The redhead intervened impatiently: “Can we go on?” His voice was cold and a shiver ran down my spine, the voice was full of hate and sorrow, that it just seemed to me as if the boy knew no feelings except hate and pain.
The other two, who were older than him, winced and suddenly looked a little scared.I looked at the two of them questioningly, but both shook their heads.
"Ummm ... Gaara? Can we quickly ... bring Zala home?", The blonde asked carefully and fearfully. The eyes of the boy who was apparently called Gaara flashed over to me, literally the eyes seemed to pierce me and I thought, 'If looks could kill!'
Gaara thought about it for a long time and it looked pretty thorough, then he gave in and said: "Because of me .."
The girl and the boy, who was called Kankuro, sighed in relief and then walked in the direction where I had come from.
"Ummm ... Gaara .. could you maybe look out for a house?" Asked the girl. "If it has to be ...", said the addressed and did something with a light mass. It formed into one eye and this one was crushed by Gaara.
After a while he said: "There's a house a little west of here." "Thank you ..." said the blonde and walked faster. I hurried up afterwards and then finally walked next to the girl."What's your name anyway?" I asked.
"Me? I'm Temari Sabakuno and these are Kankuro, my brother and Gaara, my brother too. Both are younger than me."
'They are siblings ? ', I asked myself and from then on walked in silence.
I was lucky, the three siblings found the house, Gaara looked sullen and suddenly disappeared shortly before the house.
"I have to excuse him," said Temari and also followed Kankuro with him. I sighed and tightened the reins of the horse, holding them all the way.
I put the horse in the stable, which was easy to find, and then went to the door that led into the house. Felia was already standing at the door and said: “We were worried.” “I'm lost, I'm sorry,” I said with bowed head. "Nothing happened," said Felia gently, stroking my cheek affectionately.
I then followed her into the kitchen and ate a stew, it tasted great but I couldn't guess what was in it.Felia accompanied me to a guest room and when she had left I undressed and lay down. I fell asleep exhausted and just before I fell asleep I saw the jade blue eyes again ...
Light fell through the window and I woke up when the sun woke me so lovingly, the birds outside chirped happily and greeted the morning. The clink of metal could be heard outside. I yawned and got up, then got dressed and ran out the door. The hallway smelled of freshly baked bread, I inhaled and my stomach growled. My feet led me into the kitchen, Felia was at the stove and cooked something, fresh bread was on the table and sausage, as well as cheese and ham.
"Tomorrow," said Felia and smiled. I mumbled a tired "morning" and sat down.
I ate in silence and then wanted to go out, but Felia stopped me: "Where are you going?"
"Ummm ... I wanted to go outside ..." I stammered, her look didn't reveal much."Ah ... nice then you can go straight to the back of the house, there are Alan and Tarek, they should come to eat, can you tell them?"
"Yes ..." I said as I was leaving.
Behind the house, Alan and Tarek fought with swords! My mouth stayed open, they slapped with full force that sparked, but still they didn't hurt themselves.
After a while Alan spotted me and looked over at me, Tarek didn't seem to have noticed because he was holding Alan with full force, I was about to scream when Alan parried Tarek's sword with astonishing ease.
Now Tarek also noticed that I was there looking at me. Still frightened, I stuttered: "II-you ... should ... come and eat."
Both nodded and disappeared into the house. They took the swords with them, I wondered if they were real, the sun had blinded me a bit and therefore I couldn't see exactly whether they were or not. Sighing, I sat down on a rock and looked at the sky.Clouds passed and birds flew around, somewhere a large flock flew up in fright. Very close, curious, I got up and wondered what was happening, I looked back, there was no one around. Slowly I crept in the direction where the birds had flown, barely a kilometer away from the house I saw him.
It was Gaara, the Gaara. He was standing in a clearing with his hand raised, a lump of sand hung in the air in front of him, and a fearful looking head peeked out of the sand. Body parts ... of people ... were scattered all over the place under the sand.
I felt a little nauseous, but it seemed to me as if the dead and the still living were bad, so bad that you could feel it.
I had never felt something like this before, what was wrong with me, could I already feel something who was good and who was bad?
Suddenly a knife flew out of a bush and came up to me! I couldn't avoid it anymore!
Suddenly and very quickly a wall of sand shot up and protected me, the knife ricocheted off the sand.I stood there with my mouth open and heard a terrible scream, and a second one joined it. And suddenly it was quiet ... so quiet that I could only hear my breathing. The sand wall collapsed and floated to Gaara, who was standing in the middle of the field and looking over at me.
"Why did you come?" He asked coldly.
"I saw the birds fly out."
He gave me a piercing look and then said, “Go home.” Then he turned and left. The dismembered corpses lay in the meadow and soaked them with blood, it was a terrible sight. I swallowed and then walked in the direction I had come from.
After half an hour I got back to the house, Alan was standing outside waiting for me. He smiled and then went into the house, I followed him.
Felia and Tarek were apparently not there, Alan showed me to an office or rather an office with a lot of books, on each side of the wall there was a large shelf full of books.The old man sat down on a chair behind a table, with a wave of his hand he indicated that I should also sit down.
"You seem to have recovered ..." he began, "it's about time you learned to defend yourself."
"Defend?"
"Yes, if you can't it's a matter of time before you're dead."
I swallowed, I should defend myself, but how?
"I thought that you might go to Tindome and study there, the city is not far from here and has very good teachers."
"And what will I learn? In defense?" I asked.
"Magic, sword fighting, archery and a lot more. Something will suit you." The old man smiled.
"Um ... and when do I go to Tindome?" I asked, first I wanted to ask what magic was, but I already knew roughly what he meant.
"Mhm ... preferably tomorrow," he replied.
"Tomorrow?!", I exclaimed and saw that he was smiling, I sit down again because I got up."No not until the day after tomorrow," he said, still smiling. I sighed, he was just kidding. "And how do I get there?"
Alan sat back and thought ... a long, long time. But I just sat back and watched him ...
It was getting dark when he said: "We will ride, Tarek and I will come with you."
With that he dismissed me with a satisfied smile, and tired I went to have dinner. Felia had left the soup where she had cooked this morning. I took a bowl and wondered if the soup could be eaten cold, bravely I took a ladle and tried it. It tasted wonderful, I hastily took a whole bowl and even ate a second.
Exhausted, I went to my room, undressed and lay down in my bed. I thought about Gaara for a long time, did he really kill these people? And why was it so indifferent to me that they were now dead?
At some point I fell asleep ... dreamless and completely exhausted from the experiences of the day ...