"Are people staring at me, because I feel like people are...?" I said worriedly. Nari ran close behind me, but worried about hitting her, I picked scooped her up into my arms. "I don't like people staring at me; it makes me really nervous and annoyed!"
Gaara turned and looked at Nari while we kept walking through the Hidden Leaf Village. He looked up at me slowly and said,"Don't hurt anyone..."
"If people are staring at me I will!" I complained, listening to some creepy blond chick's conversation. Her hair was in a high, tight ponytail and she was wearing a mostly purple outfit. Very, very short cut clothes...
"Who's that with Gaara? I haven't seen her around here before..." The blond asked a guy who also had a ponytail, but with brown hair and he had earrings.
The guy said, "Who cares, she looks better than you do, Ino..." Her name's Ino? Hm, weird...
"Shikamaru!" The blond, I mean Ino, slapped him. It was a fairly light hit. "How could you say that?"
"Like this." Shikamaru answered. "She looks better than you do, Ino." I laughed quietly as I kept walking with Gaara down the road.
"Hey!" Ino called out to me. "Hey, you, come over here!"
"Who me?" I asked, hearing exactly what she had said. Nari curled up in my arms to get comfortable to sleep.
"Yeah, do you have a problem with your hearing?" She asked mockingly.
"Do you have a problem with getting exercise? If I wanted to talk to someone, I would walk over to them." I returned, stopping on the pavement. Gaara hit me on the shoulder when I finished talking. "Well it's the truth!"
"Not now!" Gaara snapped.
"That little...!" Ino started to say.
"I've got to meet this chick..." Shikamaru said. "Hey, what's your name?"
"Give me a reason and maybe I'll tell you." I replied as I adjusted Nari's position in my arms. For a tiger cub, she was pretty heavy. Gaara pulled on my arm to try to get me to walk again, but I refused.
"I just want to know." He said.
"Fair enough... My name is Sumiko."
"What are you doing with Gaara then?"
"Walking to some place he won't tell me about."
"Seriously, you won't tell her?" He asked Gaara.
Gaara shrugged and said, "Because, I don't think anyone else needs to know." He pulled on my arm again. "We need to go now... come on."
"We've been walking most of the day, can't we take a break? Nari needs sleep, she's been walking with us all day; she's probably hungry too." I complained.
"We're almost there, can't you hold out for a little longer?" He pleaded. I turned to him and looked straight in his eyes.
"Don't make me do it..." I warned, still staring.
"I won't, now keep walking." I knew that he wouldn't let me, so I just sighed and kept walking. I broke my eye contact with him after a few more seconds.
"What were you going to do? I want to see how tough you are." Ino demanded.
"I'll show you. I'll show you a few more things, too." I said, trying to keep any emotion out of my voice. I knew if I went too far, I might go tails. I put Nari down next to me and she sat there, tired still.
"No, you can't do this now! That's part of the reason we're here!" Gaara exclaimed worriedly. He held onto me around my shoulders, but I could still make the hand signs for Clearsight. I slipped out from his arms and walked behind Ino.
"Where the hell did she go?" Ino yelled. I went out of the first stage so they could see me again. I held one of my fingers in front of my lips to keep them quiet. I counted down from three in my mind and then screamed in her ear, making her scream louder than I did. I laughed while she nearly jumped two feet in the air.
"Okay Gaara," I said, still chuckling. "We can go now."
"Did you really have to do that?" Gaara asked.
I nodded and added, "Do you want me to hold it all in and go tails?"
"That's the whole reason we're here!" He complained. "We have to go find someone to help you with that."
"Why? I can control it just fine!" I picked Nari up carefully as not to disturb her again.
"Yeah, but you burst into it randomly. Remember what happened last time?"
"The Akatsuki saw me and didn't try to kill me but instead wanted me to do crap for them. I would've turned on them and tried to destroy them anyways."
"It's not my fault they caught you in tails..."
"You're completely wr- I mean right..." Gaara, you are the reason I was caught, I thought, you just don't know why or how...
"What were you going to say...?"
"Nothing, Tsuki's the only one that knows what happened." I walked farther ahead of him, speeding up when I could recognize the streets better. I ran off towards Tsuki's house, or at least the house I used to live in before I went to the sand village. Gaara chased after me and caught up when I finally got to her house. I knocked on the door and Tsuki opened the door with Naruto standing behind her.
"Sumiko!" Tsuki yelled hugging me quickly after I set Nari down again.
"Can't breathe...!" I struggled to say. She let go quickly. "So..."
"Oh, yeah, sorry..." She said. "Come inside!" Tsuki pulled me in by the arm while Gaara walked in behind me with his arms crossed.
"I was the one bringing her here..." Gaara muttered. "But she was the one to get here first..."
"Wait, this is where we were going?" I asked quickly. "Why?"
"Yes, she's a jinchuriki too." He replied.
"I know that! But she's not the one stuck with a backwards two- tails in her body!" I complained.
"Wow. You've gotten a little bit of a temper since I last saw you..." Tsuki added.