Chapter Ten

Strange Visitors Pt. 1

Temari cracked her eyes open, Jashin was whimpering and she dragged herself out of bed. She had had a bad day! She leaned over the crib to pick him up. A man stood in front of her, with golden hair, pink eyes and those strange, exotic wings. Temari trembled; she knew she was facing Jashin.

"TEMARI OF THE SAND YOU WILL RETURN TO MY SERVANT. HE STABBED YOU AT MY COMMAND. AS I MERELY WISHED TO TEST HIS LOYALTY." He stated calmly, Temari bristled; she had had enough of men trying to tell her what to do. "HE LOVES YOU, EVEN IF HE IS TOO MUCH OF A PRIDEFUL FOOL TO SEE IT. BESIDES AS MY MOST LOYAL PRIEST I WANT HIM TO TAKE A HAND RAISING ME IN MY MORTAL FORM. I AM GETTING TIRED OF CONSTANTLY BEING DENIED THAT."

Temari smirked, "Hidan may be your loyal servant Jashin-sama," she stressed his name caustically. "But I am not yours." Temari gave a short mocking bow, "If you don't need anything I'm going back to bed." Far from being angry. Jashin smiled at her and let her go back to bed with a parting shot.

"HIDAN IS MY MOST LOYAL SERVANT. MY WISHES WILL ALWAYS COME BEFORE YOURS AND YOU WOULD DO WELL TO REMEMBER THAT." Jashin smiled smugly, which made Temari itch to punch the smile off his face.

The next morning, Hidan woke up. He had slept badly, visions of Jashin-sama throwing him out of the priesthood, and flashbacks of Temari bleeding in the sand. He was feeling much more like himself now, bad tempered and bitchy. The priest snarled and cussed, flipping off the whipping winds, and steeled his resolve. He wasn't going to quit until he made Temari see reason! He was her husband goddammit! And she would listen to his side of the story! Even if he had to drag her all the way across the desert by those ridiculous pigtails to hear him out! He marched towards Sand grumbling and bitching like a madman the whole way there, he murdered the startled guards quickly and picked up on her chakra signature, not realizing that this wasn't his brightest idea. Although of course in Hidan-logic it was perfectly reasonable!

Temari was busy feeding the twins, and talking to Kankuro when all of a sudden Hidan burst into the door. The sand siblings gaped at him! He pointed a shaking finger at them!

"Goddammit! I want my kids! I want my wife! You belong to me!" That last was directed at Temari who felt her blood begin to boil. "We were married in the name of Jashin and that makes it binding and-and-and fucking legal dammit!" He said, spittle flying his mouth, and his face going even paler with rage. "And there aint nothing you can do about it!" That last was directed at Kankuro.

Kankuro was totally shocked! Shocked that this asshole had the balls to come barging into the Kazekage mansion in broad daylight! Shocked that he had come demanding Temari and the twins! But what floored him was that Temari had taken all of his chauvinism without a word! He risked a glance at his sister, he knew that look on his face and he grabbed the twins and flew out the door.

"Come back here you doll-fucking freak!" Hidan snarled but was blocked by Temari's fan.

Kankuro rushed down the stairs and past Gaara and several village officials!

"I wouldn't go in there if I were you!" He warned, leaping out the window and as far away from the building as possible.

Temari swore she saw red, as she bit her thumb and first three fingers. She performed a rapid series of hand seals and smeared it on her fan, Without uttering a single word she whipped the fan into a 300 mph wind torrent, it happened so fast that nobody could even see the three summoned kamaitachi. There was a loud groan and the building was cut slantways, Temari looked down from her floating fan as part of the building slid off and crashed into the sand.

Hidan was in shock as he leapt out of the way, he rebounded off the wall and knocked the kunoichi out of the air. She landed as lightly as a cat on her feet and hands, and glowered at him. She would not give Hidan the satisfaction of a single word, but by all the Kami, she'd give him the beating of a lifetime! Time spent at the Akatsuki hideout had vastly improved her Taijutsu, something she had never been as eager to improve before. Those skills came in handy now, along with some of the Hokage's ground rending punches and kicks. Hidan kept out of her way, sometimes catching and flipping her, and mostly dodging those chakra laden blows.

Bam! Hidan got kicked in the eye, and then he dropped to the ground, she had kicked him in the erm ahem family jewels, and Hidan howled in agony.

"Goddammit bitch! Just because I'm immortal doesn't mean I'm not prone to long lasting damage!"

Temari looked at her husband, and smirked triumphantly, thrilled to see him brought so low. She knew that if Lee ever got a good shot at Gaara, he'd be brought down too. She was delighted to have this kind of power over men! Seeing the look of torture on his face, his once pristine silver hair in disarray, and the high pitched squeal of his voice, brought a snort, then a snicker, and then she began to laugh out loud while every male who had witnessed the short but brutal fight winced in sympathy as Hidan howled in pain, and Temari howled with laughter.

Hidan had to roll away, when thunk! She nearly succeeded in bringing the fan on his head.

"You psychotic little bitch!" He howled trying to crawl away from the laughing kunoichi on the painfully hot desert sands, "Why the fuck did I ever marry you in the first place?" That brought a visible flinch from Gaara, all this was news to him.

