WHAT'S UP, PEOPLE...? No, seriously, what's up?

Here is the first chapter of "The Sand Siblings Go On A Road Trip 2". I hope that those of you who like the first half are willing to return to the crack and read the second half of the story. Like that of certain movies, this was way too long and had to split.

All you need to know is that this is not a sequel, but a continuation of sorts. If that makes sense. It takes place after the rave, but what happened will be brought up from time to time so that none of you will be left in the dark and left with "-_-" expressions, quite literally.

Brace yourselves for the impact of more OOC moments, crazy OCs, crack-ish moments, and plenty of references and a crap ton of inside jokes you may not get at first glance. ;D And please remember that MidnightSakuraBlossom is NOT responsible for the loss of your precious sanity, okay~?

Disclaimer: Naruto isn't mine, and blah blah blah...

~MidnightSakuraBlossom

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The Sand Siblings Go On A Road Trip 2

Chapter 01: The Trip Continues! Duh! Part 1

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YUMI'S POV

The events that happened here at North City were down-right awesome and I just can't believe all the fun and, well, chaos that has gone down in such a short time!

Oh, excuse me, I forgot to introduce myself. Sorry, sorry, but I was just in such a rush to get to the second half of our story that I failed to comply with traditional narrative devices! My name is Yumi Haruna, you probably already know about me and my family. If not, I'll tell you anyway so no one will be confused.

Me and my parents were Sand nin, but we couldn't live up to those standards and never did feel like we belonged in that violent and unfair shinobi world. Not to mention the three of us are very annoying and quirky, people around us never failed to reveal their irritation when he socialized with them. So we ran away after a technically failed mission, giving up that part of our lives and escaping to the modern world that actually exists and I will not explain that theory right now. So now, we try to live as ordinary people and forget all about our previous lives.

We fit into the story because we met Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari by a chance encounter at a gas station (when we still had our wonderful RV, sighs). And all of us just bonded after the siblings gave us a chance that no one else had bothered to do and that, that really moved me. I feel like a big sap saying this, but it's the truth.

I like the three of them, they're cool, for lack of any other spectacular wording. Temari's just about a role model for me – though I won't admit it, haha – and she's just awesome. Gaara is such a great guy underneath that constant "I don't give a fuck" look on his face all the time, I can honestly say that I really like him and I may even love him. Kankuro is...uhm...mixed feelings. I think he's such an annoying guy half the time, so perverted and it was all his fault that his revenge-obsessed puppet tried to kill us all! But the other half of the time, I find him kind of amusing and I secretly want to get to know him better. Fact of the matter is, he's too annoying for me to make up my mind!

You may wonder...why is she narrating anyway? Wasn't it mentioned in the first half of this story that she sucked at narrating and probably would never get to? Well, that is true. As you can see, I fail at it and I probably never will do this again.

So now, a recap: We all went to North City together, we're traveling because we kind of...well...me and my parents' RV was stolen by mean people. A lot of weird things happened on the journey, but at least we didn't stop...believin'~! There were strangers...up and down the boulevard~! And-

Cough, sorry about that. I have been listening to too much of Naruto's music on his MP3 playlist. (Naruto is this guy me and Gaara's age from the Hidden Leaf. From Temari's description, they both are pretty good friends. And he's traveling with us because he didn't want to go through with a dull mission and wanted to shadow us all the way here 'cause he was curious about the modern world. He had no cash and can't get transportation himself.)

And Gaara's inner self, he's very epic in his own words. He was awakened eventually and began to annoy Gaara frequently by providing stupid suggestions, reading his mind, and commenting about how sexy his sister is and that he would love to be her boyfriend. Or something. Him and Naruto went to this woman named Madame Star and her partner, Denise (a big otaku that Temari befriended back in East Ville) performed a freaking crazy killing process or something. Which really sounds like some kind of branch of black magic if you think about it long and hard. Anyway, it backfired and SEPARATED him from his mind into that of a humanoid form. I'm trying to befriend him now, but it's very difficult considering how he's constantly thinking about Temari and he tries so hard not to open up to anyone even more than he has to. Apparently, his true form is some kind of odd green light – I don't know much about that because he is still too humiliated by that to explain to all of us confused folks what that was symbolizing. I hate not knowing anything.

