I've never lived alone. But that is not to say it's a foreign feeling. Loneliness has proven itself to be a language very few are fluent in. Thus far it seems to only be me. Behind all of my hidden emotions and stone faces lies the shell of a dreamer. What lies within is a demon, the dreaded thing that has taken my mother's life. Everything about me reflects her distain and hatred for me. And who could blame her. It is my existence that killed her. Yet I have her eyes. Even if she looks at me from the afterlife she will be crushed with seeing that her creation and the very thing that killed her... very closely resembles herself. For years I have talked to my mother, though she is gone. I hope she won't ever look at me. I've taken enough from her already.

"Gaara, you're mumbling again... are you okay?"

Staring down at my empty bowl of rice and eggs I sighed. " I'm fine Temari. Now what's our mission for the day, I'm sick of always sitting around and waiting."

"Well in that case you're in luck, today we're traveling to kohona. 'It would seem that our security is at a low currently, we were hoping that our trusted allies of The Village Hidden in the Sand would send any ninja that were free, permitting you are in peace times, respect and thanks, Hokage Tsunare' That's what it says. Sounds exciting, right Gaara?"

"Sounds like they're in trouble, we'd better get moving quickly. What other teams are coming with us, what higher ranks?"

"About that, Father said-"

"That the only reason we're going is to rid of me for a while, isn't it."

Temari hung her head. Maybe I should be a little nicer, just shut my mouth and let her tell me. I can take the hurt better than she can.

"We better get ready now." With that she ran up the stairs and disappeared into her room.

Kankuro followed. He's being strangely quiet for him. That gets on my nerves. The last time we went to kohona he did nothing but be useless and cause trouble. Then again that's all they say I've ever done. I can't imagine what's going on in kohona that they need our help so desperately... however, I do have my third eye jutsu and I remember the names of the competitors my age from the chunin exams. Using the jutsu I looked for Sasuke Uchiha, thinking that thoughtless brat would be at the center of the fighting. The jutsu showed me a coffin, being carried away by orochimaru's rats. If this means what I think it does, kohona is in trouble, more so than I could have ever imagined. I wanted to jump and get ready then, but I decided to look around a little more. Naruto and most of the other ninja my age were following behind orochimaru's servants. Alright, this is even worse. We need to leave now. I sprinted to my room and replaced the normal sand in my gourd with my mother's sand.

"Temari, konkoro, they're all in danger, we must leave!"

Temari ran down the stairs and awkwardly asked how shikamaru was doing. I told her he is traveling with a large group and will be fine. I hope that isn't a lie. Kankoro ran down after us. His face paint was pretty sloppy but we didn't have time to worry about it.

"Alright then, let's go," we began our journey, "From what I saw were gonna need to conserve as much Chakra as we possibly can, we're facing big enemy's here. We're also heading tward the sound village instead of kohona. I can't tell you much because I don't want to assume... but Sasuke is in a coffin being carried by orochimaru's 'villagers' and all of our peers are chasing after them."

(A/N) I don't really like my old story so I'm starting one here. I'm gonna go ahead and say that I'll probably skip over the majority of fighting for my sake and yours. This will NOT be accurate to the story entirely so please be aware of that. Also this is after Gaara's relation with his siblings improves greatly because it's after the chunin exams, so they're no longer afraid of him. If you want validation of this look at kankuro's wiki. They'll act like fairly normal siblings in this story. Also, it will be a boy X boy so please leave if you don't like that. Alright, that's all I have to say. Leave suggestions and corrections down in the comments and I'll see you guys soon byeee