thank you all who waited patiently for the new chapter :D

hey is the next chapter :) Hope you like it!

Now time to see what's going on with our little girl... no her name is not know yet but it soon will be known :D

I wanna get the timing right when it pops up :)

Enjoy yourselves and don't forget to review :D

Italics means what she's thinking!

Chapter 3

I awoke that morning flustered. What the hell had happened that night? It seemed so strange and foreign. Why had he reacted like that? When I was only trying to help him! I pounded my fist into my pillow.

That knuckle head Gaara! I was only trying to help! What was the damn attitude for? Grrrrrrrr!

Rolling off my bed I stumbled into the bathroom. Studying my face in the mirror I made a fearsome expression but, to my dismay it looked more comical than scary. I sighed out loud and recoiled at the smell of my morning breath.

Maybe that might be enough to faze him? Ha!

I laughed silently at my stupidity and grabbed my toothbrush and squeezed a whopping amount of toothpaste onto it. Clips of the night flashed through my head, his lonely eyes, and his gruff voice… the way he pushed me away from him. I shook my head violently making up my mind to confront him about his weird reaction that night.

Quickly I showered and dressed. I still had more cleaning up to do today and until all the buildings that were damaged were repaired. I heard my mother's footfalls coming up the stairs towards my room, I sighed this time with a heavy heart, I didn't have any patience to listen to her rant on and on about how bad I was as a ninja at breakfast. The worst part about it was my father agreed with her, and compared me to my three older siblings who had already made chunin at my age. Pulling open my window I climbed out onto the roof, shutting it behind me I leapt away to the site where my sensei and team mates were waiting for me.

I stopped two houses before the site. Rummaging around in my pocket I found some fives dollar bills and coins. I jumped down from the building and landed in front of a breakfast restaurant, checking my money as I walked through the door. I had just enough to buy some miso soup. Going to the back corner stall I sat and waited for the waitress to take my order.

"Hi there ready to place your order?" smiled the waitress.

"Ummm… a miso soup and just gimme the full works," I replied smiling back.

Quickly she jutted down the order, smiled and hurried to the kitchen to give the waiting chef the list. I plucked a pair of chopsticks from the pale green ceramic jar from the centre of the table; twirling it in my fingers I rewinded last night's event.

I had just complimented Gaara on the colour of his eyes and he turned and glared at me, or was it a look of confusion? I wasn't sure there were so many emotions being thrown about in his eyes. I had turned to return his gaze, a mere piece of senselessness on my part.

Then something happened… he screamed out in pain and a strong feeling of dread and blood lust engulfed us. I thought Shakaku was going to explode from him, I watch for a few brief second while he writhed in pain. I wasn't sure if to touch him or to run.

Then common sense evaded me, I began to think, my mind racing more than a mile a minute. He was just a normal person like me and something was causing him pain, he didn't ask for the demon to be out in him, it wasn't his decision. I stooped beside him concerned and cradled him into my arms, my body reacting faster than my brain.

"Are you alright?" I urgently inquired.

My hands fluttering around his body trying to source the problem of his pain, despite I knew it probably was the Shakaku; I tried to see if anything physical contributed to his pain. I pulled his hand away from his face and pressed my palm to his forehead, his skin was on fire.

Suddenly he fell silent; body limp in my arms, and his eyes locked on mine. Searching… I realized his eyes were searching for something in mine. What was it he was looking for?

"Don't touch me!" he growled and shoved me away from him.

He stumbled to his feet, his back facing me.

"Thank you," he whispered the words barely audible to my ears or at least what I thought was a thank you, or maybe it was the words I wanted to hear.

"Here you go!" chimed the waitress placing the bowl in front of me.

Completely shattering my concentration and making me jump.

"We're so sorry for the wait! We added in some extra ingredients free of charge," she added before skipping off to get the next customers order.

I finished the soup in five minutes tops, I didn't realize I was that hungry. Signaling the waitress I paid for my meal and hurried along to the site.

"Ah there you are!" called my sensei as he saw me.

"As usual you're assigned to clearing up duty, just get all the scraps of wood you can carry and put in the playground," he said patting my head.

"Yeah sure! No problem!" I replied and headed off to do my job or mission.

