Chapter three XDDD :3 Thank you so much to everyone reading this!

Yeah XDD I slipped a "True Naruto Style" joke in there XDD If you've seen those AMAZINGLY funny fandubs, you'll catch it right away XDD aw man... I love those things. the guys who made them are so funny XDD

I have noing against the band mentionned XDD I have the song alluded to on my own Mp3 player XDD

Anyways!

Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto

True Naruto Style: belongs to it's creators. Whoever those geniuses are XDD

The band mentionned: themselves n.n;;

Monopoly: Parker brothers

Sabure: Rin

"Wooooooah." Hotaru said, surveying the room as she stepped inside, behind the other three. "Sweet house, I keep forgetting about that... Living with the Kazekage has perks, ne?!" Kankurou glanced over his shoulder, but decided to ignore the irksome little red head.

They had gone in through the back door of the Kazekage's residence, which found them in the kitchen. Temari was sitting at the table, tending to some sort of potted cactus, sporting little pink flowers. She and Kankurou exchanged looks for a moment, as he had filled her in on the plan before going to get Gaara.

"Hey," She said, attempting unobtrusiveness. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Movie, jan. Or something." He was trying to avoid sounding as though his words were pre-planned.

"Oh, wait. There are those board games in the closet upstairs." Temari added, as they left the kitchen.

"Right." Kankurou nodded. "I'd forgotten about those." Gaara made a face. Those board games had been abandoned in the back of the closet for a reason. He hated them. But... He supposed, he could tolerate one game. For his friends, and brother's sakes.

Kankurou led the way to a staircase, which he climbed, Sabure following cautiously, while Houtaru bounded behind, two steps at a time.

When Gaara reached the second floor, Kankurou was already tossing the closet at the end of the hallway's contents everywhere, apparently searching for the games. There was a thought at the very back of Gaara's mind, praying that he wouldn't be able to find any, but his dreams were cut short, as his brother let out a triumphant cry, and pulled a dusty, squashed box out from the junk.

Gaara sighed, as Hotaru peeked over the puppeteer's shoulder as he let out a deep breath, dislodging the dust the neglected game had acquired. The young Godaime Kazekage peered over momentarily, just to catch the large black letters printed across the box's lid. Monopoly. Gaara's heart sank. Of all the games for him to find, why had it had to be that one?

His body unconsciously followed them back down the stairs to the living room, as his mind dwelled on his bad luck. He couldn't stand monopoly. First of all, he couldn't stand the fights his siblings got into every singly time that game was pulled out. That's my space, or, I want to be the top hat! It became beyond irritating quickly. He let out another heavy sigh, reminding himself that he was Kazekage, and a little thing like Monopoly should be easy to endure.

"Oh! Oh!" The freckled chunin said excitedly, as Kankurou lay out the game pieces, and board. "I want to be the doggy!" Gaara groaned. It was starting already.

"A...Ano... I'd like to be the thimble..." Hotaru tossed the metal token to her teammate, who caught it in a flash. "Arigatou..." As a Taijutsu expert, Sabure's reflexes were fantastic.

"I call the shoe, jan."

Gaara's eyes flickered over the remaining pieces, one catching his attention. He picked up the cannon, and placed it on the GO square, with the dog, shoe, and thimble.

Gaara decided it would be the best to be the banker himself, as that way, he could deal with his fake money directly, instead of having to go through someone else.

The general agreement was that turn order would be decided by dice roll. Hotaru rolled a 3, Sabure a 5, and Kankurou a 1, before the die was passed to Gaara, who gave it a careless toss. The plastic cube spun on it's side momentarily, before plunking on it's side, six black dots facing up. "Looks like you're first," His brother said, handing the die back to him, along with another.

Gaara cringed, as the two clattered to the board, revealing identical dots. "Snake eyes" Not only was he first, he'd have to go again. Kami Sama just wasn't on his side today. His rolls led him to "Baltic" and "Connecticut" both of which he bought.

"Hey, at this rate, you're going to go broke in no time, Gaara." Hotaru said, grinning widely. Something to the effect of 'That's the general idea,' threatened to pop out of his mouth, but the Kazekage managed to keep it to himself.

Sabure, who was second, rolled an eleven, and timidly pulled at Hotaru's sleeve. "Hotaru Neesan? Should I buy this one?" Hotaru blinked at her.

"If you want to."

"Ano...I will."

The game proceeded like that for, what to Gaara, was a atrociously long forty five minutes, interrupted at irregular intervals by his brother and the red haired Chunin arguing over something.

Gaara had proceeded to buy every space he landed on, in an attempt to lose early, but unfortunately for him, that had backfired. Now, he found himself owning all four railroads, both utilities, Boardwalk, and a large sum of fake money.

Hotaru got to her feet for no apparent reason, and made her way over to the CD player in the corner. "Hey! Let's put some music on!" She knelt down next to the stack of Cd's reading: "Temari's CD's. TOUCH THESE, AND DIE." She made a face, and moved to the much friendlier pile next to it, simply labelled "Kankurou's." She searched through them, naming them under her breath. "These guys...blah blah blah... them... oh, hey, I like that one...ew...I love their drummer, though...What the!?"

She twisted around, to face the others, a brightly coloured CD in her hand, trying stifle what was undoubtedly laughter. "Kanky? Why do you have a venga boys CD?"

"That's not mine!" He blurted, much too quickly, eyes wide. "It's Temari's. She put it back in the wrong pile. Again." His voice cracked, and he had paled visibly.

Gaara knew that was an outright lie. He had seen his brother dancing around the living room to certain unbearably happy songs from that particular disc, when he thought no one was looking. It was one of the few things Gaara found truly funny.

"Hey, wait a sec... did you just call me Kanky?!" His brother asked, oviously peeved, having recovered from the initial shock of Hotaru's "accusation."

Sabure was kind enough to break the awkward silence following. "Ano... Hotaru neesan, I think you own this space... I don't have the money to pay you. I'm out..." She hung her head nervously. Gaara looked at her silently for a moment, before holding his hand out, as well as the orange coloured slip of paper in it.

"Yes you do. Sabure, this is yours."

"It...it is?"

"Yes, it is." He said, blankly. "You must have forgotten about it."

"Oh..." She said quietly, taking the fake bill from him. "Thank you very much."

He simply nodded his head in acknowledgement.

Hotaru retook her place, and Kankurou turned back to the game, still visibly ticked off. "HEY!" He exclaimed loudly, examining the relatively small amount of false cash he had stuck in an organized pile. "Where the heck did my five hundred go, jan?!"

No one noticed the guilty little smile pulling at the Kazekage's lips.

I'm sure you can guess why Gaara's smiling XDD and by extension, where Kanky's 500 went XD anyways! thank you for reading. Please review, and have a very nice day :3 and happy easter, everyone:D