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A Bride from Konoha	By : dotdotdot86 Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female Views: 1949 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 11: The burning flame

An impact of a big explosion shattered the building, awoke him from the deep sleep. Sakura stirred as he removed his arm around her waist and untangled his legs from hers to sit up. He threw the blanket aside to be out from the bed and then strode nakedly towards the window.
"What is it?" Sakura asked sleepily.
He opened the window and looked outside. The dark sky was illuminated by red fire that was soaring highly into the sky. An alarm siren was already blaring loud and shrilled while people were running to the fire place.
"Something is burning near the market place." Gaara reached his robe and dressed quickly.
"Wait, I want to go too." Already rose from the bed, she grabbed one of his robes and hastily pulled it on.
Gaara waited as she gathered her belongings and moved across the room towards him. He took her hand and pulled her into his arms before summoning his sand.
The sand swirling like a cyclone around them both for several seconds before slowly decreased and disappeared completely. The sand brought them to the chaotic place where people ran scattered to put off the fire and saved lives. The fire burned brightly with thick black smoke rose up into the sky. Several shops in the same line were still burning, and there were cries for help could be heard under the deafening shrill of sirens and shouting.
He held Sakura's waist tightly to prevent her from rushing to the building as the fire blazed and crackled wildly before it exploded in a shower of spark. People screaming in fear and children were crying at the sudden explosion. The flame burst more brightly up into the sky. The strong and blowing wind caused the fire spread rapidly, and the wild tongue of the red flame caught another lot of houses.
Gaara concentrated on his power and began gathering his sand in the sky on top of his head. Particles of sand were flowing like a length of silks from everywhere, and moved into a circular motion to form a shape of a sphere. The ball of sand became so massively huge, and it was swirling and moving so rapidly to gather more particles of sand from the dessert.
Gaara lifted his hand into the sky to carry the heavy burden of the sand power and brought the giant sphere on the top of the flaming building. People slowly stopped running and lifted up their head to watch the sand floating in the sky. The giant ball turned into a massive dome and it slowly covered the flaming building to finish off the oxygen in the air.
He used the final shot of chakra that came through his fore finger to fire into the core the dome. The sand was blasted and exploded, and particles dispersed and fell down from the sky like downpour. The fire was slowly put off by the sand and when the final small tongue of flame extinguished, people went cheering and applauding wildly.
Sakura was gaping at him in an awed expression. He tried not to smile at her comical face.
"What?" He asked calmly.
A shinobi came towards them and bowed before him.
"Kazekage-sama."
"What is the casualty?"
"The explosion started from Fukudo-sama's mansion before the flame spread the nearest line of houses." The man said grimly. "We couldn't save his family. The fire was already huge when we arrived."
Fukudo-sama was one of the elders. Gaara stared grimly at the large mansion. Now it was black and thickened with soot. The roof was already collapsed and the only remains were the formation of the building that was blackened by the burning.
"Anyone hurts?" Sakura asked the shinobi. The man nodded.
"Three people having the third-degree burn. One of them is a five years old kid."
"Dear God, where are they now?" Asked Sakura, started to move hastily.
"I will show you the way," the nin bowed at him and left with Sakura.
Gaara watched them both disappeared into the heavy crowd of people before strode into Fukudo's mansion. A crispy sound of scorched sand that covered the remnants could be heard with its heavy burnt of thick smell. Steams were rising as a group of shinobi poured water onto the still hot charcoals to put the heat off quickly.
"Gaara." He turned around to see Kankuro was walking towards him, bringing a torch light.
"No one survived." Kankuro shook his head. "We found the bodies in the bedrooms. I guess they were still sleeping when the explosion happened."
Gaara nodded. "Any witness?"
"The guards told me that they heard some noise from the Fukudo's house before the explosion. One of them went to investigate, but caught in the blaze." Kankuro paused. "He has severe scalds."
Gaara nodded. "Investigate this tomorrow morning. There is nothing we can do now. Secure the area from unauthorized people."
Kankuro nodded. "Understood."
"I am going to see the victims."

He watched the kazekage with the dark hatred consummated his heart. Showed off, he hissed when the kage had displayed his sand to put off the blaze. He realized now the kage was too powerful for him. But there would always be a way to settle this old revenge.
Most villagers were likely to forget what the beast had done to them. But not him, never him. The villagers were too stupid to appoint a monster as a leader.
