"Ugh." Hinata groaned.

She lay in her small, yet comfortable bed. The light flooded the room through the window that had been placed right at the foot of her bed. The morning sun hit her eyes and she awoke almost instantly.

"This damn light." She said while rubbing her eyes. "Why did they have to put the bed right in front of the window?"

She groaned once more and held her hand up to her eyes to shield the suns powerful rays. She turned to her left and pulled the white blanket over her face hoping the blanket would be a better shielding device than her hand. Realizing she couldn't go back to sleep she began to get up. She sat upright on her bed, balancing her weight on her shoulders, and looked at the forest that surrounded her outside.

"Well, I guess I better get breakfast ready." She said yawning and stretching her arms.

With that, she got out of bed and started toward the front room. Yawning she turned a corner and entered the kitchen. She never would've guessed what she saw.

"Are my eyes playing tricks on me?" She said rubbing her eyes to check. "Kankuro? W-why are you in the kitchen? Do you have any idea what time it is?"

"Yup." Kankuro replied. "As a matter of fact I do know what time it is." Then he gave a menacing glance at Hinata. "It's noon. And I thought I slept in late."

Hinata's eyes widened. "N-noon? Oh wow I never even thought anyone could sleep in past nine."

Kankuro's eyes widened as well. "Past nine? Are you fucking kidding me?"

"Ugh." Hinata groaned. "I'm still tired."

He sighed. "Trying to escape the question, eh? Whatever, listen, these eggs are almost done so you can rest on the couch until they're finished."

"Thanks," She said with a smile. "But where'd you get the eggs?"

"Birds nest." He said.

Hinata fell on the couch and sighed. "Well at least you didn't kill them. Anyways, to answer your question in my house my father expects us to wake up at seven, so sleeping in late isn't a possibility." Then she placed her hands on her stomach and sighed.

"Hmm." Kankuro said while flipping the eggs with a spatula. "Sounds to me like your dad is a stiff."

Hinata's face turned red. "A stiff? How the hell do you know what happens down there?"

"No dammit! I mean your dad's a really strict person!" He cried.

"Oh ok." She said, her face returning to normal. "You scared me for a second."

"Jesus." He said blushing.

Gaara stood at the door of Temari's room with his arms crossed. Neji, who had walked by five minutes ago and decided to wait with the younger sand ninja, stood next to him.

"Why are we waiting out here again?" He asked. "She's not late for anything, and I don't see why we can't make breakfast ourselves."

"You don't understand." Gaara said.

The confused Hyuuga raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean? Is this like a family ritual or something?"

There was a long pause and Gaara finally spoke up. "You don't understand." He repeated. "Temari makes the best freakin' egg, bacon, and toast breakfast you could ever imagine."

"Tch," Neji replied. "I should've known."

Suddenly they heard a yawn from inside the room, and the ruffling of her blanket soon afterward. Neji looked over at Gaara, then at the door, then back at Gaara. His shoulders drooped and he raised his eyebrow once again.

"Why do you wait at her door? Doesn't she get annoyed?" He asked. "I mean I know I would be annoyed if Hinata waited at my door everyday just to tell me to make her breakfast."

Gaara sighed. "Look, this happens everyday. Sometimes she gets annoyed and I just wait at the table, but most of the time she comes out tired and says good morning." He said.

And just as Gaara promised, Temari opened the door yawning and said "Good morning! Why are you both here?"

"Breakfast." Gaara demanded.

And sure enough, Temari just sighed and walked down the hall to the kitchen, with Gaara following. Neji just stood there, confused as ever.

"This is one dysfunctional family." He said to himself. Then smiled and shrugged. "But it's better than my family."

"I wish you would help me, Gaara." Temari said meaningfully while buttering a piece of toast. "Making breakfast isn't that easy by yourself, you know."

"What's wrong, Temari." He replied. "You've never complained about making breakfast by yourself before."

Temari stopped buttering her second piece of toast and turned around to yell at Gaara. "I tell you the same thing everyday you little brat." She said. "And I never get a thank you, and I never get any help!"

Neji turned the corner separating the kitchen from the rest of the front house and sighed. "I'll help you if you want."

Temari turned to look at the older Hyuuga and raised an eyebrow. "Why would you want to help?" She asked. "I thought you barely knew us."

