what's so funny about making fun of someone's emtoions? What's so funny about hurting them?

:-P math is horrible! I'm cheating right now by not doing it, but whatever. ha-ha! Gaara is a little dense, now isn't he? hm...maybe he was on the second story, no trees. I don't think it would be good if gaara-kun jumped he could hurt himself!

Okay, i updated this chapter to make it longer, since dieing all alone said it was short, sorry i had planned on updating way sooner, but ...things happen. and noticed a changed the thing at the top! yup, ...things, well lets just say people found out about something i was doing and it wasn't good, and then somebody just got me mad and...yeah. anyways, it's longer now yay!

Third Chapter

Later that night, Gaara sat by himself in the darkness of his small room. His father hadn't been home when Neji had brought him back, and even though his sibling had asked him why he had run he had refused to tell them. Gaara bit his lip nervously he didn't know how bad things would get when his father came home that night. Temari said that he'd been mad when they had arrived.

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Gaara looked up at his sibling uncertainly, "B-but why are you here?"

Temari looked offended, "What? Didn't you miss us, Gaara? Aren't you glad to see us?!"

Gaara flushed as he tried stuttering out an apology, "O-o, no-I mean, yeah I didn't m-mea-"

Kankurou smiled, holding back a laugh, "Relax Gaara, Temari's joking. Temari's here because she decided that the University back in Suna wasn't good enough for her. Her brains are too big and Suna obviously didn't have as high a learning level as Konoha does."

Temari punched her brother in the arm, as he laughed, "And I didn't want to get lonely, I'd be by myself and hey! it's only one year of school, then I go to some University...or get a job," Shrugging Kankurou added, "It just made sense for me to come along with Temari."

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Even though Gaara had pretended that he didn't know, he knew that they really came here because they were worried about him. And their was no doubt in the young red-head's mind that their father hadn't been at all too happy with the three of his children coming to live with him in Konoha. With Kankurou and Temari around, that meant that he couldn't bash on Gaara whenever he wanted to.

As a hand grabbed Gaara's shoulder and spun him around roughly, Gaara thought that he'd be sick. He had been nervous all night, ever since his siblings had gone to bed, but now his father was actually home and he was about to find out how mad his father was. He barely heard his father's voice hoarse whisper before a fist collided with his face.

"You thought you could tell, you little whore!?"

By the time Monday morning rolled around, Gaara could move a little more, but Kankurou and Temari were still pissed at their father for beating on their favorite little brother while they were sleeping. And they were unfortunately heavy sleepers. As Gaara, Temari, and Kankurou slipped into Temari's car, they all exhaled in relief.

Kankurou turned on the radio as Temari started driving them both to the high school. "You guess should be so grateful to me, I mean I don't even go to Konoha's High school and I still give you a ride, I am the best big sister in the world."

Kankurou rolled his eyes at Gaara, "Please, the University is in this direction anyways and I'm surprised your head fits through the car door anyways." After the last statement Temari went into a silent huff, while Kankurou simply turned the radio up louder. Gaara couldn't help but snicker at his siblings.

As they pulled into the parking lot Kankurou exclaimed loudly, "I HATE the first day of school! Don't make me go!"

Temari rolled her eyes, "Oh, relax! you'll have Gaara to show you around, or at least to the main office. Now, get out of my car, or I'll be late!" To add emphasis to the last statement, she kicked Kankurou who had been getting out in the butt, since he had sat in the front with her. Once they were both out, she smiled and waved, "Have a good day, you two, I'll be back to pick you guys up this afternoon, I might be late though!"

As Temari drove off, Kankurou turned to his younger brother and sighed, "Well, lead the way little bro'."

Gaara nodded, and started walking into the school; he slowly made his way to the main office, trying to remember where it was. "It's okay, Kankurou, the first day's usually the easiest...sometimes," Gaara tried to comfort his older brother as he began looking more and more depressed. All he got as a response was an "I guess."

Once Gaara dropped Kankurou off at the office, he made his way to his first class. He had to stop and ask directions a couple of times, but eventually he found it. He walked into the classroom and stood by the teacher's desk, waiting for himself to be noticed. Slowly, the brown haired teacher did notice him and looked up questioningly, "Um...I'm new, my name's Sabaku Gaara."

The teacher nodded, still smiling at him, he looked nice, even with the scar that ran across the bridge of his nose. "Welcome, Gaara. I'm Iruka, and you can just choose a seat anywhere, I don't care where." Gaara nodded and picked a seat in the back. Slowly, the class started piling in, and a spiky haired brunette sat next to him. Gaara frowned in confusion, why was he wearing sunglasses inside? Was he blind?

