The Doom Song Adventure

In this segment Kankuro battles extreme boredom, dinner, and the hatred of Gaara towards a song. There is an Invader Zim reference too.

Disclaimer: I do not own any character of any sort, mattresses, Invader Zim, Gir's imagination for a song, or dinner.

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When Kankuro was bored, which was actually very rarely, it was a frightening time to be in the same room as him. Normally, he had something to do, but in this case, he was completely at a loss.

He looked around his room moodily. "I'm sooooooo bored!" He slammed his palms against his mattress, taking out his boredom on the inanimate object. "I need amusement." Sliding off of his bed, he sat on the floor, looking at the wall.

"Do something!" He commanded, pointing at the wall. In the height of his boredom, inspiration struck.

A grin crossed his face as he spoke. "I'm gonna sing the 'Doom Song' now!" He sat on his bed, legs crossed. This was when things always got interesting. He loved this song so much, it wasn't even funny. 'The Doom Song'. It was too much for the rest of his family to listen to; they always left the room when he started to sing it. Luckily, this time, he was in his own room instead of the kitchen during dinner, singing it in front of Gaara. He hadn't reacted too well. It had ended in… well… doom.

"Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom!" Kankuro began, eyes closed as he 'sang'. "Doomy, doomy, doomy, doom!" Taking a deep breath, he began the song officially.

"Doom, doom, doom, doom! Doomy, doomy, doomy, doom! Doom, doom! Doomy-doom! Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom! Dooooooom, dooooom, doooooooomy-dooooom!" He began to sing deeper here, quite amused by himself.

"Doom, doom, dooooooooom!"

"Kankuro…" Gaara stood, halfway down his stairs, frozen in his tracks. 'Not again…' He thought to himself, growing at Kankuro. "Will you please stop singing?" He was being oddly polite, almost kind, to his older brother, which would have amazed him for sure. If he had been listening or paying attention. But, as always when he was 'singing', he had completely zoned out.

"Doom, doom, dooooom!" Kankuro held up a finger, eyes closed as he sang. "Doomy-doom, doom, doooooomy!" Breathing in, he opened his eyes, smiling. "I'm done!" Too late he realized that Gaara had spoken to him. "Gaara-san! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" He stuttered, almost falling off of his bed in his haste to stand up.

"Temari told me to tell you dinner's ready," Gaara told him frostily, turning on his brother, who was trying to bow, sit down, and salute all at once, and gliding up the stairs.

Kankuro slumped on his bed, his back against the wall, as it was in the corner. "Oh, no… I think I offended Gaara-kun…" He shook his head. "I have to go to dinner, though; I'm hungry."

Standing, he clenched his fist. 'I have to do this. You can do it, Kuro!' He called himself by a nickname he had come up with.

As he walked up his stairs, unusually slow, he hummed the 'Doom Song' to himself. It gave him courage to face Gaara. Only problem was, only while he was humming it did he feel able to be in the same room as him, but, if he kept humming, Gaara would be sure to become angry!

Thus, Kankuro had a dilemma. Stay in his room all night and go without dinner or be glared at by Gaara again? If he skipped dinner, Temari would yell at him, which was almost as bad as Gaara's glaring. That pretty much decided it. "Dinnertime!" He shouted, bounding up the rest of the stairs.

As he danced into the kitchen, he immediately froze, sulking to the table. Temari had been giving him a look which he knew as 'Shut up or die.' He didn't want to even look at Gaara in fear of what he would send his way, so he just sat down, waiting for Temari to pass out the food.

They ate in what seemed to be silence, give or take the clanking the silverware made when it hit plates or bowls. Kankuro could barely take it; he needed to sing the doom song to lighten the mood. But if he dared, he would most definitely be met with both Gaara's glares and Temari's smack over the head. Which he was certain he would receive. But if no one said anything, he would crack.

"So…Gaara…how was your day?" Kankuro had to break the silence somehow…right?

Gaara looked up from his food, glancing at his brother. "It was fine…I guess."

Again, the silence was awkward, and Kankuro still had the inseparable urge to sing.

"What about you Kankuro? You've been in your basement the whole day…" After a few moments Temari had looked up from her food at him. Obviously Gaara hadn't told her. He could feel Gaara's eyes on him. 'I'm doomed.' He thought.

"It was…well…doomy." He replied trying not to smile, or look at Gaara.

There was silence yet again, and in order not to burst out in song, Kankuro took a bit of food.

"Doomy?" Temari asked, quirking an eyebrow.

Gaara rolled his eyes. "Great…" he hissed, sarcasm dripping from every word. "Just great."

Temari turned to look at her youngest brother, then back to Kankuro. "Kankuro, what on earth are you talking about? Doomy?"

"Mhm. Extremely doomy." Kankuro smiled after he spoke, but his facial expression didn't match his eyes. They showed his true feelings…nervousness.

Gaara's pale green eyes narrowed as he stopped eating. He folded his hands together with his elbows on the table. 'Well,' he thought his face emotionless. 'Is he going to be able to hold it in?' He was merely curious, which was rare for Gaara, instead of angry. But, unfortunately, his interested pose was just as, if not more, threatening as his angry one. So, Kankuro was frightened once again.

"Explain doomy' Kankuro." Temari demanded, her fork lying down on the side of her plate. She wanted to know, and she wanted to know now.

The puppeteer swallowed. Gaara was still staring at him, and now Temari was too. "Well…you see…I was down in my basement, bored. Extremely bored. So I sang the Doom song!" he stopped there, waiting to see how she would respond. She didn't. Apparently she didn't remember the Doom Song. Gaara did; he was rolling his eyes.

"What song?" Temari asked, completely ignoring her food now.

'Wow, I didn't realize how…' Kankuro thought, stalling as he tried to find the right words to say. 'Scary Temari could be. She's definitely Gaara's sister. I'm his brother…am I as scary as he is?' He bit his lip. 'I wish I was.'

"Why don't you sing it for me?" she suggested, tapping her fingers impatiently on the table.

This was it; he couldn't hold it in any longer. 'I'm sorry Gaara!' he thought as he broke out in song, much to his brother's dismay.

"Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom!" Kankuro began, eyes closed as he 'sang'. "Doomy, doomy, doomy, doom!" Taking a deep breath, he began the song officially.

"Doom, doom, doom, doom! Doomy, doomy, doomy, doom! Doom, doom! Doomy-doom! Doom, doom, doom, doom, doom! Dooooooom, dooooom, doooooooomy-dooooom!"

Temari stared at him. "Kankuro?"

"Yes?"

"Never do that again. Ever. I swear, if you do I'll kill you personally, even if it means depriving Gaara of doing so."

Gaara watched them, slightly amused. But Kankuro couldn't tell, he could never read his emotions. The red-head stood, dropped his plates in the sink and pushing in his chair. As he walked up the stairs to his own room, though the yells of his two older siblings still drifting through his thoughts, he softly hummed the Doom Song.

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