"I had thought you might be kind of different." Zatanna said as she looked him over, Gaara stood in front of her with the height of 1.8 m, red hair and weird clothing style.

They both stood at similar heights except Zatanna wore heels so she was slightly taller, "Can you at least tell me what you can do?"

Gaara watched her as she observed him and he didn't like the fact that he was unable to measure her, her powers were too different.

"It won't be a secret if we are together so no problem. I control sand, simple enough." Gaara said without elaborating that he could make sand of any solid rock formation so he doesn't need sand, especially now that he started utilizing other metals.

'This place is filled with materials that I can utilize so it will always be home ground.'

Zatanna didn't really take that as face value, he didn't give the image of someone who would share his information so easily.

"That's kind of more mundane than what I had expected but you have that large energy so it must have its use."

"It does its job so it doesn't matter how simple it is."

Zatanna stared at him and it didn't seem like he would give further information, she shrugged her shoulders, "Well that's good enough so I will help you as well."

She muttered words that he could not understand and with a wave of her hand something changed within his mind, he could feel it as chakra was quite sensitive to outside influence.

"What did you do?" Gaara asked with a guarded tone

"Relax, I just allowed you to understand the people of this world. You will hear in your own language while the people in the world would hear in the language suitable at the time. So now your language barrier problem has been solved, you may thank me for this wonderful magic." Zatanna talked in friendly manner like she was at her show

"Thanks" Gaara responded with just one word

'He seems to be the anti social types, very hard to handle.' Zatanna concluded, she really was miffed that the guy never actually took a glance over her for except to measure her powers.

'A first for everything, it does make him better in some ways but it might be bad.'

"You are welcome. As we are done lets go to my apartment, it is better than being so unguarded." She said while looking out at the surroundings and Gaara nodded in agreement.

"We will be teleporting so don't react offensively" She said as she didn't want to have her place trashed by the Gaara.

"No problem, you may proceed."

Zatanna heard his words and did her thing; both were teleported without any difficulty to her place which was protected by her magic.

"Welcome to my humble abode, you may take that room as your own while you are staying here." Zatanna said as she pointed to one of the extra rooms she had for guests.

"I appreciate your help and in return I shall provide my assistance when necessary while I am here, so please request anything within the limits. I would also be visiting the library, if you don't mind." Gaara said in a formal tone as he started walking to the room

"Hmm, I got nothing for now but who knows I might need help. I don't mind you going to the library but please stay out of trouble."

As Gaara was about to enter the room, she stopped, "Oh yeah, I want to ask can you present a magic show in front of an audience. Do things with the sand which can be an attraction?" Zatanna enquired curiously

'This way he can help in the play and I can keep a watch over him along with understanding his abilities better.'

Gaara stopped for a moment and thought over it, "As you wish, I don't mind." He answered as he didn't want to be a burden, this way he can payback for the help and it wasn't gonna give him away in anyway.

'Playing around with sand reminds me about my childhood time before everything turned dark. I can just do those acts.'

"Good, I will handle the procedures and we can have you be part of the show after you show me something interesting. I would like to see something tomorrow and I can see to it that you become stage worthy." Zatanna said as she wondered what he could do with sand

"Very well" Gaara said as he shut down the door behind him. He looked at the room, it was a lot smaller than his own but it had more things for comfort than his room.

He checked the room and sat down on the sofa as he thought on his next action, 'I should just go visit the library already as there is nothing here for me.' Gaara pondered as he stood up

"I will be leaving now" He said in a loud voice and then transformed into an eagle, taking flight through the window

He knew where the library was so he directly headed for it and was there in an instant, he couldn't hold himself back from rushing. He needed to know, the ignorance was killing him. He landed an alley and transformed into a random female civilian that he had seen and entered the library from the entrance.

His appearance was quite attractive which had heads turning when he walked by but he didn't realize such details, it was quite outside of his expertise. He entered and saw that he could understand the signs so he headed for the history side, he flipped through the books at speeds surpassing human limits that any witness would think he was playing around.

Gaara stayed there for many hours going through the history books followed by geography and some science books as he felt curious to see what level these mortals were at.

'They are definitely further than us in this field except for the medical field in which we are quite close. Our medical knowledge is horded while there seems to be spread, I wonder if they can do what Tsunade could do or Orochimaru's cloning.'

He also went through books explain minerals along with the affects of lightning and magnetism.

'There are materials harder than diamond, I will need to collect it' Gaara thought as he bore into the book

It was night by the time he was done so he walked out, 'It was very informative, I will come by again for more detailed research.'

As he walked some men who seemed drunk approached him, "Hey babe, want to hang out with us." The men leered at him with lust which he didn't understand.

"No thank you" Gaara said in his usual cold tone

But the men were drunk on the atmosphere and booze; they didn't no for an answer and surrounded him.

