Wind and Sand: Journal of Lord and Lady Kazekage

By TwilightAnimeLover21

The Sand siblings spent the rest of the day with meetings and such. Temari was dealing with some government officials from the Wind Daimyo's palace, something about trying to turn Suna into a better and safer place to be at, such as turning it into an Oasis of sorts. Indeed, she was thinking that Suna should have some sort of greenery around Suna…but she was slightly worried about that kind of change.

"It is for the best though. Since the war, the economy has improved, but not enough to keep Suna up on its feet." She said to herself as she walked down a hall thinking of the many possibilities and opportunities that the changes will bring.

Temari, after she finished her meetings, went to meet up with her Gaara at the Kazekage office. Kankuro was at the council meeting. He is part of the Suna council along with their old sensei, Baki. Last she heard from them was when the council wanted to deal with the water problem. The wet season was coming up soon. Around three months per year in the desert will the rains come. Some heavy rains will come down like hail, others light drizzles. The thing about wet seasons is that they are quite spastic in the desert. Luckily, Suna's reservoirs are quite large, but in order to make an oasis they have to make the reservoirs a lot larger. Which would put some strain on Gaara, who would have to find a place to put all the extra water. Temari sighed. This was going to take some time.

She opened the door to the office and saw Gaara behind his desk. He was currently busy signing and writing documents. Behind him was his sand acting as a few extra hands placing things into files and shelves. The last secretary retired and he has yet to find another one. She shook her head. He was going to wear himself out at this rate.

Gaara was finishing the last of some documents and placing it aside. He sighed in relief that he finished all 237 documents in one day. He then smirked a little. He wondered if Naruto is willing to take care of all paperwork when he becomes Hokage. He looked up and saw his sister there with her hand on her hip. He stared blankly at her. She had a slightly irritated face on.

"Come on Gaara. We are going home." She said as she stepped back out to find Kankuro.

He shook his head a little and used his sand to organize things back to the way they were. After looking around the office a couple of times, satisfied with his work, he left.

Kankuro left before his siblings did. So he was home long before they got there. So he was just lying on the couch, napping away. Working with the council today was very tiring for him today. They were thinking about using the more desolate part of Suna to place a brand new reservoir there, but they were not sure about the residents that lived there would agree. The problem was to relocate them into the more modern and rebuilt North-east side of Suna, but it would be a bit pricy for them to move up there. So that's what they are trying to work out on.

Since the Wind Daimyo was willing to help out Suna since after the war, Suna took the opportunity and wanted it to come to life. Kankuro wondered what Suna would be like with trees and pools and other things. Suna would be a paradise in the desert. The downside is…Sandstorms. Sandstorms that could easily blow up to 75 mph and rocks the size of a gumball to a kickball would have some serious damage to the scenery. The wet season would most likely bring a desert storm and a monsoon. You can never tell what happens in the desert.

His mind was about to wander off until he heard the front door open. "Oi, what took you guys so long? I've been here for an hour and a half, almost two hours waiting for you." He jabbed at his siblings as he sat up to see them.

"Well Kankuro unlike some people, we actually have work to do." Temari glared back, then she sighed. "It's been a rough day. Dealing with flirting Officials even though I'm engaged is really tiring. I wanted to punch those stupid idiots in the face." She muttered as she pushed Kankuro off the couch to take up the whole thing as she lay down.

"HEY!" He said as he glared at his older sister from the floor.

Gaara shook his head at his two older siblings –that were now bickering- and walked into the kitchen to find something simple to eat. He opened the fridge to find a large apple. He washed it and then took a bite out of it. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw the journal of his parents with the key on top of it. He could still hear his siblings argue as he walked over to the table and looked over the book yet again.

He picked both items in one hand and walked back out into the living room. Temari was wielding her fan and Kankuro was busy trying to avoid the thing. Gaara shook his head at them, chuckling a little bit. He sat down in the empty couch and kept watching his siblings fight as he was munching on his apple. Kankuro was making jabs about Temari being with Shikamaru –he is a good guy don't get them wrong, but even Gaara would confine the Nara in his sand coffin if he ever did anything to his older sister- and she retaliated with Kankuro dating a girl on and off and that he should get her before it's too late.

He decided that enough was enough –he finished his apple at this time- and used his sand to stop them fighting. They both gave him a look of 'why' and he rose up the book and key. Both siblings dropped their quarrels and both took a seat beside him and Temari took the book from his hand and opened it up.

