The gates of suna came closer. Neji and I had walked the whole journey in silence.
"Why do you think they send us instead of a bird?"he suddenly asked.
Now that I thought about it,
it just didn't make sense.
A bird is a lot faster, and now they have less shinobi for other missions.
The wind grew faster, and I got sand in my eye.

I wiped it away, and looked back at the gates.
"Maybe it's an important message, that it's safer than by bird."I answered.
"Who knows."he said back.
As we arrived at the gates of suna we were met by guards.
After we showed a pass-trough we were allowed to go inside the village.
We walked inside, and headed straight to the kazekage.
neji looked surprised of what he saw. "gaara?"he asked.
The kazekage looked up, and kind-half-smiled. "We came here to deliver a message from our hokage."
I said to break the silence. I gave the letter to the kazekage.

Neji was still not recovered from the surprise. "What's wrong?"I asked. He turned his head towards me.
"Nothing, I'm just a little tired."he said. "We have a room prepared for the two of you. Kankuro, will you show them the way?"the kazekage said calm and friendly.

"What's going on?"I asked neji when we came in our room.
"Well, Gaara is a sort of old friend of mine." my eyes widened.
"awesome! So you know the kazekage personally? For real?"I yelled.
He nodded.

"When I tried the chuunin exams for the first time. That's when I met him."
"Wait, you mean the same Gaara as two years ago, when they attacked the leaf?"
I asked while I remembered him fighting with Sasuke Utchiha.
I shivered "this is the same person?"
"Yes, but I heard rumors that he changed, looks like they were true."

He walked through a door in the other side of the wall. "Where're you going?"
"To MY room." He said "did you think I'd sleep in the same room as you? It's not personal." and he walked away.
I sighted he probably thinks I'm a stupid pervert right now.
Maybe I was, I thought a lot about neji in the past, ever since I saw him almost killed when he returned from one of his missions.
I was so afraid to lose him, that only than I realized I as in love with him.

As a chuunin I was just too busy to even talk to him, and when the hokage assigned him, a joonin, to be my teacher, I wasn't even allowed to think about him like that anymore.

"Are you guys comfortable?" you heard as a guy with purple paint on his face walked into the room.
I nodded.

"Good, gaara asked me to tell you that the festivities start at 8'o clock pm. And to meet him 7'30 pm.
At his office."
"Wait what?"I stammered "Festivities? How? Why? What?"
"Yes, that's why you are here, I suggest that you would wear something more suitable." he smiled and left.