"Long time no seen Gaara," Sasuke said to Gaara who body started to take colour. He had red hair, small green pupil in his eye; he had a word tattoo on the left side of his forehead. He wore a red button shirt, similar colour to his hair, which was tugged out of his sand coloured trouser and he wore a similar coloured coat.
"Two years is a long time," Gaara said calmly.
Silence.
"Come here," a smile came on Gaara's face as he went towards Sasuke who was smiling as well. They gave a quick hand shake and a hug.
"Look at you," Sasuke said looking at Gaara from up and down.
"Not bad huh? You're not bad yourself," Gaara said grinning at Sasuke.
"This is great. I can't believe you're back already," Sasuke said.
"I just wanted to see the look on your face buddy," Gaara pointing at Sasuke's face. "So how's everything?"
"Couldn't be better," Sasuke replied.
Then his eyes fell on Sasuke's company. "Hm. I think we have never met before. I'm Gaara from Suna," he greeted holding his hand out.
"I'm Suigetsu," Suigetsu said taking Gaara's hand after a quick hesitation.
"I am Karin," Karin said cheerfully.
"What a fair lady. My friend must be lucky to have you as his company," Gaara said kissing her hand making her blush. Sasuke just rolled his eyes.
"And you are?" Gaara asked looking up at Juugo who was quite taller than he was.
"Juugo. Nice to meet you," Juugo answered shaking hands firmly. Then Gaara turned towards Sasuke.
"You never told me you had new set of friends."
"You never weren't in proper contact," Sasuke defensively.
"You're right," Gaara nodded.
"Oh what about your men," Sasuke said pointing at the fallen members.
"Those aren't men," Gaara said quickly. Sasuke raised a brow.
Then the fallen members started getting in an odd way. They moved like puppets. Their skin started to peel off revealing wood.
"Looks like Kankuro hasn't lost his touch," Sasuke sighed.
"Neither have you," came a voice.
The biggest puppet stood up straight. It stomach opened up and guy squeezed out of there. He was older looking and had spiky brown hair.
"How've you been?" Kankuro said while shaking hands with Sasuke.
"All fine," Sasuke answered. "This was quite a surprise. You know you really surprised me today."
"Of course we did," said Gaara.
"Why are you here anyway and where's Temari?" Sasuke asked.
"She's busy helping dad out. You know, the eldest child in the family and she needs to know all those stuff. Boring," Kankuro said. "And I am here for only few days."
"Why?" Sasuke asked looking quite disappointed.
"Gotta go back. I only came here to bring Gaara in this nation safely. Father thinks he needs a proper education so he thinks this is the best place he could think of." Kankuro said looking at Gaara.
"That's cool. We will be in the same school now," Sasuke said happily.
"I hope you behave and don't spoil him so much Sasuke," Kankuro said pointing at the two of them.
"Don't worry I'll be fine," Gaara said to his brother. Just then Kankuro's phone rang.
"Gotta go. Catch ya later," Kankuro said waving at them as he started walking away. His puppets disappeared in a puff of smoke.
"So what're you doing right now?" Gaara asked.
"Not for now," Sasuke sighed.
"Hey we could go somewhere fun to celebrate Gaara's return," Karin suggested cheerfully.
"Great idea. But exactly where?" Suigetsu asked.
"Like the new club that's opened," she said.
"Karin you know we don't really go to those places and did you colour your hair again?" Sasuke asked looking at Karin's hair.
"Duh," Karin rolled her eyes.
"Funny you didn't notice it," Suigetsu said grinning.
"So are we going or not?" Juugo asked.
"Well I am not sure if we should go to this place where the Kitsune hang out as well," Sasuke said looking unsure.
"Oh to hell Kitsune. Let's just go and have some fun," Karin said.
"Maybe you're right. But don't do what you did last time and tell all the members that are present there the same. I can't afford to get in trouble again," Sasuke explained o his friends.
"Alright we get it let's go," Karin said jumping a little.
"We will be with Juugo. What about you two?" Suigetsu asked as Karin followed after Juugo.
"Don't worry about us," Sasuke answered. Suigetsu nodded and turned around following after Juugo and Karin.
"See ya," Gaara said cheerfully.
After Karin and Suigetsu were gone in Juugo's car to the club Gaara turned towards Sasuke with no smile on his face anymore.
"I think we have lot of catching up to do," Gaara said looking seriously.
"What do you wanna know?" Sasuke asked meeting Gaara's eyes.
"I want to know everything."
"Well, I don't know where to start," Sasuke said calmly.
"You can start with how you're hanging out with those new people and not with your old friends."
