3 days… no…4 days, 12 hours, 54 minutes & 6 seconds to be exact since Kakashi's team left Konoha. This mission is an A-class. They were to help the 2 ANBU team that was assign to retrieve the scroll that the 2 missing nin from the village of…what was the village again and who were those 2 ninja's? He can't remember, neither the author of the story is.

They've been able to eliminate 75 recruited ninja's who were part of those 2 nin's dark forces. They were chunin to jounin level. 'Its going to be a huge problem if they have at least 250- 500 ninja of this level, a war will definitely brake out' though kakashi.

He is currently sitting in tree viewing the old run down building. The rest of his team is somewhere around the surrounding foliage. Whatever this ninja's up to, it is evident that they're up into something bad. For the past 4 days they were able to gain information about the intention of the nins who were recruiting ninja's from everywhere to build an army against the village of Konoha. They already sent the information to Tsunade. She would send another team of shinobi so they could eliminate these bastards already. Until then the 2 ANBU team, and his team will watch them carefully and formulate a plan. He sighs…

'I think its time to re group'

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It's a fine morning today at the village of konohagakure. Yamanaka Ino, also know as the princess of gossips, waters her flower pots as she do her morning routine before opening up the flower shop to the public.

She's a perfectionist, that's why her parents shop is the best flower shop in the village and man, the people who goes in to their humble shop seems to like her with her bubbly and positive attitude. She makes new friends and gains sources, with that she gets to know whatever rumor is circulating around the village.

So far there's nothing interesting enough to make a fuss about. Mostly everybody was aware of Kakashi and Sakura's relationship, which is still a freaking teacher-student relation ship. Most of them are already getting frustrated because none of those 2 would make a move to take it to the next level. Everybody will and would accept their relationship if it exceeded past between it. Everybody, even the civilians were wary of the looks that kakashi gives her. But well, knowing Sakura she probably didn't notice. She's somewhat Oblivious to the things that going on around her. She looks at the clock to check the time and it is now 9 am.

'It's Time to open the shop, the earlier I open the more gossip I get to hear!!!'

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Temari couldn't help but smile at the thought of his younger brother's words 3 days ago. This is the time of the year where they'll (meaning her, Kankuro, and Gaara) visit konoha for vacation. They start doing this 2 years ago, after everything was settled However, this time she was sent all by her self 2 ½ weeks earlier than they planned to.

Ever since team Kakashi helped them to retrieved Gaara, Temari became somewhat close to Sakura and Shikamaru, which means she also, had to put up with the other members of the group, not that they were bad. She likes them even though Ino gets annoying at times. She also became close to other members of the rookie 9 and team Gai. Kankuro was even buddies with Kiba, they even paint each others face when they are drunk enough to do so. She giggled at the memories of the times when they all hang out together. Oh it's so good to be with friends.

What was gaara's words exactly? Let's do a short flashback.

--Flash back--

Gaara sat on his office, finishing his paperwork. It was around 8:30 pm and he is ready to take his evening stroll around the village since he can't actually go to bed and sleep.

Temari came in and took in the somewhat more peaceful face of Gaara. Gaara looked up from his paper and said "what's up?"

Temari just looked and smiled at him. She walks to the closest chair next in front of Gaara and propped her self in a comfortable position and then replied "nothing much, I just came in from the jounin headquarters. Nothing of importance is happening around and I decided to see you."

Gaara placed his pen down and recline on his leather chair. "That's so sweet of you, but you don't have to" those words somewhat slipped out of Gaara's mouth. Temari wasn't shocked, she knows that her brother wouldn't exactly say it to him, Gaara doesn't use sugary words or whatever to say how he feels or whatever, and from the tone of his voice he is pondering about what it meant. And she knows exactly whose words those are from. After their 1st night at konoha, the person who uttered those words came rushing to her the next morning telling her what happened.

Gaara said in an even tone "temari why don't you start a family already? Marry that Nara kid and have babies. After all you're in the right age to do so."

Ok, this was sudden, because after she heard what he said she jumps up with wide eyes and said "what?" it was one of the shocking questions that gaara had ever asked her besides the one about . She straiten up "Maybe sometime in the future gaara." 'And Nara aint ready yet and I think I still have another blond to dispose first, I have competition.'

She wonders why he asked all of a sudden. "Why won't you start a family? Marry someone and have babies. After all you're in the right age to do so?" she asked him back. He smile, and oh my god how handsome his brother is. He looked straight in her eyes and said "I will when we go to konoha in 3 weeks."

Now this is interesting, she wants to know who the person is, she has to know, there are tons of questions that pops up in her mind that itches to be given an answer. She decided not to voice out her thoughts and decided to leave him for a while since his looks change into a dreamy one. She stands up preparing to leave

"Well, it seems that I'll be having a niece or a nephew in the near future. I gotta jet now, have some nice bath and a long goodnight sleep, I'll see you tomorrow morning at home."

