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Chapter Three

The next day Rei moved in with the sand siblings. Their house was rather large, but that was to be expected considering they were the children of the last Kazekage and Gaara was the current Kazekage. Temari led her to the room she would be staying in. The room was of fair size and contained a bed, couch, desk, and other pieces of furniture. Temari helped settle into the room, she actually proved to be very nice.

"Well, you should probably rest. If you need anything just call and I'll come and get you when dinner is ready. If you get bored you can go downstairs and do something or just walk around. Just be careful so you won't worsen your injuries."

"Alright, thank you for taking me in. I promise I'll be out of here soon."

"It's alright, you can stay here as long as you need to." Temari smiled at her.

She turned to leave, but as she stepped out the door she turned back around to look at Rei.

"Oh, one more thing, don't mind Gaara, he's just been under a lot of stress from work. I think they've been giving him too much paperwork." She left.

Rei stood there not knowing what to do. To be honest she had never felt very comfortable staying with other people. She sighed and examined the room. She sat on her bed and thought about what she should do first. She knew she had to get out of there soon. The only reason she was still alive was probably because she was currently residing in the Kazekage's home. However she knew that if she wanted to stay alive she would have to leave soon. She checked to see how many weapons she had. She had a few kunai and shuriken and a few yards of wire. She also had some explosive tags, five smoke bombs, and her small katana. She sighed, it wasn't enough, at least not to defeat the ones after her. Hell, it wasn't even enough to distract them.

She hated her current situation. She was trapped. If she left the house she would probably die and if she stayed she would probably die although it would take longer. Her next move was clear by now. She had to get more weapons and then she had to make a plan to escape. Then it occurred to her that she would need time to make a plan and if the sand siblings decided that she was healthy enough to leave she would be thrown out into the street and she would have to find some way to make it to the next village and lose her pursuers. She sighed, things were getting complicated. For the second time in two days she felt a terrible headache approaching and she knew that it was the least of her worries.

Rei stayed in her room for most of the day thinking about how she would get out of this alive. Temari went to get her when it was dinnertime. They went to the dining room where Gaara and Kankuro were waiting. Rei sat next to Temari.

"I'll get the food." Temari said before leaving.

Kankuro turned to Rei and whispered.

"Just pretend to eat and if you can swallow some do it. When you feel like you're about to hurl, just say you're full. We'll get some real food when she goes to bed."

Rei sat there with confusion written all over her face. However, that expression was quickly replaced with fear when Temari walked in with the food. Rei had never seen anything like what was on the plates. She wondered what it was and if it was actually edible. She looked back at Kankuro and saw that he was rather green. Gaara did not looked pleased either.

"Since we have company today I decided to make my special soup." Temari said cheerfully.

The other two looked like they wanted to die just to avoid eating Temari's food. Apparently the special soup was especially disgusting. They ate, or pretended to, in silence. Rei took Kankuro's advice and faked being full after a few bites. Temari looked at her surprised.

"Wow, you eat as little as those two." She said, gesturing to her brothers.

"Sometimes I wonder how they can survive with so little food." She said and resumed eating.

After a while they were all 'done eating' and Kankuro did the dishes. It was his turn. Rei offered to help, but Temari said that she was a guest and refused to let her assist him although part of the reason she wouldn't let Rei help was because she wanted Kankuro to suffer.

Rei returned to her room with an empty stomach as she had not been able to swallow more than a few bites of Temari's cooking. She stayed in her room for a while reading one of the books Temari had given her to pass the time. She figured that even if she tried to she wouldn't be able to do too much planning with an empty stomach. After a while there was a soft knock on the door. She opened it to find Kankuro standing there.

"Hey, I know Temari's cooking isn't the best so why don't you come over to the kitchen and I can fix something up. I'm not a very good cook, but I guarantee that the food will be edible."

Rei smiled, maybe staying with these people wouldn't be so bad.

"Well, maybe I can fix you something to eat. After all you've done it's the least I can do."

"Well, I don't know…."

"Don't worry, it's alright."

They walked to the kitchen and Gaara was there too. Apparently even the Kazekage wouldn't dare eat Temari's food. Rei considered using it as a weapon, maybe she could make some type of poison….She snapped out of her murderous thoughts and looked around to see what was available. Soon she had found what she needed and after a while she had prepared a decent meal for three starving shinobi. Kankuro tried it and quickly shoved it into his mouth when he found out that it was indeed edible. Gaara looked at his brother and shook his head at his poor eating habits. He tried the food and found it rather enjoyable. In fact it was delicious compared to Temari's cooking. The food disappeared quickly.

"Wow, that was good!" Kankuro said happily.

Rei smiled.

"We haven't eaten a decent homemade meal in years!"

"Well, it was nothing. If you want I can take over the cooking while I'm here. It's the least I can do."

Gaara and Kankuro looked at each other. Rei could have sworn she saw tears of joy threatening to fall from Kankuro's eyes.

"You really wouldn't mind?"

Rei shook her head.

"Okay then! If you need anything just tell us."

They went to bed and Rei actually slept peacefully for the first time in a long time. She just hope that things could stay that calm at least for a little while longer.

End Chapter Three

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