Gaara's Strange Week
DAY FOUR: The Festival
Temari woke up and looked around her; she noticed that Shikamaru was gone. Last night, when she had left the nightclub, Shikamaru had come with her into the apartment. They just sat down. "I guess I fell asleep," Temari thought, "He must have carried me into bed,". Temari thought that was very sweet of him, but she felt very embarrassed that she had fell asleep!
Temari also noticed something underneath her door, she walked over and bent down and picked it up.
In Gaara/Kankuro's room, Gaara heard something getting pushed beneath the door. He got up, walked over to it and bent down and picked it up. This is what it read:
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TO ALL NINJAS FROM ALL COUNTRIES IN KONOHA:
TODAY IS THE DAY OF THE ANNUAL KONOHA'S SPORTS FESTIVAL. ALL NINJAS ARE REQUIRED TO APPLY. BE IN FRONT OF THE HOKAGE BUILDING AT 12PM TODAY
THE 5TH HOKAGE (TSUNADE).
Gaara sighed, this was no way that he was going to have fun doing this. Kankuro had heard Gaara walking up to the door and asked what was wrong. Gaara told him all about the festival.
"I'm really excited for this! I want to participate in every sport!" Kankuro excitedly spoke. Gaara rolled his eyes, making sure that Kankuro couldn't see him rolling his eyes though. Kankuro got up and got his outfit out for the day and walked into the bathroom to get dressed. Gaara just got dressed in the room.
Temari wondered what events that she would be doing; perhaps the 100m sprint she thought. She might be good at that. The blonde-haired sand ninja got dressed.
The Sand Siblings casually strolled to The Hokage Building. On their way there, they spotted many familiar faces. Gaara saw Rock Lee and quickly walked on, he didn't want to avoid any awkward conversation with him since Gaara had almost broken Lee's dreams and then saved him from death.
Kankuro and Temari noticed that Gaara was walking faster, so copied him and walked along side him. Soon, they were at the front of the Hokage building.
"Welcome everybody to the Konoha Annual Sports Festival! If you could please all make your way up to here so we can get your name down and tell you what events you will be participating in."
Gaara, Temari and Kankuro walked up to where the announcer was and waited for their turn to tell him their names. There were many other ninja there on that day, so it took them at least 10 minutes before they could give him their names. Gaara was first when they eventually got there.
"First Name?"
"Gaara."
"Special skills?"
"Manipulating sand."
"Okay, Gaara, you will be doing the long jump," the announcer told Gaara. Gaara saw a sign saying 'Long Jump' and proceeded over to it.
"First Name?"
"Temari."
"Special Skills?"
"Wind manipulation."
"Okay, Temari, you will be doing the 100m sprint," the announcer told Temari. Temari was happy that she was going to be doing a sprint, at least it would only take about 12 seconds and it would be over and done with. Temari wondered where to go, then she saw a sign saying '100m Sprint' and she knew she had to go over there and she did that.
"First Name?"
"Kankuro."
"Special Skills?"
"Using puppets."
"Okay, Kankuro, you will be-" the announcer stopped there when she saw what Kankuro looked like. He was wearing a black, full-body cat suit, in the middle of the summer! No way could he participate, he would probably faint and that would give Konohagakure a bad name. "I'm sorry, you will not be able to participate. We hope to see you another time, please make your way to the exit over there," the announcer told Kankuro and pointed over to the exit. Kankuro was so upset that he sprinted away, crying his eyes out.
"NOW CALLING ALL LONG JUMPERS, PLEASE COME UP TO THE STAND," The announcer shouted into his microphone. Gaara and the other ninja doing the long jump came up to the stand and they said their names and what villages they came from. They were then led to the long jump, where they waited in line, ready for their turn.
"First up is Gaara of the Sand," the announcer announced. Gaara took his position; he had never done the long jump before! He did not know what to expect; so he did what came naturally when it was his turn. He ran (screaming all of the way there) and jumped as far as he could go. Luckily, he had managed to get right what you have to do, but the announcer and the crowd were shocked that the unbeatable Gaara of the Sand had screamed!
When Temari saw Gaara, she moved her head away, embarrassed. Embarrassed that he had shown her up! Only God knows where Kankuro could be; probably telling some lame jokes to some high-up people Temari thought.
Once all of the long jump people had had their go, it was time for the sprints. First, it was the 100m sprint, then the 500 then the 1000. It was Temari's turn first. The security guards had told her to leave her fan at reception, since using it would mean she would be disqualified, but she had kept a smaller fan with her. Temari couldn't run and using the fan would be the only way she didn't look entirely stupid.
Temari started running, and got the fan out of her pockets. She turned around and give it a swoosh and she was blasted full-speed past the finishing line, cutting the ribbon on the way there.
"Temari of the Sand won. Oh wait, Temari of the Sand cheated and has therefore been disqualified. The winner of the 100m sprint was Asuma. Congratulations, Asuma for winning this title of fastest 100m sprinter on the ninja world!"
Kankuro, Gaara and Temari lay down in Gaara/Kankuro's room. Kankuro had been crying all that afternoon since he hadn't been allowed to take part in the festival; Gaara was shocked that he had actually screamed while running and Temari was embarrassed not only that Gaara had screamed but that Kankuro had ran out screaming- she had been made to look bad in front of her Shikamaru!
They lay there for hours, just looking at the ceiling, feeling all sorry for themselves. They eventually fell asleep in their day-outfits.
