Title: Exotic Light
Authoress: Darka-Chan
Summary: Gaara is a dancer, a stripper, and Neji is always there to watch him dance. NejixGaara, SasukexNaruto

Chapter 07: A week off

"Am I making myself clear, Kabuto?"

"Hai, Orochimaru-sama."

"Good."

As his advisor leaves the room, Orochimaru places his elbows on the desk, and folds his hands. Chuckling to himself he let's his tongue slither over his lips.

'Soon..' he thinks, smiling evilly. 'Very soon…' And at that precise moment, a thunder flash alights the dark sky.

Gaara frowns at the pouring rain. Sitting on the couch he waits for Temari. But until that happens, he's content just sitting there, on the leather sofa, watching the rain.

'Being an insomniac has it's perks.' The red-head muses. 'I get the shower first.'

A shrill scream coming from the shoulder makes a grin appear on his face, showing off his pearly teeth.

"GAARA! STOP USING ALL THE HOT WATER!" Temari screams, making Gaara chuckle before he replies;

"I HAVE TO RELAX MY MUSCLES, DON'T I?"

"I DON'T CARE!"

"I DO! NOW HURRY UP!"

"SHUT UP!" Kankurou yells from his room.

Gaara smirks as he hears his siblings arguing, and the sound of a neighbour smashing his or her head against the thin wall of the flat the Sabaku siblings live in. It's not that it's a shitty apartment or something, it's just that the Sabaku siblings don't need more room then this small apartment gives off… Well… Most of the time they don't…

The apartment is quite simple and clean, with little decoration; only the essentials. The bedrooms are decorated the most, but that is where they spend most of their free time anyway… and the rooms where the walls are the thickest.

Temari and Kankurou drag themselves into the living room, Temari's hair still damp from her shower, and Kankurou still ruffled from just getting out of bed. Both the siblings let themselves drop on either side of Gaara.

"Wow, one happy family." Kankurou mumbles sarcastic, but non of the three can stop themselves from slightly smiling at the truth in there.

"Well, you should get going now, so shoo." Kankurou says to his two siblings, urging them to go to work.

"Hai, hai, hai…" Temari replies, stretching slightly; knowing that she and Gaara would eat their breakfast at the bar.

"Hmm…" Gaara decides to finally get up too.

"Well, there we go then." Temari mumbles, following the lead of her younger brother and getting up from the comfortable sofa.

"Have fun." Kankurou calls as Gaara and Temari pull on their shoes and coats and Gaara puts on the rest of his disguise.

Today is one of the days that our dear Kanky doesn't have to work… but the other two Sabaku siblings do.

"… what?" Temari asks, eyes wide.

"The three of you have a week off." Orochimaru says with a snake-like smile.

"…" Gaara just stares.

"Well… Okay." Temari says, eyes finally adjusting to their original size.

"And," Orochimaru continues, clearly not done with his story "you'll still get paid, even when you don't work."

Temari grins. "WOHOO! PARTY TIME!"

Gaara and Orochimaru stare at her and back away slowly; Gaara with his feet, and Orochimaru with the wheels of his chair.

"Well… Have fun this week." Orochimaru says with a small drop of sweat trickling in the back of his neck.

"We will!" Temari grins, before grabbing Gaara's hand. "C'me on Gaara! We gotta tell Kankurou about this!"

"Er, right!"

And gone were the siblings. Orochimaru rolled back to his desk and adapted his former position with his elbows on the table and hands clasped together.

"Soon… Very soon…"

Normally, Orochimaru wouldn't give people days off unless they asked for those, and when people did, he wasn't hard on it. But no one thought about that in the Sabaku household, because all were busy with their own things.

"So, tomorrow, ne?" Temari grins while twisting the telephone cord around her finger. "Yeah, two sounds good… uh-huh"

"She's been on the phone for almost two hours now." Kankurou whines, laying on the cough on his stomach, one arm draped across his head, the other off the couch.

Gaara nods from his position at the kitchen-table where he is playing a few rounds of solitaire.

"Uh-huh!"

"I mean, it's not like we don't have money to pay the bills and all, but still…"

Another nod.

"Of course! That would be nice!"

"It's not like we don't need to save money for later, right? But of course we do! What if we are homeless in a few months because we lost our jobs! What if we need to sleep under a bridge! What if we starve!"

Another nod.

"It would be soooo much fun to do that!"

"AND NO ONE CARES!"

Another nod.

"Yeah, I'll see you then, bye!"

"But of course, that probably won't happen, so we don't need to worry about a thing."

Another nod.

"Guys!" Temari grins, while putting the phone back on the holder.

A "wha?" coming from Kankurou, and a gruff sound coming from the kitchen-table indicates the two brothers are listening.

"We're going to Hinata tomorrow."

"Eh?"

"…"

"Nice that you agree, well! I'm going out, so bye!"

And Temari leaves the house, leaving one brother gaping after her, and another who is still paying more attention to the fact that he's stuck in his game and has to start all over again.

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