I do not own any character, settings, items, etc from the anime/manga, Naruto! I do own Abby and Sarah, other original characters, and anything else that I came up with. Please enjoy and review :)

The light knocks at my bedroom door, slowly turned from light, to harder and obnoxious ones.

"What?" I growled loud and angry, not in the mood for anything loud.

'Wow, who would have thought the day would come?' I chuckled sadly

The door burst open, and none other than Ryuu flew in and scooped me up into a huge huge. "Baaaakaaaa-Chan~!" He sang

"R-Ryuu." I pushed on his chest, making distance. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm free! Free as a bird!"

"Free?"

"Yup. All of a sudden, that Kazekage dude ordered for my freedom, and told a ton of bull to the council, for them to agree."

I smiled sadly, and my chest swelled. He did what I asked. He let Ryuu go.

"Neh, Baka-chan! Why the long face?" He bent down to reach my height.

I smiled the brightest smile I could muster, and said in a sing-song voice, "Nooothing! Come on!" I grabbed his arm, and pulled him out of the room. "Let's go celebrate!"

"Hellz yah!" He shouted back

Ryuu and I sang as loudly as we could skipping down the hall. I heard fast footsteps coming towards us, and Ryuu seemed on guard. I, myself, relaxed when it was just Temari. but something seemed off.

"Abby!" She yelled. When she got nearer, she gripped my shoulders. "Something's wrong with Gaara, and he won't talk to anyone. We need you to-"

"No." I wriggled out of her grasp.

"Eh?" She sounded confused

"Gaara and I broke up." I answered, masking the hurt in my voice, with cheeriness and a smile.

"What to you mean?" Temari yelled

"Hey, when did this happen?" Ryuu popped into the conversation.

"As I said. Gaara and I broke up, and it happened yesterday. Yah know, it just wasn't wokin' out. I guess you were right Ryuu. I guess we were to opposite. I guess we just didn't click." I answered, and explained. I shrugged my shoulders, and walked on without them.

"Interesting." Ryuu smiled, jogging up next to me.

"Your just going to leave it like this?" Temari yelled at me.

"It's fine. Like I said it wasn't working ou-"

"Bull shit!" Temari shouted, gripping my shoulders from behind, and turning me around. She frowned at my blank face, which I turned to the side. She shook me, "The way you came to his defense every time that Ryuu guy tried to talk bad about him? You always sound so in love when you talked about him. Even all those days, and weeks when you two were distant. How you described him, and talked about your memories." She smiled pathetically to me, "You need to accept the fact that your in-

"I already have." I stated, "But, I'm fine like this. If Gaara's happy then-"

"You think this is making him happy?" She screamed at me.

"Maybe not now, but later he will be. The council-"

"The council's nothing compared to Gaara. He would have dealed with it. Your lack of faith in Gaara, must have really been your down fall." she spat.

I cringed, and Ryuu defended me, "Hey! That's not going to help anyone!"

Temari frowned, and sighed. "Gomen. It's just that Gaara seems so depressed, and...sad. No one had ever seen him like this before. I guess I'm just being overprotective as an older sister." She laid her hand on my shoulder, "I don't think it's as much as your lack of faith in Gaara...But a lack of faith in yourself." She commented softly. " You have to know that you have to be pretty special to catch that kind of attention from Gaara. And with him...You just need to give him time, if somethings bothering you. Depending on what it is, he may notice it right away. Other times, it may take him weeks. He's still so new to this type of relationship. any type of relationship actually. You've heard his story, right? It's hard for him, so please, just go to him."

"I can't." I shook my head, "You said yourself how much Gaara is hurting, and it's because of me! i don't want that. Not at all! I-"

"Ugh, your such a baka!" Temari sighed, "You can't take all the burden. As much as you want to protect Gaara, Gaara want's to protect you. How can he help you, if you don't let him, and try to do everything one sidedly? I can't imagine that he didn't put up an argument to stay together, right? I mean-"

"Just shut up!" I yelled, "Just stop. It's over with! No matter what, Gaara and I are not ment to be!" I continued to walk, leaving her in shock.

Ryuu stuck his tongue out at her and ran up to tackle me. "Neh, Baka-chan! it shall be ok, you still have me." he winked. I cracked a pathetic smile. And something messed up and twisted entered my head. "Neh, Ryuu..." I turned to him, "Would you go out with me?"

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