The Forth Chapter!

I'm actually doing quite a bit better now then last time I made one of these fanfic stories... I'm really glad I started again ^-^

In this chapter I think you finally get to meet Gaara (I'm not sure, I'm just making this story up as I go along; it's quicker this way). Last time I wrote it all down on paper first, before typing it up onto word, before downloading it onto Fanfic. =S It was long, REALLY long I'm not joking!

Oh! And one last thing; I sort of based Sora some other manga/anime characters. (I know, rubbish imagination TT_TT )

Sora is based on a cross between Sora and Roxas from Kingdom Hearts... I didn't mean to, he just sort of turned out that way.

Also, when I was first thinking of Yuki; I thought of him as having dark brown hair, but looking back now I typed in light brown hair. Whoops =S Never mind, whats done is done.

Disclaimer; same as last time, I don't know why people even have to bother.


You stepped outside into the hot and dusty town, closing the front door behind you. They weren't kidding when they said hot and dusty. The town was as busy as always; you lived close to the market place too, which is why where you lived was usually crowded. In the market the streets were packed full of people of all ages; buying, selling and browsing for items. Today Aunt Natsuko had asked you to do the shopping, which you happily accepted as there really wasn't anything else for you to do.

Finding this Gaara person- without asking anyone for help- was going to be a difficult task. Your brother had tried to help by sending you a picture of what he looked like.

It was a crappy drawing. Naruto was never one for art. You, on the other hand were much better- many people had told you that you should have been an artist and not a ninja; but you preferred to be a ninja. Not half as many people would criticize your work then.

It turned midday and you had just about finished the shopping. You checked the item list that your aunt had given you.

"Eggs... check. Milk... check. Tomatoes... check..."

You bumped into someone and stumbled backwards, landing on your bum and dropping your bags.

"Ouch! Oh, sorry." you looked up to see who you had bumped into.

Standing there in front of you was a young, blond haired ninja who was probably a little bit older than you. She had green eyes and her hair was done up in four spiky bunches. You apologised and started to gather up the shopping you had dropped, thankfully the mild hadn't spilt or anything.

"Here, let me help you with that." She said and began helping you gather your stuff.

"Thanks!" you said bowing politely

"It was no problem. Don't worry about it," she replied, "my name's Temari, nice to meet you."

"Uzumaki Camika," you introduced yourself, holding out your hand to shake hers, "and it's nice to meet you too."

She stood there and stared at you shocked for one moment, before shaking your hand.

"Are you related to... what's his name again.... He lives in konoha..." she asked thinking hard.

"Naruto?" you suggested. How did this girl know your brother?

"Yeah, that's the one! I guess that's a yes then, huh?"

"Yeah, he's my twin."

"Twin? But you look nothing alike. Plus you weren't there at the Chunin exams... were you?"

"Naah, I wasn't there. I'd passed that before he was even out of the academy," you said grinning, "and I look more like our mum. He gets his looks from our dad... or at least we think so."

"Your smiles exactly the same as his"

"Yeah, we share the same cheesy grin." You said laughing. "So you know him from the chunin exams?"

As you chatted away you walked, although you had no clue where you were going. Apparently to your aunts house, because Temari had changed direction and was now walking the same way as you.

"Sort of, I guess. He met my brother there and...." she drifted off not finishing her sentence for a while, "he's been different since they met. A lot more.... nice, a lot more human."

Was she talking about Gaara? Or was her brother the one Naruto met and not this Gaara person and you had got it all wrong? Or maybe she was talking about someone completely different that Naruto had met once? Only one way to find out....

"Errr, I think I know who you're talking about I'm not sure... Naruto mentioned someone before I left Konoha, red hair?" you asked.

"Yup"

"no eyebrows?"

"Uh-huh"

"Bad case of insomnia?"

"Very bad"

"Sounds like him, what's his name?"

"Gaara."

You didn't fail to notice that Temari said his name a lot quieter then how she said her other responses. You guessed that there was only one Gaara in town.

