I had four eyes staring at the wall in my direction. What if they had seen me? Wait a minute, so what if they saw me? I'm the ghost, I should be scaring them not the other way around. And what's so bad if they do hear me? I mean aside from the fact that they'll know I'm dead.
"Um, hi guys?" I say as I wave to the shocked Temari and Kankuro. They turned to look at the other and let out a scream in unison. A nurse ran in and asked what was wrong. I put my hand to my lips and wondered if they could see me.
"Uh, I felt a sharp pain in my side and woke up Temari. But now the pain's gone." Kankuro lied. He must have seen me. As the nurse walked away, Kanuro started to sit up. "Gaara, how did you get here?"
That was when Temari, with tears streamming down her face, rushed up to hug me. She slamed into a wall all confused. Kankuro stared at me, then Temari and at me again and asked what the heck was going on here.My reply was short and sweet.
"I am a ghost. Now don't worry, I have come here to see that you, Kankuro, are alive and well. And that you, Temari, are okay. You are my family and I regret taking you forgranted. I have a duty to fufill that I still don't know about and so I'm stuck in this crossroad between life and death. I don't fit in here because I am completely unsure of what is going on here. I don't even know why you can hear or see me. I am confused and alone and it's worse than when I was a child."
"Gaara!!! You got killed!" Temari was furious at me, I don't know why I mean I was unconscience the whole time I was kidnappped. "What were you thinking running out into battle like that in the first place! Did you even stop to think about us and how we felt about this? And while I was away in Konoha,no less!"
"Do you not understand? The village and it's people would have been destroyed if it weren't for me. Some lunatic was gonna blow it up to smitherines. I had to do it, it was my life, or the lives of many."
"I just want my brother here, with us again."
"I know, but I am here, with you guys. In one way or another." I said.
"Did I mention that there is also emotional baggage that can keep a ghost here." Dad said walking in.
"Dad? Is that you?" My siblings asked.
"Can you really see and hear me? That'll make things easier."
"Make what easier?" Temari asked.
"Oh, just my un-finished business."
"Which is?"
"To be the father I never was."
"If you freak out about Dad wait 'till you see Mom!" I said. Sure they saw her before but that was 15 years ago.
"Um, about that. You see Gaara, your Mom crossed over. Her job was to help you get to where you needed to go." Dad explained.
"Well, how about Yoshamaru? He's still here, right?"
"He needed to know that his sister was happy and not in distress or held down."
"So, it's just us? Wow, sorry I didn't know."
"Well, since we are here, I guess we could help you out." Temari said.
"Yeah, but to help you pass, first we need to know why you're here, then help you reach it." Kankuro stated.
