She looked around panting, as she took a couple of steps to her right 'Maybe they're gone' with that thought she came out from

behind the building only to be hit on the forehead with a pebble, "Thought you'd get away did you?" said one of the boys taking

a step toward her.

"Please, I haven't done anything to you just leave me alone" she said, tears forming at her eyes trying to wipe

them away quickly in an effort to hide her fear.

"Nobody likes you, why don't you just do us all a favor and go die" said one of the other boys smirking, tossing a pebble up and

down taking two steps forward.

"Why don't we use a stone?" said another boy lifting a large stone up and handing it to one of the older boys, "Smart, you're

thinking today aren't you" he said laughing a little here and there.

"Say goodbye" he screamed as the other boys laughed uncontrollably, tossing the stone at the curled up figure. She sat there, her

face buried in her knees, her chocolate colored hair sticking to her forehead, waiting for the pain to come,

Waited...Waiting...Wait...It never came, she looked up carefully only to see sand wrapped around her, almost like a barrier.

"Hey no one invited you freak" yelled another boy, but for once she saw, the comment wasn't directed to her but...

"Stay...Away from her" came a soft voice. The barrier fell as she looked up at a small red headed boy, with seagreen eyes, and

pale skin.

"Or what?!" exclaimed the eldest boy picking up another stone, smirking at the two younger children. Suddenly sand rushed

towards the stone the boy held, wrapping around it tightly, crushing it into sand and dust.

"LEAVE!" and with that all the boys ran as fast as thier legs would go, terrified of what had just happend, kids his age can't do

that. The girl looked back down, grabbing a handful of sand and feeling it slide through her fingers, 'It's just ordinary

sand...Then how did-' She looked up to see a hand in front of her face, she took it and was pulled up to his height, well she was

taller than him, but only by two or three inches, not much.

"Are you alright" came the soft, shaky voice.

"Yeah, I'm alright" she said blushing a little, kicking some sand lightly.

"Um...Gaara" he said holding a stuffed teddy bear closer to his face, "Aneli" she said looking at him, giggling a bit. "ANELI!WHERE ARE YOU!" came a squeaky voice.

"Kyila? Is that you?" she said glancing around confused. "ANELI!!" she heard before feeling herself falling towards the ground, she giggled "Kyila, get off silly" she said

pushing her off, laughing all the while. "I've been looking for you, your dad said we were going to leave in one hour" she said jumping up and down excitedly. "Oh" she

said looking down at her feet, kicking sand around again. "What's wrong?" she said nearing her face towards Aneli, tring to read her emotions. "Nothing" she said

looking up at her grinning, "Oh, I want you to meet someone" she said pulling her towards Gaara. "This is Gaara, Gaara this is Kyila, she's kind of like a sister to me

we've known eachother since..." she giggled "Well a long time" she smiled at him. "Hi, my name is Kyila" she said taking his hand and shaking it a little too excitedly.

"Come on now Aneli, we have to go!" "In a sec" she said as she dragged Gaara along. "Let's go" ...It had only been a few mintues, but in that time they felt they knew

eachother well. They were getting along great, and in his opinion the girl was very nice, she didn't pretend to love him like his uncle did, nor did she hate him, for once

he was happy.

Goodbyes weren't always the best of times, but they managed to get through it, or did they...She jumped out of the carrige and ran toward Gaara embracing him in a

hug "Don't forget me" she whispered, then kissed him on the cheek only to make him blush "I never properly thanked you for earlier" she giggled blushing, "thanks"

she giggled, running over to the carrige, waving back at him...And that, was that...