Neji looked down. "I'm sorry for acting that way last night." He said. "That's really not what I'm like at all. I want to help because I feel bad that you have to make everything yourself. Sometimes when Hinata makes breakfast I want to go up and help her, but it would displease my father. So I want to help as much as I can."

Temari looked at Neji and smiled gratefully. "Thank you." She said.

"No problem." He replied. "Just tell me what we're cooking."

Gaara watched jealously as Neji and his sister made breakfast. He didn't know what was making him feel so jealous, and he didn't know what made him feel like he was being abandoned.

"Mmm!" Hinata said as she ate another spoonful of egg. "This is really good! It's better than anything anyone at home made!"

"Maybe it's because I used fresh eggs right off the nest." He said proudly. "I could teach you how to cook eggs like this if you want, but then again if you don't know how to hold a knife than you probably won't know how to flip an egg."

"Bite me." She said shoving food in her mouth.

Kankuro chuckled and finished off of what remained of his eggs. "Maybe I will." He said playfully. "Maybe I will."

Hinata dropped her phones and smiled at him. "Ass." She replied.

Soon she finished her eggs too, and they washed their dishes together. "What should we do now?" He said.

"I brought some of my favorite board games." She said. "We could play a few of them."

"That sounds like a good idea." He said as he scrubbed his plate.

"Ok, I'm done." She said, placing the plate in the cabinet and the spoon in the drawer. "I'm gonna go get one of the games set up, alright?"

"Yeah sure." He said. "But I get the blue guy."

Hinata turned around and rolled her eyes. "There is no 'blue guy', Kankuro." She said.

"Whatever." He said.

She smiled and shook her head slightly. "I'll never get you." She said as she continued to walk toward her room. She opened her door and looked out the window. She could see two birds on a tree looking frantically around their nest. "Those must be the parents." She said quietly. Then she put her hand over her stomach. "And these are the children."

A tear dripped down her face and landed on the hand that had been holding her stomach. She crouched down and put her hands over her head, so her head was being pushed into her knees. She hated knowing that she had killed something, especially birds.

"I'm done with my plate." Kankuro called. "Now, what game are we playing?"

Kankuro looked around the front room. "Hello anybody here." He yelled.

He looked at the hall that led to her room and frowned. "Guess I'll come to you." He said sighing.

He walked into her room and saw the crying figure that sat in front of him. "What's wrong." He said crouching down so he could look at her face. "You forget the games or somethin'?"

She pointed at the window. "The birds." She said while trying to make her voice sound less shaky. "I ate their babies. I caused them so much pain."

He put his arm around her shoulders. "It's ok." He said although he knew it wasn't ok.

Hinata instantly looked into Kankuro's eyes. "It's ok?" She said. "It's ok that we just permanently ruined those poor birds' lives? It's ok that we can't do anything to pay them back?"

"But…" He said trying to think of something to say.

"But what?" She said.

"You're right." He said finally. "There's nothing we can do to repay those birds. From now on we only eat fish." Then he realized something. "Hey, what about those fish we ate? We stole them from their families."

Hinata stopped crying. "Hey you're right." She said. "It's for survival."

Kankuro smiled. "Finally you see it my way!" He said. "Now let's get into something to swim in and go swimming. We'll play board games later, but for now let's just swim. That might get rid of all our troubles."

"Ok." Hinata said smiling. "Let's swim!"

"Hiiiiiiiiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!" Temari cried while swinging her huge fan at Neji.

Neji did a back flip and avoided the sand ninja's second attempt with her fan. Then he ran to his left and lunged toward Temari, hoping that he could trip her with a low kick. Temari looked to her left and saw the incoming Neji and then to her right and saw the huge sand ball racing toward her. She made a few hand signals and hit the ground.

"I've got you now!" Neji said while kicking her shins.

Temari tripped and was instantly covered in a huge ball of sand.

"You loose." Gaara said.

"I loose?" Temari said. "I think you're the ones who lost."

The two looked up and saw the bottom of Temari's fan. Neji felt a small rock hit his face while Gaara blocked the rock coming at him with his sand. Temari laughed and swooped down to the ground. She stood with her fan at her side and smiled.

"How did you…" Neji started.

"…do that?" Gaara finished.

Temari smiled. "Easy. While you two were attacking I quickly made a sand doppelganger, and then flew up with my fan."

"Damn." Neji said. "You make sparring with us sound easy."

"It is easy." Temari said playfully.

"You never beat me." Gaara said. "I blocked your pebble with my sand."

