Hi! Sorry I haven't updating in a bit, I wasn't near a computer with internet. Enjoy!

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The night morning, Kiyomi through on a pair of Akane's jeans and one of Mizuko's green t-shirts and went to Lady Tsunade's office. She ended up spending the whole morning cleaning and organizing papers. Lady Tsunade eventually had to drag Kiyomi out of the office with promises that the papers would still be there tomorrow. Kiyomi walked around town for about an hour before she found herself in a forest. She walked a little deeper and soon found the wall she'd seen before. Next to it was Naruto, sprawled on the ground and asleep. She looked around and saw a large tree only a few feet from the wall. She quickly climbed up the tree and took a running start on a tree branch before jumping for the wall. She made it to the wall, barely, and scurried over. She feel over the wall and landed on her butt.

"Ow," she screamed, falling over on her side, "my ass!" She closed her eyes and silently pouted.

She felt someone walk up to her, stopping just short of stepping on her face. She opened her eyes and turned to stare up at the person.

"Sasuke," she mumbled.

"What are you doing here?"

"What are you doing here?" Kiyomi retorted.

Sasuke glared at her and started to walk away.

"What did you do to Naruto?" Kiyomi asked. Sasuke stopped walking. Kiyomi sat up, putting her back to the wall and pulling her knees up to rest her chin on them.

Sasuke turned back to her. "What?" he asked.

Kiyomi tilted her head down so she was looking at Sasuke through her bangs. "Naruto seems very sad when anyone talks about you. Did you have an important relationship with him?"

"Hn." Sasuke started to walk away again.

"Did you love him?" Kiyomi smirked. Sasuke turned around and his eyes were crimson. Kiyomi blinked and Sasuke was suddenly in front of her, a katana hovering above her face.

"I should kill you," he growled.

"Why? Because I can see that you love Naruto?" Kiyomi whispered.

"I don't love Naruto. He's a guy."

"And? You think you can't love another guy?"

"Hn."

Kiyomi felt heat boiling her stomach. "Guess what. It doesn't matter who or what you are. You're going to love whoever your heart tells you to love and you can't change that! You love him and yet you're still hurting him!"

Sasuke glared at her before bringing the katana down at her. It sliced deep into her cheek.

"Leave," Sasuke growled at her again.

Tears sprung up in Kiyomi's eyes. "Why did you leave?"

Sasuke turned away from her but didn't try to walk away. "To kill my brother."

Kiyomi felt her tears seeping into the cut on her cheek. "And did you?"

Sasuke flinched. "Yes."

"Then go back to Naruto now," Kiyomi pulled herself off the ground, using the wall as a support. "He needs you know and you need him."

It was quiet, the silence building between them. "A guard is coming," Sasuke mumbled, "you should leave."

Kiyomi nodded and went for the tree next to the wall. She got over this time better than before. She left Naruto sleeping in the grass and walked blindly through the forest. The cut burned on her cheek but she ignored it, focusing only on moving her legs forward.

Kiyomi was so focused on walking that she didn't see anyone else till she ran straight into them.

"Oh," she mumbled, "I'm sorry." She looked into their face and gasped. "Gaara. W-what are you doing here?"

He looked back at her and Kiyomi noticed that they were the same height so they could see eye to eye. It made Kiyomi feel as though the moment was very intimate.

"You're bleeding," Gaara mumbled.

"Oh yeah," Kiyomi sighed. She touched her cheek just under the cut and her hand came away covered in blood. "Wow. That's bleeding a lot worse then I thought."

Gaara stepped up in front of her, Kiyomi's shirt brushing Gaara's. Gaara brought his hand up to cup Kiyomi's cheek. Kiyomi felt her heart starting to race and a blush crept up to her cheeks. Faintly, she realized she had forgotten to breath. Gaara turned Kiyomi's face so her injured cheek was facing him. He lend down so his face hovered just over Kiyomi's cheek. She felt dizzy and her knees where weak. She was going to fall, or faint. Gaara ran his tongue roughly over Kiyomi's cut. Heat pulsed outward from the wound and spread throughout Kiyomi's body.

Kiyomi's head swam and her knees finally gave out. Gaara caught her before she feel, holding her close to him, which did not help Kiyomi's head.

