Chapter 1! PLEASE RATE!

"You wouldnt want to be doing that now, would you?" The young boy said, pulling the girl up onto solid ground, with a smile on his face.

"What... wh-ho are you?" Eskin backed away from the boy, scared. The boy stayed back, trying to give the girl her space.

"I am Gaara, dont worry, I wont hurt you" he had never really liked anyone, but this girl was... diffrent... "Come here, the silence after a storm is very dangerous"

Eskin crawled to Gaara

"I am... Eskin," and colasped to the floor, she was dehydrated, after all the tears shead. He picked her up, and carried her on his back, to take her to water. The sun was going down, his only chice was to walk. To get the girl safe.

The next morning had come, the only shelter for miles was a small cave. Eskin seemed to be wakeing, so he decided to stop there.

When he laid her down, her eyes slowly opend, and blinked a little to foucus. Her head jerked up,

"What... where am I?" she galnced at Gaara, "Did you..."

"Shhh, save your energy.. you had a hard day" He put his hand on her head,

"You have a slight fever, I need to get you water.."

She laid her head back down, doing what he had asked.

"Im thirsty..." she closed her eyes, and thought about her family, her teeth clenched

"mommy.." she felt sad once more, and her eyes watered.

"You dont need to worry right now, just relax" Gaara was looking out of the cave, probally thinking of where to take her.

Eskin smilied, she still didnt know where he had come from, but she had support. She would be dead if it wern't for him. She tried to smile, but the saddness overcame her, she wobbled up, tears in her eyes. She leaned onto Gaara, and cried.

Gaara put his hand on the back of her head, "Its okay"

Eskin looked up, with puffy red eyes, "Thank you... thank.. you" she put her arms around him, and continued crying.

Gaara watched her, he smiled and put his arms around her. She seemed pretty happy to have someone care. He also was happy to have someone care at all about him. He was rejected in his village, so he was forced to be a wanderer. Eskin was very lucky that he was walking through the desert and the right time.

Eskin felt a jolt of pain, and scorpian had crawled into the cave, and he got to her. "Gaa-" she tried to tell him, then imedietly passed out from the powerful poison.

"Eskin...Eskin?" He saw the scorpian... it was one of the most poisionest ones. Anger struck through him. He gently laid Eskin down, and held his hand out, and the sand emcumbered the insect, his hand shut. He dropped to the floor, and grabbed a vial out of his supplies, and search for the poision from the dead scorpian, and put it in the vial.

Gaara picked Eskin up, and carried her on his back. Running, to find a viallage, to use the poision to heal her.