The next morning I woke up to the sound of a door closing, with a yawn I got up and got changed.

"Gaara leaves so early" I thought with a sigh

I headed out but no one was there, Kankuro was still sleeping and he probably would for another while so I had nothing to do for the day. I was eating breakfast when an idea popped into my head, once I put everything away I crept towards Kankuro's room. I opened his door a little then jumped back half expecting something to come down and hit me but after nothing happened I pushed the door open a little more so I could see in the room. Kankuro was still fast asleep snoring lightly, I found the object of my pray all in a nice pile on the floor now the only question was how do I get it to me. I thought about using earth bending but that might wake him up and trying to pick up flat things with water bending was near impossible so instead I slowly crawled into the room.

I crept towards the pile of clothing on the floor as fast and quiet as I could, once I had my hands on them I hurried back out not worrying about closing the door behind me. I went into the kitchen placing the clothes on the table, I took off my shirt then put his on, it reach below my knees and luckily his sleeves were shorter than normal so on me they reached just over my wrist. I had to roll up the ends of his pants so I didn't trip over them and everything was a little baggy on me but I held everything together with the red belt of his. Once the clothing was kind of on I bundled up my hair and put on his bat hat thing, how he wore this all the time was beyond me, it was so hot under all this clothing.

"Now I'm too hot to do anything" I sighed

I heard movement and peaked my head around the corner seeing a very confused Kankuro walking out of his room, I ducked back into the kitchen as he turned towards me but I wasn't fast enough he was already walking towards me. I opened up a door size hole in the kitchen and ran outside; just as Kankuro walked into the kitchen and laid eyes on me I waved to him closing up the hole. I heard him shouting as I ran around outside, this is where having their house away from the village was good, I could do things like this without worrying about the people next door seeing.

"Ayaka give me back my clothes!" he shouted already outside

"I am not Ayaka, I am the puppet lord!" I said with an evil laugh

I rose up some rock figures but Kankuro smashed them, with his fist! I never actually fought with Kankuro before and all I knew is what I heard and the little I saw in the forest but this was nothing compared to that. He was a lot stronger than I thought and he was able to catch me within seconds.

"Give them back"

"Ok, ok you win, you can let go of my arms now"

He didn't let go of my arms until we were both inside.

"Now give them back"

I took off the belt, shirt and pants handing them over to him but I kept the hat on, I kind of liked it, wasn't too bad once you got used to it.

"All of it" he frowned

"But I like it... can't I wear it just for today?"

"No"

"Please?"

"No"

I pulled a sad face and looked up at him with watery eyes but I only met his cold ones as he frowned at me.

"That won't work on me"

"Meany" I grumbled "don't you have other ones you can wear?"

"Yes but that is my one"

"... Can I wear one of your other ones then?"

"No"

"Why not?"

"Because they are mine"

He walked up to me and pulled it off my head before going to his room, he came out not long after fully dressed then threw something at me.

"It's one of my old ones" he grumbled "you can have it"

"What really?" I asked holding it up

"I'm going to my workshop"

I ran my thumb over the silver plate trancing the symbol, I had seen other people around here with the same thing but mostly on headbands, even Naruto and Neji had one but they had a different symbol on it.

"I wonder if I would have been a ninja... if I was born here"

I spent the day inside, I was so tired even though I hadn't done anything and I kept getting dizzy spells making me fall over. As much as I tried to deny it I knew what was happening, my body, or more my spirit was trying to return to where it truly belonged and I wasn't letting it. It wasn't long after lunch that I ended up falling asleep on my bed, I didn't wake up again until the sun was setting and I heard the front door closing.

"... Ayaka... are you here?"

"I'm in here!" I called out

I sat up on the bed holding my head, I was groggy from having such a short sleep and a little out of it but I was slowly waking myself up. By the time Kankuro opened my door I was standing on two shaky legs falling back to my bed, he walked into the room slowly looking at me.

"I'm fine"

"You're not fine"

"I didn't sleep much last night so I got tired and had a nap and now my body is still half asleep" I explained to him "anyway I should start dinner... Gaara will be home soon"

"Don't worry about it"

"Oh? Are you going to try cooking again?" I giggled standing up

"You were going to teach me right?"

