DISCLAIMER: I do not own Naruto or any characters.

Temari walked down the road in the sun and smiled. She closed her eyes.

"What a great day," she thought. "Kankuro and Gaara's arguing was getting pretty annoying."
Her brothers had started arguing over basically nothing, and then they started making death threats, putting each other's attacks down, and other things. Finally, she'd thrown her arms up in the air and said, "I give up, I'm outta here," and walked out of the house. Her brothers had stopped just long enough to see her leaving and gone back to arguing.
After about another five minutes, she heard something rustling some bushes. She glanced over at it, and said, "Who's in the bush?" She started to walk toward it, and then...a dog came bounding out at her.
Temari gasped and fell over with the heavy impact of the dog against her legs and stomach.
"A- a dog?" she stammered. "No, it's not even a dog, it's just a puppy!"
A very cute one, for a matter of fact. She was a pretty big puppy, with big brown eyes and a long tongue and a tail which must have been pretty muscular, as fast as it was going.
"You're pretty cute," Temari said, laughing. "Where are you from?"
The puppy only shook its tail some more.
"Are you lost?"
It cocked its head to one side and looked at her with its big eyes.
"I guess so. Why don't you come home with me? Maybe you can keep the peace at my house."
She picked the puppy up and carried him home with her. She even gave her a name- Ai.
"Gaara is just going to love the fact I called you Ai," she said, and laughed to herself.
Finally, she got home. Temari let herself in and looked around. She would have thought that the fight had just moved somewhere else, but she couldn't hear Kankuro's shouting. Gaara never yelled, it was always just quiet snapping.
"Kankuro's? Gaara?" Temari yelled. "I got a surprise for you guys!"
She heard Kankuro's heavy footsteps coming from the stairs.
"What is it?" he asked. He looked at her, but didn't see the puppy- Temari had hidden her behind her back.
"Guess."
"I have no idea. Just tell me."
"Where's Gaara, first?"
"He's sle- I don't know where he is."
"DID YOU SAY HE'S SLEEPING!" Temari shouted. Ai, frightened by her loud voice, dropped down and ran into the middle of the floor.
"A dog?" Kankuro asked. "Why a dog?"
"DID YOU SAY THAT G AARA IS SLEEPING!" she shouted again. "HOW COULD YOU LET YOUR OWN BROTHER SLEEP? YOU KNOW HOW BAD IT IS FOR HIM!"
"I don't know if it's bad, have you seen him lately? He's exhausted-"
"OF COURSE IT'S BAD, KANKURO! IF GAARA ISN'T GAARA WHEN HE WAKES UP, I'LL KILL YOU!"
"What is he's nice when he wakes up?"
"I'LL KILL YOU! OR HE WILL!"
Temari ran up the stairs as quickly as she could and got to Kankuro's room. Since Gaara didn't sleep, he didn't have a bad in his room, so when he wanted somewhere to lie down and relax, it was either on the couch or one of their beds. But he wasn't on the couch, so he was either Kankuro's room or her's. But Gaara wasn't there, so she automatically ran to her room as if it were for her life. But Gaara wasn't there either.
"GAARA!"
She couldn't think of anywhere else he would be, so she ran to his room. There was Gaara, dead asleep. He wasn't moving, he would have looked dead if not for his hands gripping the sand floor. Temari ran into his room and shook him. He didn't wake up, but his head rolled around on his shoulders.
"Gaara, wake up. Gaara!"
He wouldn't wake up though, so she had no choice- she slapped him across the face.
"Wow, what a nice big sister you are," Kankuro's voice came from the doorway.
"I'm nicer than you are, letting him fall asleep like this!" Temari snapped. Gaara blinked and looked down at his sister's death grip on his arms.
"Temari, what are you doing?" he asked.
"Waking you up! You know you can't fall asleep!"
"How long was I out for?" he asked.
"I don't know. How long was he out for, Kankuro?" asked Temari.
"About five minutes."
Gaara sighed. He looked even more tired than before. "Kankuro, you'll be lucky if I let you get away with just your fingers broken," he threatened.
"Whatever." Kankuro turned and walked away. Temari stood up and remembered Ai.
"Oh, Gaara, I have something to show you. Kankuro, get back here for a second!"
Kankuro returned and said, "What?"
"Stay in here for a sec, I'll be right back." She walked out of the room and looked around for a second before finding the puppy running through the sandy floor. She picked her up and took her back to Gaara's room.
"This," she said, "is Ai."
Kankuro looked at Gaara and laughed. "Ai! She named it after your face!"
"Shut up," said Gaara. His eyes almost seemed to have fallen half way shut so that he was squinting furiously.
Ai wagged her tail. Kankuro smiled and Gaara stared.
"Isn't she cute?" said Temari.
"She will be," said Gaara. His sand started to come from his gourd towards the little dog.
"Gaara!"
The sand pulled back into the gourd. "Give the dog a chance," said Temari. "Please?"
Gaara sighed and blinked. "If the dog comes near me, it's dead."