Chapter 2

As I got up to leave Naruto grabbed my arm, "Where are you going?"

"I-I'm going back to the apartment,"

"But…" I ran away before he could finish his sentence. Everything seemed dull, faded. Something was wrong, I don't even feel like myself. But I keep on running, that much I'm sure of. All of a sudden I see a figure in front of me, I can't stop in time and we end up crashing into each other. He pushed me off of him and got up. I didn't feel like moving so I just stayed right there, lying on the forest floor. "Who does this girl think she is? Running straight into you Gaara, that's pretty clumsy," Gaara, was the Gaara that my father mentioned in his letter? Well, from what I could tell there was 2 guys and a girl. Although they don't sound familiar, but then again, I just moved here so I don't really know anyone. "Oh look, she lives," The girl said as I was starting to sit up. As I looked at the faces of each of them I realized that none of them were from Konoha. And by their headbands they were all from Sunagakure. "Well, what are you waiting for girl?! Aren't you going to apologize?"

"Oh, um, I'm sorry,"

"Good, now was that so hard?" Sheesh! How many people are going to treat me like I'm not human?! "Now, what's your name?" The red-headed kid said. He also had a tattoo that said love on his forehead. "Oh, m-my name? It's Ai, Ai Hibikino. What's yours?"

"My name's Gaara, of Sunagakure. And over there is Temari and over here is Kankoro,"

"I-It's nice to meet you all,"

"Yeah," Temari said.

"Whatever," mumbled Kankoro. "What are you doing out here anyways?"

"What am I doing? I was just running,"

"From what? Your shadow?"

"Hahahaha. Good one Kankoro,"

"You'd better leave little girl before you get hurt," Warned Temari.

"Wait, I have to ask Gaara something,"

"Like I said you'd better leave soon,"

"Wait, have you ever met a Sasori Hibikino, or the Akatski?"

"Get out of here," Kankoro said as he pushed me. I took that as my cue to leave and ran for it. I don't like to get into fights with people I just met or haven't ticked me off that much.

When I got back to my apartment there was a note stuck to the door. It said:

When you get a chance stop by my apartment. It's the one right next to yours. It's #343.

-Naruto.

Well, I guess I'd better just get this over with. When I knocked on his apartment I wondered if I should do this, maybe I should ignore it and just go to bed. But before I could change my mind Naruto answered the door.