[The resistance Aoko is putting up is beginning to confuse Gaara. He doesn't understand why this girl would endure this much to protect these goddamn people: the magician, and now the healer. Who the hell were they to her that she'd refuse to give him their identities? Was this one enough of an idiot to throw away her goddamn life to protect other people? And if not that, then were the lives of those goddamn babies not important to her either? As soon as he's finished here, he has half a mind to find them and kill them too. End her and all of her progeny.

Gaara can feel a storm building from within him growing in intensity with every beat of his heart. Make her despair. Destroy her. Get the information out of her. Leave no trace of her existence. So many conflicting desires. The cacophony in his head keeps at a deafening crescendo. Until finally, he can't bear it any longer. He snaps.]

Why?! Why do these people matter so much?!

[The sand tightens once more this time around both her arms and legs.]

Do you really think your pathetic silence now will make an ounce of difference?!