"I don't see why we have to come here. An exchange program to reunite Suna and Konoha, how lame," the only girl in the group of three sand nin sighed.

"Well the invite wasn't for you Temari. Only Gaara and I were invited to swap places with the Hyuugas," the boy in black replied.

"Shut up Kankurou you know exactly why I had to come along! Someone has to keep the unsuspecting girls of Konoha safe from the Player of Suna."

Kankurou grinned slyly. "They won't mind at all," he purred turning to face the last member of the Sabaku siblings. "Gaara doesn't mind when I touch him, don't you Gaara?" he asked reaching a gloved hand out to his younger brother.

The red head turned to give Kankurou an icy stare. Sand shifted from the gourd on his back and hovered around Kankurou's out stretched hand, as though debating whether to strike.

"Aww Gaara, I'm hurt. I thought you liked when I touched you. At least you did the other night," Kankurou teased, receiving a horrified stare from the blonde girl.

Debate closed, the sand struck. In an instant the sand tightened around the black gloved hand. At Kankurou's words Gaara's cheeks began to rival his hair color under his armor of sand.

"Speak anymore and I will kill you wear you stand," Gaara warned, his voice faltering slightly as he regained his cool.

Kankurou squeaked helplessly as he tried to pull his throbbing hand free. To his relief the sand slid back into the gourd as a freak wind hit him and Gaara.

Temari stood glaring, her recently used fan slung over her shoulder like a bat. "Gaara go inform the Hokage of our arrival. Kankurou and I have to have a little talk," she hissed, tapping her fingers on the fan as she mentioned the talk she would be having. Temari dragged her wounded brother away by his collar towards where they would be staying. Kankurou didn't notice his being choked, he was still gripping his pained hand, shouting how he would get revenge tonight.

Gaara smirked as Kankurou was dragged away like he was a puppet rather than a puppet master. The Hokage, he had yet to meet the sannin woman who took the role little over a year ago. He turned to face the Hokage tower as sand engulfed him, only releasing him outside the Hokage's office door.

Startled guards faced Gaara, throwing kunai and shuriken that the nin easily ducked by moving his head to the side. The Chunin guards glared and growled as they advanced paying no attention to the sand wrapping around their legs.

Gaara sighed in mock boredom. "You're not much fun," he mumbled as he blinked his eyes a few times. The sand tightened, not allowing the Leaf nin movement. With a soft smirk, Gaara threw his hand out from his side, guiding the sand to slither up the Chunins' sides towards their hands to stop any jutsu they tried.

One of the newer Chunin yelped in surprise, startling someone behind a door near by. The door swung open as a very pissed and busty blonde walked out. "I have work to do baka!" She glanced around from Gaara to her own men. "What's the meaning of this?" she growled.
"Hokage-sama! This Sand nin attacked us!" the same Chunin growled trying to regain his confidence.

Tsunade turned her stare to Gaara. "You should know better to appear like a normal human being at this office, especially after last year," she growled pointing a finger at Gaara. "In my office now!"

Gaara complied slowly making his way to the Hokage's office, leaving the other Chunin still entangled in sand. 'Wonder if anyone would notice if those people just went...missing,' he thought wickedly as he leaned on the wall of the office.

Outside he heard Tsunade yelling to the Chunin about how they should have known he was coming and how foolish they were for challenging him. Gaara also heard something that put the blonde in Gaara's good graces.

"You fools! If you pull a stunt like this again I won't stop Gaara! I'll let him kill you!" she screeched before slamming the door to her office shut as she stormed inside.

Once inside she was like a completely different person from the one who had been screaming minutes ago. She smiled as she sat on her desk, looking over at Gaara. "Welcome to Konoha!" she greeted.