"Why did this guy attack us? And what's a Jinchūriki?" I asked sitting down

"That's me, seems everyone is after me now"

"So he was after you? Why?"

"Because I have the nine tails in me"

"The what?"

Naruto told me the story of how when he was born a demon was but inside of him and that Gaara had one to but it's gone now. I didn't really understand it all but the way he was saying it is that it looked like an all-out war was going to start.

"This is all strange to me... where I'm from everything is so peaceful and the only I get to do something is if a bandit tries to rob me but then just mentioning my name makes them run... I never get to use my skills"

"You should come back with me then, something is always happening in Konoha"

"That's a good offer but I wound up in Suna for a reason, so I'm going to stick with them until the end... so what are we meant to do with this guy? He's being really quiet"

We looked towards where the guy was meant to be but he wasn't there, the pillars were still there but he was gone.

"What the..."

"I guess it was a clone" Naruto sighed sitting down

"Shouldn't we find him?"

"No point, he'll find me"

"Oh... so if you and Gaara are friends now how come he doesn't really act like it? I mean he didn't seem too happy to see you..."

"That's just Gaara, he doesn't like anyone"

"What about Kankuro?"

"He's just as bad, first time I met him he tripped me over"

"Really? first time I met Kankuro he was chasing after me, not to hurt me but because I ran out of the hospital room and when I met Gaara he took me back to his place and is letting me stay there until I go home. They have both been fairly kind to me... sometimes Gaara can be a bit cruel but it seems like he's holding back maybe... like that he could be meaner but he's trying not to"

"Gaara hold back?" Naruto asked staring at me in shock

"He just annoys me so much though, his attitude, it's like he thinks he's better than other people or something"

"That sounds more like him"

"Hey Naruto... what do you say we get him back? Get all of them back? Including that Neji guy, he didn't seem too nice to you"

"What did you have in mind?"

Once everyone returns and were fast asleep I got up and went over to Naruto, who had also fallen asleep. I shook his shoulders gently until he woke up then we set to work, I knew Kankuro always kept some of his face war paint stuff on him so we went into his bag and got hold of that.

"You do Gaara and I'll take Neji" I whispered

"Right" he whispered back

He took the paint stuff and started to do pictures on Gaara's gourd while I went up to Neji; luckily he was lying on his side so I could get his hair. After doing his hair in a plate and once Naruto was finished with the gourd we both crouched on either side of Kankuro with paint on our fingers. We decided the best way to do this was to both just really quickly do something then run back to our sleeping spot, my side was covered in dots while Naruto's side was stripes. With that done we put his paint away then headed back to sleep both knowing there would be hell to pay in the morning, l but it was all worth it.

The next morning I was woken up with shouting, I sat up with a yawn rubbing my eyes and saw a lot of angry people and a frightened Naruto.

"What's going on?" I yawned

I wished I hadn't said anything because now I had them glaring at me instead and their glares were enough to kill people. Even though they were glaring at me like that I couldn't help but start laughing.

"This is going to take forever to get off" Kankuro mumbled

"Come here" I said through giggles

I got out a cloth from my bag and my water bottle; I had to stand on my tip toes to reach the top off his head as I started to clean away the paint.

"Wow this stuff doesn't come off easy does it?"

"I'm going to kill you for this Naruto" he shouted

"Calm down, if you could have seen you're faces" I giggled "besides it was my idea"

"You're idea?" he asked looking down at me

"Ye-yeah... anyway just stay still for a second would you"

It took me a while but eventually I managed to clean it off for him, he muttered a small thankyou before walking away from me.

"Ok who's next?"

I looked over and saw Gaara holding his gourd like a dog protecting their food and decided I wasn't quiet brave enough to face that yet so instead I went to Neji who seemed to have gotten his hair in one big mess.

"How did you manage this?"

He just glared at me in response and I let out a sigh, for a guy who has such long hair I thought he would be able to undo a simple plait.

"Let me help"

I went back over to my bag and grabbed out a brush I bought with me then skipped back over to Neji. After brushing the nots he had somehow created I gave him his hair tie and left him to it, now the last one was Gaara who was still sitting on the floor holding his gourd, only now it was more like a child with their teddy then a crazed dog. I wet my cloth again and walked towards Gaara cautiously.

"Need some help?" I offered crouching down

He shot me a glare making me chuckle nervously.

"Don't be like that" I told him "it will come off, do you honestly think I would do something that couldn't be fixed"

I leant forward and started to get rid of the paint, once I was done I sat back wiping my brow with the back of my hand, that was a lot harder than I thought it would be but all fixed now. I stood up dusting myself down but noticed a dead eerie silence, I looked behind me and saw Naruto cornered by the other two but they stopped whatever it was they were planning on doing and all three were staring at me.

"What?" I asked "do I have something on my face?"

"Let's finish the mission" Gaara said behind me

After hitting Naruto Kankuro and Neji agreed grabbing there things and started walking away, I crouched down and poked Naruto's twitching body.

"Hurry up!" Gaara called out

I waited until Naruto was able to stand before we both went after the others staying a little bit behind them.

"How's you're head?"

