"What is this thing? Where do you think it came from?" asked one of the Anbu, who was carrying a small bundle over his shoulder. It was in the form of a small child.

"I have no clue, but let's get it to the Kazekage as soon as possible to see what we should do with it..." said the other.

The bundle then shifted to reveal a little girl. She looked normal, that is until you noticed that she had cat ears. She mumbled something about her father, but mostly she stayed in a deep slumber.

Her hair was a dark maroon color that matched her maroon and black striped ears. Out from underneath the blanket that the Anbu had wrapped her in, which he used for his own safety, came a fluffy cat tail.

The two Anbu had reached the home of the Kazekage a few minutes later. During that time, the small girl had woken up.

"Daddy, are you carrying me in a bag again?" she asked quietly. The Anbu looked at each other, wondering who her father was. They didn't answer her, which made the small girl sigh. "All right, I guess this is a time where I need to be quiet then." they heard.

Once the Anbu reached the Kazekage's office, they let the girl out. She fell to the ground with a thud, making her wince a little.

"Daddy! You didn't have to drop me!" she exclaimed. That was when she noticed that she wasn't at home any longer. The small girl looked around, her tail bristling a little. "Who are you people? Why am I here?"

The Kazekage stared at the small girl. 'What an odd child...' he thought.

"What is your name, child?" the Kazekage asked her. The small girl looked up at him to reveal red colored eyes.

"Rin Tashioto..." she said. The Kazekage blinked slightly. At least the kid has a name. 'Maybe I could use her, since Gaara was a failed experiment...' he thought with a grin. "Would you like to stay here until we find your parents, Rin?" he asked.

Rin looked down and blinked. She thought about it only to hear her father in her mind.

'Rin, stay with the Kazekage and his family. Get close to the youngest boy, then use the bottle I gave you to get some of the One-Tailed Demons chakra. Then come back to me once you have gotten it my daughter.'

Rin nodded her head to the Kazekage, accepting his offer. He then called in someone named Temari. The girl that walked in had spikey blonde hair and light blue eyes. The two girls made eye contact and immediately the two girls didn't like each other.

The Kazekage told Temari, who Rin found out was his daughter, to take her to the manor and make her at home. Temari nodded to her father and motioned for the cat-like girl to follow.

At first, Rin hesitated. But she had once again heard her father tell her to go, so she did.

Rin and Temari walked through the Village, heading towards the biggest house in Suna it seemed. The cat girl bit her lip a little and looked at Temari. "I-I'm Rin Tashioto, sir...What is your name, sir?" she said to the blonde.

Temari turned around and glared at Rin. "I am not a sir!" she exclaimed. Rin flinched back a little, realizing she had upset the girl.

"I-I'm sorry! I didn't know you are not a sir. I just...sorry." Rin sighed softly as she followed closely behind the Kazekage's daughter until they had gotten to the manor. Rin looked up and smiled big.

"Wow! This place is huge!" she exclaimed, her tail wagging slightly and her ears twitched.

Temari looked over and blinked. She had never seen a girl with cat ears and a tail that worked so well. 'Must be a Jutsu, like the Puppetry.' the Suna child thought as she brought Rin inside.

Once the two entered the room, Kankuro came in. He looked at the girl that was with Temari and gave a disgusted look. "Why does she have cat ears and a tail?" he asked Temari, rather loudly. Rin looked over to the boy who just walked in and she tilted her head.

"Because I was born this way. That's what my Daddy said."

Rin noticed how much the guy looked like the Kazekage. Looking over at Temari, Rin gave her a confused look. Temari sighed.

"Rin, this is my brother Kankuro. He is younger than me. We have another brother named Gaara." the blonde told Rin.

Just then, for a third time, her father's voice entered her mind. 'Gaara is the one you need to befriend, my child.'

The cat girl blinked and smiled. "Can I meet this Gaara?"

Temari and Kankuro looked at eachother. Maybe it would work out, both of the two children were monsters. The brother and sister smiled, nodding to the girl as they took her to a window.

