I DO NOT OWN NARUTO

I woke up in the morning to the sound of Keno crying and birds chirping. A thin line of light shone through a spot in our curtains.

I yawned and stretched, arching my back until I hear a loud popping sound.

With this I got out of bed and jogged down the hall to Kenos room. He was awake and standing up in his crib. His little head with a tuft of black air peeked up, and he focused his big blue eyes on me.

"Momma". he cooed and proceeded to jam his foot in the space between the crib bars.

Recently he had learned he could pull himself up the walls by doing this and now his favorite hobby seemed to be poll vaulting out of his crib in the middle of the night.

I grinned and reached in to pick him up. I gathered him in his favorite teddy bear blankey that matched the teddy onesie he wore and carried him down the hall.

We reached the kitchen and I grabbed a can of mashed peaches for him. At nearly 10 months old he now only got formula at night when he woke up and he was hungry.

He squished the peaches around for a bit, occasionally taking a handful and shoving it in his mouth. When he was done he courteously chucked the bowl across the room. At this moment Gaara walked in. The sand caught the bowl before it could hit him but he did get one or two peaches straight in the face.

I couldn't help the giggle that escaped my mouth. Keno, picking up on the humor in the situation, let loose a loud trilling laugh that sounded throughout the kitchen.

Gaara, with an annoyed look on his face, walked across the kitchen and plucked Keno out of his highchair. He headed down the hall towards the bathroom muttering.

I did hear a little bit of him saying "great, now we're both dirty".

Gaara had been wearing his traditional Kazekage outfit meaning he had been attending to some important business. I honestly didn't want to know what it was.

I watched as Gaara put Keno in the bath and dumped a Dixie cup of water on his head to get the chunks of peaches out of his hair.

"Hey don't drown the poor kid" I said as another cup of water was dumped on Kenos head." It's not his fault Gerber makes crappy peaches!" I called.

Gaara cracked a smile and turned to me.

"Why don't you go get ready. We have to leave in half an hour if we want to get there by nightfall." He said.

I felt all my happiness from this morning drain away. For a moment there I'd actually forgotten about Konoha. We were leaving today.

I avoided Gaaras eyes as I stared at the ground.

In the background Keno was making happy squeals and chewing on the Dixie cup.

I left the bathroom and walked in to our room, closing the door. I looked at myself in the mirror. My hair no longer stood up but instead was long so it lay flat on my head. My white tee shirt covered my thin body.

After giving birth to Keno I'd lost a lot of weight. Tsunade had said something about the baby soaking up all the nutrients in my body, which explained why I was always hungry and unlike most pregnant people I actually lost weight instead of gaining it.

Now most girls would kill for my body. It was tiny and fragile looking but I was actually pretty strong. With my naturally golden skin, Gaara calls me his Sand bunny.

I went to our closet and pulled out an outfit at random. It was a pair of hip hugger miny shorts and a sleeveless midriff top that showed off my tanned stomach. I pulled out a pair of thigh high socks and slipped those on under my boots which buckled and came to my knees.

With the entire ensemble put together I looked thoroughly skankish. But what can I say, the desert was hot. I suppose that lots of people would say I dressed a little like Sai now. Shamelessly walking around half naked. But Sai didn't have to walk 300 miles in 125 degree weather to go on a stupid freaking vacation.

I slipped back out of our room and into Kenos bedroom where Gaara was trying to dodge Kenos flying arms and legs to put on his clothes. I crossed the room and grabbed a toy for keno to distract himself with while Gaara slipped on his clothes.

Once Keno was suited up in his UV ray protection suit we set out. We would be gone about 2 weeks so Gaara had spent last night and this morning setting up step by step idiot proof instructions for Kankuro while he was gone.

We were loaded up with seven servants and maids who would travel with us on our trip. We were also accompanied by 4 ninja who's primary jobs were to protect the Kazekage from everything.

We had reached the edge of town and Keno was already getting irritated of being in my arms. He wanted to be put on the ground to roll around. I put him on my hip and kept walking, ignoring is kicking and thrashing.

Temari, who was also traveling with us came up beside me. Her daughter, Saya, was being a lot better behaved since she made this trip at least once a month to see her father, Shikamaru, in Konoha.

She offered to take Keno and I gratefully handed him to her. She bounced him around while we walked, shooing away a maid who came to offer her some water.

We were now in the desert and the edges of Suna were behind us. Gaara was up ahead talking to one of the ninja in the front while most of the maids and servants were following after Temari and I incase we needed something.

Saya was up ahead, sliding around in the sand dunes. Scuttling up and then sliding back down on the butt of her floral print dress.

Temari called ahead to her to not get to far ahead and I kept a close eye on Keno who appeared to have laid is head on Temari's chest as we walked, to take a nap.

We kept walking and Gaara had eventually fell back so he was walking with us and was now carrying a sleeping Saya in his arms while keno rested in mine. It was getting darker the farther we walked and I was starting to recognize some of the geography of the land we were on.

We were close to Konoha now and I grabbed Gaaras hand. If I squinted my eyes I could just make out the gates of Konoha in the distance. The trees were thick in this part of the path and our little group was traveling down a marked row of trees. There was only quiet chatter among the travelers but I could still make out the nearly silent swishing of air in the woods. Both Gaara, Temari, and all the traveling ninjas picked up on it to. Noticing the tense atmosphere, the maids and servants had stopped talking and everyone was silent, looking straight forward.

I risked a glance to the side, in the woods and saw a flash of white. Whoever these people were they weren't even trying to hide their presence.

I peaked through my bangs, into the woods and jumped. There, sitting on a branch was a man. Staring right at me. He wore a standard issue Anbu Black ops uniform and had the mask of a raven on.

I looked back at the road and kept walking. But nothing could stop the growing dread in my stomach as we came upon the big black gates of Konoha,

A ninja jumped down from a railing on top of the gates and bowed low to Gaara who inclined his head in return. Temari was carrying Saya again and her and I stood a little behind Gaara.

The load creak and groan of the gates opening awakened Keno in my arms. We shuffled in and Keno poked is head up to look around at our new surroundings. As we walked through the gate I swallowed a lump in my throat.

A little voice in the back of my head chuckled. Enjoying my pain. I looked directly at the ground and shuffled along.

The voice in the back of my head seemed excited. Feeding off my dread.

Welcome to Konoha it whispered.

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