What a birthday 5

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" Well its almost morning so it is time for us to leave so goodnight, see you soon." Hina said. She got up and walked away and the others followed her. I tried to call out to her to stop, but suddenly my vision went black andwthen my eyes shot open i was back in camp where everyone had just begun to wake up.

Chapter 5 Arrival at the leaf and Meeting

Every since we woke this morning we've been running non stop for hours. We had finally reached the start of the forest just a couple hours ago. Baki told us we should arrive at Kohona soon and it was decided we would slow down our pace to walk.

Temari picked up her pace to be up beside me.

"Hailey you have been unusually quiet today, you haven't said a word." Temari asked with confusion written on her face.

I was confused by this so I reviewed what had happened during the day and realized she was right. I hadn't said anything all that day. Why is that, I wondered. I looked back at Temari and now her look of confusion had turned into that of concern. This caused me to panic. My brain was trying to find a reasonable answer but my brain kept coming to a blank.

At that moment, Emma and Renee walked in between me and Temari. This distracted her and made me sigh in relief, my panic subsiding.

"Well Temari, I guess you could say Hailey has a type of social anxiety which makes her very nervous while talking to people," said Renee. She was explaining to her as best as she could why I've been so quiet.

"Then why was she able to yesterday?" Temari asked confused.

"Well when Hailey has stuff like alcohol or suger it pretty much gets rid of her anxiety. So to answer why she was talking yesterday it was because the day before she had something containing sugar," Renee explained. When I looked at Temari she now had a look of understanding.

"Wait, how exactly do you know alcohol helps" Temari asked sternly and glaring at us.

"It's a long story" I replied.

"Well I'd like to hear it," said Temari.

"I would too," Kankuro said, joining the conversation.

"Well it was after our first mission and Jone decided to take us out for dinner at a restaurant. When we got there the place was very busy" Renee started. At that point I decided to slip away, since I already know what she is going to say. the waitress pretty much mixed up my drink with someone else's and then from then on everything was pretty fuzzy. From what Renee and Emma said afterwards, I guess I went nuts.

* Time Skip*

We had finally reached Kohona and we were now standing in front of it gates. As we walked into the village we were met by a pair of guards.

"Stop, who are you and what is your business here?" said the first guard.

Baki and Jone walked up and showed them that we had passes.

"Okay your clear to go" said the second guard, stepping aside,letting us pass.

"Okay guys, me and Baki are going to see the hokage. Why don't the rest of you try finding the hotel we're staying at. Here's the address," Jone said, passing me a piece of paper with the street name and number on it.

I watched Baki take off, jumping roof top to roof top and Jone waved goodbye and followed him. I unfolded the map Jone had given me of Kohona. It took only a couple minutes for me to locate the street and choose the correct route to take. I folded the map back up and then I noticed I was alone in the crowded street and began to panic searching the crowd for anyone familiar.

Then I spotted a familiar figure in the distance and immediately recognized them.

"Gaara" I yelled, and the figure turned around. A sense of relief washed over me as I realized I was indeed correct. Gaara began walking again and I ran to catch up with him. When I caught up to him I saw no one else was with him.

" Gaara where is everyone" I asked looking at him. He kept walking and didn't say anything. I came to my own conclusion and said " You ditched them, didn't you?"

The only answer I got for my question was a hn.

"Why exactly did you do that?" I asked glaring at him.

"They are a nuisance" Gaara said, in his usual emotionless way. It made me sigh and shake my head.

Suddenly Gaara stopped, looked to the right and looked like he was listen to something. I listened as well and heard yelling and it sounded close. I thought I recognized one of the voice. Gaara took off and began jumping building to building. I soon followed him. Gaara jumped into a tree hanging up side down. I jumped beside him onto the branch below him and crouched on one knee. I looked over at Gaara and followed his line of sight to the scan below or in his point of view.

I was right about recognizing a voice. Below me was Kankuro holding a crow beside him and was glaring up at the other side of the tree oblivious of me and Gaara . Next to Kankuro on the right was Temari, Emma, and Renee. To his left was Naruto, Sakura, and Konahamaru and his gang. I could only guess who was on the other side of the tree.

"Kankuro stop it, your an embarrassment to our village" Gaara said angrily. This made everyone look to the side we were on. Renee and Emma spotted me, and smiled and waved.

"Gaara it's not what it looks like, they started it" Kankuro said nervously. I think I saw him visibly sweating.

"Oh shut up, or ill kill you" Gaara said emotionlessly.

Gaara disappeared in a swirl of sand. Thats so cool I thought as Gaara reappeared below me. I decided to do it the old fashioned way and jump, since I didn't want to draw attention and I still hadn't learned how to teleport . I jumped down from the tree coming to stand beside Gaara.

"Hey wait" Sakura said walking up to us.

"What?" Gaara asked looking at Sakura.

"Ninjas of the sand village right, judging by your head bands. Right?" Sakura said confidently. I decided to ignore the rest of what she said since I already know what she's going to say.

"Hah, talk about clueless, Don't you know anything" Temari said showing her pass to Sakura.

"You're right we are from the village of the sand" Temari said walking up to stand beside me.

"Chunnin exams?" Naruto asked having no clue what she was talking about.

Then Temari went onto explaining what the Chunin exams were until she was interrupted by Naruto " Hey Konohamaru you think I should enter the Chunin exams" Naruto said excitedly.

"You bastard you asked the question, listen until the end" yelled Temari.

Sasuke transported himself from the tree to the ground in front of Naruto.

"So what are your names?" asked Sasuke.

"You mean me?" Temari asked blushing, wondering what she had done to draw attention to herself.

"No, the one with the gourd on his back and the girl with the bandaged up arms." Sasuke replied. I looked around wondering who he was talking about, then it hit me he was talking about me. Why does he want to know my name, i wondered.

"Gaara, of the desert" answered Gaara. Sasuke looked at me for an answer.

"Hailey Smith" I answered. Strangely I wasn't nervous, probably because I didn't care about what he thought.

"I'm also interested in your name?" Gaara said looking at Sasuke.

"Sasuke Uchiha" said Sasuke with a smug look on his face.

"Hey want to know my name" yelled Naruto excitedly.

"Not interested. Let's go" Gaara said turning around. He took off hopping building to building and the rest of us followed.