The next morning Yukina woke up feeling even more cheerful than usual maybe it was because she had been able to let go of some guilt from the past. Sitting up she stretched and got out of bed it was surprisingly early for her to be up since she loved sleeping in preferably until two in the evening. Since it was a weekend she decided to go to the mall near the school, getting dressed and walking to the door she glanced at the bunk above her where Sasuke lay sleeping peacefully, he looked so sweet and innocent without his usual frown in place suddenly yesterday's memories came crashing back making Yukina blush Sasuke could be really gentle when he wanted to be. With that thought she silently left the room leaving Naruto to he's dreams which of course were about ramen.

Walking down the dorm halls she spotted Guy sensei Yukina tried to stay out of the man's line of sight, to say that he was eccentric was an understatement the man was downright nuts. Unfortunately luck wasn't on Yukina's side since sensei spotted her immediately. "OH! MISS AIZAWA!" he yelled loud enough to wake the entire dormitory, Yukina too shocked by this outburst was glued to the floor as the man ran up to her he was running so fast Yukina was terrified he'd crash into her and send her flying through the roof, luckily that didn't happen as Guy managed to stop right in front of her causing her to fall back on her butt from fright.

"Just the hot blooded youth I wanted to see." Said Guy looking down at the muddled heap on the floor, Yukina was still getting over the shock of almost being mauled in the middle of the hall by a crazy man going over his speed limit.

"What's wrong you look as if you nearly got run over?" Said guy completely oblivious to how close he came to the truth "anyway, do me a favor and wake up your dorm mates." Yukina's eyes bulged at his request Sasuke was damn scary when woken up, the last time Naruto tried to wake Sasuke up Sasuke threw him out the window he wasn't seriously hurt but still SCAARY! Of course Yukina knew better than to talk back to Guy sensei so she grudgingly stalked back to her room 'might as well get it over with in one blow.' She thought opening the door and closing it making sure she didn't make a sound taking a deep breath,

"ALRIGHT, MOTHER FUCKERS! RISE AND SHINE! GET YOUR ASSES IN GEAR!"

Yukina yelled so loud some people from the neighboring rooms had woken up, her sudden scream had caused Naruto to fall out of bed looking around he asked Yukina, "why did the ramen push me out of bed?" Yukina just laughed and looked at the other heavy sleeper who was glaring at her through half open eyes clearly pissed that he had been woken up from his dreams of killing Naruto; Yukina just smirked at her roommate's reactions and informed them that Guy sensei had told her to wake them up.

A few minutes later the three emerged from the dormitories into the court yard outside, Sasuke mumbling about how it better be important or the consequences wouldn't be pretty and Naruto being…well Naruto. The court yard was filled with students some of the female students glared at Yukina, mainly because she was walking beside one of the most popular boys in school who was single no less.

Looking around Yukina saw probably the only friendly faces in the crowd Hinata was waving at them with Tanoshi standing there with her arms crossed trying to block out everyone else.

"Yukina, Sasuke-kun, Naruto-kun over here." Hinata called waving.

"Hinata we're dating, you can drop the –Kun." Naruto said looking lovingly at his girlfriend Hinata blushed at this suggestion, since to her that seemed like a very big step.

"N-Naruto-kun I couldn't possibly do that."

"Hmm why not? you call Yukina by her first name."

"T-t-that's because"

"We're soul-mates, so take a hike." Yukina wrapped her arms around Hinata to give her a peck on the cheek and stick her tongue out at Naruto. Naruto was shocked by Yukina's proclamation "yeah, Hinata loves us more." Said Tanoshi deciding to join in on the fun hugging Hinata as well, Hinata turning beet red was squashed between her two best friends, at this point Naruto was at complete loss for words stuttering incoherent sentences. Sasuke couldn't help but chuckle he was relieved that Yukina was acting like her old teasing self but the memory of yesterday was still fresh in his mind 'what could've happen to terrify her so much?' the question just wouldn't leave his mind. Before he could ponder any further Guy sensei appeared 'youthfully late' as he put it.

"Hello! All you kids, so nice to see such hot-blooded youth in the morning." The entire student-body just sweat dropped.

