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Jerk

Chapter 16

And you are?

"Well if it isn't Temari Sabaku…" Temari felt her rage that was once on the three girls from Konoha who were now lost to the one person she wished would drop dead. She turned around slowly hoping for the other person's life that it wasn't who she thought it was. But upon turning to look right at them, Temari found they were exactly who she thought they were. There standing in all her glory (Cough-Shank-Cough) was Kin Tsuchi the slut of Temari's old school, a two faced girl who seems to get what she wants and then throws it away, and…Gaara's first and ex-girlfriend.

She had long blackish brown hair. Her hair was so long that it was pretty close to the floor but a ponytail kept it from doing so. There was so much makeup on her face Temari was sure that there was about an inch added on her by the makeup. She was tall, but Temari was by far taller though and not only that but more intimidating as well. Her eyes trained in on her face much to her dismay of doing so; her face was the last thing she wanted to see…ever.

"What the hell do you want?" Temari grounded out trying to restrain herself from beating the girl to a pulp. Kin just smiled waving her hand about without care.

"Oh I mean it is a free country isn't it? Do I have to have a reason to talk to you?" Temari gripped her hands tightly. The only thing she could think of to her question was 'yes' she did need a reason because Temari was pretty sure she was going to knock the girl out in just about two seconds…

"I'm not in the mood right now, and seeing you is only making me want to kill you even more." Kin just laughed brushing off the comment like it was nothing. She held a smile that told Temari that she couldn't do shit. And truthfully, Temari couldn't touch her.

"You know as well as I do that there is a restraining order on you. You can't come about a 100 meters near me for the next 15 years or you'll be sent to jail. Do you really want that Temari? I mean your brothers are already fucked up you mind as well join them."

"They wouldn't be the way they were if you're shanky ass self never came in contact with my brothers to begin with! You're the one, who broke Gaara and played him and Kankuro, but I saw through your tricks and if you so much as ever come near my brothers again…I won't hesitate to kill you…" Temari said the last bit in a dark evil voice, one that she has kept deep within herself for so long. Kin acted unaffected by her tone of voice, but Temari wasn't easily naïve to see that Kin was shaking just a little.

"Whatever, get out of here before I tell an officer about the restraining order on you." Temari just smirked before turning around and leaving Kin to herself. But she stopped short turning to give Kin that wicked smirk.

"Trust me Kin; what goes around comes around and you'll get yours soon…" With that the conversation was done and Temari was gone. She looked down at her hands to see that they were bleeding a little and red from gripping her hands into fists so hard. A sigh escaped her lips as she searched for the lost girls. She never thought she would ever come across Kin as she had done. Temari had been skeptical about coming to the mall in Suna because she knew that people like her would be around among others that she hoped to not come across.

The restraining order Kin talked about was still inset and would be for the next 15 years as she had said. Temari closed her eyes for a second as everything that happened flashed before her eyes. It was a few days after Gaara had attacked Kankuro with the knife that she confronted Kin at school. Kin acted all innocent and even said that Kankuro raped her. Temari was so pissed about it that she couldn't stop herself from punching her right in the nose. Then kicking her as she laid helpless on the ground. Long story short Kin would have been dead if the school police hadn't interfered in the one-sided fight. Kin's family sued them and barely won as well.

So there was a restraining court order on Temari. Really that was the reason they moved. Not because of Gaara or Kankuro but because of her. Temari sighed softly closing her eyes to will away the pain she felt throbbing in her heart. Upon opening her eyes she got herself set on looking for the girls. First off she was going to look for Hinata, not to be mean but she seemed the smartest to go to the police station and she didn't seem like the type of girl who could handle herself alone at a mall or really anywhere to be exact….

…..

