Suna's Kekkei Genkai
Chapter 3: Yorokobi
Bwhaha! SNG isn't the only one who can have chapters with japanese names!!! Ha! ha-ha-ha! Ha!
Shukaku: you're such a dork
H-R: (in state of depresion in corner)
Shukaku: we are sorry for the wait. The idiot is working with her highschool play. But she's not in it.
H-R: (deeper depresion)
Shukaku: she's been doing that for the past while instead of writing her ffs. but tomorrow (friday) is opening night (H-R :D) so by sunday she'll be back to normal.
H-R: until the musical!! :
Shukaku: .......damn.....
SNG: (Gai-sensei pose) I WISH TO BE IN IT, AS WELL!
Kyuubi: I will now direct you to a peaceful scene while H-R's fans, SNG's fans, and Shukaku and I pummell the hell out of them.
Sasuke glared at the wall as the hot water from his shower ran down, washing the paint on him away. "Damn that Naruto," Sasuke muttered to himself. Not only had he started the whole thing, but he and that sand bastard had teamed up on him.
The Sand bastard.
Why the hell was he in the village? No one had seen hide or hair of a sand nin since the siblings left after he returned. Now the one he hated the most had been assigned to help them with their mission. His glare deepened when he remembered how excited Naruto had been and how Kakashi had simply smiled and said, "Is that right?" when Gaara had walked up to them with a note from the Hokage. And why hadn't Sakura taken his side, like she always did?
Flashback
"Gaara, you work over there where Sakura is, alright?" Kakashi said, not bothering to find out if it actually was alright, taking out his book and looking for a comfortable place to sit and read. Sakura looked at Kakashi like he just signed her exicution, but she quickly covered it up and tried to give Gaara a smile, failing miserably. Naruto and Sasuke were assigned inside painting while she and Gaara were outside.
As she began to paint she felt the sand nin watching her. Sneaking a glance in his direction she saw that he wasn't staring at her, but what she was doing then trying to mimick her movements with his brush. "Don't you know how to paint?" she asked, haughtier then she meant it. Gaara didn't reply, he just looked at her like she asked a stupid question then turned away from her. Sakura sighed as she continued to paint.
"I was never assigned missions like this."
"Huh?" Sakura looked over at Gaara who was opening a paint can with a kunai made of sand.
"I was always assigned missions for battle things or spying. They didn't think I was good enough for anything else," Gaara frowned as he looked down into the white paint. "Besides, everything in Sunaga is covered in sand from storms and the wind. It'd be pointless to paint it. No one would see it."
"What about the inside?" Sakura asked.
Gaara thought for a moment. "It's all brown and sand colored," he said after a while. "At least our house was. Temari always complained about it, but never did anything about it. Kankurou covered his walls with posters and stuff so you can't tell what color it is." Gaara blinked when he realised how much he had said, he couldn't remember saying so much in one conversation.
"What about your room?" she asked, smiling, feeling much more relaxed.
"It's empty. So's my new room."
"Why?"
"......I don't know." Gaara watched her as she stirred the paint then poured it onto pans. "What's that for?" he asked pointing at the roll of duct tape.
"To keep paint off the windows," she replied, applying the tape to the house around the windows. She finished taping up the bottom part of the window, then looked up thoughtfully at the top part. Something suddenly lifted her up to the top, looking down she saw sand wrapped around her legs, holding her up higher so she could tape the window.
"SAKURA WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!"
Sakura screamed and almost fell backwards (almost cause the sand was still holding her). Sasuke was staring at her from the window he'd thrown open in front of her.
"Put her down!" he growled to Gaara, who glared back.
"S-Sasuke-kun, he's just helping me--"
"Put her down!"
Kakashi glanced up as Gaara brought Sakura back down to the ground, bringing the sand back to him. Sasuke jumped out the window and glared at Gaara, who simply turned and stormed into the house where he was sure the company (Naruto) wanted him more. What followed was of course the paint war.
End Flashback
Sasuke growled to himself as he turned the water off. Sakura had been mad at him for yelling at Gaara. Something about 'overreacting' and 'holding grudges'. The bastard had tried to kill her! Why the hell was she on his side? Then Naruto dumped paint on him and started the paint war. 'I hate my life!'
Neji gave Kankurou the run through of basic blocking instructions: one slow motion punch from Neji, one step back and one block from Kankurou. They ran through that for a while until Kankurou was confident to do it normal speed. (it sounds ridiculously easy, but it's like one of the hardest things to do. remembers when she learned this groan...). Neji taught him several more blocks, then counterattacks. Neji looked up at the sun and saw it was almost time for dinner. (SNG: Neji can tell stuff from looking at the sun! IN YOUR FACE GAARA! Kyuubi:...He can probably go it too, I mean, he doesn't wear a watch...)
"That's enough for today," he told Kankurou, who couldn't be happier. "Would you like to eat dinner at my house?"