He had been watching when the kage and his woman arrived together earlier. Haruno Sakura, the medic jounin of Konoha. She was an element that he didn't expect would be the obstacle of his well plan. Now he had to alter his plan back. It wouldn't be easy but he would do it. He glad Fukudo was dead now. He had concealed every single of his traces. They would not find anything. He was so sure of that. Now, he could move to the next step.
He watched the way the kage and the pink hair woman looked at each other. So, she is not one of you usual women, kage-sama? He gleefully remarked. So the rumor is true then. Sooner or later, she will carry your child. And then, we will see about that. Maybe we could play another entertaining game.
So, the obstacle was not an obstacle anymore. She would be the interesting element to put into his game. The leader would be happy of this news. His master, the one who was so beautiful as darkly sin. He had been striving so hard to please his master, but always failed.
But now he had a new plan. He would make a new toy for his master, the person who had saved his life a year ago. He had been begging his master to take him away from here. But the master said it was not the right time yet.
So he would wait for his master. He would do anything for his master.
His master was so powerful. He was so proud of his master because the master was the only one who could bring down Sabaku no Gaara.
Gaara. The one who only love himself, he snidely hissed. You forgot the meaning of your own name.
You let a woman enter your life. Now you will face the consequence, he was snickering deep inside.
Soon, he would have his revenge. He needed to bid his time carefully or else what he did all these past years would become nothing.

The nin brought Sakura to the open ground in front of the market place, with the other victims were already being treated by the medic nins.
"Several people are in lightly injured as the building collapsed onto their bodies." The nin reported, "but there are three victims having serious burn on their body that need intensive care. There are an old man, a guard and a little girl."
Sakura nodded and the nin brought her to the little girl. Two of her medic students nodded at her and gave a space for her to sit near the patient.
The girl was screaming in agony as the fire had burned the skin off half of her left shoulder. The burned area was so extensive. The outer layer of her skin was peeled off, revealed the damaged tissues along her arm.
Sakura kneeled and soothed the girl, "Shh…its okay I'm going to make it better for you."
"It's hurt," the girl was so pitifully wailing with arms and legs flailing uncontrollably. Two of medics helped Sakura by holding the girl from moving.
Sakura wrapped the girl loosely in a clean sheet and immerse the burned area in cold water to bring the body temperature back to normal. She cut the girl's dress by two and carefully removed the clothes that clung tightly onto the wound.
The girl winced in pain and screamed loudly as Sakura peeled off the cloth from the scalds.
"I know, I'm going to sooth it now." She dabbed the edge of the burnt skin carefully with a clean cloth. Then she applied an amount of healing cream onto the wound to numb the scalded area. She expertly wrapped the arm and the shoulder around with a bandage with the help of the medics.
The girl was still sobbing in pain and cried for her mother.
"I'm going to make you sleep," she murmured to the girl, and used her chakra onto the wound skin to sooth the pain. The girl finally stopped squirming as the pain was being numbed and she slowly drowsed into sleep.
Sakura touched the girl's brown hair and patted it tenderly.
"Sakura-san?"
Sakura rose and turned to the nin.
"The girl needs further care for the burned skin and scar tissue." She said softly.
The medic-nin nodded. "Understood. We are going to move her into the hospital."
"How about the rest of the victims?"
"They are still being treated." The nin paused, thinking. "It's truly distressing, we have never experienced something like this before. The fire spread too quickly, we couldn't save Fukudo-sama's family."
"Do they know the cause of the fire?"
The nin shook his head. "Not yet. But Fukudo-sama was known as an alchemist. He was the one who created secret weapons and explosives in this village. This is a lost to us."
Sakura nodded. "So, that's the reason of the big explosion." She stared down at the sleeping girl.
"Sakura."
She turned to see Matsuri and Temari walked across the yard and came towards her. Sakura scowled at them.
"This is not pregnant ladies outing night. Go home and rest with your babies," she scolded the two women.
Temari matched her scowl. "Gee, don't be such a snobbish. I am a nin too, don't forget this is my village."
Sakura sighed. "I have enough of patients already. I don't have the energy to deliver a baby tonight."
Temari stared at her with a speculative looks under the yellow light of the lamp post. "Of course you don't have energy left. By the way, don't you think the robe is too overlarge for you?"
"Don't start," Sakura warned with her eyes narrowed.
Temari arched her eyebrows. "Don't tell me that you are not wearing anything in that robe."
"Damn it, Temari. Just go home, please. It's nearly dawn."
