A/N: Hell yeah. Third chapter. :O And by the way, it's been another two days (In the story)since the last chapter ..

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any or the characters ... If I did, it wouldn't be a kids show ;)

Chapter Three: Gaara

Gaara glared at his reflection in his window. The sky was just beggining to turn pink, and he was trying to sort out some things in his head.

As he thought, he began to daydream. He often got daydreams. Since he never slept, that was the only word that could ever hope to come close to what it was he experienced. If hecould sleep, he was sure that more than half of his daydreams would be called nightmares ...


He ran as fast as he could, but seemed to go nowhere. He was trapped, with no way out ... It seemed just as all hope was lost, a hand reached down into the darkness and took hold of Gaara's small hand ...

Just as suddenly as the scene began, it changed.

Shai stood under a spotlight, looking rather terrified. Gaara took a few steps towards her and found he was indeed getting closer.

With every step he took towards her, she looked more and more terrified.

When Gaara was a few feet from her, she was crying.

'What's wrong? Why are you crying?" Gaara asked.

Shai only stepped into Gaara's arms.

Startled, Gaara took a step back.

Shai looked up and leaned in. Her lips pushed lightly against hers.

Gaara pushed back, making the kiss deeper. She responded lightly. Gaara's tongue found entrance to her mouth and entered, and Shai let out a moan.

Gaara's hands began stroking her hair, then moved down her back.

Shai's hands also began roaming, and they began to stroke Gaara's chest and abdomen, under his shirt.


Gaara looked between his hands. They had wrapped themselves around his head. He glanced at the clock and saw that it was still only 5:00 am.

'Damnit!' Gaara's voice came out in a hiss, and he felt the Shukaku trying to swim its way into Gaara's conciousness. He mentally told it to shove off; he would never give into that monster!


Sighing, Shai sat down on her bed and stared at the floor for a while. She climbed into her bed and pulled the sheets up to her chin. She glanced at her newly purchased clock, sighing asit read 5:04 am. As she drifted off, she began to think about what had happened two days before..

She opened her eyes to briliant sunshine in her faceand lookeddown at her clock.

10:35 am.

"Mmm hmmm… Ungh ..." moaned Shai as she willed herself to wake up.

She sat up to stretch before getting up to changeand walked to the kitchen. On the table was a note.

Shai,
Me and Kank are out for the day. Don't worry about dinner, we're all being treated tonight.
I took the liberty of making breakfast ahead of time and left some in the fridge for you.
Also, we left a little bit of cash for you, in case you wanna go somewhere.
Try to go get some more sleep.

--Temari and Kankuro

Shai sighed and went into the fridge. She warmed up the eggs and bacon that had been left for her and toasted a peice of bread. She stood at the island to eat it when she heard the floorboards creak down the right-side hall.

She ignored it, digging into her breakfast; the house always made noises like that.

Again there was a creak from down the hall. It sounded pretty far away ... It could have been down by Gaara's room ...

Shai ignored it again, but was starting to get suspicious.

She finished up and washed her plate. Went she left the kitchen to go investigate the noises, she stepped into a sandy patch of wood.

"Huh…?" Shai looked down - hadn't she just swept the floor that morning? -and gasped. There was a tiny little eyeball that was retreating down the hall. Lookinglooking beyondit,she sawGaara wasundoing the jutsu and staring at her.

"Shai…" He turned his face from away.

She crept closer to the normally stoic boy. He looked back at her; almost surprised she was coming closer.

"G-Gaara-san…?" Shai swallowed heavily.

Gaara stared at the small trembling girl that stood several paces away.

Shai held her hands close to her chest. She again swallowed and forced herself to look into his cold eyes.

"Gaara-san… I-is ... is something ...wrong?" Shai's hand rested lightly on his shoulder.

She half expected Gaara to strike her, and half expected him to brush her off. To her surprise he pulled her into an embrace.

"... Sorry." Gaara's voice was barely audible.

After a few moments, Shai wrapped her own arms around Gaara. Savouring the feeling of his rough, yet gentle, hands as the held her small body close.


A/N: Hahaha! Oh! Snap! o.o; ...Don't mind me.

;Gaara enters the room, glaring daggers at the author and her friend.;

"What?"

;Random bashing noises are heard;