Chapter 15

Here is the long awaited chapter like I promised. Sorry It took so long to do. I was busy this past month with new experiences called University. The place is BIG! I got lost a few times looking for an office I had to get my registration form from. I also have to read some chapters before my first official class Monday. We spend this last 4 weeks knowing the campus, registering, getting textbooks, building a teamwork thing and wasting a lot of my time with getting to know each other. (Were in a city hostel thing where the seniors there help you get the know the place since in a city hostel you don't have a dorm at the uni but your own apartment in town. That's also why I don't have internet at my apartment. Im not rich so Im not getting it. I'll use the library for internet.)

"Do you think we should wake him?" Temari asked Kankuro who sat with her at the kitchen table. Kankuro was dressed in his boxers and shirtless. Temari on the other hand already took a shower before she came down from her room. She was dressed in a mid calf purple skirt with her combo boots underneath. She had a black leather shirt on which was an inch above her bellybutton. Temari has always been throughout her entire life a morning person. Nothing in the world felt better to her like a nice morning jog or a breath of the crisp morning air.

"Eh?" Kankuro sat down his puppet, which he was busy fixing. He lazily checked his wristwatch. "Its 10 in the morning." Kankuro muttered. He picked his puppet up and began fixing it again. He did not much care about anything when he was fixing, polishing or playing with his puppets.

"Its 10 am, so what? Should I wake him or not" Temari glared at the uncaring boy in front of her. Kankuro was not a morning person neither was he a late sleeper. It usually depended on when he woke up.

"Temari If I say no you would wake him up anyway." Kankuro sighted. "Now go do something. You're disturbing my work here. I Do not want to make a mistake on my poor Karuso" Kankuro said as a matter of factly. He looked at his puppet. The puppet had long brown hair up to its shoulder a round body and it had three eyes instead of the usual two. Temari always thought it was a weird and ugly puppet.

"No wonder your still single" Temari muttered, getting up from her seat. She flicked Kankuro against his head when she passed him. That startled Kankuro who was so interested in his puppet that he did nt even notice her getting up from her seat.

"No wonder your boy toy's leaves you" Kankuro muttered angrily. She made him scratch poor Karuso with the screwdriver he was holding at the moment. It seems like the whole moving caused one of Karuso's arms to fall off which greatly pissed Kankuro off. Karuso was a gift from Sasori when Kankuro was still a little snot nosed kid. He always practiced to prefect his puppet skills. When he didn't practice he would polish the wood and look after all the hinges on the puppet.

"Yeah I know im a bitch" Temari smiled. She thought back to her lazy boyfriend who never minded her rude comments or her weird ways. HE seemed so content with her. Temari laughed at the though of Shikamaru who once muttered she reminded him of his mother. "I wonder if he would introduce me to his parent" Temari told herself while she walked up the stairs.

"You would scar them for life" Kankuro yelled from the kitchen table. "They will bar up the windows and the door and probably get a moat when they learn of you ever visiting them again after the first time"

"Shut up and play with your Barbie doll before I shove that fucking thing into your mouth" Temari yelled. She was always amazed at Kankuro's perfect hearing. He could always ditch his love for dolls and work as a spy or something with that damn hearing. It reminded her so much of her mother. 'mom always heard everything no matter how softly we spoke' Temari felt a pang in her heart at the thought of their dead mother.

"Yar, Yar" Kankuro yelled back laughing. Temari smiled.

"So your copying words from Shika now?"

"Yeah" He yelled back. Rolling her eyes she ventured up the stairs. She made her way towards the spare room. She knew that Gaara was not in his room since she went to check up on Sakura the previous night to make sure she was still okay. What she found shocked her for the second time that night. Sakura was cuddling Gaara as they both slept. Gaara usually never slept. There was the occasion of sleeping once a week but mostly he was awake in his room at night.

The spare room door opened without a squeak or any noise that doors usually make. Inside she saw her little brother sleeping peacefully next to the pink haired Sakura. Softly like a sly cat, she walked up to the sleeping boy.

"Hey Gaara" Temari shook her sleeping brother by his shoulder. Gaara usually was in a worse mood in the mornings than he was in the day. The worst moods will be after he woken up from a few hours worth of sleep. No one knew scary until they met Gaara in that state. Temari gulped, shaking the boy.

"Get out of my damn room, Temari!" Gaara hissed with his eyes still closed. He snuggled against the warmth on his chest. It was so warm, smooth and smelt so sweet that he couldn't resist to snuggle against it.

"Your in the spare room" Temari sighted. Gaara was definitely not a morning person. She would have laughed at the sight before her if it weren't Gaara before her. His morning mood might just kill her like that one time he threw Kankuro out of his bedroom window back at their old house. It was really a good thing that Gaara's room was only on the second floor. Kankuro luckily landed on the big, round exercise trampoline they owned.

