I was five years old when I met him. My parents and I went on a vacation over the summer to Suna to visit friends and relatives. My mother was taking a few of my cousins and me to the park to play for a little while. It was my very first time to be in Suna so I didn't have any friends to play with, and my cousins where older than me and thought it was 'uncool' to hang around me and keep me company. I looked at my mother for advice, mother always made thing better.
"Why don't you go out and find someone around your age and make a new friend?" I walked around the park trying to find someone to play with. After a few minutes of searching I gave up and sat down in a sandbox and started to play with the sand.
A boy sat down in front of me and started to help me build a sand castle. I looked up from my work to see a boy around my age, with flaming red hair, and jade eyes. "Aren't you going to run screaming yet like everyone else does?" he asked not looking up from what he was doing.
"Why would I do that? It's not like you're going to hurt me. I'm Kat Maru and I'm five and I'm visiting granny and papaw here while I'm on vacation. What's your name?" He looked shocked that I was talking to him still. I wonder if people don't like him, if so why?
"I am Sabaku no Gaara, I am also five, and my daddy's the Kazekage." The boy told me.
"Do you want to know something, Gaara?" he nodded "you are my first friend that I made here." We both smiled and started talking, well, I did most of the talking and he listened most of the time. "- and I'm going to be the very best ninja ever!" I yelled to the world or in our case the playground.
"Kat, sweetey, we need to get going, before it gets too late." My mom said to me, walking to me.
"Oh! Mommy meet Gaara! He's my new friend I made!" I said while getting up and standing by mom. My mom smiled at Gaara and gave him a small nod.
"Hello, Mrs. Maru!" Gaara said with a big grin.
11 years later
"Kat! Kat! Wake up! Hello!" Sakura snapped her fingers in front of my eyes. I shot her a cold glare. It has been eleven years since I had been to Suna. I still lived in the Hidden Leaf Village like I did when I was little. I grew up to be an ABNU ninja. Since team seven lost their original team mate to the s ranked criminal Orochimaru, I was put on team seven as a replacement. Team seven consists of a pink haired medic named Sakura Haruno and a blonde, blue eyed, ramen loving boy named Naruto Uzumaki. Then of course there was me, an average sized, brown spiky haired, hazel eyed, me.
The Hokage gave us a mission to go to Suna and be the Kazekage's body guards and look out for suspicion of an assassination. It was a very long journey to Suna but in a few more hours we would finally be there. I closed my eyes and kept running.
I opened my eyes when we came to a stop. Sakura's hand was on my shoulder as we walk to the gates of Suna. Some sand ninjas hopped down from their posts and stood in front of us. Naruto handed the guards a note from the Hokage explaining everything. The guard looked at it and opened the gates to let us in. We were escorted to the Kazekage's office by some other sand nins. They opened the doors for us and we walked in. behind a large desk a boy around our age sat. His hair was red and his eyes were the color of jades. On the left side of his forehead was a red Kanji. Love.
We took off our ANBU masks and looked at the Kage. "You know exactly why you are here, correct?" he asked in a low, husky voice. We all nodded. A woman and a man walked in. the man had on a black hood that reminded me of little cat ears and had purple face paint on. The woman had four blonde ponytails in her hair, she looked familiar. I remember! I have seen her in Konoha before. I think her name is Temari.
"This is my brother Kankuro and my sister Temari they will show you to your rooms." The kage told us. After the others left, I just stood there and stared at the boy.
"Gaara?" I asked. He looked at me and got up from his chair and stood closely in front of me.
"Kat." That was all that he said. I attacked with a bone crushing hug. I felt him tense up and then relax. He was about a head taller than me and as skinny as a toothpick.
I grabbed his shoulders and looked him over. "Look at you! Kazekage! That's amazing!"
A sand ninja came into the room,"Kazekage- oh. I'm sorry. "
"What is it, captain?" Gaara said sound a little bit annoyed.
"Never mind." The nin said nervously leaving the room in a hurry.
"Come." Gaara said taking my hand and leading me out of the office. We walked down a few halls and went up a few flights of stairs.
"I like your dress." I said to him winking.
"It's not a dress it is a robe. Kankuro wears dresses not me." I laughed at his sudden sense of humor. We walked to a big door which I assume was a dining hall. I hope it is and my stomach agrees.
"He also wears make up too. Kanky can't look pretty without his make up." I said while he opened the big door. A light notice went through the air it sounded like laughing. I looked at Gaara to find him laughing at what I said. Everyone, which I just realized people were there, stared at Gaara like he was purple and had two heads.
"He's laughing…" Temari said in awe. "That is a first!"
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