While Akane was trying her best to fit in at her new home, her sister in misfortune, A.K.A. Temari, had her own problems.
"Where did I put it? I could've sworn I left it somewhere in this room last night!" She's been screaming at no one in particular while searching for her misplaced fan.
"What are you yelling about?" Sasuke was standing at the doorway, glaring at her. He didn't mind getting up early, but it was his day off and the last thing he expected was to be woken up by a screaming hyperactive annoyance. Seriously, didn't he leave that at Suna a couple of days ago?
"I can't find my fan! I know it's here! Somewhere..." She was still frantically looking around, picking up other things to check under them, even though there wasn't a theoretical chance that she would've put her fan there.
"You mean this?" She turned around to look at him, just to find him holding her precious fan.
"Where was it?"
"Near the door..." Sasuke sighed. "And here I thought I'll be able to take a break from Akane during these three months... So much for that theory."
Later in Suna...
"What?" Akane was staring at Gaara wide eyed, while he was calmly sitting at his desk.
"I said that you are going to help the Academy teachers at the training grounds."
"Why?"
"Because we are short on teachers after a certain accident that occurred a week ago." Before she had a chance to whine again, he continued. "Besides, there aren't any higher level mission that I could give you at this point."
"Yes, of course... Are you completely insane?" She was getting louder by the second and Gaara was wondering if there was a single person in the village that hasn't heard her last question. "I'm not very good with kids! In fact, I'm not very good with people in general! I've never worked as a teacher or anything that resembles a teacher! What if I kill someone?" At that moment a couple of ANBU black ops appeared in front of their Kazekage and pushed Akane on the ground while restraining her.
While one of them was holding down now fuming raven, the other one spoke to Gaara. "Are you alright Kazekage-sama?"
Gaara smirked at the site before him and stood up. "I'm fine, good work." Then he walked over to the other black op and Akane (who was, by the way, still lying on the floor). "It appears that some people here haven't learned their place yet."
"For your information Gaara, I always react like that when someone gives me an inappropriate mission." It was amazing how easily she was able to come from completely mad to perfectly calm in a matter of seconds. That, of course didn't last long. The moment later she was glaring at the red head who was standing in front of her and the black op. "Well?" She asked impatiently.
"Well what?"
"Are you going to tell him to let me go?" Akane asked again with an irritated voice.
Gaara smirked in return before turning around and walking to one of the windows. "Lock her up for a couple of hours."
Akane's eyes widened in shock, but quickly narrowed at the Kazekage. "And make sure she goes to the training grounds as soon as you release her."
"Yes sir." Black ops said in unison before disappearing along with Akane.
A couple of hours later, Akane was walking down the street towards the training grounds, after successfully convincing the black ops that she will go there. She had decided to do as told without complaining, no matter how low graded her missions get. That wasn't out of her character, but was definitely unusual. However, that didn't stop her from being irritated because of the recent events and angry at a certain kage.
While she was trying to push her emotions away, so she could concentrate on more important things at hand, she didn't notice that she was letting out chakra. Her energy was leaking out of her body in amounts that only increased with time and going up into the atmosphere. Since her chakra was partly lightning nature, it started gathering dark storm clouds above the village.
By the time she reached her destination, the entire village, except for her, had noticed the incoming storm. Akane realized what was happening when she heard thunder. Unfortunately, she didn't make it in time to stop a lightning from hitting the nearest training ground. Ops... Was her only thought before she ran to the place where it hit. After making sure that nobody was hurt, Akane turned her gaze towards the sky and focused. The lightnings and thunder stopped, and the clouds disappeared, leaving the sky clear again.
She turned her gaze down, only to be met by the confused eyes of the Academy students. Alright, you can do this. Just don't panic, they can smell fear. She nervously smiled at them before speaking. "Hi! My name is Akane Uchiha, and I'm your substitute teacher."
With that, the previous shock was gone, and they all began talking and asking questions, at the same time. Akane stared at them in disbelief for a moment. Then she sighed while putting her hand into a Sheep hand sign. A second later a lightning fell from the clear sky, landing among the terrified students.