"Is he actually that worried about me?"

"Oh that's right, well then let's go, to the kitchen!"

Mostly I sat down just telling him what to do even though I was feeling fine now Kankuro knew something was up. Once I heard the front door open I jumped up and ran out to greet him, it was something I did every night and I guess Gaara was used to it now, normally he would freeze for a second or two but now he doesn't even glance at me.

"How was your day Gaara?"

"Where is Kankuro?"

"In the kitchen why?"

"Does he know you are wearing that?"

"Wearing what?" I asked tilting my head to the side

"On your head"

I reached up and felt the cloth on my head; I had completely forgotten I was even wearing his bat hat.

"It's one of his old bat hats and he let me have it after I took his one"

"You took his?" he asked walking past me

"Yeah, he got it back though... but then he let me have this one! You're so lucky to have a big brother Gaara"

He just huffed slightly and went into the kitchen and sat down at the table with his arms folded, I followed in after him and helped Kankuro finish up before placing everything on the table.

"Who wants to go for a walk with me?" I asked once everyone finished eating

"What? At this hour?" Kankuro asked

"I haven't gone for a walk at night yet..."

"I'm not going anywhere"

I poked out my tongue at Kankuro before turning my attention to Gaara.

"You'll go with me right?"

I expected to have to try and convince him but instead he stood up and started walking away.

"We'll be back soon Kankuro" I waved running after Gaara

I stepped out letting out a relived sigh, it was nice and cool and there was a full moon flooding me with new power even here.

"Hey want to see something cool?" I asked skipping in front of him

He didn't say anything so I took that as a yes, I raised my left hand above my head with my arm slightly bent then after taking a few deep breaths letting the power of the full moon wash over me before quickly moving my hand in a circle with droplets of water forming.

"There's no water around" he pointed out

"There's water in the air, during the day not so much out here in the desert but at night and with the power of the full moon I can pull water out of the very air"

"You get power from the full moon?"

"During the full moon my water bending power is stronger because of the moon spirit" I explained gathering the water in my hand "I guess even here there's a moon spirit up there"

I looked around until I found a shop that had some small plants outside their window, I ran over then using the water I had taken from the air I showered it over the flowers before walking back to Gaara. We walked around some more with me telling him the beginning of bending, I don't know if he really cared or not but I couldn't just walk in silence, I had to talk about something and that's the only thing I had to talk about. After a while I started to get tired and had to find some place to sit down and rest for a little while, the way things were going I wouldn't be able to stay in this world for longer than a week.

"Gaara... when I go home... will you still think of me?"

"What"

"Oh nothing, just thinking out loud again" I laughed waving my hand "come on let's get back"

I stood up way to fast and tripped over my feet; Gaara was in front of me before I could hit the ground holding my shoulders just inches away from his chest.

"Opps" I giggled standing up right

I went to walk again when I felt a pain shoot up my right ankle, I winced a little as I put pressure on it, I was going to just laugh it off and continue on but the way Gaara was looking at me I guessed he knew I hurt it.

"I'm fine, it's just a twisted ankle, save me from meeting the ground with my face only to hurt my ankle" I laughed

I went to walk when Gaara suddenly lifted me up; I wrapped my arms around his neck in fear of falling as he held my close to his own body.

"Ga-Gaara?"

He didn't say anything as he started to walk and I found my brain wasn't working anymore making it impossible for me to say anything. He put me down in the living room then headed to his own room but before he got too far he stopped for a second.

"You should rest tomorrow" he said before continuing on

With a small smile I went to hobble to my bed but before I could even open my door Kankuro appeared behind me grabbing my wrist, I turned around to face him and ask what he was doing but once I laid eyes on his face I didn't say a word.

"You're going to tell me what is going on right now" he said tightening his grip slightly


. I'm sooooo sorry! iv had this chapter finished for AGES but this just go so busy and i completely forgot about this story... and all my stories . promise ill be back to updating now... well this one anyway ^-^