A/N: When it comes to situations that occurred in great detail in the anime or manga, I choose not to explain it in detail in my writing. It's just because it becomes a pain and I know that most all of you have read or seen these situations before. However, if my writing starts to feel rushed, and you feel that I'm skipping key parts and details, please let me know. Also in logic, there's just an extra guy for Tsukkio to fight, He has no team mates I guess. ^-^ Sorry if this bothers anyone. ALSO(again), My sleep schedule is dead, and it's heard to proof read my own work at 3:00 am, so if you see any errors, please feel free to let me know.

I aim to please. :)

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of it's characters. I do own Tsukkio, she's mine. No touchy. :)


Chapter 4: Here I am, now prepare to die.

I opened my eyes when I heard more and more people moving in, making noise. Curse my sensitive ears. I looked around and began observing, my favorite habit. Much better than interacting with them all. Only people I interacted with is my team, Kiba being my best friend, Hinata being sweet and quite the partner, and Shino, whom I exchange nods and glances with. Yup, quite the social life I have. I saw Kiba curled up with Akamaru, he took my lead and rested. I saw Hinata near Naruto pushing her fingers together shyly, I very much disliked Naruto, he was a dunce, but Hinata is so cute when she's near him. I avert my eyes and see Shino leaning against a wall, judging by his breathing patters, he is napping. I continue to look around and spot Temari and Kankuro, but no Gaara... Curiosity gets the best of me, and I decide to look for him.

'Didn't he try and kill me?' I stop and ponder the thought.

'But he also SAVED me..' I liked that thought better and went in search. I lifted my nose and inhaled, there were a lot of scents here. I inhaled again, but this time applying a small amount of chakra to my nose, a trick I borrowed from Kiba. I only had to use a minuscule amount because my sense of smell was already very keen. Suddenly I smell sand, blood(more than before), and jasmine. I probably looked ridiculous, because I stopped every 20 steps and sniffed around again, I bet I looked just like a canine. I was getting away from all the others and found myself in a more secluded area, the smell was getting stronger. I closed my eyes to help my sense of smell become stronger. I kept walking forward, and then sensed a wall and turned right, and continued walking forward for awhile. The smell was suddenly very strong and I realized that I had stopped paying attention to everything, and I was only about 3 inches away from Gaara's chest, since I was crouching down, instinctivly. I looked up and grinned shyly, a blush creeping on my cheeks. Suddenly I felt hands grab my face and pull my cheeks, forcing my teeth to continue being shown.

"Uh... " I could feel my blush getting strong, which is odd, I don't blush. I'm no princess looking for a suitor.

"You have sharp teeth.." What the fuck?

"Yes, I do. Can You let go?" He lets go by pushing back a little, and since my fucking daisy girl side had been activated, I fell.

"What the hell man?" Here I go being confrontational again.

"You keep picking fights with me, and then seeking me out.." He's not facing me, what does he have against eye contact?

"Well you interest me! But you're also aggravating as hell!" He turns and glares at me. He steps forward just a bit and furrows what would be his eyebrows.

"No one has ever spoken to me that way you speak to me.." Well that's great, I have to be the one to teach him manners.

"Well I wouldn't have to if you didn't go around grabbing people's faces, and then pushing them, or when you knocked me five feet back with sand, RANDOMLY!" There goes my temper I should really stop. Suddenly, I was pushed up against a wall, being held there by Gaara. His hand were clutching my arms above my head, and his body was keeping me on the wall, he was only about half and inch taller than me, but he had me of the ground.

"There you go being rude again..." I mumble almost inaudibly. I wasn't scared, but I felt my body heating up, and my stomach drop. I felt nauseous, but I wasn't. I would rather be afraid than this, it was far too confusing.

"Don't test me... I can end you..." He's whispering into my ear.

"Then why haven't you? Why did you try and kill me, but then let me escape without a chase. Why did you defend me against those boys and then save my life? If you wanted to kill my I'd be dead." I hear him breathe in sharply at my comment, it was sort of creepy, but I felt my body heat up again when he exhaled on me.

"There you go testing me again..." His voice is calm, he's not mad. I can't sense any anger, any hostility, what the hell is he doing, then?

"Stop playing with me, I know you're not going to kill me. I can smell, taste, feel, and see emotion. You're completely calm. I've seen you angry, I've MADE you angry." I feel his grip on my loosen, but he still holds me to the wall.

"Let me go, Gaara-san..."

"No."

"Let me go please?"

"No."

"Let me go please, Gaara-KUN?" I put emphasis on the honorific, and his grip loosens again.

"No, why are you referring to me like a friend?" I looks confused now. I can see in his eyes, he's hard to read, but I'm good at this.

