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Rating: M
(This story is rated mature for a reason.)
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apologies for the lateness
Chapter 5
"Spicy"
"Well, what do you think?" she said gesturing to the huge canyon in front of them that looked like giant stairs with a huge slice between them. But as she looking between the canyons she saw hundreds of buildings and house in many odd shapes that she could not help but look at it in wonder.
It was Suna . . .
"It's so big" Hinata said as they began to pass between the canyons. It seemed within seconds they were surrounded in sounds of haggling man and busy shoppers. As they began to make their way through the energetic crowds Hinata's senses were ensnared by the activity and smells of food venders, perfume carts and cattle.
The moment the crowd spotted Gaara, it seemed to become quite and part for him, yet a small murmurs seemed to seep through the crowd as they sited Hinata. This caused Temari and Kankuro to go slightly on edge.
They were both used to the way they acted toward Gaara but they were unsure how the people would act towards her. And if it was the same way, thing were defiantly about to get complicated. They watched as the crowd took in the way she walked along with her dark hair and pale lavender eyes.
But everything was lost on Hinata's part as she took in the surroundings, completely over looking the antagonistic stares. Her eyes seemed to move between the beautiful cloths that hung from lines over head to the stunning jewelry hanging on the carts. But that's when her eyes landed on something red.
"Kankuro." whispered Temari as she saw some men looking hostel towards Hinata with only the fear of Gaara holding them at bay.
"Yeah, I see them." He spoke quietly, "They won't do anything as long as she stays near us." However it seemed fate was working against them as they both saw Hinata moving away from them to a large cart of apples. Ever so slowly the crowed began to move in around her waiting for Hinata to be out of the three nin's sights.
"Hinata!" shouted Kankuro as he began moving towards her.
The second Hinata's eyes fell on the apples she began moving towards them with only the taste of the sweet fruit on her mind. As she began to reach out a hand to grab one she felt something warm and grainy wrap around her waist and roughly yank her back, bringing her out of her thoughts. Hinata looked down at herself to see sand slithering around her waist with a small rope of it extending from her waist to Gaara's hand.
The second their eyes met Gaara's sand dragged her until she was beside him, before falling off her. Hinata continued to look up into Gaara's angry eyes as his gaze tore into her causing her to remain very still.
"Do not wonder off." He said in his impassive voice that suddenly seemed to be filled with annoyance.
"Hai." replied Hinata as she watched him abruptly turn and walking away as she moved to following at his heels.
Both Temari and Kankuro stood there for a second before following after them, taking in the crowd's reaction. Great confusion played across the peoples faces having for the first time seen Gaara act that way towards another human being. However once the confusing was gone caution and hidden hostility seemed to sink into there faces.
"Well I guess that seems to have caused a lasting negativity towards Hinata." Kankuro murmured to his sister.
"Yeah . . . I think we should keep a close eye on Gaara. He has seemed to have been rather calm lately and I feel that a lot of that might be because of Hinata. Maybe she has sparked some kind of curiosity in him or something. But I feel that it might also make him become slightly possessive of her." Temari whispered making sure that neither Hinata nor Gaara heard her.
"I think so too, one of us should probably keep a close eye on Hinata also. She seems nice and gentle around us but we have no idea how she would react around aggressive people or negativity toward her." He said quietly to her.
"Yes, I agree. We should probably lay down a few guide lines on fighting for her too." Temari said suddenly thinking of what the Hyuga's taught her on how to deal with threats.
"Hey Hinata," said Temari as she moved up beside her.
"Hai?" she said looking up at her.
"Hey umm . . . there are a few things I should tell you on how you should react around certain things." Temari said trying to place her words as gentle as possible. "For instance let's say someone wanted to fight with you. You must not under any circumstances fight with them or harm them in any way."
"No killing?" she asked turning her head in a puppy dog manner.
"And defiantly no killing. If you kill someone it will cause many problems in Suna and they might not let you stay here. If someone acts in a way that makes you feel worried towards yours or someone's safety or acts negative towards you, you tell one of us, understand?" she asked with a nervous smile.
"No fighting and No killing. Understand." She said as she nodded her head with a smile on her face. This caused Temari to give a sigh of relief as she returned the smile.
"Temari," Hinata gentle said looking around at her surrounds. "Where are we going?"
"We are going to see our Kazekage, the leader of Suna." She said pointing towards a huge round dome like structure in front of them.
"Why?" Hinata asked looking up at her again.
"He wants to meet you." said Kankuro, as she turned to look up at him before looking back at the dome again with a slight frown on her face.
Hinata could not understand the feeling that suddenly seemed to crawl into her stomach as they neared the building. It reminded her of how she would feel when going to meet the leader of the Hyuga clan which caused her to become cautions and on guard.
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"The KazeKage will see you now." said a masked nin behind a large desk, motioning them with his arm. But before he was even finished with the sentence they were already moving toward the two large wooden doors.
