Raven: Hurray!

Nightwolf: Er...what?

Raven: Hurray! For Tickle tests!

Nightwolf: Oh. Right.

Raven: Kathleen just doesn't like Tickle tests because she says they pluck at her pride, for some STRANGE reason!

Nightwolf: er, yeah. Read our stories! We have another split-author story up! Amberglass Chronicles! Whoo!

Raven: Yeppers! Now, for the moment you've all been waiting for since the last chapter!

FIC START!

"GAARA!" Exclaimed, well, everybody.

Temari gave a nervous half-laugh. "We must be mistaken. It CAN'T have been GAARA, of all people." But Tenten shook her head.

"It's process of elimination, Temari. Leave with it."

"It could've been Lee, or Neji, or Tenten." Kankurou pointed out, not wanting to face the wrath of his little brother, which is just plain SAD. Lee made a great show of looking innocent, which pretty much signalled he was the bad guy (lol) even though he wasn't. Neji gave everybody a glare that said 'i'm too cool for you guys' and also said 'Why's everybody LOOKING at me?' while Tenten just sat there, all...blank-ish. Like she usually is. No, that's NOT a jab at Tenten, so don't start FLAMING me again!

"It's Gaara, okay?" Spat Sasuke angrily. Kankurou and Temari huddled in a corner, afraid of their little brother's name.

Ino couldn't help but laugh heartily. "You guys are like the people in Harry Potter! They always cringe at the name Voldemort!"

"Oh gee!" Lee, Naruto, Chouji, Kiba, and Hinata all cringed, shuddering. "Don't say his name! Say You-Know-Who!" Wailed Naruto. Everybody who knew Harry Potter was so totally NOT REAL sweat-dropped. "Usuratonkachi." Sasuke muttered under his breath. He quickly noted there were people OTHER than Naruto and usuratonkachi was Naruto's personal little insult. So he added. "And other ahous."

"Should we go confront Gaara?" Kiba asked after regaining his sanity.

"NO!" Kankurou and Temari yelled at the same time. There was a quick discussion from Team 10 (that's team Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji, right?) and Ino came forwards, slapped pieces of duct tape that appeared out of nowhere onto Kankurou's and Temari's faces and walked back cheerfully. Everybody backed away from her.

"Let's go confront Gaara now!" Tenten said cheerfully. Sasuke and Neji both grabbed the remaining Sand Sibs and dragged them away, away, away...Poor them.

(Gaara's Room)

Gaara sat on the ground, drawing pretty swirly patterns on the ground with his new blue marker. He had found it on the ground right after everybody left to confront Kiba and Kankurou. "Oh, Gaaaaaaraaaaaaa." Lee called out in a spooky/retarded voice. "We have a preeeesent for yoooooooooooooouuuuuuuu! Come heeeeeeee-eeerreeeeeee!" There was a very audible slap and Lee's voice rang out loud and clear. "OW!"

Tenten's voice added in a loud stage whisper. "Lee! Once was enough!"

Everybody peeked in innocently. Temari and Kankurou had ran away fast, not wanting to taste Gaara's wrath. Gaara glared at them, hiding his marker and pretty swirly patterns quickly with sand. "what?" He made it look as if he was planning to kill someone by making a scimitar out of sand very very quickly.

Using Sabaku Kyuu, he made...arms wrap around Kiba, who screamed very girly again. Everybody stared at him, including Gaara. "Stop doing that!" Ino cried out in exasperation and Kiba yelled back.

"Well, I hit puberty!"

"Kiba, you've already PAST puberty." Shino deadpanned. Yes, Shino is STILL there!

"Well, whatEVER bug-freak!"

(Shino's Mind)

Sadistic bugs ran around the big space of Shino's mind as Kiba's comment rang loud and clear through a loudspeaker.

"Well, whatEVER bug-freak!"

This set them off. Angry kikkai bugs streamed out of the brain and down the nerves and through the hand, and you know the drill...

(Outside the sadistic hell of Shino's mind)

Kikkai bugs flew EVERYWHERE! Kiba gave ANOTHER girly scream and Ino screamed back, "STOP THAT!"

Kiba glared but didn't say anything this time. "Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" Fire streamed from Sasuke's mouth, burning all the kikkai bugs, which, of course, made Shino's sadistic mind even MORE sadistic-er! Which means MORE kikkai bugs flew out! Oh no!

"Hakke: Hyakunijyuuhachishou!" Neji did that cool thing he did when he first used that move against Kidoumaru's buggies.

"Kage Bunshin!" Naruto's Kage Bunshins couldn't do much other than just slap the first bugs they saw and soon, a slapping bug contest began throughout the clones. Funny how Naruto can make something fun out of something as sadistic as killer bugs.

"Shintenshin no Jutsu!" Ino yelled for no reason. She ended up getting transferred into one of the bugs and couldn't Kai herself out, so all she could do was fly around and wait for her Chakra to be consumed.

"Akamaru!" Kiba tossed a soldier's pill into Akamaru's mouth but missed! Oh no! It ended up hitting Shino and knocking him out because, well, you know.

Everybody looked at Shino's body. Then at Gaara, who was sitting there innocently.

"Funny how we came to confront Gaara and ended up fighting off kikkai bugs." Temari couldn't help but comment.

Gaara glared.

"So! Can we continue with the confrontation?" Tenten asked, retreiving some of her weapons that she had thrown. They were all needles, mind, since she wouldn't want a Fuuma Shuriken sticking out of anyone's heads at that moment. So...

Everybody did the same ending thing they did in the last chapter, except with scolding fingers.

"GAARA!"