"Well, I've interacted with you more than I have half my village.. and I'm trying to get on your good side. Is it working? Will you let me go?"

"No."

"No to which question?"

"You're annoying me.."

"Than let me go."

"No..."

"Whhhhhyyyy?" I start to whine now, maybe he'll let me go if he can't stand me anymore.

"You... Interest me.." His statement makes me tilt my head.

"Why?" I'm still being childish, my arms are falling asleep, and I need more painkillers.

"Because you do."

"You're going to let me go."

"No."

"Yes you are." I'm formulating a plan. But it seems rash... It seems like it'd be a good idea, but I'm not sure. That is, until I feel his grip tighten again.

"Why. Is. That?" He's getting mad, now would be the perfect time. I move forward and kiss his cheek, he drops me to the ground and I jump back. I look at him, and he hasn't moved, he just touches his fingers to where my lips just were.

"Well as fun as this encounter has been.. I'm going to just.. Go... Over... There..." I point to down the hallway and start to run at the speed of light, confused by my emotions, I just wanted to get out. However I could have sworn I heard whisper something that sounded like "Wait.." I nodded my head no to myself, and went back to the room where everyone else was.

I found Kiba and gave him puppy eyes telling him I was cold, he gave me his jacket(He can be nice, I mean we are best friends), and drifted back to sleep. I put it on, zipped it up and threw on the hood. I wasn't really cold, but I did want to hide my face in case Gaara came here. My emotions were too much for me to deal with. I found a nice corner and slumped down onto the floor. I didn't go to sleep surprisingly, I just thought about what the hell was going on between me and Gaara. He made me blush, and loose control of my senses. I'm NOT an off balance person. So why was I so off guard around him.

'Do I have feelings for him?' I pushed that thought far away, I refused to think about it. I'm not going to let a man get in my way of being a top kunoichi, I need to do this for my brother.

'Your brother is dead. You can try to pursue this, you've never loved anyone.' I shake my head no. Sora isn't dead, he's with me. He's always with me.

'He'd want you to be happy.' Like Gaara would ever return feelings for me, he's a confused rude boy. Not to mention bloodthirsty. I rolled my eyes at myself, and hunched down, snuggling into Kiba's sweater. It smelled like him, which made me smile, thoughts of my brother Sora poured into my mind.

'He's with me, I need to do this for him. I need to push these feelings back' I grabbed my bottle of painkillers and poured about 5 into my hand. I looked at them, wondering if this was bad for me, and then shrugged. I put them into my mouth, lifted my head a bit and swallowed. After the terrible feeling of dry swallowing pills left my throat I lowered my head, and my eyes met a pair of sea-foam eyes from across the room. I felt my eyes widen, and looked down.

'So much for pushing these feelings back'


Eventually we were called into a large room, that look more like a small arena to me. The jounin and Hokage worked together to explain that there were to many of us, and that they had to do preliminary matches to divide the number in half.

'Great, we get out of a bitch forest and now we fight each other, fun.'

They explained to us that our names were put into a system and would randomly be selected. I sighed, this would be.. annoying.

'I do get a chance to take some serious in depth observation, though.' At least it has a somewhat bright side, or at least an only slightly cloudy side.

We were moved to the higher ground and awaited the first match up. The board started going and everyone seemed on edge. It eventually came to Sasuke Uchiha, and Yoroi Akado. Uchiha himself looked really off to me. Pained, scared, I couldn't tell exactly, but it peaked my interest. I watched the fight go on and was actually rooting for Uchiha, hoping that I'd get to fight him in the real match-ups. In the end, despite looking like he was in horrible pain, and was exhausted, he annihilated the sound ninja. I felt a smile come to my lips. He was then led out, I would have to find out what had happened later.

Next up was Shino, against a man named Abumi Zaku. It was an interesting fight, but not one I felt inclined to observe greatly. I knew Shino would beat him, and I knew Shino's techniques. I was right, of course. Afterward, when he walked to us, I patted his head and nodded. That was like giving a bear hug between us.

Kankuro was next, and I was very curious to see this match. The other person's name was Misumi, they weren't anything special. I was much more curious of Kankuro. I saw him release the thing on his back and my eyes widened slightly.

'A puppeteer.. Interesting.' I've heard that Suna was known for using puppets in combat, but I'd never seen it before. The battle wasn't much, Kankuro's technique was good, and his strategies were nicely thought out. It ended in Kankuro breaking the man via an anaconda like hold he had on his opponent. His limp body fell to the floor, and the winner was of no question. Kankuro had won.

I was getting kind of excited. I loved observing fights like this, I was itching for the next pair of names to be called, until it stopped.

Bakekata, Tsukkio VS. Yamaza, Ryuu.

Damn...


That's it for this chapter, I felt like leaving it at that. Until the next chapter!

:)