Early the next morning Rin got up and walked over to meet Temari at the clothing store. She had already had clothes piled up and ready for Rin to try on, most which Rin thought was to flashy.

"Come on Rin…" Temari sounded tired but Rin knew she was having too much fun dressing her up.

"You have to have liked something so far…We already been here for over an hour. Your hair appointment is coming up!" Temari sat back in her chair; her long legs crossed and she watched Rin with dagger eyes.

"I think we're doing too much Temari, I just want some simple clothes that I won't be too hot in. Maybe some tights, a sweater? I don't want to be over dressed, especially when I have to wear all my gear." A disappointed look crossed Temari's face and she broke; Rin believed it was because of the time they had left for the day. When they had finished Rin got gotten a few pairs of tights like she wanted, a few home clothes, a black and burgundy sweater and three pairs of shoes.

"There are you happy? Here I am trying to make you the cutest thing in town after me and you refused everything I showed you." Temari let out a sigh. "At lease I can get your hair done right." Rin's hair was cut with in layers and It reached down to her butt. It was a silver white and straight.

"I'm thinking something short? How do you feel about that? You have to consider every possibility in fighting. Short hair is good for that; also you have the perfect face to pull it off." Her smile was sincere and Rin decided to let her go crazy with whatever she wanted to do. In the end Rin wasn't let down with the end result. Her hair had never looked so good. It was cut just above her shoulders and hugged her face just right; along with the new clothes Rin thought she looked amazing. She could almost pass as a ninja; all she needed now was her weapons and a headband.

"Wow…Temari. You were right this does look good." Rin stared at herself in the small mirror she was handed. She almost didn't recognize herself.

"That's the point love. You're going to be a whole new person. Now last thing before we get your weapons. Did you want any makeup? You can have a signature face painting like Kankuro and some of the others in the village. What do you think?" Rin had considered it before and already knew she did want some paint she just didn't know what type of design yet.

"I actually did want some…I wanted some white and red. I don't have a pattern yet but maybe you can help me decided?" They both smiled at each other and went to get the new items.

"Rin don't you worry, before you know it I will have you looking like a different person. You're going to love it." The rest of the day went in a blur and when they finished shopping they headed back to Temari's place and decided to put everything together.

"Its still a little early, so if you hurry we can meet the boys for an early dinner. They can be the judge of how you look." Temari was too excited and Rin couldn't hide the shyness that begun to creep up. Her bothers? What would they think…or better yet. What would Gaara think? Without thinking a blush sneaked over Rin's cheeks, Temari even saw it.

"Oh what's is this?" Temari bent over and checked Rin's cheeks; soon a smile appeared on her face.

"Do tell me Rin is there somebody that you like?" She giggled and covered her mouth.

"Who is it, I need to know. You have been around my brother a lot recently." Temari pretended to think.

Wow does she actually know…is it that obvious?

"So is that it? Do you like Kankuro?" When her face dropped Temari let out a deep giggle and softly hit Rin in the arm.

"I'm only joking. He already told me you shot him down. But I would like to know! Oh! Come on we need to hurry." They both rushed to a meeting spot Temari had set up earlier that day, while they waited for the boys She begun fixing Rin's makeup. It took a total of 15 minutes and some argument but they finally finished.

"Take a look." Temari handed Rin a hand mirror and waited for her response.

"I like it. It's simple." Rin's face was painted with tiny dots, her left eye was smudged with what looked like white liner then underneath that was two rolls of tiny dots; in between was four to five small red dots. On her forehead were small lines that helped bring out her bone structure in red and again followed by white dots around. Rin smiled to herself. She wondered if they boys would recognize her; it was almost hard to remember what she looked like that morning.

"Finally! Here they are. Rin sit over there; I don't think they seen us yet, listen for my code word then come over, we'll surprise them!" Temari's smile was bright and she pushed Rin off to the side letting her find a new spot to sit and wait for the mysterious code word. They both walked up and took seat on either side of Temari, Kankuro being the only one to give a hug in greeting.

"So where is Rin? I was hoping we could see here new look. Did you scare her off Temari?" It was Kankuro that spoke and Rin begun to get nervous, I knew she looked great but she didn't know how they would response to her new look.

