(Mai POV)

I couldn't bring myself to do anything for a day or two after that, till Naruto came and barged into my room. "Mai! How come you didn't come and meet us when we got back?" I looked up at him feeling dead inside, but making myself seem happy, and maybe I would be happy if I kept it up long enough. "Naruto! What did I say about barging into my room? And I would have come and met you guys if I had known that you were coming back!" he looked shocked that I didn't know, as if I could just tell when he came around or something. "Oh. Ok, sorry, I didn't know that you didn't know…but anyway, Kakashi Sensei wants to talk to us." I sighed, and got up to come with him. When he saw I was following him, he grinned and started running away. I sighed and ran at about half speed, but still easily beat him to the others.

"Hey guys, how have you been?" Sakura looked up at me and smiled. "I'm pretty good! I learned that I can control my Chakra better than the boys!" she told me happily. I smiled and high-fived her, then looked at Sasuke, who seemed to be sulking. When he saw that I was looking at him, he looked away. I shrugged. "Whatever, sunshine." I said to him. We then saw Naruto running up to us. When he saw me, he started running faster, shouting. "How did you beat me? I was going as fast as I could, and you just stand there just breathing the same as if you would be walking!" I looked at him, and smiled, telling him that it was my secret. "Ok. Now that you guys are all here, I have something I want to tell you. I signed you all up for the Chunin exams! Now, it is completely optional if you want to come or not, so think about it before deciding since you could die." he looked at all of us and smiled from what I could tell, with half of his face being covered up with his scarf, and left us alone. Sasuke started walking away without a word, and Sakura started to follow after him, with that stupid fan girl crush she had on him. I sighed and turned to Naruto, who looked super excited about the chance at becoming a Chunin. We started to walk home, talking about what might be on the Chunin exams, when we saw Sakura looking sad, standing in the middle of the street.

When we walked up to her, a little kid popped out of nowhere, or at least that's what I thought at first, and then I saw a cloth painted like a fence. "Hey boss! Who's the girl?" Naruto looked at the boy with no expression on his face "Oh, hey, Konahamuro." and then walked past him, stood next to Sakura, and tried to see what was up with her. He sure was an idiot sometimes. It was pretty obvious it was rejection. "Hey Sakura, what's up?" she didn't respond to anything that they said, until Konahamuro said something about her being Naruto's girlfriend. She hit them both on the head, and stormed off. I sighed, knowing this would end badly. "Wow boss, she hits hard! She's not the best girlfriend! I mean, what's up with her forehead anyway?" Yep, they were in for it. Sakura turned around, and started chasing the poor boy down the streets. Naruto ran after them trying to get her to calm down. I sighed again, and started walking toward them, and then figuring that I would scare them a little. I climbed onto one of the roofs, and hid where I could see them stop, started talking to someone else.

I figured that they were going to get into a fight, so I jumped down in front of them, facing whoever they were fighting. I saw that they were about to fight a cat boy, a pigtailed girl, and Gaara from the picture I had. I fell down to my knees in pain, but managed to not scream. "Crap! Mai! It's happening now?" I heard Naruto say, and run up to me trying to stand me up when I saw sand shoot out and attack him. "No! Don't he's my friend! Please! AH!" I yelled for Gaara not to attack Naruto, and then screamed in agony. The pain was horrible. I felt like someone was dipping my head into boiling lava, and then cooling it off in ice water. The last thing I remembered was sand cradling me as I passed out.

(Gaara POV)

I was stopping Kankuro and Temari from fighting some little kid and his friends, when she jumped out in front of us. Mai, my love. She saw us, and fell to the ground in pain. I heard the boy in orange scream, "Crap! Mai! It's happening now?" and then he ran up to her, and tried to help her up. I was mad that she allowed another guy to even touch her, let alone help her in any way! I sent sand out and tried to attack him, when I heard her scream pain in every word. "No! Don't he's my friend! Please! AH!" she screamed in pain, and my sand went out to stop her from falling to the ground as she fell asleep. I brought her close, looking at her face for the first time in months. I saw a few pieces of hair were on her face so I moved them with my hand. I looked at the blonde boy, ready to ask what was going on, when I saw him looking at me in shock and...happiness. "So, you're the one she loves. She lost her memories, thanks to Orochimaru, but they're slowly coming back. It's painful every time one comes back, and more important, the more her memory comes back, the more it hurts. I guess seeing you, brought back the most important one of all. We should take her to the hospital though, to make sure she's fine."

