Numb

I've become so numb / I can't feel you there
I've become so tired / So much more aware


I would have given anything to go back to that time, when Shinobu and I had traveled by boat to our homeland, new Chunin, expecting to find our family waiting there for us. We were happy then, completely oblivious to everything that had happened in the three years that we had been absent. Jealously, suspicion, upset and, eventually, death. Villagers had worried that our clan was too powerful, our knowledge too great. That was why Baba had sent us away, not because of the bullies in the school yard or any of the other silly things that we told ourselves. He had saved our lives before they had even been threatened.

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Sabaku no Gaara story.