I was afraid this was going to be a really really short chapter. Yay for fight scenes. Enjoy

Several days passed with minor incident. Temari fell alseep and almost destroyed the house before Gaara was able to punch her in the jaw and waker her. After that, she punched him in the jaw for punching her in the jaw. When he yelled at her for punching him in the jaw, she yelled at him and they both yelled until Kankurou came home. Then Temari yelled at HIM for staying out late with HER boyfriend. So Kankurou yelled at HER for yelling at HIM for dating HER boyfriend when SHE told HIM to act normal.

Needless to say, tempers were reaching their breaking point. While Gaara enjoyed sleeping in various postions in various places for long amounts of time. The nervousness of having his sister in his body was starting to give him nightmares. Something he didn't enjoy about sleeping. Not only that, the nervousness of having Kankurou in anyone's body except for his own was worrisome. It seemed like lately the skirts were getting shorter and the make-up getting sparklier. They needed to get their bodies back and fast. What the hell was Kakashi doing?!

Gaara rolled out of bed. How long had it been since he trained? Sure practiced with Kankurou's puppets but it wasn't the same as training. "Hey, Temari? Are you up?"

He walked down the steps. She had her arms crossed and she was glaring up at him. "Of course I'm up, moron. Why wouldn't I be?" she said icily. She acutally sounded like him but he couldn't be sure that she was acting.

"Let's go train together. It'll give us something to do." He smiled. She simply shrugged and walked to the door and waited. Definitely not acting, he surmised. He grabbed Karasu and put the heavy wooden puppet on his back. They were almost out the door when Kankurou opened it.

He had on a tight purple vest that showed more cleavage than Gaara had ever seen Temari wear and a short black shirt. All over long fishet that covered his arms and legs. He grinned broadly. "Hey guys, where ya headed?"

Temari glared daggers at him. She didn't say anything though. She new that harlot was with her precious Shika-shika and for that when they returned to themselves he would die...slowly....yes...so very slowly. She grinned sadistically. She would drag his insides all around the village and paint the town with his blood.

"Temari?" She snapped out of her reverie.

"What?"

"Why were you grinning like that? I thought you'd be mad at me for spending the night at Shika-shika-kun's."

She glared at him. "No one calls him Shika-shika-kun besides me."

Kankurou's purple lips spread into a smile. "Aren't you a grumpy guss, today."

"We're going out to train," Gaara intercepted before a fight could erupt. Temari was grasping a hold of how to use the sand fast and he wasn't sure she could stop him from killing their brother. Wow, it was all making sense now. No wonder they were so afraid of him. He was a deadly little psycho.

Kankurou grinned. "I havne't done that in ages! Let's go!" He dodges passed them and jumped over all of the stairs. He returned with his fan and skipped out the door. Temari looked murderous.

Gaara clicked his teeth. "Siblings..."

The three mismatched Sand Children went outside the village to a nearby pasture. It was fairly empty except for a few rocks and trees that jutted up towards the sky. It was an ideal place to get some excercise. Gaara took a deep breath. "What a nice day."

"Whatever, let's hurry up. I want to kill something," Temari snapped.

"Uh...Temari, we aren't here to kill anyone, we're just-" Gaara stopped abruptly when she gave him a look. "Come on and try to calm down, big sister. Please, for me?" It worked on him, he thought. How would it do when the tables were turned. She sighed and relaxed a little.

Kankurou picked a flower and tucked it behind his ear. He looked at himself in the shiny reflection of his metal fan. A push here, a tuck there, and he had to admit, he was one sexy, sexy girl!

"Stop primping, Kankurou!" Gaara snapped. Let's go ahead and do training exercise 23. Kankurou and I will come at you Temari and you have to stop us. Got it."

She didn't respond but instead walked towards the openness of the field. Gaara rubbed he back of his head and took a deep breath. He looked at Kankurou who smiled and tilted his head with a shrug. Gaara didn't want to know why he had been doing to be so happy all the damn time.

"All right. Ready? GO!"

Kankurou rushed forward and swung the fan at Temari. The sand rushed up and defended her with ease. A few weeks ago, she would have flinched. Now, she didn't even blink when the sand swirled around her. With a snap, the fan was opened to this first third and a blade of chakra imbued air cut across the field, snipping the grass and flowers and imbedded itself in a shield of sand.

Gaara was up next and he unleashed Karasu. The puppet flew through the air and attacke Temari. She tossed up a shield with a flick of her hand, head still looking straight forward, then shoved the puppet off of her defense.

"Boring," she commented. "You're all so boring." She turned her head to Gaara and the sand slithered toward him like three large cobras. He jumped into the air before they imbedded themselves hin his chest.

"Temari! Watch it!" He called out as he landed. She ignored him and swung her hand. A large fist formed and swatted Kankurou across the field like a child's doll.

The two boys tensed but all three felt a familiar tingle. Gaara called Karasu to his side and looked at his brother. Kankurou closed his fan and his eyes and noded. Temari remained still and unmoving. The wind swept across the pasture stirring up the clipped grass and flowers.