The instant Hinata walked into the large dark office she felt as if something slimy had been pored onto her skin. This caused her senses to go on high alert as she cautiously took in her surrounds.
The room was unusually dark considering it was late afternoon outside giving the area a sort of ominous feeling to it. The office was large, crammed with as many books, scrolls and file folder as it could take. The only thing that seemed somewhat out of place was the usually clean desk that sat in the middle of the room.
"Kazekage-suma." Both Temari and Kankuro said as the bowed respectfully. Hinata watched this display before looking at Gaara from the corner of her eye. He stood there with his arms crossed over his chest glairing defiantly at the man before him.
Hinata's eyes locked with a pair dark brown, that were slowly taking her in. He seemed to be almost the spitting image of a paint-free Kankuro, almost. Where Kankuro gave a laid back, trickster vibe the man behind the desk gave off one of mistrust, deceit, and power hungry. Almost the identical vibes to the Hyuga clan leader, making Hinata want to jump out the window.
Soon Hinata's happy thoughts of a new life seemed to turn to ash. Almost immediately images of chairs and cages began to shine before her eye. But no one knew of Hinata's slow trip down memory lane as she became blank. Her body, face, and eyes showing nothing to anyone.
"So this is it?" asked the Kazekage as he slowly stood up from his seat. "Not what I was excepting." He murmured to himself as he moved to stand before Hinata before crouching. He starred at her for a long moment, trying to get something from her eyes only to be met with nothingness.
"She doesn't seem to be much, dose she?" he quietly commented as he placed a finger under her chin lifting it up to get a better look. "But quit a beauty though." He said as a grin crawled onto his face.
Hinata continued to stand there as she felt her skin crawl with disgust at the man's touching. She had a sudden urge to move away but stayed very, very still giving the impression that she was made out of stone.
Both Temari and Kankuro became immediately tense as they took in Hinata. They had never seen Hinata act like this, not even when the first meet her behind the cage bars. She was completely blank, hollow as if Hinata had stepped out or shut a door. But what made them down right terrified was the expression that Gaara was wearing.
Gaara seemed to have gone scary calm, yet his eyes appear to be in a state of blind fury. With in seconds the tension in the room became dangerously high. Yet the Kazekage seemed to be completely ignorant of it as he continued to inspect the girl before him.
". . . Hu" was all he said as he suddenly removed his fingers and moved back behind his desk. Suddenly the pressure in the room dropped making Temari and Kankuro give a sigh of relief. "What is your name girl?"
"Hinata." She said her voice sounding as hollow as she looked.
"Well Hinata, you seemed to be a sane minded person. Would you be willing to become a part of the Suna village?" he asked as a slow grin slithered onto his as he saw the slight nod of her head.
"Good. Then there are going to be a few things that need to be done. First you will need go to the hospital to make sure that you are not caring any types of illnesses and the likes of that. Also you will need to meet the village consuls to decide the best way to having you become a part of this village. Basically finding where you would fit in. Now as far as you living area . . ." he said as he began to go through paper in his desk.
"She will be staying with us." Gaara stated starring rebelliously at him.
"Really and when was this decided?" he asked looking calmly at Gaara with something dark in his eyes.
"Now." With in seconds the tension was back worst than before as some sort of invisible battle was taking place between the two.
"If you are willing to take full responsibility for her then so be it." He replied as he slowly leaned back in his chair. "Then that will be all for now, Temari, Kankuro I expect your missions report by tomorrow morning. You know where to get your payment for this assignment." He said dismissing them.
"Kazekage-suma." said the two sand nin as the turn to catch up with Gaara who was out the door in seconds with Hinata following closely behind him.
The Kazekage sat there looking at where he last saw the nin before turning to look out her window. He watched both Hinata and Gaara walk out of the Kazekage building with Kankuro and Temari instep behind them.
"Do you think that was wise Kazekage-suma?" said a voice before a man stepped out of the shadows to stand beside the Kazekage.
"No, but I really didn't have a chose, now did I. It seems that Gaara as become slightly fond of the girl. To think something like that caused thousands of people at shrivel in fear, you would never think such a thing by her appearance. Such a tiny thing." said the Kazekage with a thoughtful tone.
"Giving her the overall advantage." The nin said watching Hinata as she turned to look at Temari as she was shouting at her brother.
"Yes it dose."
"It's going to be difficult to do anything with her if Gaara has an eye on her." the nin commented.
"Yes it will, but there is nothing we can do about it now. We're going to have to take everything slow. I want to know everything that girl can do, I want to know her every action in this village. I even what to know why she walks on all fours." the Kazekage said in a light tone before turning to look away from the window.
"As you wish Kazekage-suma." said the nin bowing low before disappearing into the shadows once again.
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"Kami, I can't believe he acted that way!" shouted Temari as the four of them made their way out of the Kazekage building. "I swear sometimes I really question why the village consul picked him to be Kazekage."
"Yeah, yeah we know and feel your pain." said Kankuro with a board tone although his eyes were also dark with anger.
