Part 7-Special request

"Be careful with Temari, she's in a fragile state and I'm worried about her…" He left.

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Temari rolled over and turned off her alarm. She hadn't slept at all; she was too rattled. She got up, got dressed, picked up her fan and left.

She headed for the outer boundaries of her village, the desert there was perfect for training, there was a lot of obstacles that were perfect for Chakra training. Quicksand, wild animals, very few trees and the odd bandit.

She stood in front of one of the few trees that actually grew out there.

"KAMAITACHI!" Her wind attack, which was mostly used for deflecting weapons, cut through the tree like a laser. There was a delay and then the top half of the tree fell. Temari turned her head to avoid all of the dust and sand that had been sent flying by the tree.

"Not enough…" she walked over to another tree. "If I'm gonna protect my younger brothers, I have to learn this skill. I'm the oldest and both of them are stronger than me…" She snapped her fan shut and stood it up in the sand. She bit her thumb to draw blood. No matter what it does to me, I have to perfect these skills… She slid her thumb across the inscription on the side of her fan leaving a trail of blood, as was traditionally done with scrolls, re-opened her fan and spun it like a shot put, except she didn't let go.

"NINPOU! DESERT SANDSTORM NO JUTSU!!" She carried on spinning, each turn faster than the last until eventually she was spinning so fast a tornado had accumulated around her. The tornado had quickly picked up only the sand around her, or had created it's own, until it became a sandstorm, when it dissipated she collapsed. She looked up at the tree she had been standing in front of. It was now a fine dust on the floor. "I did it…" She coughed up a bit of blood but it didn't surprise her, had she been able to stand up she would have done a victory pose however she just had to picture it in her mind.

She rolled over onto her back and looked up at the sky, sunrise was really beautiful in wind country. It was probably about 4am. Thankfully Temari's fan was standing up in the sand so it protected her from the harsh sun. Something was licking her, probably one of the animals that lingered on the village's boundaries, which meant that she was going to have to pull out enough strength to hurt it at the very least. She looked out of the corner of her eye to see what it was. "Ritsuko…?" She raised an eyebrow at the albino rabbit, if Ritsuko's here, then that means… "Where's Gaara…?" She looked up and saw her little brother walking towards her.

"I told you Ritsuko was a good name for her…" Gaara reached out to help up his elder sister, "Temari, I've made up my mind…"

Temari stood up and dusted off her clothes, "about what?"

"I'm going to take the Chuunin exam again…"

"What made you change your mind?"

"I don't know, I just… did…" Gaara looked behind him, as far as he could, out of the corner of his eye

"Gaara," Temari practically shouted, however Gaara simply nodded, signifying that he had noticed the bandit coming up behind them, Temari nodded in agreement and carried on their conversation, "The Chuunin exam is here this year right?" Temari moved her head in order to avoid the kunai that had been thrown at her along with the shout of,

"GIVE ME YOUR MONEY!"

"Don't think so," Temari snorted.

"Bitch! Give me your money or else!" The bandit threw a punch at Gaara only to have it blocked by Gaara's wall of sand, as the thief recovered from the leftover pain from hitting the sand wall, Temari threw a kunai that sent him flying and pinned his hand to a tree.

Gaara and Temari walked over to where the thief was pinned, "What makes you think you can come to our village and attack us? I can tell by your fighting style that you're not a shinobi of the wind country."

"Very good Temari-sama," the thief that was pinned to the tree smiled, at least Temari thought it was a smile, He wore a full-face mask and the space for eyes wasn't big enough to tell.

"How do you know me?" Temari hastily pulled off the mask he was wearing in order to see his face. Long red hair fell from where it was pinned on his head; he looked up at her and blinked, a girl? Temari stared, and the symbol on her head protector, I recognise it from somewhere…

"A Sound-nin?" Gaara stared at the girl who was pinned by her hand, he bit his lip; Shukaku was trying to get him to kill her.

She's really pretty…

So?

Wouldn't you love to see her blood drained by this sand?

No

You know you want to hear her scream as the sand crushes her, as her body is turned into nothing more then a paste to feed to the sand

Shut up

You're a monster Gaara, don't deny it, don't deny your primal urges

After what felt like years to Gaara, Temari's voice broke through the conflict in his mind, "So first, your village breaks our alliance and then you come into our village and attack us? By rights we should kill you for this." Temari looked at her bother who had suddenly gone wide-eyed at the word kill, "what do you want in this village?"

"Orochimaru-sama has a message for Gaara-sama."

"What is it?" Gaara stared at the redhead intensely

"He wants you to take the Chuunin exam."

"Tell him I already am, and if another one of his sound-nins gets in my way, he won't see them return…"

"Consider it done Gaara-sama," the red haired girl performed a set of hand seals with her free hand and disappeared with the trademark sound left behind by certain jutsu.

"I'm going home." Gaara turned and left, followed closely by Ritsuko

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A/N-Hey, I just remembered, Disclaimer! I do not own Naruto, blah, blah, blah (you know what goes here…) and if I did there would be two episodes a week and four manga chapters a week… And I would have Kishimoto Masashi as my art teacher *nods* R&R ppl!

P.S. I apologise for the lateness of this chapter, I have had MAJOR writers block