This happened, that happened, I disappeared for a while to practice my ninja skills to see if I am still capable to handle myself (especially after I was harassed by a guy I later found out was one of Madam Star's "boys"), did some jobs with the group to try and get some money, encountered a weird girl named Iris who wants me and my parents to feel the same pain as her entire ninja clan after we brutally set them all aflame, met up with and befriended two rich modern-world Japanese siblings named Hiroshi and Hisako and we even met their father whom took a liking to Naruto and had it out on the local golf course with him, Gaara and Inner G and some other people got trapped in the hotel's horrible excuse of an elevator, battled Kankuro's revenge-obsessed puppet for the final time, Madame Star was rightfully driven to suicide, and we all attended the city's annual belated rave. Wow, that's a mouthful.

Now let's go to the current times: the night of the rave passed way too quickly for my liking. All of us sharing one hotel room returned early in the morning hours either drunk, high on crack (I didn't get any, but Naruto, Inner G, and some random timid girl with big breasts did), or exhausted from all the pure excitement and thrill. It was a pretty great experience for all of us. And we slept until noon.

After awakening and eating a lunch, we all gathered to discuss or plans on where to go next. We couldn't stay at North Garden anymore because the money the Sato siblings gave us was just about used up and there were no cheaper hotels here. Besides, the festival was now over and things would go back to normal in North City...not as chaotic and fun anymore.

So, we decided to check out and head elsewhere together. But first, we had to go down and speak with the pretty black-haired woman whom Naruto still detests. She didn't look so pretty as usual; she was at the desk wiping sweat from her bangs with a tissue and was wearing light make-up, a long-sleeved white shirt, and ripped light blue jean shorts. Strangely, she was holding a shovel and would not stop trembling for some reason. Mom kept wondering if she was okay, I told her to not prompt her with that question though.

We checked out, and blah blah. After this, I spoke up and asked the siblings where we'd be heading next. Because...after all of the excitement that has happened at East Ville, on the road, and here in North City, I really wanted to keep the fun going! Seeing as though the time passes differently in the ninja world and the modern world, they have only been gone for about two days. If I added that up right, I don't know. But Gaara mentioned to be that I was right for this ONE TIME. I smiled at that.

We all left the hotel and didn't bother to go to the hospital to visit Hiroshi. Because his dad, whatever his name is, contacted Naruto via his cellphone from the hospital waiting room and informed him to inform us that the doctor told him Hiroshi would survive; they managed to remove all of the poison from his cells. Hisako was so over-joyed that she had leaped into Kankuro's arms and he gave her a big damn kiss like something out of all that shojo manga I like to read. Inner G had made a funny comment about that which had me laughing on the floor for TEN MINUTES STRAIGHT. No lie.

We decided that we should leave this city as soon as possible...because we were all paranoid that people may realize that the rave wouldn't have been belated and we could have saved everyone including that epic announcer dude (sigh, I never got his name and I regret that) some terror, had Kankuro not brought along his puppets on the road trip! That guy just makes me so frustrated!

So, anyway, now we're getting to the part where all of us left the hotel and were preparing to head to the parking lot of the city...which still makes my father wonder aloud why they can't just let cars pass through the city...but that is not relevant at all...

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Enough introductions! Let's move on to what happened after all of us checked out of the hotel and went into the parking lot outside of the city...

We all arrived to see a young girl, probably sixteen years old, walk out from around OUR RV. She had short blue hair that I am sure was not natural (unlike that psycho, Iris, I am sure this girl was normal and dyed her locks blue. Which, I must admit, looked awesome on her!), dark eyes, and very pale skin. She wore silver glasses on her face, and was wearing some kind of slutty black costume that I hoped she hadn't worn willingly. She was covered in oil and carried a toolbox with her.

No one else really seemed to know who this girl was. But Temari finally did, her teal eyes widened and she rushed forward to the girl.

"Denise!" Oh...okay, her name is Denise. Very well then! ...I hate that name. "What are you doing with those tools and our RV...don't tell me that Madame Star's suicide was affecting you so much that you decided to make your life suck!"

"I still kind of want to know why Madame Star would lie to be like that..." Naruto mentioned very wistfully for a moment. Me and Gaara looked over at him with some sympathy going on, because we both knew that he really had taken a liken to the mysterious woman for some strange reason that we will never once begin to understand.