"You know what, lets just forget that. We should be happy; Hinata gets to stay with us." Temari said smiling down at Hinata. "Which means your going to be walking around fully clothed from now on Kankuro." She said glairing at him.
"What! Temari I thought you'd give me more credit than that." Kankuro said looking a little hurt.
"Yeah well you can never be too careful now can you." She said giving him an evil smile.
"Evil bitch."
"Wise ass." Temari said before she let out a loud yawn. "Let hurry up and get this stuff over with at the hospital, I want go home and sleep."
"What ever you say Tarzan." Kankuro said as her dogged a hit. "Ha you missed." He said pointing his finger at her. Before she quickly jerked her fan out and smacked him on top of the head. "Mother Fucker- that hurt Temari."
"Well maybe you should think before you open that big trap of yours." Temari said with a smirk on her face.
"Why you cu-"
"Shut-up!" Gaara's voice suddenly said as he half turned to look at them with a cold glair, silencing his two older siblings.
The rest of the trip to the hospital was made in silence as both Temari and Kankuro were afraid of what Gaara would do while Hinata was too busy looking at the village. Once they reached the building they went straight to the receptions desk.
The nurse was completely petrified by the site of Gaara causing them to be quickly sent of a doctor's office. Which made the two older siblings smile, having Gaara as a brother dose have its quarks.
Once there they ended waiting for about an hour until someone finally came to the office.
"Hello, I'm Doctor Akira and I will be doing a full body check over." said the doctor who had not removed he eyes from his clip board sense entering the room. "Alright I need . . ." he paused as he lifted the a few pages back. ". . . Hinata to hop onto the table please."
When he did finally look up froze for a moment seeing Kankuro, Temari and Gaara by the wall looking pissed. But who wouldn't after waiting an hour in a small office after getting back for a long mission. That's when he saw Hinata walking on all fours away from Gaara's side and leap onto the table with a cat like grace before turning to look at the doctor.
"I am sorry but I am going to have to ask you to step out side." said the doctor as he pulled out a pair of white gloves.
"We'll be right down the hall alright." Temari said as she saw Hinata stiffing a bit as she and her brother made there way out the door.
"Sir?" the doctor nervously asked as he saw that Gaara still had not moved.
"Gaara?" asked Kankuro as he stuck his head back into the room. Gaara stood there for a moment looking at the doctor before he leisurely made his way out the door.
"Alright Hinata, I am going to be doing a few test. All should be fairly quick." said the doctor as he pulled up a chair to Hinata.
Hinata sat there as she watched the doctor do his little test, with slight miss trust. She did not like this place, it was cold, smelled of sick things and reminded her too much of the Hyuga compound. She just barely had control over her fear as she watched his eyes turn wide with each test he took.
She saw him redo a few of the test not really believing what he was seeing. She watched as his looked at her in wonder seeing the results of each test, looking like he was becoming excited. When he finally sat down to look over all the results of each test Hinata began to feel relived thinking that he was finally through. But oh was she wrong.
"O.k. Hinata, I just want to do a few more things and then we will be done." He said as he turned his back to her and turned around with a needle.
Hinata began to feel her control on her fear slip away as her eyes starred at the needle in fear. Soon images of the compound began to flash before her eyes causing her fear to turn into hysteria.
"No!" Hinata said she he began moving towards her.
"Hinata I am only going to be taking some blood, there is nothing to get worked up about." the doctor said as she began to moving away from him.
"No!" she said again. With that the doctor gave an annoyed sigh before truing around and pressing a bottom on the wall.
Both Temari and Kankuro sat on the couch in the hall while Gaara stood with his arms crossed over his chest, his eyes closed. It had been over an hour and a half since they left Hinata with the doctor causing them all to get a bit cranky.
"Dame it! It dose not take this long to get a full check up." Temari murmured as she laid her head back with Kankuro giving an agreed grunt. That's when they hear a loud binge sound fill the hallway.
The three sand siblings watched curiously as two large men walked quickly down the hall into a doctor's room . . . Hinata's room.
"What's going on." murmured Kankuro as he sat up looking at the door.
Bang
Crash
Ping
Smash
Ping
Smash
"What the Hell!" shouted Temari as she and Kankuro ran to the room, slamming the door open. "WHAT THE HELL!"
The doctor's room was a mess. The table flipped over, papers were everywhere, a few broken jars and two needles were stuck into the ceiling. The two large men in the room were on the floor looking confused and very pissed while the doctor tried to catch Hinata. She ran up the wall and climbed into a small cabinet that was closest to the ceiling before slamming she small doors behind her.
"What the FUCK do you think you're doing." shouted Kankuro. He practically through the doctor off chair the doctor was standing on, trying to open the cabinet door that Hinata sealed shut with her chakra.
As Kankuro through the doctor the two large men began to move towards Kankuro aggressively before being slammed in the Temari's large fan sending them to the floor.
