A tough life
Chapter 10
Welcome to Konoha
Missions, assassination attempts and years later the Suna genin stood before their sensei.
"Coming up is the Chunin selection exams, We will join with Sound and wage war against Konoha. Remember that this wil be an A+ ranked mission." Gaara stood motionless against the wall silent but paying close attention. Kankuro sat on the chair near his sister Temari who looked enraged at the news.
"A war? why? why NOW? We've spent so much time and sacrificed so much to arive at this treaty, this aliance, and now we're going to just throw that away so many will die again? What's the point of that?"
Baki put on a hardened face.
"Shinobi are instruments of conflict and war. Besides this treaty is a threat to our village. That idiot diamyo of the land of wind used the treaty to cut back on our military in the village. When the head is a fool, it is us, the hands and feet that suffer the consequences. In order to keep up it's military strength ninja like you were 'manufactured'...Gaara" Baki said turning to stare at the now glaring boy. However Gaara stayed silent, waiting for Baki to continue.
"Right now the land of wind is in peril. Your father, our Kazekage sensed this and decided to join forces with sound to show the diamyo how naieve he infact is. If we put this off any longer our time to strike will be lost."
Again Baki turned to the silent Gaara.
"Gaara, this mission's success depends heavily on you." Kankuro and Temari turned to stare at their brother who opened his eyes and glowered at them
"I know." Gaara said before walking from the room.
Four days later the Suna genin and their sensei arrived in the plush green forest of Konohagakure located in the land of fire. Escorted to the Hokage's office, their passes and identification was granted and they were allowed free range of the village. Too easy Baki thought as their papers were stamped. They walked to their hotel rooms and dropped off their gear before converging into Baki's room.
"Alright, go walk around the village, get the lay of the land, take note anything important looking, people, kekkai genkai, places, try and learn about your enemy. Dismissed."
Temari, Kankuro and Gaara walked from the room, but the second they passed the thresh hold, Gaara poofed into a gust of sand and vanished.
"Well, I guess it's just you and me, eh Temari?" Kankuro said nudging his sister playfully.
"Kankuro, you know we have to be all buisness keep the goofing off to a minimum at least, alright?
"Yeah, yeah." Together they walked off, taking in all the sights Konoha had to offer. Walking down an alley way a small boy crashed right into Kankuro, who proceded to pick the boy up by the neck of his shirt.
"KONOHAMARU!" a blonde boy yelled as the smaller boy was hoisted into the air.
"That hurt you little brat!" Kankuro said menacingly to the boy, smirking as he wimpered in fear.
"Knock it off." Temari snapped "You're gonna get it if he comes back." She warned giving her brother a glance.
"I'm so so sorry!" A girl with pink hair said nervously. "We were just fooling around, it was an accident."
"Put him down you ape!" the loud blonde yelled again. Kankuro smirked as he noticed their headbands. So these are the Konoha genin, they won't be much of a challenge.
"Aww, cmon, I just wanted to play with him while we're waiting for that nuisence to get here!"
"YOU BIG JERK!" The blonde boy again yelled as he ran at them. With a simple flick of his finger, Kankuro tripped the loudmouthed genin with one of his chakra strings. Kankuro scoffed,
"What a wimp, is this really the best Konoha's genin can do?"
Two other small kids yelled out the first boy's name and began crying. The blonde began yelling but in the middle of his speech the pink haired girl put him in a choke hold.
"You're really starting to annoy me, It doesn't help that I hate small fry with you being a shrimp who disrespects your elders. You make me want to kill this kid here!' Hearing that the two smaller kids began sobbing, horrified for their friend. Temari sighed in annoyance.
"I...Will not be held responsible for this." She said placing her hands on her hips and stepping away from her brother.
"YOU-!" The blonde yelled
"So I'll finish up tiny here and then move on to shorty over there." Kankuro said getting ready to hit the small fry in his hand. The blonde orange clad ninja charged, but before either could make their mark, Kankuro was struck on the wrist with a pretty sizable rock. Hissing in pain and annoyance, Kankuro dropped the boy, Konohamaru, who landed to the ground with a loud thump.
