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Chapter three: What's this feeling?

When they got to the tower, the three teams went into separate rooms and opened the scrolls. A more experienced ninja told them about the preliminaries, and then afterwards, they decided to test their strength. They all had unnaturally strong chakra flows.

Jayde and Tayla, both being Aburame's, had bugs living inside them, helping them fight.

Sara had a mind transfer jutsu.

Courtney had her byakugan. That of the Hyuuga clan.

While Jessie had Kurosuke, her dog, and for some reason, the sharingan.

Tamara was fairly strong, but her sharingan hadn't activated yet, so she wasn't able to beat the others, but if it did activate, she could probably defeat all of them except Jessie, who had the aid of her dog. Tayla's taijutsu was incredible, but she was lacking in ninjutsu, and her genjutsu was average. Jayde's ninjutsu was better than her taijutsu, but again, her genjutsu was average. Sara's strong point was genjutsu, she was average at taijutsu, but her ninjutsu was still better than most people. Courtney was best at taijutsu, but her ninjutsu and genjutsu were average. Tamara was really good at genjutsu, but better at ninjutsu, and her taijutsu was average. Jessie was the same as Tamara, but she had the advantage of her sharingan, making her strong enough to get past Gaara's sand, landing a solid hit. Training ended after that.

"Hey Gaara, you ok?" Jessie asked Gaara after her punch to his gut.

"Hn," Gaara answered, rubbing his stomach lightly.

"I'll take that as a yes," Jessie said with a kind smile, while Gaara just glared at her. "I'm really sorry Gaara, I didn't mean to hurt you," she looked at her feet as she said it, her head lowered in apology. Gaara just turned around and walked off. After that, Jessie started crying randomly, but stopped that after a few minutes to angrily beat up a tree.

"Jessie, you don't have your medication do you?" Courtney asked.

"No," Jessie growled,

"Shit," Courtney said, and then she pulled out two packets of pills. She gave Jessie one of each pills, one for bipolar disorder, and one for depression.

"What's wrong with her?" Temari asked.

"I'm bipolar, and I have depression, if I go a week without my anti depressants, I start trying to kill myself," Jessie explained. She then noticed Gaara looking anywhere but at her, but she could tell he was listening in.

"What caused all of this?" Temari questioned Jessie,

"I'd rather not talk about it, I need to be alone for a while," she stated as she walked off.

While Jessie was wondering around the forest near the tower, she was attacked by a sound nin, and his team appeared right after. Her dog jumped on one of them, biting as hard as he could. Jessie did a few hand seals, held her fingers to her mouth.

"Twin dragons of fire!" she yelled, and two dragons flew from her mouth as she exhaled, incinerating the ninja, while Kurosuke jumped out of the way, then she picked her up and put her back on her head. Jessie fell to her knees when she saw the damage she did. There were three forms lying on the floor, burnt beyond recognition, and completely lifeless. 'I killed them, they were only supposed to get hurt, not die,' Jessie thought to herself, then she noticed the cut, going all the way up her arm, that one of the ninja managed to get in before he died.

She headed back to the tower, feeling light headed. She managed to get halfway before she passed out.

Gaara could smell blood, so he followed it to its source. He found Jessie covered in blood, he could tell she was close to death, he was going to leave her, but something sparked inside him, making him cover her arm in sand to stop the bleeding. He picked her up and carried her back to the tower, where he stitched and bandaged her arm.

Jessie bolted upright, eyes shooting open, only to meet with sea foam green. Pain shot through her arm, making her head spin, so she started to fall, only to be caught by an arm around her waist, helping her lie down carefully.

"Thank you," she muttered to Gaara weakly.

"Hn," he replied unemotionally.

"You aren't someone to help people, why did you save me?" she asked, getting a thoughtful look from Gaara, but no answer.

She tried to push herself up, but Gaara held her down.

"You will pull the stitches," he explained.

"When can I take the stitches out?" Jessie asked.

"A few days," he answered in a monotone voice.

"Gaara... You are not a monster, you are a human with feelings, not some tool or weapon, you deserve to be happy," she said sadly, knowing he didn't believe her one bit. He just glared at her and pulled his hand from her shoulder. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make you mad at me, I was just speaking the truth," she muttered, then she pushed herself up with her good arm and stood up.

"I thought I told you not to move," Gaara growled.

"Not like you can stop me, thank you for saving me, sorry for making you mad, I'll just leave so you don't have to put up with me any longer," She said, and she turned away from him. She walked towards the door, but was stopped by sand gripping her leg.

"Do you think I would have saved you if I wanted you dead?" he questioned.

"You will probably end up killing me during the fight, when you betray my village, who cares if I die? I'm not important, just some Uchiha-Inuzuka kid, no one would miss me if I died," Jessie said dully.

"What about your friends?" Gaara was confused.

"They would get over it," she told him.

"What if I don't want you dead?" He took a step towards her.

"You can't keep an eye on me for very long, you will be going back to Suna in a month," she turned her head to look at him,

"Shukaku wouldn't let you get hurt, he has taken a liking towards you," he pulled her towards him using sand.

"The raccoon can stand me? That's new," she was standing less than an inch away from him, 'What am I feeling? I hardly know her, but I want to protect her, and I don't like her blood on my hands,' Gaara thought, 'You like her more than you realise,' Shukaku said in his head,

"Shukaku isn't the only one who has taken a liking towards you," Gaara told her, and then she leaned forward to capture his lips with hers. He stiffened, not knowing what was going on or what to do. 'Kiss her back, you stupid brat,' Shukaku growled, so he closed his eyes, hesitantly adding pressure to her lips. She wrapped her arms around his neck, so on instincts, he wrapped his arms around her waist.

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