To my two faithful reviewers. I thank you for reading and reviewing my story. I'm touched so much!!

But it makes me believe that only two people are reading my story... ehehe...

Oh yeah, in this chapter, cell phones don't exist in the Naruto world. I believe they don't although it was shown in most Ending Songs that characters of Naruto owns CPs.. Well, those were just ending credits.

By the way, this is gonna be a long chapter so... buckles up! You thought I'd say BACK OFF, do 'ya? Well, BACK OFF!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. It is a work by Masashi Kishimoto-sama. I do not earn money making this fanfic so don't steal it and don't use it as if you own it! I only own the OC Gaara is paired up with and her sister. Glass Country is also something I made up. If it already exists, then I own this version of Glass Country.

This is a GaaraXOC story. I may not ask for reviews but then, without it, I may not be motivated to write. I don't like Flames at ALL but if you insist, then expect hate mail in your inbox.(Joking.. I guess.. )

This is one hell of a long story that might take 30 chapters or less. Bear with me, please. ( . )"

'Italics with apostrophe' - thoughts, also used in flashback conversations

Italics - flashback

"Bold with quotation marks" - talk

(Parenthesis) - author

Cell Phone

'A cell phone or cellular telephone is a long-range, portable electronic device for personal telecommunications over long distances.'

Gaara was fidgeting with the small contraption in his hand. Resa told him that it was called a 'Cellular Telephone' or cell phone, for short.

'When it rings, just press this green button and hold it up your ear. It's like a radio transceiver that nins used to communicate with each other during missions... only bigger. You can hear me on the other line. I'll use this to contact you every now and then.'

'Every now and then?', Gaara sighed. 'That means less peace and quiet for me.'

"Gaara-chaan?", Resa waved a hand in front of Gaara's face.

"Huh?", Gaara awoke from his daze. 'Why am I thinking about the kiss?'

"You don't like the candy?", Resa cast a disappointed look.

Gaara shook his thoughts. "No. It's not like that."

Resa smiled, "Okay then.", she reached inside her basket and took out a small rectangular gadget. (The cell phone.)

The red head eyed the gadget in Resa's hands, "What's that?"

"It's a cellphone.", the black riding hood took the hand of the great village leader and placed the contraption in it.

The young man just raised an eyebrow at her. The young lady then explained to him what it was.

"And what am I going to do with this?", he reluctantly asked.

"I'll use this to contact you every now and then.", The cheery female told him.

The impassive male shoved the cell phone back in her hand, "I don't want it."

"Who said you had a say in this?", she told him in a deadly voice. "This is part of the deal, 'ya know."

"And what else is part of the deal that I don't know about?", Gaara asked her in the same deadly voice she had, not wanting to be defeated.

Resa only smirked. "It's nice to be patient, my dear."

Gaara sighed aloud, "Then can I ask why should you want to contact me? I kept our meeting private, you know."

"I know, I know and it's good that you do.", Resa crossed her arms, "Besides, I don't want anyone to know that you had possession of that cell phone."

"You and me both.", Gaara mumbled to himself. "What am I going to do with this useless device anyway?", he asked her.

"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.", Resa waved a finger with every 'tsk'. "You might find it useful."

"How?", Gaara asked but not really expressing much interest.

"You'll soon find out.", Resa said in a singsong voice.

"And there you go again.", Gaara rolled his eyes.

Resa shrugged. "Here.", she shoved the small gadget back into Gaara's hand. "Just take it."

"It's not like I have any other choice.", with a long face, he accepted the cell phone and placed it inside one of his robe's pockets.

Resa flashed a huge smile at Gaara. "Ja.. I'll be calling you later then."

Gaara shrugged his shoulders, not expressing any interest at all.

Although Resa was annoyed by his always impassive attitude, she decided not to express her feelings. Instead, she sighed aloud then bent towards his face, giving a soft peck on his unaware lips.

Instead of acting all surprised at the action, Gaara found himself okay with it. He was beginning to get used with Resa giving him soft pecks. But still, "Why do you always do that?"

"Pardon?", Resa asked with a confused look.

"Why-- Nevermind.", He shooked his head. "I'll probably never get the answer anyway."

Resa didn't get what he was talking about but decided not to push the issue.