"You do have a lot to know. I'll tell you on the way."
xxx
"You sure about this?" Sakura asked her friends as there walked towards where the soft thumping of bass was heard. "I mean you know with all the people in there."
"If you're worried about Sasuke then just relax he's not going to eat you or something," Ino said.
At the moment Sakura was wearing a micro-mini, a black top that slid one shoulder, a belt that rested on her hips and a pair of black boots. She had put her latered pink hair in a sidebang.
"Here we are," Ten Ten said as they had gone through an alley. They stopped in front of a long line of people.
"Is everyone okay?" Ten Ten asked before they went in as she adjusted her high heels.
"I'm ready to go," Ino said.
"Great just don't get wasted this time," Hinata said.
"Don't worry I learned my lesson last time," Ino said.
"Hello ladies," said the bouncer.
"Hello," they said together.
xxx
The sky was filled with dark clouds threatening to fall. The roads were quite empty of the vehicles. Then two sports bike zoomed past the cars.
They stopped in front of a large building where people were lined up to get in. Sasuke and Gaara parked their bikes near the building.
"You didn't tell me about Sakura?" Gaara asked the moment he took off his helmet.
"Can we give it rest for today, please," Sasuke requested looking quite tired of all the questions he had to answer.
"All right," Gaara nodded as girls went past them giggling and turning back and glancing at them. "Man, you sure are famous."
"Glad to hear," Sasuke said taking off his hoody jumper. "Looks like its going to rain." He looked up in sky.
"Let's go in before it pours down on us," Gaara said who was already walking towards the entrance.
xxx
"This is great," Ino shouted as the girls entered. But Sakura couldn't really hear her properly because of the loud music. "Wanna dance?" she said as went down to the dance floor.
"No thanks," Hinata said waving at the other three.
"We'll be right back," Sakura shouted waving before disappearing in the crowd.
"This is fun," Ino shouted as she let herself go with the music. They all danced together so that they would not get separated.
"I want a drink," Ten Ten shouted.
"Me too," said Ino as well stopping for a while.
"I don't," Sakura said stopping too
"We'll be back soon till then keep going on," Ino said as she and Ten Ten went back to the upper platform.
Sakura just sighed and danced on her own. It felt as well as if all her worries were gone and she was the only one in the world. Suddenly she felt a pair of arm snaked around her.
"Hey," she shouted fiercely turning around.
"I thought you might be lonely," said the guy.
"Kiba," she said with a relief. "I thought you were some kind of a pervert."
"Ouch," Kiba said pretending to clutch his heart then he laughed it off. "How come you're alone?" he asked as they danced together.
"Oh Ten Ten and Ino are off for some drink," she answered. "What about you? You're alone."
"Well, I was here with Naruto, Shino, Sai and Shikamaru. But Naruto went searching for Hinata cause he was told that she was here and Sai went looking for Ino as well and Shikamaru couldn't be bothered staying here so he left and I don't know where Shino is," he answered looking around the dance floor.
Then his phone rang.
"Hello," he answered.
"Ya I'll be right there," he said after quite awhile.
"Gotta go?" she asked.
"Yes, sorry to leave you like this. I didn't really plan this," Kiba said sadly.
"It's okay. I had fun talking with you," she said smiling.
"I'll see you in school next week. Bye," he said going through the crowd waving at her.
xxx
As Gaara and Sasuke entered they were greeted by countless. Some gave them dirty looks. They stopped near the bar and sat on one of the stools there.
"Anything gentlemen?" the bartender asked.
"Two stoli vanilla with coke please," Sasuke requested.
"It's good to be back," Gaara sighed taking the drink from the table and drinking it.
"Hn."
"I don't see Naruto," Gaara said looking around.
"You'll spot him," Sasuke said getting up and walking to the edge of the platform looking down at the dance floor filled with different people.
As he turned around he bumped into Kiba spilling his drink a little.
"Oi watch it Uchiha," Kiba shouted angrily. "Use your eyes to look where you're going as well you know."
"I'm glad you can use your nose to recognise people properly now Inuzuka," Sasuke said calmly giving a fake smile.
"Arrogant and cold as always. No wonder why she dumped you."
"Hey, Kiba," Gaara shouted patting on Kiba's back before he said anything. Kiba was speechless for a while.
"Gaara," he shouted happily hugging his old friend. "Man, you've changed."
"So have you. In a rush?"
"Ya some family business. Wish I could stay a little longer. But I'll see you sometime." Kiba then said his farewells and exited the room.
"So he's not on your side then," Gaara said to Sasuke who was still glaring at the exited where Kiba was a while ago. "Who was he talking about?"
"No one," Sasuke muttered looking at the dance floor.
