The more Mattie sat in her math class, the more depressed she got. She looked at all of her friends around the room, Hinata was paying strict attention to the lesson, Tenten was playing with her sharper than normal pencil, Naruto and Kiba were playing hangman, Shikamaru was asleep. And Gaara? Gaara was staring at her with a mildly wondrous expression on his face.

"you look sad." he said furrowing what would be his eyebrows. She was going to miss his non-existent eyebrows.

She blinked and smiled brightly. "this math class bores me to tears." Gaara rolled his eyes and stared at his math for a couple seconds before looking back at her.

"what aren't you telling me?"

"hm? what are you talking about?" he stared at her with his piercing eyes and she quickly looked away. "it's nothing really..." she trailed off, she really didn't want to tell him anything right now since the plans weren't yet final. but for some reason, she felt she had no way of swaying her parents decision.

"will you tell me later?" he asked.

"yeah." she replied. and she knew she probably wouldnt and she could tell that he knew that too.

Gaara just turned back to his math and was silent for the rest of the class.

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;kzzt; Would Mattie Sorano please come to the office? ;kzzt;

"you can go." Mattie's art teacher told her. Mattie nodded, grabbed her belongings and and left for the office, feeling the curious eyes of her friends on her as she went.

when Mattie got to the office her mother was already there.

"Mattie sweetie i need you to come home so we can finish packing, we are leaving tomorrow so i need everything to be perfect." Her mother said lightly grasping her arms.

"but mom i haven't told anyone i was leaving yet, i haven't said goodbye!" Mattie protested.

"well why didn't you? i have already phoned your teachers so they are probably telling the class what you doing right now." as soon as she said that, five sets of footsteps where flailing down the stairs to the office.

"MATTIE!" came an angry voice from the back, she bet anything it was Tenten.

They burst into the office and hugged her and asking questions a mile a minute. Mattie's mom looked at her pityingly, "I'll give you twenty minutes Mattie." she said before walking out the door.

the six teens filed out of the office so they could talk. "You said you would tell me later." Mattie heard Gaara say over everyone else. he was the only one not mauling her. "when was later? when you were already gone to Canada?" he said, his tone harsh.

Mattie stared at him feeling the prick of tears. "well i meant to tell you later it's just-"

"Just what, Mattie? just what." he interrupted. Tears were welling up in her eyes and she was chocking on her words. "i j-just didn't know w-what to s-s-say." she said as a sob raked through her body.

Gaara felt a little remorseful but didn't show it, he was far to angry. Naruto encased her in a hug. "it's alright Mattie i just wish you would have told us earlier so we could do something together, the 6 of us."

"yeah Mattie, dude. You didn't have to keep it a secret from us. but we forgive you man." Kiba said.

"Speak for yourself." Gaara said quietly. Only Mattie heard him.

"w-when are y-you leaving?" Hinata stuttered, hugging Mattie herself when the boys let go.

"somewhere around 7:00 in the morning." Mattie said scowling through her tears.

Mattie saw tears start rolling down Hinata's own face. "so we r-really h-have no time t-then." Hinata said.

"no, you don't." came a voice from the stairs. the six of them all turned to see sasuke walk down the stairs towards them. He broke through them roughly and looked at Mattie. "idiot." he said. "why didn't you at least tell me sooner?" he smirked lightly enjoying the looks on the others faces, especially Gaara's. she had told Sasuke before them? this started a whole knew verbal attack.

"Mattie you told him before your own best friends?"

"Why him?"

"since when do you like him?"

"are you in a relationship with him?"

the last question made Mattie burst into laughter. "no way!" she said sobering up. "i only told him before you guys because i knew he would understand and wouldn't, well, attack me like this."

the six teens stared at her with a mixture of emotion on their faces.

Sasuke spoke up. "Mattie you have my e-mail, remember to message me when you get there." then he patted her head and left. it was quite possibly the most affection he had showed for anyone since his family died.

Mattie looked towards Gaara, he was radiating hate and anger. "Maybe it's a good thing you're leaving." he said and walked away. instead of blubbering like she wanted too, she glared angrily at him, her pride won out over her sadness.

"why do you have to be such a prick? is it just because i told Sasuke before you?" she spat.

Gaara didn't turn around or say anything at all, he walked back up the stairs and that would be the last time she ever saw him.

she cracked then, legs buckled underneath her and huge sobs raked through her. the remaining four friends helped comfort her.

"I'm so sorry i didn't tell all of you earlier. i really am." Mattie said getting up. "my dad came back to Konoha only to make us go back to Canada with him, of course, my mom being the person she is, forgave what he did and decided to leave Konoha taking me with them."

"you're d-dad came back?" Hinata asked. Mattie nodded.

"Dude, why didn't you tell us?" Kiba burst out pulling her into another hug. she wiped away her tears with the back of her hand. "i don't know anymore." she said.

the bell rang for class change and Mattie smiled a broken smile towards them, "go to class." she said.

"We will come see you at 7:00 am tomorrow!" Naruto shouted and kissed the top of her head. "I'll miss you little sis." he said quieter.

"we all will," Tenten corrected, smiling gently at Mattie.

"and I'll miss all of you." She replied, picking up her belongings and walked out of the school, leaving her old life behind her.