"See 'ya.", she bid her farewell and without waiting for a reply, she disappeared with the shadows as the first sign of sunlight greeted the young Lord's office.

She did call. An hour after she left she called him and just chatted away about some random nonsense while Gaara was listening.. or so she thought.
Her call was not that long, though. Before she hung up, Gaara swore he heard some pots clanging and a female voice shouting from the other line. And before Gaara could ask who that was, Resa said she had business to take care of and again, Gaara was never given the chance to ask what in the world she was doing.

It was now exactly noon. Temari and Kankurou invited him to eat lunch with them but he denied, stating that he had some 'research' to do. Of course, he didn't mind eating with his only blood relatives especially when one of them was going to leave Suna again to visit Konoha to transact businesses. Since Temari became a Jounin, she had spent less time with her family in Suna because she's always the one taking care of businesses between Konohagakure and Sunagakure. (Jounin is a high level ranked ninja. Sorry for not placing this earlier.)
It was just, Gaara had something 'important' in mind.

The powerful and hard-working Kazekage was curious about the gadget in his hand known as the cell phone.
It was a small rectangular-shaped techno gadget with a small LCD screen filling the upper half of the front and a mini number keypad on the lower half. (Just imagine a cell phone about the size of Nokia 3310.. or just any cell phone damn it!!)
The cell phone was bathed in a milky pink color. The LCD showed the current time and he had noticed that it also showed the number of who was calling. After a few moments of tinkering with the gadget, he now had little knowledge of its capability. At first, Gaara decided to call Resa since her number was automatically saved in the phonebook memory but decided to explore of who else he can call. The cell phone did had numbers so that means he can call someone else, ne?

After figuring out that a normal phone number has a limit of 8 numbers, he pressed some random integers and waited for it to pick up something.

At the first attempt, he got nothing except static but it didn't kept him from trying. After a few more attempts, what he got was not what he expected. Strangely, the cell phone picked up some random signals from different radio transceivers that were up to 40 miles away from Wind Country and accidentally, he was overhearing conversations. (Wind Country is where Sunagakure is found.)

The first conversation he picked up was from some Suna genins in a minor mission. Gaara highly acknowledged how they worked hard even during a simple D-ranked mission. (Missions come in ranks S, A, B, D. S being the highest while D being the lowest.. I think)

The second conversation, however, boiled his blood. Some higher ranked nins were talking about porn while watch guarding the gates of the city. It seemed they were using the transceivers for their personal talk. Gaara made a mental note to hunt down these officials and give them an appropriate punishment.

For the whole 2 hours, he was eavesdropping on conversations all around Sunagakure and even from neighboring cities. He found out who was really doing their jobs and who were weren't.

'Guess this thing's not worthless at all', he sighed. He decided he had enough for today and had must get back to work but before he could put away the useful contraption, a male voice suddenly spoke from it.

"Hello? You hear me?", Gaara didn't recognized the voice so he kept quiet thinking that this must be another of those picked up conversations.

"I hear you loud and clear, Lord of the Glass Country.", a hoarse voice answered.

Gaara had a bad feeling so he decided not to listen further into the conversation.

"Good. Is it ready?", the Glass Country's Feudal Lord answered.

As Gaara remembered, the Glass Country is a small country just beside the Wind Country. 'But why is the feudal lord talking to this man?'

"The opium you have requested is ready, sire.", the other man snickered. "Will I be delivering it personally or will you send someone to pick it up?"

'Opium?', opium was an illegal drug. 'What would he want with opium?'

"Stupid!", the feudal lord scolded, "I'll have someone to pick it up! I don't want anyone to find me using opium dumbass!"

"I beg for your apologies, sire.", Gaara could sense the smirk from the man on the other line. It was obvious he was teasing the Glass Country's Feudal Lord.

"Never mind that and just follow my orders. Don't worry. With the tax I ask from these people, I'm sure it's enough for you to provide for an eternity.", the feudal lor chuckled maliciously.

"I will be waiting then.", answered the man before they both hung up.

Gaara placed the contraption back in his pocket and leaned on his interlocked fingers. He had acquired knowledge about an evil feudal lord corrupting his village for opium. He was thinking what he would do about this knowledge. But then again, Glass Country was none of their business and he wasn't even sure if this information is true.

