Sorry for not posting last Friday, and now the next chapter of Kunoichi is going to be put off until this Friday. A kinda last minute decision to go visit home for the weekend threw me off, but I will have the next chapter of TWAWWON out on Friday!

Thanks to BlueDragonGirl1 for proofing the story.

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Prelude and Character Placement, Part 3

The Sand team had packed, met up with their teacher and left their beloved(?) village behind in order to go to Konoha.

"We're here," Baki stated in a flat voice.

"…huh?" was the puppet masters response.

"…." stated the sand user.

"But, but that's not possible! It takes three days to travel between our villages! It's only been three hours!" Temari said in bewilderment, voicing her teammates and siblings thoughts.

"I know," Baki said with the same tone of voice.

"But, Baki-sensei, how is that possible? No one, no matter their speed, can make it in only three hours!" Kankuro argued what his eyes saw to be true, but his common sense told him was impossible.

"I know," Baki continued.

"..." Gaara said to reinsert his presence.

Temari shook her head like it would cause things to make sense, "Then, how Baki-sensei?"

"There are some things in this world that are better not questioned," Baki said with a sigh.

Gaara:...

Kankuro:...

Temari:...

Baki:...

"Let's go," Gaara said, sounding annoyed. Unlikely circumstances or no, this meant he'd get to play in the park sooner rather then later.

"Right. I will see you all at a later date," the teacher said, then prepared to leave.

"What?" Kankuro yelled, stopping his teacher.

"Aren't you coming with us?" Temari continued her brothers' thought.

"I'm not an important enough character to be in the story more then necessary," Baki sounded rather depressed at the thought.

Kankuro and Temari shared the same response, "Huh?"

"…" said Gaara.

"Just get in the damn village and start fostering good will!" Baki shouted and then disappeared to who cares where.

"Well, then..." Temari started, sounding rather uncomfortable, "I guess we'd better go."

"………………………………………………..?" asked Gaara.

"We'll find you a sand box to play in after we're settled in," Kankuro responded to his brother, sounding rather annoyed. "Sheesh."

The sand around Gaara's feet began to shift.

"Uh...I meant, 'if it's alright with you', okay Gaara?" Kankuro corrected himself, laughing nervously.

"We should see the Hokage and find out where we are staying before we do anything else," Temari came to her brothers' aid, "after, uh, making a three day trip in three hours we should probably rest," she continued, sounding and shifting uncomfortably. For doing the impossible, she really didn't feel tired.

"...Alright," Gaara responded and then followed his sister, "can we play tag when we get to the park?"

Temari smiled and nodded, and Kankuro cringed. 'Tag' basically translated to having his sister and kid brother whack him repeatedly...Hard.

'I'm never, ever having kids!' Kankuro thought vehemently.

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The Sand Team continued on their way into the village where they were supposed to 'foster goodwill'. None of the three on the team knew how they were supposed to do that. Right now the game plan was to go meet the Hokage, find out where they were staying, go to where they were staying, rest (even though none of them were tired after their miraculous journey) and finally go play tag at a Konoha park before Gaara decided to kill someone.

Upon reaching the main office building where the Hokage's office resides (the walk through the village was surprisingly pleasant considering they had invaded said village slightly over a month ago), they noticed they were getting strange looks. Not 'I hate you, you invaders you!' looks, nor 'what the hell are you doing here!' looks but looks that seemed to say 'how did you get here so fast?'.

The Sand Siblings couldn't answer these unspoken questions. After all, they weren't sure themselves.

Once they were allowed to enter the Hokage office (Tsunade had to take a few moments to wipe the drool and ink off her face) she gave them the same curious glance, and then muttered something that sounded like 'artistic license my ass'. By this time the Sand Team had decided everything involving this village didn't make sense and never would, so they did the only thing they could to keep the (remainder) of their sanity and gave up trying to understand altogether.

"Well," Tsunade began, "we don't have the residence you would be staying in ready for you yet. Frankly, you weren't expected for another two days at least."

"..." said the Sand Siblings.

"But, for the next two days I'm sure we can find someplace for you to stay!"

"A park?" ventured Gaara.

"Er, no. Someplace with more shelter then a park." the busty woman pulled some files out of nowhere (file-summoning-no-jutsu) and leafed through the pages to find an appropriate place for the three to stay.

'Hm. Gaara might be good with Lee or Naruto, either one could probably keep him in line, or at least occupied. Kankuro would be funny to pare up with in Shino's house. And Temari in Shikamaru's house just to shake that lazy asses day up,' the still new Hokage thought with a self-satisfied smirk (which made the Sand Siblings, including Gaara, shift nervously).

Tsunade quickly wrote down letters to each of the Genin the Sand Siblings would be staying at to explain the situation as well as directions to each of the houses.

Temari finally asked the question all three of the siblings were wondering, "How exactly are we suppose to foster 'good will' by-"

She was abruptly cut off as Tsunade suddenly stood up and started pushing them towards the door, "Well now, you have best be going! I have lots of Hokagish stuff to do. Yes, that's right, 'stuff'," she muttered the last sentence to herself as the door to her office closed, efficiently locking the three out.

The sand that was always around Gaara's feet just for moments like this began to shift, making everyone else freeze, "Does this mean we won't be going to the park?"

Everyone, except Temari, sweat dropped.

"Of course we can Gaara," the girl smiled her actual nice smile that seemed to only be reserved for Gaara, "We can get settled in at these houses, then I can pick you up and maybe Lee will come play tag with us."

Gaara smiled, which caused everyone but Temari to shiver. Everyone in the room suddenly grew a respect for the female sand nin.

Kankuro was currently wondering what a worse fate was. Playing tag with his sister and brother, or spending time at that creepy Shino guy's house?

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You know one of the things I like about Tsunade? Even though her breasts are quite large, unlike other animes, they don't defy gravity.