I nodded, looking back down at Mai, wondering how much she remembered me, and what she's gone through since she left, since she was now wearing a leaf headband, instead of the sand one that she left behind. I followed the boy, my sand still holding Mai, to the hospital where the nurses saw her, and led us to a room where they said she had been in before. I set her down carefully, as if she might break at any second. After I stared at her for a minute, I ripped my eyes away from her, and looked at the boy, waiting for him to tell me everything that had happened to her. He told me his name was Naruto Uzimaki, and everything that had happened up until about two weeks ago, when he left for a mission, and had just come back that day. I didn't know what to think. From Naruto's point of view, he thought that she was always thinking about me, and not being with me made her hurt inside. I looked back over to her and heard her mumbling something in her sleep. The both of us listened in, even though we knew it was wrong. "Gaara...I'm so sorry. I love you. Please don't hate me." I almost started crying if I hadn't known that someone else was in the room with me.

Naruto looked at me, smiled, and left the room, guessing that I wanted to be alone and maybe to tell her team that she's fine now. I looked down at her again, not knowing where to start with her. She may not even remember everything that had happened the day that she left. She might not even know my name, truth be told. She had never told Naruto, and he was her best friend, but he had noticed that before he left, she had a picture of Temari, Kankuro, and I next to her team's group picture. I heard her whimper in her sleep. It still must have hurt for her memories to come back, even in her sleep. I wanted to touch her, to make sure that this wasn't a dream, to make sure that it was her, and to let her know that I really was here. I started stroking her hair, when I heard voices coming down the hall and closer to her room. Soon enough, six people burst into the room. I was surprised to see that the black haired boy had come too, even though he looked like he couldn't care less. "So this is him." I heard the boy mumble under his breath, hate in his voice. "What was that Sasuke?" Naruto said to him. The boy they called Sasuke just glared at him.

"Oh no is she alright? Oh, I wish I could do something, and we were just starting to get along, and now she's going to leave!" an annoying pink haired girl said, running up to her on the other side of the bed. I sighed.

Isn't anyone in the Leaf Village normal? These guys are all...strange…and that's coming from me!

The man with silver hair sighed, and started to introduce them to me. Temari and Kankuro, had come in with them. His name was Kakashi, the annoying girl was Sakura, I was right about the black haired boy being Sasuke, and of course I knew Naruto. "So Gaara, it looks like we finally found your little Mai then, huh?" Kankuro asked me, sarcasm entering his voice. I glared at him, and he shut up right away. "Huh?" we all heard her say, and looked at her, waiting for her to wake up. "Oh, hey guys. Should I do anything about my headache before or after I attack the sand siblings over there? I've missed them a lot, and I'm not really sure how long I can hold back." I almost smiled at her words. My Mai hadn't changed at all.

(Mai POV)

When I passed out, the dreams started taking the forms of my memories. It hurt to remember them all at once, but I remembered everything that had happened to me after I met Gaara. I was happy about that, until I got to the part right after Orochimaru ordered me to attack. The memories had come back with the rest of them.

They drew their weapons, ready to attack me. I was faster, killing the boy, and the guy with the huge sword within seconds. The woman figured out what was happening faster than her companions did, and she threw some Senbon at me, hoping that they would hit. I was faster than that, and easily jumped out of the way. What I didn't know, was that she had thrown more on target after a few hundred throws. They hit me, and I was going to pass out, but not before Orochimaru came down in front of me. "Now then, my plans did work out after all. I was afraid I would have to take you all the way to the Leaf Village myself. Now, just to get rid of that little thing you call love for the demon boy…" he held his hand to my head and suppressed my memories. I didn't see how I got to the Leaf Village as the poison in the woman's needles had taken affect, and I had fallen asleep.

I started to wake up a little after that, and heard Kakashi's voice saying who my team was. Then I remembered that Gaara would probably be there too, and didn't know their names. "Huh?" I mumbled so they knew I was waking up. Silence entered the room as I felt them all staring at me. I sat up so I could make the remark I really wanted to say. "Hey guys. Should I do anything about my headache before or after I attack the sand siblings over here? I've missed them a lot and I'm not really sure how long I can hold back." I made my headache and my want to hug the sand sibling sound like it was nothing. A wave of emotions met my words. Sakura and Temari's relief, Kankuro's guilt for betting on me, Kakashi's hidden worry, Naruto's happiness, mixed with hyperness, Gaara's love for me, and something that worried me. Sasuke was acting like none of this mattered to him, but I could feel hate and jealously towards Gaara. Surely that couldn't be because of me, could it? I tried to ignore it for now and would think about it later.