Kiyomi shook her head roughly. "Sorry," she mumbled, "I, uh, tripped."

"You were standing still," Gaara pointed out.

"Right," Kiyomi giggled, "guess I'm just that much of a klutz. Uh, Gaara?"

"Hm?"

"I'm not falling anymore, so you can let me go."

Gaara quickly let Kiyomi and backed away from her, like he just realized she was poisonous. He just stared at her for a minute before walking off.

"Hey," Kiyomi called, "can I walk with you?"

"…"

"I'll take that for a yes," Kiyomi mumbled to herself. She ran to catch up with Gaara. They walked in silence, Kiyomi fidgeting with the hem of her shirt.

"Are you scared of me?" Gaara asked suddenly, making Kiyomi jump a little.

"Scared?" Kiyomi giggled, "why would I be scared of you?"

"I'm a monster," Gaara mumbled.

Kiyomi rested her hand on Gaara's shoulder and he immediately froze up. Kiyomi removed her hand again and mentally scolded herself for her touchy feely problem. "I don't think you're a monster," she mumbled.

They continued to walk in utter silence and soon broke out of the forest and where walking on the outskirts of town.

Akane suddenly appeared, running towards them. "Kiyomi!" she screamed.

When Akane reached them she wrapped her arms around Kiyomi and unconsciously attempted to suffocate her with her breasts.

"Akane," Kiyomi gasped, "can't…breathe!"

"Oh," Akane laughed and let Kiyomi go, "sorry. So…what were you doing…in the forest…with Gaara…for two hours? And why are you bleeding?" Akane smirked.

Kiyomi blushed. "Nothing! I took a walk and only saw Gaara a few minutes ago. And I cut my cheek on a branch."

"Right, sure," Akane smiled, "so you ready?" Akane started digging in a big pursue hanging by her hip. She came out with a first aid kit and started to clean Kiyomi's cut.

Kiyomi gave her a very confused frown. "Ready? For what?"

"I'm taking you shopping," Akane smiled happily.

Kiyomi could feel fear tingle threw her whole body. If there were one thing she couldn't stand doing it was shopping, especially clothes shopping.

"Shopping? Why?" Kiyomi whined.

"Well I hope you weren't planning on wearing my clothes forever. You do need your own wardrobe." Akane put a band aid on Kiyomi's cheek and put the first aid kit back in her pursue.

"But," Kiyomi stared in shock, "I don't want to go shopping."

Akane giggled and put her hand on Kiyomi shoulder, suddenly becoming very serious. "Too bad," she smiled again. "See ya later, Gaara." Kiyomi shot Gaara one more horror filled glance before being dragged off.

For the next three hours Kiyomi mumbled about how horrible clothes shopping was and wanting Akane to stop wasting her money. Luckily for Kiyomi, as the sun was setting they started their trek back to the house.

"So," Akane said obviously tired of silence, "you took a walk with Gaara?"

"Yes," Kiyomi was still pouting from all the shopping.

"You should probably be careful around him."

Kiyomi looked startled for a minute. "Why?"

"He's not…normal. Not exactly the type of person you wanna spend your life with."

"Why," Kiyomi screamed. She had the sudden urge to defend Gaara's honor.

"Well, usually I wouldn't speak ill of another village's leader, he's the Kazekage by the way, like Lady Tsunade only from a different village, but he is kind of…a monster."

Kiyomi stopped walking and dropped all of her shopping bags. "How can you say that?" She screamed.

Akane was the one who looked startled this time. "Because he is. He's killed people…for fun! But that was a long time ago. I guess he could have changed."

Kiyomi picked up her bags again. "He has."

They finished their walk back to the house with Akane shooting Kiyomi worried glances. They were on the porch when Mizuko ran out of the house.

"Did you hear?" She screamed when she saw them.

"No," Akane screamed back.

"Sasuke's been spotted near the gate!"

"What?" Akane shouted.

Akane and Kiyomi threw their bags inside the house before running for the gate. They reached the gate and saw a giant crowd, every obviously hearing about Sasuke. Kiyomi spotted Naruto near the head of the crowd. She ran up to him and put a hand on his shoulder to show that she was there. Naruto smiled sadly at her.