"You stay the fuck down." shouted Temari as she moving in front to the two men smacking one of the men as he moved to get up again. "I said stay down!"
"Hey Hinata, are you all right?" asked Kankuro gentle as he stepped onto the chair the doctor was on moments before. "Hinata?"
"I-I want to l-leave now, please." Hinata squeaked out behind the doors.
"Yeah, were leaving sweetheart." Temari said as she the doctor try as slip something into his pocket. "What the hell were you thinking?" Temari shouted at the doctor.
"I was only trying to take some blood." the doctor shouted back angry.
"How? By fucking scaring her to death, what were you fucking thinking?" she shouted again slamming the bottom of her fan at the floor.
"Hinata can you let go of the door. Don't worry were leaving right now." Kankuro said softly as Temari continued to shout at the doctor. When he felt Hinata's chakra leave the doors he slowly opened them to see Hinata wide eyed and slightly shaking.
"Here come on." He said as gently pulled her out of cabinet before setting her on the ground.
The second Hinata touched the floor she shot out the door; passing Gaara, who stood hazardously in the door way looking ready to kill.
"Hinata!" shouted Temari
Hinata was about five feet from the door when she felt something warm roughly wrap around her waist, stopping her movements. She jerked her head back to see Gaara sand slithering around her waist to his hand about thirty feet away.
"Let's go." Gaara said in his monotone voice as he turned his head to look at his two wide eyed siblings. When the three of them finally reached Hinata Gaara's sand finally released her and slowly moved back into his gourd.
Hinata wasted no time as she shoot out of the hospital before she stopped about twenty feet away to look back at the sand nin. Both Temari and Kankuro quickly rushed to catch up to Hinata, worried that she might run off while Gaara walk leisurely.
"Alright I don't know about you but I am ready to go home and pass out." Kankuro said as scratched the back of his head with I tired look on his face. "This has been too much excitement for one day."
"Yeah I know what you mean." murmured Temari
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"Well this is it." said Temari as she unlocked to door to their House. "It's nice but it's on the out skirts of the village so you have to walk pretty far to get to any of the good stuff." She said as they all made their way into the house.
"Sorry for the little mess." mumbled Kankuro as placed his hand behind his head in a somewhat embarrassed way.
The house was a complete pig sty with books and scrolls everywhere, some cloths piled on the couch as if someone was going to fold them but never got to it. There was also old instant ramen bowls all over the place along with dishes piled on the table, to say it was a little mess just might have be a bit of and understatement.
Now while some people would have found it completely disgusting and looking completely unlivable Hinata found it to be a palace. She looked at everything with a small smile finally getting to see what a house looked like having never really lived in a home.
"-sigh- Kankuro show Hinata the up stairs and give her the guest room to stay in." Temari said as she began to move around cleaning up.
"Hai, hai. Follow me." Kankuro said motioning to Hinata. She practically bounced each step she took as she followed the slow Kankuro up the stairs before turning right. "O.k. you have the first room on your left, my room, and them the room across from mine is Gaara's. Next to mine is Temari's and across for hers is yours." He said as he slowly walked into the room.
It was surprisingly clean, if you over looked the thick layer of dust and the spider webs in the corner. It was small but not really cramped, more like cozy with small bed, a desk and chair and a small book case beside it. It also had a large window with thin gray curtains letting in the bright sunlight for outside.
"Kami this needs to be dusted." murmured Kankuro as he pushed open the curtains coughing slightly. Then he slowly opened the closet and began pulling out bed sheets and a spray bottle. He then placed the bed sheets down on the old desk and began spraying the bed legs, head and foot board.
"What are you doing." asked Hinata curiously.
"This is to make sure that nothing crawl into your bed while your sleeping, also makes the bed look shiny and new which is nice." He said trying to be funning. "Now when you make your bed or your going to sleep make sure that she sheets stay off the ground and are tucked in close to you, alright. Don't want to be bitten by anything out here in the desert."
"Hai." Hinata said with a strong nod of her head as she watched him put the spray bottle back in the closet and began to make the bed. She looked through out the room wide eyed with a smile on her face as she looked in every nuke and cranny.
"O.k. now there are only two bathrooms; one in Gaara's room which you can't use and one down stairs next to the kitchen." Kankuro said as he finished making the bed and began walking out of the room. "I think Temari is about done making the downstairs look livable, come on."
Hinata followed closely as they went down stairs to find that the books and scrolls were now piled onto a bookcase and the cloths and dishes gone. Temari looked up as she through the last of the trash into a black bag before tying it and throwing it at Kankuro's head.
"Take the trash out." She said as Kankuro tried to catch it only to slip on the stairs and fall down them, almost bringing Hinata with him.
"Dame it Temari, you could have told me it was heavy!" shouted Kankuro as jumps up angrily.
"What? It's not heavy your just a little weakling." Temari teased as she pulled out another one behind the couch and threw that one at him too.
"There is also more in the kitchen." Temari sang as Kankuro began to make his way to the door.
