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"Maiha, it's time to head back to the sand," Temari shook Maiha as she slept on the couch in Tsunade's house. "Gaara and Kankuro have been released from the hospital with a full bill of health. We have four days to be back in Sunagakure for your wedding, wake up!"

SLAP!

"What the fuck!" Temari rubbed her abused cheek as Maiha opened her eyes.

"You don't have to be so vulgar. Did you have to shake me so hard?" Maiha sat up and rubbed her head.

"Did you have to slap me?"

"I guess we're even," she laughed and stood up.

"Jiraiya and Kakashi are going to come with us to Sunagakure, everyone is waiting at the gates for us."

Maiha kissed Temari's cheek then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

I appeared at the gates next to Gaara and wrapped my arms around him, glad he didn't have his gourd.

"Where's Temari?" Kankuro asked.

"I expect she's fuming at Tsunade's apartment," I smirked.

"What did you do?"

"I slapped her because she woke me up," I pouted. "Why didn't you wake me up Gaara?"

"Cause then we would have been delayed a lot more," Gaara smiled as I jumped onto his back.

"Dude, Gaara, don't smile, it's creepy!" Kankuro growled and that made Gaara laugh as he brought his hands to my thighs to hold me up.

"It's not like I'm going to kill anyone but Temari can be punished by being left behind," Gaara smirked then bounded off into the trees.

"They just don't fully get you yet," I smiled, kissing his cheek.

"I know," he replied back as we jumped across the tree branches, leaving the others to wait for Temari.

"Damn those two," Temari muttered as she finally caught up to Kankuro, Kakashi and Jiraiya.

"Hey, at least he's happy now," Kankuro smiled. "Where's your husband?"

"Got caught up with his old team and had to go on a mission when we had gone after Maiha and Sasuke. He'll be meeting us in Sunagakure," Temari sighed.

"Its still creepy seeing him smile and laugh."

"Yeah but there was always a difference between the smile of him being happy and the one that showed he wanted to kill someone, the latter was always disturbing to see because you never knew who it was directed at. When he's with Maiha, even when he still had Shukaku, all his blood lust was caged. He has always cared about her since the moment they met during the chunin exams and he broke her mask and discovered her Kekkei Genkai and she discovered his past."

"How do you know all this?"

"Gaara trusted me a lot more than you," she smiled and ruffled Kankuro's hair before speeding up to try and catch Gaara and Maiha.

It was nighttime before they reached the edge of the desert and saw Gaara and Maiha by a fire and she was in his arms asleep already. Kankuro plopped down opposite Gaara was asleep in a matter of seconds. Kakashi sat near Gaara and Maiha while Jiraiya sat up in the trees, taking first watch.

"How long has she been asleep?" Temari asked Gaara.

"Since about an hour after we left Konohagakure. She's been in and out of sleep all day," Gaara whispered. "I'm concerned about her."

"Gaara, she is pregnant and has had a rough past couple weeks," Temari laughed. "Do I need to keep reminding you that she is fragile even if she's a tough shinobi? I say that once we get back home, that she is off traveling until she has your little brat unless your willing to be carrying her all the time."

"Idiot," Maiha mumbled and opened her eyes. "You try throwing up all the time and traveling. It's a lot harder than you would think, especially for me since I usually don't need sleep or food."

"Go back to sleep Maiha," Gaara whispered, kissing her forehead and running his hand through her hair.

"I'm glad we met her," Temari whispered once they knew Maiha was asleep again. "It would have taken you longer to become the caring little brother you are now."

"Shut up and go to sleep Tem," Gaara smiled and closed his eyes.

Gaara woke up to Maiha scrambling out of his lap and sighed as he went to go comfort her as she vomited her dinner. He handed her some water which she drank gratefully before he helped her back to camp. She slapped his arms away and pulled her hair into a messy bun and picked at the meat they had cooked last night. Gaara sighed and spread his chakra over the sand nearby and reformed and filled his gourd then woke all the members of the camp. Jiraiya was righting in his small notebook with a perverted smile and Maiha shot some water at him, ruining his notebook.

"What did you do that for?" he growled, pouting.

"I will not be the main character for one of your new idiotic books," she growled. "I will not loose my dignity to some man who earned my father's respect because he saved him from a drunken Tsunade."

"How do you know that?"

"Father told me. They pulled my spirit out of my body when Sasuke captured me so I would feel as little pain as possible. When you arrived and heard my scream, that was when I had returned to my body," Maiha spoke as she doused the fire. "Let's get out of here. I'm ready to be home."

Gaara was about to pull her to him when he was suddenly drenched and Maiha was running into the desert with Temari and Kankuro, laughing as she looked back at him. She blew him a kiss and ran ahead of his siblings as he caught up to them with Kakashi and Jiraiya.

"Hormonal woman," Kankuro muttered. "You can never read their moods."

"That may be true, but at least you are getting first hand experience from her and not from Matsuri when you knock her up," Gaara smirked patting his brother on the back. "You'll be prepared to some point for when that happens and when your older sister becomes the master wind bitch."

Gaara dodged Temari's punch, laughing and sped up to try and catch Maiha, but she stayed out of reach of him.

"Gaara, get back here!" TEmari yelled. "You take it back!"

"You know it's true, Temari. It will happen because I said so! I am Kazekage and nothing gets past me..." He got hit again by water and saw Maiha smirking.

"Stop being such a pompous brat, Gaara. You are acting spoiled," Maiha spoke coldly.

"Will you all stop acting like children?" Jiraiya snapped, making everyone stop running and look at him.

"But in your eyes old man, we are children," Maiha spoke as she pounced on him and a pool of water appeared under him and he was soaked instantly.

"How are you getting water out here?" Kankuro frowned.

"The air, the ground, pretty much everywhere," she shrugged. "Why, are you thirsty?"

"Um..." Kankuro faltered and before he knew it, he was falling into a small hole of water. "You...!"

"I'm just the annoying little sister," Maiha smiled before patting his head and running off before anyone could really comprehend what just happened.

"Well, when she's around, going thorugh the desert is refreshing," Kakashi spoke as he pulled Jiraiya to his feet while Gaara and Temari pulled Kankuro out of the small water hole.

"That's true, but damn, she plays dirty!" Kankuro screamed after her and they all heard laughing.

"Let's get home, then we can tease her if she's still in a playful mood," Temari smiled and they started running after Maiha who was far ahead of them.

I COULDN'T HELP BUT FEEL A LITTLE PLAYFUL WITH THIS CHAPTER AND FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T REALLY LIKE GAARA BEING OOC I DO NOT CARE. EVERY ONE CHANGES WHETHER IT'S VISIBLE OR NOT.

ONLY A FEW CHAPTERS LEFT THEN THIS STORY WILL BE OVER. THANKS TO ALL MY READERS. THIS STORY HAS BECOME MY MOST READ STORY AND MOST FAVORITES AND ALERTS. I'D LIST EVERYONE WHO IS ON THAT LIST BUT THAT IS A LONG LIST.

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