Temari was pretty sure her little brother was stupid. "Eat the food," she said, shoving the spoon at his mouth.

"Wanna see," he whined, getting it smeared all over his face. Their tiniest brother, the one their dad called "Gaara," was tearing up the playroom again. Those were Temari's paper fans in there. All Kankurou had was some stupid toy dolls. Temari was being a good big sister. She was feeding her little brother and being self-sacr . . . sarci . . . she was a good big sister. So he needed to eat his food now so she could go in and rescue the remains later.

"Don't be a baby," she said, holding him down and forcing the mashed food into his face, ignoring his choked sounds and whining cries.

"And that," Kankurou told Shikamaru seriously, "Is why you can never have children."