Chapter Seven: Mission (Almost) Impossible (Get Rid of Leiko!)

"GAARA-SAMA!" I shrieked out as I hopped over to him. Or, at least, I tried to hop over to him. I ended up falling face first in front of Gaara's feet.

"Kon-i-chi-wa, Gaara-sama," I muttered out dizzily. He bent down and yanked me to my feet.

"Arigato! You're my eiyu! (Hero)" I slurred out. He nodded. "Gaara, what's taking you so long?" a whiny voice moaned.

I whipped my head around to stare at the person who the offending voice belonged to.

Wow, that was a mouth full!

Anyway, it was a girl with long blackish-blue hair and green eyes. She had lots of make-up on and a rather sluttish dress on.

"Who are you?" she rudely asked me.

An anime vein popped up on my head. "Who are you?!" I hissed out to her.

She flipped her black hair away from her face and then gave me what was supposed to be a coy look.

"Me? Why I am Akimoto Leiko, Gaara's girlfriend. Who are you?"

Gaara seemed to twitch at the word girlfriend. "I am Kurodo Akashi, Gaara's best friend," I replied to her.

Then I turned to Gaara and the waterworks started to come.

"GAARA-SAMA! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME YOU HAD A GIRLFRIEND?! I THOUGHT I WAS YOUR BEST FRIEND! WAHHHHH" I cried out. Gaara started twitching again.

Must be the word 'girlfriend'.

"She's..." he started but was interrupted by Leiko. She started laughing.

"Hohohohohohoho! Hohohohohoho! Hohohohohohho! Hoho! If you're his b best /b friend then why do you call him 'Gaara-sama'?"

I seriously wanted to hit her. "Because I, unlike you, respect Gaara-sama! And besides, he likes me more than you!" I made the be-da sign. (Be-da: When you pull down the skin right below your eye and stick out your tong.)

Leiko 'hmp'ed and grabbed Gaara's arm. "Come on Gaara-kun. We don't hang out with trash like that!" she said pointing to me.

I leapt up and latched onto Gaara's other arm. "Come on, Gaara-sama. We need to hurry! We don't want to keep Temari waiting!" I almost yelled.

Gaara looked at me like I was stupid…maybe I am. I nudged him to show that I had a plan and to just follow along.

"Hai, I have to go with Akashi, gomen," he told Leiko. She started to pout.

"But Gaara, you promised!" I started to growl.

Hey, I didn't know I could growl! Kakoi! Oh yeah, moving on.

"Ah, I mean, maybe next time I'm in Suna we can you know have some-ITAI!" she howled out.

Heh, don't go putting ideas into my Gaara-sama's virgin ears! They could get to the brain and contaminate it! Still rubbing her head, Leiko stalked out of the village while Gaara and I both sighed.

"Wow, that was interesting," I stated to Gaara. "This is coming from the person who has to say 'gomen nasai' at least once a day and calls me 'Mr. Apple Boy'?" he asked me.

"GOMEN!" I sobbed out. "I didn't mean to get rid of your girlfriend! It's just that she was sooo annoying! And I..." Gaara twitched again.

"She wasn't my girlfriend." I smiled slowly.

"Ii, because I have the perfect girl in mind," I told him. "Hotoni?" he asked.

"Hai, how do you like blonds with brown, almost black, eyes?" I asked him as I began to think of what I looked like in my girl form.

In my real form.

I can't wait to turn back into a girl!