"Dame it Temari!" he shouted before storming off into the kitchen as she laughed at him before flopping onto the now clean couch.
"Oh it feels good to lie down." Temari sighed as Hinata made her way towards her taking in the clean room. It was big! It had a large bookcase at the back of the room, a small TV in the front, a large couch and coffee table in front of it. It also had large windows, one having a built in seat where Gaara sat looking out of it.
He sat with one foot on the seat while the other one was stretched out along the floor with his arms crossed. He had a fixed glair as if he was look out the window at someone before he turned to look in a different direction to fix a darker glair.
"Hey Hinata, come sit down with me and help me decide what to do for dinner." Temari said as she hit the cushion next to her. Hinata was slightly confused why Temari hit the cushion but jumped upped onto it before sitting cross legged.
"I was thinking of something big since it's your first night here." Temari said as she leaned her head back and crossed her arms. "What do you think we should have?"
"Apples." Hinata stated with a big smile looking somewhat excited.
"What else?" Temari asked. Hinata's face went immediately black before turning confused.
"More Apples?" she asked as she turned her head to the side in her now becoming famous puppy dog style.
"O.k. lots apples," Temari said laughing at how puppy like Hinata was acting, "but is there anything else you would like to eat." She watched as Hinata began to shack her head no as she continued to look confused. "How about I make one of Suna's famous dishes?"
"Can I still have an apple?"
"Yes of course." Temari said as she stood up and walked over to Kankuro who was slowly making his was to the door with about ten garbage bags. "Kankuro I need you to go get a few things in the market."
"Dear Kami your not going to cook are you!" Kankuro shouted dropping all the bags and looking at Temari it pure horror.
"What! You little Ass!" Temari shouted as she tackled Kankuro to the ground and began to hit him as he tried to crawl away. "And I was going to make that dame chilly you like so much! Your such and ungrateful pig!" she yelled as he yanked him back by he leg before jumping onto his back and slamming his head into the ground.
"Which (smack) one (smack) were (smack) you going (smack) to make?" Kankuro some how managed to ask.
"The one with black peppers." She answered as he somehow managed to slip away from her only to be tackled again and have his leg bend in a painful way.
"You mean the only one you can cook?" he asked as he tried throwing garbage bags at her.
"You dame little shit!" Temari shouted as she picked him up by the front of his shirt before bringing him up above her head and slam them both onto their backs.
"I can't tell a lie." wheezed Kankuro getting the breath knocked out of him as a grin began to spread across his face.
"Kankuro!" she shouted as she grabbed him by his leg and dragged him out the door, while kicking the garbage bags with them.
"Hey, wait a second Temari, wait not that please! Ahhhhh!" Kankuro shouted outside the door as Hinata sat there wide eyed listening to Kankuro's screams of pain. "Temari, mercy, Mercy! Mer-" he started before suddenly becoming quite.
Hinata sat there looking at the door like she was trying to make up her mind to either stay seated or go see it Kankuro was still alive. That's when Temari walked back in with a smile of triumph.
"Oh and here is some money for the market, you know what to get. Ou also get the stuff to make Dragon breath rice balls. Oh and Hinata wants lots of apples." Temari said as she pulled out some cash out of her wallet, holding it by the door. That's when a black and blue bruised hand appeared reaching for the money shakily.
"And you better be back by the time I'm done with the dishes." She said letting the threat hang in the air. His only response was a painful sounding wheeze of breath before she slammed the door on the hand. She smiled as she heard Kankuro's screams and curses on the other side of the door. Then she turned and walked happily into the kitchen.
Hinata sat there with a look between shock and confusion, before turning to look at Gaara who encored the whole thing. She then listened to Kankuro's curse outside the door move further and further away. She looked back at Gaara before turning her head hearing Temari humming happily in the other room.
'Did I miss something?' she thought to herself as she replayed the whole incident back in her head.
"Confusing." She murmured quietly to herself as she turned her head back to where she saw Temari disappear before hopping off the couch and walking off to explore the rest of the house.
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"O.k. it's ready!" Temari sang as she placed the food on the dinning room table with a proud look of her face. That's when Hinata popped out of nowhere as she jumped onto one of the four chairs before sitting crossed legged.
"Alright, we have black tongue chill." Temari said as she pointed to a big bowl of bright red chill. "Dragon breath rice balls, and apple slices for you." She said as she turned to point at several small red ice balls that had small black triangles on the sides of them.
"There are tongues in there?" Hinata asked wide eyed as she curiously looked closer into the chilly.
"Ha-ha-ha, no it's just called that because if you eat too much your tongue turns black." Kankuro said as he walked up to the table and sat next to Hinata looking like he was completely healed for his beating.
"Oh." Hinata said as a look of understanding came over her face.
"But I would still check your chilly just in case. You never know what Temari will try to feed you." Kankuro whispered to Hinata before chuckling to himself as her eyes turned wide with shook.