"He is always at the park at this time of night." Temari said. "I will even show you which way."

Rin smiled, following Temari outside and listened to her directions. Temari watched as the small girl leaned down on all fours and ran towards the park. Temari smirked. 'She won't last...'

The young girl ran to the park in the night, eager to meet the boy called Gaara. She had to finish this mission her father sent her on, it was the only way she would be able to get home. 'He hates it when I don't do as I am told. Absolutely hates it.' she thought. Her tail twitched as she went around a corner and hit someone head on. She fell to the ground with a thud. "Ouchie!" her small voice exclaimed as she rubbed her tail, which she had landed on when she fell. Rin looked up to see who or what she had run into only to encounter a pair of beautiful aqua-marine blue eyes that was surrounded by thick black circles. Rin blushed slightly, realizing she was still staring into them after a few moments.

"You...look strange..." said a soft, male voice. Rin bit her lip gently, looking away from the boy who was in front of her. From what she saw, he had spikey red hair, aqua-marine blue eyes with dark circles around them, and the kanji for 'Love' tattooed on his forehead.

'And he says I look strange...well...at least he looks normal.' she thought with a sigh.

She looked back at the boy, who was actually her age, and noticed he was holding a teddy bear. Rin tilted her head. "Why are you carrying around a teddy bear?" she asked. The boy looked away. He looked slightly upset, Rin realized.

"I didn't mean to upset you...I was just asking. I thought boys hated things like that." she told the boy. Her ears twitched, and the boy stared up at her cat ears. Rin tilted her head a little bit and the kid mimicked her slightly.

"Do you use puppetry...like...Kankuro?" he asked. Rin blinked and shook her head.

"No, my cat ears and tail are real. Are you Gaara?"

The boy gave a nod, signaling that Rin was right. She gave a small grin and held her hand out to Gaara. "I'm Rin Tashioto! Nice to meet you. I will be staying at your house." she greeted him. He hesitantly looked at her hand. "W-What's wrong?" she asked, looking at him while her tail and ears twitched.

Gaara looked at her, then looked away. "Why are you greeting me like this...when everyone else treats me like I am a monster?"

"You don't look like a monster. You look pretty normal to me." Rin responded.

The red head looked at the girl as if she were crazy. "You aren't from Suna, are you?"

Rin shook her head. "I am from the Sound Village. But I have no clue why I'm here."

'You do too. You are here to get the chakra from the One-Tailed demon into a bottle for Dad.' she thought. Gaara stared at Rin for sometime after that.

'At least she doesn't think I'm a monster...for now anyway.' he thought.

"They treat me like I am a monster because I have a demon in my called Shukaku..." he told her as he looked away. 'This is why I can't have friends...'

Rin smiled softly, realizing how alike they were. "My Dad isn't really my father...He rescued me and made me stronger..." she said. She might as well tell him so she could get close to the child like her father wanted. "See, he used the chakra of the Two-Tailed cat Demon, the Zero-Tailed demon, and he spliced feline DNA with mine. He did the same thing with his own DNA, making me his daughter. That's why I have cat ears and a tail. I also have cat like reflexes. So, you aren't really the monster here. I am."

Gaara's eyes went wide slightly. "I-I'm...sorry..." he said to her. They were alike. Both monsters in the cruel world. 'I bet she is lying. Then again, I do smell demon blood on her.' said the voice of Shukaku. Rin's ears twitched, as if she heard the voice, but that wasn't true. All she was hearing was the voice of her father, who was telling her not to let him know his name.

Rin looked at Gaara, smiling softly. "So, can we be friends?"

Gaara blinked slightly. 'Maybe I will give this girl a chance...' he thought. Giving a small nod, he agreed to this question. Rin smiled and hugged him, her ears and tail twitching happily.

The two became close friends, and as the months went by Rin had forgotten about getting the chakra from Shukaku. That is until one August day when her father bothered her about it. At first the cat girl didn't listen. She wanted everything to be normal and happy. Just her and RaRa (yes, she nicknamed him RaRa), best friends 'til the end. Which she guessed would be that night.

