Me: Yes! Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for...
13 : She's made them meet.
Me: Hey, I was going to tell them. Beside, you made it sound so...dull.
13 : It kind of is.
Me: That stings.
13 : *Smirks* I'm joking. Decide for yourselves.
Me: Enjoy.
The next day Sasuke got up on his own and made it to school in time to read a little on his own.
As everyone piled in Miu walked up to him and sat down.
"Hi." She said.
"Hi."
"So, wanna sit at our desk today?"
Sasuke was becoming slightly agitated. This was the third person to ask him this morning.
"No."
"Oh," She looked a little let down, "Okay, but if that weirdo messes with you, you can come sit with us, okay?"
Just as she finished Gaara came to sit down at his seat next to Sasuke.
She got up quickly and walked away.
I think I'd rather sit next to him. Girls are gross. Sasuke thought passively.
By the end of the week everyone in class seemed to catch on that Sasuke was not changing seats any time soon.
"Have a nice weekend." Manabu called out to his students.
Sasuke headed home and dropped his things off.
"Hey squirt!" Chun startled him.
"What?"
"Just coming to see how you were doing." She stared at him a second. "Well, how are you doing?"
"Fine."
"Really? No questions?"
"Hn."
"Well alright. See you next week."
Sasuke waited a while after she left. Then he made his way back to school.
In the back there were training grounds that the students were allowed access to.
After finding out about it he began coming here during all of his free time. Sometimes even on nights he couldn't sleep.
Today was no different. He spent hours throwing his kunia and hitting a rock until he nearly passed out in exhaustion.
Then he dragged himself back home.
Today was the first day of long weekend for Sasuke.
"Theres nothing to do around here." Sasuke muttered to himself.
After some sulking around the house, he decided to explore the village a bit.
There wasn't much that interested Sasuke.
In the end he found himself in a playground sort of place.
There were a set of swings and a net for playing a game in a small place in between two cliff like walls.
He came over and sat on the swings. Rocking back and forth and lost in thought, he failed to notice a kid sit on the swing set with him.
Gaaras POV
Yashamaru had brought him to the playground today.
He immedeitly headed for the swing set. As he neared it he saw a kid with a hat on.
Sasuke, he reminded himself.
As he sat down Sasuke didn't respond so he just kept quiet and watched as a group of kids arrived unaware of Sasuke or Gaaras presence.
The kids played a kicking game, kind of like soccer but with one goal.
The kids played for hours until one of them accidentally kicked the ball to high. It landed on the top of the cliff wall.
"Aww, man! Now how are we suppose to play?" A kid moaned.
Gaara smiled a little. He could help them, then maybe they'd even let him play.
He moved his sand around under the ball and stood up to go get it as the sand brought it down safely.
"Here." He said holding the ball out to them.
"Hey it's the freak!"
"Get away from us!" The kids yelled out as they began to run away.
Gaara felt hurt.
"Wait I just wanted to give you back your ball!"
The kids kept running. Gaara stuck a hand out and unintentionally caused the sand to rise up in waves pulling the kids down.
"Wait stop!" Gaara cried out. Another wave came hurtling towards a kid. His Uncle suddenly appeared blocking the sand from hitting the kid.
"Stop! Gaara, calm down." He said kindly.
All of the other children ran off.
Gaara began to feel like crying.
All I wanted to do was help them. He started to tear up.
Yashamaru stood up and started to walk towards him.
"Hey," said a voice,"you know, the ball has to be on the ground for this game to work, right?"
Sasuke was walking over to the net.
Gaara stood still.
"What?" He said, his voice teary.
"The ball. It should be on the ground so you can kick it towards me and try and get it in the net."
Gaara felt surprised. "You want to play?"
"I guess. Theres nothing else to do."
He dropped the ball on the ground and tentatively kicked it towards the net.
Sasuke blocked it easily.
"Try kicking harder." Yashamaru encouraged on the sidelines.
After a while Gaara still hadn't made a goal and Sasuke was tired of playing goalie.
"Lets trade places a while."
Sasuke ran at the ball and kicked it hard. Gaara reached out to grab it and his sand blocked it.
He looked back at Sasuke. His expression was hard to read sence his hat was in the way.
"Cool trick." He finally said and Gaara let out a breathe he hadn't noticed he was holding.
After a few more hours no one had scored a goal and Yashamaru had to end the game.
"Time to go home Gaara." He called out.
Gaara looked reluctant.
Sasuke grinned,
"See ya at school." He said.
He then walked out of the playground.
Gaara watched him run off.
