What is that sound? It's a voice... Akane was struggling with her thoughts, still half asleep. It sounds familiar... BANG

She forcefully removed the invading object, also known as her pillow, while shooting her eyes wide open to glare at her attacker. "What was that for?"

"You weren't waking up so I decided to help you."

"Well then maybe you'd like some help with eating your breakfast! How about a knuckle sandwich?" And with that she jumped out of her bed and went running after the poor idiot, also known as Sasuke, who had the nerve to wake her up in such a brotherly way.

While they were running trough the house, Itachi broke the monotony created by Akane's growling and Sasuke's girlish screams by something that sounded a lot like "Akane, don't break anything with a material value!" which she answered with "no worries, Sasuke doesn't need his head anyway".

Few minutes later, three, I mean two siblings were sitting at the table and having breakfast. Sasuke was at the hospital with Tsunade who offered to fix him up personally, so he wouldn't miss his mission.

"You didn't have to hit him that hard..."

"Why not, Tsunade's gonna heal him anyway."

"It was just a pillow."

"I know, life can be so cruel sometimes, don't you think so?"

"You are pure evil, you know that?"

"Yeah..." She suddenly stopped eating and looked her brother straight in the eyes. "You know that this doesn't mean that I don't love him...?"

"Of course, you just got carried away, right? Killing him would mean that you don't love him."

Akane was now playing with her food absently. She wasn't looking at him, but Itachi could still read her like an open book. "You're going to miss us, aren't you?"

She lifted her head up to meet his gaze. "Tell anyone and you're a dead man."

He just looked at her with a small smile, while leaning his elbows on the table. "Deal."

Meanwhile, yet another peaceful day in Sun- "Hey Temari! Are you ready yet? We have to go!"

"Will you shut up? I've heard you the first ten times! I'm coming in a minute, I just have to make sure I didn't forget anything." Temari practically mumbled the last part while checking her never ending list of stuff she had decided to bring with her to Konoha.

"You know you can always buy whatever you need there or send us a message to bring it..." When Kankurou got tired of waiting for her downstairs and went to see what's taking her so long, he didn't expect to see his older sister on verge of tears. "Listen, Temari, it's not going to be that bad, I'm sure you'll have a great time there, you'll just have to take it easy and get used to it at first." He sat next to her and hugged her tightly.

"It's not that... It's just, I'm going to miss you and Gaara... the village too... I've never been away for so long." Her voice was low, she was fighting hard not to cry.

"You don't have to go." They turned around to see the youngest sibling standing at the door. "I can order someone else to do it."

Those words seemed to be exactly what Temari needed. "What? You said that I'm one of the few people you trust to do this job right! Besides, I can't bail now!" Before her brothers could say another word, she grabbed her bag and went out. "Kankurou, hurry up! We're going to be late!"

Kankurou just sighed and stood up. "She'll never change."

"I'm afraid not."

"Nice work, by the way. No wonder you're the Kazekage." The red-head smirked in return. Before his brother left, he said just one more thing. "Kankurou, be careful."

"Yeah, see ya soon, and don't forget to welcome our guest when she gets here." Kankurou winked at the end of his sentence and left, leaving Gaara to his thoughts. Right... Akane.

Almost three days later, somewhere in the desert, hopefully closing in to the Sand village were one very frustrated Sasuke and one extremely relaxed Akane. "I spy with my eye something... something yellow!"

"It's sand. Like the last time, and the time before." Sasuke was one step away from strangling her.

"Sure it is... How did you guess?" Akane asked with a fake curiosity.

"I get it! The place is full of sand, it's a desert, get used to it!"

"You just have to spoil all the fun, don't you?"

"Shut up."

"Fine, I will." Sasuke felt like hitting himself in the head with something. She's been spending too much time with Naruto... I never though she could be that annoying.

About an hour later, they were still walking. "Will you hurry up?"

"Relax princess... I thought you said that you could take the heat?" She was slowly walking behind him.

"I can. I just don't want to waste more time than necessary. I swear, if you were walking any slower, you'd be going backwards..."

While Akane was trying to imagine how it would be like if she went backwards a thought hit her. The sun must have really hit him in the head. He completely ignored the me-calling-him-a-princess part.

She was taken out of her thoughts by Sasuke. "Finally! Looks like I'll be free of you in a flash."

She looked in front of them to see what he was so happy about. And there it was, the Hidden Sand village in all it's glory. Just the walls actually, but the village was behind it, which was what mattered the most.

Few minutes later, they were at the gate where they were greeted by the Kazekage.

Akane approached with a smile. "Nice to see you again Gaara-sama."

He smiled in return. "Same here."

Sasuke, on the other hand, had decided to make it quick. "It's an honor to meet to Kazekage-sama, I'm Sasuke Uchiha."

"The honor is mine."

"Well, if you don't mind, I'll be on my way now." Sasuke said while turning around to leave.

"You can stay and rest for a while."

"No need, I'll be just fine as soon as I have a few miles between myself and this annoyance."

All Gaara could do is stare in disbelief at Sasuke while he was saying his goodbyes and running of in the direction of Konoha.

"What a jerk." Akane's statement brought his attention back to her.

"He should have stayed at least for an hour, there was no rush."

"Not from his point of view." She had a small smile on her face, and Gaara could have sworn there was something demonic about it. What did she do? In the end, he decided to leave the matter alone for the time.

"Lets go." With that he turned around and went through the passage between the cliffs.

"Right."

Next morning, in Suna

"Kankurou, you're dead!" Was all Gaara heard while sitting in the kitchen, calmly eating his breakfast. What did he do? Then there was a loud crash, Kankurou's girlish scream, then a sound of something heavy hitting something empty That one probably being Kankurou's head... then there was a long silence. After that, Akane joined him in the kitchen fully dressed. "Sorry for getting up late, I guess I was tired from yesterday." He turned his gaze towards her, she was wearing a black miniskirt and a dark blue shirt with naked shoulders. When he realized that he was staring, mainly at her legs, he quickly answered. "Don't worry about it. Does-"

"He'll be fine, he's just going to have a major headache when he wakes up."

"What did he do anyway?"

"Spilled cold water all over me."

"Alright then." He got up and turned to leave. "I'll be in my office. Stop by later so I can tell you what you'll be doing here."

"Ok."

In case anyone's wondering:

I know that Gaara and Sasuke being friendly with each other is kinda OC but unlike the original series, they've never met before, or fought, so it makes sense;

Also, you might have noticed that this was the first time I've actually described what someone was wearing. I'm not very good at those descriptions, so I'll put them in the story only when they're somewhat important for it, in all other cases, I'll leave it up to you guys to put on them what ever you want, unless I say they were naked, which probably won't happen since this story is rated T.