26.
Deja-vu. I walked out of my room in the middle of the night to find Gaara in the middle of the hallway. Well, not exactly in he middle of the hallway, cas he was really sitting at the top of the stairs with a serious thinking face-aura-thing going on, but still, he's brooding in the middle of the night and I have to pee except I can't just leave him there, it would bug me having him directly across the hall while I'm going to the bathroom.
So I pushed him down the stairs and went to the bathroom, cas I'm nice like that at two A.M.
When I came out of the bathroom Gaara was at the bottom of the stairs rubbing his head and Kankuro was standing outside his bedroom wielding a random puppet arm.
"heh? What's going on?" he asked, obviously not seeing Gaara at the bottom of the stairs.
I shrugged and he lowered the puppet arm.
"do not tell me that all the noise was you in the bathroom? What the hell did you eat?"
"No." I mumbled.
Temari shuffled out of her bedroom long enough to smack Kankuro upside the head and shuffle back to her room. I grinned and that turned into a yelp when a string of sand grabbed my ankle and tugged, sending me toppling down the stairs.
"ENOUGH ALREADY!" Temari shrieked from her bedroom.
I cradled the back of my head and saw Gaara smirking at me from upside down, wait. no. I was upside down.
Crap.
"Gaara." I beamed sweetly.
He didn't fall for it.
Complete and utter fail.
I whimpered a pathetic I'm-in-pain-whimper-sob(completely fake but Gaara didn't know that), unlike my usual quit-teasing-me-sob or I'm-not-happy-I'm-getting-beat-up-sob whimpers.
He stopped for a heartbeat at the foot of the stairs and I felt the sand loosen.
My next mistake was the expression of victory that was still on my face when he turned around.
"oops."
He smirked, then tilted his head in thought.
"your hair is short." he remarked dryly before heading back upstairs, leaving me hanging.
Literally.
So I pretended I was a vampire and made my next mistake in making an evil-cackle-creepy-vampire-laugh nearly an hour later. Temari door swung open and a shurikan flew strait for my head.
I Can't Move! I thought in despair.
The sand swung around me in a wave which the shurikan bounced of harmlessly, and now instead of me hanging by a foot I was wrapped in a sand eggshell, still immobilized, but more comfortable.
"night Gaara." I whispered into the air.
The rest was silent.
WHAP!BAMBAMBAM…BAM! I woke up tumbling in complete darkness.
I screamed and then remembered I was in a sand egg, courtesy of Gaara, courtesy of me pushing him down the stairs.
In all honesty I was lucky he hadn't killed me.
But being tumbled around inside and egg isn't fun either, what the heck did I just roll dow- oh. I think the egg got rolled off the front steps.
I'm still rolling, I'm taking this as a sign I'm outside.
"Gaara?" I called.
No response.
More rolling.
"Gaara!"
No response.
More rolling.
"GAARA!"
A shudder.
More rolling.
I feel like I'm gonna be sick, all this rolling around like I'm in a washer machine or something is really disorientating.
I'm not rolling fluidly either so instead of the sand being manipulated by Gaara, I'm thinking its being pushed.
Unfortunately I think that means I'm being kidnapped and I want a cookie NOW!
"GAARA! SOMEBODY! GOD STOP PUSHING I'M GONNA BE SICK!"
The egg rolling stopped but my nausea wasn't ceased so abruptly.
"who's pushing me?"
No response.
The thing about Gaara's sand is it's filled with his chakra, and is nearly unbreakable when sealed. In this situation my wind abilities are nearly hopeless. Leaving me helpless.
"'?"
"what?" I heard somebody whisper outside.
"I don't know, is she choking?" another voice murmured. No one I knew.
"should we take her out of it?"
"no, she could get away, we were lucky to find her in such a predicament, how often do you think its this easy to kidnap a Kazekage girlfriend?"
Aww, they think I'm Gaara's girlfriend!
Oh, wait, I kinda am, huh?
And that's why I'm being kidnapped.
The rolling continued until I passed out from a whole number of things.
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The next time I woke up I woke up breathing in the smell of strawberries, sand, sunshine and …. ? Something else good-smelling hat I can't put a name to but t all adds up to Gaara. Sleepy-looking, irritated Gaara, carrying me unceremoniously over his shoulder. I can feel his irritated-ness and I know he's sleepy. He's always sleepy.
I looked over and saw Kankuro carrying two unconscious guys over his shoulders.
My kidnappers, apparently.
He caught my eye and the first thing out of his mouth was:
"I got mad when you weren't around to make my breakfast. That's when we noticed you were missing."
I pouted and Gaara shrugged me off his shoulder.
"somebody really has it out for the Kazekage lately" I commented.
"they're harmless. It whoever's paying them I'm worried about."
I frowned at this and stayed silent.
I heard the screech of a hawk and saw it dive towards us.
Gaara raised his arm to accept it and it landed neatly, unable to scratch him with its sharp talons because of the sand wrapped around his arm.
He grabbed the small piece of paper attached to its foot and swung his arm out, allowing the bird to take flight once more.
Gaara's irritation increased and he sighed.
"we need to get back to the village, fast."