I opened my eyes, after a white light reflected in my face. I looked around, and I was in the middle of nowhere in the desert. The horizon was orange, with nothing but sand dunes.

"Where am I?" I screamed as I tried to run randomly. Something was pushing me back, like the only thing I was allowed to do was observe.

"Bring me." I heard a voice behind me. I tried to turn around, but now I couldn't move my vision from the horizon. The Sun was hurting my sight, and didn't have a choice but bare the pain.

Then, the voice spoke again, and I felt a cold breeze touch my neck and shoulders.

"Bring me!" The female voice said again, and this time, her order made the orange horizon turn into a black sea. The light that was hurting my eyes disappeared, and in the exact time, a strange noise reached my ears.

The black sea was... bees?

"Bring me the honey!" The female voice shouted the last time, because after this, all I could hear was the sound of insects.

"Honey?!" I screamed a dozen times.

I opened my eyes, this time my real eyes, desperately.

"Kegawa?" Another female voice shouted, and finally, I saw a familiar face. "Kegawa, are you alright?"

"It was... a dream?" I said looking around. I was in the living room again, and now things were making sense. Also, I could move my body normally. Temari and Kankuro were staring at me in confusion.

"You were screaming 'honey' until we came." Kankuro said to me, holding my hand.

I took a deep breath stretching my arms. They were a bit red and full of marks from the sofa's surface.

"Where's Gaara?" I asked them. He wasn't there anymore.

"Where do you think? He's in his office." Temari said harshly. "Why?"

"He was with me when I fell asleep, I guess." Temari and Kankuro looked at each other, again in confusion. "But, wait, what time is it?"

"Half past ten." Temari said looking at the clock above me. I immediately got up. I was late again.

"Wait, what are you doing?" She asked me.

"Getting ready for my training!" I said taking my clothes and searching for my things in my room. She accomplished me, and I think she was laughing at my misery.

"Don't you know what day it is?" The blonde supported her shoulder on my room's door.

"Friday?" I said.

"Yes, silly."

"So what?" I stopped when I realized there was something in it.

"The trainings are on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday." She said presenting herself. "Did you forget I am one of the teachers?"

Well, she had a point.

"But, Gaara didn't mention anything about schedule. I thought it was every day."

"He's the Kazekage, girl. He wouldn't have time to train everyday even if he wanted. There are more important things to handle than you, like that boar's origin." She looked worried as she spoke.

Kikamaru appeared from under the bed, stretched her back and yawned, like she already knew that we didn't have to wake up early.

"You are probably right, but I still want to hear it from him." I said confident as I quickly changed my clothes and I left the room holding Kikamaru's scruff.

Temari rolled her eyes.

"Stubborn girl." She grumbled.

In the moment I brought Kikamaru out of the house, she fought over her own control, jumping and pulling her body away from my hands.

Barked one time. "Free."

I tried to hold her the best I could, but she was stronger than me. Thus, she was released to run away again from me. I didn't understand why she was trying to get away only in the moment we were going out. She had so many chances when we were all sleeping.

"That's fine! I will go alone anyways!" I shouted with anger for her to hear. She didn't even turn her head around to see me talking to her. "Damn dog!"

I noticed that Temari was looking and laughing at the scene from the window.

I was annoyed. Already in the morning.

"That's fine, Kegawa, just go alone." I said to myself, heading to the political building, where the Kazekage's office was supposed to be. The place was still getting me a bad feeling, mostly because I wasn't from here, and had just a regular pass to visit the village. It was a large, round and sandy building with several rows of windows, and written 'wind' in the middle in a circle. I stood looking to what was written, waiting for my body to, thoughtless, move to the entrance.

I took a deep breath, and stepped into. There, many men dressed in white tunics were talking to each other, giving an important impression. I was standing out and feeling uncomfortable, to be honest.

I approached the person who was probably in charge of giving information and controlling the entrance and exit of people in the offices and meetings.

