(A/N): hello and welcome to chapter 7 of my story. Please READ, ENJOY, and, REVIEW. Thnks!

Tamaru looked at gaara with a little smile. He pulled the cork out of his gourd and let the sand fall out. He started practicing and tamaru wondered why. He was the best ninja she had ever seen. She looked at the floor and then looked at her hands. 'Could i,' she thought to herself as she started to draw water into her hand from the moisture in the air. Soon she noticed that people had stopped to stare at her. She kept going pulling out more and more water and was soon whipping it everywhere with grace and skill.

As she finished the routine, her fellow students started to clap. She smiled briefly but her smile suddenly faded. "Otika, Tamaru." she heard Master Iruka shout over the clapping people. She felt her nerves go edgy and a shiver ran down her spine. She slowly stepped forward and master iruka stood before her. "Okay, all you must do is get that scroll off the wall over there." he said as simply as he could. 'What, this must be some kind of trick.' tamaru thought to herself. She leerily stepped forward when suddenly she felt a trip string pull against her leg. "I knew it!" she shouted jumping up into the air.

But as she jump a giant log swung toward her she spun and flew over it. She felt it tug at her hair. As she landed back on the ground, she saw master kakashi coming at her. She, without even thinking, summoned some water and hit him. It stunned him for only a few moments, then he was back at the chase. 'Oh crap, oh crap!' she thought to herself as he quickly caught up to her. She quickly jumped up and spun around. She pulled as much water as she could out of the air, and focused it around his feet.

She had her hands opened and then suddenly clenched them shut. The water froze fast and hard around kakashi's feet. She thought for a second that all the momentum and stopping would break his legs. But she quickly got her head back in the game and looked at the scroll on the wall. Just as she reached out for it, three scrolls appeared. She stopped dead and looked at them. "Well, well, looks like you have a problem here. Which to choose which to choose..." kakashi said with a grin and a hand sign held up.

'This seems so... familiar.' tamaru thought to herself. Then it hit her.

Flashback

"Now, every one listen up. In the duplication jutsu, what do you look for. Any one? Yes, sasuke." master kakashi said as he taught the class about the duplication jutsu. "Well first you should look for any original seals or marks. Those can't be copied. Then if nothing there is obvious then it is actually with the person performing the jutsu. And that is the case almost 90 of the time." sasuke said smirking and then regaining his 'i'm so mature' look.

End Flashback

"Gotcha," tamaru said smirking and turning to face kakashi. He also grinned and whipped the real scroll out of his pouch on his chest. "Well, i suppose so with your freezing jutsu. It is amazing, for i have never seen it before. Never the less. The rest of my body is still free and i can perform hand signs." he said hoping to wipe the smirk off of tamaru's face but he just made her smirk even more.

"You're right. Your upper body is still free...for now." tamaru said adding the end with an evil flash in her eyes. Kakashi frowned and started a hand sign but was stopped in mid performance. His hand were coming to a standstill as the water froze rapidly around his hands. The scroll was just barely sticking out but she move the water, it wiggled out, and then she made the water carry it to her. "I have been beaten." kakashi muttered. Tamaru smiled and released her jutsu.

Kakashi rubbed the feeling back into his hands and then called the next student out. "Good job," "nice one!" "You rock" random people said as tamaru came back into the crowd. She walked up to gaara and smiled. He smiled too and congratulated her. Without thinking her eyes wondered over to sasuke. He was looking at her with a strange lust on his face. Tamaru, feeling uncomfortable watched gaara battle and win, then went outside with him. They both walked around through the large court yard talking about nothing in particular until gaara just had to ask the question.

"Tamaru," gaara said taking his gourd off his back and sitting it on the ground. "Hhmm," she said as a slight wind rustled her straight dark hair. Gaara looked around, as if making sure they were alone. "What... what is up with you and sasuke?" he said looking right into her eyes as seriously as she had ever seen him. She looked at gaara with just as serious of a look as he was throwing at her. "Nothing, that perv., just thinks he can get his way with me. But i would never let him, ever! I hate that cocky bastard." tamaru muttered the last sentence under her breath. But even as she said it, she still felt that she could not help but feel taken by his handsome features. 'Its just to bad he's such a bastard' tamaru thought to herself.

Tamaru looked into gaaras eyes and swore she saw a huge sense of relief in them. But he still looked serious. "Tamaru, i..." he said looking at a loss for words. "What," she asked patiently waiting for gaara to speak. He just turned and looked at the other side of the court yard. She saw him draw in a deep breath, then he spun around and caught tamaru completely off guard. He placed his lips on hers and she almost pushed him away. But she relaxed and quickly let in to the kiss and gaara deepened it.

"You little shit!" sasuke yelled through the court yard, as he strolled out onto the grass. Gaara parted quickly from tamaru and looked at sasuke. Gaara had the look of murder in his eyes even though his cheeks had a light blush on them. Gaara instinctively pulled the court from his gourd and picked it up. He slung it over back and the sand began to fall around. "Gaara, please just don't kill him," tamaru said, also preparing to fight. She noticed that there were two of sasukes followers with him. Sakura Haruno, and Ino Yamanaka. They both looked at tamaru with complete disgust.

"You will never bother tamaru again," Gaara said, then without another word, his sand lunged at sasuke. As sasuke and gaara went at it she saw that sakura and ino had both drawn their kunai. "You little sasuke bitches ready for an ass kicking?" tamaru asked as she made a hand sign. As both ino and sakura lunged forward, tamaru multiplied and pulled each multiple pulled out a shurikan. Both ino and sakura froze, as they were surrounded by shurikan. Tamaru launched them all at once. They collided with one another as ino and sakura jumped

(A/N): soo, whatcha think?? Please let me know and stay alert, next chapter up SOON.