"You better not be making fun of my food Kankuro." Temari warned as Gaara walked slowly into the room and sat across from Hinata.
"Of course not Temari." Kankuro said with a smirk. "So, Hinata I'm guessing that you have never tried spicy food before correct, with only eating that mush stuff."
"Hai." Hinata said as Temari grabbed her place putting some of the chilly on it before handing the plate back to her.
"Hum, this is going to be interesting." Kankuro murmured as he watched Hinata pick up her spoon to take a bite of her chilly. The second her tongue touched the chilly Hinata dropped her spoon and began whipping at her face with her tongue sticking out.
"Hot, Hot, Hot" she yelped as she knocked over her cup of water.
"Quick Hinata eat this." Kankuro said as he quickly shoved something into her mouth as she quickly munched on before swallowing. That's when Hinata went deadly still.
"Kankuro, what did you give her?" Temari said with a scared look on her face as she stopped cleaning up the mess her spilled drink made. She looked over at Kankuro who had an evil smile on his face before realizing that one of the Dragon breath rice balls was missing.
"Kankuro you didn't!" she shouted at Kankuro, "Hinata, are you o.k."
"Hot!" she yelped falling back out of her chair as she suddenly began running out of the room into the living room yelping hot over and over again.
"Hinata!" Temari shouted worriedly as she ran after Hinata while Kankuro began laughing uncontrollable and Gaara sat there eating calmly as if nothing was going on.
"Too Hot! Too Hot! Too Hot!" Hinata continued to yelp as ran around the living room before running into the kitchen with Temari close on her heels. She then slammed the refrigerator open and began drinking water like a crazy person.
"Wait Hinata, here suck on this." Temari said moving the water away from her face and sticking a metal spoon in her mouth. Hinata sat there before giving a small sigh as she felt her tongue stop burning.
"Come on; let's go back into the dinning room." Temari said gentle as she rubbed her back softly.
"Kankuro you ASS!" Temari shouted as she sat down angrily while Hinata sat down in her chair with the spoon sticking out of her mouth. Kankuro sat there trying to get his laughter under control as he dodged a knife being thrown at him by Temari.
"Oh come on it was only a joke." Kankuro said looking at his sister as he pulled the knife out of his chair beside his head.
"Look what you did to Hinata." Temari said pointing at her before picking up Hinata's knife at throwing it at him, which he also dodged. I one didn't know any better they would think knife throwing was a common thing around the sand siblings.
"Oh come on. Hinata it was only a joke." Kankuro said as he finally turned to look at her to see her pouting not looking at anyone. "Hey Hinata it was only a joke, I didn't mean it. It was all in fun and games." He suddenly said looking a bit worriedly at her as she turned her head further away from him. That's when Gaara decided the scene before him was worth his time as he watched with a board look on his face.
"Hinata, hey I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you sad. Hey I'm sorry." He said standing up from his chair placing a hand on her shoulder.
"Kankuro!" hissed Temari as she looked at Kankuro's hand touching Hinata. That's when she leaped at Kankuro and began pounding the living crap out of him as his screams of pain began to fill the room.
"You are not to touch Hinata!" she shouted as pulled the large scooping spoon from off the table and began to smack him over the head.
"I wasn't (bang) trying to (bang) do anything!" Kankuro shouted at her.
Hinata sat their watching Kankuro's beating as she began to eat all the apple slices slowly looking slightly confused with the spoon still in her mouth while Gaara encored it all.
This went of for about ten minutes until Kankuro stopped moving and Temari moved back to her plate with a smile on her face. After a moment or two Kankuro's arm reached up and grabbed his plate before setting it next to his face and began eating it on the floor.
"This is such a nice dinner." Temari said happily as Hinata nodded her head slowly.
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It was dark as Hinata walked downstairs quietly so not wake up Temari and Kankuro as they slept deeply in their rooms. As Hinata walked silently into the living room her eye's landed on Gaara who sat on the window seat, glairing out into the night.
She stands there for a moment before walking to the refrigerator and grabbing a few apples to munch on, sticking one in her sleeve and the other in her mouth. She them made her way back into the living room before sitting in front of the large bookcase cross legged.
Gaara turned away from the window as he saw her walking out of the kitchen with an apple in her mouth before sitting in front of the bookcase. He watched her as she sat there slowly eating her apple as she just starred at the books and scrolls. She stayed like that for about an hour eating two apples, cores and all.
"What are you doing?" Gaara asked getting slightly annoyed at her for just sitting there.
"Looking." Hinata said innocently as she turned to look at Gaara. "What are you doing?" she asked back tilting her head to the side.
"Looking." He said back in his monotone voice as he continued to look at her.
"Oh." Hinata said as she nodded her head in understanding. They starred at each other as the silences rang in their ears before Hinata turned back to look at the bookcase.
Something about this seemed to make him more annoyed as he began to glair at her. That's when she finally moved, slowly standing up on two feet reaching for a large scroll before moving to sit back down to read it.