"Hello there…"

Hinata all red in the face looked up to see a guy. He had a long piece of blond hair hanging over his left eye, and the rest was longer being half up and half down. In all honesty he was pretty hott, but right now Hinata was more preoccupied with the fact that she ran right into his chest and he was staring at her.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry! I…I need to go…" Hinata went to go around him when the guy stepped in front of her once more. She blushed further and looked up to his face. A smile was there, but nothing evil looking, not even a smirk just a grin. But it gave her an eerie feeling in the pit of her gut. That meant nothing too good…

"What's the hurry? I mean you were following me weren't you? Yeah…" Hinata shook her head so quickly and fast the guy almost didn't catch the movement. Her heart was beating rapidly and she just wanted to get the hell out of there. The guy wouldn't leave her alone though it seemed.

"Please, if you will exc-cuse me I should get g-going." Hinata tried to dismiss herself with her stuttered filled sentence, but the guy kept blocking her way each time. This was actually getting Hinata angry and further more scared.

"You hadn't answered my question yet, yeah? Why were you following me?" He asked once more, his voice was still playful though gentle. But Hinata was sure it could get mean if he had too.

"I…I thought you were s-someone else. Please I have to go!" Hinata couldn't help the panic fill her voice. At that moment she was feeling a bit cornered by the tall, blond man. He looked to be about 19 maybe 20 years old or so. Probably in college by his clothes which was a red shirt opened a bit in the front to show his tan chest and baggy pants over white tennis shoes.

"Well I obviously am not that person if you are trying to leave so fast. My name is Deidara, yeah." Hinata nodded looking down as her fingers poked each other. He was making her more nervous with introducing himself. She just wanted to get to the police station and wait for Temari to get to her. Her stomach bubbled ungratefully as if trying to tell her to get out of there. Hinata though being polite as she was couldn't stop from introducing herself.

"My n-name is Hinata. N-Nice to m-m-meet you." A slight frown came to her lips at her stuttering, she always did hate how it would just come out when she was trying to talk, even more so when it's a guy since she gets to so nervous with almost every guy she knows aside from Neji. Deidara just kept his smile still.

"So Hinata, what are you doing in a mall all by yourself?" Hinata shook her head to clear away some thoughts. She then looked up to Deidara.

"I didn't come alone." Hinata wanted to pat herself on the back for not stuttering in her reply back. "I came with some friends but I got separated from them. I was trying to get to the police station." Deidara's smile was still there and he nodded his head in understanding.

"Yeah, well I could escort you there little lady, if you don't mind, yeah." Hinata blushed tomato red and couldn't help but look down in embarrassment of her emotions she poked her fingers together once more. Deidara laughed gently before grabbing her hands with both of his. Hinata started to feel a tab bit faint at the gesture before looking up at him.

"Ya know that is a terrible habit, if shows you're vulnerable." The way he said it made her face completely red which caused Deidara to laugh some more he let go for a second before just taking one of her hands and leading her towards the police station.

She couldn't say anything her throat had closed in completely on her. Her thoughts were jumbled around and she couldn't even think one sentence before it became mere non-sense to her. Hinata's face was heating up from the contact between their hands she hadn't even touched Naruto this way and here comes along this tall, good mannered man helping her out and touching her yet she barely knew him beyond his name. It was only about a minute before they reached the police station where he looked down to her.

"Well Miss Hinata, I do hope your friends find you, yeah. I would hate to leave such a pretty lady alone but I must go now. Good bye." And once more he shocked her by bringing her hand up to his face where he kissed the back lightly, a light feather touch of his lips against her hand before it was gone. Hinata was sure she would stay blood red for the rest of her life now. He just smiled to her a twinkle in his eye before leaving her alone in front of the police station.

Hinata breathed in, then out and once more in…then it became dark…And she was knocked out….

…..

Tenten looked around at all the guys staring at her. She felt cornered by them all and couldn't help the slight tremor in her body by their stares. Finally after a moment the guy that was very close to looking much like Sasuke turned to her. His hair was black and long. It was pulled back into a low ponytail. His eyes though, they were so dark brown they were literally black to her. He smirked upon looking at her before he actually spoke.

