Chapter four: The perfect painting.

Temari:

Well what now? I'm trapped inside someone, please ignore the innuendo there. I wonder if I could get out somehow, no, she said I couldn't and where would I even start looking for an exit, everything is pitch black, so dark that I couldn't even see an inch in front of me. It's cold as well as dark; who would have thought that such a pale person had such dark insides? Argh this is so annoying. I punched the ground under me with all my might. It didn't seem to have any effect.

"Let me out of here!" I screamed at the top of my lungs in rage; no reply came so I repeated myself, somehow louder this time which caused my throat to ache.

"Why ever would I do that? I'm not letting you out into that storm." She scoffed, her voice was coming from all side, above and below so that didn't help my figure out the direction of the exit.

"At least let me have some light in here." I grumbled and with that the whole place lit up. I don't know why but I had expected it to be endless, it wasn't. I could just make out the four sides of the space, making up a square surrounding me. I was stood right in the middle of a massive empty hall. "Thank you." I said; my voice full of malice. The place was sort of daunting but I'd never let her know that.

After a while the silence was broken by the sound of a soft melody, I couldn't work out if it was Fuu humming of just my imagination. Shortly after the melody started it stopped and I was left in silence once again. About three minutes later Fuu appeared a good couple of metres in front of me.

"We're at Suna's gates." She stated. "I thought you would like to know, I'll let you out here and we'll go see your Kazekage."

"It's about time! You really should keep people prisoners, just wait until Gaara hears about this." I threatened, even though I knew he probably wouldn't do anything, he'd be pleased I wasn't dead and thank the little bitch for her help knowing him. Sometimes I really think he's too soft. Suddenly I started to see sand and only moments later I was standing on my own two feet just outside of Suna; well at least I thought it was my own two feet until I realized she was holding me up.

"I don't need your help." I muttered but I was secretly quite pleased she was helping; my legs seemed too weak to hold my body.

After a moment she said: "You should be strong enough to walk now. I told Gaara we'd be back in fifteen minutes." With that we walked straight through the gates –they let us through easily since I'm pretty well known and Gaara had probably told the gate keepers abut Fuu being with me- and started to head for the office.

Gaara:

Where were they? Its ten twenty-four, that girl said she'd have Temari back by ten thirty.

"Calm down, Gaara-sama, they still have six minutes to get here before they're late." Kankuro tried to reassure me. What if that girl just found a way that we'd let her go. What if she left Temari or was too late to get her? This sand storm was one of the worst we've seen, it was so fast to form and was out of site a few minutes after the girl left.I thought.

"We just have to hope they made it." I whispered, whilst looking out to the horizon. I started to pace up and down by the window we had last seen Fuu at until I realized it was making Kankuro uncomfortable. Just moments later someone came in saying someone had managed to get past the sandstorm and had come through the gates. This made a small smile appear around my mouth, well I don't smile but it made my frown go away. I dismissed the man and finally sat down calmly to wait.

And in she barged, shortly followed by Temari who had a very unpleased look on her face. Kankuro hugged Temari before she started a giant rant.

"Gaara! How could you send some little girl after me! I have my pride and then she took me as hostage and locked me up inside her, how dare you let her do something like that! I could kill someone right about now!" I just smiled at her, happy she was alive.

"Thank you Fuu and sorry for Temari's ungratefulness, you really saved her there."

"From what? I didn't see any sandstorm, I think she was lying. Some joke just so she could torture me or a way she could make you trust her."

I interrupted before Temari could go any further. "We saw the sandstorm. It was one of the worst we've seen. Fuu here saved you so be grateful and thank her." I snarled; of course Temari didn't. My eyes went back over to Fuu; she was just standing, staring at the ceiling. She looked around the room quickly then at me and smiled.

"This room is a little dull." She stated. "You should put something on the walls, like a painting."

"Paintings are too gently for my dear little brother; you see he's a cold, harsh man." Kankuro said seriously, though he didn't really mean it.

"Cold, Naruto-kun described me the same way. But he could always get a dark painting could he not? Well I feel like looking around this village, if I find anything I'll bring it back for you." She grinned and with that she spun out the room and ran down the hall.

"Strange little girl." Temari muttered, still pouting and looking extremely unimpressed.

"Don't say anything against her, our little brother seems to have taken a liking to her." Kankuro whispered to Temari just loud enough for me to here, I let it slip, still staring at where she had just been standing. "Looks like I'm the only one not spent on someone," Kankuro continued, snickering.

