by The Kingpin » Wed Feb 27, 2008 12:28 am
the street was dark and the highway was empty as they headed for Vegas. Gaara had always been a very quiet child, and often spent his times of boredom sketching scenes he would imagine, or playing chess with himself. right now, he had a small sketchbook in his hand and was drawing a scene between a dragon made of sand and a tiger made of water. the two creatures watched eachother with an eternal hatred, their fangs bared and claws ready to rip into eachother. the car abruptly skid to a hault in the middle of the desert. "What the hell is that guy doing?!" said his father, annoyed at whoever it was that had stopped them. a man had walked out in the middle of the road. he opened the door of the car and stepped out, walking over to the man and beginning to yell at him. his mother stepped out of the car. he looked over at his older brother Yukio, who just sighed. Gaara leapt out of the car, curious as to what happened as he saw his mother and father both in front of the man, his mother telling his father to calm down as the silent man just stared at them. Gaara's eyes widened as he got a glance of the man's eyes, slightly lit in the glow of the car's headlights. they stared at the couple in front of him emotionlessly. there was something about those eyes that scared him. suddenly a loud bang was heard and Gaara's father was knocked back from the man and slammed into the car, his chest on fire. Gaara looked up to see the man's hand was on fire and his mother was being lifted off the ground by her neck. his eyes widened as the man's other hand went up in flames and the pained screams of his mother were heard as the man's hand burned into her flesh. with another bang, her body was sent tumbling away, landing in the dirt off the road. the man turned and walked away. in moments, Gaara's brother was running at the man, a small handgun in hand. "YOU *******!" he yelled as he raised his gun and took aim. the man looked over his shoulder and began to laugh. it was a bone chilling laugh that sent chills down Yukio's spine. just as he was about to pull the trigger, another bang was heard and a fireball flew towards the 17 year old boy, sending him flying back and slamming against the Land Cruiser's bumper, a burning hole in his chest. the man continued to walk as the cries of the young child could be heard, the child next to his mother, the burning hole in her neck terrifying him and his family's death causing an unimaginable amount of pain. as he heard the bang when his brother was knocked away he ran to him. "YUKIO!" he screamed as his brother slid down off the bumper and onto the ground, coughing up blood, before looking at his younger brother, his eyes wide with shock and pain. "Gaara.....RUN" he wheezed as he fell over, face down, letting out his last breath. "Yukio.....dad....mum...." Gaara mumbled as he cried. "Aww....poor kid. what's wrong? upset your family died? well. get used to it. everyone dies eventually. i just sped it up for them. but...since you're so upset....maybe i can send you to hell with them" said the man as he walked over to the crying child, chuckling. reaching an arm forward at the child, a bang was heard and there was a plume of dust kicked up. the man lowered his arm and turned away, chuckling. "Idiot kid...shoulda run like your brother told ya" he mumbled. "I don't run from anyone" responded the kid's voice, a poisonous hateful anger filling each and every word he said. the man turned, his eyes wide as he looked at the boy. a slightly singed semi-circular wall of sand was spread infront of him like a shard of some giant egg, a chunk falling from it to reveal the boy's face. his ice blue eyes looked at him hatefully. "You little **** DIE!" yelled the man as he hurled a series of fireballs at the boy, a massive cloud of dust being kicked up as the blasts hit. the man coughed as the dust got in his mouth. a massive blast of sand burst from behind the dust and slammed into the man, knocking him to the ground before wrapping his body in it and dragging him back. "No....nononononono NOOOOOOOOOOOOO" he yelled as he was lifted up and crushed as the sand closed in on him, dropping his now completely flat body to the ground, blood soaking the sand around it. Gaara fell to his knees as he looked at his family and the dead man in front of him, and started to cry in sadness at the loss of his family...
Gaara sat bolt upright in his bed, his eyes wide and his breathing hard and erratic. it had been like this ever since that day. for 10 years, he had not had one night of decent sleep because of that event. a tear ran down his cheek as he looked out of the window beside his bed, looking at the sun low in the sky, remembering his family with tear filled eyes. a gourd of sand lay on the ground, wobbling slightly as the sand within twisted to Gaara's troubled mind...
half an hour later, he was on the move. it was still somewhat dark, and Gaara was moving down an alley, his trenchcoat having a special vest-like cover that had a strap holding the gourd on his back. he was looking down, thinking of the past, wondering how life might've been if he hadn't lost his family...
"Ah yes, organised chaos. the sign of a clever but ever-busy mind. To the perpetrator, a carefully woven web of belongings and intrigue, but to the bystander? Madness!"
–William Beckett, Lore of Leyuna RPG