Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I got grounded for a week so I wasn't able to get on. It might take me a while to finish chapter 3, so just bear with me for a while!
Chapter 2: Sand Ninja- Friends or Enemies?
"Let's get out of here, before things get too serious!" Lee said to Sango, running into the forest.
"Huh? Serious?" Sango said. She looked over at the others. Tenten and Inuyasha were in the middle of a catfight. They looked about ready to kill each other, and nobody was stopping them.
"Come on, Sango, you don't want to be in there when Tenten's mad!" Lee yelled from behind a tree. "She's scary!"
She looked around, and saw that Gai was already gone.
"Coming!" Sango said, running to where Lee was.
Further through the forest, Gai was looking for Kakashi.
"How very sly of him, disappearing while I'm bonding with my adorable Lee…" Gai mumbled to himself. "I'm going to find him and challenge him again!"
After walking through the forest for a while, Sango and Lee began talking.
"Do you think Tenten will be OK?" Sango asked. "That Inuyasha girl looked pretty scary!"
"Tenten will be fine, she's the scary one, even though she doesn't look like it," Lee said.
"If you say so…" Sango said, trailing off.
Suddenly, she stopped walking and stood completely still. Lee noticed and turned around.
"Sango, what's wrong?" he asked.
"Did you hear that?" she asked.
"What!" Lee asked, looking frantically around.
"Shhhhh!" Sango said, putting her finger to her lips. She pointed up at the trees.
"Hear it?"
Lee looked up and heard nothing.
Sango sighed.
"They stopped talking," she said absently.
"Huh? Who?"
"There are people up there in the trees… two of them."
Lee looked up again. He still didn't see anything.
"What should we do?" he asked.
"Hm… I think we should find out who they are and meet them!"
"But… what if they're enemies?"
"You worry too much!"
Sango started climbing the tree and Lee followed unwillingly behind her. As they climbed higher, they could make out two figures sitting on a high branch.
'Who could they be?' Sango thought.
The two strangers, silhouetted by the shadows of the branches, saw Sango and Lee climbing towards them, and they stood up.
"Who are you?" one asked, stepping into a patch of sunlight that was showing through the branches.
He was a boy, about 12 years old, with red hair and a tattoo with the symbol of love on his forehead above his left eye.
"I'm Itonami Sango! And this is Rock Lee!" Sango said.
"Gaara? Is that you?" Lee asked, staring at the boy.
He didn't answer. Instead, the second figure walked up next him and spoke.
"Yes, that's Sabaku no Gaara. What do you want?" she said, obviously annoyed by the interruption.
She had long red hair and her eyes were like Gaara's, sea-foam in color with black tattoos around them. She wore a black t-shirt, baggy black pants, black ninja shoes, and wore her ninja headband on her arm.
"Lee, do you know who that is?" Sango asked.
"No, I've never seen her before, but she's obviously a friend of Gaara's." Lee answered.
"Her name is Sumaki Koga," Gaara said. "And yes, you could call her my friend."
"Oh, okay, we just wanted to know who was up here!" Sango said. "And maybe make a couple of new friends!"
"Friends? You go around looking for friends?" Koga asked, an eyebrow raised.
"Well, I don't go looking for them, I just run into people randomly. Take Lee for example, I met him this morning at the curry shop!"
"Right…" Gaara said, uninterested. "Come on, Koga."
He teleported away and Koga followed. Sango and Lee just stared.
"Well, so much for making new friends," Sango said, disappointed.
"It's okay, we're sure to run into them again later, and who knows, they might be on our side!" Lee said, trying to cheer her up.
"I guess…"
"Come on, there are lots of people to meet in Konoha!"
"Yeah, there are…"
"And other villages, too!"
"Yeah!"
"So, let's go!"
"Okay!" said Sango, now happy.
They climbed down from the tree and headed to the heart of the village.