I have midterms next week so my teachers all decided that I needed to write papers and do projects, because they're nice like that. This means that I didn't have much time to write, so for the first time ever, I made up the preview on the spot. So you guys don't get the wonderful actual piece of next week's chapter. I did, however, give you the chapter's name.

This chapter brought to you by: Not wanting to start to do your homework because that means that you will have to do it.

A battle...with Sand!

"Go psychic, and psychotic, Gaara" I shout the first part but mumble the second part then I resume cheering for the Gaara, "Boo evil green jumpsuits!" me shouting this caused Gaara to smirk up at me so I stopped cheering because the smirking still scares me.

"Why do you hate me so much?" Lee asked crying rivers of tears down his face I am sure.

"'It' the green blur is talking to me." I say moving to hide behind Itachi once more but never getting there.

"I will prove to you that I am a good ninja by defeating him, Yosh! Then you will cheer for me!" Lee informed me taking my hands in his as if making some important confession or promise.

"That's my student!" Gai said causing them to have a moment. I was ignoring them.

"When did I agree to that?" I ask but alas Lee had already joined Gaara in the Arena.

"How can you cheer for such a creepy person?" Sakura asked quietly looking nervously at Gaara as if he might hear her from down there. Hey he might know already since he is psychic.

"He gave me an umbrella." I answer simply.

"That's where you really got it." Itachi growled at me.

"Oops, I forgot that was a secret." I replied stepping slowly, and sneakily, away from Itachi.

"Why did you lie to me?" Itachi asked angry.

"I didn't want you to be angry with me because while I was disobeying your orders to stay put I wondered around and eventually found Gaara."

"Why would that make me angry?

"You would be jealous?" I ask stated.

"..." Itachi had no comeback.

"I'm going back to watching the cool sand battle that includes sand!" I exclaim turning away from him making sure that my umbrella was placed safely on the side away from Itachi. I look to see Lee try to kick Gaara in the face but fail because the sand protected him. It's so sad when the kick to the face fails. I look over ad Shino and see that he is eying my umbrella and probably remembering what Gaara did to the rain ninja. "I want a sand shield." I whine loud enough that Kankuro, who decided to have a chat with Naruto for some odd reason, could hear me.

"Evidence." Itachi mumbled.

"Hey who doesn't want a sand shield? You could just stand there in a cool pose and no one would be able to hurt you." I retort. Then I go back to watching the match. Gaara is just standing there, oh look he'd staring at me that's quite creepy, and Lee is flipping all over the place. Lee makes me dizzy just watching him.

"Lee take them off!" Gai said and then did the thumbs up. Wait what is he taking off, maybe he's going to change out of the green jumpsuit. Nope just taking off some really heavy weights, Gaara is just standing there. Now Lee is moving really fast and Gaara (and I) can't keep up. Oh I missed a kick to the face, well back of the head and somehow magically Gaara's cheek was cut. Now Gaara's Sand skin is falling off and he is grinning maniacally.

"'It'." I mutter then take shelter behind Itachi when Gaara looked away from Lee for a second and at me. Then Lee did his running in circles attack and I came out from behind Itachi to watch what I could see of the match. Another kick to the face! "Go kick to the face!" I shout causing Gai to talk to me.

"So you are a fan of Lee now? You see his youthfulness?" Gai asked me.

"Nope, but I am an avid fan of kicking to the face. Go kick to the face!" I say happily. Lee then wrapped Gaara up with his bandages, how does that work? I don't get it if he doesn't have chakra then how can he make the bandages move by themselves? More spinning. Then crash Gaara is down. "Gaara!" I shout shocked that he was taken down, and a bit worried also. Gaara's cracking, it was a fake out. Thank goodness the redheaded killing machine is alive and well, why does it sound so wrong when I put it that way.

"When did that happen?" Gai asked.

"When you clapped and closed your eyes." Kakashi answered.

"Well that explains why he didn't know but why didn't I notice?" I ask no one in particular.

"It's because you suck as a ninja." Neji answered smirking. Why must everyone smirk at me? Is there a sign on my head that says smirk at this person?

"You're probably right." I agree startling Neji and making Gai and Kakashi laugh at my answer. I looked back to the fight and Gaara was eerily coming out of the ground all sand like. That's actually really creepy. Lee didn't dodge a sand punch because of his legs or something and then Gaara used giant wave of sand attack. Followed by sand smash and then...why did Gaara just lick his lips? Why is he looking at me now?

Oh good Itachi is moving in front of me, dare I say protectively? Allowing me to continue watching the fight but making sure that no sand was going to come snatch me away. Gaara then tried to hit Lee, Lee dodged painfully and then Gaara randomly stopped and stood up strait to start doing some hand signs. Why do I feel like there's a flashback here, oh wait there is. Skipping, unimportant, well it might be but not enough attention span for flashback-ing.

Gaara is now doing some creepy psycho look with odd breathing. Staring at Lee, and occasionally me but I am pretending that isn't happening. Sand claw attack, It's the claw! What's with the sad music all of the sudden? I was enjoying the cool battle music that has been playing this episode put it back on. No flashbacks for you. "Yes I mean you Gai." I say out loud.

"What did I do?" He asked confused.

"You were about to have a flashback." I answer him as if that is a normal thing to say to someone. Then I resumed watching. Swirly sand, oh my goodness Lee dodged. Maybe the underdog will win? Oh wait no it's only Naruto every other underdog in this anime has to loose. Hinata lost, Naruto won, according to pattern Lee has to loose. Aw...Gaara unhappy face, cue random shock. After that is done Gaara attacks lee with evil bunnies I mean sand yes sand. I will call this attack the Sand splash. Wait what is this feeling... "Gai what have I said about flashbacks?"

