A/N: All right next chapter! By the way I'm looking for Beta Readers. It would help a lot to get some more opinions on this story.

SD (standard disclaimer): I do not own Naruto or Gaara. No matter how awesome that would be.

Fox in a Desert

Chapter 3 Your name is?

Previously:

"Gaara! What is it?" his uncle said, trying to stay calm.

"Make it stop," Gaara answered in a low voice.

"What?"

"Make the voice go away…!"

Yashamaru had never been so shocked in his life when he heard Gaara talking about a voice. "It must be Shukaku, trying to take control of Gaara."He realized. "Gaara," Yashamaru said calmly, "Look at me," Gaara look up, his eyes blank and glazed over, "Yes good." Yashamaru started to gather some healing chakra into his hand. "I want you to listen to me. Try to block out Shukaku, focus on something else." Yashamaru put his hand on Gaara's forehead. After a few tense moments the sand dissipated and Gaara's eyes didn't look unfocused or glazed over anymore. "That's better." Yashamaru said standing up again and made Gaara sit down in a chair.

Gaara sat down. He didn't know what Yashamaru did but the voice was gone now. "Here." Yashamaru handed Gaara something red that was about the size of his hand.

"What is it?" He asked.

"An apple. They're really good. Try it." His uncle urged.

Gaara looked at the apple then took a bite of it. It wasgood! It tasted sweet; he didn't usually get to taste sweet things since he lived in the desert, but he liked it. "Thanks Yashamaru!" he told his uncle as he ate the apple. Yashamaru just laughed and finished his apple as well.

Yashamaru yawned. "How long has it been since I've had some sleep? Three days?" He decided on checking the girl one more time before he went to bed. So Yashamaru stood up, stretched, and walked over to the bed. "Well her fever is gone." He said checking her over. "She should wake up in two or three days."

"Really? That's good." Gaara said relived.

"Well, well Gaara seems to like her…" Yashamaru thought. "I'm gonna go to bed OK Gaara?"

"OK Yashamaru" Gaara said. Yashamaru smiled warmly and exited the room humming something. Stopping only to turn the lights off.

Gaara sat there in the dark for a while. He wasn't afraid of the dark, but he lit a candle anyway.

Other than the candle the only light in the room was from the full moon shining through the window. Gaara stood by the window a long time just staring at the night sky. Gaara had always been interested in the stars and would usually be on the roof looking at them all night, since he couldn't sleep he had to do something at night.

*****Midnight*****

Yashamaru was wrong about when the girl would wake up. It was midnight, Gaara still by the window, when the girl's eyes started to flutter open. When she opened them she was shocked to find herself in a strange bed. She let out a slight gasp.

Gaara was just starting to notice the change in chakra flow in the person behind him, when he heard the soft gasp of surprise. He quickly turned around and saw that the girl was awake and sitting upright, stairing around her in wide-eyed shock. She froze when she saw that she was not alone.

They stared at each other, not moving or making a sound. When at last, Gaara moved toward her. She just stared at him, unblinking. "Who- who are you?" the girl asked nervously. "Where am I?"

Gaara stayed silent for a few more seconds before telling her, "My name is Sabaku no Gaara, and your in the Hidden Sand Village."

"The Hidden Sand Village?" She asked.

"Yes, you were found in the desert unconscious." Gaara then noticed that she was wearing a pair of black gloves. They looked like the kind Kankuro wore, cut so that the top halves of the fingers were exposed. She saw he was looking and pulled her hands out of sight.

"So," Gaara said, "What is your name?"

She was silent for a long while but finally answered, "Yukie Kitsune."

A/N: Thank you for reading! And I'm sorry the chapters are so short. By the way if you have any suggestions I would gladly like to know about them. I really want to improve on my story telling. Review please! I mean it if you don't I will sic Gaara on you