"Oh I sent her ahead to get you guys, I guess you just missed each other" Temari never stopped smiling and looked over towards Rin.

"Oh; I wish that water would hurry up; I just ordered it not long ago…" Then Temari winked; Rin took that as the sign and stopped a waiter to grab four waters. Slowly she made her way over to the group and put the waters down.

"Thank you." Only Temari looked up; Gaara never look up and Kankuro was looking around, most likely looking for Rin. Temari nodded her head to the side and Rin slowly walked backward.

"Doesn't the waitress look cute Kankuro?" Temari pretended to whispered and Rin blushed as Kankuro gave her a look over, not really seeing her for a few seconds.

"Haha Rin? Wow I did notice that was you!" Kankuro was always loud, but now it seemed like her was yelling, bringing to much attention to her.

"You look great! Temari did a great job, spin around for us." Rin did as she was asked and quickly sat next to Gaara.

I wish he would tell me what he thought.

The dinner was quick and everyone was off doing their own thing again.

"Rin we still need to practice today-"

"That's all you have to say Gaara, Rin looks great and you haven't even mentioned it!"

"No its cool Kankuro, I can finally see how everything will work out in a battle, and I need the practice. Come Gaara." Gaara already begun walking away and Rin ran to catch up.

Today is the day. Today I will tell him. I hope it goes well.

"Hey Gaara, I was hoping maybe…could we spar with hand to hand combat?"

"What do you mean?"

"I was hoping maybe we could practice fighting, I'm pretty good now fight long distance but if I was feel way from somebody and with no weapon…it wouldn't end well for me."

"oh…yes I guess we can do that. I was hoping you would want to practice with your new weapon but I guess that would be better use of our time." Rin already had a plan in motion, all she needed was an opening.

"Then maybe just this time. Maybe we can see how I do today, then if things go well we can move back to weapon training."

"Yea that's fine Rin." He smiled and opened the door to the building they were going to practice in that day. Rin felt like he was watching her, but it could've also been her imagination.

They began like normal with stretches and then Gaara begun showing her what moves to try.

"I don't get it…can you maybe help me? What do I do with this arm?" She fully knew what to do but she had to play dumb, she just hoped Gaara couldn't see what she was doing.

"Okay here let me help…" Gaara moved behind her and lightly placed his hand on her arm, moving it to the right position. Her heart raced, and she felt his hands slightly shake.

"…then bring it up like this, you will aim at the heart of someone when you do this." He quickly let go and Rin released the breath she didn't realize she held.

"Now try it on me, slowly, but put some force into it." Rin did what he asked and slowly attacked him. After a few times doing this he showed her how to block that attack and so on.

It was only after an hour of practice that Gaara let her fully attack with everything he taught her. They fought on and Gaara block every one of Rin's moves, it wasn't until 10 minutes in that she managed to trip him, causing him to fall back; sadly his sand was quicker than her and was already catching him before he was close to hitting the floor.

This is my chance.

Rin pushed herself on top of Gaara and accomplished getting her lips to reached his in her attempt for their first kiss. For Rin it seemed as the world had stood still. His body was stiff and his eyes widen a bit, yet his lips didn't kiss back; but she knew the kiss threw him off guard. His sand disappeared and they both fell to the ground with a loud thump.

"Gaara. I…no wait Gaara?!" He wrapped himself up in a ball of sand and it seemed a whirlwind was inside the room with her. Sand flew everywhere causing her eyes to sting and forcing her to close them. When everything finally calmed down she opened her eyes to an emptied room. Gaara had disappeared.

Oh no…

She ran out of the building and rush over to where they lived, only to see Kankuro was already rushing outside looking around.

"What did you do? What happened?" He talked in a rush and his eyes had a scared and worried look in them.

"Kankuro where is he? Did Gaara Come here?" Her heart beat to hard and fast, what had happened…it was only a kiss but it seemed like she tried to kill him.

"Rin Go, leave, go!" Kankuro never spoke to her like that and it hurt her feelings a bit, how did she know that would happen? She didn't know what to say so she turned and ran home, jumped into the shower and cried.