"Which is attached to your gourd which is attached to you." She replied. "God, you can't loose once without arguing about it first."

Gaara sighed. There was no use in trying to tell her what she said didn't prove anything. "Fine. You won."

"That's what I thought." Temari said proudly. "Now let's go inside and take some nice cool showers. I don't want the house to smell like sweat all day."

"Alright." Neji said. "That's fine with me."

"It's getting late," Gaara said. "We probably should get inside."

"Last one there has to clean my fan!" Temari yelled as she ran toward their house, dragging her fan on the ground.

"It's getting late." Hinata said. "We should get some food."

"Yeah you're probably right." Kankuro replied. "But its way too cold to get fish, and I only found one nest so eggs are out of the question."

They sighed, and sat in their chairs, hungry and hoping. They had been sitting there for about an hour, and they were both wishing they had something to do to occupy them.

"Ahh that was refreshing." Temari said as she plopped on the couch.

Neji and Gaara sat in the couch on the other side of the coffee table, and they had been sitting there in their bath robes for almost half an hour waiting for her to join them. They nodded although they had no idea why women liked bathing so much.

"Why don't we get dinner ready?" Neji suggested. "I am kinda hungry, and it has been a long day."

"Isn't it kinda early for that?" Gaara said. "We usually have dinner around eight or so."

Neji raised an eyebrow. "Don't you guys get hungry before that?"

"Nah," Temari said. "We're used to it; we don't get hungry until seven or something."

"I guess I'll need to get used to that too." Neji sighed.

"Are we that hard to deal with?" Gaara said angrily. "All you've been doing while you were here is complaining and flirting with my sister. I've had enough of it."

Temari stood up and slammed her hands on the coffee table. "Gaara what the hell?"

"Don't try to act all innocent, Temari." He replied defensively. "You know what's going on here and you're sick of it too."

"You're not the one who tells me what I think, little brother. And you certainly won't act this way in front of out guest!" She yelled.

"Tch. If he wasn't here you'd be agreeing with me." Gaara replied. "Don't try to act like someone you're not just to be polite."

"Uhh...why exactly are you fighting?" Neji said sheepishly.

Gaara's heated glance instantly flew off Temari and landed on the older Hyuuga. "What the hell do you mean why are we fighting? Siblings fight and you should know that."

No," Neji said calmly. "I meant how did this fight happen in the first place? It's unnecessary."

"It's unnecessary?" He mimicked. "Those belts on your head are unnecessary, I'm trying to help my sister see that you're being a spoiled brat, and that is fucking necessary."

"Enough!" Temari yelled as she threw her arms out to block the two men beside her. "You both are unnecessary! This fight is unnecessary! Gaara I appreciate you trying to help, but seriously."

She glanced at her younger sibling and stormed off toward the patio, leaving the two to sit there and try to figure out what to do next.

"I'm going to bed." Gaara said, and stormed off toward his room.

"But you don't," Neji began to say but was interrupted by a large slam. "Sleep."

"So…hungry." Kankuro groaned.

The two had been lying there for hours, trying to think of something to eat. And because they hadn't eaten anything besides eggs all day, it was hard to think.

"I know." Hinata said with one hand holding a book over her head and another on her stomach. "I can't even concentrate on my book I'm so hungry."

"Hey, what's that you're reading anyway?" He said sitting up.

Hinata lifted the book and turned her head to look at Kankuro. "Huh?" She said, puzzled.

"What are you reading?" He repeated.

"No, I heard you. I just didn't think you'd be interested." She said happily.

"Well I am, I guess." He said quickly. "So just tell me."

"Alright." She said. "It's about this guy who meets this girl who's from the past, and she has this harp thing that can travel through time. She's trying to kill this one dude but he can travel through time as well so it's hard to track him down. She says she needs assistance so she teaches the guy how to perfect his sword skills. They meet two other people along the way, it's pretty good."

"Sounds interesting, I guess." He said. "What's that 10 on the cover for?"

She blinked a couple of times and said, "It stands for the tenth volume."

"Wait, I thought that was a novel not a manga." He said.

"No, it is a novel, but the author made 10 volumes of the novel." She said. "It's too bad I can't focus on reading it, I'd really love to see what happens."

The two sighed a deep sigh and went on lying there. They knew there was no hope for finding food, now. As they lay there they hoped that things would get better along the way. And the situation was pretty much the same in Sunagakure.