Temari P.O.V.
Shikamaru got up and went to the door.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"Oh, umm... I need to get home to help my mom with some stuff at work," he told me.
"You help your mom at work?" Kankuro asked.
"Yeah, well no," he replied. "My mom stopped giving me money for chores, and said that I'm old enough that I should get a job. So I work at the family shop now." He put on his coat. "So I'll be seeing you guys later." He opened the door to leave.
"Wait, can I come with you and help?" I asked.
"Well I don't know, I guess you could come and ask," he told me.
I jumped up and grabbed my coat, "Ok," I said, and then it turned to Kankuro and Gaara. "You guys better not break any of my stuff while I'm gone," I told them.
"Oh come on, when have we ever went into your room while you were gone?" Kankuro asked. I raised an eyebrow at him. "One time!" he yelled angrily. "One time I did, and I was cleaning, are you never going to let me forget it!"
"No I'm not, your just lucky we're even, or I would have hurt you when you told me," I said keeping calm.
"I'm still mad you broke one of my favourite ones, the thing I broke of yours wasn't even as valuable!" he was still yelling, Shikamaru was looking confused.
"Well at least you can fix yours!" I yelled at him. "Come on Shika," I said grabbing his hand and pulling him out the door.
Kankuro P.O.V.
Gaara was sitting on a chair smirking at me. "You know she is right," he said. I looked at him confused. "You can and know how to fix your little dolls a fan is much harder to fix, and sometimes you can't fix them at all. Like in this case, it's a small fan with a big hole in it, you can't fix that. If I were her I would have hurt you."
"She has lots more," I said looking away from him. "And they're not dolls," I muttered walking away.
"Well the one you broke was one of the ones from mom!" Gaara yelled after me.
I never knew the fan I broke was from our mom, if I did I would have cared more that I broke it and less that she broke one of my puppets. It's strange that she never really acted like she cared much that it was broken. She just cared that we were even because she broke one of my puppets. I walked into my room. There were puppets everywhere, some were big, some were small, and some I had put in glass display cases on my shelf; those were the really good ones. I sat on my bed; it was also shaped like a puppet; to think.
Gaara P.O.V.
I got up from my chair and went to the window to look outside. There were lots of people walking around out there so I closed the curtain so people couldn't look in. No one ever bothered to come to this house because no one knew who we were. Sometimes coming home I hear people talking about the house, kids daring other kids to ring the doorbell and run, and once one of the people that lived next door was going to bring over a cake or something; but chickened out at the last secant and went back and tossed it out.
I was going to play a prank on some of the people here but Temari and Kankuro kept telling me not to, because they will know it was someone in this house and actually come and could find out we are living without parents. So I haven't got to yet, but one of these days I will and it will be big.
I went to my room and climbed up the sand hill into my room. I went and looked at the quick sand. I wonder if Tenten or Neji lost something good in here when they got sucked in. I stuck my hand in and grabbed around, when I couldn't find anything I actually jumped in to look. When I finally got really deep into the sand, almost to the floor, I found a necklace. Then I grabbed a rope, I had hidden in the quick sand; that was tied to the back of my bed and buried under sand; and I climbed back out. The necklace had Tenten's name on it. It sparkled in the light, and was a sliver color. Well this is no good. I don't want a necklace with Tenten's name on it, but since I found it I should get something out of it. I'll tell her I found it but will only give it back if she gives me something else for it. I shoved the necklace in my pocket, went and turned on my music, and lied down on my bed.
Temari P.O.V.
"You can let go of my hand now," Shikamaru said as we came close to his house.
"Oh, right, sorry," I said letting go. I had pulled him all the way to his house.
"What were you guys talking about back there that got you so mad?" he asked.
I gave him a dirty look. "Nothing," I snapped.
"Alright, sorry for asking," he said.
"No, I'm sorry. What I meant was I'll tell you later," I said sweetly.
"Uh, huh," he said rolling his eyes.
When we got up to the house Shikamaru's mom opened the door. "Oh good your here," she said out of breath. "Hurry jump in the car, your dad called and said there is a rush of people at the store and he needs help."
"Uh, can I change first?" Shikamaru asked still in his costume; he was the only one who never brought a change of clothes.
"Yah sure, just hurry up," she said letting him in and running to start up the car. When the car was started she came over to me. "So did everyone go home, or did you just leave them all there because they were getting annoying?" she asked. I looked at her with a confused look on my face. "The people at yours and your brother's party," she said.
"Oh, yeah, they all went home. Lee, Tenten, Neji, and Hinata had to go to martial arts lessons, Naruto just left, Sasuke needed to go home, and Kiba had to go walk his dog because his sister wasn't going to," I told her.
"And Gaara and Kankuro are?" She asked.
"At home, hopefully cleaning up," I told her.
"Oh, and what about your mom and dad?" she asked.
"Left for work as soon as soon as everyone left, and just before me and Shikamaru left," I said.
"Oh?" she said raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah they work lots, they are hardly ever home, and when they are they are resting. So Gaara, Kankuro, and I cook and clean for them," I told her.
"Well that's very nice of you to do that for them," she said smiling.
Just then Shikamaru came running out of the house. "Ok, I'm ready to go now," he said coming up to us. "Oh yeah, mom, can Temari get a job at the store?" he asked.
"Well I don't know it sounds like she is busy at home," his mom said.
"Yeah, but my mom and dad don't give me money for helping around the house anymore because I'm the oldest helping now. They told me that if I wanted money I had to get a job because they can't afford to pay all three of us. Plus Kankuro dose most of the cleaning and
cooking now and Gaara dose whatever is left over, so I don't really have anything to do now," I told her hopping she would say yes for a job.
"Well then I guess I have no choice but to say yes. We need an extra hand anyways," she said holding out her hand for a hand shake.
I took her hand excitedly and shook it, "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" I said happily.
"Ok, ok, settle down," she said. "Now get into the car you guys, we really need to get to the store to help."
