AN: sorry for the ooc-ness
"Kazekage-Sama," Katara greeted as her team entered the Kazekage's office.
"Ah, the team from the leaf. You got here early," the Kazekage commented.
"Yes, we know that," Katara replied.
The Kazekage looked around the room at the small room before saying, "I thought the Hokage would send more people or at least those higher than Genin."
"I am ANBU Lord Kazekage, I assure you that Lord Hokage staffed this mission correctly," Katara assured.
The Kazekage's eyebrows lifted up.
"That surprises me."
"I don't see how, but that's up to you. You can believe me or you don't, I could care less really. Now why don't you tell us where we can find the sand team that we will be helping?"
"Gaara and his team are still preparing for the mission. If you want to help you will first have to see Gaara to find out what still needs to be done or my son Kankaro," The Kazekage explained.
"Thank you Lord Kazekage." Katara bowed once again before exiting the room with the four boys fallowing close behind her.
"I'm going to guess that the one in black with the purple face paint is the Kazekage's son. What do you guys think?" Katara asked as they approached a small group of ninja.
One in a black suit with a weird design painted on his face stood in the middle of the small group giving out orders to others that soon scrambled off to complete those orders. Katara walked up to the man that was several inches taller than she was.
"You are Kankaro, correct?" Katara asked the older male.
"Yes and who are you?" he asked, eyebrow rising slightly at why a Leaf ninja was already here.
"Katara Uchiha," Katara replied, "I know we are a bit early, but that couldn't be helped. Is there anything that we could do in the time between now and when we will be leaving?"
"Well, you could find Gaara for us, he went missing a little while ago and things could end up bad," Kankaro stated.
"Um, no offence, but we have no idea who this Gaara is," Katara pointed out.
"Oh trust me when you feel an evil presence you'll know you found him," Kankaro said placing a hand on Katara's shoulder, "hey watch it!"
He yelled at a ninja before rushing off to stop the idiot from doing something stupid. Katara sighed already annoyed with the male. She turned towards her teammate.
"So what do you think? Should we go find the Gaara guy?" she asked.
"I don't know, I really want to rest for a while. I mean come one we just did a journey that normally takes most three days and we did it in one day, what a drag," Shikamaru sighed out.
Katara rolled her eyes. "Leave it up to you to be lazy."
"Well, he is right, we should take a rest. We need it so that we can be fully prepared for the mission," Kiba said.
"Fine, you all be a bunch of whimps and rest I'm going to go find Gaara," Katara said before jumping up on a building before heading in a random direction.
"I think she's mad at us," Naruto stated.
"Hn," Sasuke agreed.
Katara rushed across the rooftops in search of someone that she had no idea what he looked like, or where he would be. Suddenly she stopped, something caught her eye. A figure in the moonlight sat up on a high roof and for some reason Katara found herself moving towards the figure. Quietly she advanced from rooftop to rooftop. Finally she made it to the rooftop the figure sat on; silently she snuck closer and closer to the figure. Messy, fiery red hair came into view, a pale complexion that matched no other, sea foam green orbs shone in the moonlight of the full moon.
"I know you're there," a monotone voice broke through the air.
Katara slipped out from the shadows she hide and came face to face with the red headed male.
"Hi, um, I was just looking for a guy named Gaara. Do you have any idea where he would be?" Katara asked kindly even though the look in the males eyes were one that could kill.
"Why were you looking for me?" he asked.
"You're Gaara! Wow I feel stupid for asking you were you were, but ah Kankaro asked me to find you," Katara replied.
Gaara just glared at the mention of his brother's name. He turned away from Katara and looked back up at the moon.
"Um, Gaara?" Katara suddenly was shy and she didn't even understand why.
He didn't reply. There was a noise in the distance that caught bother of their attention. Katara's head snapped in the direction of the noise.
"Gaara, we're moving out tonight," Kankaro called up to Gaara from the ground.