I looked at Gaara, not knowing what to say, and not being sure how he would react to a kiss right now. He showed me on his own, so I didn't have to guess. He leaned over to me and started to kiss me. I kissed him back, not caring what anyone else thought at that point, just happy that my one and only true love, my soul mate, still cared about and loved me. We only kissed for a few seconds before he pulled away, but the message was sent. We still loved each other even after everything that had happened. "Glad your back, Mai." he said a hint of a smile on his lips, not wanting to show more emotion then he already had. I smirked at him and rolled my eyes. "Glad your back Mai? That's really all you can say? I was taken by Orochimaru, had to

regain my memories and most of all had learn to live with these guys, and now I have no idea if I'm a Leaf Village ninja or a Sand Village ninja." I was joking of course, and the sand siblings could tell, but sadly Naruto couldn't. "Wait! 'Had to learn to live with these guys'? What's that supposed to mean?"

I sighed and wanted to hit him for being such an idiot, but I knew Gaara wouldn't let me out of bed anyway. Luckily, Sakura felt the same way and hit him for me. "YOU IDIOT! SHE WAS JOKING!" I winced a little, my headache still hurting, and the screaming sure wasn't helping. Kakashi noticed my wince and took some action. "Hey guys you really shouldn't be screaming when we have someone with a headache around, especially one that could kill you in three seconds flat." they stopped yelling at each other then and looked at me, showing they were sorry. The sand sibling looked at me in shock when they heard he thought I was that strong. I sighed and leaned my head on Gaara's shoulder like I used to do when I was getting tired after watching the stars with him, he put his arm around my waist and whispered into my ear. "I have no idea what you went through these last two months." I laughed a little and nodded, just as unsure as him. "I kind of took it day by day." I whispered back to him. Kakashi looked at me, making sure it was ok for him to leave. I nodded, showing it was, a little surprised that he made sure it was ok beforehand though.

"So wait, are you going to enter in the Chunin exams? If you are, are you going to be entering as a sand ninja or a leaf ninja?" Temari brought up a good point. I wasn't really sure myself yet. I wanted to go back to the sand village where I grew up, and live with Gaara again, but I didn't want to have to leave my new friends behind. "I am entering. I'm not sure what village though. I would go as a sand ninja, but I'm not sure if the Kazekage would want me too." Gaara looked at me, sadness streaming off of him and then I realized it wasn't just Gaara's sadness this was coming from. It was rolling off of everyone in waves, until it was almost choking me. "Guys, no matter what village I go as, I'll make sure that I can see all of you as much as I can." the sadness was lifted up a little by everyone, except the sand siblings. As far as I could tell, they thought I would pick the Leaf Village. I really was sure I would go back to the sand. I loved it there. It's my home. I had always felt slightly out of place in the Leaf Village, and I knew Naruto could live without me now, even though we kind of had an older brother and a younger sister relationship. I wanted to feel the heat again. I was getting sick of trees, and longed for the sand of the desert, but I knew that it would be hard to live without my new friends. I knew what my choice would be if I got the chance. I also knew because of the last few months I would be traveling a lot, whether it was to visit those I left behind, or to search for and kill Orochimaru for what he'd done to me.

I started to get up, and I felt sand getting ready to balance me if I started to fall. I rolled my eyes, knowing I wouldn't fall. I would never fall from my memories given back to me again. I walked over to the window and opened it wide. Then I walked back over to Gaara, kissed him, and whispered in his ear to meet me later at the same place as earlier, and jumped out of the window heading towards the Hokage's office, leaving some shock behind me. As I jumped from rooftop to rooftop, I wondered how I was going to say this to the Hokage. I stopped when I got to his building. I sighed and started walking in. The guards let me by, knowing that I was always allowed to visit him. When I got to his door, I paused, and then knocked. "Come in." I heard his voice say from behind the door. I pushed the door open and walked in. "Hello Mai. I'm assuming there is a reason you came to visit." I nodded. I was glad he just got right to the point today. "I've remembered everything. I saw Gaara Of The Desert today, and I remembered everything from when I met him, and after. I was a ninja from the sand village. I was top of my class, had just become a Genin, and much more, but those are the important parts of what was going on when I 'left'. I want to see if it at all possible for me to go back to the sand before I decide what I want to do with my life, and the Chunin exams." I tried not to sound worried, but he could see through me.

