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Okay, well here is my 5th chapter? I think that's right. I've been putting off writing this because...idk..im stuupid? lol. Well here it is,

BTW: really important!--Gaara moved from sand village to the leaf. I dont know why, he just did, he hasn't actually been around sand in like...years! So...yea...important to the plot line.

COMPULSIVE!!!

I stopped dead in my tracks, opening the door to leave. "So you're just going to leave? After I tell you the truth and everything?"

"Neji, there are a lot of thing I have to think. Not just about you, but about Lee, and what I'm going to do." And there before me was the green jumpsuit boy himself, for some odd reason, he came to Neji's house looking for me. "What are you talking about, Gaara?" I took a deep breath and walked toward him putting my hands on his shoulders, "Lee, there are a lot of thing I have to think about, not just you. I'm sorry." Confusion crept onto Lee's face, and Neji looked down on us in disgust. I walked back toward him and hugged him and Lee let a small gasp out in despair. I turned around and walked away, before completely leaving earshot, I turned for a final time and said to both of them, "I'm sorry, but I'll be leaving for a while." I ran my fingers through my hair as I smoothly made my exit.

"This isn't fair!" Lee yelled, his knees collapsing underneath him. Neji just shut his door behind him and continued whatever he was doing before hand. I just kept walking as the mayhem behind me continued.

I can't say I was happy to be leaving, or that I knew where I was going, because those would both be lies. I was leaving to get away, not for a mission, or something important. I needed to think, hard, about something I didn't even know if I could fix. There were few things I was sure of : Neji loved me, Lee loved me, and they hated each other. It wasn't something that was; something that had happened during the time the pictures began to be taken. Neji had to have some kind of drive for why he would agree to take the pictures, and that's when they were friends. But over time, things began to work out for Lee, and Neji's jealousy gave birth to the hate.

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Before I realized it, I was back home. I took a backpack, and filled it with some necessities before exiting my home again. I walked down the path, my head low. It slowly set in, on me the toll my energy was taking from this whole problem, my head sunk lower. I looked at the dirt path, and looked up again, to make sure I was headed out of town, and sure enough, I was.

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The days turned into nights that turned back into days. Before I knew it, I was in the middle of nowhere. I had been looking down the whole time, thinking, so I had no idea where I was. I looked around trying to get the feeling of familiarity, but it was gone. I looked through my pack it was empty. Anything that I had brought was gone. The days had meshed together, and I didn't even remember much. My knees buckled as I fell, face first into the sand. I was weakened by the lack of food.

I sat up wiping the sand off my face, and took one final look around. My face was scrached by the sand that was being pulled by the hard winds. And although I shouldn't have been touched by the sand, over the years, my mother's 'spell' had faded, and only protected me from large straight forward attacks. I wasn't as protected anymore. Because I was so used to being protected, I had never been touched by sand, it didn't hurt, but I was getting hurt. Then I noticed, it was cool, refreshing, night. But a storm was hitting, both a sand storm, and rain. I felt a drop of rain fall on my face, which should have been the last of my worries, because I was in the desert, but apparently I had chosen the time of the year when it floods.

It quickly went from a light rain, to standing under a waterfall. I struggled to stand up as my legs failed again, leaving me to fall on my face for a second time. Rolling on my back, I brushed the sand off my face once more. I turned my head to the side and saw two figures, two familiar figures. It was Lee and Neji! "Lee! Neji!" My voice was hoarse, and broke intricately through my spoken words. The wind blew hard and the figures blew away. But Lee's figure stayed and came closer. This mirage was the most beautiful one I'd seen, in all my years of living in the desert.

The mirage swayed in the wind, and I began to laugh, hysterically. So hard, my stomach hurt. I laughed and laughed, tears streamed down my face, and the shadow moved closer, still swaying in the wind. I laughed, so hard I cried, and began to cough, as my weak body shook, from the wind, and lack of energy, and food. My eyes shut and my coughing came to an end, my final thoughts were 'so, this is how it ends huh? Pretty lame ending, pretty lame life. Why isn't Lee here by my side?' And I drifted in and out of consciousness, before finally letting go.

I awoke, which was surprising because I thought my life had ended in the sand storm. But here I was in this hospital bed, comfortably lain. I knew where I was, so there was no need to freak out. My eyelids opened carefully, and I looked around, inhaling the smell of familiarity. "I assume you'll be leaving soon then?" an unknown voice called. I turned my head to them

"And you might be?"

"Names aren't important, but I'm the one who saved you." Pride spilled off her body like sweat. She had a big smile on her face, as she stood in the doorway, dressed to nicely for a random visit.

"You know mine, why shouldn't I know yours?" I said flatly.

"When I found you, you were laughing hysterically, before you began to cough up blood. Which I have to admit, was one of the scariest things I've ever seen." She pushed her body off the doorway, and walked closer before sitting in the chair before me. "I realized something, that's all."

"What could be so funny?" she asked a smug look creeping onto her expression.

"My love life. Now if you don't mind, I'd like to know your name."

"Don't matter. I have to go. But remember, lying in the desert during a sand storm, plus wild laughter, equals crazy person." I nodded carefully as the she left, the train of her dress staying a while longer than she. I don't believe I'll be seeing her anytime soon, but I did know something, I had to see Lee. Nothing else mattered but Lee.

YAY! ORIGINAL CHARATER!!

I made up a charater, because noone fit the personality of the person I wanted to save Gaara. I couldn't just leave the poor guy there! He was coughing up blood! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENES WHEN YOU GO WEEKS WITHOUT EATING!