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Hey guys! Sorry for not posting this yesterday but I just had too much going on... but I'm updating again because I love you guys!

Well anyways im gonna start now because Sasuke and Neji are tied up in K. Masashi's basement so I wont get them.

Chapter 3: A Trip to the Sand

All my bags are packed,
I'm ready to go.
~Leaving on a Jet Plane–John Denver

"That's really all you can remember?" the man– err, Hokage asked her, un-believing.

"I think so." she replied easily. She was too preoccupied to notice it before, but her head hurt a lot. She tucked the items she picked up into the front pocket of her black shorts. Every few seconds, she would pat them, as if making sure they haven't disappeared.

"I'll organize a meeting with the Anbu Black-Ops immediately. We will see if you are lying or not. If you are not, we will see if we can retrieve your memory." he told her, looking her dead in the eye.

"Anbu Black-Ops?" Kyarra asked, scared again. This man wouldn't hurt her, not now anyways, but Anbu are trained to have no emotions. They wouldn't care if she died, she knew that. She rubbed at her pounding forehead, trying to ease the sharp pain.

"Yes. Don't be scared, young one, they will not harm you unless you attempt to harm them." he offered her a seemingly genuine smile.

She shifted and just noticed that her blonde hair had black streaks in it, and when she says black, she means black. She also noticed that she only wore dark colors.

She got a horrified look on her face and the Hokage asked her what was wrong. She grabbed a black clump of her hair. "It's natural!" she exclaimed, remembering that tiny bit of information.

"Is there anything else you feel the need to tell me?" he asked the blonde, laughing as he did so. He seemed very nice, and he also seemed to have a very good sense in humor.

"I can see things," she told him in a sudden bout of seriousness, "About you. Your past, personality, the fact that you don't trust me. I can see it. I saw almost everything about everyone who we walked past to get here." she rubbed at her head again, wishing it would stop hurting.

"Headache?" he asked, leaning forward.

"Like you wouldn't believe."

Kyarra was just sitting on a bench while thinking about how well her first day yesterday and how nice everyone was, when she was interrupted in her thoughts by none other than (THE PINK BLOB!) Sakura. 'How does she find me everywhere I go?' The blonde thought, also thinking that she's going to have to hide from now on.

"Kyar-ra!" Sakura half sang, half yelled, "The Hokage wants to see you!" She said loudly in her ear, even though she knew Kyarra could hear her perfectly fine. She just likes annoying people, apparently. 'Wonderful.' Kyarra thought. But she put on a fake smile and told Sakura that she would hurry and get there.

"I'll walk with you!" She yelled, grabbing Kyarra's hand to help her stand up.

"Okay." the blonde agreed, sighing internally.

So the two girls were walking along in comfortable silence towards the Hokage's tower when finally Sakura spoke. "Kyarra, isn't Sasuke just, like, the hottest person alive?!" She asked, but she said it more like a statement. Was she testing Kyarra?

"He's alright... I guess." She said quietly, while she was thinking, 'Well... He's not the hottest person alive... but he's pretty hot!' (1)

Sakura had no idea what was going though Kyarra's mind. Sakura just figured that she liked Kiba because that was who she talked to most. Boy was she wrong. Then again, she's wrong a lot, not that she would ever admit that. (2) Kyarra, of course, likes Kiba too, but there was something about Sasuke... she was drawn to him.

Ew. That made her sound like an obsessed fangirl, which she was not. In fact, she tried to avoid Sasuke after their little talk in the classroom. She knew he wanted to ask her about his brother, and she also knew that she remembered zilch. She hadn't spoken to the raven for all four days she'd been at the academy. And he sat next to her for crying out loud! That took talent!

When they finally reached the Hokage's tower. After many, mostly one sided, conversations between the two girls about the youngest Uchiha, Sakura waved goodbye and walked back towards her house while Kyarra walked to the Hokage's office.

She wondered what she would be doing. She just hoped she wont get another lecture about being a ninja of the hidden leaf, she got them about five times a day.