Denise merely shook her head, some of the oil that had been on her pale cheeks fell off, thankfully. The first thing I noticed about her was that she seemed to be kind of cute (no, I didn't mean that with any lesbian implications). ...But I still HATE the name DENISE. That's very close to DENNIS.

"So why are you here?" Temari didn't give Denise a chance to respond, she instead whirled around to face me, my parents, Naruto, Gaara, Kankuro, and Inner G. "Everyone, this is Denise. I told you about her, right?"

"Yeah, and I know her." Gaara spoke up. "She loves anime, playing cards during dramatic moments, and she was that Madame Star's so-called assistant."

"Madame Star was the mastermind behind an evil plot that I, myself, had become intersected in. She had very mystical powers and would never tell me the TRUTH about how she got them. Now that she fell to her death after being cornered, I didn't know what the hell to do with my life and...and...and..." I clung to Gaara's arm out of pure habit when I noticed that Denise looked as if she was close to tears. I'm like Naruto, I cannot handle crying girls or guys! They turn me into a basket case! "I NEVER GOT MY PARAMORE ALBUMS BACK!"

Apparently, Denise can be a big crybaby. And a hardcore Paramore fan. The tears broke from her green eyes and she dropped her tools and ran into Temari's chest, sobbing into it.

All of us just stared. But what would you expect us to do? This whole scene was certainly getting a whiff of yuri, because Denise was in no hurry to remove her face from Temari's chest and Temari...WAS SHE BLUSHING FAINTLY? Ew...now I know why Kankuro was smiling like a retard and taking pictures of that with Gaara's cellphone of all things. I just don't like yuri, or yaoi, they both kind of creep me out a lot. Sorry fans, but that's just the way Yumi roles.

"Why doesn't she just download the music on a phone?" Gaara asked me, leaning a little closer and his face revealing a bit confusion. I restrained a smile, it was kind of a cute RARE expression.

And then Inner G burst in, literally in between us and killed the moment as usual. "I'm more concerned about WHY Temari would let her sob into her gorgeous breasts!"

"Ugh, just shut up."

"I won't. Ever. Man, you got to see them in full view that one time at East Ville and I haven't seen anything yet! I feel like my eyes haven't even lost their virginity yet!"

I sighed as Gaara and Inner G began to argue in a strange way like they usually did when the latter burst in with the former's real thoughts at the freaking worst times. Gaara seemed to be very reserved and countered Inner G's vulgar comments easily. I think it is safe to say that he got OWNED.

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Finally, Denise regained her composure and Temari gave her a random tissue to wipe away her pathetic tears. And then all of us sighed and prepared for there to be a very long explanation about what the anime fangirl was going to do with her life now that she was out of this "Madame Star's" clutches.

And that, in fact, happened! Ugh!

"Everyone, I want you to know..." Denise smiled brightly, I had to admit to Gaara that she did have a cute smile. Reminds of that Nine Days song I once heard. ...Not that I LIKE Nine Days or anything, but they have some catchy tunes and awesome lyrics. "I never meant to join up with Madame Star...but I hadn't any money and she promised that...she also took every single Paramore album that I owned!"

"So that's...that's why you joined up with Madame Star?" Naruto asked a bit hesitantly as he walked over and placed a hand on Denise's shoulder. One of my eyebrows arched as they met eyes.

"Right to the point, Naruto." Suddenly a bit happy, Denise gave Naruto's shoulder a quick affectionate pat. "You know, this whole experience makes me want to change my life around. I want to be able to follow my original dreams and maybe make a difference in this modern world of which we're in right now!"

Everyone EXCEPT for Naruto and Temari looked at Denise with interest. It wasn't that the rest of us didn't care...it was just that this whole encounter with Denise was really wasting our time. We knew that we had to get out of here before people find out that it was Kankuro's fault the city was attacked by the blood-thirsty puppet and my dad's new-found fanboys from the previous dance-off at the rave find him again!

"I never joined forces with Madame Star willingly...and the truth is," A crooked, stupid smile once again appeared on the slutty-dressed, and yet seemingly pure girl's lips. "Ever since I could remember, I have wanted to make an anime! Anime's my drug that keeps me alive (besides Paramore), and I want to become famous with a great and original plot and art style!"

