A/N:
Tenten: WE'RE BACK!
Temari: Yipee…
Tenten: TEMARI BE HAPPY! SCREAM AND SHOUT YIPEE!
Temari: Do I have to?
Tenten: I'll do it for you. YIPEE! (I just ate a lot of cheese).
Temari: Yeah, well, anyway… I hope you enjoy this next chapter as much as we enjoyed writing it.
Tenten: GO READERS GO!
(By the way, there's some KankuroxTenten in this chapter.)
Disclaimer: We don't own Naruto, or Sharpies, or Bambi.
Gaara was inside the house cleaning up the tissue mess because no one else was going to do it. Temari and Tenten had left and Kankuro was in his room, picking out a new movie to watch. Gaara dreaded the moment when he finally would make his decision.
Gaara vacuumed up the tissues, but the tissues were so wet that the vacuum stopped working. So then Gaara had to pick them up by hand -- with rubber gloves of course.
Temari and Tenten decided that now was the time to strike. From where they were crouched outside the window, Temari could see that Gaara was distracted by the sogginess of the tissues. She leaned over to Tenten and whispered, "What should we do to him?"
Tenten grinned. "Let's draw eyebrows on him with a Sharpie!"
With an evil smile, Temari nodded. "You're brilliant!"
"I know."
"We should give him big bushy ones."
"Okay!"
Tenten did her Invisibility Jutsu, and Temari "did" her Invisibility Jutsu that she thought was working, and they tiptoed into the house. Gaara didn't see them enter because he was really grossed out.
"Let's go get a Sharpie," Tenten said. "Do you have one in your room?"
"What?" Temari whispered. "You think I keep random Sharpies stashed in my room?"
Tenten didn't know how to reply to that, so she and Temari headed upstairs, which was where Kankuro was. He was walking down the stairs when he saw Temari there. Tenten was so surprised to see Kankuro that she lost concentration on her jutsu.
Kankuro instantly flushed red. "Tenten!" he exclaimed, hiding the sappy romance film behind his back.
"Hi, Kankuro!" Tenten said. "What's wrong?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I can see purple tear-stains on your face."
"OH! Um, I was watching a romance— I mean, stubbed my toe— I mean, um, I was having a duel with Gaara and he kicked me so hard in the stomach that I shed a tear. Maybe two, tops."
"Oh," Tenten said, pretending she didn't see him crying when he was watching the film. "What's that behind your back?"
"UM!" Kankuro threw it behind him, but unluckily for him it bounced off the wall and slid down the stairs to where Tenten stood.
She peered down at the cover. "Todd & Wilma: Love Always Beats Ice Cream."
"It's not a romance flick!" Kankuro lied. "It's a movie about Todd and Wilma, these, uh, ninja who love fighting and think it's better than frozen yogurt."
Temari stifled a laugh at the skeptical look on Tenten's face. While Kankuro sputtered on with his excuses, she slipped behind him into his room. Quickly, she opened the top drawer of his desk and grabbed a green Sharpie. Then Temari joined Tenten again before Kankuro realized she had gone anywhere.
"Kankuro," Tenten said, stopping him in mid-sentence, "I know it's a romance flick. Todd and Wilma are kissing on the cover."
Kankuro was silent.
"But it shows that you're sensitive and sweet," she said, smiling.
Kankuro switched to an even deeper shade of red. "R-Really?" he squeaked. Then he cleared his voice and said in a deeper tone, "I mean, really?"
"Yes," Tenten said. "Well, Temari and I gotta go. See you later, okay?"
"Okay!" Kankuro said, waving.
Temari and Tenten left, and Kankuro stood by himself on the stairs for a few moments, daydreaming and hugging the romance movie to his chest. Gaara approached in a couple of minutes but Kankuro was too busy thinking about Tenten to notice. Gaara blinked, and then muttered, "Well, someone's twitterpated."
"Huh?" Kankuro snapped out of his dream state.
"Twitterpated," Gaara said. "You know, from Bambi?"