Gathering up the near by wood I could carry, I walked towards the playground, as usual I glanced to the sky. My mind was still full of Gaara. A flash of red caught my eye, whipping my head around I saw Gaara retreating into the recesses of an old shop spared from the destruction.

"Hey! What are you doing? We gotta head back as soon as we finish drop these stuff off," called my team mate who was several feet behind me.

"Yeah sure!," I grumpily said. I looked longingly at the window, wishing my team mate hadn't spotted me.

Days past and I continued to catch little glimpses of Gaara in the attic of the shop. I wasn't able to investigate cause my team mates accompanied me to the playground and if I deterred a little they would tell our sensei and I would be punished. Also I wasn't able to sit out on the roof anymore, my parents wanted me home by a certain time to help with cleaning and repairing at home. So basically I hadn't had a chance to confront him yet.

Ugh! I wish I could just bump into him and give him a piece of my mind!

I lounged grumpily against what used to be the frame of the swing in the playground. Then there he was walking with his siblings, heading towards the Hokage tower. He turned and looked at me, his eyes cold and unmoving but recognizing me. Slowly I raised a hand and waved while smiling at him, quickly he turned back his head. Clenching my fist I pounded the air when there backs were towards me.

Mark my words Gaara you have it coming! How dare you treat like that a few nights back and now you ignore me? WTF dude?

A new day yet again, I hated this routine and damn mission. I yawned sleepily as I trudged along the path to the excavation site, I'm sure my sensei and team mates were waiting already. Wearily I rubbed my sore shoulder, I was tired, Gaara had been evading me. I really wanted to know why he reacted so strange when I tried to help him. Slowly and silently I went onwards, legs heavy and tired. Suddenly an idea hit me I wondered if he would be in the old shop at this time.

It's on the way so I might as well check it out. Then I could give that guy a piece of my mind. Humph!

I located the store and jumped up to the attic; it was empty and held no sign of life. I pouted disappointed.

Shoot! Ugh! Where is he then?

I climbed back through the window and jumped back onto the street. I looked around, the streets looked so dead. The place where we were excavating had been moved, repairs would be started in the place where we were previously clearing tomorrow. The walk to the playground was so far now.

I heard a low groan; I wasn't sure what I was hearing. I stood there concentrating to hear the sound again and place what it was. It groaned again this time louder and with a crash.

Shit!

The foundation for the building opposite the store was giving way and I was right in its path. My reaction to move out of the way was too slow; the building came crashing down around me. I crouched down on the ground, eyes tightly shut and hands protectively covering my head. I heard the pieces of metal, wood and concrete dropping all around me but yet still I hadn't been hit. The groaning and clanking of metal and other building materials continued.

Am I dead? That's why I didn't feel any pain?

I opened my eyes slowly it was pitch black like the darkest of nights.

Maybe I really am dead…

Forming a few hand symbols I created a small ball of light which I held in my hand, the white light easily illuminating the area I was in. I walked forward to examine my surroundings; there was something brown and sandy in colour in front of me.

Wait is that a wall?

Hesitantly I reached forward and touched it. The texture was rough like sandpaper, it felt like compacted

Sand?

I was shocked; slowly I registered what had happened. The only person known to control sand was Gaara. Gaara had saved me! Maybe my kindness towards him last night had an influence or he wanted to toy with me and was going crush me after. Silently I chose option one, I cracked a smile at me silly analysis of the situation. Where was he? Was he somewhere near or was he like a sniveling perv stalking me? How had I missed his presence?

I felt the whole sand cocoon move. Was I being lifted or was it caving it?

Wahhhhhhhhhhh! Please don't cave in! Please don't cave in!

Then the whole roof began to crumble and sunlight filtered in, it was so reassuring to see the sky again. The cocoon dissipated and a confused looked Gaara stood a few feet away from me at the corner of a road intersection.

"Why… Why did it just do that?" he mumbled.

Huh?

like it, like it, like it? i sure hope u did!

Can you believe this was four pages long?

it looks so short here :/ *sigh*

anyways! hold onto your seat as the next chapter will come out most likey next sunday due to school opening on monday 5th september for me.

i would still try my best to write the rest and upload it sunday. i highly doubt though cause, my older sis and i share the computer and we split the times and we only get like 3 hours each.

now all that said what happened to Gaara? why was he so shocked and mumbling to himself? (i dunno)

Find out next time on Unbiased Eyes Chapter 4 :D