"You are dressed like a slut and acting so high ended. Bitch, come along nicely or we have to play rough." The man in the lead said while his unrestrained eyes went over his body

'Disgusting filth with no morals, I should have checked and chosen a form that was less prone to such problems. Unfortunately, I can't tell the difference much and the clothing is quite normal for our kind.' Gaara thought as he stared at the humans, he was about to act as they were about to get touchy and he didn't want to be touched by some filth.

"Hey boys, what are you doing?" A sultry voice was heard along with sound of high heels on the streets. The men were attracted to the voice and lost their sanity to the beauty that approached them, the way she walked and all the small gestures captivated them and drove them horny.

The woman showed no fear and walked up to them, touching the man in the lead on the jaw sensually. "Why don't you let her go and we can have some fun later."

The men acted like total zombies and nodded, "Good boys, here's my card. Give me a call, now leave." Her beautiful voice compelled them and they left in a daze.

Gaara understood what she had done, 'It worked like a genjutsu and she charmed them. Is she a good person or bad?'

"Hey there, my name is Mary Ann. You must be new here, what's your name?" She spoke in a friendly manner and smiled at him

"Temari and yes I am new here" Gaara said as he didn't have anything do with the woman and he didn't want her to find him with his name. Hiding his inexperience seems useless so he didn't bother

"Sounds like a Japanese name. Well if you are new, you should be careful. I could see that you were about to use your powers against them." Mary said with a curious gaze

Gaara nodded, "Thanks for the help, I am not used to such things."

"Hehe, you got a good figure and wearing such clothes will obviously attract attention. Do you want to join me over dinner, unless you have something to do?" Mary said as her body was almost touching him, her clothes emphasized her curves and didn't hide much.

'Could she be a mage like Zatanna?' Gaara thought as he nodded, getting to know people with power will help in his cause so he didn't decline

"Let's go then, I will show you some good time." Mary said cryptically


The two walked to a bar nearby that Mary frequented, she lead Gaara there while sticking to him. Which he didn't care about but he couldn't make sense of it as he thought girls only did that with boys. Mary sat down and ordered for them as Gaara didn't care and let her deal with it.

"So how do you find the city till now?"

"Good enough"

"You are a mage, aren't you?"

"Yes"

Mary found the Gaara to be really hard to deal with as he was not very open and socialable.

"I am also one but just a minor; could you maybe help me improve?" She asked with a pure look

"Sorry, I am not qualified to teach and my skills require special conditions. That you do not possess." Gaara answered without hesitation

Mary stared at him and smiled, "What a bummer, I had hoped to grow better at this craft. Well we can still be friends, can't we?"

"Why don't you ask Zatanna? I thought you might know her?" Gaara looked her with observant eyes

"Oh, Zatanna. I know her and we were friends for a time but we got into fight over a guy so she blames me for stealing her boyfriend." She said laughingly

"I know, it might seem childish but it happens."

Gaara didn't know if she was lying or not and he didn't understand relations as well to see any holes in her words.

"Why not make up now, for improvement taking such simple is acceptable." He advised

"I will think about it but let's not talk about her for now. So what kind of magic can you do, as you can see I am charm type?" Mary changed the topic as she felt annoyed at hearing about Zatanna and wanted to know Gaara's abilities

'What is she hiding with such a large reservoir of power?'

"Sorry but we don't know each other much so I will have to refrain from such a secret thing." Gaara said gently

Mary stared into his eyes and sighed, "Okay I understand and you are right so let's be good friends and later you can show me."

"I wouldn't mind" Gaara said as he wouldn't care about hiding from allies

"Good, let's eat the food is getting cold" Mary said with a friendly tone as she started and Gaara followed along, this was his first time eating something from this world except the fruits he stole.

After eating and drinking where she encouraged him to drink, he thought it would be rude so he complied.

"Let's go to this place, it's awesome. I promised a good time and I always deliver." Mary said with drunken movements, looks like she was smashed

Even Gaara was feeling intoxicated and just let her drag him along, they entered a hotel where she started getting nude.

"What are you waiting for let's play?" Mary said as she approached him sensually and touched his body

"What are you doing?" Gaara was utterly lost

"You aren't interested in guys, I could tell so I thought you would be fine with this." Mary whispered into his ear as she nibbled them

Gaara felt some weird reactions within his body at her contact and menstruations, "Sorry but we have only met. Thanks for the night but I will be leaving now." He said as he helped her onto the bed and left in a hurry as he didn't want to stay even a minute.

Mary looked at the door and collapsed onto the bed, "Che, she got away. Next time for sure I will get her. She is so pure it makes me want to corrupt her, ah."


A.N Hope you enjoyed and comment.