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"Taijuu!" Chihiro said as she ran up to you and gave you a great big hug. "I'm glad that you are not hurt!"
"And why would I be hurt…?" you ask curiously.
"Oh, it's nothing!"
Chihiro lets go of you and you walk over to where Temari is standing over the fire like a hawk. She was staring at the remains of her fan, which had been thrown into the fire, which explained the big flame. "So I guess it can't be fixed?" you ask her quietly.
Temari jumped. She had been too focused on her fan to notice you come up beside her. She looked at you and sighed. "No, it can't. I just wish that it hadn't been this fan; it was my favorite…" she looked at the ground. She then went to the tree and took a kunai out of her kunai pouch (you and your sisters have none) on her leg and proceeded to cut the tree.
You watch her for a couple of minutes and look and Kankuro, who was adjusting and souping up his puppets (hah, slang word, souping…ha ha…okay, not funny) to fit all of his puppety needs.
Gaara was in a tree branch, and Tomiju was teaching Chihiro how to do some water jutsus. You sort of felt bad for Temari, so you walked over to her, and clawed at the tree, which she was currently working on, and cut it down with one swipe.
"Here, this must be easier," you say, as you begin cutting up a branch from the tree you cut down. After 20 minutes, the branch started to look like the outside of a fan. It was a good 6 feet long, and pretty durable. "Okay, how's this?" you show her the fan-support, and she looked at you with open eyes.
"Okay, there's no need to look at me like that…Its kind of scary, you know? All I did was make the frame of the fan, but it would be better if you got a professional to look at the design and make it a light metal, so that it can withstand weather and can take a beating. I would advise you to use the strongest fan-paper you can find for this fan, because any other would just ruin this particular fan." you continued to tell Temari about her new fan, what it can do, and other stuff.
"Taijuu…" said a voice from behind you. You turn around to find Gaara standing there, his seafoam eyes looking at you. "Is it true?"
You cock your head to one side. "What's true?"
Gaara shook his head and grabbed your hand and pulled you into a secluded area where no one could hear. He paused and sighed and then repeated: "Is it true? …That… you… friend…?"
You look at him and smiled really big. "Of course it's true! Why would I lie about something as
important as that? Only a meanie-face would do something like that." you nodded your head and crossed your arms. "And that's a fact."
Gaara smiled and you could tell that he was at peace inside. I wonder why no-one wants to be his friend. Could it be that because of his sand…? Wait! Maybe… but it'll have to wait… you think.
"Gaara? Why is it that no one wants to be your friend?" You started to hum a little tune. It was a soft, sad melody that your mother had once sung to you when you were little. "So, Gaara… does that make you feel a little better?" you ask.
Gaara nodded slowly. "… I…" Gaara broke off, unsure, and looked toward the ground as you hot up.
"Well, I'm going to take a bath, so go back there and if people start to worry about me, tell them I'm taking a bath, okay?" Gaara nods and heads off to your camp, while you head over to the lake just a mile away. Mmm… a bath…I haven't had one of those in a while…heh. I'm all stinky and nasty, too. You look at yourself and notice that there is a lot of grime on you. You start to strip off your clothes, dropping your guard, not noticing that someone was watching you…
So, who shows up next chapter? You'll have to read to see...