"I had already told the Kazekage about you when you first came to the Leaf Village. He told me that you were welcomed back anytime and not to tell you about your past. I think he wanted to see if you remembered by yourself. I will write another message to him to see if you can enter into the Chunin exams as a sand ninja, but be on a Sand Village team, or if not that, then your old team. It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes there can be a group of mixed villages. I'm sure he will be fine with it, but first I want to make sure I was right, guessing that you want to go back to the Sand Village." I nodded to him. "Yes. Thank you very much. I'm so grateful that you would do all of this for me even when I'm not really even a part of your village." he smiled, and nodded, showing that he would have done the same for anyone. Before I knew what I was doing, I hugged him and ran off to go meet Gaara.

(Sasuke POV)

I watched as Mai had jumped down in front of the sand ninja, and then collapse in front of them. I had figured out by the time Naruto reacted that the red head was Gaara, and that he was the one I wanted to kill. When I saw the sand coming over by her, to hold her, I tensed, afraid that she would be killed from collapsing, but instead, the redhead brought her closer to him, and brushed some of her hair out of her face. Then Naruto started talking, but I was too far away to hear what he said. The redhead just nodded and looked back down at Mai. I felt my urge to kill him rise a little at the way he looked at her. Then Naruto ran off with the boy, following him, Mai still being held by the sand. I decided to jump down in front of Sakura after that, to make sure that Gaara was gone and that the other two didn't try to attack again. They just looked at us, a blank shock on their faces. Finally, the blonde spoke up "W-was that really Mai? Our Mai? It sure did look like her." I could tell that she had next to no clue what was going on, so I spoke up. "That Mai lost her memories, and is still trying to bring them back. That's what was just happening to her. We should probably go and see if she'll be ok in time for the Chunin exams, Sakura." she nodded and we started to walk to the hospital. I could feel the two sand ninja were following us.

The only reason I really wanted to go to the hospital was to see if she remembered them. If she did, it would take a lot to kill Gaara, but even more to get her to love me. When we got there, we saw Naruto was talking to Kakashi sensei. I would guess he was telling him what had happened. When we walked in, Naruto saw us, and told us to follow him. We walked down the hall to her room. When we got there, we saw Gaara stroking her hair slightly, as if to make sure she was real. I just about went over and knocked him out for touching her "So this is him." I murmured under my breath, not thinking anyone would hear me. "What was that Sasuke?" Naruto asked me. I glared at him, and he left me alone.

I have to keep my anger under control. If I don't, I will attack Gaara, and I don't think I could kill all of these guys, and even if I did, how would I explain it to Mai? 'Yeah someone came in and killed everyone but left me and you. Weird, isn't it?' Yeah right, she's so much better than that, that it's scary.

"Huh?" I heard Mai say. Everyone went quiet and looked at her. "Hey guys. Should I do anything about my headache before or after I attack the sand siblings over here? I've missed them a lot, and I'm not really sure how long I can hold back." there she goes, making her pain sound like nothing. She looked at everyone for a second, but pause on me, with a confused look on her face before turning to look at Gaara. She was searching for the right words when he leaned over and kissed her. The anger I had felt before was nothing compared to this. I left the room without anyone even looking at me, more set on my goal to fight and kill Gaara then ever...

Hmmm HOLY CRAP! The drama that I write will kill me some day! But who do you think Mai will choose over the two boys? Who do you think is better for her? Oh wait that's right the next chapter need to be uploaded for you to even be able to get an opinion on that! Sasuke's pretty blood thirsty in this story...hmmm strange, but not as strange as flying squirrels...but the real question i whant to ask and REALLY want you guys to answer is what village should she choose? You guys can pick one of these three and I have a higher chance of picking the one you want if it gets lots of people on its side or whatever..anyway the choices are, Leaf Village ninja, Sand Village ninja, or both yep both as in a Sand ninja and a Leaf ninja...okay guys start thinking abou it!