Gaara's Strange Week
DAY ONE: The Journey
Temari and Kankuro ran into the Kazekage building as fast as they could, knocking over lots of people and leaving papers flying everywhere; it was like a disaster area. They didn't care however since they were determined to get out of there.
It was summer time in Sunagakure and the weather was too hot for Kankuro and Temari. It didn't help that there was a huge drought in the area, leaving people unable to get a decent drink of water without having to stand in what seemed to be mile long queues, according to Temari.
Temari and Kankuro ran up the final stair case and knocked on the door to the Kazekage's room. They waited for few seconds before somebody opened the door for them to come in.
"Yes, what is it now?" The Kazekage asked his siblings, they were always asking him for silly things; Temari always wanted to go to see Shikamaru and Kankuro always wanted lots of wood to make puppets out of. Come-on, how much wood does he need- he always asked for hundreds of trees at a time, surely it can't take that much wood to make one puppet.
"We would like to-" Temari started saying before she had to pant.
"Go to Konoha for the week to cool down since the weather here is unreal," Kankuro continued where Temari left off.
"And why would I want to go to Konoha? It's not that hot here," Gaara answered back.
"Sure, it's alright for you being Kazekage and all; you get air conditioning and your own personal supply of water so you never run out! The rest of us are in drought conditions!" Temari exclaimed.
"If we go, you can say that we need to go and discuss some Akatsuki thing with the Hokage. But pretend that you can't find her and then tell her something really obvious and that should give us at least one week," Kankuro suggested.
"Hmm... it has been getting a little boring here; if we go to Konoha, we might have some fun... Okay, we can go. We'll set off today at about, 8pm?" Gaara stopped for a moment and waited for Kankuro and Temari to nod their heads. When they did, he continued- "8pm at the main gates, if you forget, you will be left behind," Gaara told them. Temari and Kankuro were relieved that they would be able to get some running water and some shade for once in a while! Temari and Kankuro left the Kazekage building and headed home to go pack their things.
At the Sand-Sibling's home, clothes were being thrown around; people were arguing at the top of their voices and there were constant bangs of things being clashed together while they were getting packed away, ready for their week-long holiday to Konohagakure.
Earlier that day, Gaara had sent a message to the Hokage, asking if they could visit to have a holiday. Gaara didn't actually expect them to say yes, but he was surprised when he got the messenger bird saying that they could. There was no way out of it now- he had to go. Well, at least he could visit Naruto and see how he was getting on and perhaps return the favour (or two) that he owed to Naruto for many reasons.
Eventually, it was 8pm. The past few hours had been very chaotic. But everybody was now finished packing and waited for Gaara to arrive at the Sunagakure gates. He was a few minutes late, Temari thought he might have had to finish some paperwork or whatever that he does.
"Ready to go?" Kankuro asked. Gaara thought it was a silly question; of course they were ready to go, you could just look at them and see they were ready to go. Before he had any more time to think about this, Kankuro and Temari were already a few meters in front of him, shouting on him to hurry up.
After walking for what seemed forever (which actually was one hour since Temari used her wind power to blast them forward, nobody quite knows how she did it, nor did they want to ask- she'd say that it was pretty obvious and slap them around the head for asking such a silly question.
"Evening, why are you here?" A Guard at the Konoha gates asked the Sand-Siblings.
"The Hokage knows we are here, and it is non of your business," Gaara told him. The guard had heard about Gaara and didn't want to upset him.
"Well, don't make a noise, the academy students have just gotten home and are going to bed since tonight was a late night training for them," The Guard told them.
Temari rolled her eyes and said "Okay, Okay." The Sand-Siblings headed up for the Konohagakure Inn, which was on the other side of town.
While they were walking, they passed many stores that had just started, selling all sorts of things. Temari went inside the clothes store. There weren't a lot of clothes stores in Suna', and perhaps she could get some new clothes to keep her cooler. Hey, she could even perhaps get Kankuro to get some different clothes, perhaps he wouldn't be at constant risk of heat-stroke if he got some light-coloured clothes.
Temari showed Kankuro some clothes that she thought he might like; he actually liked them. However, when he saw the price-tag, he had to put them away- no way could he afford those! Temari rolled her eyes and dragged Kankuro out of the shop- she was getting shown up by him! The siblings decided to hurry up and make their way to the inn since it was getting pretty dark and they were away from home.
It took them five minutes to walk into the inn, it might have been a bit quicker if Kankuro hadn't insisted on bringing all of his puppets; his bag had split open and they all fell out. Gaara had to use his sand to carry them since he was getting bored of waiting for Kankuro to pick them up.
The Inn Keeper give them two rooms; one for Temari and one for Kankuro. Kankuro was going to ask for two single rooms, since Gaara didn't sleep at night and it was pointless getting him a bed, but he decided against that since the inn keeper might think something strange between Kankuro and Gaara...
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING? YOU CAN CLEAN UP ALL OF THIS SAND TOMORROW. YOU ARE MAKING THIS PLACE LOOK LIKE A TIP!" the Inn Keeper shouted at Gaara. Gaara was going to shout something back at him and possibly do more, but Temari stopped him and pushed him into his and Kankuro's room. Gaara was angry so slammed the door shut on Temari's face. Kankuro, who had been pushed on the floor, reached up for a light switch and turned the light on. Gaara sat down on a chair and started sulking as Kankuro started unpacking his clothes and things out of the bag that hadn't spilled open.
When Kankuro had finished unpacking, he reached over for Gaara's bag and opened it. He only managed to see a certain brown bear when Gaara slammed it shut- Kankuro had seen too much of what was in there; he didn't want him to see Mr. Snuggles. Kankuro took that as a warning, and went into bed, still with all of his clothes on (he would get some different clothes on tomorrow since he had brought about ten of the same outfit).
Gaara left his things inside his suit-case for a while, and sat looking out of the window. After about thirty minutes, when Kankuro had started snoring, Gaara decided to get Mr. Snuggles out and hugged him. Gaara lay down on the sofa and looked up at the ceiling.