"So." said another boy's voice.. "What are you guys doing in our village?" Temari stared up in to the tree and smirked. This kid must be pretty good to hit kankuro with a stone like that. She thought, as she nearly went deaf from the pink haired girl's squeal of:
"IT'S SASUKE!" Kankuro glared at the raven haired Sasuke boy. Kankuro tried playing it cool as he scoffed.
"Oh lookie, another brat."
"Get lost." Sasuke said, the arrogance evident in his voice. The two Konoha girls squealed in fan-girldom as Konohamaru pointed to the orange boy and loudly yelled at him.
"Naruto you suck!" The rest was lost as the boy began mumbling. The orange boy, Naruto began fuming as he stared at the raven haired Sasuke.
"Think you're pretty smart huh?" Kankuro growled as he pulled the cloth holding his puppet crow to his back loose. Temari stepped forward again trying to stop her brother.
"Tell me you're not planning on using the crow!" she said in an exasperated voice. Suddenly a familiar voice rang through the clearing.
"Kankuro! Don't." Gaara said hanging upside down near Sasuke, who jumped at their brother's voice.
"You're a disgrace to our entire village." he said coldly, his voice laced with venom. The konoha genin stared in shock, while Temari glanced between her brothers nervously.
"G-Gaara.." KKankuro said as the jinchuriki stared him down.
"It annoys me that you'd lose control in a fight with children. Do you even remember why we're here?" Anybody other than Gaara's siblings would only hear curt politeness in the boy's voice, but Temari and Kankuro knew it well, and it was close to the danger zone.
"But Gaara they started it..." Kankuro whined pointing childishly at the leaf genin. "The little one slammed me!" Gaara glared at the older boy.
"Shut up...Or I'll kill you." Kankuro shivered in fear as Gaara glared at him
"You're right, I was out of line." Kankuro said hurriedly as Temari stepped forward.
"We're sorry, okay Gaara, really really sorry!" she said holding her hands up. Sand began to gust around Gaara as the raven haired boy stared in shock. So this boy nailed Kankuro with a stone, that took skill. Appearing in between his siblings Kankuro immediatley began apologising again.
"I swear it won't happen again."
"We may be early but we're not here to play around. let's go." As they turned to follow their brother, the pink haired girl called out to them.
Wait!" Gaara turned.
"Yes?"
"According to your headbands, you guys are from the hidden sand village." 'No duh.' Temari thought staring at the nasely fangirl know it all.
"You guys are our allies according to the treaty, but you aren't supposed to be with in our boarders, so state your reason for being here, we can't just let you go on your way."
'Yep definately a know it all.' Temari thought as she pulled out her authorization papers.
"We're here to take the chunin exams."
"What are those?" Naruto asked. '
Yep, so there is an idiot in the group.' Temari went into a mini lecture about the purpose of the exams, only to find that the foolish blonde wasn't even paying attention.
"Damn it! when somebody's explaining something you'd do best to pay some freekin' attention!" she snapped at the oblivious boy. Suddenly the raven haired Sasuke jumped down from the tree.
"Hey you there! What's your name?"
"Huh? w-who me?" Temari asked, slightly flustered from just yelling at the blonde idiot.
"NO. The kid beside you." Sasuke said flatly staring at her brother.
"Gaara of the desert, at your service. And you are?" The boy smirked arrogantly before giving his answer.
"Uchiha Sasuke." Temari and Kankuro watched as the two boys began staring each other down. Suddenly the blonde boy piped up loudly.
"Hey! Don't you wanna know my name?" he asked eagerly.
"No." Gaara said as he turned away from the loud boy towards his team.
"Let's go." With that the siblings jumped off, following their youngest, yet strongest member. Half way across the village they came to a stop infront of a resturant.
"Kankuro, what the hell were you thinking!" Temari snapped, whacking her brother upside the head. As the two older genin argued, Gaara cleared his throat effictively silencing them.
"If you do that again, I will kill you Kankuro." Gaara said glaring at the boy. Turning he vanished into a poof of sand, leaving his siblings.
"What the hell's his problem?"Kankuro asked looking at an irritated Temari.
"You were about to do something stupid that could have gotten us in trouble and booted from the exams, that's what you did, you idiot!" Temari sighed looking around.
