"Temari?"
Temari continued to concentrate on her book. "What Gaara?"
"What does family actually mean?"
"Why?"
Gaara just stared at his sister as if she didn't say anything.
Temari sighed. "Well, family is a group of people who are related."
He continued to stare at her. It was quiet for a few seconds until he spoke again. "No, I mean what does it mean to be an actual family?"
"You mean to act like a family."
"I'm not sure actually what I mean." Gaara's voice had a hint of confusion in it.
Temari looked at her younger brother. Recently Gaara had been a little less lonely and was refraining from killing without reason. He also stopped threatening his siblings all the time, well almost all the time. This had been the first time he had asked a question like this though and Temari wasn't quite sure how to answer it.
"Why the sudden interest?"
"No reason." Temari sighed and looked back at her book. "To be a family you have to care about other family members even if they are constantly getting on your last nerve, like a certain puppet master in this house."
"Did someone mention me?" Kankuro leaned on the doorway that led to the kitchen.
"Gaara's asking what a family is." She looked up from her book as she said it.
"What! Why?" Temari shrugged. Gaara stared at his siblings blankly.
Kankuro looked at Gaara then at Temari. "A family looks out for each other. They talk and have family moments."
"What's a family moment?"
"I guess it's when everyone gets all emotional and hugs and says they love each other after a talk or something." Gaara stared at his brother slowly processing his words.
"Are we a family?"
Temari looked at her brother surprised. She looked at Kankuro for assistance but he looked just as surprised and unsure about how to answer. None of them had ever brought up family before. It was just something they never discussed, especially with Gaara.
"I guess Gaara, in our own strange way, we are a family." Kankuro nodded in agreement to Temari's answer.
Gaara went to leave the room and for a brief second Temari and Kankuro swore it looked like he smiled.
OHAYO! I was bored and wanted to try a story without oc's. It was and experiment for me and critiques are welcomed, just don't flame me. I think Gaara was ooc but I'm not sure. Actually I think I made all the sibs' ooc a little bit, which sucks because I was trying to practice different personalities. I intend to make this just a bunch of oneshot's about the sand siblings. The others may include some humor I don't know yet. I actually don't even know if people read my story's so…
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Ishuzi the annoying fan girl killer