It was not right for a Kazekage, one of the 5 great Kages, to interfere with other businesses outside his country. (Kages are powerful ninja leaders. There are only 5 kages. refer to Zabuza arc of Naruto)

But then, it would not be right for him and his belief to just turn a deaf ear. 'I will send someone to investigate Glass Country tomorrow and find out if this is true.', he decided. He figured he'd do it tomorrow so that he could plan things out today.

The next day, Gaara was thinking about the information he had collected yesterday. He was about to call one of his nins to investigate when someone bursted into his office.

"Kazekage-sama!", a nin entered his office bringing urgent news with him.

Gaara stopped whatever he was doing to listen.

"The demon Kuro had attacked a country!", he announced. "Yesterday, it killed the Glass Country's feudal lord in his sleep."

When he heard the country's names, he was surprised and his eyes widened. (Lot of surprises, ne?)

"Are there any more details?", the Kazekage intrigued.

"Apparantly, yes.", the nin continued. "The investigation team reported that the feudal lord was a corrupt official and a drug addict."

'I knew it.', so the information was true, eh?

"And there's more.", the nin hesitated but then added.

'More?', Gaara crossed his arms. "Go on."

"We have also recieved informations that all the places Kuro attacked had corrupt officials run their government and all of these officials were killed."

'Corrupt?', Gaara held his chin. 'So she only attacked cities and countries with evil officials, eh?'

Gaara couldn't help but notice the somewhat worried look from his nin.

"Ah..", the nin jumped. "Anou.. Kazekage-sama..", it seemed he had something he wanted to ask but was afraid to.

"Speak up.", the impatient red head commanded.

And so, the nin had no choice but to speak up his mind, "Kazekage-sama, we.. we know that you've been working hard for us and we are thankful for having a great leader like you--"

"But?", Gaara couldn't see the point in this conversation.

"But after recieving the information about Kuro..."

Gaara finally knew what he was trying to say, "Are you saying that I'm like those leaders Kuro attacked?"

"No! I mean... yea-.. I mean.."

"It's okay.", Gaara placed both hands on the desk and in a serious tone assured his follower that "I won't let anything harm this village, myself included.", he sighed before continuing, "This village proved great value to me. As the Kazekage of Suna, I will protect everyone. I will never forgive myself if someone brought harm to the village I grew up in.. to the village I have grown in love with."

'Kazekage-sama..', the nin was touched by the words of the Kazekage and instantly all his doubts of their leader being evil disappeared like dust being blown by the wind. The nin saluted his leader then left the office with a profound respect for their country's Kazekage.

It was true. Even after the harsh and hurtful things Sunagakure had done to him in his years as a child, he was able to forgive his country and had worked hard to earn his people's respect. He could never thought he could do such a thing until Uzumaki Naruto had arrived and saved him from his solitude. He then fell in love with his village after knowing that his people had ran after to save him from the Akatsuki's hands. It was then and there that he found out that he was truly loved and that he was finally accepted by his people not as a weapon but as a leader.

He smiled a bit but immediately frowned back. 'Love..', he had finally found it but was it the one he truly looked for?
He shook his thoughts. 'What am I thinking?'

The young Kazekage leaned on his chair, his head facing the ceiling. 'What am I thinking?', he repeated.

Just as he was about to close his eyes, the cell phone Resa gave him rang. He took it from his pocket and answered. "Resa?"

"Hey! You knew it was me!", Resa's cheery voice answered on the other line.

"Who else can call me with this phone, stupid?", Gaara sighed.

"Oh.. sorry..", he could've swore Resa was blushing from the other side of the line.

"What is it that you called for?"

"How was the phone I gave you?", Resa asked.

He could tell her how useful that gadget was to him but then she would only rub it in his face since he thought it was useless in the first place. He also decided not to tell her about Glass Country yet until he was sure that Resa would really tell him any answers. He would wait for the right oppurtunity.

'Just wait.'

I write like I just entered kindergarten!! Huhuh... I'll make up for it in the upcoming chapters. Please pray that my imagination and grammar become good. T.T

And to top it all up, I'm getting depressed and may not update soon.

Must lock myself up!!! Away from the freaky world!! T.T

And because I feel goofy, I'll place a little sneek preview about the upcoming chapters of this freakin' story. Coming soon!! Resa's sanctuary and the death of someone unexpected.