-Gaara-

I appeared in the hotel room me and my siblings were sharing during our stay for the Chuunin Exams and heard Kankuro complaining about something.

"Damn, that girl's throw hurt more than that Uchiha kid's."

He said and I saw him holding his wrist. I mentally smirked when I saw the bruise forming on his hand from where that white haired girl had thrown something at him to make him drop the little girl.

"What did she even throw at you? I didn't see her pick up a rock."

Temari said and Kankuro shrugged.

"I don't know, but it was cold. And just who was she?"

He asked and I walked further into the room at that point.

"Kimiko of the Ice."

I said making both Temari and Kankuro jump.

"G-Gaara, when did you get back?"

Temari asked and I sighed.

"Just now."

I said before moving to the balcony and jumping up onto the roof.

"Think he's still angry about earlier?"

Kankuro asked and I used my sand to throw him onto the bed inside.

"I'd take that as a yes. You shouldn't have been messing around with those kids anyway."

Temari said and Kankuro started to say something, but I moved farther away from the window and their voices became muffled.

'That girl was a host.'

Shukaku said and I growled in annoyance.

'I could tell that for myself. What I couldn't tell was of what beast.'

I said and heard Shukaku's laughter. He knew, and I knew that he wasn't going to tell me.

'I can't wait to see how she does in the ring.'

He said and I couldn't deny that I too wanted to see her fight.


-Kimi-

I sighed boredly as the proctors explained the rules of the written test before us. This was the first part of the Exams. We were all to take a written test, but that wasn't the real test. The real test was to see how well we could all cheat without getting caught. Ji didn't need to worry about that, he was a bookworm. Yui, despite his looks, was really smart when it came to things like this. And I had no problem with finding a way to get answers, I'd already skimmed over the paper and knew practically all of it and the bit that I didn't know I could just get from Ji using my ice.

"You may begin."

The proctor said and everyone immediately picked up their pencils. I filled out the questions I knew and had only three questions left to answer with more than an hour to spare. I put down my pencil and looked around the room to see how the others were doing. Sasuke was done, no surprise there. Sakura was just finishing up, but Naruto looked like he was about to tear his hair out by the roots. He was obviously an idiot after all.

"You three, out."

A proctor said and three kids left after one of them had been caught cheating. That was the only down side. If even one member of your team was caught cheating then all of you would be sent out and would have to wait till next year to try again. I looked over at Ji, he was done. Yui was done as well. I looked down at the blonde girl from yesterday and saw she was finished as well. Kankuro looked stumped on a question and was rubbing the side of his head in confusion. I smiled at that.

'Ha, serves him right.'

I thought before moving to look at how Gaara was doing. I noticed he had one hand over his left eye and felt a small bit, barely even noticeable, of his chakra above me and looked up to see an eyeball of sand trying to look at my paper through my hands. It's pupil looked at me and I smirked up at it before moving my hands out of it's way so it could more easily read my paper. I don't know why, maybe it had something to do with the fact that both of us were hosts, but there was something about Gaara that I liked.

I looked up at the clock and sighed, I had wasted a good amount of time. I picked up my pencil after having created a little fly out of ice and sending it to fly over Ji's paper. I heard him laugh a bit before moving his hand away from his paper and pretend to swat at the fly. I could see his answers in the back of my head and quickly filled out the last two questions on my paper before laying my pencil down and cutting my chakra off from the little fly and it melted into water and evaporated. I laid my head down to the side of the desk after seeing there was still a good fifty minutes left of the test. I sighed to myself before using my chakra to create little figurines out of ice and had them fight on top of the desk to entertain myself. I was surprised when I noticed the small amount of Gaara's chakra above me hadn't left yet and peeked up out of the corner of my eye to see the little eyeball watching the figurines on my desk. I blushed before quickly making them melt and the water evaporate. I looked down to where he was actually sitting to see the corner of his mouth pulled up in what looked like a smirk, but it was gone too fast for me to be sure. I blushed again and laid my head down.


-Gaara-

I had created a small eye out of my sand and had it hover over the entire class to find the person with the most filled out on their sheet and the easiest handwriting to read. I stopped above Kimiko's paper. She was done all except for two questions, but she wasn't working on the test, she was looking around the room. I tried to read the questions on her paper, but her hands were slightly in the way. I growled slightly in annoyance before she looked up and her eyes met mine. I could see everything the little eye did, so when she looked at it it was like she was looking at me. She smirked up at it before moving her hands from her paper. I blinked in confusion, but didn't waste time in copying down her answers. She was really smart. I saw she used a bit of her chakra to make a little fly out of ice and send it over to the older of the two guys she'd come to the village with and she filled out the last two questions on her paper before the fly melted. I copied the last two answers and put my pencil down. She put her head down with a sigh and I was about to stop my jutsu when I felt her chakra spike just a bit, not enough that the proctors to notice, but I did. I watched a little bit longer and saw she had created two little figurines out of ice ontop of her desk and they were fighting each other.

'Not bad.'

I thought. I saw Kimiko look up at my the eye out of the corner of hers and she blushed before the figurines melted and the water evaporated. I stopped my jutsu and looked down at my own desk. I could feel her eyes on me and couldn't help but smirk, but then I caught myself and stopped. I glanced up at the clock, we still had too much time left for this test and I was bored. I looked back up towards Kimiko and saw she had her head down, she wasn't asleep, I could tell that much from her breathing. She was just bored. I found myself wanting to smirk again, but shook myself.

'Strange.'

I thought before turning to look out the window.


-Yui-

"God! I thought it would never end!"

Kimiko said and I couldn't help but laugh at her.

