Hello people of earth! I have been really hyper lately...last night i stayed up and wrote a chapter and a half of this story...in the middle of the night!

Disclaimer: If i owned Naruto...it would not be suitable for children...

The next morning they walked to the village, which turned out to be a lot longer then Kiyomi thought.

"Hello, everybody!" Akane screamed as they entered the village gates. The two guys guarding the gates gave her a look but ultimately ignored her. Akane turned to Mizuko and Kiyomi as they came threw the gate a step after her. "Let's go see the Hokage."

"Ho-what?" Kiyomi asked.

"The leader of our village. She's old," Akane replied.

"Akane," Mizuko scolded.

"Akane!" a voice called from down the road. "Hey, Mizuko!"

"Naruto," Akane called, waving vigorously.

Kiyomi looked at the boy called Naruto. He was tan and blonde with bright blue eyes. His jacket and pants were orange and black. He was the boy she saw yesterday.

Naruto stopped in front of Akane. "Hey!" she said, "Meet our new friend Kiyomi Tsukino."

"Hey, Kiyomi. I'm Naruto Uzumaki," Naruto extended his hand.

Kiyomi looked at his hand then shook it, uncertain. "Hello, Naruto. It's nice to meet you."

Naruto looked at her like she was a complex jigsaw puzzle he couldn't figure out. "You look familiar."

"I'm sorry Naruto," Mizuko said in her motherly voice, "but we really need to go talk to Lady Tsunade."

Naruto grinned, rather stupidly in Kiyomi's opinion. "I'll come with you!"

Akane smiled too. "Great! The more the merrier. Right, Kiyomi?"

Kiyomi nodded and gave a halfhearted smile.

On the way to see Lady Tsunade Akane and Naruto talked animatedly. Mizuko and Kiyomi walked behind them in silence.

They got to a tower near a cliff with faced carved into it. Then they walked up way too many stairs until they stopped in front of an office. Mizuko knocked on the door.

"Come in," someone called from the other side.

Mizuko opened the door and everybody filed in. Kiyomi stopped near the door in horror. Papers filled every corner of the except for a desk. Behind that desk was a tired looking busty blonde woman and beside her was young woman with short brown hair holding a pig. Kiyomi was a perfectionist and all the papers filling the room was making her twitchy. "Mizuko, Akane, how did the mission go?"

"It went perfectly, Lady Tsunade. But we wanted to talk to you about something."

Lady Tsunade, only then noticed Kiyomi. "Who is your friend. I've never seen her in the village."

"This is Kiyomi Tsukino, Lady Tsunade. She was near the village our mission was in."

"Actually," Akane interrupted, "she was passed out in a meadow near the village."

"Where did you come from Kiyomi?" Lady Tsunade asked.

"Tokyo," she mumbled.

Mizuko touched Kiyomi's shoulder. "What's wrong? You look distracted."

"It's…look at this room!" she screamed. Mizuko jumped and everybody else looked a little worried. "There are papers every where! It's so disorganized…seriously have you ever heard of a filing cabinet?"

There was a long silence before Naruto and Akane bust out laughing. "What's so funny?" Kiyomi screamed again. "This is a serious problem. What good are papers if they're not organized!"

Lady Tsunade laughed silently at her outburst. "Then how would you like to be my secretary. Help me and Shizune with all this paperwork."

Kiyomi smiled like a kid in a candy store. "I would love too!" Naruto and Akane were laughing so hard they were rolling on the floor.

"Why don't I just take these kids to get something to eat and bring Kiyomi home to live with us." Mizuko suggested.

"Good idea, Mizuko. Kiyomi, be here tomorrow, eight o'clock." Lady Tsunade called.

"Yeah, sure," Kiyomi nodded and helped Mizuko pull Naruto and Akane out of the office.

By the time they were out of the office Naruto and Akane had calmed down and were talking about lunch. "Ramen," they screamed.

"No!" Mizuko screamed back, "I hate ramen."

"How about," Kiyomi cut in, "Naruto and Akane can go eat ramen and Mizuko and I can go eat something else."

Akane jumped onto Kiyomi, forcing Kiyomi to hold onto Akane's thighs so they wouldn't fall. "But I want her!" she whined.

"After you already lost her once," Mizuko said crossing her arms and looking every bit like a mom.

"It's different now," Akane tried to reason. She pulled Naruto close, "Naruto's with me now and together we make a whole brain." Naruto nodded vigorously.

Mizuko sighed. "Fine. But both of you be home before dark."

"Yay!" Akane yelled. She threw her arms into the air and fell back against Naruto with her legs still wrapped around Kiyomi.

Mizuko walked away, smiling brightly.

"Akane," Kiyomi called.

"Yea," Akane said innocently.

"We can't move if you're still wrapped around us."

"Correction. I'm wrapped around you, I'm just holding Naruto."

Naruto must have noticed something behind Kiyomi because he yelled "hey" and ran off, dropping Akane.

Akane and Kiyomi fell to the ground.

"Oops," Naruto mumbled.

Akane jumped to her feet. "You idiot!"

"Sorry," Naruto apologized rubbing the back of his head, "I just wanted to say hi to Gaara."

"So you had to drop me?"

Kiyomi pulled herself off the ground and glared at Naruto and Akane's fighting. But a bright red color distracted her. She looked next to Naruto to see a boy with hair the color of blood. He was pale with rings around his teal eyes. A symbol was on his forehead meaning love and a giant gourd hung from his back.

She made a small sound in her throat, causing him to look at her. In the moment their eyes meet the world vanished for Kiyomi, the only thing she could focus on was his eyes. So intoxicating, so sad.

