A Win-Win Situation
By Topaz Talyn
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any related characters
Chapter Four: The Bet
Convincing the girls to agree was a fairly simple process. All Temari had to do was mention that if they refused the date then Gaara would be VERY upset with them. And no one wanted to be on Gaara's bad side. So the next morning the three sand-nins set out to the bus depot where they would catch the bus which they always took when they needed to get to Konoha. They found three seats in a row and sat down with Gaara in the middle and Temari on the aisle. The trip was calm until…
"So who exactly will I be going out with?" Gaara asked.
"Well the four girls who were in the Chunin exam plus a few others." Gaara raised his eyebrow. Or at least he tried but since Gaara had no eyebrows nobody noticed. This angered Gaara causing him to kill the people in the row behind him, but nobody said anything because they were all from the Sand village and knew that one does not mention Gaara's murders. Gaara continued.
"Well who are 'a few others'?"
"Well one was the examiner in the forest of death. Do you remember? Her name is Anko." Temari told him.
"I remember that she's psychotic." Gaara replied. Coming from Gaara that meant a lot.
"Well I'm sure that if you get to know her she's really quite nice." Said Temari
"What makes you think that?" asked Gaara
"Well, um, you see, she's so uhhh, she seem, well, Kankurou, help me out here."
"Huh" Kankurou had been lost in his own little world. A world where he didn't have a homicidal brother, he didn't have a domineering sister, but he did have a pony. Kankurou liked ponies. That was his deepest secret. If anyone were to ever find that out he would track them down and kill them.
"Kankurou, tell Gaara how great Anko is." Temari barked at him.
"Who's Anko?"
"She was the examiner in the forest of death."
"The psychotic one?"
SMACK
"See I told you she was psychotic," said Gaara, "Why are you trying to set me up with a psycho, actually why are you trying to set me up at all. You never explained why you were doing this." Temari gulped, it seemed that her plan was going to end before the first date. Luckily at that moment they pulled through the Konoha gates. (It was a very fast bus)
"Oh look we're here." Temari said sighing with relief.
The three siblings got off the bus and began to walk to their hotel when they heard a loud voice behind them.
"STOP RIGHT THERE!"
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Temari was livid. She couldn't believe that they had gotten to Konoha only to be brought before the Hokage for not having valid passports. It was all Kankurou's fault. He was supposed to get them passes. On the way to the office she had lectured him about responsibility but unbeknownst to Temari after she spoke two sentences Kankurou's mind went back to pony world.
"The Hokage will see you now." Tsunade's secretary announced. "Which one of you will be speaking for your group. Temari looked back and forth between Kankurou and Gaara.
"I will." She said.
"Alright, your brothers can just wait here for you then." The secretary said as she led Temari into the office.
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"And so that's my plan." Finished Temari. Tsunade had asked for an explanation of why the three sand-nins were in her village and Temari had spilled the whole story expecting Tsunade to understand. Tsunade simply leaned back in her chair and sighed.
"It'll never work you know. I should know I tried doing that years ago. I set Jiraiya and Orochimaru up on dates with girls in an effort to get them off my back."
"What Happened?"
"Well Jiraiya's girl came running back to me twenty minutes later mad that I had set her up with such a pervert, and they never found the body of Orochimaru's girl."
"That's awful"
"I'll say! She owed me money. I don't think you'll succeed but I'll sign the passes anyway."
"Thank you and, I WILL succeed." At this comment Tsunade broke into a small mischievous smile.
"Well perhaps you would like to make a little wager." Tsunade was now grinning widely. "I'll bet you 500 dollars that Gaara will leave this town single." Two thoughts crossed Temari's mind. The first was: Is this woman really in charge of the entire village? The second thought was: OH, IT'S ON NOW YOU OLD HAG!
"I'll take your bet old lady!"
Somewhere in the land of ponies Kankurou sensed that something very bad had just happened.