I'm not really satisfied with my translation for this chapter, so if you see any horribles mistakes, please, tell me and I will try to correct them. As always thank you for everything ^^.
Chapter 7
"Nothing Mr. brave, you can open your eyes" his sister informed him, rolling hers.
How could her brother hope to become a ninja if he was so cowardly, even Gaara who was younger than him had not been frightened.
"What do these numbers and letters indicate?" the curious Shukaku bearer asked.
"These are coordinates, that means we have to go there" the blonde explained to him.
"Will it never end?" Kankuro exclaimed tiredly.
"Stop complaining, that's not how you'll be a good shinobi" his sister snarled, tapping on his head.
''Ouch, and it's not by tapping me either" he retorted, massaging the spot where he'd been hit.
''Sissy, I barely touched you" she signaled.
"Stop!" Gaara shouted, "I ... I mean ... this is not the time to argue," he continued in a lower tone and his cheeks red because of the eyes of the passersby.
"You're right little brother, sorry" the brown man apologized.
The girl nodded before returning her attention to the piece of paper in her hands. Time was still running, and they were faced with nine possibilities and it was up to her, who had studied this exercise, which was not the case with her cadets, to resolve this enigma. She had to focus, and quickly eliminate the eight answers that were not the right ones. The first association was leading to the cemetery, it was not that, the second to the district of the old warehouses, nobody never set foot there, it was not that either. The third was driving she did not know where but not a place that was familiar to her, the fourth led them to the front door of the retirement home in the northern part of Suna, they were a little young to take their retirement.
''But of course, why did not I think about it sooner, what an idiot but what an idiot!" she cursed herself, striking her forehead.
She began to run without warning, and her brothers had no choice but to follow her.
"Temari, but wait for us, where are you going?" Kankuro exclaimed.
"I know where Sasori-sensei wants us to join him, so hurry up a bit" she urged them.
"You heard that Gaara, she's leaving without warning us, and it's our fault if we're behind her," he rasped.
His younger brother preferred not to answer anything, it was out of the question for him to take sides in what would certainly become an argument if the conversation continued.
They eventually arrived in a place they knew very well, the place where the jonin had tested them when their father had assigned him as their teacher.
"He is not here, you must have make a mistake" the middle child commented.
"No, I'm sure it is here, it can not be anywhere else, I'm sure" she said.
A ninja had to trust his instincts and hers told her that she was right.
''I trust you big sister, he will join us soon" Gaara added taking her hand.
''Thank you for your support Gaara" she replied, gently squeezing his little hand.
"Anyway, if he were here I would tell Sasori-sensei what I think ..." the other boy pointed out.
"How about that! What do you think Kankuro?" a male voice questioned.
"Sa... Sasori-sensei" he swallowed as he turned to face his teacher.
The scorpion stared at him with his cold and impassive look , his arms crossed in front of his chest, wanting an answer. Like this he was quite intimidating, and the Sabaku No was unable to articulate any syllable.
"Sensei, have we succeeded?" the demon bearer intervened to save his elder brother.
The brown marbles passed from one brother to another, and the eldest of the two sons of the kazekage let out a deep sigh of relief.
"You have five minutes ..." the adult began, interrupting himself voluntarily.
His three students were hanging uon Sasori's every word, both nervous and impatient to discover whether or not they had solved this series of riddles in the two hours granted.
"..Of advance in the time I gave you" he announced, putting an end to this unbearable suspense.
"For real sensei?" Gaara asked not getting over it.
"I do not have time to waste in jokes" he reminded.
"We dit it, we did it" the two boys exclaimed with joy.
Their sister just smiled proudly, delighted and relieved to have not disappointed the Akasuna no.
''You could have arrived earlier, we will have to correct some small points and especially knowing how to say no, is not it Temari" he pointed out.
The blonde's cheeks instantly turned red even brighter than the hair of her youngest brother. So their teacher knew that she had been not firm enough and that she had given into the temptation of Emiko's cake.
''What is our reward?" Kankuro asked.
"What have we won?" Gaara added.
"You have not guessed?" Sasori asked them.
The three children shook their heads negatively , they did not have the slightest idea of what was the surprise that they had won.
"Think, I did not make you run all over the city out of pure sadism, it followed a certain logic."
"What is sadism sensei?" the little redhead inquired.
"It's when a person takes pleasure in hurting others," his brother said, before the ninja.
"Is it true what he is saying?" the only girl in the group wanted to know, intrigued.
"Indeed, that's right" the adult confirmed, "but where did you learn that?''
"I read it in one of the books about puppeteers that was at grandma Chiyo's, it said that sometimes some of them developed this trait of character by torturing their victims" he remembered.
Sasori thought it best to go to his grandmother's house one day to check what kinds of books her library contained. He did not want one of his three student fal on a very graphic image of violence, at least not before they killed for the first time.
"Let's go back to your reward, go back to your journey" he advised them.
"First we went to a blue shinobis shop, then to the shop specialized in herbal medicine, and finally to a weapon shop" Temari enumerated.
''I do not see how that is supposed to help us" the oldest of her brothers sulked.
"These three places have one thing in common" their teacher remarked.
"One thing in common" the last of the siblings repeated puzzled.
"Do not focus on the places but on the services they offer" he helped them.
"So water, medicines and weapons," the brown boy summed up.
"All of three are useful to ninjas" his younger brother realized.
"How is this a reward for us?" Kankuro asked.
"Sensei, is it possible ..." Temari began not knowing whether to continue or not.
"What, Temari, what?" her brothersasked.
"Is it possible that we are leaving on a mission with you?" She finished.
"You understood everything, Temari" he congratulated her.
"We will have our first mission!" Kankuroyelled, jumping all over the place.
Gaara laughed with joy, they had succeeded, and it was for that reason that their teacher had decided to have them accompany him on what would be their first mission.
"We will leave in two days at dawn for the village of Koseki where we have to deliver a package" he informed them.
"Why not tomorrow ?" the little redhead asked curious.
"Yes it's true that, Sasori-sensei, why not tomorrow?" the other boy added.
"Simply because you ran all day, you must be tired, and you must rest, I tell you straight away I will not carry you during the trip" he warned.
It was ah this moment that he realized that while Kankuro and Gaara were running and jumping visibly very excited by the news, their eldest did not move, and seemed pensive.
"A problem Temari?"
''Not really no, I was just trying to find out why you did not send us get back an envelope in the southern part of the city, is not there anything which the shinobis use there?" she asked him.
He was only half surprised by her question, after all she was Karura's daughter, and when she was her age, her mother asked the same style of questions.
"No nothing, and I felt that these three places were more than sufficient for this exercise" he replied.
In fact if he had not sent them to this zone it was because it was in this area that was the district of pleasures. It was here that some shinobis of both sexes and some civilians came to satisfy their desires. The Sabaku No in front of him were too young, far too young to find themselves exposed to half-naked bodies pacing the streets.
"Here I give you a list of what you will have to pack for the mission," he finished, giving Kankuro a sheet of paper.
Then he took them home, as he got used to, and left when they were inside their house. Tomorrow he would prepare for the mission, with these three under his custody he could leave nothing to chance.