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Gaara

By Chocolate coated Blue

AN: You know that tick, twitch of the eye that anime characters get when they are pissed off or annoyed? So what is really going on to make Gaara twitch?

This chapter is dedicated to erindolphin91, as she needed something to look forward to with the grades coming out and reports. So cheer up, here is the next chapter as promised!

Disclaimer: hmmm… do I owe Naruto? Hmmm, nope no legal documents there, it must be the property of …

Summary: Gaara's happy, and it shows…

Recap:

"Yeah, they was all dried up, Akamaru couldn't smell any blood on them at all." Kiba's voice sounded exasperated Temari dimly noted. She hadn't really though that he brother could be the killer but he was missing. Gaara was missing and now more people were dead. Temari slowly slid down the wall, no it couldn't be true could it?

Temari was vaguely aware of the stunned silence inside the waiting room after Kiba's statement; it seemed that he hadn't mentioned this little fact to his teammates. But her mind couldn't focus on this small bit of trivia; it was spinning, too caught up in her revelation. It seemed that her warring sides had switched, the majority now believed that Gaara was this 'bloodless murderer'.

Yet a small quiet part of her buried deep still believed in her brother. He may have been able to control all the sand in the desert should he have wished to, but he wouldn't. The village was too precious to him to drain his chakra like that, and even he in all his demonic glory couldn't have been two places as once. The travel alone to the Iwa border took too much time for him to take from his duties. A frustrated grunt escaped her; it was just those unexplained absences of his of late which squashed all her rational thought in this vain.

The fan mistress sighed, there wasn't any point dwelling on the identity of the killer yet, her little brother was still missing and now she had to deal with her brothers polar opposite. Picking herself off the floor, Temari straightened her clothes and breathed deeply. Standing tall, she placed her hand on the door and walked inside.

"Temari, there you are" Kankuro sighed with relief. "I'll just leave you then, I really must be going…"

Temari shot him the patented glare, if she had to suffer through this then so the hell did he. There was no way that he was going to leave her to tell about their brother's disappearance by herself.

Dammit Kankuro thought I was almost out of the door. The puppet master sagged; he really didn't want the pleasure of telling the Konoha delegation that Gaara had disappeared, seemingly into thin air, and that he might, probably, be the murderer.

"There's been another death" Sakura's voice again cut across the room, slicing through the tension that seemed to grow exponentially between the siblings.

Temari glanced at the pink-haired Kunoichi, breaking eye contact with her brother, "Yeah I know, I heard you half way down the corridor" She smirked, maybe goading Kankuro wasn't the best way to relieve stress but it was one of the few fun way left to her now; besides it wouldn't do for her brother to know that she'd actually cared to check her appearance before being seen by Shikamaru.

"Hey! We weren't that loud."

"Close the door next time baka"

"I…"

"Temari-san" Sakura spoke, it bad enough that she'd had to listen to her teammates bickering on the way here; she really didn't want to listen to even more pointless arguing.

"Hai?"

"Where's Gaara-sama?" She turned to include Kankuro. Silence met her question, only to be broken by her ever perverted sensei:

"What an excellent question Sakura, shouldn't we be discussing this issue with the Kazekage?" Kakashi's visible eye closed as he smiled towards the Suna siblings.

Kankuro gulped, shifting from one foot to another he looked over to Temari, please let them have found him by now.

"Well, you see…" Temari looked distinctly uncomfortable "Gaara is unavailable at this moment, so…"

"Unavailable? Don't you think that this new death is important? He is the leader of your village is he not?" Kakashi was glad that he always wore his mask; it wouldn't do for them to see his smirk as he tortured the brats for a few more minutes.

Kankuro didn't know if the jounin was being deliberately difficult or if he was genuinely curious. Either way, he was glad that it was Temari who had been asked that question. Sometimes it really paid off being the not so talented younger brother.

"Well you see, he's…" Temari sighed and her shoulders slumped "he's gone missing"

"Missing!" Sakura's shout overrode Kakashi's quiet exclamation and raised eyebrow. "How can Gaara be missing? He's the Kazekage, don't you have people who protect him, keep an eye on him? You know, make sure that there aren't any assassination attempts? How the hell can the most important man in the village go missing!" Sakura had taken a step forward as she vented her anger. Breathing heavily, she crossed her arms over her chest and glared at the Sand siblings.

Kakashi glanced over at his ex-pupil, he had noticed the excessive concern and dropped honorific even if the others had not. My, he thought, what an interesting trip this was turning out to be.

"Well" This time it was Kankuro who answered "He disappeared on route to his office this morning, and he can take care of himself. He is the Tnauki jinchuuriki" As he said this he pointed towards the closed door on the opposite side of the room.

Just about as Sakura looked as if she would continue with her tirade, Sai, through his smiling mask, finally spoke:

"So, are you telling us that you lost Gaara-loveless, your precious Kazekage?"

Sorry! Couldn't help it, it was the perfect line to end on, really :)

Rough translations for those who need it:

Baka – idiot

Kunoichi – female ninja

Hai – yes

Review please? Even if it's just to bug me for the next chapter, I work best with shoving than nudging. :)