Gaara starred at the scroll for a long time before realizing that it was one of Temari's healing scrolls that she learned for emergences. He found it slightly amusing that someone raised to kill would want to learn how to heal. He watched her for a long time as she concentrated hard on the scroll before turning to look back up at the night sky.
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Kankuro stretched loudly as he walked downstairs and into the living room. "Hey Gaara." He said as he waved to Gaara that was still sitting on the window seat who turned to glared at his older brother.
He stretched his arms one more time before moving towards the large closet by the front door. As he opened the door grabbing a large, black tool box before just standing there for a moment looking. He then closes the closet and turns over to look at Gaara whose glair seemed to have become a bit colder towards him before placing the tool box down and walked into the kitchen.
"Hey Temari, you might want to come see this." Kankuro said as he stuck his head outside the back door where Temari was cleaning her fan out in the afternoon sun.
"What is it?" she asked curiously closing her fan standing up.
"Just come look." He said as he began walking into the living room before standing in front of the closet.
"What?" asked Temari confused, as Kankuro motioned for her to open the door. Temari slowly opened the door before standing there just starring into the closet. Then closed the door for a moment deep in thought before opening it again. "Hum."
Inside the closet on the large top shelve was Hinata asleep with half an apple sticking out of her mouth crammed between a few boxes. Temari stands there starring at her for a long moment before closing the door again and turning to look and Kankuro.
"Hum." She said looking up at him.
"Yeah." He said nodding his head in agreement.
"Maybe she's too used to sleeping in small places." She said scratching the back of her head.
"It looks uncomfortable." Kankuro commented with a confused look on his face.
"Well there's one thing I learned about Hinata." said Temari with a slightly blank look on her face.
"What."
". . . She's so CUTE when she sleeps." she squeaks as a large smile spreads across her face.
"What?!" Kankuro said confused.
"She is just the cutest thing I have ever laid my eyes on. She puts new born puppies to shame." She said with a high pitched voice. "You better not wake her up." Temari said going from happy and girly to dark and mean.
"Hai." Kankuro said putting his hands up and taking a step back as Temari walked back outside. He stood there for a moment before giving a large sigh, picking up is tool box and placing it on the coffee table before going up stairs to grab a puppet. It didn't look like any of the other three puppets that he used on his mission to the Hyuga compound. It was a small man-like puppet with four arms three eyes and large messy brown hair.
Kankuro sat there in the living room tinkering with his puppet for over a half an hour before he heard a loud bang come from the closet causing him to jump. He turned to look at the closet door as he heard a some shuffling before the closet door opened.
Hinata rubbed her head as she was woken up painfully, falling hard at the bottom of the closet. If she didn't know better she would have said something pushed her off the shelf before crawling over her leg and out of the closet before she could open the door. But why would anyone do that?
When she opened the closet door, still rubbing her head she was greeted by the sight of Kankuro. She looked at him for a moment, looking at the all the tools surrounding one of his puppets before looking over a Gaara who looked at her for a second before turning to look out the window again.
That's when she saw the cork of his gourd move in a bit deeper. Maybe the cork was lose a bit, certainly Gaara didn't really push her off the shelf, it was just all in her head. Why would he push her if the first place, he wouldn't just push her for no reason. And the fact that all the shoes where suddenly pushed out of the way at the bottom of the closet was all just a coincident.
"You fell?" Kankuro asked.
"Hai." Hinata said as her face became very red with embarrassment as Kankuro began to laugh.
"You want some chilly, I'm starved." He said as he stood up from his spot on the floor and walked into the kitchen.
"No thank you." She said as she moved to sit on to the couch looking closely at his puppet.
"Oh come on Hinata, it's not as hot the second time." He shouted from the kitchen as he walked into the living room with a big bowl of it.
"No thank you." She said again shaking her head no.
"Come on it's really good." He sang as he took a bite, "Um -um –Um" he said making yum noises. "It's so good."
"Why are you making those noises?" Hinata asked slightly confused.
"Because it's so good and you make them when something tease really, really good. Yum-yum." He said take another bite and making more yum-yum sounds.
Hinata sat there for a moment watching him make thoughts noise, but that's when an idea suddenly popped into her head. If she was already eating something good, she wouldn't have to eat the chilly. So she pulls out her half finished apple out of her sleeve pocket and took a small bite and began to try and mimic his sounds.
Kankuro suddenly froze as he heard the noises come from Hinata, dropping his spoon in the bowl before both his mouth and eyes opened wide. The noises even got Gaara to jerk his head around and have he eyes widen slightly and even his mouth to fall ever so slightly.
Hinata watched as both Gaara and Kankuro starred at her in shook. She was slightly confused but since Kankuro stopped making his noises she guessed that if she kept going he wouldn't make her eat the chilly. So she kept making what she thought were yum-yum noises.
"Hinata!" Temari shirked as she dropped the scroll she was holding, as she took in her brothers faces. "Hinata what are you doing?!" she asked as she walked quickly over to her.
