The Valiant
(three months later)
"Aw gross…in an instant shoved it's clawed hands down his throat, breaking him like it did the branch member. Blood spewed everywhere as it then tore off his head…that is just is nasty!" Temari said closing the book in her hands. She glanced at her brother's outfit as he came down the stairs and quirked a brow at his baggy black clothing. "Aren't you just a ray of sunshine and unicorns this fine morning." She said smoothing her already wrinkle free skirt. "Why don't you ever wear the clothes that I buy you."
Gaara sighed to himself as he sat on the ornery yellow couch that his sister had yet to get rid of since his father's days. He shrugged. "You have bad taste in clothing."
"Do I?"
He nodded. "Everything you choose is too…vivid."
"vivid?"
"Yeah."
The girl rolled her eyes mentally before settling herself beside him on the couch, crossing her legs at the ankles and sighing deeply. "It's not that I pick vivid clothes it's that I pick things that aren't black or so blue or green that they seem black. It's not my fault that you have no basis for taste."
"So you say Temari. So you say." He looked at his wrist watch the back at his sister. "Aren't you due at the clinic? It's half past ten."
"Aren't you late for school?"
He shrugged. "I have decided to not go today. With the grades that I have I think that I can afford it."
Temari nodded slowly as though taking in some type of valuable information. Her dark blue eyes shut for a moment before she sighed again. Her brother always seemed to make her sigh in the morning-tradition that never seemed to break. "Then you're coming with me to the clinic…oh and can you make me some coffee?"
"Coffee?"
"Yeah with a lot of cream."
Gaara sighed before standing and walking towards the tiny kitchen. It was ridiculous really, he thought, that they live in some tiny condo when they could afford so much more with the money that they had inherited from their father but he figured that if Temari wanted to keep the place then that was really up to her. "A lot of cream-sounds good."
Just then the phone began to ring startling Gaara for only a moment.
"Can you get that?"
He rolled his eyes and meandered back into the living room towards the old pink phone, taking a mental note to dispose of the hideous thing, he picked up the receiver and grunted into the phone. "Souma residence Gaara speaking." (Bet you thought it was going to be Sabaku huh?)
'Hello this is H. Hyuuga, is Temari in?'
'Hyuuga?' He thought before making another grunting reply. "She just upstairs, hold on."
'Oh no wait!'
"Yes?"
'Uh well…never mind! Sorry to waist your time!'
She had hung up on him before he could make any reply. "What a weirdo."
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Temari Souma enjoyed working at the ParentPlan Clinic. She loved seeing the familiar faces of her coworkers as they busied themselves on their phones or doing counseling or just making coffee and picking up phones.
She loved her job.
It paid well enough for her and Gaara to live on and well enough to send a bit of money to Kankuro, her other younger brother, where he lived in wind country. He'd been accepted to S.U. leaving both siblings behind.
"So what do I do?"
She smirked. "What you always do when you're here. Pick up phone, get my lunch. The usual."
He nodded. "Hn."
"Glad to hear you're excited."
They waded their way to her office and swung opened the wooden door and stared at Temari's secretary, Tobi Genki already at work on the phone. He scribbled messily on a notepad and nodded enthusiastically. "Yes it's completely confidential…well you can come in now if you want…school? Oh you're under the age of eighteen? Sixteen? Well when does class let out for you? 2:45? Hold on…" He lifted a schedule book and propped it open on his lap. He skimmed the pages until he found the one he was apparently looking for and sketched something in with a pencil. "So your appointment is at 3:30 today…your welcome…bye." He hung up the phone and stared up at his superior and her brother. He smiled brightly his dark hair parted as to obscure the eye patch on his left eye. "Hey boss."
She nodded. "Hey Tobi."
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Hinata stared up at the big white building. Her eyes landed on the sign with it's big red letters-she shivered inwardly.
She looked down at the card in her hands. She'd gotten it from her sex-ed class when they brought in a doctor from ParentPlan the year before. She couldn't eve remember why she had kept it.
Pulling up the last bit of dignity she had Hinata walked up the steps of ParentPlan to determine her options.
She was no where near ready to be a parent just yet.
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Gaara and Temari are introduced in this chapter. Yeah Temari is a doctor working at a free clinic…ParentPlan. No Sasuke in this chapter but he'll be in the next one having a seizure no doubt…Hope you liked this. Review please!