"Hello" The man said harshly. "What did you come for?"

"I want to see the Kazekage."

"Do you have an appointment?"

"No." I answered as my cheeks were getting warm. That place was getting me nervous.

"I'm sorry, but I cannot send you now. Do you want to set one? Who are you?"

"No, I am one of his students. I simply wanted to know if he had prepared something for today."

"Sorry, ma'am, but you should wait for the next classes. They are... on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at ten." He said consulting the papers on the wall. "And if it's important, there are other teacher who are willing to help."

"Yes, uh, I am aware of it. Thanks." I stated, ready to leave. "But, if it's possible, please tell him I asked about it, and that Kegawa Inuzuka will be in the training field again today."

"Recorded." The man said after writing in a small notepad. "Have a great day."

I left the building unsatisfied. No teacher, no dog, and I wasn't willing to fight Matsuri again. I learned enough with her, and she wouldn't fall for the same trick. I needed Kikamaru back, but I was too discouraged to search for her now, so I spent the rest of the day wandering through the village. As I said when we arrived, the place was strange, but beautiful as well. I visited some stores, tried on some typical Sand clothes and some strange food.

Sitting in front of a food tent, I sighed while I ate a weird stew. Peculiarly, it was tasty.

"Having a bad day?" The man who was running the tent asked me.

"Kind of." I said swallowing the stew. "I can't find my dog."

"A dog?" The man kindly asked. "A white big dog?"

"Yes. With a difficult personality."

"Oh, I saw a dog walking alone to the training field earlier."

"Training... field?" I thought for some seconds.

My dog was more trustable than me.

I paid, and quickly left the tent to the training field. I just hoped that Gaara wasn't there, because I was feeling like a liar by leaving a fake message, and a time waster. When I arrived, I saw Kikamaru in front of a dummy. It was literally falling apart, ragged and torn.

"So, you were training here all day." I said lowering my voice. Kikamaru gazed at the sky that was starting to turn orange. "I wasn't expecting that."

She barked two times. "I, know."

"Maybe we can try that old jutsu of our clan, Double Headed Wolf." I said trying to cheer the scene, but Kikamaru was still staring at the dummy. "I understand that you probably don't want to fuse in a jutsu with me now."

Her ears moved silently, but that was all. I stood watching her paralyzed body for minutes, until she barked. "Fine."

My eyes sparkled as she spoke, and all the blame I was feeling disappeared. Then, when she stood by my side, she combined all her chakra in our connection, and I tried to expand mine to her.

"Inuzuka Style, human beast transformation!" I exclaimed as I made the hand sign for the jutsu.

After the white cloud dissipated, I saw myself with dog claws, pelt and fangs. I looked around, but I saw Kikamaru on my side. We weren't combined, even though I was with a dog appearance.

"I'm sorry, Kikamaru." I turned back to normal, giving her chakra back and trying to figure out what was happening. "I don't know what went wrong."

She was annoyed, but gave me more chances to continue our training. I tried several times to do the jutsu, but I was always the only one to turn into an incomplete big wolf.

I wasn't understanding what was happening, but after dozens of tries, we heard a grunt.

"Did you hear that?" I asked Kikamaru. She started to bark loudly, but not as loud as she could. My dog was getting tired of that training, as it was consuming much chakra, and I was the only one who was getting the results. "What is that?"

We saw a brown figure running from the other side of the field to our direction, and Kikamaru directed her barks to it.

"The smell, I can smell it from the wind..." I said forcing my vision. "It's that beast again!"

As she barked, she said to me. "No, same, other."

"Another boar?!" I exclaimed as we tried to dodge the beast, that had already reached us. It had the same seal.

Then, when I accomplished the boar's way, it turned back to stare at my eyes, and Kikamaru barked at me from behind.

"Kegawa Inuzuka, and Kikamaru, daughter of Shiromaru." A husky voice whispered to us.

I felt a hand on my nape.