"So…you think our fighting is lame? Ordinary? Boring?" Tenten thought better to not speak, but he was challenging her. And if anyone knew Tenten like she knew herself she could never resist a challenge by no one. So sucking in her breath Tenten looked dead on with determination in her eyes.

"Yeah, I kind of do think your fighting is boring. Where did you learn how to fight by an old Japanese movie? You mind as well do some horrible lip syncing while you're at it." Tenten felt she might have gone a little too far with what she said, but at the moment her pride was on the line and she wasn't going to back down one bit. The guy smirked even more apparently liking her feisty attitude.

"Well if you think our fighting is so horrendous then why don't you show us how it's truly done?" Tenten watched him carefully making sure he wasn't joking with her. It didn't seem so though he crossed his arms waiting for a response back from her. And responded she did.

"Sure, I guess I could lower myself to your standards if you feel like it'll make you better. But trust me I don't hold back and I will kick your ass." The guy seemed even more amused by her blunt words because it was now a smile on his lips.

"Yes, well we'll see about that now wont we." He mumbled out watching Tenten as she stepped forward dropping her coat to the side where his stuff (she assumed were his) lay. She stretched her muscles a bit as to not pull something during their fight. The guy in front of her did the same but stopped and stepped forward to her. Tenten didn't back down and stood her ground. He stuck his hand out as to shake hers.

"My name is Itachi, it would only seem far to know your name before we fight." Tenten nodded as she brought her hand out to shake his. The touch was short, but long enough for her to feel his calloused hand telling her he had done some rough training before. She pulled away after the short hand shake.

"My name is Tenten." She mumbled out but there were a few gasps going around the crowd. She turned to look at them in wonder before turning to see Itachi smirking once more.

"Ah, Miss Tenten I've heard much about you from my brother. You were the terror of your school a few years ago were you not." Tenten nodded looking between everyone. She had no idea people would know of her, much less her name. But she then looked at Itachi remembering he said he learned of her by his brother.

"And who may I ask is your brother?" Itachi shook his head.

"That's irrelevant right now, but if you beat me in this fight I just might tell you." She nodded before backing away as he did. Tenten crouched a bit placing her legs in a perfect fighting stance while lifting her hands up lightly balling them. Itachi's stance was similar to hers except for his body was facing the crowd as he turned his torso to face her. His fists were brought up in front of him. She watched him keeping her eyes on his every move though there was no movement between the both of them.

Everything was silent as the crowd seemed to get bigger while they waited for someone to attack. None dared to shout out or say a thing for that matter. Tenten could feel adrenaline racing through her veins at the idea of an actually good spar. Though she dismissed his fighting and style she couldn't help but notice he was good still. It was probably him going easy on his partner who was somewhere within the crowd.

Within a single second it all started. He came racing towards her with such fast speeds Tenten was shocked to her spot for one a second and luckily that it was a good second for she dodged his punch quickly ducking under his fist. Her right fist came up to knock him with an uppercut but he threw his head back seeing the attack coming. At this Tenten shot to her right to get away from the kick that was to connect with her head. She did a sideways cartwheel bringing her a bit away from Itachi but still within his reach.

"You're better than I thought." Tenten commented keeping her sharp brown eyes on him. Itachi nodded in return.

"You're as good as your reputation is said to be. I didn't expect any less." Tenten relished in the comment but took to him quickly.

He blocked the punch aimed for his nose with his forearm while his other hand aimed to punch her in the stomach. Tenten was finding herself thinking slower than before. It really had been a while since her last good fight, she was getting rusty here. She pulled back barely dodging his punch at her gut where she felt the light brush of his fist as it went soaring by. She brought her leg up coming close to his face where she did take a hit in her shoulder blade, but was able to land a very good hit on his chest that sent him flying into the ground with ease.

Tenten pulled a bit away holding her shoulder that throbbed in pain. His punches were hard and very accurate as well. One more hit to her shoulder and she won't be able to use her left hand anymore. But she also delivered a rather painful hit to his chest. Itachi pulled up quickly though and touched his chest lightly only to examine it. He looked up with a smirk on his lips.

