"Lord Kazekage, the shinobi from Konoha are here." One of the Sand Village shinobi said entering the Kazekage's office.

"Send them in."

"Gaara, how have you been?!" Naruto asked excitedly.

"Show respect to the Kazekage!" Gaara held up his hand to silence the shinobi.

"You have a document for us?" Kyoko asked getting to the point.

"Yes, here it is." Gaara said handing a scroll to her.

Everybody then heard a knock on the door.

"Come in." Gaara answered.

"Lord Kazekage, if you all are finished, I would like to ask you something." asked Baki, who was Gaara's sensei.

"It's getting late, stay here for the night." Gaara said before Kyoko left.

"K thanks." Kyoko said. The Konoha shinobi left the office and Kyoko silently closed the door. She motioned for the rest of them to go ahead of her. Kyoko was eavesdropping on Baki's and Gaara's conversation.

"Gaara, do you think it best to let that girl have that document?" Baki asked.

"Why, what's wrong with her?"

"Well, she is from the Uchiha clan."

"So?"

"Well, all the other Uchiha alive today betrayed Konoha, they are not trustworthy."

"Why would you make an assumption, I trust her, you should as well."

"Y-Yes sir." Baki whispered. Kyoko clenched her fist and walked away to join the rest of her team.

"Hey Kyoko." Naruto grinned. Kyoko just stared down at the floor in front of her.

"Kyoko?" Shikamaru stepped forward.

"Huh? Oh, hey guys. C'mon, let's go find a hotel or something." Kyoko fake smiled. Shikamaru and Naruto looked at each other with a concerned look on their faces.

"Kyoko, what's wrong?" Shikamaru asked.

"Nothing, I'm perfectly fine!" Kyoko fake smiled again.

"No, you're not. What happened?" Shikamaru said with concern.

"Nothing." Kyoko whispered to herself, but Shikamaru heard.

"You're lying." Shikamaru said quickly.

"We'll stay here for the night." Kyoko said changing the subject. The team walked into an inn and got two rooms, one for Kyoko and another for the guys. Kyoko was getting ready for bed when she heard a knock on the door.

"Come in." Kyoko yawned. Shikamaru walked in and sat down on the floor in front of her.

"Tell me why you're sad." Shikamaru immediately said. Kyoko got a pained look on her face.

"Can we please not talk about it, I mean it's not like you even care." Kyoko said, holding back tears.

"Of course I care, if I didn't I wouldn't be here when I could be sleeping." Shikamaru yawned.

"…"

"Well, are you going to tell me?"

"…"

"I won't leave until you tell me."

"Fine, but leave as soon as I'm done."

"Alright."

"That guy, Baki, thinks that Gaara shouldn't trust me."

"Why not."

"I'm from the Uchiha clan, people are afraid that I'll betray them like Itachi and Sasuke did."

"Oh…"

"Now please leave." Kyoko said trying her hardest not to cry in front of him.

"Alright…" Shikamaru said hesitantly. He didn't really want to leave her by herself, but she asked him to. As he was about to leave, Shikamaru turned around, "Good night."

Kyoko laughed quietly to herself, "It's been awhile since I've heard that." At that, Shikamaru smiled and left.

~The Next Morning~

Kyoko woke up early and got ready to leave. She wanted to hurry up and get home. She didn't want to wake up everybody else, so she decided to walk around the village for a bit. As she was walking she heard people whispering about her. She couldn't really hear what they were saying but she would hear 'Uchiha' whispered every now and then. Kyoko was about ready to turn around and head back to the inn when she saw Gaara.

"Hey Gaara. Is it alright if I call you Gaara?" Kyoko said quickly.

"Yes, it's fine. I would like to talk to you, if you don't mind." Gaara said emotionlessly.

"Sure, anything to get away from all these people." Kyoko said the last part to herself, but Gaara heard.

"I apologize for the villagers." Gaara said when they arrived at his house.

"It's okay, I wouldn't trust me either." Kyoko fake laughed.

"Take a seat." Gaara said. Kyoko obeyed, sitting on a soft couch.

"What do you wanna talk about?" Kyoko asked getting comfortable.

"You're not normal are you?" Gaara said sitting down.

"What do you mean?"

"You're chakra feels different, strange."

"Like how?"

"Like mine and Naruto."

"I don't know what you mean."

"Yes you do."

"I-I…"

"You're a Jinchuuriki."

"…"

"I'm right, aren't I?"

"Y-Yes…"

"Which one?"

"The three tails, Isonade."

"I see, you should be careful, Akatsuki will be after you soon."

"Yeah, I know. Can you do me a favor?"

"What?"

"Please, don't tell anybody."

"Why not?"

"People already dislike me because I'm from the Uchiha clan, if they find out that I have a demon inside of me, it will get a lot worse."

"Does the Hokage know?"

"Yes."

"What about Sasuke."

"No, well, I never told him."

"Does Itachi know?"

"I never told him either, but he's going to find out eventually."

"I suppose so, what if he was to come after you, would you kill him?"

"I'm not sure, Itachi was like a brother to me, and I still don't believe Itachi did all that. Especially for the reason Sasuke told me about."

"Reason?"

"Sasuke told me that Itachi did all that to test his power. I just don't believe that."

Gaara slowly closed his eyes and opened them again, "I think it's about time you left, your team will be worried about you."

"Yeah, I guess you're right. You won't tell anybody, right?"

"I won't say a word."

Kyoko smiled, "Thanks."

"If you need our help, don't hesitate to ask."

"Gaara, could we be friends?"

"Sure." Gaara said reluctantly, nobody had ever asked him that before. Kyoko smiled and left to see if everybody was awake yet. They had to hurry and get home. She saw Neji, Naruto, and Shikamaru talking to two people.

"Kyoko, this is Temari and Kankuro." Naruto said.

"It's nice to meet you." Kyoko smiled.

"So, you're Kyoko Uchiha." Kankuro said.

"Yeah, that's me."

"I never liked Sasuke y'know."

"I think every guy has disliked Sasuke at some point."

"Guy?"

"He's popular among girls."

"Of course he is…" Kankuro mumbled, which made Kyoko laugh.

"Well, we should get going." Kyoko said stretching.

"Yeah, you better get the scroll to the Hokage safely." Temari said.

"Don't worry, it will, I'm here." Kyoko grinned.

"You're pretty confident." Temari scoffed.

"Yeah, I guess so." Kyoko laughed.

"C'mon! I wanna get home and continue my training!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Alright, let's go everyone." Kyoko smiled. She wanted to get home as soon as possible.