"You watched Bambi?!" Kankuro burst into laughter.
"No…" Gaara said angrily. "…I only watched it because you wanted to."
Kankuro immediately fell silent.
"Well," Gaara said after a moment. "You, uh, have fun…"
With that, he turned and walked slowly back down the stairs.
Temari and Tenten hid underneath the kitchen table and watched as Gaara sat down on the couch and began reading a book, titled 1,000 Things To Do When You're Slightly Insane. Tenten quickly reapplied her Invisibility Jutsu, and Temari copied her (unsuccessfully, of course).
Tenten suddenly snapped her fingers. "Hang on. I have the best idea! Where do you keep the peanut butter?"
Temari's eyes grew wide. "In the top shelf of the cupboard."
Tenten quickly crept out from under the table and ran to the cupboard. She was back in a flash, peanut butter in hand.
Tenten grinned. "Ready?"
"Yeah."
"That's it!" Gaara shouted, making Temari and Tenten jump. Then when he didn't look up they realized he was talking to his book. "Underwater basket weaving! I would've never thought of that!"
Then he went back to reading. But after a few seconds he realized there weren't any large bodies of water in Konoha so he ripped out the page and crumpled it up and threw it across the room.
"Wow…" Tenten blinked.
"Don't ask," Temari muttered.
Then, as silently as possible, Tenten and Temari snuck around behind the couch. Gaara was deep in thought, thinking about Activity #457 in the book (smashing empty pop cans against your head), so Tenten took advantage of the moment and buttered his fingers with peanut butter (he was holding the book with one hand).
Temari handed the Sharpie to Tenten, who, being invisible, was unseen by the youngest Sand Sibling. Tenten reached up cautiously and drew the Sharpie across Gaara's forehead in big, sweeping lines. He now had what appeared to be one very bushy green eyebrow.
Gaara twitched suddenly, feeling the tickling of the Sharpie. "Who's there?!" he demanded, standing up on the couch.
He's getting mud on the new couch! Temari thought in anger.
Gaara took a deep breath. "Stop it Gaara, get a hold of yourself," he said to himself. He took another breath and ran the peanut butter covered fingers through his hair.
Temari snorted and put her hand over her mouth, making Gaara jump at the sound.
"Tenten!" Temari hissed. "Quick! Pass me the Sharpie."
Tenten obeyed and Temari lunged suddenly in front of Gaara. His face barely had time to register the shock of seeing her before she rubbed the Sharpie above his other eye. Too bad for Gaara, this eyebrow wasn't even with the other. Now he would have a permanent look of confusion for the next few days.
Unfortunately for Temari, Gaara saw her. "Temari, what on Earth are you doing? Are you trying to make me lose what little sanity I have left?!"
"Wait," Temari said. "You can see me, too?"
"No, I'm seeing an exact clone of my older sister who just drew on my forehead with SHARPIE!" he shouted, slamming the book down on the floor.
"Gaara!" Temari exclaimed. She put her arms in front of her in case he attacked. "Remember what Kankuro said about taking ten deep breaths!"
Gaara roared in anger and started stomping on his book with both feet. Temari rushed out the door with Tenten right behind her.
"I'm getting the feeling I'm never really invisible," Temari said to Tenten, who appeared suddenly. "If you're tricking me, I'm gonna – "
"Naw, you're just being silly," Tenten said. "Let's go prank Shikamaru!"
Upon hearing a final shriek from Gaara, who probably looked in the mirror, Tenten and Temari raced off to find Shikamaru.
"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" Gaara screamed, hurling his Slightly Insane book through the living room window.
(And he had a right to be angry; the next day was picture day!)
A/N:
Tenten: I had a laughing fit and my stomach hurts from it! Ha-ha-ha ow!
Temari: Me, too! I feel as though I just did 50 crunches! What a work out. We should do this more often.
Tenten: That was so much fun! And thank you readers for reading it! We can't do it without you! YOU RULE!
Temari: They're not giving you an award or anything.
Tenten: (Blows kisses everywhere.)
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