Gaara continued to scowl. 'This is a waste of time. He didn't want to be here... so why the hell was he?!'

Jess ripped the bandage from her neck and blood plopped to the floor. Her eyes were hazed with a back shroud.

Gaara took this as his cue to leave, and so he stepped out of the building without even glancing back at her.

Jess continued to stare at the pool of blood now at her feet. She shudders at the fact that once again she had to be protected.

Like she was a child. Her nails dug into her fleshy palm as she scowled as well.

Suddenly Gaara stopped walking and held his stance.' Footsteps?" The sound of sandals scuffing across the dirt road echoed in Gaara's

ears. Then Gaara let out a gasp as two arms locked around his chest and he fell over backwards.

The sound of a girlish whine could be heard from under him. To his realization the two, jess and Gaara, had fell into an inescapable kiss.

Gaara yelped in shock of the tender feeling his own lips now had. Jess just reacted in a way she couldn't understand.

She then pulled away from him and betrayed her shocked emotions. They both flushed maroon and neither could speak.

"What I wanted t-to say was... thank you for saving me!" Jess shouted the last bit of her sentence quickly as if those words burned in her

throat like acid. She just got an empty stare from the bewildered Gaara. He then stood up and let the sand form around him so only his face was exposed. He was so confused. He'd never been in contact with another person like that before.

He hadn't been cut on the lips but why did his lips buzz like so? Jess didn't turn away from him though.

"W-hat? Am I a bad kisser?" She asked in a proud voice. She actually found herself full of her own ego, there's no way she was a bad kisser, even though... that was her first one.

Gaara was about to say something when an all too familiar orange ninja appeared from no-where.

"HI JESS!" Exclaimed hyper-active Uzimaki Naruto. Jess flinched as he grinned at her.

"Why are you here Naruto? Aren't you supposed to be in your village or something?" Jess asked. Naruto frowned a little.

"No... Well yes but you see I really pissed Tsunade off and now she has held a public stoning and people threw rocks at me. So I got outta there. So now I'm here." He said between a happy smile. There was silence.

Naruto turned around and all there was was sand caught in the wind. Gaara was gone.

"Where did---?" jess wondered aloud as she gazed off into the horizon. She gently touched her lips and formed his image into her mind. Meanwhile Naruto was shouting her name as she got lot into the swamp of her thoughts.

The next day Jess got screamed at by a hung-over market witch, so she called the old hag. She dropped a hold cardboard box of apples, so now her punishment was to sweep the dark ally way nearby.

Alex: seriously, who says, 'go clean the ally" unless they want something bad to happen to them. Ha-ha continue.

Jess swept the ally obediently until a rat scurried over her foot. In which she screamed and made an effort to stab the beastly rodent with her broom, end part down. As she was screaming like an idiot Naruto saw his chance to catch her off guard. He threw a kunai at her in hopes she'd dodge it.

However, Jess hadn't moved and now the kunai was lodged in her right shoulder and she was bleeding badly. She hadn't dodged it and Naruto had accidentally/ purposely hurt her.

"Jess! Jess!" Naruto hollered after her as she slumped to the ground. Naruto picked up her limp body and held up her head. Slowly he went to look into her eyes. When he did the whole body of jess turned into melted wax and laughter could be heard from behind the bewildered Naruto.

"Hah! At least I learned one thing when I was a ninja." Jess laughed.