The Jinchuriki Brothers

2~ A Leaf Shinobi

Today I start the academy along with Naruto. He's been going for a little while already. I'm really nervous. Naruto grabbed my hand and dragged me to the big red building of the academy.

"C'mon Gaara, it'll be fine. Iruka sensei is the best. And you can be friends with my friends. I don't have many, but I have you now too."

He smiled at me brightly. I gave a small smile back, feeling a little better. I made sure to bring my bear too, just in case.

We walked through the doors to the building, and Naruto lead me to a classroom filled with kids at desks, and a man in a green vest and brown hair in a ponytail at the front of the room, in front of a chalkboard. The man at the front of the room knelt down in front of me.

"I'm Iruka Umino. You can call me Iruka sensei. I'll be your teacher at the academy. Do you want to introduce yourself?"

I gave a small nod, and Naruto stood right next to me with a giant grin on his face.

"Ok everyone! We have a new student today, and he's going to introduce yourself so everyone listen up!" Iruka sensei shouted at everyone in the room.

I suddenly got really nervous again. Naruto held my hand to comfort me, and I got enough confidence to talk.

"I'm Gaara. I am originally from the sand village. Naruto's parents adopted me. We are now brothers."

Naruto then took my hand, and dragged me to a table with two empty seats for us. We sat down, and Iruka sensei started teaching a lesson. Halfway through Naruto fell asleep. So much for the academy being fun. 

Behind him, at another table, there was a boy with black hair in a ponytail that was also asleep. 

Then there was a girl with long pink hair, sitting next to a kid with raven colored hair, trying to flirt with him. 

A girl with long blonde hair in a ponytail was doing the same. The boy seemed to not even notice them as they started fighting.

A chubby kid with spiky brown hair that was sitting next to the other sleeping kid was eating chips.

At another table, a boy and a girl with white eyes, and black hair sat next to each other. They looked like they were siblings.

There was a strange kid in the corner with black sunglasses and spiky, dark brown hair. He was playing with some bugs. Next to him was another kid with brown hair, but this one had a dog on his head, and was wearing a big fur coat.

Then there was a kid who caught my attention. He had black hair that stook out at the ends, and really bushy eyebrows. He seemed really determined and focused on the lesson.

A lot of interesting people are in here.

I kinda felt like an outcast. Everyone else already had friends, and hobbies, and stuff. I only really had my brother. It still feels weird calling him that. I miss Kankuro and Temari a bit. I never was really close with them, but I wanted to be. Dad was the only issue. I hope I'll be able to visit them soon.

A few days later

Lessons were boring as usual. I always looked back at the kid with the bushy eyebrows when I was bored. I still didn't know anyone's names except for Iruka sensei. Naruto slept all class, so he wasn't much help. 

I just sat there most of the time and did nothing. We did learn how to throw shuriken and kunai though. That was fun. I was pretty good at it.

I was scared for combat training though. We were supposed to learn the whole time we were at the academy. I didn't want to hurt anybody. Everytime someone tried to attack me, I hurt them. It was the sand. I couldn't control it.