"And just who do you think I'm 'spent' on." Temari growled, starting to lose her temper.

"Oh that lazy-ass Nara boy you spend so much time with, of course, you can't hide it; it's painfully obvious." Kankuro was taking this too far; if he carried on anymore she might just kill him, or at least knock him out.

"Enough." I bellowed, making them both jump ten feet in the air, even if things have gotton better they're still jumping around me and almost shit themselves if I get angry. I then returned to my paper work; her face still in my mind.

Fuu:

Well I had spent time looking around Konoha and I had time to spare, so I thought I'd try out some site-seeing and shopping. Suna wasn't as pretty as Konoha, but I'm not so keen on pretty things, Suna was much more interesting. It was covered in fine sand, with massive sand stone buildings towering above you; the streets instead of being lined with trees had all different kinds of cacti covered in orange, red and yellow flowers. Everyone had tanned skin and I realized that I must have stuck out like a sore thumb being as white as a sheet. The only thing I disliked about Suna where the lack of clouds. I was staring at one of the few clouds in the sky when I heard a girl talking to herself, sounded frustrated.

"Oh, Gaara-Sensei said he had no doubt I'd get this Jutsu in no time but it's been a week and I've made no process." I stopped at the mention of Gaara and skipped over to the girl, she was properly the same age as me.

"So your Gaara's student, are you?"

"Why do you want to know? You're not from around here. What do you want with the Kazekage?" She was trying to seem strong, but I could tell she was nervous.

"I was just wondering. I was just with him and told him I'd get him a painting for his office, but I don't know where to look, I was hoping his student might be able to help, but you seem busy." I said turning as if to walk away, though really I knew she'd say something.

"You know Gaara-sensei?" She said, letting her cover slip.

"Well I only met him this morning, after jumping onto his window sill, but I really should leave you to your training and I have a painting to search for." I took a small, slow step forward.

"I can help you look. I was thinking about taking a break anyway. Oh I'm Matsuri by the way."

"Matsuri, nice name, people have been calling me Fuu." I saw a flicker of recognition on her face at my name; Gaara had obviously told her of Temari's strange meeting with a girl called Fuu.

-One Hour Later-

Matsuri and I were now sitting in a small café; we had found a painting that Matsuri had said was perfect. I was starting to like this girl, she was a little wet but she was determined to become strong and she was quite sweet, plus a laugh. After we had drinks, me sake and her coffee, which I soon learned was a bad idea, since the usually quite girl was now completely hyper-active from the caffeine boost she had gotten, not to mention I was slightly, completely drunk, I only had one bottle... We headed back to the Kazekages building, arm in arm.

Gaara:

An hour after Fuu disappeared, she returned, linked arm in arm with Matsuri, I'm not sure how they met. Under her arm she had an A3 sized parcel.

"Gaara sweet-heart we're home," they giggled. "I brought your dear Matsuri with me." Fuu had a slight slur to her words.

Great they're drunk. "You do realize you are too young to drink alcohol, don't you?"

"Oh don't be so boring, anyway Matsuri only had coffee and you owe me since I saved your sisters life, so you can't do jack shit about it." Fuu and Matsuri then both burst out laughing; I made a mental note to never give Matsuri coffee. "Aw don't look so serious, we brought you back a gift and all, brighten up." Fuu said jumping over to me and pulling my mouth up into a smile. "Actually on second thoughts not smiling is good, your smile's kind of freaky." Matsuri was meanwhile hanging the new painting on the wall opposite my desk. I must say they had pretty good taste, it was a painting of all of Suna by the moonlight, it was good and not to bright for the dark office.

"I said It was perfect didn't I Fuu?" Matsuri proudly smiled.

"It's very nice, but I have paper work to do, please could you leave me alone?" I said coldly and looked down at my papers, signing the one at the top of the pile.

"Fine, fine, fine but your coming out with us tonight, I have to meet more people in Suna and spread the word that disaster is on its way and tonight will properly be my last night here." Fuu said whilst turning to the door, dragging Matsuri with her.

Just before she shut the door I said: "But tonight will be your first night here in Suna, aren't you going to stay longer; where will you go next?"

"One night is enough, I have no idea where I'll go next, I might go back to Konoha, I might stay here a while longer, I might go somewhere new, who knows." And with that she shut the door behind herself and my student.