There was something I forgot to mention. So, before I get on with the next chapter, I have to put in a filler. Sorry, but it's considered important for this chapter.


Minamaru woke up very slowly, hardly aware of his surroundings for nearly a solid moment, then his eyes slid open as something cold and heavy touched his skin.

He blinked.

Once…

Twice…

Then realized what it was that was hugging both of his wrists. Squinting his eyes with sleep, his heavy eyelids already falling back down, he looked up to his wide awake lover.

"Why are there cuffs on my hands?"

"Because,"

Kanaye began, sounding as if they were discussing nothing more than the weather instead of the thick braces on both of Minamaru's wrists that spanned entirely over the bone. Turning them around, Minamaru found a lock on both of them.

No key in sight.

"You're mine. This will show anyone who asks that you belong to another until we marry."

Minamaru wasn't so surprised by not having a say in it, seeing as how he had already told Kanaye he'd slice him into tiny pieces while he was awake and aware if the redhead didn't.

"Oh… Well, I accept your wedding proposal!"

As if he had a choice… Which, Kanaye's quirked eyebrow suggested otherwise.

He blinked, then took a moment to open his eyes again to stare blankly down at the cuffs. They were colored a coal black, much like Kanaye's sand, as well as having a somewhat grainy texture.

"What's it made of?"

"My sand, as well as more dense substances found in soil and other earth material."

Kanaye grabbed one of Minamaru's hands to look down at his handy work.

"They're unbreakable… Unless I die. Then they'll fall away."

Which made Minamaru hit Kanaye in the shoulder, brutally enough that the redhead frowned at him.

"Then these babies better never break, or I will hunt you down and make your death life a living hell. Okay?"

He said the last word in a sing song voice, then cuddled into the redhead's built chest, happily enveloping the older boy in his long arms.

"You smell so smexy!"


'Kanaye, you butt, where are you?'

Again, Minamaru rubbed at one wrist cuff, grimacing down at the boy on his one knee before him, a diamond ring set in a circle of amethyst held up for the boy's consideration.

He was going to kill Aya for running off throughout the halls. Had she just stayed still, he wouldn't have had to go looking for her to ask her to go with them to their usual private place.

Had she not gone missing after turning another corner, Minamaru wouldn't have ran into Hito.

Who had then dragged him into an entirely different room than the ballroom the 'family' was gathered in. This one was full of higher powers. He could tell because none of them were loud, wearing casual clothes, or doing anything else that would classify them as middle class citizens.

He was starting to really not like them, even if he didn't know any of them. They all looked so expecting, as if he should have shouted 'yes!' the moment Hito had dropped to one knee and asked him to marry him. He hardly knew him! He loved Kanaye!

'Why wouldn't they stop staring?!'

"Umm…"

Hito smiled smugly, as if he knew exactly what he was railroading the younger boy to do.

"It's a simple question, Minamaru."

He rose the ring higher, subtly putting it closer to Minamaru's left hand.

"Will you marry me?"

'I'm engaged to Kanaye!'

'You're mean to all of my friends!'

'I don't want to marry you!'

'Why can't we just be friends?'

'Why are all of these people here!?'

'STOP STARING AT ME!'

"Umm… Uh…"

'Someone, stop this!'

"I… I… Umm…"

Minamaru was becoming scared. He could say one of two things at any moment out of nervousness.

One: Yes

Or, Two: Rain check!

He just wanted to say no, then go find Aya and choke her to death. Except, everyone was looking at him with disgust now.

Apparently, they could not believe that he wasn't saying anything… The rest could possibly be disgusted because he was a boy.

He wished that had stopped Hito from doing this… Clearly, it hadn't, though.

It was only Minamaru making a fool of himself in this room of bigheads, himself an adopted son of the Kazekage. As important as Kage's were, he wasn't even truly related to his raccoon daddy!

He rubbed harder at the wrist cuffs, a silly hope in the back of his mind believing that it could magically summon the redhead to him. Kanaye would not be afraid at all to tell any of these people how he felt for them.

