A/N Hey all! I know in the Shippuuden episodes it says that it takes three days to get to Suna, but lets use our imagination and pretend it takes one. I wrote this story before that episode, so… yeah. It doesn't really have any pairings, just hints at ShikaTem. So yeah, without further ado, I present Road Trip!
Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, would I really be writing on fanfiction? No. Everything in my stories would be in the show/manga. I don't own Naruto and sadly, I never will.
Temari groaned and rolled over as her alarm went off. And forced herself to get out of her warm bed. She walked to the bathroom and took her shower. In the middle of drying her hair, there was a knock at the door.
"Temari! Hurry your ass up! Gaara says we have to leave in an hour and I still have to take my shower!"
"OK, OK, just give me a second!" she yelled at Kankuro through the bathroom door.
When She opened the door 40 minutes later, Kankuro was standing outside looking impatient.
"What the hell took you so long? We only have 20 minutes!" he yelled at her.
"I had to dry my hair and brush my teeth!" she replied.
He rolled his eyes and pushed passed her into the bathroom to power-shower.
Temari walked downstairs with her suitcase to find Gaara sitting at the Kitchen table finishing up some paperwork.
"It's about time you came downstairs," he stated without looking up from his work, "What took you so long?"
Temari didn't answer him, but instead asked, "Why are you still doing paperwork? This is the whole reason we are visiting Kanoha. We –and by we I mean you- need a vacation."
He sighed and as he finished his last packet, "I know, I just need to finish this and… why do you have such a big suitcase? We're only going for 3 days!"
"Well, I need my PJs, a training outfit, a nice outfit incase Shikamaru wants to go out to dinner or something and two normal outfits. I also have three pairs of shoes (gym shoes, nice shoes and flip-flops) some shampoo and soap, and the hairdryer.
"The hairdryer?" Gaara asked.
Temari nodded.
"Temari where are you planning to plug it in?"
"Um… at the hotel?" she replied.
"There are usually hairdryers at hotels. Put it back," He ordered.
Temari sighed, "Alright fine."
As she took the hairdryer out of her bag, Kankuro rushed down the stairs, his hair still wet, and carrying both puppets and a giant sack.
Gaara sighed again, "Kankuro, do you really need both puppets?"
"Yes!" Kankuro answered, offended.
"It's just a bunch of extra weight to bring both," Temari told him.
"Coming from the girl who wanted to bring the hairdryer," Gaara said under his breath.
Temari glared at him and went to put the hairdryer back. Meanwhile, Gaara eyed Kankuro's bag.
"How much clothes did you pack?" he asked?
"Oh, these aren't clothes… it's food," Kankuro replies.
"Then where are your clothes?" Gaara asked.
"Oh, I didn't pack any."
"Eew! Did I just hear Kankuro say he didn't pack clothes?" Temari asked as she re-entered the room.
Gaara nodded then turned back to Kankuro, "What do you plan to sleep in?"
"My underwear," Kankuro answered simply.
Temari shuttered at the thought. Gaara just shook his head before glancing at the clock.
"Shit! We should've left an hour ago!" He exclaimed.
Temari picked up her suitcase and Kankuro picked up three more bags of chips and shoved them into his already overstuffed bag. Gaara picked up his gourd and a small backpack. They walked out the door and locked it before finally setting out.
"Kankuro I swear if you sing one more note, those puppets will be shoved up your ass!" Temari threatened through clenched teeth.
"You wouldn't do that," Kankuro stated, "You love me too much!"
"Maybe she wouldn't, but I would!" Gaara reminded him.
For the hour they'd been walking, Gaara and Temari had been saranaded with 'She Will Be Loved', 'Just the Girl', some rap song they'd never heard before, and the Crazy Frog song 'Popcorn'. Both Gaara and Temari decided that Kankuro could sing when he tried, but today he just wasn't trying.
After Gaara threatened Kankuro, it was quiet for a few minutes, and while Gaara and Temari were enjoying it, Kankuro was getting bored quickly. He glanced at Temari and an idea popped into his head.
He slowly brought his hand up and poked her in the arm.
No reaction.
He tried again.
Still no reaction.
He poked her again, and again, and again. He could see his sister losing her temper, but that didn't stop him.
He poked her one last time before Temari said through clenched teeth, "Kankuro I'm warning you…"
He stopped and for a while it was silent again.
Kankuro again glanced at his sister.
'The good looking, skilled ninja gets ready to strike his annoying, blonde opponent…' he thought as he brought his hand up and poked her again.
"Kankuro, you are so dead!" Temari yelled as she rounded on him.
"What? You guys are so boring! I needed to entertain myself somehow!"
