kk, u know the routine by now. Read, then review. NICELY THO! school is being a bitch to me, and Im having a hard time at home. (not like its any of your business or concern, just want u to know the conditions im in right now)

SO, that was not for pity or anything. just...gah, just read it. XD W00T! I reached the big 1oh!

Chapter 10: Everything is wrong

Hurdling past trees and plants, Gaara felt Hasame's body pulse in his arms as the chakra grew thicker and swirled around them.

She moaned, and her eye lids flickered. Gaara looked down to see her, and stared in surprise. Her eyes were completely black, and she looked like she was gone from this world, staring into nothing. The girl stayed like that for quite a while and when the sand ninja reached just before the border of Konoha, she made a strangled choking nose and had a violent twitch that made Gaara loose grip on her. Sand lashed out and caught her neatly before she even fell past two branches below.

"Fuck. She's getting worse." He grumbled, and returned her back to his hold.

Gaara quickened his pace, and nearly flew to the village of tree leaves.

It was still night, and the place looked almost deserted, except for a few places here and there with lights on. He stopped on a rooftop and realised something.

"Shit, I have no idea where Kakashi is." Cursed the demon carrier.

He jumped from rooftop to rooftop looking for the silver haired jounin. Eventually, he became frustrated and felt like killing something. Spotting a cat in an alleyway, he quickly crushed it to satisfy his bloodthirst for the moment.

"That was unnessecary, Gaara." Said a voice. Gaara spun around, sand proppelling forward then he stopped when he saw who it was.

Kakashi was standing on the street with his hands in his pockets, and a blank look on his features, or so that Gaara guessed.

Looking at the girl in Gaara's arms, Kakashi's eye widened and shot a look at the sand ninja.

"Orochimaru." he replied, and Kakashi only nodded.

"Give her to me. I'll seal it." Gaara envelopped the girl's body in sand and carried her over to the jounin. Catching her, Kakashi looked at the mark at the base of her neck. The spreading looked almost like a spiderweb, intertwined rhythmetically.

"Want to come?"

The sand nin nodded.

Hasame screamed and fell forward, exhausted. Kakashi sighed and turned to Gaara who was standing silently behind him as he had watched the sealing technique.

"She'll be awake in a few hours. Or less, depending on how tired she is." Explained Kakashi, who picked up her overcoat and laid it on top of her.

Gaara nodded and collected her.

Kakashi watched as the boy adjusted her body in his arms and walked past him, giving him another nod of thanks.

Shaking his head in disbelief, the jounin heard the door snap shut. He wandered over to the window and looked past its reflective glass. He saw Gaara glance down at the girl in his arms, and stand there for a minute. He brought the girl closer, and put his face in her hair, then jumped to the rooftop, and sped off to the forest.

Grinning, Kakashi stalked outside to his house. Ah, young love.

Temari had woken up first, always being the early riser, and stretched. Blinking away the sleep from her eyes, she saw Hasame still in her position she was before and Kankurou in his. Looking around, she couldn't see her youngest brother anywhere.

'Where could he be?'

Temari walked over to Kankurou and nudged him awake with her foot.

"Wake up. We still have to get Hasame to Konoha." she instructed her little brother, who at first groaned then remembered and sat bolt right up.

"Right! Let's get Gaara and-"

"I'm right here. And we don't need to worry about Konoha. I took her already." Said Gaara, appearing behind them silently. They jumped and looked at him cursiously. Temari walked over to Hasame and pulled at the collar of her shirt. There, infact, was the circle around the mark indicating that it had been sealed.

"Who?--"

"Kakashi." Gaara replied monotonly.

The siblings stood there in silence for a minute.

"Well, now we don't have a reason to go to Konoha! But, I guess...Let's go back home." conluded Temari weakly.

"We still have to train her and help her control her chakra."

Gaara nodded and nudged Hasame awake.

"Uhnnn...what?" she replied meekly, and turned over on the ground, hiding her face in the crook of her arm.

"I'm tired. Leave me be." The girl refused to get up.

