The fire began to fizzle out and everyone could hear each other's stomachs. Ed had begun to poke at the fire trying to make it hyper again, it sort of worked. Kanda froze when he felt something hit the top of his head. Allen reached for the object that had made it's way to Kanda's scalp. They all starred at it and it starred back.

"Can fish fly now", both red heads asked starring at the water starved fish. The fish were slowly cooking but the sent teased the teams senses. Finally, the fish was done and they all grabbed one, they savored the smoky (if not burnt) taste. However, they had to stop when they looked and saw a black wolf approaching the camp site. Ed tried to scare it off with alchimy but the wolf was unfazed and kept coming closer. Allen tried with his arm while Tim flew around it's head. Everyone else tried but unnaturally the wolf didn't flinch. It lay down at the edge of teh circle fully aware that everyone was watching it

The night passed by quickly and everyone awoke to teh sunlight piercing through the leaves. They all were slowly but when they woke up a bit more they realized the strange wolf was gone leaving the strange anti-social (if not emo) kid in it's place.

"Brother?"

"Yeah Al what's up", Ed said.

"Why do you think he hates us so much?"

Ed turned finished putting on his coat," who knows."

"Yeah leave it to the ant to figure out why I hate him", Kankuro said proping himself onto his elbows.

"WHO THE HELL YOU CALLING AN ANT!?!?"

"Gee, I wonder maybe it's the smallest one here", Kankuro mocked.

"WHO YOU CALLING SO SMALL THAT THEY COULD BE MISTAKEN AS A KINDERGARDENER!?"

The fight mate just rolled his eyes and began to move on. The walk was silent for the most part but Allen's stomach was raising awareness that it was empty.

"We don't have anything to eat do we?"

No one answered so the answer was no. The day was heating up even in the shelter of the canopy. Everyone's brow became shiny with sweat all except Kankuro.

"Shit", he cursed to himself " not now, not in front of them." At the end of his thought he began to pull his shirt over his head. The heat that was trapped scattered away. Several minutes later, Lavi and Gaara appeared behind the dark spirit then began poking at teh exposed flesh. He turned on his heel facing the red headed pests," what the fuck are you doing?!"

"We're poking the scars", his brother said apparently not hearing the anger in his brother's voice. Kankuro blinked trying to analyze what his bug brother had said. He glanced around at all the other's noting the fact of they were all starring. Closing his eyes Kankuro turned away and began to hop along the tree branches far ahead of the others. They all watched for a moment then kept walking.

"Ew", Gaara complained "it left some nasty gooey stuff."

Temari walked quietly repeating the image of the scars in her head.

"Those weren't old", Kanda said as if reading Temari's mind.

"Yeah . . . and", the red headed duo said in unison.

"AND, that means that it happened recently", Temari pointed out.

"And."

"AND, he wasn't around last night", Kanda input.

"And."

"AND WHAT", Temari demanded becoming irritated.

"And we like the word and!"

Temari and Kanda just rolled their eyes then continued walking forward. Several hours had passed, it was dark before the last of the team had returned. He plopped his butt down onto the dusted ground, not showing any acknowledgement to the teams eyes.

"Hey, Kanda."

"Yeah?"

Kankuro waved his hand for Kanda to come over. He did so, crouching down in front of the strange person. The other took his hand and lifted the girly man's gangs above his head, exposing his forehead. An awkward silence thickend the air between the two males. Kanda had an unsettling feeling swarming through him as it seemed the other ( now Kankuro's nickname) was starring into his eyes. Kankuro leaned in having his forehead touch the one across from his. Girly man clinched his eyes tightly shut thinking 'please don't make out with me, please don't make out with me!' Suddenly, Kanda felt a strange slimy feeling gliding smoothly across his skin. He opened his eyes and saw teh other attempting not to smile. Glancing around he noticed everyone smothering a laugh.

"WHAT", he demanded.

"You smell like pine now", Kankuro teased.

"WHAT", he demanded again.

Kankruo pointed to his forehead at the pine shaped air freshener stuck happily in it's spot. Kanda blushed while trying to pry the mini tree from his forehead.