"Just one."

"No I don't want to." I whine childishly. "Has Lee lost yet."

"No." Replied Itachi who I was asking tugging on his sleeve for the answer.

"Lee will win because he is more youthful!"

"Isn't Gaara younger than Lee?" I ask causing Gai to stop mid youth speech.

"Well, that doesn't make him more youthful." Gai continued stubbornly.

"Doesn't it?" I say and he didn't have a retort so we went back to watching. Gaara used sand, amazing. Then Lee decided to use his magical anti-gravity attack. Well that's what it looked like anyway with the small pebbles floating up around him and all. Still don't get how he can do these things without chakra but letting it go. Once his hair finally moved an odd blue glow was released. "I knew it."

"What?" Sakura asked me since in everyone else's point of view I had just shouted something random, you'd think that they would be used to it by now. Gaara might know what I was thinking since he is psychic, or Itachi who I think can read minds.

"The blue glow stuff has to be chakra."

"No it's not." Gai argued.

"What is it then?"

"It's the not-chakra."

"Well that's specific, thank you for clearing that up."

"You're welcome."

"Sarcasm." I mutter but go back to watching, over Itachi's shoulder since I didn't want creepy looks to come my way. I think that Itachi is enjoying me cowering behind him a little too much. Oh great Lee is glowing green now. Another kick to the face this time with cool smoke. "Go kick to the face!" I shout out and no one even looks my way since this is what the third or fourth time I have yelled because of that. They only wondered how I knew it was a kick to the face with through all the smoke. How did I know? I'm going to pretend that it is a true 'kick to the face' fan thing.

Next thing I know Gaara is flying through the air getting beat up. How come all ninja's can fly? Even ones who don't have chakra, how does that work? Crazy eye ninja are cheating to be able to watch the match. So basically all I know is that Gaara went up but he hasn't come down and he looks like he's getting hurt. More stuff I can't see. The lizard moved! It's alive! Oh wait I am supposed to be watching a fight where I can't even tell what is going on. Remind me why I shouldn't watch the Lizard. I tune back into the fight just in time to see Gaara fall to the ground.

I lean over the railing to try and see through the smoke ignoring the fact that now I am not shielded by Itachi. "Gaara!" Both Kankuro and I said at the same time, right after Naruto said something about Lee winning.

"When did you get here?" I ask Kankuro.

"He's been here since the battle started." Kakashi explained to me.

"I guess he just was not important enough foe me to notice his presence." I say ignoring whatever Kankuro said in favor of watching to see if Gaara was hurt. It turns out Gaara was ok because his Gourd was made of sand and saved him. Then Gaara used that sand to capture Lee, well Lee's leg and arm anyway. Gaara then looked me directly in my eyes and smirked as he crushed Lee's arm and leg into oblivion. "Well that was creepy." I comment to Itachi not looking away from Gaara.

"Yes, it was." Sakura agreed. Then Gaara began to make his sand go kill Lee but Gai stopped it.

Gaara clutched his head and asked "Why?"

"He's..."

"No flashbacks."

"My important student."

Then Gaara began to walk away and announced that he quite but everyone ignored it because Gai made Lee lose. Why Gaara wanted to quite was a mystery but I like to think that it was because he was overwhelmed with the feelings of Gai and wanted to quit so that he could figure out his own feelings about stuff. In other words he wanted to know more about precious people, but then since he wasn't allowed to quit decided to figure it out while fighting. Then Lee stupidly got back up.

"Lee, play dead!" I called down to him. Then I find out that he is passed out but still standing. Sad music playing. Naruto and Gaara shared a look. Talking, I said no flashbacks! Gaara for some odd reason stays in the arena to watch them carry Lee out on a stretcher. After a long clean up process we were finally able to see the TV scramble once more. I wonder who is fighting. Considering that there are only two people left I would guess them.

"Dosu versus Chouji!" The TV stated uselessly.

"Fatty!" Ino called out to cheer on her teammate.

"Fatty, Fatty, Fat Fat!" I called trying to help. Chouji of course got pissed at the both of us. I am so helpful. Then Dosu called Chouji Mr. Fatty and Chouji got angry with him instead of us. Chouji used his 'becoming a better door than a window' technique, oh wait it's not called that at all. So he basically became a giant Chouji ball. So the Chouji ball decided to try to flatten Dosu, whom I just noticed looks like a mummified hunchback, so Dosu hopped out of the way.

Let's take a moment to think about Dosu's hopping. Maybe he is a mummified hunchbacked grasshopper. He did not however hop cutely like a bunny. He was all like hop hop hop, hop in front of the wall than hop away. This caused the Chouji ball to get stuck in the wall. Then Dosu used a sound attack, which functioned much like a tuning fork, to cause the Chouji ball to fail. Chouji is not a fatty, fatty, fat, fat, failure, such a sad existence.

"That ends the preliminaries." sickly proctor guy announced.

"Finally. I am hungry." I shout down at him causing him to glare a bit at me.

"You could have left any time." He pointed out to me.

"I could have?"

"Yes, since you aren't a part of the exams since you quit."

"You could have told me sooner." I mutter pouting since I could be eating something right then. I decide to leave but Itachi's hand on my arm stops me.

"Information." Was the only thing he said to me.

"But--

"Gathering." He interrupted my excuses. Sheesh when did he stop talking in complete sentences.

"Fine." I say pouting and deciding to sit on the floor since I was really tired of standing all that time. I guess I would have to stay until they were finished, dang it.

That's it for this week. Well here's the crappy preview because I have too much homework, and for me to say that is something. I will try to find time to write the chapter, so at least I will continue updating.

Preview from next chapter: Visiting the Sickies

Stuff happens then they visit people in the hospital and Silver haired people fight over who has better hair