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Chapter one

The sun was high on the sky, and the kazekage was busy going through the piles of paper, this was the part of the job that Gaara disliked the most. But he understood that every one of those sheds of paper was important, so he tried to minimize the time spend on signing and categorizing them. He used his sand for that, but that meant that sand would be everywhere and when his assistant would enter to deliver more work, or to get the already signed and approved paperwork, he would have to move and be really quiet so that the kazekage wouldn't give him the look. But today was one bad day for the assistant, he was running behind on some deliveries and forgot to knock and when he opened the door he pushed a stack of paperwork to the ground from the sand flouting in the air. Gaara looked up with a displeasing look on his face, directed towards the now shattered paper one the floor. The assistant trying to apologies and gather the paperwork accidently pushes the door more and hits the flouting ink which falls to the ground landing next to the paperwork. Luckily Gaara was quick, and berried the ink in a small sand ball, the assistant looking at the sand ball, got shivers down his spine and slowly looked up towards the Kazekage siting behind the desk. But before their eyes met, Temari gave a discreet cough from the door, taking the full attention of the Kazekage.

Gaara was in his own way happy to see her, she has been away for some time now, the assistant took this opportunity to quickly get out of the room, and closing the door behind him. Gaara slowly moved all his sand to the ground while Temari moved closer to the desk, her smile growing bigger, "Gaara, I have big news." She said with a smile that she was hardly keeping under control, "When you are done here come home because we have something great to celebrate." With does words she was out the door, and Gaara was left to ponder the reason for her not even greeting him, but he did admit that he was curious as to the news she was so eager to celebrate. Gaara thought back for a moment, and remembered that his sister was dating one guy from the leaf village, and he was also the reason for her vacation, that she just now came home from. He felt a little unsettled but dismissed the thought, the only thing that was relevant right now was getting all this paperwork done for the day. After some time the Kazekage was lost in his work, the assistant came back, but his time there were no incident and the day proceeded till the sun was almost down.

Gaara looked up from his desk and saw the shadow from the window, he got up and quickly gathered his sand in the gourd, which he strapped on his back. He started walking out, and down to the streets, to get home, he would normally walk home just to make sure that the streets were safe, Gaara had started doing this years ago. In his mind he felt that it had made a difference, while walking he remember his assistant almost ruining the work he had done, Gaara made a note, to tell him to be more careful. The last beams of sun where almost gone for today, the Kazekage was enjoying the cold wind and the silent. But it was broken when he hear one small sound from a cat, Gaara looked around but he was not sure where it came from. "Meow" the cat came closer, and Gaara saw it. It walked all the way to his feet and lay down, he looked and saw that it had some kind of metal mask of some sort covering its eyes but he was disgusted by the smell coming from the small creature. Gaara quickly moved away from the cat, without giving it another thought he began walking, the cat followed like it had found something it didn't want to lose, Gaara was aware that the cat was following him, but seeing no solution he just ignored it.

Opening the door to his home he was pleasantly surprised by the smell of Temaris cooking, closing the door and progressing to the kitchen. Temari had just finished and was ordering Kankuro to set the table, Gaara walked in and Temari looked up with a bright smile on her face, "Finally, where have you been! Never mind let's eat" she said. With everything on the table that she had cooked they sat down and Temari no longer holding her words back said "I'm getting married" Kankuro started laughing and said "I knew it! That's why you have been this happy all day" Temari laughed at her brother. Gaara was silent, he didn't know what to say, he just looked at his sisters happy face, "when is the wedding?" asked Kankuro with a grin. "We haven't set the date yet since I wanted to tell you guys the news first" said Temari looking at Gaara from the corner of her eye, "so, Gaara, what do you think?" she said hoping her brother would say something at least. Gaara was not sure what to say, his mind was trying to understand where the time had done, for him time had move slow, it seemed like his siblings where always going to be near him.

But now his sister was engaged, and probably moving away, his world was getting smaller and bigger at the same time. He looked at his sister and said "congratulations" with no emotions at all, Gaara stood up and moved to the door getting his gourd and opening the door, he was hit by the foul smell of the cat, sitting in front of the door, like it was waiting for him. Gaara looked down on the cat, now seeing the metal mask more clearly than before, it also had metal on its belly and back, the cat was covered in dirt, and look really skinny. Gaara thought that he needed some kind of distraction to get his mind clear aging, he let the door stay open and walked back to put his gourd down. Looking back at the cat he was debating if he should give it a bath or give it food first, but remembering that his siblings still where in the kitchen he only had one option. Gaara walked over to the cat, to pick it up, the smell was really bad, he thought, with one hand he was now carrying the small creature upstairs to his room where he had his private bathroom. Gently putting the cat on the floor he was now turning on the water, he looked back at the cat, wondering about the metal, and if it was someone cat.

After adjusting the temperature, Gaara went to get the cat, it seemed more than happy to be around water, the bath was over quickly and now the cat was clean and the smell was gone, he wrapped the cat in a towel to get all the water of its fur. By now the cat was purring, Gaara had been lost in his own thoughts and wasn't giving much attention to the little fuzz ball, he got up from the ground and proceeded to go to bed, after undressing and laying down under the covers, he remembered back to the time Shukaku was still a part of him, when he never slept. Now, so many years later he had still to get a good night's sleep, with that the small creature hoped on his bed and walked over to his face, laying down next to his chin purring. Gaara closed his eyes and fell asleep with the sodding sound from the cat