"You couldn't do anything better than poking me in the arm?"
"No!"
"Alright, you two are done," Gaara told them.
"He started it!" Temari whined.
"What are you, three?" Kankuro asked her sarcastically.
"I don't care who startedit, I'm going to finish it in about three seconds," Gaara said evenly.
Temari and Kankuro glanced nervously at eachother before Temari moved to the other side of Gaara. As they walked in silence again, Kankuro caught Temari's eye and stuck his tongue out at her. She did the same to him and Gaara glared at both of them.
Temari decided that to stay out of trouble she would listen to her CD player. She put the headphones on and cranked the volume.
Gaara and Kankuro both sighed as Evenecsence blaster from Temari's headphones.
"Temari, could you turn that down?" Kankuro asked.
She didn't seem to hear him. Instead she started singing along with the music. Gaara groaned. It wasn't that she was bad- she was actually pretty good- he just didn't feel like listening to 'Call Me When You're Sober' for the millionth time that week.
"Temari!" Kankuro said a little louder, "Turn it down!"
When she still didn't respond, Gaara snatched the CD player from her and turned it off.
"Hey!" Temari cried, "I was listening to that!"
"Unfortunatly, so were we," Kankuro muttered.
Temari glared at him, "At least I was on key"
"Are you implying something?" Kankuro asked.
"Okay guys," Garra interrupted, "Let's take a food break. Maybe you two will be less annoying with food in your stomachs."
"Food? Finally!" Kankuro exclaimed, suddenly perking up.
They sat under a tree and Kankuro pulled out a full bag of chips for each of them.
"I won't be able to eat all this!" Gaara exclaimed, "Do you have something smaller?"
"Or less fatty?" Temari added while looking at the nutrition facts on the back of the bag.
"Uh, let's see…" Kankuro said as he looked through his bag, "I have oreos, chips ahoy, orange chocolate, a gallon of ice cream, and peanut butter."
"A gallon of ice cream? Won't that melt?" Gaara pointed out.
"Then we'd better start eating it now!" Kankuro stated as he opened the ice cream, pulled a spoon out of his backpack and plunged it into the ice cream.
Temari and Gaara looked at their food choices. There wasn't much to choose from.
"You couldn't have brought anything healthy?" Temari asked him.
Kankuro stared at her blankly, "What would I want to do that?"
Teamri sighed and opened the oreos and took one. Gaara took one also. Temari took one look at the oreo and put it back.
"What's up?" Gaara asked her as he took a second oreo.
"It's like a lard sandwich. I'm sorry, but that's gross." She explained.
Gaara also put his oreo back and opened the chips ahoy. By the time Gaara had finished his third cookie, Kankuro had finished the whole thing of ice cream. Temari looked at the empty gallon of ice cream and declared that she wasn't hungry anymore. Gaara agreed and after Kankuro had had two chips ahoy, they set out again.
At about noon, Kankuro declared that he needed to use the little ninja's room.
"Kankuro, can't it wait?" Gaara asked, "We'll reach a village in about 20 minutes."
"But I really gotta go!" Kankuro whined.
"We'll be late enough as it is. Let's just keep moving." Gaara told him.
"But Gaara, I really, really, really, really, really-"
"Alright! I get it. Just find a tree and hurry it up!" Gaara interrupted.
It took Kankuro 10 minutes to find the "perfect tree". When he finally finished, he came back and the three walked at a faster pace than usual until they reached the small village.
"Finally!" Temari sighed happily, "A place that'll have real food!"
"Where should we go to eat?" Gaara asked.
"Fast food place!" Kankuro suggested.
"No fast food. How about a buffet or something?" Temari asked.
"Ew. People could sneeze on the food and no one would ever know." Kankuro pointed out.
"Well it's better than some of the shit that goes in fast food!" Temari retorted.
"You know what? I'll choose." Gaara decided.
He looked around until he found a place that had just about everything. When they got in the resteraunt, it took 15 minutes for them to be seated. It then took an hour to order and eat the food. After that, it took the waiter 20 minutes to bring them the check.
When they finally left the resteraunt, Temari said sarcastically, "Nice choice Gaara. That only took 2 hours."
"Shut up Temari." Gaara warned her.
She shrugged, "I'm just saying, a beffet would've been much faster."
"Fast food would've been the fastest. Hence FAST food." Kankuro pointed out.
Gaara rolled his eyes, "Well there's nthing we can do about it now, so let's just keep moving."
They left the village and walked along the path. It was silent for a few minutes until Kankuro stated, "I'm bored."
"Well deal with it." Gaara told him. "We still have a ways to go."
Kankuro sighed. This trip was getting more and more boring.