"Anyway, you're all probably wondering why you are here." He continued earning the interest of all the students, "well principal Tsunade has kindly agreed to my suggestion of taking you all on a mid-term holiday, to the beach." Stressing the fact that it was his idea the whole student body cheered excited to finally have a break. Everyone was excited Yukina, Tanoshi and Hinata were jumping round in circle holding hands laughing like three year olds on a sugar rush. Some people were surprised to see Tanoshi actually laughing and having fun, others knew that it was because of Yukina's bubbly personality which was absolutely contagious.

(On the bus.)

Guy had explained that they would be gone for seven days he called it 'Guy sensei's seven days in paradise.' Yukina was pretty much bored, the seats were assigned and luck was not on her side when she had to sit next to a red haired boy she didn't exactly know, refusing to make eye contact she looked anywhere but at him all she knew was he had red hair, tall, handsome and really quiet Yukina tried to keep her mouth shut but being the social butterfly she was, that didn't go so well. Glancing over at the boy beside her she noticed he was staring at something or more precisely someone, looking over his shoulder she saw something particularly interesting.

The person red-head was staring at was none other than her best friend Tanoshi; smirking to herself she poked the boy in the ribs earning his attention. The boy was clearly confused by her actions since he just stared at the grinning Yukina. Only when she got a good look at his face did she notice the tattoo on his forehead it said 'love' which Yukina found kind of cute and he had his school tie draped around his neck, by her account he was clearly a delinquent.

"I'm Yukina sorry I didn't introduce myself earlier." Staring at her outstretched hand as if it might bite him he hesitantly shook it. "Gaara." He replied his voice was slightly hoarse so Yukina guessed he didn't talk much, "hi Gaara," Yukina's grin widened.

'What a strange girl.' Gaara thought since he wasn't used to talking to any women other than his semi-psychotic sister. "Sooo," Yukina dragged out leaning forward on the armrest separating them "you've got a crush on Tanoshi don't you?" she teased earning a blush that did not go unnoticed "aaha! I knew it!" Yukina exclaimed triumphantly. Gaara couldn't figure out how she had guessed, the minute he saw her he registered her as clumsy and overly enthusiastic it didn't even cross his mind that she'd be smart.

"So did you ask her out yet? Oh wait of course you didn't, she would've told me. Unless she was keeping it a secret but she wouldn't do that, would she? Actually that sounds like something she'd do." Yukina was rambling on keeping the conversation alive by herself.

Gaara just stared at the bundle of hyper energy at a loss for words, being someone who rarely uttered a syllable watching this girl talking seemingly enjoying his company was fascinating and amusing at the same time he couldn't help it, he started laughing so quietly Yukina almost didn't hear it; she stopped her self-rambling to listen to the slight chuckles from the boy next to her, "you know you should laugh more often it suites you better." She said and smiled at the boy. In a way he reminded her of her brother who was always a cheerful person but preferred to keep quiet. Just the memory of her brother caused a stabbing ache in her heart of course she didn't show it.

Gaara couldn't quite place it but Yukina's personality gave him the effect of an older sister, not the psychotic I'm-gonna-kill-you-if-you-touch-my-stuff vibe but more like a I'm-here-if-you-need-me kind of feeling.

Slowly they started talking a little more Yukina told him all about her crazy roommates and Gaara told her about his psychotic sister and crazy doll obsessed brother, Gaara found himself able to talk freely around the girl and that she actually listened to everything he said even getting them both to laugh sometimes, Yukina took note that he had a particular interest in any stories which included Tanoshi.

In the back of the bus around two rows behind Yukina and her new friend sat a very pissed off Sasuke, 'the hell are those two laughing about since when was she friends with Gaara?' he thought glaring daggers at the completely oblivious teenagers. "Sasuke-kuun," came an annoyingly needy voice "why are you ignoring me?" Sasuke looked down at the pink haired girl, Sakura who had latched herself onto his arm. She was by far his most obsessive fan girl "why can't you just shut up and get off me." He said coldly pushing the girl away from him, Sakura started to pout but it made her nowhere near as cute as Yukina. Ignoring the girl once again he turned his attention to Yukina who was laughing about something that Gaara had said, Sakura noticing his gaze was not very happy with who he was staring at 'Sasuke is mine bitch, I guess I'll have to teach her a lesson.' Thought Sakura glaring daggers at the back of Yukina's head.

(At the beach.)