They met in their normal place, at the park. Rin wouldn't look at her friend at all, and this bugged him.

"Rin, what's wrong? You haven't looked at me once since you got here." He said to her, reaching a hand out to touch her shoulder gently. He was stopped by her tail, however, which caught his hand.

"I'm sorry, RaRa. But this has to end..." she said to him. The girl looked up, revealing her reddish eyes full of tears. "Daddy wants me to get some of Shukaku's chakra from you...then kill you. I have to do this or I won't be able to come home."

Gaara looked wide-eyed and his sand wrapped around her, trying to protect him. Rin's tears ran down her face as she opened her mouth to let out a cat-like screech that hurt his ears. She got lose from the sand and ran backwards, pulling out a bottle and holding it in her tail.

She ran forward, a needle of some sorts appearing in her hand. Because she had the DNA of a cheetah, she was faster than a normal girl and she managed to get the needle in Gaara's arm. However, the sand came up again and broke the needle before it could get enough Shukaku chakra to fill the bottle. It was then that her father's voice came to her again. 'Get out of there, Rin. Kabuto will meet you outside the gate.'

Rin nodded. She stopped and looked at Gaara. "Gaara, I'm sorry. So sorry. If things were different, we would have been able to be friends forever. Please don't...forget about me. Because I will never forget about you. You have been by best friend, and will remain so. I love you Gaara..." she said, pecking his cheek gently and then running off.

By the time she got to the gate, she had started crying again. Kabuto was hiding right outside, exactly where her father said he would be.

"Rin, why are you crying?" he asked. Rin looked away and wiped her eyes.

"I am not crying, idiot. That Suna kid got sand in my eyes..." she said, walking past the man. Kabuto just chuckled.

"Whatever you say. Let's get you back to Orochimaru." he told her, taking Rin's hand and poofing away.

Gaara was still standing there, completely frozen at the fact that Rin had told him she 'loved' him AND she had kissed his cheek. 'She looked like she cared...' He thought, touching his cheek. From that day, Gaara would never forget Rin Tashioto. However, he didn't want any friends after her. So he shut off all emotion and became cold, practically heartless. Years went by, and slowly Gaara became respected. By the time he had turned 16, he had became Kazekage. He changed his whole personality about people.

One night, he decided to work late only to get a call that a strange creature had been spotted outside Suna. The Anbu said that the creature looked human but had strange ears and what appeared to be a tail. Blinking, Gaara joined the Anbu who had captured the creature in a cage. It was hissing and spitting like a cat as the Kazekage walked up. To his surprise, it was Rin.

"Rin? Rin calm down." he said, stepping closer to the cage and his childhood friend. She continued to hiss and spit as Gaara noticed that she looked injured and rather feral. It must be due to the DNA that made most of her gene structure. He looked at her and noticed that she actually seemed scared. "Let her loose..." he said. The Anbu started to speak but Gaara lifted a hand. "If she tries to run...or hurt me...I will trap her in my sand..."

The Anbu released her and she attempted to run, but as Gaara said, he caught her in his sand. Rin bit at the sand, her tail all poofed.

"Let go of me!" she growled. "I will show you Orochimaru! You abandoned your own blood! Injured me!" Rin exclaimed, obviously in a trance. Gaara blinked, realizing that the only way he would be able to calm her was if he knocked her out.

"One of you, knock he unconscious...we will take her back to the Village...but no one hurt her..." he commanded. All the while, his face remained expressionless. One would think he would frown or even look worried, but then you would be wrong. He showed hardly any facial expression what-so-ever, all his emotions showed through his eyes. He looked at Rin, his eyes full of sadness and worry.

The Anbu nodded and hit the woman in the back of her head. Gaara released her and caught her in his arms gently. 'Rin, what happened to you?' he thought. He started carrying her back to Suna, Rin's home once before. Gaara looked down at Rin, wondering what he would do after she woke up. 'This will be a long night...' he sighed. It definitely would be.