Chapter 1
{Gaaras POV}
Even though light fills the vast open space I still feel numb and dead .There's nothing here ,just my soul that represents all the pent up hate,sadness and love I have felt in all my years .The last thing I remember was the relief I felt ,being able to move my sand away from my land to prevent it from crushing my home .
The akatsuki had won but hopefully they didn't take down the village I was sworn to protect.Kankuro,Tamari and my people they needed me and I had failed .In the end is this what I am?Just a consciousness floating through the light.After all the work I did to be accepted as the Kazakege,to be just like him.Now my life was over,I still have so many regrets .I'm sorry.
{Narutos POV}
They akatsuki did it .There he was on the ground,We were too late .I felt the tears brimming my eyes ,threatening to fall .He was just like me.He was hated just for being alive and was never accepted in his village .it's not his fault he had tailed beast inside him .During the Chunin exams I thought he was irredeemable,he had succumbed to the Shukaku and labeled a monster by others ,But he wasn't born a monster he was made this way .I could have easily been him.The only difference was that eventually I found people who loved me .Iruka sensai,Kakashi,Sakura and even Sasuke .They were my family and over time my family grew to include others like Pervy sage and Grandma Tsunade .Gaara had nothing on the other hand .Even his siblings were afraid of him ,but after our fight something in him changed .He wanted to change his path,and I believed in him.When I came back to the village I found out he was now the Kazekage.As jealous as I was I felt immense pride that someone just like me had overcome his hardships and became respected .
I looked down winced,the hollowness in my stomach growing .He was gone now and had been killed by the same people who were after me .This wasn't fair .All I could see was red and feel the anger bubbling up inside me .
Sakura couldn't do anything,his injuries were too severe and no one had ever survived getting their tailed beast taken out.There it was again,the growing pain in my stomach.it was cold and sharp,it felt as if the wind had been knocked out of me .I didn't realize I had been kneeling over his body weeping till old lady Chiyo put her hand on my shoulder with sympathetic eyes.The anger flared up in me again.This was her fault .
Chuyo tried to get near him and I snapped ."You did this to him",I put all my venom into the words."We didn't choose to be freaks ,to be hated by everyone and shunned by villages .Who gave you the right to call us Jinchuriki .To label us as if we were animals that needed to be put down".I felt my eyes becoming red and Kurama threatening to boil over inside me .The villagers and shinobi slowly started backing away from me,I didn't care .Gaara died defending his village and they still saw him as a monster no matter what he did .
I looked back at Gaara and felt a different emotion in my body .I've never taken a good look at him before but now I see .His hair was a deep auburn red which matched the Kanji on his forehead which said "love"I never asked him about it,Not wanting to be murdered on the spot from his stare that could kill anyone .He was so pale even before he lay here dead .I shoved that thought away to the back of my head and continued observing .He was shorter than me but still was as intimidating as Granny Tsunade ,maybe even more but don't tell her that .I knew if I opened up his eyes they would be glassy and faded but I remember his eyes .Sea foam green or Jade, I've never been good with colors but I know his were mesmerizing .His eyes were still dark around it,a sign of insomnia,no doubt,even in death he was tired,and above all he looked peaceful ,beautiful even .Looking at him you wouldn't think he used to be a cold blooded killer.I hated him at first but now ,now he was dead and I would have given my life to see him alive .
I was so caught up in this sadness I felt I didn't even see granny chuyo started working on him.My eyes were as wide as saucers as I tried to work out was was happening ."what are you doing ?",I stuttered ,now feeling protective over gaaras body but before I could stop her I felt Sakura grab onto me .
"She's got this Naruto leave it "
I backed away from her .Then I saw it .It looked like she was putting her chakra into his body .I felt overjoyed because this meant I could see Gaara again ,but something was wrong .She wasn't strong enough by herself her chakra was already depleted .
I needed to get Gaara back ,I wasn't ready to say goodbye to him because I was going to be hokage and he's the kazekage.He needed to be here.
I pushed Sakura away and kneeled to the other side of Gaara .I was eager to help out and offered my hands to lady chuyo .She didn't even look fazed as she told me to put my hands over hers