Here's chapter 2. It's been a little while but school and working on my webcomic has taken up most of my time.

There will be an explanation on why Gaara is how he is later on in the story I just want to get the story started before I get way into major details and stuff like that so bare with me for a bit.

Enjoy

When he was twelve Baki announced that Gaara and his siblings were going to travel to Konoha to participate in the chunin exams.

A small part of him became excited because he had never been out of the village except for missions. The other part of him feared. Feared that the demon would take over and hurt people.

"Hey bro." Kankuro interrupted his inner thoughts. "It will be all good."

Gaara looked at both his siblings and gave them a rare smile.

Two weeks later they were heading to Konoha for the exams.

They reached the village five days later, at the gates they were greeted by two ninja's at the check point booth.

"Suna signing in for the chunin exams." Baki spoke, handing one of the men a sealed scroll.

The man opened it with practiced ease and then looked over it. He quickly looked at Gaara, who stood behind the rest, fear shot through in his eyes.

'Must have heard the rumours father has been spreading.' Gaara thought, playing with the sleeve of his robes.

The leaf nin handed Baki a clipboard to sign. Once it was handed back they were let in.

"Well I don't know about you but I'm going to look around." Kankuro said, waving at his team.

Sighing, Temari went to followed her goof of a brother "I better go with him, just incase he caused trouble, you'll be fine?"

"Yes, I am going to see if I can get some herbs that i'm not able to grow at home." Gaara answered.

With a nod and telling him to meet her back there when he was done, she jogged to catch up to her other sibling.

"I'll leave you alone then." Baki spoke, "I'll be at the INN if anything happens."

Nodding at his sensei, he started walking towards the shopping district.

A short while later he stood in front of a store, Yamanaka Flower Shop. Pushing the door open he was greeted by a pretty blonde girl in a purple outfit.

"Hello, is there anything I can help you with?" She asked.

"Um, ah, do you have any medical herbs, specifically to help for blisters?" He asked.

"I think so. Follow me, I'm Ino by the way." Waving him over to follow as she walked to the back of the shop.

Shelves were carefully organized with different sized pots lined up in rows.

"Here are all out medical herbs," moving a few pots out of the way, grabbing a plant near the back. "Here you go." She held out a light green leafy plant with yellow flowers. "Do you need anything else?"

Sweeping his eyes over the plants, he spotted a pink coloured one (helps with chakra exhaustion, his mind chimed in) and gently grabbed it.

"This one as well." Taking the plant form Ino, the two of them went back to the counter.

"What village are you from? I don't recognize your headband." She pointe at his headband that was tied around the stap for his gourd.

"Sunagakure, were here for the exams." He answered, taking out his money bag.

"Cool, 6429 ryo please."

He handed over the right amount of notes and coins and then grabbed his herbs, ready to leave to shop.

"Bye cutie, see you at the exam."

His face became bright red, hurring out of the shop

Gaara first noticed something was wrong when his siblings were not at their designated meeting place.

Nervously he pulled his scarf up around his head and started making his way to the general area they were supposed to be.

He eventually saw them standing around five other people and one in a tree. Moving a bit faster he got to them right as Kankuro was about to use Karasu.

"Stop." Gaara grabbed his brother arm, stopping his movements. "No fighting."

"Listen, they started it." Kankuro tried to defend himself, putting his puppet back onto his back.

"Don't finish it then." Looking around he noticed that one of the three younger ones. Pre- genin most likely, was crying, "Are you hurt?" He questioned.

"Why do you care?" The boy snapped.

"I can heal you."

"I'm good, it's nothing serious."

"That's good. Sorry about my nii-sans's temper." He apologized, handing Temai his herbs, then taking his brother's wrist gently, sensing if something was wrong. "Did I hurt you?" He questioned, taking a step back, ready to run any second.

"No, it was that one in the tree, he threw a rock at me."

Gaara looked at the boy who was still in the tree, a rock being tossed up and down in his hand,

"What's your name?" The boy asked.

"I'm Gaara no Sabaku, what is yours?"

"Sasuke Uchiha."

"Well it's nice to meet you Sasuke-san." He turned back to his brother and brought his sand into his hand and then molded it around the others hand. starting to heal it.

"Your wrist was fractured and would have splintered if I wasn't here."

"Thanks bro."

Gaara went back around and was ready to say good-byes when the blond boy with overly bright blue eyes popped up in front of him, startling him in the process.

"Hey what did you just do?"

Gaara made a sound of surprise before falling onto his backside.

HE SMELLS LIKE THE FOX I WANT HIS HEAD

Gaara went wide eyed and got up as fast as he could then went behind his siblings.

"We need to go." He whispered, before using his sand to teleport them to their room at the INN they were staying in.

Landing in the room he moved to the corner, clutching his forearms, rocking back and forth, silently mouthing words. Sand rippled against his skin.

"Gaara?" Temari, placing the herbs she was given onto a table, knelt down beside the younger boy, making sure not to touch him. "Breath, copy me." She calmly said, slowing her breathing so that he could match hers.

"I- it- blood." Gaara choked out.

"We're here Gaar, listen to my voice, you will be fine."

1Ryo= ~10 yen= ~1CAD