A new face, a new person

Gaara was the first to regain consciousnesses, and the first thing he noticed was the quiet breathing in his right ear. He then noticed he was in a seated position with something wrapped around his neck. Gaara slowly opened his eyes and glanced down at what was holding him, to his amazement someone was hugging him. He slowly turned his head to see who it was. Today was just full of surprises for Gaara, the arms locked around Gaara's neck belonged to a girl and she was sleeping. Gaara having never been in this situation before did not know how to handle this. Gaara slowly unlinked her arms and slid away.

His first reaction would have been to kill her; but he knew he had no idea where he was. Then there was the fact he could not use the sand in his gourd. So he went and sat in the corner and waited for her to awaken.

The first thing Ruby thought as she started to wake up was "Why the hell did I fall asleep on the floor?"

She reached up to rub her eyes clear of sleep. Instead she felt her forehead covered in a crust.

"What the hell!" she murmured as she picked it off. Looking down at her hand she realized it was blood and everything from theprevious night flooded back to got up so fast she almost fell back down, steadying herself she looked around. And there he was sitting in the corner, arms folded, glaring at her. Suddenly remembering the tales of his explosive violent behavior, Ruby summoned two Jackal hounds to hide in the shadows in case he went to attack, he would not be able to see them but if they attacked him he would feel it.

"Are..." she cleared her throat."Are you Gaara of the Sands?" If this was not him she would rage so bad that she might summon some demons just to watch them destroy some stuff.

"Yes. I am. Who are you and where am I?" Ruby could not tell if he was angry or not.

"I am Ruby and this world is called Kitsumaga. And I guess... Welcome to my home." Ruby said gesturing around. There was nothing spectacular about the room. There was sand everywhere and the force of the vortex had sent things flying around the room. It looked pretty messy.

"Oops, I didn't realize the casting did so much damage to the room." She did not want him to judge her based on this room.

She went to tuck a stray strand of hair behind her ear only to realize she was also a mess.

"Damn it, the one person I want to like me, and I didn't even take time to look my best." she thought to herself.

"Why am I here?" Gaara asked. If she brought him here she could also send him back.

"Well now you see I ..." Ruby trailed off trying to think of what to say next. It was right then they heard it, the chanting of insults being repeated over and over. Ruby growled in rage and left the room, turned right and marched to the front door with Gaara curiously trailing along behind her. Ruby flung open the door only to be bombarded with rocks and the sound of cruel childrens insultes.

This reminded Gaara of something he had seen done to him. Ruby growled again as her skin paled and her veins turned black showing though

her skin. Her pale blue all most white eyes turned black, as did the skin around them. The children now looked afraid, they screamed and ran away. Ruby still with her current appearance turned looked at Gaara. She only held her appearance for a few seconds before she changed back to normal.

"I had hoped on the first day of meting you, that you would not see me like that." She sighed at how things where not going to plan.

"What are you and how did you do that?" Gaara sounded curious, she was interesting to him. Ruby was half way down the hall when she heard his question.

"Follow me please to the kitchen." The kitchen was at the end of the hall, it was neither too large nor too small, but just right one person who lived here. Ruby stepped into the kitchen and with a signal of her hand the spirit started to make tea and cook food for them both. Ruby took a seat at the table and gestured for Gaara to do the same.

"I am a possessor, I can control the spirits of all most anything." She gestured to the food cooking itself.

"And as for how I did that, well that was me entering the spirit world, using my power. I just did it to frighten them off."

A plate floated over and placed its self in front of Gaara, along with a cup of tea. Food and tea was then also placed infront of Ruby. Ruby muttered some words Gaara could not quite hear, and she then pointed down the hall. This was followed by the sound of footsteps making there way down the hall to where ruby had pointed.

"As for your earlyer question as to why you are here." she cocked an eyebrow.

"I brought you here because I wanted to talk to someone who was not dead and who did not fear me." She then added after a second of thinking.

"I can send you back" she looked at Gaara to see his reaction; but as normal nothing showed on his emotionless face. Ruby continued.

"But each candle took me a month to make and I need six in total. And before you even ask , no I can't reuse the ones I used to summon you here. I don't know why , I'm just following the instructions." Gaara just nodded.

"Is he always this quiet." Ruby asked herself.

Sighing, Ruby put the last fork of food in her mouth; then stood to show Gaara to his room.

"Please follow me I'll show you to your room then." Ruby said as she left the kitchen

She took him back down the hall and to the first door on the left. She opened the door to show a simple room with a small window in one corner, under it was a bed. The room also contained a night stand, writing desk and wardrobe.

"My room is just next door if you need anything, just come and ask me. Oh, and I'm taking you into the village tomorrow for some clothes. You may also get something for your room since you're going to be here for a bit."

Gaara looked down at his clothes, looked back and at Ruby and said.

"Why do I need more clothes?"

"Well, what do you plan to wear when those are getting washed? I personally don't care if you walk around naked, but the spirits might."

With that, she left Gaara with only the thought of "Why would she want to see me naked?"