Sry didn't have time to write yesterday…..hehe….doing HW… Don't kill me yet……I'll make it up to you. Promise. Oh yeah…before I forget…I didn't put Yuuhi's name to be Kurenai's sirname on purpose. Yuuhi means evening and her name means evening sands. I actually found out it was Kurenai's name about 5 days ago. I've been writing this for about 3 weeks already. Ok enuff boring you out with my endless chatter…lets start.

The next day, Yuuhi arrived at the meeting place at 5.45. She found a broad strong branch on one of the villages sparse trees. That was the only kind of vegetation around. Some trees or reared plants and herbs but that was only in the village, the desert around it was void of any sort of greenery, it was so harsh that even cactuses could not grow. There was only one known oasis, far far away from the village and it was drying quickly. That was where Yuuhi lived for 5 years.

She leaned against the tree and looked to her side, she saw someone approaching. "Must be Sensei Baki" she thought. She then looked as the figure approached, the cold night had condensed whatever vapor in the air and made the dawn misty, it had made the morning air foggy and dense, a rare phenomenon in the desert.

The figure was carrying something on his back. It was big and bulky but the mist was so thick that even her sharp eyes could not see who it was properly, then, the figure disappeared. There was a sense of danger in the air.

Someone's point of view

There was someone on a tree when he was walking towards the meeting place. The darn fog was reducing the visibility greatly. He couldn't see who it was clearly but as he got closer, he saw that it was a stranger. The demon in him was urging him to kill as he felt the lust for blood grow but there was a strange charka around the person, not normal at all. He went to a nearby tree. End

Yuuhi put her hand behind her back and held her fan in its holder. All of a sudden, sand lunged at her; she jumped, pulled out her fan and opened it. In mid air she then swung her fan in the direction of the sand cutting a tree in the path of the attack. Clouds of dust arose.

The person seized the opportunity at her vulnerability in mid air and the sand flew at her, she nimbly stepped on the sand and jumped. Landing on the side of the village gates and jumping off as the sand crashed into the gate, leaving a huge gaping hole and splintered wood on the ground. She landed on the floor and was about to jump when she found herself engulfed in sand.

The person smirked as he held his hand up with his fingers curled there was only one thing on his mind. Blood. He was about to clench his fist when he felt that the sand was growing as if air was being pumped in. Suddenly, the sand burst out and Yuuhi came out unhurt. She looked up, her eyes were red, it had always been that way when she got angry since she was young. For the first time she saw her opponent. A red headed boy with teal eyes and dark rings around them. He carried a huge gourd on his back held there by a white cloth that was tied around his body and across his chest. (She has never seen him before)

Panting with rage, her eyes turned from red to dark green then black. Her opponent however did not seem afraid or amused. His face remained emotionless and unreadable. Like hers.

She blew a huge gust at him, he didn't move. The invisible blades made wide gashes on the shield that came up. He squinted and the sand lunged at her. She jumped, gracefully turned a somersault and swung her fan at him before landing; she then jumped sideways, turning a cartwheel to avoid being hit by the sand.

She jumped high up, dodging the sand that lunged at her legs and did some hand seals, landed and slammed her hands on the ground "Katon Ryuuki Daichi Hinote No Jitsu (Fire Element, Rising Ground Fire technique)". The ground under her opponent glowed orange and burst into flames scorching everything around it causing a lot of smoke to rise.

When the fire subsided and the smoke cleared, she saw that her opponent had totally surrounded himself with sand into a ball, floating 10 meters above the ground. There was an eyeball above the ball. Inside, the boy was sweating. The sand managed to prevent him from getting scorched but it was very hot in his protection.

He drove his sand underground and caught Yuuhi's wrists which were still on the ground, she didn't see it coming and sand slammed on her. When the dust cleared, there was a log smashed into splinters.

"She can even escape in this kind of situation. She's not as weak as I thought."

There was a metallic sound as the wind blades cut a small edge off his forehead protector, he looked at his hands and there was a slash in the sand armor at his wrist. "She penetrated my shield?" he thought as he looked behind him. There was a small slit that went right through his shield from the huge gash on the outside, only a little went through but that was bad enough. It cut the surface of the armor and the edge of his protector.

They both launched their attacks at the same time and it collided, raising dust. When the dust cleared, Baki was standing in the middle.

"Gaara. Is this any way to treat your teammate?"

"Teammate?"

"Yes she is you…."

Just then, a guy wearing black clothes and face paint with a mummified thing on his back walked in.

"Kankuro, you're late. Anyway as I was saying, Yuuhi is your new teammate. She replaced Temari who is now taking the Chuunin Exams with her former team. We will now go to our lodgings where we will stay for the next 6 months but two of you have to share rooms."

"NANI!"

Kankuro's POV

"We were informed that we may have a new teammate but I didn't expect Temari to lose so easily." He thought as he remembered reading the letter Temari passed to him. He didn't get a chance to see her after the next morning. "but they never told us we would be staying together…with those two."

He was actually early but when he saw them fighting he didn't wish to go up to them for fear of death. He knew better.

"Judging from their earlier battle she was on par with Gaara. I hope I don't have to share rooms with either of them."

End

"Let's go. We will reach there by noon."

There…as promised I made it up to you…hehehe… hope you enjoyed it. KEEP THOSE REVIEWS COMING. Don't be afraid to give constructive criticism. This was kinda long…..Bies I'll try 2 update A.S.A.P.