"I believe that will leave a bruise on me as mine will on you." Tenten nodded while swinging her arm around to test her shoulder blade it hurt a bit, but was still in good use for now. She would have to avoid another hit like that or her arm would be majorly hurt. This was getting far more interesting than she had first assumed it would be. Itachi was more talented than she gave him credit for; he knew his stuff and Tenten slightly regretted telling him he must have learned to fight from old Japanese movies.

"Let's bring this up a notch." Tenten said before running towards Itachi. He went to block an attack that she never delivered. Instead of going in for a punch like he thought she was going to Tenten dropped down quickly bringing her right leg around to kick him off balance. She had succeeded in him loosing balance, but was shocked when he gain it back and shot a punch out sending it straight to her stomach. Tenten felt the blow and all her oxygen escaped her as she went sailing to the wall behind her. Regaining herself quickly she avoided smashing her head against the cemented wall. Itachi held a smirk at his handy work.

Tenten pulled herself up wincing at the pain shooting through her gut; she resisted crouching over to hold her pained stomach. Pulling back into her original stance she directed her eyes back on him, her face became stern all serious thinking about what she would do next to get him back. A huff of air left her lips and she came running back to him. Throwing a punch to his face Itachi dodged it easily, just as Tenten knew he would. She then brought her knee up quickly hitting him hard in his gut moving faster than before she brought her leg up even more. Kicking a very sensitive spot on the male body.

Itachi jumped away quickly trying to avoid the hit direct towards his groin. He wasn't so lucky though and felt the full blow as he crippled to the ground in pain. Tenten couldn't help the smile of satisfaction of being able to bring him to his knees. Coughing a bit he looked up, a twitch in his eye but a slight smile on his lips.

"Well…that had caught me off guard; you play very…dirty Tenten. I have to admit you are good, you could be better." Itachi then stood a slight wince in his walk as he came over to shake Tenten's hand. She took his hand trying to make it a short shake, but he kept his hand firm in her grip.

"But you could be so much better. I run a local dojo here, nothing too big and only I accept the best. I would like it if you came to take a look at it." Tenten couldn't believe what she was hearing. First, she had just yawned because she was tired. Second, that led to fighting a very talented guy. And third, he now wants her to check out a dojo he runs she had no idea where else this day could go from there. Tenten loosen her hand but he didn't let go. Looking up she stared into his eyes, they were so hypnotizing to her. Before she even knew it she was nodding her head.

"Okay, I guess I could take a look at it." Itachi nodded before finally letting go of her hand and closing his eyes. The trance she felt she was in was gone. Shaking her head a bit Tenten then turned to him. Itachi walked towards his stuff picking everything up and pulling his jacket on. He then turned back to her.

"This is a brochure of my dojo." Tenten took it looking it over. Looking up again she saw him beginning to walk away from her. Thinking quickly she grabbed his arm.

"Wait, you still hadn't told me who your brother is, and also…" Tenten looked down a bit red in the face. "I need help finding the police station…" Itachi looked at her with a blank look.

"Okay…"…

…..

Her heart seemed to stop beating the instant she felt the light tapping of someone's fingers on her shoulder. All color had drained from her face leaving it almost sickly pale and her breathing was heavy almost like she had done a marathon of some sorts. And all these reactions from just being tapped on the shoulder.

"Because in the end we both know who it is doing the 'tapping'…" Inner Sakura stated ever so bluntly but she looked no better, a scared expression on her face said she felt the same as her host.

'Could this get any better?' She was being sarcastic about it, but knew the time right now didn't call for her to be annoyed at her luck. Turning around slowly just to hope the person got tired of waiting for her turn would just walk away. Her head was looking down towards her feet where she found another set in front of hers. Black shoes that had black pant legs as well.

