Like Changing Time
Summery: Temari, successful young woman who graduated from college early and is now a science teacher, but she has on little problem. Her little brother, Gaara is the biggest pain in the butt, and is now forced to live with her. Can she change his ways? Some tell her it's like changing time.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and never will.
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Chapter 1: Taken In
Temari was returning home to her apartment from her long day working at the middle school. She adjusted her suit tie and put her jacket on her coat rack. She went and turned on her stereo and played a classical mix her boyfriend made her.
"I'm so happy Shikamaru also likes Beethoven." She said to herself.
She untied her hair when her phone started to ring. "You've got to be kidding me." She paused her stereo and answered the phone. "Hello?" She asked aggravated.
"Hello? Temari?"
"Oh, Naruto!" She calmed downed a little. "I thought you would be another teacher from the middle school that needs help. What's up?"
"Well, I'm calling about Gaara."
"Well this can't be good. What happened?"
"I was having a party and well, Gaara drank too much and passed out. He told me to call you and not his dad before he started taking shots."
"Shots of sake, right?"
"Yeah sake. I'm not able to get any of the hard stuff, remember?"
"Yeah." She sighed in frustration. "I'll get him. Don't worry Naruto; I won't mention this to Yondaime."
"Thanks Temari, last time my dad almost killed me, literally."
"Okay, Naruto. I'll be there soon, bye."
"Bye."
She hung up the phone and looked at an old family photo of her and her two brothers, one with black hooded jacket, black jeans, and purple face paint and the other one that was younger had brownish red hair with a red tattoo of the insignia for love on his forehead wearing a red shirt with the symbol of his favorite band, Fuel, and faded ripped jeans. She looked straight at the younger one.
"What happened to you, Gaara?" She asked to no one.
She grabbed her keys and walked out the door.
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She knocked on the door to a red house and was answered by a blond kid wearing a black Rise Against shirt and warned jeans.
"Hey Temari," He said. "Gaara's on the couch." He let her in.
"Thanks, Naruto." She said to the blond teenager.
She walked towards the couch and saw her brother wearing a plain black shirt and a different pair of ripped jeans waking up.
"Hey, sis." He said still a little drunk. "When did you get here?"
"A minute ago," She replied to her teenage brother. "Naruto called me after you passed out." She helped him stand up. "You're lucky he called me and not dad."
"You know I asked him to call you if thing got out of hand." He said smiling.
"Well keep in mind that if this happens again, I'll call dad and he can drive you home." She let him go and he tried to stand up perfectly. "Do you have your house key?"
"Oh!" He said laughing. "Dad took it from me and said something like 'You're no longer aloud in my house.'" He said making fun of his dad.
"You've got to be kidding me." She sighed again in frustration. "I guess you're stuck at my place again for the night."
He started cheering. "Yay! Sleep over."
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She walked into her apartment, carrying her drunken brother. She laid him down on the couch in front of her T.V. She grabbed a blanket from behind the couch and covered him.
"I'm sorry, sis." Gaara said to her.
"Is that really you talking or the sake?" She asked him.
"I don't really know." He said feeling really tired.
"I'll go see dad and talk to him before I go to work tomorrow, okay?" She stood above Gaara.
"Okay." He said falling asleep.
She stared at her sleeping brother. 'What am I going to do with you?' She thought to herself.
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The next day… Gaara woke up and saw all his things in front of the bed. His clothes in trash bags, his CDs in a small cardboard box, and his guitar in its case
"What the fuck?" He said to himself. He saw a note Temari left him and read it aloud. "Gaara, I tried talking dad into letting you stay with him a little longer, but he said he has had enough of your crap. So, you'll be staying with me for now, until we find a place for you. I don't have any meetings today, so I'll be home at around five a' clock. Sign, Temari. PS I don't have any alcohol in the house so don't bother looking."
He looked around. "Hmm, the positive side is that I'm finally free of dad's crap." He opened his guitar case revealing his red Washburn N61. "I'm surprised he didn't break it in half." He checked all his CDs in the box. "No scratches, I guess dad has limits when it comes to peoples things."
He walked into the kitchen and saw a sticky not on a cabinet. "I'm out of eggs, so have some cereal. –Temari" He opened the cabinet revealing seven different kinds of cereal. "Cereal is not breakfast. It's a snack." He pulled out a box of Frosted Flakes and grabbed a bowl from another cabinet. "Aw well, it'll do for now." He opened the fridge and pulled out a half full gallon of milk. "I'll just use this one to be nice to her. I do owe her a lot."
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He finished his bowl of cereal and looked at her stereo and saw another sticky note. "Slot five is open for you, don't touch the others." He threw the note away and opened the CD slots. "At least I can see what she has." He looked at her CDs in the slots. "Beethoven, Mozart, Classic Mix, Pink Floyd's Greatest Hits? Damn, if this was a strangers place, I'd think an old lady lives here."
He put in Fuel's Greatest Hits album in the empty slot, closed the slots, and played the CD at full volume. He grabbed his Washburn and started playing along with all the songs on the CD. "I'm glad she gave me an empty slot in her stereo. I still haven't been able to find my walkman."
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At the school… It was lunch time and Temari was eating lunch with her boyfriend Shikamaru, the Math teacher wearing a business suit and had his hair in a pony tail, and her other brother Kankuro, the Art Teacher's assistant.
"Hey Temari," Kankuro said to his sister. "I heard from dad that Gaara is now living with you."
"Yes he is." She simply replied to her brother.
"Who's Gaara?" Shikamaru asked.
"He's our eighteen year old brother." Kankuro said. "He barely graduated and he's just been wasting his life partying, drinking, and playing his guitar."
"I think he can turn his life around." Temari said defensively. "He just needs help."
"Temari, don't try." Kankuro warned his sister. "Changing him would be like changing time itself. It'll be just a wasted effort."
"We'll see." Said Temari to her brother.
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Later that day… Temari walked into her apartment and heard Gaara CD and Gaara playing along with it.
"Gaara!!!!" She screamed getting his attention. "Turn that down!!!!!!!"
He turned it off completely. "Oh, hey sis." He said putting his guitar away. "I didn't hear you. Do you know where my Silvertone amps are?"
"Down in the back of my car." She replied. "I'll give them to you when you get a job."
"Oh come on!" Gaara said. "Can't you just give them to me?"
"You live with me now, Gaara." She sat on the couch. "You have to earn what you want."
He sat next to her. "Oh jeez, anyways are we going anywhere tonight?"
"No, Gaara." She laid back a little bit. "I have some college students that need tutoring."
"Girls?!" He stood up and stared at her.
"Yes, girls." She stood up. "And don't get any ideas. They don't need anything you could offer them. So, I'll order you a pizza and you can have Naruto over, as long as you stay out of the kitchen while they're here and don't have your music up at full blast either, got it?"
"Okay, okay, I got it." He stood up with her. "I just don't want to see any vegetables on my pizza."
End of Chapter 1
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Author's Note: I just had this idea in my head and just wanted to put it up while it was still fresh. It's something new and it will be my first story without songs in the story. So, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter.