Hey there everyone! So I wanted to get this chapter out quickly, but have been having some computer issues, thankfully I had it already backed up. yaay for preparing! I really want to write seeing as I am in full Naruto mode. Been playing Ultimate Ninja 4 (Must unlock 4th Hokage!) and doing a Gaara and Sage Naruto for an art project. but my computer is, like I said, waiting to be repaired. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Also, thank you everyone for the reviews and watches! well, as always, I hope you enjoy!

Hours went by.

Hours turned into days, and days turned into weeks.

The first few days, Adora frantically looked for Gaara, checking near the coffee shop she had found him, looking around her house, but with no luck. By the second week so was fairly positive she was going crazy and had dreamed the whole thing. She calmed herself down, came to terms with the fact that she had dreamed the entire thing, and allowed herself to move on. The end of the year at CIA was coming fast, and she needed to concentrate on the real world, but three weeks later she realized that it wasn't a dream. She was logging on to Naruto Central to read the latest chapter when something caught her eye. In the cosplay section was a picture of Gaara. Not someone dressing up as Gaara, but him.

She clicked on the picture that had a link to a Deviant Art. Seeing it larger, Adora could tell that in the photo, Gaara was sitting on the gritty streets of Cleveland, looking confused and out of place. Underneath the photo was a little description.

Not my Cosplay or anyone I really know. I saw this guy on the street and thought he was the best Gaara I have ever seen!!

Adora's eyes widened.

It was real. All of it, the brief glimpse she was given and the small friendship she had obtained was all real. And she had no way of getting it back.

Everyday she would wake up and wonder, well, what do I do? She wanted to go back, to have more, but had no way of gaining this so she had no idea what to do with herself.

She tried looking up things on the internet, but only found random fan fictions with girls falling in the world and falling in love. Adora amused herself with reading them.

"Gaara, Itachi, Sasuke, Kankuro, wow this girl really got around," she mumbled. "Oh look, now Kakashi." she said as she rubbed her temples. She wondered who would really want to be sought after by so many people. Just one boy would be fine with Adora, but honestly she would be fine being a shop girl and being able to be around everything. Being friends with everyone would just be a bonus.

With school over and very little purpose in life now, Adora spent her life reading fan fiction and wondering what was going on in Naruto world.

She was worried about Gaara, what if he was hurt? Or worse, what if he didn't come back to life?

What if, what if, what if. It was all Adora could think of. So she would read bad fan fiction to try to ebb her fears. For the most part, it didn't really work, but every so often she would find a gem, and it would distract her for a little while.

A month went by, and Adora realized, with a heavy heart, she had been waiting. Waiting for Gaara to come back. She realized as well that this was not going to happen, that she just needed to let go and move on with her life.

She let out a sad sigh and closed her laptop for the night. When she got to her room, she pulled the covers up to her chin and felt as if she was going to cry. She forced it away and told herself she just needed to let this go.

After a long time Adora finally drifted off into sleep.

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Adora did not wake up with a bright light shining right into her eyes like she did every morning. Instead, she woke up gradually in a dimly lit room. Her bed was not small either, but quite large and comfortable.

She opened her eyes completely and saw a ceiling…made of sand.

Adora stared at that wall for what felt like a good ten minutes, closing, and opening her eyes to make sure what she was seeing was real. She brought her hands up to rub her eyes, but still the image remained.

"Hey, are you up?" Said an incredibly familiar voice.

Adora sat up to see Temari sitting on a chair near her bed with her legs crossed and a coy smile on her face.

"I was wondering when you would finally wake up," she said getting up and stretching out a bit. "Gaara wanted to stay with you but had a meeting to attend, so I told him I would look after you. We didn't want you waking up with no one around."

"So," Adora said trying to find the right worlds. "I'm back?" she said lamely. But it was all that was going through her head right now.

Temari nodded, "Yup, we found a way to control the passage between worlds."

Adora sat there for a moment, completely dumbfounded and full of a sort of shocked happiness.

"I'm back," she said quietly. Then a huge grin spread across her face. "I'm back! And Gaara is okay. Oh my gosh, what happened? You have to tell me!"

Temari smiled and sat down on the bed. "Well Gaara did die, but just like in the story he came back to life. I think he could have avoided being captured, but I think he wanted the Shukaku out of him more, and knowing he could do that and protect the village, I don't think he would be able to pass that up."

"Yes, I understand," Adora said, "I'm just glad he's alright."

"Yes, me too," Temari said, "You have no idea how worried I was." she looked down at her hands. She was silent for a moment, but then said, "Well, I was just glad it all worked out, for the most part. And when he told me what happened, about you and your world, well, honestly I didn't really believe him. It just sort of sounds crazy. But I helped him with developing a Jutsu and I still can't believe it worked."

"You have no idea how glad I am it did," Adora said still glowing with sheer joy. Just when she had given up all hope, she had been given back her dream.

"Yeah, sorry about taking you while you were sleeping, we were a little worried that if you were awake the first time we did it you might freak out, and we couldn't do it to ourselves at the moment. Gaara wanted you back as soon as possible, he said we couldn't wait until we would be able to all travel back there. Plus, the connection between both worlds seems to be more powerful when sleeping."