"No that I've got your attention, is there anyone in this class who can tell me what you're supposed to do?"
"How should we know? You're the teacher!"
Akane sighed. This is going to be such a pain... Then she felt someone pulling the end of her skirt. She looked down to see a couple of big brown orbs that belonged to a small, black haired girl. "Sensei gave us these notebooks. He said that they are instructions about what we have to do until he gets out of the hospital, and that we should give them to his replacement."
Akane took two books that the girl was holding. One of them had a list of students in it, and the other one was, indeed, a scheduler for the activities. She looked back at the girl who was now standing further away from her. "What is your name?"
"It's Yuka, sensei." The girl answered in a low voice.
Akane greened at her before she spoke again. "Thank you, Yuka! Without these, I would probably be teaching you how to make fireballs!" While she was laughing, her students were staring at her worriedly. And they thought their old sensei was weird.
A few hours later, Akane left the training ground. She considered going back to the kage house to eat, but went to a restaurant instead. She ate quietly, without being bothered, while thinking about her first day in Suna. This mission Gaara gave me might not be so bad after all... I barely have to do anything, except for making sure those kids don't kill each other by accident. She slightly smiled at her last thought, before paying her bill and leaving the restaurant.
It was dark outside and the streets were pretty much empty. Wow, it's night time already! I didn't even notice. She was walking slowly towards the kage mansion while looking at the sky. No wander people say that stars are the prettiest in the desert. I don't remember the last time I saw the sky so clearly. It's beautiful...
She stopped at the entrance of the kage's house. Maybe I should apologize... I shouldn't have yelled at him, for more reasons than one.
She was brought back from her thoughts by a familiar voice coming from behind her. "What are you doing?" It was Kankurou.
Akane didn't bother to turn around. She could feel his mocking smirk. "Staring at the door, obviously."
Realizing that she wasn't in a good mood, Kankurou decided not to make her any madder than she already is. "Whatever. I suggest that you get in soon, though. Nights in Suna are colder than those in Konoha." With that, he went past her and inside.
After about half an hour of staring at the door while fighting her thoughts, Akane went inside. She sensed that Gaara was in his room, which meant that the coast was clear. She went into the living room and sat on the couch.
Apologizing for her behavior would be a mature and professional thing to do, and she was fully intending on doing so, as soon as she manages to pass one obstacle – her pride. Come on Akane, you're not a kid anymore! Just forget about your stupid pride for a second and apologize! Then she frowned a bit. Easier said than done! I've never apologized to anyone in my entire life! Ok, maybe once, but that was a long time ago!
In the end, she made up her mind and stormed off in direction of Gaara's room. She stood in front of the door for a moment, sighed and knocked. After hearing one "come in" she went inside. Gaara wasn't in his robes anymore, he was wearing simple black pants and a dark blue shirt.
Gaara honestly thought that she was going to ignore him for the rest of her stay, or at least until he gave her a better mission, so he was slightly surprised to see her. However, he kept his reaction to himself, now interested in finding out why she came. "Do you need anything?"
She was trying to avoid his gaze by looking at the floor. Her efforts were futile because their eyes met as soon as he first spoke. She sighed again and spoke. "I want to apologize for my behavior, earlier today. It was inappropriate, childish and incredibly embarrassing for myself and my village. I can only hope that you won't think any less of me or Konoha."
Gaara's eyes widened from pure shock. This is surprising. Akane didn't see this, since she was too busy staring at an invisible spot on the floor. "Apology accepted. As for my opinion of you, I can't say that it has gotten worse, since it wasn't very good to begin with."
Akane's eyes widened after hearing his last statement. Gaara half expected her to yell at him again. The other half was simply waiting to see her reaction. He almost lost his grip when he saw her smile. "Well then, I guess that just means that I have three months to make you think better of me, right?" This time, shock was clearly written on Gaara's face. Akane slightly bowed and turned around to leave. "Good night, Kazekage-sama."