A/N- While Raila never learned any jutsus, because her family left when she was just four, Kai has been living in Japan for a while now. I'll admit, Kai seems really mean in the legend she told, but she has changed over the years and has become a much nicer person now. Hope you like this chapter.

Chapter 8: Accusations

Ukobi woke up early the next morning. He stumbled to the bathroom, almost tripping over Jason in the process.

"Ow," he cried as he ran into the bathroom door, not noticing it was closed because his eyes were closed. He tugged on the door handle but found it locked, so he started beating on the door with his fist. "Open the door," he cried. "Please." At first, no one answered. Then he remembered that these people spoke Japanese, so he repeated the phrase in Japanese. Kankuro opened the door, and Ukobi, who was now leaning on the door, nearly fell into the bathroom. Kankuro looked at Ukobi, his war paint halfway on, and then closed the door again. Ukobi stood up and started beating on the door again.

"What do you want?" Kankuro asked from behind the door.

"To go pee," Ukobi mumbled in response. Angrily, Kankuro yanked open the door, again nearly putting Ukobi on his face, and stormed out of the bathroom, mumbling about strangers taking over the house. After relieving himself, Ukobi got dressed, ran water over his hand, and pushed the fingers through his hair, messing it up more than actually fixing it. He returned to the main room to find Jason just getting a new shirt on. Because Jason left his gel in his suitcase, which was back at the entrance gate, his hair laid down on one side. Ukobi was more than ready to leave, so he went straight to Temari's room in order to wake up Kai. When he got there, though, he found a mat that looked like it hadn't been slept in, and no Kai. Frantic, he immediately blamed Gaara for her disappearance.

"Satanist kidnapped Raila!" he shouted in English, again forgetting the Japanese. Temari poked her head up, still half asleep.

"What?" she asked, yawning. Ukobi shook his head and commanded his brain, Japanese. Japanese. Think Japanese. He repeated what he had said again. "Raila? Oh, you must mean Kai?" After a second of thought, Ukobi nodded. "I think she went up onto roof last night." She lied back down, and then added as an afterthought, "And Gaara is not Satanist." But he didn't hear her.

"Roof," he said, getting the Japanese first time. "Is that not where Satanist is?" Temari sat up in the bed, annoyed.

"Gaara is not Satanist, but yes, he was there. Why?" Ukobi looked at her, his eyes wide.

"I must go to save her," he cried. "Satanist kid will kill her."

"Gaara is not Satanist," Temari shouted after him as he left the room for the rooftop. Once Ukobi reached the roof, he found Kai lying across Gaara's lap.

"You killed her!" he said. Gaara laid Kai on the roof and stood up to face him.

"I never touched her," he said quietly. Then Ukobi saw that Kai was still breathing.

"She is not dead," he said, sighing in relief. "You knocked her unconscious."

"I never touched her. She is asleep."

"I do not believe you. You hit her."

"I NEVER TOUCHED HER!" As he yelled, sand flew from his gourd, almost, but not quiet, reaching where Ukobi was. Ukobi screamed in fear, and Jason pulled himself onto the roof.

"What is happening?" he asked as Ukobi crouched behind him.

"Sa-" Ukobi stopped when he saw the look of pure hatred in Gaara's eyes. "Gaara," he quickly corrected. "Gaara is going to kill me." Through a clear effort of self-control, Gaara pulled the sand back into his gourd.

"I do not want to hurt one of Kai's friends," he said. "But you are tempting me." Ukobi pointed to Kai, who was stirring lightly on the rooftop.

"Satanist kid hit Raila," he said to Jason. Gaara started shaking furiously.

"I did not touch her," he said through clenched teeth.

"And how am I supposed to believe you?"

"Ask Kai?" Jason said. "She is awake now." Indeed, Kai was awake.

"Ask me what?" she said rubbing her eyes and yawning.

"Why were you up here with Satanist?" Ukobi asked. "Did he threaten you? Did he hurt you?"

"No, I came up here to talk with him," she said.

"I told you I did not touch her," Gaara said quietly. Ukobi blushed, suddenly embarrassed over how he had treated Gaara.

"Hey, I am sorry," he said nervously. "No hard feelings, right?" He extended his hand, but Gaara only looked at it, then jumped off the roof and went inside. Kai followed him, and after a moment, so did Jason and Ukobi. Once inside, Kai turned to Temari, who had just come out of her room.

"What are we doing today?" she asked.

"We are training for Chunin Exams," Temari answered.

"Chunin Exams?" Ukobi asked.

"It is test for genin to become chunin," Temari said, but Ukobi clearly had no clue.

"Where are they?" Kai asked.

"Konoha. Why?"

"Well, we are leaving tomorrow and I wanted plans for where to go. Konoha sounds good." For a second, this didn't register with any of the others; then they all started speaking at once.

"You are finally leaving?"

"Why do we have to go?"

"Where is Konoha?"

"What brought this on?"

As the questions continued, Kai noticed that only Gaara was silent. In fact, he seemed upset, so Kai went over to him.

"Do not worry," she told him. "I promise I will come back." Gaara just looked at her. Finally, he said-

"Who says I am worried. In fact, I do not care." Kai just looked at him for a while, until she was brought back into the conversation by Kankuro's next words.

"I want to fight you three," he said. Ukobi blinked, Jason's mouth hung open, and Kai raised an eyebrow.

"You want to fight us?" Kai finally said.

"Yes. One on one battles. Me versus Jason, Temari versus Ukobi, and you versus Gaara." Kai looked nervously at her teammates, but it was Ukobi who spoke first.

"What is he saying?" he asked. Jason translated, and Ukobi stood there with his mouth open. "So… American with no training, girl who thinks she is mom, and me, world's best Japanese boy, are going to fight make-up obsessed boy, Satanist with issues, and girl who is burning up, respectively."

"What do you mean girl who is burning up," Temari said at the same time Kankuro said, "IT IS WAR PAINT," which was also the same time Kai said, "Gaara is not Satanist." Ukobi took a moment to separate the questions, then, thinking he had them right, answered the three questions in order, turning to each person as he said them.

"You are burning up because you carry four foot tall fan. It still looks like make-up to me. And, I am sorry, but he looks like Satanist."

"How," Kai asked.

"Eye-liner, which is totally war paint and not make-up."

"That is not eye-liner," Temari sighed. "Gaara has never slept in his life, well, except when Kai-chan was here before."

"That is not possible, so it must be make-up…war paint."

"Gaara has demon inside him, so he has to stay awake, or it will take him over."

"See, demon equals Satanist."

"HE IS NOT SATANIST SO CUT IT OUT!!" Ukobi just shrugged. Kai turned to apologize to Gaara, but he wasn't there. She didn't know, but he had left shortly after Kankuro had asked to fight them.

"See what you did," she said to Ukobi. "You insulted him, and now he left."

"Not my fault," Ukobi said apologetically, in English. "I didn't mean it."

"Come on," Temari said. "Let us see it we find him going to training grounds." The others nodded and followed as Temari led the way.