. Without blood, we are nothing. Without blood, we wouldn't be able to breath, we wouldn't be able to keep ourselves warm, we wouldn't be able to.. without blood, we wouldn't even exist.

Gaara found this out the hard way. From the time he was 6, he knew as no other what blood was, and what happened when people lost blood. People lost blood on missions, in fights.. they also lost a lot of blood whenever they tried to kill Gaara. Ten, fifty, ninety, perhaps hundreds of people died in his pile of sand. Their blood was squeezed from their veins and got mixed with the already sticky sand.

Gaara wasn't so surprised therefore when his sand got a reddish color through the years.

Yes, blood. Blood was the thing where Gaara lived for. Nothing was as inspiring as a bleeding body, or a bleeding wound. Because something that was bleeding, that was alive. And Gaara always said he was dead inside, because -obviously- he could not bleed.

-- Both Neji and Sasuke proved him wrong when the two shared their first kiss right in front of Gaara's face. At that moment Gaara actually felt something bleed - His soul was bleeding.

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Red - for Love.

Love, AI, was the thing Gaara lived for. When he was 6, Love even became an obsession for him. Because he thought he could never love, the word played a very big part in his life. Everything around him, people, friends, enemies, animals, even lifeless objects: everything reminded him of his life without love.

He even got so far that, when he was still little and innocent and 6, he actually carved the word `Love' on his fore-head. The symbol, AI, represented Love. Love, he could never give. Love, he could never get. His AI represented his loveless life. As present as the AI on his forehead was, as absent the love in his heart was.

-- Both Neji and Sasuke proved him wrong by showing him not only how much they loved him, but also by letting him feel he could get a lot of love (as long as he begged prettily for it, because the two agreed that a begging Gaara was a sexy Gaara)

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Red - A representation of his hair.

When Gaara was 6, he was the terror of the village. The moment they saw him strolling by, they all started to scream, cry, yell, badmouth and run. Away! Away from that monster! If that monster grabbed you, you were dead!

Yashamaru once told him Gaara was so noticeable, with his short red hair!

It was weird.

Gaara was the only red-haired boy in the village. Others were `normal'. Others were `not a red-head', but blonde or brunette.

Gaara was proud of his hair though. Proud because you his hair told everyone he was different, from the first moment he met someone - it saved him time to explain he wasn't a normal and regular teenager.

Neji relished his hair (as you will find out later), and combed it everyday. Not a single hair was out of place. Gaara was different though. Gaara might have been proud of his hair, he didn't relish it in the least. He never combed his hair and he seldom washed it. And if his hair became too long? He would simply cut it down with a regular pair of scissors. He wasn't exactly afraid to scalp himself: after all, if the scissors shot out, the sand would protect him anyway.

-- This was Gaara's method of taking care of his own hair for his whole life, until Neji found out. Of course he immediately told Sasuke, who immediately made sure Gaara would never see a pair of scissors again. And Neji? Whenever Neji was busy combing his hair, he sometimes snuck up behind Gaara and stroke with his comb through the red locks with lots of love. Gaara then started yelling because of the tangles in his hair, because in truth, Neji could be quite the sadist.

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Red - for presence.

From the moment Gaara could think for himself, he knew he was different. Everyone on the village seemed to be connected: they always were so nice to each other!

Everyone, except for him of course. Nobody was nice to him, ever. Nobody ever said nice things to him.. Nobody liked him in the first place!

Those people, all those nameless creatures, they all hated him. Even the people who he did know (Insert his dad and uncle) despised his presence. You see, Gaara had always been very present. Everywhere he was, he was always noticed. He was always noticed, if he wanted it or not. He never went unnoticed, even though he was shorter than the average teenager. Gaara was used to all that attention though. All that negative attention, that is. Because everyone who saw him, immediately started to glare to that very present being that was named `Gaara', and all smiles disappeared like snow for the sun.

Some said it was because of his red hair. Some said it was because of the red AI-tattoo on his forehead. Most people though agreed that it was because of that monster Shukaku inside of Gaara. That devil, that monster in disguise: Shukaku, who practically controlled Gaara's life. That was the source of his presence!

-- Both Neji and Sasuke disagreed with most people. They were sure that Gaara was so very present because he just was incredibly sexy.

Red - for personality. You could describe Gaara's entire personality with red words.

Red was for roses. Pure, blood red, full roses. And not just any kind of roses. No, Gaara could be compared best with a wild rose: Untamed. Wild. Pure. Treacherous, because you should be aware you could easily sting yourself with its thorns.

Gaara had always looked very exotic with his red hair, green eyes with the black outlines, a thin and lean body, not too long, and his type of clothing. But that was just the outside! Because under that exotic appearance you could find a poisonous layer. With his blunt, crude, raw, angry, uncaring, unfeeling and dark comments Gaara could easy humiliate someone, belittle someone, or even turn them into a shivering bundle of human.

Yes, Gaara had two sides. One was exotic, the other one dark and sharp.

-- It wasn't really surprising Gaara loved roses so much, when he got one from Neji and Sasuke and the beautiful red thing immediately tried to sting him with its thorns.

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Red was for violence. Because Sabaku no Gaara was a very violent person. If something irritated him, he usually let his sand look disturbed, so people were a bit gentler whenever they talked to him. And if you interested him, he just wanted to kill you immediately. Rock Lee knew this as no other.

Gaara had a quite restless temperament. When he was still a baby, people had a hard time calming him down. It had always been a lot or trouble to adjust him to a new situation. He ate irregular, he slept even more irregular.. in short, he was a difficult baby.

Gaara stayed difficult to handle. The years went by, and Gaara still had a difficult time adjusting to new situations. If something new happened, Gaara just got aggressive - after all, Gaara had learned to be aggressive in order to protect himself.

That aggression could be seen in many different ways. Gaara never `trained': he always `fought' with his friends. He never spared someone's life: no, he rather killed them immediately. Gaara also never solved a problem with talking: no, he solved problems with deeds (and he favoured aggressive deeds).

-- Both Neji and Sasuke found out in their own way Gaara could be very aggressive. The white scars where Neji and the blue bruises where Sasuke were often seen with were always there. They didn't care though, because Gaara was Gaara, and they would never want to change him.

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Red was for passion. Passion, which made Gaara Gaara. Gaara always threw a lot of passion in a battle whenever he had to fight with someone. His blood started to articulate quicker, his heart started to beat faster, his pupils narrowed, his adrenaline-level rose.. ahh, Gaara always fought with passion.

And when Gaara had won a fight with somebody, surely, he killed them with a lot of passion. Because nothing was as satisfying as to be able to bury someone under a huge pile of sand, and to hear that last freezing scream before you squashed them with your own NinJutsu.

Yes, everything Gaara did was done with passion. He cried with huge passionate wails when his uncle tried to kill him. He smiled full of passion when he found out he had real friends. He surrendered with loads of passion when he finally figured out he was no match for Naruto.

-- Neji and Sasuke agreed they loved Gaara's passionate side. After all, they shared one bedroom, and all that passion that Gaara sent out wasn't a waste at all.

Yes, as you can see, Sabaku no Gaara was a very red person.