"Woohoo it's the beach!" Yukina and Naruto shouted jumping up and down standing on the sandy shores, the entire bus sweat dropped at their amount of energy.

"Okay boys and girls here's how it's gonna go down, there are gonna be six kids per cabin so let's have some hot blooded fun!" Guy sensei explined earning cheers from the entire bus.

"GAARAA! WE'RE SHARING A CABIN! ISN'T THAT GREAT!?"

Screamed a very excited Yukina grabbing Gaara's hands and running round and round in circles, before tackling him in a bear hug, of course the hug was just a cover up so she could whisper, "and Tanoshi's gonna be there too." Causing Gaara to blush.

"Hey those two make a nice couple."

One of the boys commented causing Sasuke to glance in the direction, and what he saw made his blood boil Yukina had her arms around a blushing Gaara. Before he could think twice about it he stomped over to the hugging pair and tugged on one of Yukina's braids.

"Ooowww!" Yukina shouted glaring daggers at Sasuke, Yukina HATED and I mean HATED it when people pulled her hair. Sasuke just shrugged and walked off followed by a grumbling Yukina since they were in the same cabin along with Naruto and Hinata.

The cabin was cozy made from wood overlooking the sea, it was quite big too with a living room on one side and a kitchen on the other, upstairs was where all the bedrooms were two beds per room so everyone had to pair, up in a brief moment of brilliance Yukina had voted to be with Sasuke much to his surprise and that Naruto would be with Hinata and Tanoshi was with Gaara of course everyone knew that it would be impossible to argue with Yukina since she was just too stubborn.

(In Gaara's and Tanoshi's room)

There was a tense silence Gaara not being a conversationalists and Tanoshi (though she tried to hide it) was actually shy. Reaching up to grab a book from a bookshelf in the room which was too high for her, she stood on her tip toes but still couldn't reach it, suddenly she felt a warm body behind her and a strong had reached up and grabbed the book she was after. Spinning around to see Gaara right behind her holding out the book Tanoshi noticed a slight blush on his cheeks as she took the book from his hand.

(In Sasuke and Yukina's room.)

Sasuke was lying on one of the beds glaring at his phone as if he wanted to murder it; he was still annoyed with Yukina hugging Gaara, half of him didn't know why he cared.

Yukina looked up from the mess that was her suitcase "gee Sasuke what the phone ever do to you?" she asked in her usual sarcastic tone but Sasuke detected a hint of grumpiness, since she was still upset about the braid incident. "If you don't want to stay with me, I'm sure your boyfriend will be more than happy to have you over." He replied sounding a little angrier than he wanted to. What he said had Yukina confused "what boyfriend?" she asked.

"What do you mean what boyfriend Gaara of course!" sitting up he glared at the confused girl. Blinking a couple of times she burst out laughing, "Oh, I get it! You're jealous of Gaara!" Yukina chuckled causing Sasuke's scowl to deepen, "that's real cute Sasuke, but I'm not even remotely interested in Gaara he's like a brother to me and plus I'm trying to get him and Tanoshi together." Sasuke didn't know if he should be relieved that she didn't like Gaara or annoyed that she had called him cute.

"So Sasuke are you gonna help me?" asked Yukina sitting next to him on his bed he blushed at how close she was 'what's wrong with me? How is it that this hyper-active mess can make my heart actually skip a beat?' "Hello earth to Mr. Sourpuss." Yukina called snapping him out of his thoughts he smirked and said, "Sure I'll play cupid with you as long as I don't have to wear a diaper." This made Yukina clutch her sides laughing "ever considered a career as a standup comedian?" she snickered "another word and I'm out." He threatened "okay, okay I'm zipping It." she smiled 'this is gonna be fun.' she secretly thought.

Michi: WOLF! WHEN I FIND YOU YOU'RE DEAD!

Wolf: hehehe

Angel: oh god you have a death wish. What did you do this time?

Wolf: I may have stuck bubblegum in her hair as payback for pulling mine.

Michi: THERE YOU ARE!

Wolf: *runs away

Michi: *running after her I SWEAR WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU I'LL RIP YOU APART AND STUFF YOU IN A DITCH!

Angel: ummm please rate and review Wolf will update this weekend or next week and if she doesn't, that means she's probably dead in a ditch.

Michi: uh… Angel I think I broke Wolf!

Angel: *sweat drops