There was a short silence. We all kind of stared at each other for an increasing period of time before Denise clasped her hands together like a child whom was spouting off her Christmas list and continued to babble like an addict. An anime addict. Which I could...kind of relate to actually.

"Thanks to my surprising talent for art, I can draw my own manga and possibly even publish it for all to see in this modernized world! I know what kind of artwork and tone for the series, but I can't think of a plot to save my life...and I think that if I could ride along the nation with some diverse personalities...it may help me create a great plot and characters!" Denise paused to breath, as she was starting to turn purple from lack of breathing due to her intense babble. Damn, some people talk too much. Oh God, I said damn. I wonder what Mom and Dad would think...? "Um...I want to be able to travel with all of you. Just temporarily! Pretty please with dango on top!"

There was a beat. All of us glanced at each other during this awkward moment of utter silence. Dad told me afterward that he could have sworn he had gone deaf again due to the intensity of this quietness, but I held back a giggle and insisted his hearing aid was turned on and that if he could hear me at the moment – this was the truth.

I almost thought no one would respond. But one brave person broke the silence and decided to talk. Actually accept the sudden offer for ANOTHER annoying guy or girl to have to put up with on the road. And this person was...

None other than my own MOM.

"Denise, I think this would be a wonderful idea!" I turned to look at my mom, my mouth was more than likely hanging agape. But at least Dad, Kankuro, and Gaara turned to stare at her with 'what the hell?' expressions going on. "Do you like the Dragon Ball series?"

"I love that series!"

"EEEEE! WELCOME TO OUR CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, HONEY!"

I was too busy babbling gibberish and flailing my arms all over the place to really make a civilized protest to that statement. For one thing: I really did object because we hardly knew this girl at all, I hate the overall name 'Denise', and just because she wants to change her life around...has a cute, idiotic smile...is pals with Temari and Naruto...and likes the Dragon Ball series (personally, I preferred Dragon Ball Kai and everything else bored me to tears), this doesn't mean that we should allow her to travel with us on such a short notice without any true thought put into it!

Oh my God, I will never be able to tell Mom this to her face...but it seems like SOMEONE had gotten a little too high on crack last night at the epic rave. There's probably a little corner in hell saved just for me right now...sigh...

"Mrs. Haruna, you can't exactly make spontaneous decisions like that..." Gaara deadpanned, sighing and looking at the time with his phone because it was obvious that he hated how long this was taking. He was also muttering something irrelevant; about 'Matsuri' and 'unnecessary texts'. Did someone named Matsuri text 'em? Weird...

Matsuri actually seems like a cute name. Denise sounds kinda American. I think Italian names are pretty cute though, at least, the author's name makes me naturally smile as to hear it – CRAP! SOMETHING BAD WILL HAPPEN TO ME NOW, I JUST BROKE THE FORTH WALL! THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE GAARA'S BAD HABIT!

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SOMEWHERE IN THE HIDDEN SAND

MATSURI'S POV

Oh, wow, I'm actually getting to narrate my own insertion in this chapter! Hallelujah! Wait...wait a minute, I can't speak Hebrew and I'm not even Jewish...oh well~!

My name is Matsuri, my last name is too long so I can't tell you what it is. But let me just say that I am your simple sixteen year old kunoichi from the Hidden Sand Village. My hair is short, brown, and generally stripped of volume because I can't afford good conditioner. My eyes are brown and my skin is very pale. Gaara used to be my sensei, he taught me a lot about fighting and actually gave me a bit of confidence in myself...it's too bad that he hardly sends me off on complicated missions to let me prove myself. I also hang out with a lot of other people occasionally and I have a massive crush on Gaara but...he tends to never notice me.

That's why I have decided to take the liberty of watching out for him and his elder siblings' mansion while they are away on a road trip to that 'modern world' place. I hope that this will prove to him how dependable I truly am, and maybe he could see me in a different light.

BUT NOW I'M NOT SO POSITIVE. IN FACT, I KIND OF WANT TO FALL OVER DEAD! Baki (he's this cool jounin that used to be Gaara's teacher, me and him get along surprisingly well), and just about ever other person in this village all got into some alcohol or drugs or something and threw a wild house party in the mansion! I had to try and make peace, but it took me days to do it! Now, now things are semi in control...I all but THREATENED Baki, Sari (she's one of my friends, her crush on Gaara is very out there.) and Suki (she's a fourteen year old girl who crossdresses as a boy frequently because always believed she should have been born male. She gropes her sister's swaying butt frequently...ugh...) to help me clean out the place so that it will be ready for their homecoming.

