Anna's POV - The Next Day

I sit in the academy, teaching the kids about chakra.

"ANNA!"

"Shit fuck!" I yell shocked as I fall off the desk.

The kids laughs while I sense Kankuro walk over to my body.

I swipe his legs out from under him and I get up. "Why'd you go and have to scare me like that Kankuro?" I ask as I sit on the desk.

He laughs on the floor. "Just thought it'd be funny." Kankuro says to me.

I look in his general direction, not amused. "Fuck you." I say and he laughs harder. "Children, today, we'll be learning all about how to take down Puppet Masters." I say to the kids as I get off the desk again.

Kankuro shuts his trap and I sense fear. "Anna wait, I'm sorry." He says quickly.

I just my foot on his chest, keeping him in place. "First, you find the chakra strings, you cut them, with chakra blades, and you fight close combat with them, because chances are, they suck at close combat." I say to the kids. "Now Kankuro here, is terrible at close combat and relies heavily on his puppets. Destroy his puppets, and you win." I say and the kids are just amused.

"So not cool Anna." Kankuro says to me.

I shrug and I sit down on the desk again. "Alright, your free to go Kankuro." I say with a wave of my hand.

I sense Kankuro get up. "Temari charged me with kidnapping you for something." Kankuro says to me as I sense mischievous energy from him.

"Class dismissed, class rep, there's a stack of papers here, they're the homework, one page for each kid." I say and I hear and affirmative sound from her.

I dive out the window and Kankuro laughs.

I flip and land on my feet.

"Anna!" Kankuro yells above me.

I race to the gates and I get chased by Kankuro, however, he chases me exactly where he wants me to go.

I skid to a stop to avoid crashing into Temari, Kankuro bowls over and I'm crushed between the two.

"Anna are you ok?" Gaara asks somewhere around us.

I raise a thumbs up weakly.

Kankuro and Temari argue and I start getting annoyed.

I raise my head up fast and Kankuro gets harshly knocked in the jaw by that and rolls off me.

I get up with a huff and Temari starts laughing.

"Anna, your hair," Gaara starts,

I touch my hair confused and Gaara fixes it since it was full of sand. "Thank you Gaara." I say to him with a smile.

I feel the air chill and I know that chill, that's the pissed off fan-girl chill.

I sweat drop and I get slight nervous. "By any chance, uh, where are we?" I ask.

Gaara hums. "The park." Gaara says to me.

I nod. "And there are people here?" I ask.

I get a confirmation hum.

I hear angry shrieks and I slightly tense. "Its the academy all over again during the week I was assigned to sit next to Sasuke." I breath out and Temari laughs.

"There are 4 girls glaring at you Anna." Kankuro says to me.

"Just four?" I ask as I sweat drop.

"Its seems as if girls don't like you." Gaara comments.

I look in Gaara's direction. "Oh no, really? I had no idea, its not as if there like 20 death glares on back from your fan-girls." I say and Kankuro snickers while I sense amusement from Gaara.

I sense familiar Chakra enter the Sand Village.

"I'll leave you to make peace with them then." Gaara says amused.

I stare in his direction, completely and utterly in disbelief as he disappears.

"Good luck." Temari says to me and her and Kankuro run.

"Oh no." I say and I get mobbed.

"Who are you?"

"What do you want with Gaara-sama?"

"Why are you all buddy buddy with him?"

"Why does he like you?"

"You can't even hold eye contact with him?"

"Yeah! Are you blind or something?"

I sweat drop at all the questions. "Calm down. Me and Gaara have been friends since childhood. I'm Anna." I say to them.

"That answers a few questions."

"Why can't you hold eye contact with Gaara-Sama?"

I just deadpan.

I get mobbed endlessly for hours before I can finally escape.

I sit on a roof, traumatized.

"Anna." Gaara says as he appears next to me, which spooks me.

"Gaara." I say and I sense conflicting feelings of worry and confusion.

"A guy who claims to be your Grandfather is in the Sand Village looking for you." He says after a moment.

I stare forward. "Interesting. Yeah, I already met him at the Ward Village on a mission recently, I didn't know it was a Ward Village, neither did the captain of our team, until we got there. Yeah, I don't like him that much." I say as I cross my legs.

"What are you gonna do about him then?" Gaara asks me.

"I don't know, probably just wait for him to find me and deal with it when it comes to it." I say and Gaara hums.

"You need to sleep though." Gaara says to me.

I manage a small smile. "Is it that obvious?" I ask and Gaara hums.

"You would have scared off those fan-girls." Gaara says to me.

I nod. "Yeah." I say and I sense Gaara reach over and he pulls me too him.

I end up falling asleep for a bit, I wake up to feeling danger.

I roll away and I get on my feet quickly.

I sense my Grandfather there and I glare.

"Anna." He says to me.

I tense up as I smell metal.

I try to think of where I'm at currently, Gaara must have taken me to my room in Temari's house, my Katana shouldn't be to far from me.

I reach for it and its not there. "Son of a-" I duck from the oncoming Kunai. "Fuck." I say and I grab my staff from the dresser. "Thank the holy sons of-" I dodge again, "what the hell you old geezer?" I ask him annoyed.

"Abomination." He hisses.