Sighing in slight frustration, Gaara picked her up and flung him over his shoulder.

"ACK! What the hell?!" Hasame shouted in surprise, but Gaara only looked at his siblings as a signal to start moving.

They traveled the quickest way home, by trees, which meant that Gaara had to carry Hasame the whole way, being as she did not know how to jump from tree limb to tree limb without falling to her death.

"Hey...I was wondering..." Hasame said, seeing everything pass by her in a blur. "Does my mom know about this?"

Temari looked at Kankurou who looked at Gaara.

"Not really..." Temari answered, looking back ahead.

"Ah." was all the red haired girl said.

They remained silent for that time.

It took them a couple of days to reach Suna. They ate some food they had caught, and other resources availible. Finally, entering their house, the four had just crossed the threshold when a messanger gave them a scroll shakily.

"The Kazekage wishes to see you three, immediatly." he added hastily, giving Gaara the slightest of glances.

Gaara glared back.

Temari took the scroll and read it quickly. Scrolling it back up, she looked at her brothers.

"Dad wants us. About some exam. Let's go." she said, then looked at Hasame.

"Um...You'd better come too. I think we should introduce you to him." she added as a second thought.

Hasame nodded and followed her compagnions. The girl looked around wonderously at the sand buildings and the people buying items from booths and market shops. It almost was like her home, except the fact that it did not have any sand near the town.

"Quit gawking and come on in." Said Temari sharply. Hasame jumped and looked at her. She seemed more serious and less friendly now. A completely different personality.

'Maybe their father makes them like this...probably some jackass of a guy who smoked and drinks like hell' she thought.

Kankurou knocked three times on grand oak doors with his knuckles, and a deep voice allowed them entry. The doors opened and Hasame stared around in awe. It was such a grand room and the place was full of stacks of papers and scrolls. Even the library at home seemed tiny compared to this. She just wanted to grab the nearest scroll or whatever and read its contents.

Hasame was so engulfed by the papers and scrolls that she did not hear all of what the Kazekage was saying.

"...I've signed you three up and it is in three months. Understood?"

"Um...We have...another person we'd like to sign up, if you don't mind." Said Temari hesitantly. She looked around at Hasame, who was peering anxiously at one scroll which was lain flat on a table.

"Hasame!" she hissed. The girl looked up in embarressment and surprise.

"Um...hi!" she raised a hand in greeting at the man behind the desk. He had dark brown messy hair and a stern look on his features.

'This is their father?' Hasame thought.

"This is, Kashimicha Hasame." introduced Temari, pulling the girl by her upper arm towards the man. Hasame blushed furiously and bowed slightly.

"Hn. Where's her forehead protector?" he asked sharply.

"Ah, we will be taking her to the academy soon. I assure you that she will have it before the exam, Kazekage-sama." promised Temari, bowing also.

He only grunted and shooed them out of his office.

Pushing Hasame by the small of her back outside, Kankurou and Temari gave a deep sigh.

"Uh...what was that all about? What did I just get signed up for?" Hasame quickly asked, looking at them in utmost confusion.

"Weren't you listening?" Kankurou asked exhasperatedly. Hasame blushed again and shook her head.

"The Chuunin exams are being held in three months from now. You go from different levels of a shinobi. The first is an academic. You have to graduate from the academy and rise to a Genin, like us three. Then, it is a Chuunin, and after that is a Jounin." Kankurou explained, and the look on Hasame's face made him sigh and bury his face in his hand.

"Come on. we're taking you to the academy." Temari said and pulled Hasame by her arm, Kankurou and Gaara following.

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OMG! I FINALLY FINISHED THE DAMN CHAPTER! it took me FOREVER to figure out how to put this story in order! and sorry for never telling you guys what the ninjas were...and i made a boo boo...at the age of 15, Gaara is the Kazekage, correct? well, hes 14, and i know when he was 12, their father died by Orochimaru. and...this is so screwed up. if i go back and change it now, the whole story will be messed up. but, enough of my mistakes. just...damn read. yeah. bye!