Shaking his head, Gaara turned back to the board and started taking notes again. Every once in a while, he glanced over at the blind-boy-who-wasn't-blind. A blind person couldn't take notes, could he? Eventually, the class was over and he made his way to his next class, where pretty much the same thing happened. There wasn't a need for him to be introduced to anyone; it seemed like everybody already knew who he was.

Finally, the bell rang and Gaara had lunch. He sighed in relief, picking up his stuff he walked outside and picked a nice shady tree, pulling out a book. He had only been reading for about fifteen minutes when someone sat down next to him, he didn't react, the red-head assumed it was just Kankurou. He was proved wrong when he glanced over and saw a pale boy with long dark brown hair sitting next to him.

Slowly, Gaara looked up at him and blinked. The brunette smiled, "Hey, you're the kid who broke into my apartment."

Blink.

The brunette smirked, "You do remember who I am, don't you?"

Blink.

He let out a small chuckle, "I'm Neji, remember?"

Oh.

Gaara could feel his face heat up with a blush as he remembered. how could he have forgotten? It was part of the reason he was still a little sore. "Oh. Yeah...s-sorry."

Neji brightened up, "It's okay, I was just joking, you didn't actually steal anything after all." As Gaara slowly started closing his book, Neji glanced down looking curious, "What're you reading?"

Gaara showed him the cover, "That was Then, This is Now."

Neji nodded, "I remember that book, it was really good."

Gaara nodded, "I've read it at least a dozen times, but I never get tired of it."

Neji opened his mouth to say something as Kankurou plopped down next to Gaara, "Hey, Gaara. is he bothering you?"

Gaara looked at his brother, who was already in fight mode, in case he needed to teach this punk not to mess with his little brother. "No. We were just talking."

Kankurou looked confused for a moment; Gaara was...making a friend? Then he smiled, "Oh, okay then. I'm Kankurou, who're you?"

Neji looked uncertain for a moment, but then replied, "Hyuuga. Hyuuga Neji."

Kankurou nodded, "Right then. Well, Neji, just how do you know my brother?"

Neji coughed a couple times into his hand, "Well...um...I meet him over the weekend."

Slowly, realization dawned in the spiky brunette, "Oh...that was you..."

Quickly, trying to cover the awkwardness of the situation, Neji said, "So, You guys are new here? how do you like it?"

"It's n-"

"NEJI!!!!!!!!!"

Suddenly, a blonde blur tackled Neji, sending him forward into Gaara's lap, who proceeded to blush feverishly. Neji sat back up, looking a little flustered as he did so, "Naruto, get off me. Sasuke's you're boyfriends, not me." Naruto put on a fake pout, but then e noticed Gaara and Kankurou, "Hi! who're you? are you guys new here?" As Naruto asked the questions, he leaned forward, invading Gaara's bubble.

The red-head could hear his older brother stifling a laugh, "u-um...yeah, I'm new." A raven-haired boy walked up behind Naruto sighing and pulling hi back by his collar, "Hey, dobe. Ever hear of personal space? And don't just go running off like that."

The blonde pouted, "But, teme!"

"So, Neji, care to introduce us?" The dark-haired boy ignored the complaining Naruto, who was now sitting on his lap.

"Guys, this is Gaara and Kankurou, Naruto and Sasuke." Sasuke nodded, looking rather bored, while Kankurou just nodded back. Naruto started rambling, going on about something or another, asking questions without giving anyone time to answer.

Gaara felt a finger gently poking him in side, a place that wasn't bruised or sore, he turned around and saw his blonde haired sister smiling at him. Gaara gave a small smile back, wondering slightly when Kankurou had left. Then he blinked, what was Temaridoing at his school? shouldn't she be in classes right now?

"Hey, Gaara, i might be a little late picking you up, but you can walk if you want to. Kankurou won't be able to go with you though, he needs to stay after. So, i'll be like a half hour late, that alright?"

Slowly Gaara nodded his head, "Yeah...but...what're you doing here?"

Temari laughed, "Security around here sucks. If we were back in Suna, i wouldn't have made it on the grounds without being hauled in for questioning...Suna was a lot more dangerous, though. Okay, then, i have to go, bye."

"Bye." Gaara mumbled, turning back to his new group of...friends. After a couple of minutes, Gaara noticed Neji's blank face staring at him. When the brunette saw the youner was paying attention, he asked, "Who was that?"

"That's my sister, Temari."

Neji scowled, "Does she go here? I've never seen her around..."

gaara shook his head, "No, she's in her frst ear at the University she was just telling me that she'd be late coming to pick me and my brother up." Neji nodded, and they both turned back to the ongoing conversation, more like and argument, beetween Sasuke and Naruto.

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The small red-head sat in his gym class, gym not being his best subject, listening to the teacher exlain how to play kickball. Absentmindely, he chewed the inside of his lip,even Gaara knew how to play kickball, but the Anko teacher was nearly as the blonde, Naruto...who happened to be in his gym class. Along with several other people who Gaara had promptly been introduced to by Naruto.

