Okay. I know this is really short, but I just couldn't combine this with some more. I promise I will get something longer out very soon. I don't think I simplified the dialogue as much as I wanted to. Sorry chronicxxinsanity. I'm going to harder because I really appreciated the input. Okay. Actual interraction between Gaara and the OC, so hopefully this goes well. ENJOY!

"Oh my god! I never thought I would miss a hamburger this much. And bacon! So tasty!" Sophia had taken huge bites into her burger. In fact, she ate it before Gaara had taken more than bites into his own. "You know what? I'm going to splurge. Excuse me. May I have another? Thanks." Gaara just stared at her. She looked like she barely weighed more than 100 pounds.

"How are you so small?" he finally blurted out. She looked quite shocked.

"I get that question pretty often actually. I just don't get hungry for really long periods of time. For an entire week, I forgot to eat dinner because I wasn't hungry. One of my friends proceeded to yell at me. It's really not at all healthy, but believe me, it's better than it was a few years back. I have a question myself. Why is the kanji for love tattooed on your forehead? Not that I'm criticizing or anything, I thought it was pretty amazing, but I am curious."

"It's a long story."

"You don't have to say another word. Maybe when we've known each other longer."

"Thanks."

"Hmmm… Besides eating at American diners, what do you like doing? Oh god that sounded so lame, sorry."

"Don't be. I like reading and playing video games, I guess… You?"

"All sorts of things! Both of those, not that I'm that good at playing video games. I wouldn't call myself a gamer, but I love watching my big brother play. I suppose growing up with him playing single-player games made me used to it." She smiled. "I love watching people on YouTube, they are brilliantly funny. And I hate to go for the female clichés, but I love cooking and sewing, and sometimes even cleaning, but only when I'm anxious and umm… can't sleep." She looked down, avoiding his eyes.

"Insomniac, huh?"

"My Japanese isn't that great yet. What's that?"

"A person who has trouble falling asleep."

"Oh. Sorry. Yep, you too?"

"Look at my eyes."

"Oh yeah." She laughed to herself.

"What's funny?"

"Everyone in my family has insomnia, and the dark circles and puffy eyes, so it didn't even seem out of place to me. I feel quite silly. What's your trick?"

"Sorry?"

"How do you try to get to sleep when your head is buzzing and your thoughts won't stop plaguing you?"

"I don't."

"Even if it doesn't work, you have to have something. I use audio books. It doesn't usually work, but I still try."

"The moon."

"What?"

"I look at the moon. I have a big window in my bedroom. I just stare at it." His face started to blur in her eyes, as her eyes welled.

"Do you like roofs?" she asked quickly. The waiter came over and gave her another burger. "Thanks," she whispered to him.

"What do you mean?" Gaara replied.

"Do you like sitting up on roofs? Looking up at the sky, the trees…" she trailed off dreamily, "Sunsets, sunrises early summer mornings, clouds on windy days." She shook herself out of it. "I don't know, I just felt like you might like roofs."

"I do." He looked puzzled for a second, as if deciding something. He laid down a handful of money on the table and said, "Here, I want to show you something."

"But the bill—"

"Don't worry about it. You need to see this." He started walking out without her, so she quickly got out of the booth after him. They came up to a decrepit building, vines crawling all around and inside it. Sophia was a bit apprehensive, but Gaara continued, unperturbed. She followed him up a cement staircase onto a flat expansive roof.

She twirled around, the wind in her hair. "This is amazing. How'd you find this place?" He just shrugged and lied down on his back. She copied him. They just watched the clouds blow past. Sophia started to sing to herself.

"What are you singing?" Gaara asked.

"I'm not sure what it is in Japanese, but," she broke off from Japanese into English. "You are My Sunshine. Have you hear of it?" He shook his head, still not raising himself from the ground. She smiled. "It's my favorite song. I kind of wish I had a sunshine like that…" Gaara raised his eyebrows. "Nothing, it's not important." She stared back at the sky, humming that same folksy tune.

Before long, the sky got dark and the first star came out. "Hey, Gaara. Make a wish." He didn't reply, so she turned to look at him. "Gaara? Are you asleep? Hmm. Then I probably shouldn't wake you, but I don't want to leave you here. I guess I could try to carry you. I'm not sure I can, but I'd rather try, than the other options. You don't get enough sleep as it is." She went over to him, to try and pick him up, bridal style. "Holy Crap! Gaara, you're going to break my arms." He still didn't stir. Sophia was very determined. Once, when she was rearranging her room, she moved her wardrobe all by herself. It took her an hour just to get it across the room, but when she was done, she was very proud. This was the same thing to her, except she just needed to push the wardrobe, not carry it and she didn't feel like she could roll Gaara down several flights of stairs, a few blocks, and then back up a flight of steps… "Okay. Let's go."

She managed to get out the building before needing to rest again. She continued to take a break every block, luckily there were only 5 until her and Gaara's building. "I'm not really sure where your room is, but I know where Sasuke's is and he's bound to know, and at the very least I can unload you onto him. What do you eat anyway? Rocks?" Going up the stairs proved to be much more challenging than the opposite direction. She finally arrived at Sasuke's room and collapsed. After a quick knock, Sasuke came out, looking quite confused.

"Hello?" he said.

"Hey, can I drop him off here? He fell asleep, and I haven't been able to wake him. I don't know where his room is, but I knew where you were and I figured you could get him where he needs to go." She walked in and set him down on a couch.

"No problem…"

"Oh, and you should probably set his alarm early because we didn't do any homework. If he wakes up before you go to bed, tell him I had fun!" She was already out the door before Sasuke could call out after her.

"That was so weird," Sasuke muttered to himself. And then to his sleeping friend, "Goodnight roomie."

I want to take this time to thank everyone who's reviewed so far. koolkat44 Shadow-Ninja-Captain69 Lun3rClockwork .Master CuteBellie115 Zerojackson and chronicxxinsanity. Thank you so much for the input. I would really appreciate more reviews because they really help pacify my paranoia that I'm writing absolute crap. Criticism, comments, suggestions, even flames are all appreciated.

A really quick thing. I want to put Karin's group back in at some point but I need some names for the other girls so I would love any suggestions for names that you don't like. Thanks so much!