"Gaara," she whispered.

Akane grabbed Kiyomi and shook her roughly, breaking her eye contact with Gaara. "Yo Kiki," she said when Kiyomi finally looked at her, "I've been trying to get your attention for like five minutes."

"Did you," Kiyomi mumbled trying to refocus, "did you call me Kiki?"

Akane smiled. "Maybe."

Naruto walked up, throwing his arm over Kiyomi's shoulder. "I think it's cute." Kiyomi glared at him. Naruto looked at her suddenly surprised. "Now I know who you remind me of!" he screamed.

"Who?" Akane asked. She lend in close to Kiyomi and Naruto.

"You look like…Sasuke," he mumbled the last part so it was hard to hear.

Akane grabbed Kiyomi's face between her hands and stared at her, examining her face.

"The hair is the same and so is the skin but…" Akane mumbled, Kiyomi glared at her, "Oh, now I see it." She turned to Naruto. "I'm so sorry Naruto, I didn't realize."

Naruto smiled but it looked sad. "It's not a problem. Hey, Gaara, you haven't met Kiyomi yet!"

Akane let go of Kiyomi's face and she turned to Gaara. Kiyomi blushed slightly when she saw Gaara again.

"Hm," was all he said.

Akane turned and started to walk away. "Let's go to lunch now. Gaara, wanna come?"

"..."

Naruto and Akane walked ahead with Kiyomi and Gaara following close behind. Kiyomi tried to keep her eyes ahead of her but she was still aware of Gaara walking beside her. When they got to the ramen shop they all took a seat in this order: Naruto, Akane, Kiyomi, and Gaara.

After everyone got their ramen (and Akane and Naruto got into an unofficial ramen eating contest) it was up to Gaara and Kiyomi to keep up a conversation. Needless to say there wasn't much said and the silence in the ramen shop grew awkward.

"Who's Sasuke?" Kiyomi asked into the silence. Gaara glanced at her, Akane stared at her with a noodle hanging out of her mouth, and Naruto choked on a mouthful of ramen.

Akane glanced at Naruto then back at Kiyomi. "Sasuke was a ninja from this village," she finally answered.

"Was? What happened to him?"

Naruto dropped his head so Kiyomi couldn't see his eyes. "He left," he stood up, "I should go."

He started to walk away, Kiyomi jumped up and grabbed his wrist. He turned to her, surprise plain on his face. "Naruto," Kiyomi whispered.

Naruto gave her a small smile. "I'll be fine, Kiki," he told her, "I'm just going to train."

Kiyomi gave him a smile and let go of his wrist. He smiled back and then disappeared. She went back to her seat between Akane and Gaara.

"What was that about," Akane asked.

Kiyomi shrugged and smile. "I don't like to see people unhappy."

Akane smiled. "Aw. That's so sweet!"

"Why?" Gaara asked. Kiyomi turned to him and looked a little started. This was the first word she had actually heard him say.

"Um. I guess it's because my brother always tried to keep people happy so I feel like I should too."

Gaara stared at her, or rather it felt like he was staring into her, like he could see everything going on in Kiyomi's mind.

"What happened to your brother?" he asked.

"He and my father were killed in an accident a few years ago."

"Do you miss him?"

"Very much so. He was my twin, older by like ten minutes, and he was also my very best friend. He was always so calm when I wasn't. Kind of like my dad. Except my dad acted a little crazy sometimes. He use to walk us up at in the middle of the night so we could get ice cream and drive to the ocean to watch the sun rise. That always pissed off my mom." Kiyomi smiled. Gaara and Kiyomi were so wrapped up in Kiyomi's babbling that they didn't notice Akane pay for the ramen and leave.

"You don't like your mother?"

Kiyomi made a face. "Not really. She always wanted a daughter who looked like her, blonde hair and blue eyes, but I turned out to look more like my dad and she treated me like I did it on purpose to spite her. What's with all the questions all the sudden?"

Gaara glared at the counter. "I don't know."

They were both silent after that. Kiyomi looked around and finally noticed that Akane was missing.

"Gaara? Where did Akane go?"

"…"

"Real helpful…" Kiyomi scolded him.

He glared at her and her face softened. That sad look was back in his eyes. She was fighting herself fiercely to not go to him. But her hand developed a mind of it's own and raised out to him. She touched Gaara's cheek and he froze. Kiyomi pulled her hand back and looked at the ground.

"I'm sorry," she mumbled.

Gaara got up. "I'll take you home." Kiyomi nodded.

The front door flew open and Mizuko came out, running up to Kiyomi and giving her a tight hug. "Oh, Kiyomi, you're safe! When Akane came home without you I was so worried. I was about to go looking for you."

Kiyomi stared down at Mizuko till she stopped talking then returned the hug with equal exuberance. "It's alright Mizuko. Gaara made sure I got home safe."

Mizuko finally looked at Gaara, still hugging Kiyomi tightly. "Oh, hello Gaara. Thank you for bringing Kiyomi home."

"..." Gaara started to walk off.

"Wait!" Mizuko called. Gaara turned around again. "Do you want to stay for dinner?" Gaara shook his head. "Well bye then," Mizuko called.

Akane came out of the house in time to see Gaara walk off. "Yo, Gaara," Akane called out, he keep on walking like he didn't hear her.

Mizuko looked like she was about to scold Akane when Kiyomi spoke up, "You said something about dinner?"

"Dinner?" Akane asked. "Oh hell yeah!"

Kiyomi laughed joyfully. Maybe she was going to like it here.

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