Temari tried hard not to bomb her brother with questions regarding that matter but she knows that her brother will tell her sooner. After all, he doesn't really keep a secret from her long enough not to tell her about this one.

She walks towards the door doing a countdown. She knows that he has something to say. So she walked slowly.

10…

9…

8…

7…

6…

Her hand was about to twist the doorknob when Gaara's voice halted her action.

"temari?"

She looked behind her shoulder continuing her silent countdown inside her head.

"hmmm?"

5, 4, 3…

He heaved a sigh and looks straight into her eyes.

2…

1…

"Would you go and check up on Sakura for me?"

She smirks, and then grinned. 'Aha!' she giggled a little bit. So this is what is it about. She turned her body fully towards the young kage and said her calm voice

"Just for you little brother"

She walked out of the door and closed the door. Gaara smiled at his sisters reaction, but it was soon replaced by a sweat drop when he heard her loud voice outside the room

"Oh, yeah! Oh yeah! Woot, woot!!!" she did a rain dances out side the office. And then rushes home to get ready. She'll leave tomorrow and see if things will work out between Sakura and Gaara.

'Kankuro, if things work out, our little brother will soon have a family. And will have cute little nephews and or nieces.'

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"I still have 4 hours before I arrived to konoha, maybe I'll arrive an hour early if I increase my pace" Temari looked at her watch and pumped chackra on her feet. There's nothing that will halt her down especially when the though of having Gaara's babies (imagine a lot of chibi Gaara) in her hands. She wasn't able to enjoy gaara's cuteness when she was young because of his silent but deadly attitude and she definitely won't miss a chance once he has kids.

'Maybe I should start a family with Nara' though Temari.

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Ino sat on her chair at the front desk of their flower shop. This is the time of the year where a lot people buy flowers every week, also the spring festival is coming up in few weeks meaning Temari and her brothers will be here. She sighed audibly 'why do I feel over protected towards Shika when Temari's around?'

Everytime that those 2 are together, having an innocent conversation, or just walking, and oh gosh just the thought of shika and Temari makes her fustrated. She looked at the clock on the wall, 11: 30 Am; Temari will arrive in an hour and a half.

Ino shifted in her chair, So far there's no interesting gossip to keep her busy. Her sources shared some about a dude who committed a suicide but cutting his throat and then tries to sew it back and the other is that there was 2 mysterious murderers that lurks around shinobi villages, steals information and then runs away, they comes back 3 months to destroy the village. That got her attention for a while, but after her source left she got bored.

"Ino dear, I'll take over now; you go and prepare to welcome your friend from Suna." Called her mom inside. "hai!", during daylight if she's not in the hospital she's her helping out her mom, and at night she's at the bar when she doesn't have missions. She went inside their house took a shower then headed off to town. She saw Raido buying a lunch for 2. She approached the elite jounin and greeted him.

"Hi, Raido"

The young man looked at her. "Oh, hi Ino, what's up?" he paid the old woman for his purchase, took his changed and then faced her.

"Nothing, I just saw you and decided to greet you. You're out for lunch? Who's the other one for?" she asked pointing a manicured finger on the purchased food. "Oh, this? I'm doing the gate watch with Asuma since Izumo and Kotetsu was sent on a mission 4 days ago." He replied.

They walked together to the gates and she spotted her ex- sensei on the little hut sorry but I can't describe it. "Asuma- sensei!" shouted Ino, she ran towards her ex-sensei and team leader. He looked up at his student. Like Kakashi and his wife Kurenai, he told his students when they turned chunin not to call him sensei anymore, but habits die hard.

"How are you lately?" asked Asuma. Ino smiled brightly at her sensei "well, I heard from Raido that you doing guard duty so I decided to go with him, and besides Temari will arrive in an hour so I might as well spend that time catching up on you and kurenai-san than wait with boredom for that blond."

"I think you're wrong about that, Temari will be here in a minute" said Raido putting his food on the table. Ino looked at him with a raised brow. He just shrugged and then pointed a finger out towards the gate. Few meters beyond the gate, a figure emerge in the foliage of trees. Ino then saw temari walking towards them.

"Hey! You're an hour early. And where's Kankuro and Gaara?" asked Ino

"Yeah, I can't wait to see you and the others. They won't be here after 3 weeks" replied Temari. She looked at the two elite jounin on the hut and bows a little. Ino notice her friends happy mood, she maybe have some gossip or something "you look happy Temari, got any interesting news?"

Temari smirked at Ino "oh yeah, but I wont tell you till next month." Ino scowled and the two elite at the hut chuckled. Ino doesn't like being left behind when it comes to news. "urgh, whatever! Lets go and get the other girls" and with that the 2 blond shinobi walk towards the town.

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I can't resist not putting Gaara on this chapter. I kinda like gaaxsaku so yeah. I hope you guys like this chapter. Kakashi's team has 3 more days. And I'll find a beta for this fic since I'm bad at grammars. Anyways, If you may spare some little time please R & R. thanks for reading!