The gate suddenly opened and Sasuke walked in like her owned the place. A ring of ninja stopped him from going any farther then a few feet into the village. Sasuke looked around and spotted Naruto. Kiyomi watched as they stared at each other, a meaningful look passing between them.

A group of ninja started to escort Sasuke away. "Wait," he called. The ninjas passed but continued to carry Sasuke away. "Naruto," he said the they passed Naruto and Kiyomi, "I came back for you. I love you." Naruto looked shocked and blushed. Kiyomi gave Sasuke a small smile and he nodded back at her. The crowd started to dissipate, slightly depressed that there wasn't a big fight about Sasuke return.

"He's back," Naruto mumbled. Kiyomi looked into his face and saw confusion, anger, and love all covered by a small blush. Kiyomi pulled him into a tight hug. She felt tears begin to soak into her shirt. "He came back for me…"

A tiny girl with short, pink hair and bright green eyes came up beside Naruto. She looked up at the boy, worry clear on her face. She put a hand on his shoulder and turned to Kiyomi. "I'm his team mate Sakura Haruno."

"Kiyomi Tsukino," Kiyomi mumbled, resting her hand in Naruto's bright blonde hair.

"I'll take him home," Sakura said, pulling Naruto close to her. Kiyomi nodded and relinquished her hold on Naruto. She watched the two of them walk away with a small smile playing over her lips. She began to feel a prickle between her shoulder blades, though, and had to turn around.

She saw Gaara watching her. She waited to feel creeped out that someone had been watching her but it didn't happen, so she shrugged and walked up to him.

"Hey Gaara," she greeted.

"…" he replied.

Kiyomi looked around. "Well, looks like Akane and Mizuko ran off without me again. I should go find them…"

Kiyomi went to leave but looked back at Gaara, who was walking away in the opposite direction. Before Kiyomi really had time to think she ran up to Gaara and hugged him from behind. Like Kiyomi thought, Gaara froze up at her touch.

"Sorry," Kiyomi mumbled into Gaara's shoulder, "I have a problem with being overly touchy."

Gaara slowly relaxed against Kiyomi. "Why did you hug me?"

"You looked like you needed a hug. Do you want me to stop?"

Gaara didn't respond so Kiyomi hugged him tighter.

"Kiyomi," someone called. Kiyomi jumped and let go of Gaara, managing to fall in the process.

"Ow," Kiyomi mumbled as Akane turned a corner and spotted her.

"There you are Kiki. I've been looking for you forever," Akane smiled and helped Kiyomi off the ground.

"I've been here," Kiyomi pointed out.

"Oh," Akane smiled, "well…you can meet my boyfriend!"

"You have a boyfriend?" Kiyomi was stunned.

"Yeah. I don't get to see him very often cuz he lives in a different village but he's here now. KANKURO!" Akane screamed, Kiyomi covered her ears.

"What?" Someone else replied. He finally came into and walked up to Akane. He was a little tan with brown hair and brown eyes…and purple face paint.

Akane jumped up and down and wrapped her arms around Kankuro. "Kiyomi, this is Kankuro."

"Gee," Kiyomi said in mock happiness, "I would've never guessed with you screaming his name at the top of your lungs."

Akane giggled. "See Kankuro, I told you she was adorable. Oh, hey, Gaara." The couple only then noticed the red head who had pushed himself in the back ground.

"Little brother," Kankuro said happily, "Temari was wandering where you'd been all day."

"…"

"Oh, yeah," Akane smiled, "Kiyomi, Kankuro is Gaara's older brother."

"That's…nice," Kiyomi mumbled.

"Wait," Akane said suddenly, "what were you and Gaara doing back here all alone in the dark."

Kiyomi blushed slightly. "Why do you always assume that I'm doing something?"

"I don't always assume you're doing something," Akane said off-handedly, "I just always assume you're doing something with Gaara."

Kankuro wrapped his arms around Akane's waist. "They would make such a cute couple." Akane nodded in agreement.

"Alright, that's it!" Kiyomi screamed. "I'm going home, I have to work tomorrow." Kiyomi stormed off. She heard Akane and Kankuro laughing behind her.