"Fine, just conceal that bite marks on your left neck. You don't want people start speculate on you again."
"Go, just go."
"Fine. Come, Matsuri. Leave the ungrateful old hag alone." Temari snorted derisively and began to move.
Matsuri was still staring at her. "Are you sure you don't want our help?" she asked.
"No, I got enough helping hands here." Sakura said tiredly. Matsuri nodded before turned to follow Temari.
She watched the two women left before went to check other patients.

Gaara strode towards the hospital lobby, with an intention to interrogate on one of the victims. Apparently, the guide had been suspected something amiss at Fukudo-sama's house when he reported had heard a vague sound of yelling from the house and went to investigate before the explosion began.
He opened the door and saw Sakura was tending one of the patients. Her face was dirty and a black smudge of soot covered her cheek. Her dull pink hair was tousled and in a mess. There were dark skins under her hollow eyes, indicating of her lack of sleep.
Something clicked straight away deep inside him. Even with her unkempt hair and in the ridiculous and ugly overlarge robe - his robe by the way- that didn't fit her at all, she still looked so beautiful to him.
But that was not the real reason why his heart felt like it was being struck. It was the way she held and caring the patients, the way she stroke a young victim's hair with tenderness gesture.
She was taking care of his people. That made his heart felt this unfamiliar wildly fluttering and uncontrollably beating.
She looked up and smiled at him. She covered the patient with a blanket before moved towards him.
"How is it going?" she asked softly, as worried of disturbing the patients. He took her hand and pulled her outside of the room.
"We are waiting for the place to cool off. The investigation will be started at dawn." It was nearly 4 o'clock in the morning. "How are the victims?"
"Three of them are in critical condition. Five are having minor burns."
"I want to speak with one of the victims."
Sakura frowned. "They are sleeping. I gave them the sedative to numb the wound."
Gaara nodded. "Then I will wait." He watched her yawned tiredly. "Go home. Other medics will take over the duty."
But she just shook her head. "It's okay; I will take a nap in my office."
What a stubborn woman. No one would ever dare to counter his command with a careless shrug. He pulled her into his arms with a sudden move.
"Stop it!" She said with a frown on her tired face. "Don't treat me delicately like I'm made of porcelain." She pushed his chest to escape from his embrace but Gaara would not let her by holding her waist tightly." And I'm not pregnant, I assure you that."
Gaara stared at her, didn't understand her meaning at all. "Who said you are pregnant?" He asked casually before teleported them to his house. Gaara held her tightly as she struggled to resist him and gave him a scowl of displeasure when she failed.
But when they were at home, she was already asleep in his arms with her head rested against his shoulder. He put her on the bed and stared at her for a while. He stroke the bruised marks on her neck before calling his sand again to teleported back to the mansion.
Gaara strode towards the remnant of the burning houses. Several shinobi were going in and out of the building, searching for the bodies and evidences. He nodded briskly at his nins and went inside the mansion. There was nothing left except for the sodden debris that thickened with black soot and sand. The stench of smoke hung like a second skin onto him and his white robe was soiled with the black stain of charcoals. His boots stepped on the remnants with crack sounds. He moved to a still intact room in the mansion.
Kankuro was already there with his team.
"Any news from the guard?" Kankuro came towards him and asked.
Gaara shook his head. "He is in a critical condition."
"The explosion started in the lab." Kankuro led the way into another room. There was nothing left except black debris covered with thick soot. Kankuro sat in squatting position and showed him a wreck black container with a big hole on its body.
"I am positively sure this is the source the explosion."
"What is this?"
"One of the Fukudo's crazy inventions, no doubt." Kankuro shrugged. He stood and picked up the one foot length container carefully. "Accidents do happen sometimes. He should know the consequence of playing with chemicals."
Gaara walked out from the house. The sun already came out. At day time, the burn house looked so horribly bleak and empty. People were still gathering outside, cleaning and picked up the saved belongings. Gaara gestured one of his chunnins.
"Kage-sama."
"Tell Baki to provide temporary shelters for the victims."
"Understood." The chuunin bowed before left.
Kankuro walked out from the house with the big container in his arms. "I will take it to the lab to study the thing."
Gaara nodded. "There is one more thing I want you to do."
"What is it?"
Gaara hesitated at first before let out. "Send one of your men to Konoha to carry the marriage proposal."
Kankuro grinned. "Good news to cheer up the sorrowful day. I will send my man as soon as possible."
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