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Chapter six: A lifeless body

Temari finally grasped enough energy to close her eyes. And she waited. But nothing happened.

She slowly opened them, her body shaking with fear of what might happen. But the setting was familiar.

It was her room!

'What happened?' she asked herself. 'Was it all a dream?'

She stood up noticing that she had on her work clothes. The same one that had been ripped and torn. She let out a sigh of relief as she headed for the door. 'Can't wait to tell Gaara and Kankuro what happened.'

She grabbed the knob and turned it, but it wouldn't move. She kept attempting to turn it. It was like the door was...locked.

"Temari." came a voice "So nice of you to be here."

Slowly, Temari turned around. "Gaara. I was getting ready to go look for you."

She watched her little brother emerge from the shadows. He had a smirk on his face. One Temari had seen before.

She pressed her back against the door as he started toward her. Her hands shook as her heart raced. She turned the knob again failing to open the door as Gaara licked his lips.

He gestured her to move over to him with his fingers. Temari shook her head. He closed his eyes as his smirk faded. Then they opened again, the smirk returning, and sand rose and launched forward for his sister.

She dodged in time and ran but fell as sand was wrapped around her ankle. It pulled her to the bed and held her down.

Gaara walked over licking his lips again.

"No." Temari started as Gaara got on top of her. He placed his hands on her chest and ripped open her clothes. "Nooo! Gaara! Please, not again!"

Gaara paid her no mind as he started touching. She tried to move her hands but had no luck as they were held in place by the sand.

Her pleads and cries grew louder as he started using his mouth instead of his hands.

He stopped as tears started to pour from Temari's eyes. He started to undress himself as his sister's eyes started to grow wide.

"Gaara...Please." She started breathing heavily as her heart was pounding in her chest as if ready to burst out.

Gaara resumed his place on top of her as he started his fun.

"Noooo! Stop! Please stop! Please!" she pleaded but her brother was too busy having a good time. Her tears kept rolling down her face, nonstop.

Leaning close to his sister's face, he licked up her tears. Bringing his mouth to her ear he whispered, "Is this how you like it?"

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She just lied there. Not moving. Her eyes didn't even blink.

Itachi stared down at her. Maybe...maybe he overdid it. He knelt down beside her, checking her pulse. There wasn't one.

But at the same time she didn't grow cold. Her body was still at its normal temperature. Itachi waited a few more minutes but her temperature didn't go down.

Deidara peered from his hiding spot behind the couch. "What happened?...hmm"

Itachi didn't answer.

Getting up he walked over to Itachi. "Is she dead?"

"I don't know." Itachi answered. "She seems like it but her body hasn't gotten hard and cold. She still feels alive."

He picked her up. Her body felt light but she still didn't move. He stared into her eyes. They had grown dull and the color was gone. He couldn't tell anything from them. She seemed like a lifeless doll.

"Let me see her...hmm" Deidara requested. Itachi handed her over as the blond started inspecting her. He watched as Deidara checked her pulse and everything.

"Well, I got nothing." he finally told Itachi handing over the kunoichi. "Maybe you should ask. Or maybe look it up."

"Maybe." Itachi muttered as he looked into Temari's lifeless eyes.

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Gaara stopped on a tree branch. Something felt terribly wrong.

"What's wrong?" Naruto asked as he stopped on the same branch. "Is something the matter?"

"I just...had a feeling." Gaara told his blond friend.

He looked back at Kankuro who had also stopped with troubled look. He felt it too.

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As night rolled in, Itachi was still puzzled. Hours had gone by since the incident and Temari still had a normal body temperature. He had even dragged her everywhere but nothing appeared to have changed.

Time was not on his side as it seemed it just passed by. Soon it was really late and he decided to head off to bed.

He stopped by the chamber but had a thought. What would be the point in putting her there if she wouldn't even move? He took a glance a the body slumped over his shoulder and kept walking down the hall.

Entering his room he sat her on a chair. He sat her up straight and placed her hands in her lap. He hung up his cloak and climbed into bed. He took a one last glance before at her before he headed off to sleep.

The next morning Kisame was the next person to know.

"I thought you were just going to kill the girl but now everything's all crazy." Kisame told his partner as he took a slip of his coffee.

"Thanks for your concern." Itachi replied with sarcasm in his voice.

"Come on Itachi. I'm just as puzzled as you are."

As the two continued their conversation Deidara appeared with a rather large book in hand. "Morning you two...hmm" he greeted as he placed it on the table with a thud.

"What is that?" Itachi asked raising an eyebrow.

"A book I got from the library...hmm" Deidara told him.

"Since when do you go to the library?" Kisame asked.

"Since I feel like it. Now I was looking all morning and-"

"But it's only nine." Kisame interrupted.

"Will you shut up?...hmm. Anyway, this is what I've found." he opened the book as dust flew everywhere. Itachi raised another eyebrow.

"Alright it says..."