We haven't finished yet...but we are working on it as I speak! In fact, Sari says that she doesn't mind helping if it's for Gaara, Suki just likes to hang around me and Sari (she's a really confused bisexual, never knows if she likes men or women. Double time ugh.). Baki is just worried that Kankuro will yell at him again like he typically does when he's all ticked off or hates any ideas that he comes up with.

So anyway, I'm standing in Temari's bedroom with Baki, we are trying to replace the wallpaper after some woman that he had been dancing with while singing Bob Seger songs had messed them up by drowning it in mountain dew. Seriously...who likes mountain dew? It's loaded with sugar and makes me want to puke...

"Come on, Gaara, please answer my text..." I whispered longingly as I stared at my phone like a hawk. Eagerly awaiting Gaara to text me back. We already gathered and thrown away all of the beer cans that were scattered along Temari's bed and wiped up the cum some twenty year old guy who was masturbating left behind, and are still trying to replace the wallpaper.

Baki paused in the middle of pulling out the new wallpaper, he walked over to me with a confused face. "Matsuri? Why do you sound so lusty?"

"Ohhhh...I'm just lonely I guess." I managed to sigh, my brown eyes closed and I sat down on some cushions Temari had piled up in the corner of the room. "Haven't spoken to Lord Gaara in a while and it's really getting to me..."

"Try masturbating." And with that said, Baki returned to putting up the wallpaper like nothing happened as if he never even bothered to talk to this useless filler character.

But my entire face went bright red after that, and I proceeded to shakily yell at Baki for suggesting something like that. Because...because...IonlydothatonSaturdays...cough, choke...cough...

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AND BACK INSIDE OF NORTH CITY'S PARKING LOT

YUMI'S POV

Okay...wow...I'm exhausted. I can't really explain gradually what exactly happened during that horribly done timeskip between events. So why don't we just go on and come right out with a no-nonsense explanation of what happened and how we caved in and allowed this ambitious anime fangirl friend of Naruto and Temari's to join up with us (TEMPORARILY; THANK GOD! I CAN'T STAND HER OR HER NAME...NEITHER CAN INNER G OR KANKURO -SURPSINGLY!).

So while Denise stood there and looked on with a totally pathetic hopeful expression, Kankuro announced that all of us should huddle together a few feet away so that we could consider the offer at our hands and weigh the pros and cons. I smiled at this, for once agreeing with the very irritating puppet master who I don't believe will ever be able to truly accept me in his little brother's life. Even if Temari objected, Inner G insisted that we should do this. And no one can tell that weird and very epic inner differently so she broke down and came to a reluctant agreement.

It took several minutes to reach a compromise with the topic which Dad decided to label: "That Damn Obstacle That Prevents Us From Enjoying Our Trip". Despite how serious and stoic he looked when he said that, Mom just giggled and interlocked their fingers as they held hands, mentioning that he summed this encounter with the ambitious and no-so-popular mangaka. Some of us grudgingly agreed, but others protested and until we lost our voices rather than our hearing – sorry for the reference, Dad.

Temari agreed that we should allow her to come with us. Her argument to back up her case was due to the fact that she found Denise to be fun and interesting, she felt as though they could be good friends. They were into the same anime and they talked about all kinds of favorite topics back at the beach resort and in the hot tubs there. And since it was revealed that she didn't really help Madame Star willingly, and even decided to show us how sorry she was by fixing up her and her siblings' RV while we were raving, she thought it was a good idea. But I think she just wanted another girl to talk to, she's obviously sick of only having me and Mom!

Naruto was on the same page as Temari. He believed that Denise really wasn't evil and that she was telling the truth, and the fact that she was going to become a manga artist was severely awesome and he wanted the main character to be based off of his awesomeness (Gaara had managed to being him back to earth after reminding him that too many people had already made main characters of stories based off of him and named objects and towns after him. I rose a brow at that, had me and my parents really been out of the ninja world that long to have not known that?). Besides, he thought of Denise as a friend and liked to play cards with her in dramatic moments. Not to mention, she claims her favorite color is orange.

