Disclaimer:I do not own Naruto nor any of the charactors in this story other than Isabella, if I did there would be alotts of Yaoi/yuri and Naru-kun would be Sasuke and Gaara's bish!

ran to my lonely apartment and grabbed my head as memories flew back into my mind, memories of Gaara.I giggled as he took a picture of me and then we posed,our arms hung over eachothers shoulders and we both gave eachother bunny ears."ok,on three one.two.three!!!"I said and took the picture.I looked through my drawers and pulled out the old faded photos and looked at them.I laughed a little and felt tears stream down my face,but if they were happy or not I didn't know.I wiped them away and stuck the pictures in my weapons pack.I ran to where our group was to meet to go to the chunin exams and we all ran to where we needed to be I strayed from the others and leaned on the window sill."hey Isabel you ok?"Shikamaru asked coming over and I winced"sorry shikamaru I'm sorry really really sorry."I said and he shook his head smiling."it's ok,Isabel-san I understand why you reacted like that I just wanted to check on you."He said and walked off I noted that everyone was giving all of us genin dirty looks, they all looked older. I Sighed and looked around I noticed a red haired boy with sea-green eyes and a gord on his back, he was from the sand village. I paid no attention till I saw a girl with blonde hair pulled into two ponytails at the top and two at the bottom and a boy beside her with paint on his face or atleast it looked like paint and he wore a black outfit and it had ears he had something on his back as did the girl.Why did the three seem so familliar?I just shook it off and waitied for the exams to start.The first thing we did was a pencil and paper test but the questions were kinda complicated. More than half the people failed for cheating but I did three problems and got bored so I quit,but slid my paper under my arm to hide it.I thought about shikamaru and Naruto and looked at Shikamaru.I used my justu to get in his head where people couldn't hear us and told him the answers along with Naruto.then there was this "Ultimate question" which was supposed to be super hard and stuff that if you got wrong you automatically fail the chunin exams and some people left saying they weren't gonna waiste their time I stayed along with Naruto and Shikamaru.then the guy said we passed for staying.

Some chick came in and said her name was Anko and that we were going to some "Forest of Death" and I stopped listening once I saw the red haired boy along with the other two that were in his group,or atleast I thought they were since they were the only sand nins there.I sighed as we all were lead out to the "Forset of Death" and when we got there she started preaching on about how dangerous it was and how some of us may die out there but I just ignored it all and moved away from, everyone to look at the pictures again. I counted it off in my head '1.me and Gaara 2.me and Gaara 3.me and Kankuro 4.me ,Kankuro and Temari 5.Me and Temari 5.Me and Kankuro again 6.Kankuro and Temari 7.Gaara 8.me and Temari 9.Gaara and his teddy bear and my stuffed rabbit grinning like a dork.10--' "Come on Isabel we gotta go now"Naruto said and I nodded hiding the pictures before he could see them.I followed both of my teammates. As I passed the red haired boy I caught eyes with him, his eyes were cold, and hateful. I just shook my head and looked away brushing past him and both of my teammates,leaving them confused.We got there and automatically had ot hide to protect our scrolls and find other ninjas to take their scrolls.After about 20 minutes I was struck by sand and fell to my knees as blood seeped down my cheek. I growled and stood up glaring at the new enemy,a boy with red hair and a gord on his back. The two that were with him were already attacking Shikamaru and Naruto."Naruto ,Shikamaru don't fuck this up or else!!"I said coldly and wiped the blood off my face,laughing psycotically. "if I were you I wouldn't make the mistake of making me bleed."I hissed at the red head."oh?and why is that?"He asked coldly, almost as cold as I had."ah now why would I tell you--"I said but he threw a kunia at me,and I barely dodged it. He got an insane look on his face and the cork on his gord popped off and sand spilled all around him. My eyes got wide and I froze. My breath turned shallow,I knew why he seemed so familliar...Gaara!!

I stumbled backwards and pulled Shikamaru and Naruto with me then ran away. Once we were out of sight I stopped and let go of the two confused genin. "Isabel-san!what were you thinking running away like that?!?"Naruto asked angrilly."goddamnitt Naruto, you want to get us killed?that sand nin,the one I was fighting his name is Gaara Sabaku. He's extrememly dangerous I knew him when he was younger,before I came here...I've seen what he can do he killed someone.He was just a little boy but he still killed them. I watched it all"I whispered the memories of my dream coming back to me.We finished in the forest and that's all we had for today we had passed and got to take a month break but that didn't last long.We all ended up in a battle arena and had to fight eachother I was standing alone not paying attention to the fight between the two Hyuugas. I sighed and walked over twords the lonely red haired genin that I bileved to be Gaara Sabuku.He didn't seem to notice me."love only yourself, and fight only for yourself...do you really bileve that?"I asked quietly.He turned surprized."you!the girl that ran away"He said and I winced. "I ran because I was afraid. I know what you can do, I've seen it with my own eyes"I said quiet. His eyes widened."what did you say a minute ago?"He asked and I frowned."I asked you if you really bileved what you said that day?love only yourself, and fight only for yourself"I said and held the case my pictures were in tigtly in my hand, hurting my cuts because today I had over did it again and luckilly not Sensei, Shikamaru, or Naruto found out about it. He glared"how do you know about that?"He hissed and I sighed about to tell him but then the new battle started,He transported himself down into the arena and I looked to see my name under Gaaras. "shit"I whispered, jumping down into the arena.I got ready and the cork from his gord flew at me,but I was prepared and caught it."well if you're both ready then,fight!"the dude said and I smirked gaara stood perfectly still, waiting for my attack but I new very well that the sand surrounding him would protect him so I just smirked and decided to use my favorite tactic in these situations, mess with his head.