In the bright sun of the afternoon, Machiko had fallen asleep on a table, in the middle of the village hidden in the sand. She lay on her back, breathing softly, and holding both her stuffed puppy, Haru and her robes to her chest. She was still asleep when the Kazekage, Gaara of the sand walked by. In her sleep, she rolled over off the table. She opened her eyes, startled at suddenly being awakened and looked around. She climbed back onto the table and was about to close her eyes when she noticed Gaara looking at her. "what? am i in Trouble? cause, if i am i have no other place to go, so i'll have to find another place to sleep." she looked at him expectantly, waiting for him to reprimand her for sleeping on a public table, but it never came.

"i have no intention of punishing you. You may sleep here if you want. It's not like i care." she looked at him surprised. "now, then, you go back to sleep before i have to put you to sleep." with that, he walked off. she stood up, holding Haru and her robes, and looked around. thinking out loud she said "it's not as if i can fall asleep now. i'm hungry, better go get breakfast." she wrapped her robes around her hugging Haru to her chest and, looking at her feet, walked off in the opposite direction of where Gaara was headed.

soon enough, she had almost reached the edge of the park, when she walked into none other than Yashamaru, the head medic nin of Suna. falling over, she apologized profusely, "i'm so sorry, sir, i should have been looking where i was going." she looked up and noticed he was examining a notebook closely, not even paying attention to her.