"Are we there yet?" He asked.
"Does it LOOK like we're there?" Temari asked him.
He sighed again, "Well when will we get there?"
"At the rate we're going, probably never." Gaara told him
'It was silent for again until Kankuro declared they should play a game.
"Like what? It's not like we can play monoploly right now!" Gaara pointed out.
"Not a bored game. Like 'I SPY' or something," Kankuro explained.
Gaara declared there was no way in hell he would play I SPY, but Temari agreed.
"Okay, I'll go first," Kankuro decided. He observed his surroundings. There were trees…trees…and more trees.
"Um I SPY something tall."
Temari looked around, "A tree?"
"Right."
"My turn. I SPY something green," Temari stated.
"A tree"
"Yep."
"I SPY something vertical," Kankuro told her.
"A tree. I SPY something-"
"A tree."
"Dammit!" Temari exclaimed.
"Guys, there's nothing BUT trees." Gaara pointed out.
"Alright. I found one more thing other than a tree." Kankuro grinned.
Temari looked around, "What?'
"I SPY something with red hair."
"The brat!" Temari laughed.
Gaara glared at her, "Will you stop calling me that?"
"Nope!" Temari replied.
He rolled his eyes.
"Temari, here's another one! What's short and never smiles?" Kankuro asked.
"Gaara!" Temari answered.
"Hey, I got one," Gaara stated, "What's tall, annoying, and going to be dead ina minute if he doesn't shut up?"
"Kankuro!" Temari laughed, "Good one!"
"Oh yeah? Well what's blonde, annoying and leaves her 'girl stuff' everywhere?" Kankuro asked.
"Hey! What's wrong with being a blonde?" Temari challenged him.
"Alright. I'd say I SPY is done. Find something else to entertain yourselves." Gaara ordered.
While the siblings thought of something to do, Kankuro started to hum quietly. It grew louder and louder until he was eventually singing.
"It's a small world after all! It's a small world after all!"
"Kankuro, please don't sing that it will be in my head forever!" Temari groaned.
"Alright fine," Kankuro gave in, "No more Small World. How about… IT'S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME! PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!"
Temari groaned again as Kankuro continued and accidentally ran into Gaara who had stopped.
"What's up?" Temari asked him.
"Which way do we go from here?" He asked.
Temari looked ahead to see that the path split into two.
"I don't know." Temari answered.
"It's peanutbutterjelly, peanutbutterjelly, peanutbutterjelly with a baseball bat!" Kankuro continued.
"Kankuro, shut up for a sec." Temari ordered.
Kankuro looked at the fork in the road, "Shouldn't you know the way?" He asked her.
"Why would I know the way?" She asked.
"Don't you go to Konoha like once a week?" He asked.
"No. Once a month. And someone usually comes to escort me there. I don't pay attention to where I'm going." She shrugged.
"And I'm guessing this 'someone' is Shikamaru. That would explain why you don't pay attention to where your going. You're too focused on how 'smart and funny and cute he is'" Kankuro imitated his sister.
She glared at him, "It's not always Shikamaru. Once it Was Sakura and TenTen, and another couple times it was Ino or Hinata or someone."
"Then why don't you pay attention to when THEY take you?" Gaara sked.
"Because we talk. That's what girls do Gaara. They talk." Temari told him.
"Well I figured that out," Gaara rolled his eyes, "But couldn't you talk and pay attention to where you were going?"
Temari looked from one path to the other, "I think it's left."
"You think or you know?" Gaara asked.
"I think." Temari told him.
"Well if she thinks left, then let's go right." Kankuro stated.
Temari glared at him, but stayed silent.
"Right it is." Gaara agreed.
"Hey!" Temari cried, "You're supposed to be on my side!"
"I am when you KNOW. When you THINK, it's a different story." Gaara explained.
"But I really think it's left. What if Kanuro's wrong? It wouldn't be the first time." Temari said.
"Hey!" Kankuro exclaimed.
"Gaara ignored him, "If it is left, we'll turn around and go back."
"Alright, but I really think it's left…" Temari sighed.
The three siblings walked down the path, arguing randomly along the way. When they stopped to have a snack, Temari looked around.
"Alright. Now I KNOW this isn't the right way. There should've been a village around here somewhere," She told Gaara.
Gaara groaned, "Alright. We'll turn around. Kankuro, Let's go."
"But I haven't finished eating yet!" He complained
"Then walk and eat at the same time." Temari suggested.
Kankuro packed all his food into his bag (save a bag of chips) and the three siblings turned around to walk back the way they came.
A/N: So there's Chapter 1. Review Please!
I did use this conversation from Brother Bear. I don't own that either.