Her head slowly looked up. Her eyes met with a dark blue sweater shirt, the sleeves pulled up to the person's elbows. The skin Sakura could see on the person's arms was somewhat pale, very similar to Gaara's if you asked her. Finally she looked up and had to keep her mouth clamped shut to keep from gasping. It was male, obviously, but he was so…handsome. An instant blush came to her cheeks. It was (she assumed) the guy she had unintentionally chased around for the last couple of minutes. He indeed had red hair much like Gaara's, but his face was different (no one's face is usually the same as someone else's unless their twins…).

He also looked older than Gaara as well, probably around 19 or 20 if she had to guess. He had such intense eyes; the way they gleamed made them look almost red like rubies.

"You do know it's rude to stare." His voice was dark and a bit heavy sounding.

"And sounding so very sexy!" Inner Sakura squealed loudly in her hosts' ear, jumping up and down from finally getting to see the mystery man's face.

'Oh, jeez…" There was really nothing else she could say otherwise from her ridiculous inner self. Sighing inwardly she shook her head a bit.

"Sorry, you kind of shocked me; you know caught me off guard." She wanted to punch herself for such a stupid comeback for her staring.

"This will not end well for you if you keep talking like a mumbling, bumbling idiot!" Her inner self shouted shaking her fists.

'If you would shut up I might actually find something smart and clever to say, but you yelling in my ear every two seconds makes it hard!' Sakura tried keeping the annoyance off her face, as to not give the man in front of her the wrong idea. Everyone at school already thought she was a raging lunatic no need to have this guy that she 'unintentionally' stalked.

"Hmm, I see. So is this before or after you followed me around half the mall?" Sakura tried to keep herself from falling over. 'He noticed!' The horror of being caught plagued her mind.

"Of course he noticed! What the hell did you think you were doing? Being a ninja, you weren't exactly hiding yourself from following him!"

'No, I just didn't think he would notice little old me walking around in almost the same complete place. Urgh! I should have known! I mean every time I tried to see his face he would turn away, that was such an obvious clue!' Sakura wanted to so badly go and crawl into a little hole in the ground and wish her life over. This was more embarrassing then the time Naruto came to school sick and thought eating ramen was a good idea before puking it all on her. She smelled like sick ramen for the rest of that week!

"Oh well I…" Sakura smiled sweetly trying to buy herself time to think of how she could get herself out of this. The idea's of hitting the guy on the head or kicking him in between the legs weren't very good ideas especially since they came from her inner self. Never trust what her inner self says, something she had to learn the hard way. "You see…"

He didn't seem all that amused at the moment, his glare already set in place which was directed right at her face. She gulped at the look as her heart started to race a bit. 'Oh my God, come on! Come on! Think of something!' Her usually brilliant mind wasn't helping her at the moment, she felt like Naruto on a math test in which she was failing so rather quickly.

"Okay look" Sakura started huffing in defeat, her inner self calling her a coward "I thought you were someone else, so I followed you for a bit to see but you never turned your face to me so I just thought that you weren't that person in which you aren't."

"So I was about to leave you alone and well…here we are now." The guy nodded a little.

So you thought…I was someone else…" Sakura could only nod in response not knowing what else to say or think. She sort of felt like an absolute idiot for following the poor guy around he probably thought she was a stalker, probably still did. She eyed him as he was thinking. He was good looking he probably got many of them, Sasuke did (and still does, can you sense the annoyance there).

Sakura was about to just turn around and walk away when he startled her by grabbing her hand and pulling her away from the middle of the mall. Tugging her quickly the only thing she could do was follow even though she wasn't too sure she wanted too.

"What the hell does he think he's doing?" Inner Sakura's angry shout rolled and echoed off the inside walls of her mind.

'Oh God, where is he taking me?' Horror had once more shaken her body, made her heart race, and turned anything truly sensible in her mind to nothing but a jumbled up mess. Forgetting the powerful strength she was usually known for all Sakura could do was be dragged away from the crowded area. She had no idea where this guy was taking her. All she knew she could do was try to remember her surroundings as to know where she could escape from if things got…messy.