Hito, by this time, was looking more and more confident. It made Minamaru angry, as well as somewhat overpowered. Had they been with the 'family', Hito would have never been able to do this.

Which may be why the Hyuuga had acted friendly for once and coerced him into this room… He should have known something was wrong with that scenario.

With a sudden loud 'bang!', the door slammed open and hit the opposite wall.

"RAINBOWS! WE'RE HERE FOR YOU!"

He would have laughed if he had had the nerves too. Instead, he watched blankly as Aya and Oki charged into the room, startling and shocking everyone with their forceful entry, and then dashed to his side.

Hito could only stare with mouth gaping wide with everyone else as the comical scene, which is sad for him. It was a wonderfully successful distraction method.

As if the glass nin weighed nothing, Aya picked him up, and threw him over her shoulder, despite his being a solid inch taller, then ran back out of the room with him in a fireman carry hold.

It was as they were half way down the hall that someone in the elegant ballroom finally realized what had just happened, and ran cursing out of the door after them.

Unfortunately, that was Hito, who stopped right outside the door as he was held back by his father with only the gentlest of touches to his shoulder.

Hito looked over his shoulder at the older Hyuuga, and then looked away with a growl. Neither his father, nor his father's cousin had liked the drama he had just created. Looking back into the room, he saw his mother nibbling at her bottom lip, only meeting his eyes momentarily, before they shot back down.

Everyone else was furious with the 'wild girl' with the 'rabid dog' who had taken the 'fag', then with Hito.

After all, he was most likely the next Hyuuga leader.


Minamaru, after being carried down a number of uncountable halls, finally blinked. As he began to squirm for freedom, Aya let him down, scowling at him the whole time.

"You're heavier than you look. I was just about to let you drop, rainbow."

Then she was the one to blink in shock, crossing her eyes to try and look down her nose at the multi colored hair of the boy as he jumped her, holding her in a fierce hug. Cautiously, she began to pat his back, looking confusedly to Oki, who only whined in question.

After a moment of being tightly held, she was released and was thrust backwards.

"Hey! What was that for!?"

She sat back up, growling up at Minamaru as he stood. He calmly dusted off his shirt, sticking his nose in the air.

"That was for making me run into him in the first place."

She shot up an eyebrow as she slid back to her feet in a fluid movement, her growl turning into a smirk.

"Yep, totally my fault you walked into that room with him. I mean, you must have fought him the whole way, but I kept shoving you back. What a horrid friend I am."

"Oh, shut up!"

She snickered, turning away from the upset flushed boy as she continued down the hall.

"Yeah, it's pretty sad when the original victim has to go save the new victim from a situation they could have easily avoided. I was sent after you, because we're all set up to have a camp out."

"It's pretty when the original victim has to go save the new- oh, would you just stop?"

Minamaru mocked as he rushed ahead of her. He didn't see Aya's new smirk as he did so.

As they approached the gang, with a new member, Hitori, who Jun had thought it would be kind to invite, which had been seconded by Minamaru, then approved by Kanaye, and just accepted by Aya, Samaie, and Oki.

Aya walked right up to Kanaye, who was looking questioningly at his flushed lover, and smiled widely. She ignored completely Minamaru's look of horror.

"Guess what Hito just did!"

They never made it to their private space. As a matter of fact, they, instead, camped out in the interrogation rooms, which were the most secure rooms they had been able to find for the time after Kanaye had knocked down a wall when the bruised and slightly bleeding Hito had been placed in a room with an ashamed Minamaru.

Aya and Oki, with only three interrogation rooms, and one adult they didn't trust around the rest (Hito, for his own safety, of course), were placed with Hito and Samaie, while Jun went with Minamaru and Kanaye.

Both the Kazekage and the hokage paid for the damages done to the main building and the prison.


Yes, the idea was ridiculously spaced out and dotted name heart's. I only tweaked it a bit. Heh heh heh heh heh…

I love it when they destroy things.