When she reached his office, she walked inside without knocking, knowing that the Hokage wouldn't mind, she does it all the time.

"Sir, if this about that broken thingy in the hallway, I swear, it teleported off the wall." she insisted, hands up as if surrendering, "Teleporting pictures exist, I swear."

She finally looked around the room and saw a girl–who looked around her age, or maybe a year older–with dirty-blonde hair, and something that resembled a giant closed fan on her back. She was standing near the window, staring at Kyarra with an amused expression.

"Ah. Hello Kyarra." the Hokage said. "This is Temari." He motioned to the blonde girl who moved so she was now standing near his desk. "She is a ninja of the hidden sand village. They have requested to meet you and, Ah... Test your abilities." He finished speaking and looked back and forth between her and Temari.

"It's nice to meet you." Temari said to Kyarra. "We will be leaving in an hour."

"Okay." Kyarra replied excitedly, "Lets walk around for a bit!" She grabbed Temari's hand and pulled her out the door, yelling "BE BACK IN AN HOUR!" to the Hokage.

The two girls began walking around the village, talking and getting to know each other more. Also shopping, yesss lots of shopping. Soon they became good friends, but Kyarra didn't see anyone from the academy to introduce Temari to.

Temari found it strange how this girl could just say hi and you were... under her spell. She knew just what to say, when to say it, and she acted differently around different people. It was like she knew what people wanted to see.

An hour later, Kyarra packed her bags and the two girls said goodbye to the Hokage. "I'M GOING ON AN ADVENTURE!" she yelled, and Temari shook her head and smiled. (3) They walked out the front gates, and started on their long journey to the village hidden in the sand.

"Temari!" Kyarra whined, fanning herself with her hand. "It's too damn hot!" Temari just laughed, shaking her head.

"You get used to it after a while!" She replied easily.

"I'll never get used to it." Kyarra grumbled under her breath. Temari must have heard because she laughed again.

The two girls were walking towards Temari's house. They were just at the Kazekage's tower, and he told Kyarra that she would be staying with Temari and her two brothers, Gaara and Kankuro. He also said that they would be the ones that she would train with so they can see her skill level.

No one explained why they wanted to see her skills though, so she thought it was kinda weird. But, on the other hand, she got to check out the competition. So how could she refuse?

Now they were only a few streets away, or at least that's what Temari said. Kyarra had no idea, this place was so weird. Every building seemed to be made out of sand, unlike the hidden-leaf, where everything was made out of actual bricks and stuff. She wondered, in the back of her mind, what the buildings would be made out of in the hidden cloud village.

Kyarra looked up slightly to see into Temari's eyes. "So what are your brothers like?" The light-blonde asked. She has been wondering about them ever since Temari mentioned that she even had brothers, which was on the way here, a bit before Kyarra was complaining about the heat for the eighth time.

"Well Kankuro is... annoying. But he's pretty strong, I guess. He uses puppet master jutsu." She looked at Kyarra, but not into her eyes, like she was hiding something.

"And the other one... Gaara is his name right?" Kyarra asked.

Temari glanced around the quiet street they were walking on. She looked nervous, like someone would jump out and attack her at any second. Which was, she guessed, completely possible since it was a ninja village. Ninja villages get attacked, it happens.

The dark-blonde opened her mouth to answer, but heard a noise and jumped about five feet in the air. Kyarra could see in her eyes that Gaara scared her. No, scratch that, he terrified her. He terrified... everyone?

"Well Gaara is..." She paused for a long time. "Different." She finished. Kyarra was about to open her mouth to ask how he was different, when Temari cut her off. "We're here!" She yelled quickly. The Sand-nin grabbed Kyarra's hand this time and pulled her into the house, through the main hallway, then to a different room that looked like the kitchen.

Kyarra decided to drop the topic of her brothers. Temari looked too nervous to answer her questions. She started pulling random ingredients down from the cupboards, "Are you hungry?"

"Yeah, I guess. Want some help with... whatever we're making?"

"Yeah, sure. Brownies?"

"Read my mind."

They started making the brownies, but were interrupted halfway through.

