Disclaimer: Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro are not mine, Amanda is however. Keep your grubby paws off. XD

I followed Temari down what appeared to be the main street cutting right through the middle of the city. It didn't take long before we came to what apparently was the Main Building that Gaara had mentioned. Temari led me up a flight of stairs the brought us to the entrance of the building. All decoration on the building was in a sky blue color, which I found strange. The rest of the city was colored the reds and browns of the dessert, but this place sorta stood out like a sore thumb.

Temari pushed the huge doors open and grabbed me by the wrist. Guess I was lagging a little bit and looking around. Who could blame me? There were all sorts of statues of stuff. From birds to even raccoons. How strange.

Temari led me down a side hall and to a regular looking door and knocked twice before there was an answer.

"Enter."

Granted the voice was slightly muffled by the wood of the door, I knew it at once, it was Temari's brother, Gaara.

About here is when Temari let me go and pushed open the door and led me inside. It seemed we were in an office of sorts. Filing cabinets and book shelves lined the walls except for the far wall, which was a giant window looking out at the city. IN front of the window was a desk and a chair. The chair had it's back to us, but I could make out the tuft of red that showed that a certain red head was sitting in the chair.

Gaara slowly turned in the chair to face us. He looked me over and I swear to god there was a hint of a smile on his face. I scowled and crossed my arms over my chest.

"I'm here. So what do you want?" I asked. I wasn't happy. I didn't want to be here, I wanted to be at home. I wanted to be curled up on my couch watching TV and drinking an Irish coffee. Or even eating Chinese take-out.

"I want to know how and why you are here."

"For starter's, I walked here, and I'm here because you asked me to be." I said shortly.

"Baka. He wants to know why and how you ended up in the dessert." Temari said with a sigh.

"First things first, I don't know what the hell 'Baka' means, but it didn't sound nice. Next time I hear that directed towards me, I'm going to throw something. Secondly, I haven't the slightest clue." I said, casting a sideways glare at Temari who shook her head and sighed again.

When I looked back at Gaara, my eyes narrowed. He had some sort of something in his hand. It was shaped like a star and was clearly made of metal. A small voice in the back of my head said shruiken, and I remembered seeing something similar in a movie once, before I could fully register what was going on, he threw it at me. Almost as if by instinct, I dropped to the ground and rolled to the side.

"You're hiding something, Baka." Gaara seemed to be taunting me.

The shruiken was only a foot away and I had it in my hand and had thrown it at him before I even realized it. A wall of sand shot up between Gaara and the shruiken and all I could do was gape at him. What the hell was he?

Trying to brush off what had just happened, I crossed my arms again, "I told you I would throw something."

"How did you...I mean, you said..." Temari looked just as confused as I felt.

Gaara held out his hand and the shruiken dropped harmlessly to his waiting palm and he looked at it, and then looked at me, "You say you're not from around here, you have never heard of this country, but you throw a shruiken like a Jounin. Explain."

What the hell was a 'Jounin'? I looked at him for a minute before looking at the ground, "I told you, I don't know. All I do know is that I was closing the bar and when I walked outside, there was a group of guys across the street and then there was an explosion. I woke up in the dessert a little ways from where Temari and Cat hea- I mean, Kankuro found me. I swear, it's the truth. I don't know how I threw that thing at you. But I guess Fair is fair, you threw it at me first."

Gaara watched me closely for a minute or two before looking at Temari, "Send a message to Tsunade Hokage-sama. Request an Elite Jounin from Konoha to come here. Explain the situation."

Temari nodded and disappeared. I looked at the spot she was just at and my shoulders slumped. I was left alone with Sand man.

"You have very good aim. If it wasn't for the sand, you might have killed me."

I looked up to see that Gaara had moved from his seat behind the desk and was now leaning on the front of the desk, looking me over. I felt like a mouse cornered by a cat. Not a good feeling.

"What would you have done if I hadn't moved?" I asked him. What would he have done?

"If I had guessed wrong, you would have been either dead or severally injured." He seemed serious, and yet slightly amused.

"What exactly is it you guessed then? That I'm an assassin sent to kill you or something? I work in a bar, I mix drinks for obstinate old men who find their joy in harassing me and hitting on me for six or seven hours a night." I said with a scowl.

"Then feel lucky you ended up here and no where near Konoha. From what I hear, there are plenty of perverted old men there." He smiled slightly and I looked away. Leave it up to a man to find humor after a near death situation. I noticed how he had avoided answering my first question.

Time to change the subject, "So what's a 'Jounin'?"

"Highest ranking Ninja in a village besides ANBU or Kazekage."

"You're the Kazekage, right?" I asked as I looked him over. He couldn't be any older than me, and he wasn't much taller than me. He reminded me of one of the guys in my drama class in high school.

"That's correct. My sister, my brother, and I are the highest ranking ninja in this village. Due to the recent wars, we are currently at an extreme loss." This little tid bit of information seemed to anger him. He turned and looked out the window and crossed his arms over his chest.

"Okay, now that this is all settled, can I go?" I wanted to sleep. I was tired. I could wait until tomorrow to eat. Sleep always comes first with me.

"You are going to stay here until the Jounin from Konoha arrives."

"By here you mean in this building?" I was fully awake now. I didn't want to stay in this stuffy building.

"Correct. There are rooms on the upper levels for guests such as yourself. You will be staying in the room adjacent to mine so I can keep an eye on you."

"I guess the bright side of it all is that it's not a prison, right?"

Gaara didn't reply. I sighed.

A few minutes later Temari returned, "Gaara, I sent the message. I need to go and prepare for my mission." She gave me a look of sympathy and left again.

"Alright, enough of this silence. Where is my room? I'm tired." I said as I took a few steps towards Gaara.

He glanced over his shoulder at me before walking right past me, "This way." and he too left the room.

This has definatly got to be a bad dream. I'm going to go to sleep, and wake up in my bed, in my house, and be late for work as usual.