I get a little ticked about that. "Excuse me?" I ask him as I knock the weapons out of his hands and I pin him to the wall with my staff against his throat. I feel very pissed off and it must be showing because I sense his pissed off rage. "Listen and listen good, because I'm only saying this once. I will not tolerate you in my life, you will leave at once or I'm gonna have to explain to Gaara why there is a dead elder in my room, and that's not gonna be a fun conversation. Get the hell out of here." I say to him annoyed.

"What did you do to Karma?" He hisses back.

I glare at him, fury coursing through me. "That fucker is sitting in the Konoha Interrogation unit, because he almost fucking killed me. You'll be there soon too if you don't get the fuck out." I say to him.

"Your weak hearted for not killing him." He hisses at me.

I feel very pissed off about that. "I don't have to justify my actions to the guy who threatened my Mom and Dad. Get the hell out, I won't say it again." I say to him as I try to control my voice to not yell.

He escapes and I put my staff down.

"Anna," Temari says at the door.

I jump, spooked. "How long have you been there?" I asked Temari.

"Since you said something about you almost being killed, I heard a commotion." Temari says to me.

"Sorry about that then, guess my life is a bit more complicated now than when we were kids, huh?" I ask with a nervous smile.

Temari hugs me out of nowhere. "You idiot, you never told us you were almost killed." Temari says to me.

I hum quietly. "Yeah, well its not that important, I am alive." I say and Temari smacks me over the head and scolds me.

I sweat drop once she finishes.

"Now, your gonna go tell Gaara you were just attacked." Temari finishes.

I nod and she takes me to the Kazekage office.

"Gaara." Temari says as she enters.

"Temari? Anna? Why are you both awake?"

I sense danger again and I pull Gaara away from the window as a giant Shuriken blasts through it.

I relax slightly while I sense shock from both Gaara and Temari.

I walk over to the window and I sense that old geezers Chakra nearby with malicious intent. "That damn geezer is gonna get the stuffing ripped out of him now." I mutter.

I got grab the Shuriken and I jump out the window as I take off one of the blades and I hold it by the hole.

"You fell for it." The geezer says and I get trapped in earth attacks.

"Anna!" I hear Temari call worried.

I feel around me and its hard rock around me. "You damn fucking geezer!" I yell at him, pissed.

I punch the rocks and it does nothing.

I sense Gaara come down and he uses his Sand to free me and I hear him talk.

"Leave Anna alone, she wants nothing to do with you."

Gaara pulls me out of the rocks after I hear a break and he pulls me to his chest, to which I feel my face heat up.

"Anna?" Gaara asks confused.

"I'm ok." I say and Gaara hums.

"No one attacks Anna while she's home, Haru Ward, your banned from the Sand Village until further notice." Gaara says after a minute.

"She's an abomination! She has no right to be alive!" The geezer yells as I hear him get dragged away.

I feel a loss of chakra, must have been the rocks.

"Come on Anna." Gaara says to me as he picks me up and I feel my heart beat really fast.

I let him carry me and I get sat down somewhere. "Where are we?" I asked Gaara.

Gaara just pulls me into a hug. "Why didn't you tell me that you were having problems with the Ward Clan?" Gaara asks me.

I sigh quietly. "It wasn't important." I say and Gaara just holds me tighter.

"Anna, the next time you come here and you know people are after you, tell me, I won't leave your side." Gaara says to me quietly.

I slowly hug him around his neck. "I'm sorry, I just thought that I'd be fine and," I trail off and Gaara understands.

Gaara doesn't let me go and I end up falling asleep.

I wake up to being slightly shaken.

I groan quietly as I bury my face into the soft pillow in front of me.

The pillow moves and I whine quietly, holding onto it tighter.

"Anna I have to get up." Gaara says to me.

I soon realize that I'm holding onto Gaara and I feel heat rise to my cheeks and I can't move.

I hear Gaara sigh and I feel slight amusement from him along with another emotion that I can't decipher. "Getting up now." Gaara says and gets up, leaving me alone on the bed. "Anna, you should eat something." Gaara says to me.

"Ok." I say and I sense him leave.

Why the hell was he so soft? What the hell is wrong with me? Gaara is my friend? So what's with these unreadable feelings from the both of us? I'm so confused.

I get up and I go shower and I change into my mission gear.

I head down to the kitchen and I make breakfast.

"You can cook?" Kankuro asks surprised.

"I didn't have a choice. Legacy wouldn't let me leave Fox Canyon until I could make something other than cup ramen." I say to Kankuro who laughs.

I eat my breakfast and I head to the academy.

"Your late!"

"Sorry Himiko, I didn't realize what time it was." I say with a nervous smile to the class rep.

She huffs.

I sit on the desk and I teach them about the difference between the countries concerning the land type and hierarchy's they have.

"Anna, tomorrow the replacement teacher will be starting, they'll take over you class and you can go back to the Leaf Village." One of the teachers say after class is over.

I nod. "Well I guess I leave tonight then." I say and the teacher hums.

I head to Temari's and I make myself something to eat.

"Anna." Gaara says as he walks into the house.

"Gaara." I greet with a smile.

"They found a replacement teacher, your leaving today aren't you?" Gaara asks me.

"I was planning on it. Is there something else you needed me here for?" I ask Gaara.

Gaara hums. "No, but you'll come back soon right?" Gaara asks me.

"At your request." I say to him with a slight smile.

I sense a warmness from him, so he's smiling slightly.
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