"You know, I've never made a perfect batch of brow–" Kyarra was cut off by someone walking into the room, "Oh, hi."

He had red hair, sea-green eyes, and an emotionless look on his face. When he saw Temari, he glared daggers-dipped-in-gasoline-caught-on-fire at her. Kyarra wondered if Sasuke could do that. She's seen some pretty intense glares from the raven. Most of the times they were glares because he would try to talk to her during class and she would refuse, avoiding his questions and making excuses. But... Gaara takes the cake.

As long as he doesn't take her brownies.

"H-hello Gaara!" Temari stuttered, sounding like Hinata talking to Naruto... or anyone for that matter... "This is-is Kyarra from the hidden leaf village. I t-told you about her... r-right?"

He nodded slightly, looking away from her, and she looked at Kyarra in warning. "Don't say anything!" she mouthed, making an X with her arms. When Gaara saw movement and turned toward her, she stopped and looked back at the brownie mix, whistling quietly to herself.

Kyarra was confused for a moment, until she saw the Shukaku just from a glance into his eyes. She looked sideways at Temari, who was leaning on the counter and looking anywhere but at Gaara. Then, she smiled slightly and turned back around towards the red-head again.

Then Gaara turned slightly and looked straight into Kyarra's eyes and watched as she calmly put down her bag, and walked over to him, hand extended. "You must be Temari's brother Gaara." she said easily. She didn't miss the second warning look that Temari shot her.

"I will be living here for the next week, I hope we can be friends." The blonde finished just as calmly as she started. Her eyes looked innocent and sincere, but sharp, like she could see through you. Which she could, of course, but Gaara didn't know that.

He looked into her eyes, then at her outstretched hand, and, without any expression at all, turned around and walked away.

"Nice to meet you, too!" she called after him, half-sarcastically, then turned around to a shell-shocked Temari.

"Let's finish those brownies." Kyarra said, walking back over to the bowl she was previously mixing, "As I was saying, I have never made a perfect batch of brownies in my entire life... I think..."

Well, she had a house mate who had a demon inside of him.

This was going to be fun.

Temari looked at her, then got out a pan for the brownies. 'That girl's got guts.'

'Let's hope she doesn't get killed.'

(1) SAAAAASSUUUKKKKEEE (yes pronounce it sass-ooke-ayyyy) then picture it in Sakura's voice. LOL!

(2) I forgot what I was going to put here... oh yeah!Sorry Sakura fans, but I strongly dislike her. Maybe because she fawns over MY SASUKE! ...Or maybe cause she's useless...

(3) THE HOBBIT! *flips desk over* (4)

(4) Me: *Tips chair over*

Cheeky Fella: Why the fuck did you do that?

Me: Because I can.

Ending note!

How are you liking the parts at the beginning? You know, the parts where you see her coming to the village and what happened and such-others? REVIEW IF YA WANT ME TO KEEP DOING THAT! (I'LL STILL DO IT ANYWAYS EVEN IF YOU TELL ME IT'S RETARDED!)

AWWWW I LOVE GAARA. AND SASUKE. AND NEJI. AND DEIDARA. AND KIBA. AND NARUTO. AND...

A FEW MINUTES LATER...

AND SUIGETSU! (Lol bet you didn't see that coming!)

Thanks for reading!

Sasuke: Hyuuga, Dobe.

Neji: Uchiha, Uzumaki.

Naruto: Neji, Teme.

Kyarra: Why are you addressing each other by last names... and insults...

Sasuke: Because we can.

Kyarra: Uhhhh huuuuh... I'll be right back!

Naruto: BRING BACK RAMEN!

WHAM!

Naruto: OW! TEME WHY'D YOU DO THAT?

Sasuke: Because I can. (4)

Neji: Where did Kyarra go anyways?

Kyarra: *Tackle/hugs the 3 of them* Surprise!

Masashi Kishimoto: Yes officer. That is the woman who is stealing my characters...

Repeatedly...

Kyarra: Dammit.

Bye!

~Kyarra Iyono 3