I was sitting in a tree, the sun was peeking through the leaves and I was nodding off. Just before I was asleep a little blue-brown fox-like creature with two tails jumped into my lap a curled up. I smiled and stroked its back as I cooed softly, "Hey there Shawnee, what have you been up to?" The little creature looked up at me and started to purr. I continued to pet its head and it suddenly got up and ran off. I thought to myself, why did Shawnee run off? I turned around to see what she had run away from and to me surprise there was a boy standing there, he was so quiet I hadn't noticed him. He had blood red hair, it looked like he was wearing eye make-up around his eyes and he had a huge gourd made of sand on his back.

I smiled a little and held out my hand, "Hi, I'm Cho, who are you?" He looked frightening; I almost didn't want to introduce myself. He glared at me then looked at my hand, the look he gave me made me shiver. I repeated myself, he then said in a very grim way, "I don't need to tell you that, you don't interest me," I was surprised at what he said and decided to see if he had a sense of humor, "So have you always been so cheerful?" bad mistake, I regretted it quickly after I said it. He glared at me and sand started to come out of the gourd on his back, I got ready for what ever was going to happen.

The next thing I know he was gone, I thought to myself as I dosed back off, that was fast.

When I woke up I was moving, still lying down, a guy with strange purple markings on his face was carrying me. I looked around and a pretty girl with 4 ponytails and a big fan on he back was next to me. I looked to the other side and it was the boy from before. I tried to remember what my sensei had told me about people from other villages. I thought hard, but he hadn't told me about any of them. I opened my mouth to ask something, but I couldn't seem to talk. Finally, after many attempts I say, "What is going on?" The girl looks at me but doesn't say anything, the guy that was carrying me said nothing, and he only looked at me with disgust. I thought to myself, geeze, do I really look that bad? When I tried to check my hair with my hands, then I realized that I was tied up. He had a good hold of me and my hands and ankles were tied up, I started to shake. They stopped and put me down, I was still shaking, not realizing it, I touched the ground and a vine came up and took a kunai out and cut the rope when they weren't looking.

I stood up and made a vine wrap around the boy with the gourd, I was not the least bit happy, "Who are you guys?" I asked a little shaky. The girl with the fan replied, "I'm Temari," she pointed to the guy with the purple markings, "That's Kankuro," she pointed to the boy who I had a hold of with my vines, "And that is Gaara, I suggest you let him go" I shook my head, not realizing the sand that was being wrapped around me. I tightened my grip with the vines; the sand was completely around me, except my head, I finally realized that. The vines let go but the sand didn't, I wasn't concerned. Temari looked at my and said, "You don't seem very worried girl, don't you know what's going to happen?" I thought, no I really don't, I shook my head again and said unsurely, "Should I be worried?" Kankuro said very annoyed with me, "You are so annoying, Gaara, what are you waiting for?" Gaara stood there but said nothing, Temari then said, "Because, if we kill her then there would be no point in going back, he wants her alive," she mumbled, "duh" I finally realized what he was going to do and started trembling. I thought for a while and finally said, "Th-that's right, I-I also can heal really well, and control plants," I thought, like that's going to work. Temari looked interested; "Really?" she said in a sideways voice, "That would be useful, if I cared." I tried to get out of the sand, but Kankuro just laughed at my pathetic attempt. I got my arms out, like that makes a difference. I continued to explain why he should let go, "I also have extraordinary upper body strength," Gaara didn't look interested in anything she was saying. I sighed and just waited, "If you don't let me go, I will continue talking until you do, and-" Kankuro put his hand over my mouth.

I mumbled something, like he cared, I smiled under his hand and bit him, and he let go ad started cursing. I was smiling and continued to talk about useless things, the sand got tighter so I couldn't breathe. I thought, that's another way to shut me up. I closed an eye, the sand hurt a lot, Temari then said, "Why don't you let her go? She seems like she would be quiet enough." Gaara didn't say anything, the sand let go and I fell to the ground gasping for air. Kankuro was holding his hand; it was bleeding from when I bit him. I asked him, still trying to catch my breath, "Would you like me to heal that?" He just glared at me sitting there and said flatly, "No." I stood up and brushed myself off, "Fine by me," I walked over to Gaara and poked him.

Now, there are some people who scream to be poked and really don't care if you do, and there are some people that have written on them, poke me and you die. Gaara is someone who you have to poke to find out. He turned his eyes towards me and glared at me, I took a step back. He was defiantly one of those people who say, touch me you die. I smiled and waved sheepishly. I decided to head back to the village, as soon as I turned around Kankuro was standing there. I said as politely as possible, "Excuse me; I'd like to go back now." Kankuro scoffed, "You aren't going anywhere."