Kankuro P.O.V.
I got up off my bed and walked over to my bedroom door. Well I guess it's time to clean up the mess. I walked over to Gaara's room and bang on the door. "Gaara get out here!" I yelled to him. There was no reply, but I could hear his music playing. I opened the door, and went into his room. Then I went over to the radio and turned it off.
"What was that for!" he yelled at me.
"You need to help me clean up the house!" I yelled back.
"No I don't," he said coldly turning the radio back on with his controller for it.
I walked over to him, grabbed the controller, turned the radio off, and put the controller on top of it. "Your helping, we need it done before Temari gets back," I told him calmly now.
"Why can't you and Temari do it?" he asked.
"Because Temari might have a job now, so we have to do the stuff around the house. She is going to get money to pay for things and in return we are going to keep the house clean," I told him.
"Fine," he sighed and got off his bed. "I'll do the basement." He left his room.
After Gaara brought up all the dishes from the basement I cleaned them. I also cleaned all the ones from breakfast, and clean the rest of the floor. I didn't bother to do Gaara's room because it was full of sand and would get dirty again. But I did clean my room and Temari's room. After carefully cleaning both rooms I went into the basement to see how Gaara was doing. When I got there I saw that everything was clean and the bathroom was sparkling. My mouth dropped in surprise. "Gaara, it's so clean!" I said happily.
"Well you said I had to, so I thought I might as well do a good job," he sighed. "Now if you don't mind, I'm going for a walk."
"Wait I need you help with something," I told him.
"What now?" he said angrily.
"Come with me," I said. I took him to Temari's room. "Witch of them is valuable to her?" I asked.
"Not the one you broke, that's for sure," Gaara said crossing his arms. I gave him a stern look. "What makes you think I even know?" he said angrily.
"Because you knew about the one from mom and dad," I said.
"So maybe she told me a little about them when I was younger, and maybe I remember what she said," Gaara said with a smirk.
"Come on Gaara please, I want to do something nice for her to say sorry for breaking that fan," I told him.
"Fine," Gaara said uncrossing his arms with a sigh. "Do you want to know about all of them, or just the little ones, or the big ones?" he asked.
"Just the little ones," I said. So Gaara told me what he remembered about the little fans.
Temari P.O.V.
The store parking lot was filled when we got there, but luckily Shikamaru's parents had spots for workers only. It was a regular sized store that had mostly food init. There was, however, a small section of the store that had toys, and another that had books. There were only 3 checkout tills, and Shikamaru's dad was working the only one open. We went over to him to see what he needed us to do. "Ah good, your here," he said. "Hello Temari, come to help?" he asked.
"Mom gave her a job here," Shikamaru told him.
"Good, we need more hands around here," his dad said. "Ok, Shikamaru you take one of the other tills, you're good at that." Shikamaru nodded and opened the till next to his dads, and as soon as he did there was a rush of people that went over to form a second line. "And you two can clean up the messes, I'm sure there are lots by now," he told Shikamaru's mom and I. We nodded and went to the back to get brooms.
"Why did we get the cleaning job?" I asked.
"Same reason I only come help out Shikamaru and his dad at the store when there is a big emergency. Mr. Nara and Shikamaru think women should just stay home to cook and clean for the men in the house," Mrs. Nara told me.
I was shocked; I didn't know Shikamaru was like that. "Are you serious?" I asked.
"Yes, Shikamaru use to love to have me at the store; he was a real momma's boy. He would always ask every night if I could come with them the next day, but soon Mr. Nara taught him that it was better if I stayed home. "Women are meant to stay home to cook and clean for us Shikamaru." I would hear him say when I walked by Shikamaru's room at night. "Men are the ones who should be providing for the family." It was so sad," Mrs. Nara sighed. "Then whenever I asked if they needed help at the store Shikamaru would tell me what his father told him. So the only reason I come now is because we don't have any staff to work here, and still I only
come on days like this. And every time I get stuck cleaning so that Shikamaru doesn't have to do "a women's job"." Mrs. Nara handed me a broom.
"But he told me that he needed to help you with stuff at work and that he just started working here because you said he was old enough to get a job, and that I could ask for one," I told her.
