A/N: At last ... Another update on GA! o.o Sorry again for the wordless-ness x.x

Chapter Ten: And Then She Fell

Grumbling miserably, Shai continued her trek down - what seemed to be - the insanely long hall, past thestairsand into the kitchen.

As she bumped into objects that had been layed out to make the living space look less ugly, Shai eventually made it into the kitchen before she felt the urge to curl into a ball and throw up some more. Glancing around the room, her eyes finally rested on Gaara's face, whom was already started reading the scroll without her.

"Gaara-kun..! You started without me!" Shai hadn't exactly meant to whine, but when she felt her knees almost buckle, she decided it was better to whine than to collapse. Steadying herself on the kitchen counter, Shai made her way to the chairs and sat down.

"Hn..?" Gaara looked up from the scroll to see what he was needed for.

"G-Gaara-kun ... Do you know where they keep the stomach medicine ...?" Shai blinked a few times to keep the world from spinning around Gaara. After receiving the location of the pills - in the second floor washroom no less - she grumbled and made her way to the stairs.

She sat down on the third step to catch her breath. It was a bit harder to walk when she had to stifle the urge to throw up again. Deciding that when she got better, she'd go back to the Ichiraku Ramen and complain, Shai slowly got up and finished her trek to the top of the stairs.

Not knowing the layout of the house, she turned left, and looked into every room, until the end of the hall to no avail. Sighing, she went down the opposite hall and again checked every room until she found the bathroom.

Sighing in relief, she searched through the cabnet until she found a bottle that read 'Cures heartburn, nausea, indigestion, upset stomach, and other abdominal troubles.' She read the directions and swallowed the recommended two pills. Her head began to swim after a moment and she decided that she needed to sit down.

She was closest to the windows, which she supposed were locked down, and sat on the edge of the windowsill. She began to swing her legs back and forth, enjoying the feeling that she got from staring at them. Just as her head began to spin again, she stopped staring at her legs and looked up at the ceiling instead.

Leaning back so she was against the cool glass of the window, she closed her eyes and drew up her legs. She felt the world spinning around her, but the alarm went off in her head when she felt herself falling backwards.

Her eyes snapped open as she felt the window scrape open, and she uncoiled herself as she began to fall backwards out of the window.

"G ... Gaara!" It felt like she drawled out her name longer than necissary, but she feared for her life as the edge of her vision grew dark, and as she saw the house growing taller. Just before she passed out, Shai swore shes aw sand encasing her.


Shai's eyes slowly fluttered open, but they immediatly shut again; sunlight was pouring in painfully from her window and into her face.

The window!

Shai sat up as if someone had jolted her with electricity, remembering why she had slept until two in the afternoon - according to her alarm clock. Frantically looking around the room for anything that might suggest she'd died, Shai almost fell out of bed in a tizzle. When she could finally stop hyperventallating, Shai felt a surge of anger towards the Ichiraku Ramen shop - They'd almost killed her!

Angrily getting up, Shai stomped out of her room and into the downstairs bathroom, only to find Temari in there, doing her makeup. Shai sighed dejectedly and sat on the floor outside the bathroom, waiting for her chance to hop into the shower and get ready to complain.

When Temari finaly left Shai the washroom, she immeadiatly jumped in the shower and scrubbed herself clean, then got dressed and brushed her hair. She didn't even bother to brush it.

She stormed back into her room, found a pair of socks, and began to stomp her way to the front door when Gaara stopped her.

"Where are you going?"

Shai froze and turned, slowly, to face Gaara, half expecting him to get angryat her for being up. Instead, she saw a concerned Gaara, and that was far worse than a frustratedGaara.

"I was ... Uhm .. Going toIchiraku Ramen ... For .. Lunch?"


A/N: Omg. This was supposed to continue until they received their next mission, but .. I took too long to update, and thus, I'm giving you this! x.x