"Huh?" Gaara groggily asked. He pulled his head away from the soft, nice smelling thing. He gazed at her with only one lazily opened eye.

"Its 11 in the morning, Gaara. You slept the whole night in the spare room with Sakura" Temari said matter of fact trying not to hug Gaara. He looked so cute with that confused face of his. Like a confused little puppy!

"Oh" Gaara looked to the side to see that the warmth he snuggled against was no other than Sakura sleeping peacefully on his chest. A content smile adorned her pretty face as she slept. Her broken finger looked ever bluer than it did the previous night, which concerned him.

"Come on, I made some breakfast then we can talk. We might wake her up if we talk here" Temari cooed like a mother hen to its chuckling. Gaara was always amazed at how nice Temari could be towards him and Kankuro. People who knew Temari would never guess that suck a mean, tough and tomboyish person could also have so much mother qualities.

"Breakfast?" Gaara asked. She sadly did not get the cooking qualities of a mother. Her cooking was more like that of a man who never seen a kitchen or cooked in his life.

"Don't worry, Gaara. Its cereal! I didn't even add the milk." Temari glared. She never had a mother to teach her how to cook and neither have she ever had any friends who could cook.

"Good. I don't trust your cooking."

"I just send Kankuro to the hospital that one time" Temari sighted. She was just wanted to try and make some pancakes for them but sadly it did not work out in the end. Temari added milk, which expired a week ago and she accidentally added a cup salt instead of a teaspoon. How on earth was she supposes to know that Ts was for and not Teacup.

"Yeah he got food poisoning thanks to your wonderful cooking skills" Gaara smirked at his sister's face. Temari always felt so guilty when it was brought up when she gave her own little brother food poisoning. "You're the best cook when you don't cook" Gaara added. He gave his sister a small smile to show that he didn't mean the rude comment. It wasn't Temari's fault he got food poisoning. She was just ten years old that day.

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Gaara sat at the breakfast table eating a nice bowl of coco pops with a lovely cup of coffee in his reach. Next to him sat Kankuro, who was still working on his puppet.

"We should take her to a hospital. Her finger looks even worse than we imagined it would be" Temari let her worry out. She sat in her seat from the morning.

"I agree." Gaara nodded after he had a spoon full of chocolate. "Her finger looks worse than most broken fingers Ive seen." He popped another spoon of chocolate into his mouth. Gaara just loved chocolate. He could never help himself when there was chocolate near him.

"Don't you think there is a reason she did not go to the hospital last night?" Kankuro asked. He had just snapped the puppets thumb back into its socket.

"It does not matter. She needs to go to the hospital. I'm not a doctor. Her wounds could be worse than it looks!" Temari pointed a finger at Kankuro "So don't you go and tell her that she will be fine if she does not go"

"I wont" Kankuro grunted.

A thonking noise came down the stairs as they all talked and ate breakfast.

Everyone at the table turned towards the stairs as Sakura came limping down them. She had her hands gripping the railing while she took the steps one after the other with baby steps. Since she had pain the footsteps was anything but light or soft as she walked down still clothed in Gaara's clothing that she wore the previous night. . Her soft pink trestles were neatly tied back in a very short ponytail.

"Morning Sakura" Temari smiled. "Do you want some coffee and some breakfast" She asked going into mother mode again.

"Coffee please" Sakura stood in front of the dining table. "I feel like I was hit by a truck" Sakura sighted. Her whole body hurt all over but she did not show it to anyone. 'You get use to pain when its all you ever feel' Sakura thought. She could handle physical pain since she went through a lot of that but when it came to mental or emotional pain she caved easily. Gaara took in her weakened state as she just stood in front of the table looking at Temari as she stood up from her seat. Sakura started to follow after Temari to the kitchen.

"Sakura, Sit" Gaara motioned to the seat next to him while he locked eyes with Sakura.

"But I want to help" Sakura said. She felt her body begging for rest but refused the bodies demand for it. She will never be useless and have everyone doing stuff for her.

"No" Gaara shook his head "sit"

"I cant let someone make me food and get me stuff" Sakura said as she stared at Gaara who did not look convinced at all.

"Your body is still not in the correct state to wonder around. You have to sit down" Temari voiced her opinion. She stood in the entrance at the kitchen. Her hands were folded over her chest with a serious expression on her face.

"But" Sakura stood there like a fish without water. Temari and Gaara both did not look like they would change their minds at all no matter what she did.

"You will just damage your body more before it can repair it self as you walk around" Kankuro threw in his opinion, not even looking up from his puppet as he worked on its squeaky neck.

"Fine since I'm out voted, you win" Sakura sighted. She walked up to her appointed chair and took a seat. A small childish pout was visible on her face as she sat at the table.