Me and Dad objected to this, all we could say for ourselves was that we hardly knew Denise and for all we knew...she could be secretly against us. And we didn't need anymore people like that fail Mist kunoichi, Iris, to be following us around all the time trying to kill us.

Mom sorta objected. But she, like Inner G, agreed grudgingly after Naruto reminded them that Denise went through all of the trouble of TRYING to get the Sand Sib's RV back in shape even though she sucked at mechanics. I've the idea that Inner G agreed only because Temari backed it up. He's too smitten with her, but I find it kind of cute especially after he told me about what his attraction for her may have come from.

Gaara and Kankuro both disagreed with the decision. And they said absolutely nothing to back that up. But with the way they both kept giving the girl annoyed expressions, it was apparent that neither liked her. At least some people are still smart. After all, it would be ridiculous if everyone in the world liked one certain person and worshiped the ground that she walked on! There is a term for this...but I can't freaking remember what it's supposed to be!

Now, logically, it would make sense for Denise to not join us. Like most of us wanted. But unfortunately, that didn't work out as well as we all were praying for! Have you ever seen Temari and Naruto before? They were both so stubborn that they insisted we let Denise tag along! Ugh! I feel real annoyed with them right now, and I heard Inner G lean over in Gaara's ear and tell him not-so-quietly that he would never get used to this anime and Paramore fangirl. At least someone did something right.

"I promise all of you, I won't join for too long." Denise explained, as if sensing the tension. But anyone could have sensed the tension; it was so horrible that it was VISIBLE and Gaara and Temari commented upon it's existence. So it wasn't just Denise that noticed it, I refuse to believe that she's perfect! NOBODY is perfect after all! "As soon as I get inspiration for my manga or find another place that I want to live...then I will get out of your hair!"

"But about your family?" Gaara pointed out.

"Wouldn't they find it freaky that a group of epic freaks whisked away their daughter on a road trip?" Inner G pointed out too. Judging by the look in Gaara's eyes, he must have thought that secretly and Inner G outwardly stated that inward thought because he...is...well, that is his job as an inner.

R-RIGHT? The whole concept of inners really baffles me...but it also causes much consideration about if all of us really do have them and if I have a totally opposite inner as well! That would be cool!

Denise just bit her lip in a guilty manner and turned her face away from us. "Yeah...I sort of lied to you about having a family coming along with me. Actually, my family is very small and they live in a place in the west that I keep forgetting the name of because of a horrible case of long-term memory loss."

"You have long-term memory loss?" Gaara asked in confusion.

Denise merely shrugged her shoulders. I flinched involuntary at that because of her slutty shirt, it was so low that it looked as if it would fall off. And I, for one, am not interested in female fanservice! "It kinda runs in the family. Which is why I told Temari wrong information when she encountered me and my late 'master', Madame Star. I really didn't come here on a road trip with my family, I ran away because I didn't want them to ship me off to a boarding school, they really couldn't care less about me. And I forgot that I do have a dream: which is to become a famous mangaka!"

All of us sweatdropped. And, from here on out, our story became even more weird and insane. But the odd thing is that we haven't even left North City yet! What kind of mayhem would be in store for all of us later?

To Be Continued

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Yes, it was a rather dull beginning. But I can assure you that it will be getting even more crazy from here on out! The reason I made Yumi the narrator was just a little fun thing thrown because everyone deserves to get a day in the limelight once in a while. Some characters will get that treatment from time to time.

This second half will be rated M due to the various crude comments, language (lots of f-bombs and loaded with cursing), blatant suggestive themes and a lot of attempted sexual jokes later on. As the first half of the story progressed, I rated it T. But due to all of the themes that began to enter, it probably reached borderline M most of the time. Well, this is the reason for the strong rating. I wanted that to be clear.

The story is far from over. But please excuse any LONG update waits. I really don't know when they will happen, but they will come as soon as I can manage. Don't feel deserted if it takes even MONTHS to get the following chapter. Life can be a bitch. TT_TT

Read and review, you'll get some of SYD's leftover cupcakes from the last chapters we collaborated on in the first half of the story! *Dangles the aforementioned desserts teasingly*

~MidnightSakuraBlossom