"Its fine" he smiled at me

"That's good" I giggled

"How come they didn't hit you?"

"Because I'm a girl of course"

"It's more than that; I mean Gaara let you touch the gourd"

"Yeah so what?"

"No one gets to touch it"

"Yeah I figured something like that they way he was hugging it"

"And you're wearing the kazekage robe" he said calmly with his hands behind his head

"I'm what?" I asked stopping in place

"Huh?" he said turning his head towards me

"This is his... but that means... and I said..."

My eyes widened as I looked at Gaara's fading figure, my whole body felt hot as embarrassment washed over me.

"You alright? Your face is all red" Naruto said lowering his arms

"I-I'm fine"

"Well come on then"

"Right"

"Why didn't he say anything? Why would Kankuro be giving me Gaara's Kazekage robe!"

It didn't take that long until we reached the thief's, they were all just sitting around but it looked like there were a few of them and that they had been here a while with the tents.

"What's the plan?" Kankuro asked in a whisper

"I say we just get the jump on them" Naruto said

"Idiot, remember what happened last time you did that? It's the reason we lost the case" Neji hissed

"If we get them from all sides..." Gaara started to say

"Or send me" I offered

The others turned around and looked at me; this was the perfect time to try out something new I have been working on.

"They won't see me as a threat and I defiantly don't look like a ninja, ill distract them and you guys can do you're ninja thing and take back the case"

"How are you going to do that without them attacking you?" Naruto asked

"Easy, I've been working on something new that should work with people like this. I'll keep them busy while you guys find the case and grab it, only one should go in for the case while another is look out and the other 2 should hang around in case any try to escape or something"

While they started talking about who should do what I took of Gaara's robe, scarf and the shirt of Temari's then undid my hair from its bun.

"You're not going out just wearing that are you?" he said behind me

"Of course" I smiled folding the robe up "here, you can have this back"

He took it from me then I waved to the others and headed out, I walked around to where a small path was then I headed into their camp stopping right in the middle.

"Hey" I winked with a small wave "how you guys doing today?"

"What are you doing her girl" one of the men said

"I heard there were some strong brave men out here, I just had to see if it were true"

"And what if we don't let you leave?"

"Who said I was planning on leaving? I thought strong men like yourself would need someone to... help them relax every now and then"

That got their attention, a few of them started to walk towards me with lust in their eyes making me want to kick dirt in their face but I didn't. One put their hand on my shoulder but I gently picked it up then turned to face them.

"Now don't get ahead of yourself there"

I turned around and walked over to a nearby crate, I stood up then called everyone around, once I had their attention I started.

"Who here wants to see some magic?"

"Magic?" a few of them scoffed

"Don't you want to see my magic?" I asked pouting

A few of the more... enthusiastic guys hit the other ones then urged me to continue so with a smile I did.

"Does anyone have some fire?"

"I've got a lighter" one guy said walking up to me

"Perfect"

"What is a lighter?" I wandered as I crouched down

"Now I need you to put the flame on my hand"

"You're hand? Really?" he asked looking a little unsure

"Don't worry, the flame won't burn me" I said with a wink

He pulled out the 'lighter' then after he did something to it a small flame appeared on top of it, it was pretty cool and if I had more time I would have run off with it to figure out how it worked. He put the flame over my hand and I created my own small flame cancelling his out, once that was done and the guy was freaking out I stood up for the others to see. They were all watching me and it was fun to have a crowd, whenever I did this in the fire nation my master would get angry at me and make me squat in the sun for hours just breathing.

I started to juggle the fire from hand to hand throwing the small flame this way and that catching it each time with a big smile, after a while the crowd got bigger until it looked like everyone was here watching me. Once that trick started to get old I clapped my hands together extinguishing the flame.

"How did you do that?" one of them asked

"Magic" I winked at him "now next, who wants to throw a bucket of water on me?"

There were a few whistles and almost all the guys nodded in agreement, if there's one thing I could count on it was man's weakness for a half-naked girl. After a couple of the men had grabbed a bucket of water they walked up towards me but I stopped them before they started throwing it at me.

"For this trick it's up to these fine men beside me to try and drench me in water, if they can I'll take of my shirt, if they can't then I'll have to take one of your shirts and put it on"

"That's easy" one of the men shouted with a scoff

"Then go ahead"

Every time they went to throw the water on me I let it soak me but as it fell to the ground I used my bending to dry myself, this went on for a while until I'm guessing whoever snuck in to get the scroll was caught.

"Shows over boys" I smirked jumping down

"Stop her! She's with them!"

They came at me but with all the water around I froze their legs in place making them fall over, once the water was nothing but mud I started a new tactic. I covered them with the mud then using my gust of wind dried it, it didn't do much but it made them stop and trying to pull it off them, dry mud was more annoying than mud itself. By this point everyone else had jumped into the fight but by the end of it we won, it turned out they were just a group of men from a village someone called Tsunade owed money to so we let them go.

Once Naruto and Neji had the case back they headed off back to their village, I waved goodbye to them with a smile as Naruto said I was welcome to visit any time. Once they were gone I walked back over to where I left my clothes and put them back on, then we all grabbed our things and headed out.