Chapter Two - Konoha's New Canidates: Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro!

It was a dark summernight in Suna. All the lights were out, besides the dim light that came from a small tealight candle in the room of a certain Sand Ninja...

Gaara looked around at the shadows that played off the walls of his small room. He sat on his bed, legs crossed. In front of him was a pitiful exuse for a letter. 'I knew this would be hard, but not this hard!' He re-read the letter, over and over, trying to convince himself to try harder. "Dammit!"

He lay back on his bed. Again he swore in frustration. "Why's this letter so hard to write?" he whispered, not wanting to wake everyone up. He got up and walked towards the window. With sad eyes he looked at the moon. 'Is she really gone?'

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Gaara slowly walked downstairs to the kitchen where his siblings were already eating breakfast with Yashamaru (BTW- The Kazekage and Yashamru were brought back to life by someone ;P Guess Who!) "Finally you wake up! Oh wait you don't sleep!" Kankuro teased, a peice of bacon hangingout of his mouth.

"Kankuro!" Temari said"Stop picking on Gaara! And will you eat with your mouth closed, you're not an animal!"

"No, but Gaara is! He's like a raccon!" Gaara looked ticked, flames surrounded him as Kankuro laughed. He grabbed Kankuro's pajama top and lifted him out of his seat and into the air, causing Kankuro's plate of food to fall to the ground.

"Hey! Lemme go you brat!"

"Say something like that ever again and I will kill you..." Gaara said, choking Kankuro.

"Gaara, that's enough!" Yashamaru yelled, slamming his hands on the table, causing Temari to jump in shock. Slowly, Gaara lowered Kankuro to the ground. "Holy crap! That's one strong grip..." Kankuro said rubbign his neck.

"Kankuro, clean up this mess." Yashamaru said.

"What? Why me?"

"Because I said so. Now do it." Yahsmaru stated calmly. "And where are you going, Gaara?" Gaara was walking out the door, a letter was in his hand.

"What's that?" Temari asked.

"Maybe it's a love letter!" Kankuro teased.

Gaara just walked out the open door and slammed it shut, knocking down the picture fram on the wall.

"What's his problem?" Kankuro asked.

"Well, I don't know...Maybe it's because of his big stupid brother!" Temari yelled.

As the two contiued fighting, Gaara walked out of Suna, into the desert. He came out here often to think over his life. The only one who knew that was Yashamaru. "Gaara is something wrong?"

Gaara whiped around. 'Damn Yasahmaru! Why does he follow me?'

"I...Do you remember Mao-Chan...?" Yashamaru's face grew confused. "The Kazukage's (Leader of Darkness Village) daughter? The one you made friends with eight years ago?" His blonde hair blew in the wind. "That's right..." There was a hint of sadness in Gaara's voice. "Do you think that she might come back?" Yashamru gave a deep sigh. In response Gaara looked up at his uncle. ''Gaara don't waste your energy. Mao's gone. She'll never come back. As far as I know she might be dead."

Gaara clenched his fists. "No! I won't give up! And I know she's not dead!" In all his rage Gaara didn't notice that he had crushed the letter. "Calm down. I came to tell you you're leaving for Konoha tomarrow." The red head looked up. "What? Why?"

"The round 2 Chunin Exams." Yashamaru said in a sour tone. "Come on..You need to pack." Absent-mindedly Gaara let go of the letter, not knowing that it blew away in the wind.

The next day Temari, Kankuro, and their little brother, Shorty, I mean, Gaara, set out on their journey to Konoha!

FFW To Konoha! Nothing interesting happens in between! I mean it!

"We're here!" Temari said happily. "Finally! i was getting tired of walking."Kankuro said over dramatically.

"I can't wait to see Shika-Chan!"

Temari's brothers looked at her starngly. "Shika-Chan?" They said together.

"Don't you mean Shikamaru?" Gaara asked. "The lazy ass that you are in a 'relationship' with?"

"He's not lazy! At least not as lazy as Kankuro." Temari giggled as they entered the gates to the village.

"Hey! Gaara!" Naruto ran to greet his old 'friend'. "Nice to see you again!" The foxie boy was accompained by Sasuke and Sakura. "Hi, Temari." Sakura warmly greeted her fellow kounchi (spelling error?) "How are you?"

"Great thanks. How are you?" And they went on and on, as their teammates just stared at them in awe.

"Sakura can start a conversation with Temari better than I can, not to mention keep it going. All we ever do is fight." Kankuro said .

Then all the sudden they heard voices. They all turned around. "Oh no! it's them!" Sakura said.

Approaching them were two girls, one with long dark hairand one with short blonde hair.

None of the sand ninja have ever seen them before.

Then all the sudden...Glomp! Both naruto and Sasuke were glomped by the girls.

"WTF?"