"What are you two?" Kankuro asked as he looked up from his puppet to the pouting girl next to Gaara.

"What are you, a girl?" Sakura childishly shot back "Dollies are not for boys" She pointed an accusing finger towards his puppet in his lap and half of it on the table in front of him.

"No! This is not a dolly. Puppets are manly" Kankuro shot back.

"What's the difference between that and Barbie?" Sakura asked with a raised eyebrow.

"For one. Barbie is a blond haired slut while Karuso is a manly puppet with cool hidden chambers for weapons and what ever I can hide in it"

"Like his porn" Temari yelled from the kitchen. Laugher could be heard from the kitchen along with the sound of plates being handled.

"Temari!" Kanky yelled. "I told you to stop telling that to everyone!" Temari walked out if the kitchen with a bowl of cereal in her one hand and a cup of steamy coffee in her other hand.

"He sleeps with it every night and sings to it" Temari smirked as she put down the items in front of Sakura. Kankuro's face started to grow red as he began blushing out of the embarrassment that his sister just caused him.

"T.e.m.a.r.i" Kankuro hissed dangerously. He was gripping Karuso's hand in his own colossal hand. His eyes looked like an animal on the hunt as he glared at his older sister.

"I see you can spell, good boy" Temari patted her brothers head "I was just starting to doubt that you were able to get into high school" She patted his head again. Kankuro slapped her hand from his head.

"look who's talking blond bimbo" Kankuro muttered. He went back to his seat and stopped gripping on the hand like he's been doing for the past few minutes. "How did someone like you get into High school?"

"W.h.a.t?" She hissed at the boy in front of her. Her temper was slowly starting to rise. No one ever called her a bimbo and lived to tell the tale.

"Looks like Barbie can spell, wow good girl" Kankuro mocked. He patted her head as she started to tremble with rage at his words and his brave stunt of patting her head like some dog.

"Gah!" She screamed slapping his hand away "your dead" Temari yelled. She jumped toward him, ready to murder the boy before her. Kankuro sidestepped her wild motion of trying to grab onto him.

"eeeh" Kankuro ran away from his sister. "Killer Barbie on my tail!"

Sakura and Gaara sat in silence at the table as they watched Kankuro run around the house screaming like a girl and Temari running behind him screaming only profanities.

"Idiots" Gaara muttered from Sakura's side. He sat and ate more of his chocolate cereal. Sakura laughed at Gaara's remark. She picked up her spoon ready to eat her own cereal, which happened to be the same as Gaara's. Pain shot right through her whole hand when her hand gripped the spoon.

"ouch!" Sakura yelped. The spoon fell from Sakura's hand. It clashed onto the kitchen floor with its long and smooth metal body. Temari stopped chasing Kankuro around the kitchen as she looked over at the pinket.

"Are you Okay?" Temari worldly asked as she looked at Sakura as she held her injured finger. Kankuro put the spoon down on the table after he picked it up from the floor.

"Yeah it just hurts" Sakura whispered as she cradled her finger in her hand.

"That's it, your going to the hospital" Temari said.

"No! I don't want to go" Sakura protested. She did not want to go to the hospital since Tsunade will find out about it and so will Neji, Shikamaru, Kakashi and worse Akatsuki. They will all ask her what happened and who did this but she knows that she will not tell which will result in chaos. Sakura shuddered at the thought of them all going psycho and hunting down every single person who looks suspicious who in this case will be everyone.

"Why not? Your finger looks broken." Temari stated.

"Well you see I don't like hospitals" Sakura lamely said. "It's a phobia I have"

"So your going to let your finger stay like that" Gaara asked with a raised eyebrow. "Suit yourself but if you do not get the proper treatment that blood that seems to form around your nail will certainly rot and so it will eventually stop the blood flow to the rest of your finger which will only mean that they will probably amputate it but that's not so bad." Gaara shrugged "Just think about the other wounds you sub stain could be worse and do more damage to your body. Imagine the scars - "

"Fine!! take me to the hospital" Sakura shuddered at the mental image of her body parts rotting and falling off piece by piece. 'O well other people being hunt down is okay as long as my body don't fall off' 'Hope Sasuke is first' Sakura's conscience kicked in. 'I agree' Sakura thought.

"Good girl" Kankuro patted her head. Sakura turned to him with a icy glare.

"Do that again and you'll be sharing the room in hospital bed next to me" Sakura glared at the older boy. Kankuro gulped. He had never in his life seen a glare come from a girl who's could even make Gaara's run for his money.

"Now lets get to the car" Temari smiled. She and Gaara helped Sakura to Temari's car while Kankuro did not help her. He was not planning on going to the hospital anytime soon.

Yeah its the end of this chappy. The next one is longer since I had to make up for the shortness and lateness of the whole story! Oh yeah and as you know you get another chapter.