"I'm making yum-yum noises." She said looking slightly confused. Temari looked over at Kankuro who was not looking at anyone with a deep blush on his face, before turning to look at Gaara who hid his face in the shadows.
"Oh Hinata those aren't yum-yum noise." Temari said as she smiled nervously at Hinata.
"Then what noises were I making?"
"Um . . . well . . . you see . . . T-that doesn't matter. Just try to make them sound not so breath less and high." She said. Although the next sound that came from her made both the males in the room shoulders jerk. "No! Kami No!" Temari shirked as she placed her hand over Hinata's mouth that became slightly open. She looked at both her brothers seeing Kankuro become redder than Gaara's hair and Gaara move deeper into the shadows.
"Am I doing something Bad?" asked Hinata behind Temari's hand with a child like innocents as she looked at everyone confused.
"No i-it's not really bad; it's just something that you're not supposed to do in public." She said taking her hand way from Hinata's mouth. "Just copy me." She said as she started making yum-yum noise. At first it just got worst, and worst but soon she began to make very cute yum-yum noises. "Yes that's how you make a yum-yum noise." Temari said with a sigh, a bit worried that Kankuro would fait with all the blood rushing to his face.
"Kami, I wasn't sure how much more I could take." Kankuro whispered to himself.
"I don't understand." Hinata said looking at everyone around the room.
"Don't worry about it, it was nothing important." Temari said as she nervously waved her hand. "It's all in the past so let's just forget about it."
"Hai." She said still looking confused.
"Hey, I have an idea how about we go train together." Temari said trying desperately to make Hinata to stop asking about the noises.
"Training?" she asked.
"Yeah, there is this really nice training ground not too far from here. Why don't we go, we need to get some fresh air; it's not good to stay inside all day." said Temari with a smile on her face.
"O.k." Hinata chirped, happy to go look around the village some more.
"Anyone else?" Temari asked.
"I guess I'll go. I want to see what else Hinata can do." Kankuro said having finally calmed himself down.
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"So how do you train?" Hinata asked as they walked into a large stone fighting platform that had a few wooded posts around the outside of the ring.
"Alright, I know for a fact that you have done training before so you can't say you've never done it before." Kankuro shouted pointing a finger down at Hinata.
"Kankuro don't be a wise ass." shouted Temari as she smacked him over the head.
"Yes I have trained before but I had to kill my opponent every time." Hinata said with a small smile on her face as Kankuro did a scared face, which in her opinion was funny.
"No killing!" Kankuro said looking a bit uneasy. "We already went thorough that."
"Well you see Hinata in training you just fight under the terms of what you're training for. Like first to land a hit, first to get their weapon knocked out of their hands, first to get knocked out of the ring, and first to pass out ect." Temari explained.
"What are we going to be doing?" Hinata asked a bit excited.
"Um . . . How about first to be knocked out of the ring. Me and Kankuro will go first to show you what we mean then you can fight the winner." Temari said with a smile.
"Who fights Gaara?" Hinata asked.
"What? Gaara didn't come with us." Kankuro said looking at Hinata as if she were slow.
"Yes he did, he's right over there." Hinata said turning to point over to a roof of a house that over looked the training grounds.
"Um. . . I think he's just here to watch." Temari said looking a bit uneasy with Gaara being there. It had been a long time since he's been blood thirsty and really did not want him to start with them. "Come on weakling, time to get your ass handed to you."
"Oh shut-up you evil bitch, just be happy that I brought crow with me to train." Kankuro said as he jumped into the fighting platform.
"Weakling." Temari sang with an evil smile on her face.
"Ready?!" Kankuro said as he got into his fighting stance.
"Ready." Temari said moving into her own fighting stance.
With in seconds Kankuro pulled out crow and began shouting out poison needles at Temari who blocked them with her fan. Then she snapped open her fan half way and jumped into the air, twirling her entire body in a full circle causing a large tornado to appear. Kankuro tried to jump out of the way only to get picked up by the tornado and flung out of the ring.
"You fucking bitch, your not suppose to do that." Kankuro shouted about twenty feet away.
"You forgot to mention boundaries this time." Temari shouted back laughing. "Come on up Hinata, lets she what you're made of."
Hinata quickly jumped to all fours and began running onto the fighting platform. Soon she was standing in the same exact spot that Kankuro was standing in a few moments before.
"No blood shed." Hinata said in her gentle voice at Temari.
"You don't want me to cut you?" Temari asked a bit confused.
"No I'm setting boundaries. We must knock are opponent out of the ring with out letting a single drop of blood being spilled. If the opponent dose then they will automatically lose." Hinata said with a smile on her face.
"Yeah I like that, how about we do that more often Temari." Kankuro said as walked back towards the platform whipping his bloody lip.
"I'm good with that." Temari said looking at Hinata, giving a mental sigh of relief that she would still be alive after this fight.
"Ready?" asked Hinata.
"Ready." She said with a large smile on her face.