"Come on, we might as well get lunch while we're here." Temari walked into the resturant, Kankuro tailing after her. The resturant was a barbecue place filled with people, and as the siblings ate they listened to conversation, mostly to the group at the table in front of them.
"Umm, where do you think sensei went?" an almost in audible whisper said. Temari almost resisted the urge to turn and see the person that the voice belonged to. Probably some one small dark and quiet.
"Ah Hinata you worry too much!" a gruff sounding boy said. Moments later a yipping bark was heard, and this time Temari did turn around.
"What kind of place lets you bring a dog into a resturant?" The puppy was sitting in his master's hood, right behind Temari. When she turned around, the dog did as well, falling on to her.
"What the hell!" She yelled as the dog yelped landing on her lap. Kankuro watched as his sister and the dog had a staring match while the group behind them scrambled over.
"I-I'm s-so sorry f-for my t-teammates behavior." The dark haired pale eyed girl stuttered staring at the sand ninja, as she fidgeted her fingers looking apologetic and weak. Kankuro actually laughed at the girl, who flinched at the sound.
"Ha, to think they have such weak people as shinobi here. C'mon are they so hard up for ninja that they're using the blind? Pathetic." The girl's eyes were downcast as her breath caught in her throat.
"Hey!" The gruff sounding boy yelled. "You can't just talk to Hinata like that, she's stronger than you know, she could probaly kick both of your butts!"
"K-KIBA! Please stop t-talking p-please." Hinata said nervously looking back and forth between her teammate with the red fang markings the boy called Kiba and Kankuro. She was obviously intimdated by the puppeteer, but Kiba was oblivious to that.
"You want to prove that you flea bitten brat?"
"Damn right you cat eared freak! Hinata could kick your ass any day!"
"Kiba, you're being too rash, Hinata doesn't want this." a mysterious looking boy said to Kiba.
"Shut it Shino, Hinata'll be fine!"
"Enough!" Temari yelled that look of nervous panic on the girl's face was over whelming, and Temari could tell that even though she probably could be strong, she wasn't confident enough to do any damage.
"Kankuro sit down, or I'll kill you! Gaara won't even get the chance!" Temari was pissed and immediately Kankuro sat down and closed his mouth.
"And you dog boy! Can't you see that this girl is completely uncomfortable? If she's your teammate then act like it! Instead of throwing her into obviously outclassed matches prove your own strength!" Temari snarled at the boy, who shrank back and flinched. Temari turned towards Hinata who obviouslly flinched expecting the same kind of treatment. Instead the dog was placed in her hands and she was given a smile. However when she rounded back on Kankuro all smiles were gone.
"And you you ignorant prick! Had you paid any attention in school you'd know that she's not blind, she has one of the potentionally strongest kekkai genkai in Konoha!" Again Temari turned to Hinata. "You're a Hyuga right?" Hinata flinched at the question before nodding. "So you're a carrier of the Byakugan, interesting. That's one of the bloodline traits we learned in class Kankuro. God, I should just punch you in the head!" Now turning to the mysterious Shino. "And you, at least you stood up for your teammate." She said nodding her head as he nodded back. Their food arrived while Temari again rounded on her brother, this time instead of loudly repremanding him she pulled him aside.
"If you think for one second I'm going to let you make us stand out enough as it is and draw more attention to our presence then you have another thing coming. What the fucking hell is wrong with you? Do you want to make this mission a failure?" Temari hissed. Finally the Konoha genin went back to their table as their own meals arrived. After lunch The suna siblings went back to their hotel.
"What the hell happened?" Baki asked, the moment they had entered. Temari sighed.
'Now what?'
"What now sensei?" Kankuro said annoyance tinging his voice. Baki punched him upside the head.
"You! You idiot! They've already sent Anbu giving a warning to either get your act under control or leave! Any more disturbances and it'll be your head Kankuro!"
"Fine, I'll lie low until the start of the exam" Kankuro said with a huff.
"NO you will stay HERE until the start of the exam in two day's time. Temari, continue to scout the village taking note of the note worthy. Gaara's doing the same."
'I hope.'
There's chapter 10! hope you enjoyed, thanks for reading and for the reviews!