Hello everybody and welcome to Chapter 3 of Kasumi! Hope you enjoy, please review!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Monster Rancher :)
Recap:
"What were you then?" Kakashi asked, obviously losing patience. Kasumi's smile faltered a bit, and she took a deep breath.
"I was a monster."
~~KASUMI'S POV~~
Everybody was shocked. I don't blame them though. I mean, I don't look like a monster, so that was probably surprising. Naruto was the first to speak up.
"Well...you don't look like a monster. I...I know what a monster is." He told me, looking down. Poor guy. I wonder what his past was like. If he knew what a monster was, well...I don't know.
"Hehe, well yeah, my monster form isn't very...beastly either." I told them.
"What does it look like then?" Gaara asked, his voice dripping with curiosity.
"Anybody have paper?" I asked. In a flash, Sai was holding a piece of paper in front of me.
"Thanks Sai. Anyway, my monster form looks a lot like me..but... different." I started to draw a human body, and gave it the blue robes I had on as a Pixie. I wonder how I got into these clothes...oh well. (A/N: Kasumi's Pixie form is, again, the cover for this fanfic. The blue robes and stuff...so yeah.) I drew my hair and then the wings. Finally, I added the tail, which was a white devil tail. (A/N: Hi, me again. I decided to give the Pixie form a white tail...*shrug*)
"So, this is me in my monster form. It's not very different, but you should see the other monsters!" I told them and showed them my drawing.
"Hmm...doesn't look like any kind of monster to me." Kakashi informed me.
"Well, my, umm...species is very different?" I told/asked him.
"What were the other "monsters" like?" Gaara asked me in that soft tone of his.
"I was afraid somebody was going to ask that. There are so many other monsters out there...naming them all would take a while." I said to him, a sorry look in my eyes.
"How about just your "species" then?" Sakura asked me.
"Shouldn't you guys be going back to your village?" I asked them, changing the subject. Talking about Pixies would be embarrassing.
"DAMN IT! WE GOTTA GET BACK TO KONOHA GUYS!" Naruto shouted.
"Wait, Kasumi, where will you be staying?" Sakura asked me another question. This was difficult. Stay with the people who rescued you, or stay with the one who held the key to your past. I took a deep breath and made my decision.
"I...I'll stay in Suna." I told them all. Gaara seemed the most affected by my decision. I could feel him tense up behind me, and I'm pretty sure his eyes widened.
"That's your choice, Kasumi. We'll probably be back soon. Have fun with Gaara." Kakashi told me in a weird way.
"You HENTAI!" Sakura yelled, and punched Kakashi in the face. He was sent flying across the room.
"Well, Kasumi-chan, we should get going. I don't want Granny Tsunade yelling in our faces." Naruto said, turning to go.
"We'll make sure to stay in touch!" Sakura exclaimed, waving bye. I waved at all of them.
"Bye guys! Thanks for..uhh helping my memories!" I told them as they went. It didn't take long before they were gone and an uncomfortable silence fell between me and Gaara.
"Well..." I whispered, "What do we do now?" Gaara turned to me.
"Since you came here..well...unprepared, I'll have Temari and you go shopping." He told me simply.
"Sounds like a good plan..." I said.
"Come on, I'll bring you to Temari." Gaara said, grabbing my arm lightly and leading me to another house. Then Temari came into view.
"Hey, you're...Kasumi right? Where did Team Kakashi go?" I nodded at the first question and Gaara answered the next.
"Team Kakashi left, and Kasumi decided to stay here." Gaara told Temari. Temari then gasped.
"Finally somebody I can hang out with! Woah woah woah wait a second. If Kasumi randomly appeared here, then...we get to go shopping?" Temari rambled on and looked at her brother.
"Yes, Temari. That's why I brought Kasumi to you." Gaara told her, clearly tired of her antics.
"Well then, come on Kasumi, let's go!" She squealed and grabbed my arm.
"Uhh..bye Gaara!" I waved to him as I was dragged away. I heard him sigh and say,
"Sisters..." Wait a second. If he just said that...then...
"Temari! You're Gaara's sister?" I asked her loudly.
"Yeah, I am. He's creepy sometimes, but I swear he was being soft around you. That's just not normal." She said with a smile.
"Gaara is creepy? He doesn't look creepy to me." I told her. Temari stopped.
"You know what. I like you. Come on, let's go." She said, and then returned to dragging a confused me to multiple stores.
~~~TIME SKIP~~~
I plopped all the shopping bags on the floor and crashed on the nearest couch.
"Kami, Temari. You sure like shopping..." I said quietly. Somehow, she still heard me.
"Yeah, whenever I get the chance to, I can't help myself." She explained, and took a seat next to me.
"So, this is your house, I mean like, yours, Gaara's, and Kankuro's?" I asked her. Temari had told me many things about herself, so I learned she had another brother named Kankuro.
"Yup. The oh-so famous house of the Sand Siblings!" She exclaimed. At that moment, a person (Who I think was Kankuro) decided to descend down the stairs. He was wearing a black outfit with a red and yellow circle in the middle. Also, he had strange purple marks on his face and an odd-shaped...thing on his back.
"Hey, you must be that girl Gaara was talking about." He announced, directing his speech toward me. Then he strided over to me and put his hand out to shake.
"Kankuro, brother of Temari and Gaara." I shook his hand and said,
"I'm Kasumi." With a slight nod, I sat back down and started rummaging through my bags.
"Hey, Temari?" I called for her. She poked her head out of another room.
"Yeah?" She answered.
"Where am I going to stay?" I asked her. An uncomfortable silence fell until Temari snapped her fingers.
"Follow me and grab your bags." She told me. I did as I was told and followed her into a room I was hoping was a bedroom.
"So, on the left of this room is my room, across from this room is Gaara's, and down the hall is Kankuro's." She inquired.
"This is my room then?" I asked, unsure.
"Of course! Your home is our home now." She smiled a true smile. I didn't know what to say. Nobody has ever treated me this kindly before...my breeder was just...no. I can't think about him right now.
"Temari...thank you." I told her and smiled, happy that I have people who care. Then I walked inside my room. The walls were sky blue with beige carpeted flooring. There was one queen bed with green covers and black pillows. An attached bathroom was seen, and also a balcony. I decided to do first things first. I started off by putting all my clothes away, and then the weapons. A katana caught my eye. It was gold with a black dragon spiraling up it. I don't remember buying it, but I remember seeing it...Temari about it for me? She must have because I was staring at it. That girl is so considerate. I decided to put it in a safe place. That safe place was in a box inside a cabinet that was not filled. After I finished up all of my work, I changed into a sleeping yukata and looked at the time. 9:47. After having a tiny debate, I went downstairs for a glass of water. I had filled up of the glass when,
"What are you doing here?" A soft voice made me almost scream and drop my glass. Thankfully, I grabbed the glass before it fell and placed it on the counter.
"Jeez Gaara...I almost had a heart attack. And to answer your question, I was getting a glass of water." I informed him. He just walked past me and opened to fridge. I raised my eyebrows and grabbed my glass off the counter. When I reached the hallway, I turned and said,
"Goodnight, Gaara." Before turning back around and going to bed.
~~GAARA'S POV~~
"Goodnight, Gaara." Those words caused me to freeze. Did she just say goodnight to me? She's always so calm around me...that's the thing about Kasumi. Not that she was my first friend, but she just makes me feel...nice. I should really stop thinking too much about her.
"Oh well, paperwork, let's get started." I said as I went back into my office.
A/N: Yeah, so...that's Chapter 3! I'm probably going to have OOC, if I already didn't. Thanks for reading, and make sure to review!