"There!" Temari snapped. Sand rosed up like a pillar a few yards away. Seemingly at nothing but imbedded on the end was a familiar kunoichi. The Mist ninja that had used that awful jutsu on them.

"Good job! We got here!" Kankurou exclaimed but the victory party was short lived as the body turned to mist and dissappated in the air. "A clone?"

Gaara looked around. There weren't many places to hide but still he couldn't place the location of their enemy. "The element of surprise is gone."

"What's she doing here?" His brother asked.

Temari took the cork from her goud, letting the sand seep to the ground and swirl at her feet. "It doesn't matter. She's dead."

The Kunoichi appeared before them. "You can't kill me. I'm the only one that can reverse the jutsu. If you kill me, you'll remain like that forever." She looked towards Temari. "I suppose you'll want to be taking a nap as soon as I reverse you."

The older Sandnin flinched. "You're bluffing. As soon as you reverse the jutsu, you know that we'll kill you. You'll never reverse it."

Gaara clenched his fist, Karasu tensed. "So we either way we should just kill you."

"Wait. I have a proposition." She held up a scroll. "This scroll holds the answers that you seek. But the direction won't show until I activate them and I'll only do that long before I'm gone."

"So what's the catch?" Kankurou asked, resting his arm on his fan?

"Well...as the children of the late Kazekage, I know you have more than your fair share of his wealth. I don't suppose you could give me say....half of it?"

The three kids were silent. It was true that they had a good deal of money but to split half of it three ways would be a tough life, even for them. They were quite happy with their current standard of living, however, currently, they were not happy with what bodies they were living in.

Temari chuckled. "Your greed is disgusting. I'll kill you now and make sure that you can never use that jutsu on anyone ever again."

This maid the mist ninja nervous. "You can't...You could barely kill me before. You've only been in those bodies for three weeks. You couldn't have mastered anything in that short amount of time." She shoved the scroll in the sleeve of her kimono. "It'd be a waste of chakra to fight me now."

Kankurou grinned. "Are you kidding? We're more dangerous now."

"Before we were fighting as three seperate ninja. Even though we were team and family, we still didn't really know much about each other," Gaara added.

"Now, however," Temari closed her hands together and formed a hand seal. "We're capable of moving as a unified unit. Our understanding of each other has more than doubled. You made a big mistake messing with us, lady."

Kankurou opened the fan fully and summoned a great deal of chakra to create a tornado that cut towards the Mistninja. She dodged it easily but was irritated to find Kankurou smiling. "Sunaarashi no jutsu! (Sandstorm Technique)" Kankurou and Temari called in unison. The tornado hit the sand and scattered it across the field. The Mistnin tried to shield her eyes from the sand only to find that she could hardly see at all.

A kunai hit the kunoichi in the head and again proved to be a clone. Gaara walked over and picked up the weapon, spinning it on his finger before putting it back in its holder. "Just as I suspected...Temari?" He looked at her. He was concentrating intently.

"20 yards...Northwest...." She opened her eyes but Gaara was already gone. "Think he can do it?"

"The sandstorm should slow her down a lot. He'll get there in time for sure," Kankurou said with a slight smile.

The Mist Ninja staggered around. Sand was getting in her eyes and every breath was abrasive and difficult. She didn't expect them to use such an advanced technique. However, she was sure that the clone would distract them long enough for her to be out of their range of attack. Even with the sand, she was able to make a clean escape.

She bumped into a tree. "Damn... I can't see a thing with all this sand." She coughed and tried to shove past the tree but found that it had a tight grip on her wrist. "What?!" She tried to pull her arm away but she couldn't. "It...it couldn't be..."

"Good job, Karasu. She thought you were a tree or something. I guess we'll have to kill her for guessing wrong," Gaara spoke up. He walked over and took the scroll from the ninja's sleeve.

"But how did you find me. I was -"

"The sand revealed you," he stated calmly.

"Temari and Kankurou's jutsu serves many purposes. First, it decreases visibility. If you can't see were you're going then you can't escape effectivly. Secondly, it reveals location. The sand is imbued with chakra. The grains stick to you and make you looked like a beacon. Traking you down was simple. Third, it slows you down. Even though, you feel like you've been getting further away this whole time..."

He leaned down to speak into her ear. "You've only made it thirty feet."

"No..." she said breathlessly. Her body was racked with coughs afterwards.

"Oh....did I mention the forth effect?"

"If you breath the sand then it slowly fills your lungs. Since is has chakra in it, its also toxic. Even if we didn't find you, you'd die in a matter of hours from aspyxiation." The was a loud crack and the Mist ninja screamed as her arm was broken and bent behind her back. "But I won't let you suffer for long."

"How? How could you get so strong so fast?" she cried.

"Easy. We're siblings." He flicked his index finger and it was over. The blade in Karasu's mouth extended and stabbed the Mist Ninja in the back of her head, killing her instantly. Gaara relaxed his hold and the dead body slumped to ground in a heap.

"Did you get the scroll?" Kankurou walked up beside him, the fan across his shoulders. He looked down at the dead ninja.

"Yeah. Let's go back to Konoha."