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Gaara App 2/?
Over the next few years, his personality became increasingly unstable; in part because of his severe insomnia, in part due to his having lost his mind that night, thrown into an existential crisis that half-broke him (at six, no less!). There was something off about the kid, to be sure. Because his psychosis in part instilled in him paranoia (sometimes he thinks people want to kill him), he tossed himself into all available classes on martial arts, self-defense, offense, weaponry. At the worst of times, he hears voices: mostly a female one he calls mother. At ten an incident lead to his expulsion from school. If not for the timely intervention of the teachers, Gaara would have killed another student, and in cold-blood – he wasn’t hysteric, wasn’t anything but calculating.

His family deposited him into a mental hospital for the following six months. Once deemed rehabilitated he was released, but General Sabaku had run out of patience with his troubled son. Gaara found himself shunted to a military school until age fifteen, whereupon years of consecutive reports of his excellent performance prompted his return. He finished secondary school, and moved on to college.
During this time his father made it clear that he did not consider the boy to be anything but an obligation, anything but abnormal, anything but insane. Gaara's disdain for his family and the place in which he lived caused him to skirt curfew, to spend as little time as possible within those walls, near people who may well have been lumps of meat. At first content to wander, at seventeen Gaara resolved to dismiss any reliance on his father by securing a job for the night hours. When the short, slight teenager had presented himself at an interview for the position of bouncer for Luxuria, the management near laughed him out the door. Ten seconds later, and the outgoing bouncer was writing on the floor, his arm snapped in three places and his nose gushing blood. Fifty seconds later Gaara had the job.

It kept him out of the house. It kept him out of trouble; earlier years had brought on the temptation of the darker side of city life, but Gaara had found that much of it involved too much posturing, ego, and reliance on drugged up morons. Once in college, he moved into the dorms, and within the month found his double become a single. He didn't need to wonder why.