Chapter 7: Meeting Sabaku No Gaara; Kazekage of Suna (Part 1)
Tonight was the festival and Neji and I were already here, enjoying ourselves. Apparently it was traditional to occasions like these for girls to wear kimonos and guys to….well, dress nicer. Ayame dragged me out to a store along with Sakura and Ino to buy one. Sakura tried to get me to wear a pink one…I burned it to ashes, which made her stay not too close to me. Ino found me a purple one, but I didn't want it so I insisted for her to wear it. Ino's:
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Sakura got a pink one of course to match her hair color, which wasn't surprising. (Without the fan in the hair).
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This is Ayame's:
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And finally, this is my kimono:
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(Except kimono hides legs and chest & a silver moon on the back).
Raven's Pov:
Ayame, Neji and I were walking around, when Ayame saw Hinata (Neji's sibling) and Sai. She ran off to them and I was about to say something, but Neji grabbed my arm, stopping me.
"Why don't we get something to eat? Surely it won't kill you to allow your 'little sister' some freedom, nor do you not want to be alone with me?" His voice was taunting me. I can't believe Neji would actually think that though I kind of do want to be alone with him, but he might take it the wrong way.
I nodded shyly; my face all red and he lead me to a stand selling meat and some rice. We ordered food and started eating, after he paid though I offered to help at least.
"Raven? I-I need to….tell you something" Neji confessed.
"Huh? Oh well, what is it Neji?" I questioned him though I had a bad feeling about this.
"Raven, I've wanted to tell you this for a long time. Truthfully I-"
"Raven! Hey Raven! Raven I want you to meet someone!"
I turned my head a little, irritated yet not surprised to find Naruto was the one to interrupt Neji. Simultaneously though, it was a relief to me that Naruto interrupted cause I had a feeling what Neji was going to say. I looked at him then Neji, he nodded to me and I left with Naruto to meet this unknown person that apparently, was a friend to him. Naruto tugged me the whole way to his friend which took a short while.
"Raven, I would like you to meet my friend; Sabaku No Gaara" Naruto introduced us. In front of me stood a red head with gorgeous teal green eyes, no sea green eyes! Damn his eyes were so amazing it's just difficult to describe his eyes. He was taller than me by two inches the most and I assumed at least my age, I doubted older and his arms were crossed.
He stepped forward, putting one of his hands out and said "It's a pleasure to meet you, friend of Naruto's, I am Sabaku No Gaara."
My head tilted to the side a little, raising an eyebrow, I repeated "Sabaku No Gaara?"
He nodded. "Gaara of the Desert. I am from the village; Suna (sand) and I am the Kazekage of Suna."
Now I was really shocked. This boy named Gaara was Kazekage (leader) of Suna?! He looks so young though, kind of and he doesn't really look like he can do much.
None the less, I took his hand and shook it before he could drop his hand. "Hi ya, I'm Raven" I introduced myself and for some weird reason I blushed and felt…warm inside.
"How old are you though? I mean don't you have to be like an adult or a certain rank of ninja to be one?" I questioned him.
"I am sixteen and no, not exactly. I am jonion and I'm strong enough to protect my people."
I mumbled an "I see."
"Why don't you tell me about yourself, Raven? I would like to get to know you better. We can trade questions," he offered.
My face went a little red. Damn, I don't deny the fact that he's cute!
"Sure umm…walk and talk?" Turning my body to the side.
He nodded and we walked side by side, away from Naruto which I realized was smiling at us. I made sure we walked off in a different direction where Neji wasn't, no doubt seeing as how Neji likes me, I will avoid him for awhile and talk to Gaara.
"So Kazekage of Suna-"
"No need to call me by my title, please just call me Gaara. I would prefer you did," He replied quickly, cutting me off.
"Alright then," my eyebrows furrowed a little. "Gaara mind telling me what you can do exactly? Like your jutsu's, what can you do with your chakra and aren't being Kazekage of Suna stress full?" I felt bad asking him so many questions at once, but then again he's goanna ask me questions too in return so this isn't totally bad. Right?
He chuckled and calmly answered "I have many jutsu tricks, I can do huge, dangerous attacks with my chakra and well yes, being Kazekage of Suna is stress full from time to time."
Wow, I felt bad for Gaara. "So what do you like to do when there's no paper work and people aren't yelling at you that the world is ending?" I muffled my laugh, but Gaara didn't even try. He smiled and laughed.
"Well normally I walk around the village or talk to my older siblings; Kankuro or Temari."
'Hmm, so he doesn't have a girlfriend? Wait, what the bloody hell am I thinking?! Of course he does, he's so hot! Wait hot?! Awe hell!'
"Okay well-"
"Nope. My turn," Gaara said, cutting me off.
I smiled lightly in relief; I was actually getting ready to ask him about the girlfriend thing! I've seen a lot of cute/hot guys, but I've always ignored them because I never thought of this stuff before and well, never paid attention enough to care. I didn't really think I was that pretty to look at either.
"What's your favorite color, what can you do and how old are you?" He asked me with a light smile, copying my reaction of asking questions to him. Teasing bastard!
"Well, my favorite color is dark blue, like you I can do countless and dangerous jutsu's and I am sixteen as well." I told him with a hint of a smile.
Then he put his hand on my shoulder. My faced showed an understandable expression called shock.
"You know, you should smile more Raven," Gaara told me in his deep voice. Then he held me by my neck and unfortunately by then my heart was pounding like crazy! I could feel my cheeks go red just by what he said to me! And then….he moved closer…
"RAVEN!"
I panicked for once and moved away abruptly, my face really red and looked down, but averted my eyes to the right a little to see…..