"Don't laugh at me Yuichi! You were sleeping the first few minutes and Ji had to wake your ass up, then you fell asleep right after you finished. I couldn't get to sleep!"

Kimi snapped and I just laughed that much harder.

"Why you little…."

She said as she walked towards me. My eyes widened as I realized I'd ticked her off and I started to back off.

"Knock it off you two."

Ji said and I noticed that Kimi glared at him before a smirk made it's way onto her face. I knew what was gonna happen and stepped back a few more feet before I caught in the middle of it. We were several feet away from the other kids so Kimi was being her usual, non shy, non cautious self. I watched with a smile on my face as she jumped on Ji's back.

"Ah! Get off me Kimi!"

He yelled, but she only tightened her grip until he fell to the ground, then she moved and pinned him down.

"Say you give."

She said and Ji glared up at her.

"No."

He said and she simply pouted at him. I saw Ji smile and nod to me and I sighed before jumping onto Kimi's back.

"Ah!"

She screamed in shock as I tackled her off of my brother.

"Give."

I said and she laughed before she flipped us over so she was pinning me down like she had done to Ji.

"No, you give."

She said and I smirked up at her as Ji charged at her, but she didn't even budge as she used her ice to wrap around his arm and leg and flip him onto his back on the ground, then create a clone of herself out of ice and pin him down as well.

"No fair, that's cheating!"

I yelled up at her, but she just laughed.

"No it's not! Two against one is unfair."

She said with a smile. I had missed seeing her smile, ever since we got here she's been so serious. I missed the happy, fun loving Kimi.

"Hold up Gaara!"

A voice called and I noticed that Kimi froze from her place ontop of me.


-Kimi-

I was playing around with Yui and Ji when I heard a voice say Gaara's name. I felt his chakra coming this way and froze. I quickly got off of Yui and called my chakra from my ice and had it evaporate. Yui and Ji got to their feet and moved to the side just as Gaara came towards us followed by Kankuro and the blonde haired chick who's name I had still yet to learn. When Gaara's eyes met mine I froze, he looked mad. No, beyond mad, he looked pissed. I wonder why. He suddenly disappeared in a whirl of sand and left Kankuro and the blonde haired girl behind.

"Dammit!"

The blonde cursed before she finally took notice of me, Yui, and Ji.

"Oh."

She said in surprise.

"Hi."

I said and noticed instantly that Kankuro was glaring at me. I noticed his left hand had a pretty nasty bruise on it from when I threw my ice rock at him and instantly felt bad. He hadn't really done anything to me and I'd hurt him.

"You know, you really hurt my brother yesterday."

The blonde said and I blinked up at her.

'So they are the Sand Siblings after all.'

I thought as I looked up at her.

"I'm sorry. I just can't stand it when people pick on little kids."

I said as I looked her over. She was in a short white kimono like outfit that stopped right before her knees. I noticed she had a fan of sorts on her back and that Kankuro had a puppet wrapped in bandages attacked to his back.

"I can fix it."

I said and they both looked at me confused.

"What?"

The blonde asked and I sighed before moving forward and grabbing Kankuro's hand.

"Hey! Don't touch me!"

He yelled as he pulled his hand out of my reach. I rolled my eyes at him before grabbing it anyway.

"Get over it you big baby."

I said before using my ice and melting it into water. I moved it over his entire hand and used my chakra to heal his hand.

"How did you do that?"

He asked in shock as he looked down at his hand.

"Kimi is really good with her ability. She's the only one who knows how to heal with it."

Yui said from behind me and I blushed at his compliment.

"Thank you."

The blonde said and I looked up at her.

"My name's Temari."

She said and I nodded at her.

"My name's Kimiko. This is Yuji and his brother Yuichi."

I said introducing them.

"This is my brother Kankuro who you already know, and the red head from earlier is our younger brother Gaara."

Temari said introducing Kankuro to Yui and Ji.

"Why was he so upset?"

I asked and she blinked in surprise at my question.

"Kankuro pissed him off."

She said and I looked at Kankuro confused.

"How?"

I asked and Kankuro blushed making me continue to look at him confused.

"He asked if he could see down the female proctor's shirt with his sand eye jutsu and it ticked him off that Kankuro wanted to use him for something. He doesn't like it when people try to use him, despite what it's for."

She said and I glared at Kankuro and noticed he flinched. I sighed before shaking my head at him.

"I know how that is. Yui, Ji, we're leaving. It was nice meeting you Temari."

I said as I turned to leave.

"Kankuro."

I said in a slightly harsher tone before heading outside. I don't know why, but for some reason I wanted to go find Gaara.

"Yui, you and Ji go back to the hotel. I'll be back before midnight."

I said and Yui looked like he was about to argue before Ji made him leave with him. I jumped up to the highest point in the village and looked around.

'If I was pissed off and wanted to be alone where would I go?'

I wondered as I looked around before I saw a section of the village a decent ways away and thought I saw a figure jumping across the rooftops. I smiled to myself before jumping from the tower I was on to the rooftops below. He was so far away. It was then that I decided to try something similar to what he does with his sand. I wrapped myself in my ice and thought about the rooftop several feet ahead of me and wrapped my chakra around myself. I felt a rush and when I looked down and the ice fell away I was there.

'Sweet, it's like teleporting.'

I thought with a smile before speeding up and following after Gaara.


A/N: Sorry, I decided to have a little fun with this chapter. Sorry if you no like, but I do. Haven't decided who she's gonna be with yet, but it's between Kankuro and Gaara, that's all I'm gonna say. Review, love you all muches. Night.