"Cool. Thank god for that, I thought I'd never find him. Lucky break for me then, huh?" you continued to explain what you meant, "Naruto has a message for him; nothing important just 'hi' but he asked me to give it to him myself. Plus I'd like to get to know him aswell, if that's alright Temari-san."

"That's.... fine I guess. I mean, he's not so nasty anymore so it should be safe.

"It'd be safe for me, even if he was nasty. Providing that he actually is a jinjuriki of cause" you thought to yourself, but didn't say anything out loud, you didn't want to freak her out.

"so, you got any other siblings?" you asked conversationally.

You two carried on talking and hung out together for the whole day (after you dropped the shopping off at home first). You and Temari get along really well and soon enough you were friends. You had organised to go round her house in two days time, because Gaara was off on a mission with their brother Kankuro and would be out of town for a while. Also apparently the house needed a serious clean out which would take a long time. You had volunteered to help, but Temari insisted that she did it herself.

So in two days time, you'd be finally meeting this Gaara person.

"Wow Camika-chan, you're brave." Sora said after you'd told him and Yuki what you were doing.

It was the next day now, only one more day to go and you couldn't wait. Temari had promised not to tell them who you were or why you were coming round. This helped you a little bit; but you were still nervous. What if he didn't like you? What if he honestly didn't care- then you'd be really disappointed. You were currently sitting on a roof top looking down at the market place eating some ice-cream while waiting for your sensei to show up. Apparently Kakashi-sensei wasn't the only jonin who had a habit of being late to everything.

"I'm not that brave. To be honest I've got loads of butterflies in my stomach" you replied bashfully.

Sora gave you an odd look.

"She means metaphorically, dummy!" Yuki explained, hitting his teammate round the back of the head.

"OW! Hey, what's that mean??"

You laughed, "A metaphor is like a simile; it's basically compairing the feeling I've got right now to something similar..."

He still didn't get it.

"Ok, for example, the moon is a gigantic ball in the sky"

"But the moon isn't-"

"I know that; I'm just comparing it to a ball in the sky, that's all. That's what a metaphor is."

"Eeerrrr, I still don't get it."

Even you, with the patience from the gods with dimwits like Sora and Naruto didn't have the patience to try to continue to teach this kid.

"You know, for a guy who's as good looking as you are, you really don't have any brains do you?" You regretted saying this as soon as the last words slipped from your mouth. You saw Sora's eyes light up. Best put him down before he gets too many ideas.

"No, I don't mean it like that. I said it before, I'll say it again; I'm not really interested in you like that."

Yuki was laughing so hard he was almost in tears. Sora began to argue with him and soon enough they were having one of their little spats again. You sighed and turned away, looking around for something interesting to look at. And you found it.

A boy, with bright, blood red hair was standing in the market place outside one of the shops. The crowd around him were, well... not really around him. They sort of backed away a bit and gave him some space. He fascinated you, it was really weird. Sort of like the first time you saw Naruto. Like the first time you saw Haruki. He looked up and caught you staring at him, so you gave him a small smile. His eyes were amazing, round his eyes it looked like he was wearing eye-lined, or eye-shadow or something like that...

Then you saw Temari stepping out of the looked away from you as she spoke to him handed him a bag.

"So does that make him.... Gaara?" you thought.

Temari looked up- probably to see what he was staring at. She saw you and waved happily. You grinned and waved back at your friend. They began to walk off talking about something, probably you.

"Hey, I'm here!" Sakuma-sensei announced, appearing out of nowhere in a puff of smoke.

"ABOUT TIME!" Sora and Yuki shouted together in unison making you laugh.

"well that was certainly interesting..."


Next chapter: The Sand siblings home. Forgot to mention; I've drawn some of these Oc characters out for you; I'm gonna put them up on Deviantart sometime; I'll mention it at the beginning of a chapter when I've actually put them up on there, so you can have a look!! =D

Thanks again for reading!!

Michy-chan