Aciddwolf: Whoot! Two up in one night! Hooray! Anyways, I'm tired now, and I'm not really sure if my head was fully here to do this part, but... I'm hoping it was, since I'm putting it up before I forget about it until a month passes. So here it is! Also... I've been thinking... I do need to end this eventually... (perhaps add a sequel if I get free time and miss the charries... since they've gained their own minds, and a little tiny part in my heart...) I'm thinking somewhere in the thirties or fourties it'll end... dunno yet...

Disclaimer: Sand Siblings/Naruto Chars: Not mine. Nadokai, Shiro, Zaiaku: Mine.

Shiro merely nodded a little at what I had commanded, and rose to his feet, forcing Nadokai up by one of his arms, as the boy stubbornly tried to plop back down onto the hard floor.

"I don't see why you have to be an ass all of the time, Gaara," I shrugged slightly, a smirk twitching at my lips slightly. Slowly, my eyes shifted quickly to Shiro and Nadokai, "I'd suggest to exit the room. I'll be right behind you both..." I mumbled, "we can find someplace else to sit while we wait for the rest of the teams to show up," I growled out the final part of my sentence lightly.

"Come on, Nadokai," Shiro hurried out of the room with Nadokai quickly following behind. Well... Nadokai was somewhat following, the other part was that he was partially being dragged. It was rather apparent that the boy wanted to go back to sleep as quickly as possible. He probably didn't sleep too well.

There's nothing, and I'm serious, nothing that I like more than the scent of terror mixed with blood... hn... it reminds me of the good old days... back when I didn't have a little girl carrying me around like a stuffed doll! When I could freely chew on innocent's arms whenever I wished it... then that idiot attacked me, and I got stuck in a tree. Damn your mom for having a daughter. Why couldn't you be a boy? If I would have known you wouldn't let me have fun, I would have terrorized you since you were born like my... friend... seemed to have his host. It worked well for him, and look at Kyuubi. If I would have never spoken to you, you'd never even listen to me at all, and be an idiot like that Naruto boy is... the Gobi let out a growling sound as he chuckled lightly. "You bother me... and I don't listen to you, unless I already planned it. Also, don't talk about Naruto that way... it's not all his fault on how he acts, occasionally..." Standing up for somebody you care so deeply about? Bleck... "He's always had my back. So I should be able to defend him from the voice in my head... oh god... that makes me feel like I'm mental by thinking that..."

Gaara looked at me as if there were a thousand daggers piercing into my skin one-by-one. He wasn't reacting. Perhaps this meant that he wasn't going to stop us from leaving.

I sighed lightly, and turned away, hearing a soft thud as the cork popped out of Kankuro's mouth, and onto the ground, shortly followed by a soft squeeking sound. So... he let us go unharmed in any way? Asides from Nadokai seeming a bit terrified, along with a strong scent of fear from Temari, Kankuro, and Shiro mixing together, nothing seemed out of place.

"You've got to stop that," Temari hissed at me as I made my way out of the room, and to my two teammates, one of them being asleep on the floor already.

"What was that about?" the only of the two that was standing, Shiro, questioned me, his expression was nothing to play about. He had known something was wrong in that situation the second they had stepped into the room, hadn't he? The look he was giving me told me, rather firmly, that he knew that I was well aware of the three that were in the room, and had some encounter with them in the past. The problem was, in my mind, that he wanted to know, and I wasn't certain if I wanted to tell.

"I'll tell you... when we're in a different room..." I sighed lightly, and grabbed Nadokai by the wrist, "I'll take him from here. If he can't stay awake enough to stand, then I can drag him across the cold, hard floor."

Shiro nodded some, as we located a smaller room within the tower, and sat down. Nadokai had yet to wake up, and the majority of his lower body stuck out the door, since neither of us really wanted to pull him in any further. He was too heavy.