Before long they stopped in a remote part of the mall, there were barely anyone else around it was just them. Finally Sakura yanked her hand back glaring at him though his back was turned to her.

"Where the hell are we? Why did you take me here?" He gave no answer this only brought more fear in her heart. "Why won't you answer me?" Her voice got louder, but she went silent when he turned around to her. His face was blank, just a death of a stare nothing else.

"I really do recommend you start running now Sakura…because the only time you see that type of stare is when the guys…a complete nut case!" Inner Sakura advised trying to get her outer self to move, for some reason her paranoia was getting worse with this guy around.

Sakura fully agreed with her inner self, but at the moment fear had stuck her right into one place. Even if she truly wanted too fear was so seeded deep into her she couldn't even make a muscle contract much less try to full fledge run. After a few seconds of that stare his face started to come back to life.

"Sorry…" That was all he said, didn't give her any other answer. Sakura tried to keep herself from falling over again. Gaining some courage from his confession she started to speak.

"Sorry for what? Why did you drag me over here? Is there something wrong, come on I can't help you if you don't tell me." Sakura frowned. Help him? Why the hell should she care?

"Your such a softy at heart Sakura, no matter the situation if you feel the person needs help you try to do what you can…I mean isn't that how Gaara become your…sort of friend…"

"I have to go; sorry for dragging you here I just thought…never mind just get going…" Sakura looked at him worriedly as the guy kept walking, soon enough he was gone after passing a corner.

"What was that about?" She mumbled to herself before shaking her head. Not her problem at the moment. With a sigh Sakura turned back around and took the path back through to where she had been and then followed a map she found to the police station…

…..

"What is wrong with you guys? Jeez, you can't do one simple thing can you, stay together, stick together, hell marry each other as long as you guys are side by side! If I wasn't such a good person as I am I would have just left your asses where they were, I can't believe you guys!..."

It went on much like that once Sakura had found the police station. She found that Temari was there with a flushed looking Hinata who she found had passed out, but wasn't giving them the reason why. Tenten seemed strangely content even though she was being bitched at. Temari had also mentioned walking around with unknown guys giving Tenten a well deserved glare; she said nothing to add on though. This had truly left Sakura wondering what her two friends had done in their short time of being lost.

She had also noticed that Temari was a bit etchy as well, and she was pretty sure it wasn't from everyone getting separated either. Something bad must have happened when they disappeared from her side, but with the way she was going on about this Sakura was sure she wasn't going to find out anytime soon.

After a few minutes of Temari's yelling and bitching at the three girls they had finally gotten to the final costume place which was really a decoration place to create things. Sakura had in the end bought quite a few things, because in the end the only things he could really do was make her costume. After about half an hour at the store they left, leaving the great mall of Suna. Sakura was still confused by the confrontation with that guy, but tried to not let it bother her too much it wasn't like she was going to see him ever again…right?...

…..

Time Skip

The night of the Dance

Gaara sat on his bed reading a book out of boredom. He could hear both Temari and Kankuro getting ready for the dance that would start in about two hours or so. He couldn't give a damn really, it wasn't like he was going to go. There was no reason too anyways.

He didn't have a costume, he didn't have a date, and he wasn't going to risk his pride and ego by going to such a thing anyways. Plus he didn't buy a ticket to it either. The dance was nothing but an excuse to rub up against everyone and ponder their meaningless pathetic lives, or that's how he saw it as. It was just for the horny who couldn't get any so they would just rub themselves with the rest.

Sighing he looked out his window to see Sakura's window slightly blocked by her the blinds on her window. She wasn't in her room at the moment as far as he could see. The light was on though and he could see her room was neatly clean, almost to pure perfection. He gave an offhanded glance at his room to see clothes dirty and clean on the floor, a small garbage bag on the floor as well with old food and what not in it. There were a few books on the floor stacked up against the wall near his closet that wasn't doing its purpose of holding the clothes on the floor in its confinements.

