Ch. 1

Missing information

Kankuro was waiting outside of the enemy base. "Hurry the hell up," he whispered. He'd taken out all of the guards but he knew that they should know that they were being attacked right about now. Baki was inside getting the scroll they needed. A bomb went off somewhere in the base. "Baki don' make me come and get you," he whined pulling out his puppet scroll. He had a new puppet but it was not ready for testing, but crow and ant had barely any poison left. Another reason to get out of there quickly. A small poof told him Baki was finally there.

"Did you bust a wall or something?" asked Kankuro as he put the scroll away.

"Something like that," Baki answered as another wall blew up. Sequenced explosive notes.

"Blowing up a base? We were just sent here to get a scroll," Kankuro replied.

"I felt it would help make a mark. Now let's get back to Suna," Baki turned and started running with Kankuro behind him. Kankuro didn't bother putting either crow or ant away. Instead he set ant behind Baki and Crow behind him. Didn't want any one to die on him. Having Gaara almost die was bad enough.

Back in Suna…

Gaara opened up the trapdoor that lead to the mansion's attic. Temari, his older sister, was going through boxes. "You're not going to find anything this place is as useful as a broken kunai," Gaara told her. Gaara had hid up her when he was little. He had never found anything interesting.

Temari scoffed, "Maybe you've never looked hard enough," she pulled out a white dress, "What is this?" she asked looking at it.

Gaara walked over, "I've never seen any article of clothing like it." The dress looked like it was wrapped upon itself multiple times. The fabric was smooth like silk, but it was lighter, and almost translucent.

"Huh," Temari said handing it off to Gaara and reaching into the box for the next item. A veil. It was made of blue lace and the pattern was simple, till it started to make a butterfly, though it was thinner where the eyes would be. Then it came to a point further down and ended in another lace pattern. Two words. "Blue moth?" Temari questioned.

She again handed it off to Gaara, who'd set the dress on another group of boxes, before pulling out a picture, of their mother, "What the Hell?" exclaimed Temari. There was their mother, dressed in the dress as well as the veil on her head, lifted back. Her mouth open, like she was laughing. Temari frowned. She'd never heard her mom laugh. She looked at the back of the photo. My wedding was written in her mom's beautiful calligraphy. "She wasn't wearing this when she married dad did she?" Temari wondered aloud.

"She isn't wearing the dress in the albums," Gaara responded. Temari didn't say anything. Her mom had been making scrap book albums since Temari was little, up until the day she died. Temari started making one right before the Chunin exams, in a way to keep her mother alive when she had thought about her the most. When she found out that she was going to be stuck with Gaara as she went to the Chunin exams. Gaara however had gone through them way more then Temari had.

"Are you sure Gaara?" Temari turned and asked him.

Gaara sighed before poofing away only to reappear in another poof holding one of the albums. He opened it to a page and pointed to a picture. Temari's eyes followed where her brother pointed. There mother was not wearing the same dress. This white dress was very simple and had a lower cut neck, exposing some cleavage. Definitely not the same dress.

"So mom was married before this?" Temari questioned.

"Seems that way," Gaara responded.

"Hmmm….but to who?" Temari looked again at the picture. Could this have been the reason why her mom had never laughed?

Gaara's hand went down into the box as Temari examined her mom in both pictures. She seemed less happy at the second wedding, though she was beautiful. "Oh My Giraffe," Temari looked up from her place on the floor to where Gaara stood. He held in his hands a piece of paper.

"What?" Temari asked him.

Gaara didn't say anything; instead he ran to the trapdoor and quickly climbed down the ladder. Temari not wanting to be left behind followed suite. Gaara burst into his office and pulled a drawer open and pulled out a file. Quickly he opened it up, and started to shift through its contents. "Gaara what is going on here?"

Gaara didn't say anything; he pulled out three sheets of paper and examined them. "It's a fake…"

"What's a fake? Gaara what the fuck is going on?" Temari yelled.

Gaara pulled up two sheets of paper, "Do you know what these are?"

Temari examined the pieces of paper. They were the same except one had Gaara's name and his birthdate on it, the other one bared hers. "Our birth certificates?"

Gaara nodded, "Take a look in the upper left corners, at the sign of our village." Temari studied them for a moment. There were dents in the body.

"The bodies are dented?" She questioned.

"As proof that they are not forged," Gaara said as he set them down and showed her the other pieces of paper. "Now look at these." They were the same; they were both Kankuro's birth certificate, except one had most of the father's name scribbled out, and words written in their mom's calligraphy, He will know someday. Upon reading those Temari gazed up to the left corners. The one that came out of the folder, the one that stated that they had the same father and mother, didn't have the dent. The other one, the one that they couldn't tell who the father was, but could read their mom as clear as day, had the dent in it.

"Kankuro is our half-brother?" Temari gasped. It seemed like too much, there were no other men around her mother. Not that she remembered any way. The only one other then there father was her brother and Baki. But she'd always been brought up to know that Kankuro was her brother, sharing both her father's and mother's DNA.

"I know, but for some reason dad wanted to cover it up," Gaara stated looking at both certificates.

"The only other guy who was even allowed near mom though was Baki…." Temari mentioned.

"Holy Shitake Mushrooms! Baki is Kankuro's dad!" Gaara yelled as the epiphany hit him. The two siblings looked at each other.

"We have to tell Kankuro," Temari told him.

"He's on a mission, with Baki." Silence filled the room.

"Well we'll just have to tell him when he gets back," Temari retorted.

"Tell who what?" asked Kankuro as he and Baki entered the room.

And I'll leave you hanging. I love this plot, now push the green button and say 'I have a Scorpion Tattoo, if you read this and if you loved it.

Oh and Gaara will not curse in here. XD