Thunder Bird

I don't own Naruto

Chapter Four

The watch man, who'd been counting the Sand brother's time with the two girls, screamed as sand burried him alive.

Another watch man, who'd obviously been getting his fill of a girl, stumbled out of the room while pulling his pants up. His eyes widened in shock, muttering a faint 'oni' before a blade ran through his throat.

Blood spilled onto the sand, which immediantly headed for Gaara. Silver hair caught the dim light of the hallway, blue eyes watching for any who dared to come towards her.

"Come on," Gaara said, the girl's eyes turned to him before she nodded curtly.

"Oh..." Temari's green eyes were wide as Gaara and Kankuro walked through the door, each towing a scantily clad girl. "Come on, hurry up, they've got to be freezing!"
The blonde was in Temari's bed, blankets pulled up to her chin and a heating jutsu on the room. The silver headed girl was in the living room with the Sand trio, dressed in one of Gaara's shirts and a pair of the red head's boxers.

Cradling a mug in her hands in hope of some warmth, the girl seemed oblivious to the eyes watching her.

"So... what's your name?" Temari asked softly, causing the girl to look at her. A look of mild amusement crossed her face. "Kazekage sent you on a mission to collect us and he didn't even tell you our names? That's a first."

Temari opened her mouth to retort, but the girl beat her to it. "Name's Mizuya Kaya, anything else?"

"Where did you come from?" Kankuro asked quickly, looking at the silver hair in vague thought of where he'd seen it before. "I'm from here."

"So, yo--" Gaara started, only to be cut off by Kaya. "I'm a shinobi, genin still, I'm suppose to be heading for Konoha for the Chuunin exams."

Temari and Kankuro stared at Kaya as if she'd just set a bomb. As they looked at Gaara, they realized he hadn't even noticed.

"What about your friend?" Temari asked, looking back at Kaya. "Huh, Naru? She's from Konoha, or atleast that's what she told me."

"Now, what are your names?" Kaya asked, giving Gaara a small glance.

"Temari, I'm currently still a genin as well." Temari said, smiling at Kaya softly.

"Kankuro, like the cow I'm a genin." Kankuro said, earning a wack on the head from his elder sister.

"Sabaku no Gaara, genin." Kaya raised an eyebrow.. "Gaara of the desert... you're Yondaime-Baka's son?"

At Gaara's nod, Kaya shifted her gaze around the room. "So you two, you're his children as well?"

Temari and Kankuro nodded, and Kaya gave a small groan. "I thought I'd gotten away from all that royalty shit."

"Guess not." Gaara said absently, staring at his gourd and then at Kaya.

Naru groaned, sitting up and hearing her back crack for the first time in months... wait, sitting up?

Looking around the room in amazement she found that she was no longer chained to the moldy wall of her prision, but in a room, a bedroom!

Faintly she heard the voice of her cellmate, and got up to find the source herself.

"-I was on a mission, I was supposed to be searching for the Hikakage-" Naru stopped dead, the word reverbrating through her mind.

She'd been sent on the same mission. It was to find and assasinate that Light Shadow, but they had no idea where the person would be. She'd been sent to Suna first, due to Konoha's treaty with the country. Then she was to investigate the ememy Kage countries. The last thing any of them needed was another Kage country bent on destroying all of them.

But she'd barely gotten past the gates of Suna when she'd been attacked, captured, and put into slavery for those barbarians that called themselves human beings.

'They'd been saying something about demonic girls, but no-one should know about me, it's illegal, isn't it?' Naru thought, regaining her posture and walking into the living room.