The thought of eating Temari's cooking after training this hard made his sick. "Yes! yes please!" he explained why to Neji as they went down the hill and walked past the Sand house. Gaara was sitting on the porch looking bored with life, reading one of Kankurou's Rorouni Kenshin mangas.
"Your brother can come to if he wants," Neji said.
Kankurou nodded and went up to Gaara. "Isn't that my book?" he asked.
Gaara flipped the book back to the front and looked on the inside where the name, 'Kankurou', was written. "Yes."
"Did you ask?"
"No."
"Why are you reading it?"
"Because you left it in the living room."
"That doesn't mean you can read it."
"The you shouldn't have left it in the living room."
Kankurou smirked. "Neji invited us to go eat dinner with him, interested?"
"No."
"You'd rather eat Temari's cooking?" Kankurou asked, shocked.
"Temari went out to see someone (H-R: chough Shikamaru cough Shukaku: stare H-R: (sweet grin) Shukaku rolls eyes), she wont be back till later," Gaara replied turning a page.
"You sure?"
"Yes."
"Ok," Kankurou turned and left pausing it see if Gaara would change his mind at the last minute, but he continued to read, paying no attention to his brother. "He doesn't want to," Kankurou told Neji.
"That's fine," Neji said leading Kankurou down the path to the Hyuga house.
Gaara opened the front door and found 'that pink haired girl' and the teacher from hell behind it. 'That pink haired girl' looked a little shy, but she was smiling again. Tsunade was grinning at him, but Gaara had no idea why and really didn't want to know. Gaara decided that saying 'what are you doing here?' would be a waste of breath so he waited for them to state why they had knocked on his door.
"Hi Gaara," Tsunade greeted. "Sakura had this idea and I think it's a good one, so we're going to do it."
Sakura folded her hands behind her back. "You know how you said your room was empty?"
"Well, I was thinking that maybe I could help you fix it up. I really like painting anyway."
Sakura's smile dropped for a second. INNER SAKURA: "Does this guy have a speaking problem or something?!!?" Sakura agreed with her inner self. "So I came by to look at your room and see what's to be done."
'Ok...not the reaction I was going for but ok....'
Tsunade stepped up and pushed past Gaara. "So let's see your room," she said leading Sakura up the stairs.
"Which is your room Gaara?" Sakura called. Gaara slowly trudged up the stairs. Tsunade was opening one door on the right. The wrong one, but Gaara didn't feel like saying so. Opening the door tripped the wire and shot several kunai at the Hokage, who batted them away. She stepped in and an explosive note sparked, but she crumpled it up. A bucket of water suddenly fell on her, drenching her from head to foot.
"Who's room is this?" she asked, turning to Gaara. A bucket of fresh sand fell down as well, coating her completely.
"Kankurou's," Gaara said walking past the door to his and opened it. Grumbling, Tsunade led Sakura inside but didn't go far in. They both groped the wall for a light switch, but found none.
"Gaara where's the light?"
Tsunade frowned at him and went to open the window and let light in. She didn't get far though as she tripped over invisible items on the floor, causing a loud clatter and crash. "What the hell?!" Tsuande tried to see what she had tripped over but it was still dark.
"I thought you said your room was empty," Sakura said.
Gaara walked past Tsunade and opened the window shade for them. The room was indeed 'empty' in the sense that it only had a chair and dresser in it (and clothes on the floor. he may be a homocidal maniac, but he's still a boy). However, strewn about the floor were lots of silver or glass items in small piles of placed randomly around the room. When the curtain opened, the light reflected off the stuff and sparkled on the walls and ceiling. Tsunade paused to look at it. Tsuande noticed Gaara's expression change as he surveyed his work. 'Likes shiny stuff, does he?' she said to herself. (SNG: THAT'S MINE! IT IS! I WROTE IT FIRST, DAMMIT! Kyuubi: SHUT UP! H-R: That means nothing to me. You take my stuff all the time.)
"Where'd you get all this stuff?" Sakura asked.
"Found it."
"All of it?"
"Yes."
"Where?"
"........none of your business."
"Why's it on the floor?" Sakura asked.
"....." (he says that a lot doesn't he?) Gaara looked at her like she asked a stupid question and pointed at the lights. On closer inspection, the two girls saw that the piles and scattered objects were actually carefully placed on the floor so that the lights would hit the ceiling and walls, or other objects to reflect somewhere else. The sparkling colors glittered almost angelicly around them. "It's pretty," Gaara said turning away from them. (SNG: Leave 'im alone, ok, everyone has a hobby! (goes and hugs Gaara) Gaara: Unhand me, you freak.)
Tsunade smiled at his back as Sakura continued to admire Gaara's work. 'He really is a normal boy underneath,' she thought to herself. 'I might enjoy this more then I thought...'
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all done this chapter (finally). sorry for the wait. also sorry that its going kinda slow. It will get better I promise. Next chapter is pretty much laid out I just have to find all the pieces of paper I wrote them on. Hopefully none of them were stuff I turned in to my teachers, cause I've been known to write on school papers when I finish the assignment early.