His eyes then directed back to Sakura's room where she had appeared holding some things up to her chest before dropping them and moving around again. He noticed she had a phone to her ear and talking quickly to who ever was on the receiving end of the phone. She smiled and talked some more. Gaara couldn't help but watch her; it seemed more interesting than reading his book.

He dropped the book to the side to stare at her for a bit, if she so happened to start striping he would close his window quickly, he was no pervert, he wasn't his brother. Her hair moved slowly with her quick movements, it was hypnotizing to him. Just watching her live, breath it was so different compared to how he lived life. He lived like he was going to die any second so mind as well become that corpse he would soon be. That was what intrigued him so much about Sakura.

Even though there are many things that could bring her down. Seeing how Ino treats her everyday, dealing with Naruto, and then adding on with his self being a jerk in the very beginning. It was without a doubt that she would feel more in the dumps than being happy and smiling. Sometimes Gaara wished he could do that, but then the fact that if he smiled little kids would scream made him recoil back from that wish. Sometimes he wondered why he even lived…

"So being a peeking tom now? If you need pointers you could have just asked." Gaara's thoughtful face dropped into a frown before closing his blinds to look at Kankuro leaning on his door frame. He was wearing an all black body suit, not the type that stuck to his skin it was loose and velvet looking, he also wore a hat with cat ears on top of it.

"I'm not you…" Gaara said in a dead pan voice. Kankuro snorted and laughed a little to himself. "You're going as a cat?" Kankuro just nodded.

"Yeah, well I couldn't think of anything else and I'm just there for being there and ya know someone has to make sure Temari doesn't kill her date." A brush smacking Kankuro in the back of his head told him she heard everything. Rubbing the now sore spot he cracked a grin at Gaara.

"So why aren't you coming? I'm sure you can save the pink haired maiden from her dark, brooding avenger." Gaara didn't seem as amused as Kankuro was hoping for. He gave a short chuckle before walking further into his younger brother's room. He noticed it was messy, but his looked no better especially with his puppet gear everywhere. He sat down on the bed looking at the wall opposite them.

"Ya know going to one dance wouldn't kill you Gaara. Especially when I'm sure a certain girl wants you to go." Gaara kept glaring that the wall pass his brother's face.

"It's not the end of the world just because she's going with another guy. Hell if I were you I would go to the dance and sweep her off her feet, make her look at you and not 'him'." Kankuro waited for a response, but after a minute of not getting one he sighed. Getting up he stretched a little before turning to look down at his brother.

"Just…think about…" Gaara looked down at a ticket laying on his bed as his brother left the room. He glared at the thing like it had done the worse thing possible to him. What did Kankuro know anyways? His glare lessen and his hand of its own accord parted two blinds covering his window to look over at her room. All he saw was her quickly racing by and the lights turned off. Dropping his hand he looked back down at the ticket once more.

Should he go?

Or should he just stay home?

Would she care?

Or would he be nothing but the wall if she knew he was there?

Was it really worth it?

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I lied! It will be in the next chapter, I so very much swore….I keep holding off the dance and that is pissing me off, but I just don't want to make this chapter any longer than it already is…(sigh) I'm sorry guys…You all probably really hate me right now, but I am working on the next chapter and I will continue this story no matter what!

Please review! I will so update sooner if you review this chapter and tell me what you think.

Did you enjoy the small fight scene between Tenten and Itachi…I couldn't help but show some of Tenten's expertise with fighting and Itachi just had to be an excellent fighter himself. Also was the part with Deidara and Hinata good? I was trying to make it interesting.

As for Sakura and (its very obvious who) Sasori was…interesting…there will most lightly be more of him in the upcoming chapters as there will be more of Kin, Deidara, and Itachi including a few other characters that will interest you all.

This story will not die! Not on my watch!

So review! I'm out…

LostsoulofRegret