"No it's fine," Adora said, smiling, "I'm just glad to be back."

Temari smiled at her as well, "Well, we're glad to have you here, you're just a little ray of sunshine. Gaara should be done with his meeting in a little bit, until then, do you want to grab some breakfast?"

Adora felt a pang of hunger in her stomach she didn't notice before, seeing as she was soaking in the whole being in Naruto world again.

"Oh yeah that would be great,"

Temari led her down to the kitchen area. Sitting at the table was Kankuro who was picking at a plate of eggs.

"Oh hey Adora," Kankuro said looking up at her. "Baby bro is going to be happy to see you got here safe and sound. So are you hungry? You want me to make you some eggs?" He said pointing his fork to the plate of food before him.

"Oh god no," Temari said crinkling her nose. "Kankuro is a terrible cook. He somehow manages to under cook the eggs and burn them at the same time."

"Hey," Kankuro said face dropping, "I resent that."

"Well it's true," Temari said.

"Well you burn toast!" Kankuro throwing down his fork.

"At least I actually know how to use a toaster!" Temari said crossing her arms.

"Um, I can cook," Adora said trying to end the argument that was sure to come.

Temari turned to look at her, "No, you're a guest, I mean I'm not the best cook, but I wouldn't ask you to do it yourself."

"I like to cook," Adora said with a shrug, "So it wouldn't be a bother for me, I think its fine. I could make a big meal for everyone."

"Oh that would be great," Kankuro said staring down at his eggs, "Because these eggs are disgusting."

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After the meeting, Gaara rushed back towards his house. The entire meeting he kept wishing it would end so he could go and check on Adora. It didn't help that the whole council didn't entirely respect him yet. Now that the Shukaku was gone from his body, they loved to randomly take jabs at his age. Though they would never out right say anything disrespectful because they all knew Gaara could shut them up in a second. Not like he did things like that anymore…but he did sometimes think about it from time to time.

When he entered the house he was greeted with an unusual smell, food. Not just food, but good food. The sand siblings were not blessed with the gift of cooking. They could kick your ass, but challenge them to prepare a meal without burning anything and they were completely screwed.

So it was a pleasant surprise to find plates full of bacon, pancakes, sausage, toast and jam, and various sliced fruit.

It also wasn't a surprise to find his siblings scarfing down a huge plate full of the food.

Temari was the first to pause and look up at the shocked Gaara.

"Oh my god Gaara," she said swallowing her food, "I love her," she said pointing at Adora who was standing in front of the much feared oven. "She made this all," She said motioning to all the food around them. "We took her to the store, and she made it, I'm not really sure how she did it but it's so good."

Kankuro looked up and nodded, "Yeah, man, you have got to grab some of this," he said digging back into the food.

Adora turned around to plate some more eggs onto Kankuro's plate. She looked up to see Gaara and her face lit up.

"Gaara!" She said putting down the pan and running over to Gaara, giving him a big, much long over due hug. Gaara felt the same as he always did when Adora hugged him, shocked at first, then happy beyond reason. He rapped his hands around her.

"Aw how cute," Kankuro and Temari said at the same time but the pair just ignored them.

"I'm so glad your feeling well," Gaara said when they pulled away. "I'm sorry my brother and sister are forcing you to cook," he said shooting them a dirty look. Their eyes widened a bit and they retreated back into their food.

"Oh no, I insisted," she said with a huge smile. "I love to cook so its really no problem. You should grab something to eat. Do you want some eggs?" She said pulling them back out from the fridge.

"Gaara, her eggs," Kankuro said taking a bite, "Are so fucking good."

"Aw well thank you Kankuro," Adora said pulling out an egg, "So would you like some?" She asked Gaara again.

"Yes that would be great, if you don't mine," Gaara said.

"I don't mind at all," she said cracking an egg into the pan. "So, what's the plan?"

"Well, I was going to have us take a visit to the Leaf Village," Gaara started, "I was planning on telling the Fifth Hokage about everything. But before that, I thought if it was alright with you, I wanted to set Temari and Kankuro up in your world for a moment. I want to make this enjoyable for you, but I am also the Kazekage of my village, I want to examine your world a little closer."

"Seriously baby bro, this sounds like the best mission you've assigned me yet," Kankuro said leaning back in his chair. "Where investigating means I get to hang out with a bunch of people who pretty much have no chance of wanting to kill me. Sounds like a sweet deal."

"But," Adora said flipping her perfect egg with ease, "What about the story? Is it bad that its being changed at all?"

Gaara didn't know everything that was supposed to happen in his world, but he did know that he wasn't ready to give up what he had just gained and learned. Adora's world was something too interesting to just forget about. And Adora herself was something Gaara didn't want to have to live without. She was always so cheerful. She was like the sunshine in Gaara's day. He was not sure what would happen if he went against the story, but he couldn't imagine it could be bad, not with someone so good as Adora in it.

"From now on," he said, "We make our own story."