After another five minutes, she sent them all out to run five laps, Naruto ranting in Gaara's ear about how he was going to beat Sasuke. Gaara simply walked and listened. Once they got to the track, they all started out, Naruto nearly at a full sprint, but somehow Sasuke was still beating him. Not paying attention, Gaara nearly knocked a girl with short dark hair over.

"S-sorry! Are you okay?"

The girl blushed, looking down while they both conitnued running, "I-it's fine, i should be apologizing, i'm sorry."

"Hey, Hinata let the guy apoligize, he ran into you after all." Gaara leaned forward and saw a brown haired boy with tattoo's on his face speaking. Then the boy nodded atGaara, "Wha's up? You new here? Name's Kiba," e tossed his head to the side, "And that's Shino."

Gaara scowled a little in confusion, looking here Kiba had motioned, he nearly jumped when he saw the blind-Shino from his earlier class. Gaara smiled a little, "I'm Gaara."

The girl, Hinata, mumbled something Gaara had to concentrateto understand, "Nice t-to meete you G-gaara. Do y-you like it here s-so far?" Silently, the red-head nodded, they finished the five laps and were seperated into different kockball teams. Gaara had Naruto, Kiba, Hinata, and Kiba on his team, along with other people he didn't know. The other team only had Sasuke on it (he only know's Sasuke, not only Sasuke! that would be totally unfair!)

Gaara lined up against the wall behind Naruto, who was jumping up and down excitedly, when the blonde got up tokick he shouted excitedly, "Teme, you're going DOWN!" Naruto practicly charged the kickball and it went flying into the air, earning Naruto a full home run. Gaara stepped up to the base when they finally retrieved the ball and looked at the ball nervously, he had never played before.

Back in Suna the kids avoided including him for reasons unknown to him. The ball was rolling at Gaara when he tried kicking it, it bounced patheticly and was quickly caught and thrown to the person standing on first base. Gaara frowned, obviously there was more to this game than he thought. Slowly he waslked to the end of the line.

"It's alright Gaara! You just don't have the hang of it yet!" Naruto reached forward t pat his friends sympatheticly, but was distracted when a ball smacked him in the head.Gaara sighed in releif, he didn't like human contact all that much. Naruto stormed angrily over to Sasuke, "Hey, Teme, i know you did that on purpose!" Sasuke simply shrugged in response.

"NARUTO GET BACK OVER TO YOUR TEAM, STOP FLIRTING WITH UCHIHA!"

Naruto pouted, but continued to walk back over to where Gaara was now standing with Shino and Hinata. The rest of Gym class went a lot like that, Naruto yelling at Sasuke, Sasuke brushing it off, Anko yelling at Naruto, they hardly got to play with so many interuption.

At the end of the day, Gaara waited under a tree in it's shade reading a book they were reading in his english class. He was halfway through it, when they were only supposed to read the first three chapters. "You like books...a lot."

Gaara looked up at Neji, simply looking blank-eyed. "So, i've been thinking, Why did you rob me?"

Almost immedietly, Gaara's face turned the same shade of red as his hair, "I-I...I-I didn't I j-just-"

Neji looked down at the stuttering younger, "You need a ride home? I could give you one if you need it."

Gaara exhaled in releif, "N-no, Temari should be coming soon to pick me up, i don't know where Kankurou is though...Why are yo here so late?"

Neji smirked, "I'm on the rugby team, but i don't have practice for another hour, i figured i ma as well stay here" Slowly, Gaara nodded. For a moment, Neji looked lost in though, as if he were contemplating something. Then he turned to the red-head, eyes focused, making Gaara shudder, "Did you run away?"

Gaara could't help but simply stare, Neji had said it softly a if it were a secret between the two of them, but at the same time it sounded as if he were talking about the weather. Gaara looked t the pale eyes, his own green ones wide.

Honk!

Gaara turned and saw Temari sitting in the drivers seat of her car, Kankurou already in the back. Quickly gathering up his things Gaara jogged over to the car, saying a quiet good bye to Neji. As Gaara climbed into the car and they drove off he could feel his stomachtwisting.

If Neji had geussed that he had been running, how much more did he geuss? Gaara knew that when he looked Neji in the eye, he had given an answer, an answer he had unintentionaly given, he wasn't so sure if he had liked giving. Gaara wasn't certian why, but he wasn' sorry Neji knew, he wasn't sorry for that part.

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alright there you go! longer, gosh darnit! it wouldn't let me copy and paste! i'm so sad! i want to know how long it was! ...and also, becasue i couldn't copy and paste i didn't check the spelling, so sorry for any mistakes!