"God... he needs to lose a few pounds... are you sure that he's training instead of going to all-you-can-eat buffets, someplace, all day?" I poked Nadokai's cheek, then his shoulder and side, until I had managed to roll him over onto his side, not facing me. I didn't want him to face me in case he drooled. I wasn't possitive of it, but it just seemed like, with him being part Inuzuka, that he'd have some dog-like quality, and drooling everywhere happened to be a quality that would fit him perfectly. Ah... I was a little mean about that... especially since he didn't like any reference to his Inuzuka blood. He was only half, and his dog had died around the middle of our academy time. Just realizing it, that could have always been the reason why he acted like he did. He was the misfit half-dog. But still, I didn't want to risk being drooled on. He could keep it between him and Mister Floor, since if he drooled on the floor, it couldn't complain, or be sickened by it, unlike I would react.

"Zaiaku. You still haven't told me about those three..." Shiro pointed out, rather bluntly, "...you plan to, correct?"

"Hai..." I sighed lightly. Actually, I was hoping he wouldn't mention anything, and that I wouldn't have to speak about them. "Gaara is an old friend of mine, from when I lived in Suna... but, I guess when I moved away, something happened and he changed. The two with him were his siblings. Temari and Kankuro..." I spoke rather vaguely about the three.

"And you two kept in touch enough for you to know this?" Shiro asked, a serious look on his face still, "...he doesn't seem like the type of person that would write letters to people when he isn't busy..."

"Ah... no... I... 'visited' Suna recently... and happened to stay at his home for a while..." I tried to keep things somewhat vague, but knew that he'd continue the questions regardless.

"...You haven't been out of Konoha for over a year... except for when you returned a wreck and--" he was about to continue, when he saw me look at the ground, "...you were with them then?" I nodded a little at his question, and looked over at Nadokai. "They're the cause of you returning in your poor state..." it wasn't a question. He was merely aknowedging it.

Nadokai shifted a little, and sat up, a tired look in his eyes still, "h...huh?" he asked rather sleepily, looking around to figure out where he was. Shortly after, he rubbed his back, probably in a bit of pain from being dragged about.

"Hn... When will this be over?" I let out a soft yawn, leaning against the wall, in a sitting position. I hadn't been sleeping quite well enough, myself.

"Zaiaku... if you want to rest, I'll keep an eye out here... Nadokai and you both look tired..." Shiro spoke rather calmly, but had a conscerned hint in his voice.

"If anything happens, wake me up that instant... especially if the sand siblings are involved..." I growled lightly at him, to make sure the point got through. Apparently it had, as he quickly nodded his head and stated that he'd never consider anything otherwise.

By the point that I had shut my eyes, Nadokai had started snoring, proving to not have been awake as much as I had figured, and my mind was drifting off.

Within my mind, I could hear Gobi making a conversation with me. On occasions, he'd try to talk with me while I was asleep. It was always an interesting thing, since he seemed lesserly savage and insane, most of the time, when he was communicating with me then, of course, it was always in a form of a dream, but it could always be told by him that it was indeed him speaking with me. Like usual, it was a feild with just one large tree, where a white wolf sat, with five long tails.

Do you really trust that boy enough to tell him that?

"He's on my team. I shouldn't hide things from him."

Shinobi are supposed to be secretive, young kunoichi, why don't you understand this?

"I do understand, but I don't want to listen to you. If it were seriously important in my mind, then I wouldn't have told him."

Be careful of what you say, and good luck with young Gaara. It seems that he must have some plans in mind, if he hasn't tried to kill you yet... Even when you were being held prisoner, I don't think that was his full power he was using... just enough for the average human to pass into unconsiousness...

"Understood... oh, and Gobi? Do me a favor... stop asking about socks, and shouting random things for me to tell others..."

That's no fun! I'm not listening to that request! The gobi's tone sounded like it was pouting, as the animal rose to all fours, and dissapeared as the scene in my mind faded away.

"Zaiaku... wake up..." a male's voice slowly entered my thoughts, as I felt something push my shoulder lightly.