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Okay, I just realized that I forgot to add Shino and Choji into the party T.T so just pretend that they were always there, and was interacting with everyone else. sorry guys.

Gaara POV *Time skip to after Sazuko and Ryu's performance*

"That was...nice," I said awkwardly. I felt uncomfortable talking with Sazuko now that I realized that I liked her.

Sazuko smiled. "Really? Thanks."

Ryu laughed and nudged me. "Hey, don't I get any credit? It is a duet after all."

"Sure," I said easily. "You're nicer all of a sudden. Why?"

"Hey, I don't always have to be mean," he replied. (I got that quote from someone) "I can be nice when I want to."

"You guys wanna go outside?" Sazuko asked brightly. "No one's watching right now."

I shrugged. It's her house, she decides what to do.

"Why not?" Ryu put down his viola on a chair and opened the front door. "You guys coming?"

Sazuko put down her violin as well and followed Ryu. "Sure. C'mon Gaara, I'm not going to go find you if you get lost. So you can just starve to death..."

Wow. How nice. I actually like this girl? This girl that makes death threats? Wow. I must be crazy.

I followed the two music players out of the house and to the public park. There wasn't anyone there that late at night, so we had the place to ourselves.

Ryu sighed.

"What?" Sazuko asked.

"I miss the days where we used to hang around here with everyone else. Now they've all moved away..." Ryu trailed off.

"Yeah, but we're made new friends! Well, I have, but you have to go to a different school huh..." Sazuko trailed off as well.

I felt like I was intruding into a private conversation that I had no part in. I mean, I have absolutely no clue what they were talking about. I sighed, and Sazuko seemed to snap out of her thoughts.

"Sorry, Gaara," Sazuko said softly.

"That's more like that Sazuko I knew from school," I said, before realizing I said it.

Sazu turned her head. "What?"

"I'm just saying, you're more calm and silent at school. But at home, you're kinda badass. I thought it was kinda weird."

Sazuko laughed. "Yeah, what I am at school is just an act. I can't keep that forever, I have to let my real self out sometimes, ya know?"

Ryu draped his arm onto my back. "You obviously don't know her very well, do you?"

I glared at him. "Why?"

Ryu gave Sazuko a look that said that him and I needed some boy time. Sazuko understood this and went off somewhere.

Ryu turned me around so I could face him. "I can tell you like her."

Say what? Where did that come out of? How could he tell? All these thoughts and more were floating around in my head where he said that.

Ryu sighed. "It's actually kinda obvious. You keep blushing around her." He paused. That bastard. How did he notice?

"There's also another way I knew without even looking at you." Ryu gave me a meaningful look.

I glared right back. "How." I made it sound more like a statement than a question.

"Well...this could take some explaining..." Ryu looked around. "Okay, Sazu, you can come back now."

Sazuko came out from where ever she was. "You're going to explain it to him?"

Ryu shrugged. "He should know. I bet Tem and Kank know already. I think Shika and Saku told them already." (In case you haven't noticed, I always use abbreviations for names. Tem is Temari, Kank is Kankuro, Shika is Shikamaru and Saku is Sakura.)

At this point, I was really irritated. What is it? (OMG that sounds wrong O.o)

Sazuko sighed and faced me. "Well...there's something you should know about Konoha High. Every year end, we hold this thing called School War. It literally is a war. All the people team up and fight against each other, the winner gets a prize, which is different every year."

"So?" I'm not really getting this thing.

"So, this year, it's my job to teach you how to defend yourself at the end of the year war. Shikamaru and Choji are teaching Temari, and Sakura and Kiba and teaching Kankuro. Ryu's gonna help you, so be prepared to die at any moment." Sazu paused. I need to find a restroom to piss.

"Everyone has this special ability that they don't know about," Sazuko continued. "It's activated when you go to Konoha, or someone with the ability helps you activate it. Ryu can read emotions, as you probably have found out already. I can change everything into anything. So, for example, I can that tree into a piece of chocolate."

"Good idea!" Ryu chuckles. "Show him."

I need to learn this if I'm going to survive. Sazuko walks over to the tree as I stared intensely at her. She raised her hand to the tree trunk, and suddenly, it changed into a bar of chocolate.

Wha? I didn't even see anything!

Ryu went over, grabbed the chocolate, and started eating it. "It's eatable, too!"

Sazuko turned back towards me and smiled. "See? It's real. I'm going to activate yours, so don't move right now." She closed her eyes.

Right now? Without warning? That sucks. I closed my eyes as well.

Suddenly, I felt myself thrown into a vivid picture. I saw lots of sand. I mean, like a desert of sand. I was standing in the middle of it all, controlling the sand. How cool is that?

Then the picture disappeared. I opened my eyes and saw Sazuko's face a few inches away from mine. I backed away in shock.

"Sorry," Sazuko said. "What did you see?"

I calmed down. I think what you see is very important. "Sand. Lots of sand."

"So that means you must be able to control sand," Ryu reasoned.

Sazuko nodded. "Yup! When you touch sand, imagine as if you are the sand. Then move it around. We'll work on that for now." She gestured to the sand in the playground. "Try it," she added, with force in her voice.

I sighed and walked over and sat in the sand. So what do I do, just control it? Ha, easier said than done. I closed my eyes and focused. I imagined myself as the sand, and made myself go to Ryu. After a few minutes, I opened my eyes.

Cool. It did go all the way to Ryu. This might be easier than I thought.

Yay I got this chapter out earlier than I thought :D

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