Mrs. Nara sighed. "Of cores he would say that to you, you're his friend he wouldn't want you to know how he really is; he thinks you won't want to be his friend if you know. And he was probably hoping it was a slow day, so that you guys could walk to the store and not see me. So that you would ask Mr. Nara and he would say no so you wouldn't get the job. But since it wasn't, and I drove you, he asked me so that you wouldn't question him about asking his father instead of me," she told me. "Well I guess we should start cleaning up messes. You go look over there," she said pointing to were the books and toys were. "And I'll look over here. Come fine me if you need help with something," she told me as she started to walk to where the frozen goods were.
Gaara P.O.V.
After I told him about the little fans Kankuro made me help him build glass display cases, like the ones in his room, for them. I was very mad at him for making me do all this work. He thinks that because I'm younger than him that he can boss me around. Well Temari is the oldest and is the main boss of this house. When she gets home I'm telling her about him making me do all this work, instead of letting me go outside. She likes me better anyways, and is still mad at Kankuro for not helping to take care of me when I was little just because he hates kids. She will think that the only reason he made me do all this is because he thinks he has power over me when Temari isn't home. Well he doesn't, and if all this wasn't for Temari then I would be outside looking for my friends right now; and he would be doing all this work himself. A smile went across my face.
Once we had one display case done Kankuro grab a fan and went to put it in the case. It slipped out of his hands and started to fall to the floor. I reached out my hand and caught it before it hit the ground. "I thought Temari said not to break any of her things," I said looking up at him with a smirk on my face. He tried to take the fan from me but I pulled it away. "I don't think we can trust you with these fans. They're very easy to break as you already know," I told him pointing at the one with the hole in it.
"Come on Gaara it was an accident that I broke it, and it was an accident that I dropped this one," he said reaching for it again, but I moved it away.
"You're very accident prone aren't you," I said getting up, and put it in the case myself.
"Well that's why I have you here," Kankuro said rudely.
"Admit it, you just don't like me. You don't like anything about me, you never did. That's why you never helped Temari raise me, and the only reason you even talk to me now is because you think you can boss me around. Well you can't. If we weren't doing this for Temari I would be gone outside right now were you can't find me, and I wouldn't be back until Temari got home. Then you wouldn't have to talk or look at me, and you would be happier then you are now," I said coldly.
"None of that it true Gaara, none of it!" Kankuro yelled. "You're my little brother I love you, I can't believe that's what you think!"
"Of cores it's true," I said glaring at him.
Kankuro went and sat on Temari's bed. "Gaara I swear to you what you think isn't true," he said sadly. "I never helped Temari raise you because I thought I would mess things up, and then later I'd have a bad relationship with you. But I guess by not helping I did the exact thing that I feared would happen if I did. And I'm sorry if it seems like I'm bossing you around and that's the only reason I talk to you, but it's not. I want to build that relationship I messed up. I'm not trying to boss you around, but it's the only way you will actually do something for or with me. But I guess since you thought that this whole time, you just hated me more every time I tried," he sighed. "I thought doing this would help us bond, but the whole time you just been wishing you were gone outside and you have been bugging me this whole time probably hoping that I kicked you out. And every time I try to do something with you we end up fighting." I sat back down on the floor and started working on the second case. "I wanted to do this for Temari to tell her I'm sorry, but I also wanted to do it with you. I knew that the only way you would agree to do something with me is if Temari told you to, or if we were doing something for Temari. I know you like Temari because she has been a parent and a sister to you your whole life. And as you got older you started to try to be a parent to her for some things. I know you and I can't be like that, but we can at least be brothers to each other like it should have been like in the first place."
I didn't say anything. I couldn't say anything; I just put the finishing touches on the case and put a fan in it, then put it on the shelf by the other one. I could tell that Kankuro was telling me the truth, he really did love me. "Can you hand me that glass," I paused for a second. "Please," I said.
Kankuro looked shocked. Probably because I never said please, or thank you, to anyone but Temari. "O-Ok," he said getting up and handing it to me.
"Thank you," I said. He just stood there shocked. "What?" I asked. "You said you wanted to build a relationship with me, and I decided to actually help a little," I told him.
Kankuro bent down and hugged me. "Maybe we can be proper brothers after all," he said to me.
"Maybe," I whispered and hugging him back.