A wedding to save a life

Chapter 2 (I'm engaged)

Kankuro: I'm dead

Me: Huh? why's that?

Kankuro: Temari is going to kill me for this

Me: Hey it's not your fault

Kankuro: Your right…ITS YOURS!! (Starts strangling writer)

Me: On (CHOKE)…with the story (faints)

Kankuro reached the room he and his siblings were staying in and walked in.

"Hey" he said as he went in.

He saw Gaara at the table drinking some tea and Temari was sat watching TV while cleaning her fan.

"Hi, where have you been?" Temari said getting up from her spot and Gaara just looked at him.

"Walking around the village" he answered going into the kitchen to get something to eat.

"Ok, so what ya been up to then?" Temari could see something was on Kankuro's mind by the way he stared off into space.

"Nothing much, just getting engaged that's all"

Gaara had been taking a drink of his tea as Kankuro was speaking and was currently choking. Temari ran over and gently patted his back trying to get him to stop.

Once Gaara had gotten out of his coughing fit he began breathing heavily.

"E-engaged? T-to who?" Gaara said still taking deep breaths.

"A girl called Tenish I met today" Kankuro said still looking in the cupboards.

"You got engaged to a girl you just met!?" Temari almost yelled.

"Um…Yeah pretty much" he said still not turning around.

"WHAT! WHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT YOU DOPE! " Temari Yelled at the top of her lungs.

"Look she was in trouble and this was the only way to solve it" Kankuro said facing his siblings.

Temari's face turned from anger to curiosity "Trouble? What kind of trouble? "

"Some guy is trying to marry her to get her family's wealth and knowledge then will just kill her once he's got everything" Kankuro's face frowned from the memory.

"Then why not go to the Hokage?" Gaara said shocked at what his brother had done. He was not the sort of person that would do something like this without good reason.

"Something tells me that this guy will do anything to get what he wants whether we tell the Hokage or not" Kankuro said "Besides she might become valuable member to Suna"

"Why's that then?" Temari asked as her face softened.

"You should see her back yard! It's like a tropical paradise and she takes care of it all herself, I think a lot of her plants can be used for medicines' that may help our shinobi. She sounds like she was once a shinobi because she told me she wielded puppets for battle. She also has two wolves under her care and she has trained them well, I think she may be able to make a new tracking force for Suna. That's what I think anyway" Kankuro finished.

"This girl sounds interesting" Gaara said leaning back in his chair, folding his arms over his chest.

"But still, you only just met her, how do you know you'll get along with her?" Temari asked.

"She seems nice enough. She invited me in for a drink when she saw I was looking at her"

"Why were you looking at her?" Gaara asked.

"I was walking past her house when I heard her singing while she was gardening" Kankuro said making his eyes go into a different end of the room as he blushed.

For ages there was silence. No one spoke because no one knew what to say. Finally it was broken by Gaara.

"Well me and Temari will have to go with you to see her, won't we, to see for our self's if she is everything you say she is" Gaara finished with a meaningful smile at his brother. He had gotten a lot better with his emotions especially with his siblings.

Kankuro smiled at his brother then turned to his sister to only find her mouth open looking at Gaara in absolute disbelief.

"Thanks Gaara" Kankuro said.

"-Sigh- I think we should get to this bloody meeting with the 5th and 6th Hokage's then get back and get an early night's sleep" Temari said to her brother's.

Both nodded in agreement and followed Temari out the door.

'This is going to be a long day' Kankuro thought as they went into the Hokage's office.

Once the day was out the 3 siblings went to bed.

Kankuro lay in his bed, wide awake, thinking about his life.

'I'm 22 years old and in charge of suna's ANBU and I'm about to marry a girl I just met…well at least when we have kids we can make a system to make puppetry more popular or something I guess' he thought as sleep began to take over.

Meanwhile Tenish was talking to her to wolves about the events that had happened that day.

"But I really like him and I'll make sure to bring you to with me" she said.

Kin, the male, barked twice and had a concerned face on.

"I'm not going to tell him about that unless I have to!" she whispered.

Gin, who had her head on her mistress's lap, looked up and whined.

"I know it still hurts and it's dangerous but we can't think of that! No, we are going to have a new life and I just know they won't dare go to the sand village after what happened to them last time!"

Kin looked at her with an unconvinced look and barked.

"Oh what do you know!" Tenish joked.

"Anyway maybe I should get my puppets out since I haven't used then in like forever!"

The night ended with some concern, happiness and worry by everyone. Kankuro was not looking forward to having his siblings meeting the girl but hey maybe things wouldn't be as bad as he thought!

Me - …

Kankuro – well that could have gone a lot worse.

Me - …(I fainted remember)