Temari smirked, "Because it was your bright idea and I didn't have a choice in the matter." She said continuing to laugh, as she pounced on him, the way a cat pounces on a mouse. He kept trying to get away, but scalding your hands on the hottest of sand, while trying to hold your aching nuts, and escape a possibly insane kunoichi all at once was no easy task.

Little did Hidan know that watching him in disguise was Kakuzu, who had discovered his money missing, and was hot on the trail of his traitorous partner, and Kakuzu would almost give every hard-earned cent to videotape his partner getting his ass kicked by the angry Sand nin. Why she was upset with him, he hadn't the foggiest idea. But Hidan had always done something to earn such abuse and Kakuzu was going to enjoy every moment of his partner's humiliation.

She pinned him down and he growled at her. She didn't notice Gaara blanch at the very intimate spectacle they were creating for all of Sand to see. Hidan frowned, normally this position turned him on, but his nuts were killing him, and her knee digging into them slowly wasn't helping. In a last ditch attempt to win her over, Hidan did something that even had Kakuzu, who was standing nearby now, gaping! He sacrificed his pride, and said humbly;

"I'm sorry Temari. You have no idea what it did to me on the inside to see you lying still like that, but my God comes before you. I understand if you don't want to be married to a bitchy asshole like me, but if I'm gonna walk this world for eternity, there's no one else I'd rather have by my side then you."

Temari looked shell-shocked as Hidan talked. She could tell that he was speaking truthfully, and it made her feel strange inside, it was an ill-disguised confession of love, and his words pierced her heart and made her reconsider. Aware that her brother's eyes were on her, she placed an enormous amount of pressure on the priest's throat, and whispered hurriedly;

"I'm still pissed off at you, give me some time to think it over, I'll send a message to you next Friday, for now let's make this convincing." She released the pressure from his throat, and Hidan flipped her over, and Temari cursed loudly!

Kakuzu who had witnessed the latter part of the ordeal was dumbfounded, he had never thought it was possible for Hidan to be so-so humble in front of anyone but his God! He chuckled; love had a way of doing that.

Hidan lost in Temari's eyes was unconsciously parting her legs with her knees while keeping a death grip on his wife's throat. Baki felt uneasy, it looked to him like the crazy priest was trying to rape her in the middle of the street, as his student, this had always privately been one of his worst fears.

"Is he going to rape her in front of everyone?" Baki asked incredulously. Gaara gave a low growl and begin stalking the pair, feeling a flare of Shukaku's power, Temari pushed Hidan off with her legs, and the priest nearly lost his head in her summoning jutsu.

But it was too late to calm down Gaara, who had been waiting a long time to get his vengeance. Temari's only chance was to chase Hidan out of the city, she pushed chakra to the soles of her feet and ran after him, allowing Hidan to feel his skin sliced to ribbons as her wind sword buffeted the fleeing priest. Slam! Hidan stopped short, and stared in shock at the giant sand wave that had nearly crushed him. The sand began to flow like water, and Temari fearful for everyone turned to Gaara and walked towards her brother, shuddering inwardly at those yellow eyes.

"Gaara," she said gently in a soft pleading voice, "Please leave him to me, I want vengeance for what he did." Gaara turned his head at her, and Temari knew that her brother was no longer wholly in control, she hoped Hidan would understand that she could do nothing for him right now, not if they wanted to avoid suspicion, right now Hidan was on his own.

Hidan was having a moment of clarity at that point and had decided to flee; he trusted the kunoichi when she said that she would send a message to him. But right now, he'd prefer not to get crushed, or ripped to shreds as there was no Kakuzu to stitch him up!

The sand hissed and swirled around him as a living entity. Hidan cursed and screamed at the jinchuuriki, he was frightened now! Here the desert was a battlefield and an assailant all at once for the Sand Tanuki. Hidan used a transportation jutsu, just in time! He was next to his tent; miserably Hidan crept inside to sleep off his migraine. He wasn't sure whether to believe the little hellcat or not. Temari never gave over so easily, sometimes even sex had been like a fight. Vicious and unrelenting!

Hidan's eyes snapped open as a fist slammed into his stomach; he squinted in the bright light of the afternoon. Kakuzu came into focusing.

"Kakuzu you shit head! What the fuck are you doing here?" Hidan yelled angrily.

"You stole my money you arrogant cuss!" Kakuzu roared "and since you probably spent most of it, I'm gonna beat you within an inch of your life!"

"Yeah? That might take a while fucker!" Hidan growled, punching Kakuzu in the jaw. Kakuzu wrapped his threads around the priest, making him helpless and proceeded to beat the hell out of the priest! Hours later, Kakuzu left the tent, taking back what was left of the stolen money. He had no interest in resuming a partnership with Hidan. The vile priest just wasn't worth his time. Kakuzu never looked back, for he too had decided to leave Akatsuki.

Hidan had been beaten so badly that combined with the intense heat of the harsh desert he was sick. His stomach roiled and grumbled and Hidan at this point could barely move now, though he could feel the jinchuuriki's

chakra speeding towards him like a dark consuming cloud, could feel the desert trembling. For the first time in his life, Hidan was deathly afraid.