"It's my turn." She said smiling forgetting that she had a fight with Kankuro.

Karura Journal entry #13: Well this escalated quickly. The Fairy is confusing me. He friggan' lied about me. But…why the hell would he do that?

Okay so it's been 4 days since I last saw the Fairy. Tch. Like I care about what happens to him. I just went on like nothing ever happened. The Jounin exams were coming up fast and I had to keep training. I'm lacking in my Taijutsu, so I figured that I would run around about three-quarters of Suna. Mind you, I'm pretty darn good at mid-range and long-range combat, but I have a bit of trouble with close range. I remember my sensei telling me that ninja have to be versatile in all things. My strengths were basically Ninjutsu and Taijutsu; even though I hate working with Taijutsu it's very useful in a lot of things. I'm very shaky in my Genjutsu though. The best I can do is Wind Style: Slipstream. It's a kind of jutsu that would allow me to use my fan as a charger for my chakra and I would use a basic wind jutsu and flow with the wind attacking my opponent head on, but my opponent would think that clones were attacking him when in reality he was fighting only wind.

Maybe I should use that on Fairy. I want to see him confused out of his mind. Speaking of him, while I was running today I heard snippets about him when I was passing his mini-fan club that was lounging around outside of a café. I decided to take it slow to hear what was all the fuss about. Apparently, their words not mine; Hikaru got into a fight with the local gang in the Lower East side of Suna and was currently in a coma. I rolled my eyes as the girls made a collective gasp. Then they started wailing about how horrible it was for their 'Desert Prince' to be in the hospital. I ran away before I started to hear crying from them. Gosh I hate fan girls. They literally have no life if they spend their time chasing after someone who probably won't even return their feelings. It's pathetic.

I for one would rather have a hard working husband in the future. After I get married, he would still be working as a shinobi and I would be at home tending to the kids – after I work for a few years that is- I want my first born to be a boy. Granted most girls want a girl as their first born, but I want a boy to teach him to kick his younger sisters suitors asses from here to the moon. He would be a hard worker like his father and he would have to watch over his sisters to make sure they don't get into trouble. The little girls I'll have, I'll make sure they are also trained so if their brothers won't defend them, they can handle the situation themselves. Then after they get married and I have grandkids and my husband would retire, I would make a book about how my life went. My husband would die before me and I would live till I'm about 99 and die before I get to be one hundred. That is how I will live my life.

Besides, I don't think Fairy would be a good 'Husband' material anyways; he probably cheats on his girlfriends more than once. I will NOT be his girlfriend not by a long shot…but still. I am wondering why he was trying to make me go away while we were there in the slums. It was as if his personality totally made a one eighty-degree turn and he was very…protective? Yeah right. I could kick anyone's ass if I put my mind to it, why would I need protection? So now that I think about it…why didn't I stay? Why didn't I fight back? I just let him drag me around. Even after I bit him he didn't respond like I though he would and his expression…

He became fully serious. All traces of his cockiness completely disappeared. It was as if, well I don't really know how to say it, but he had an air of authority? Yes, that exactly what I'm thinking. He had that kind of air when he was fighting with Torao. So I just left him there after he told me to run. I ran and I didn't stop running until I reached home. Mom and Dad were already in bed, and Yashamaru was up waiting for me. He has the chunin exams a week before the jounin exams. So he was a bit nervous. I didn't tell him what happened with me. I just ruffled his hair and sent him off to bed.

But I am…curious to say the least. Was he okay? Did he fight the gang? Well he's in the hospital so I guess he did…why the hell do I care? He is my enemy. He is in no way my friend at all. I want to see him squirm when I kick his ass in the exams. Maybe I should visit him just to annoy him. Ha ha…but why do I feel guilty? Maybe I should've stayed with him… but what difference would that make? Damn it, Reiko pushing me to even consider the idea that I like the damn fairy...I'd rather eat bugs and die of poisoning.

Karura was in front of the Suna hospital. There was a frown etched on her face and she was fighting with herself in her mind. "You own him anyways, he did save you." Her logical side said. She frowned even deeper.

"Like hell, I'll just rag on him for being an idiot. If he really is injured, then I have a bit of sympathy for him. But if he freakin' pulls anything, I'll punch him." She smirked evilly. Then she brushed her hair back and stood tall. She was going to show him that she wasn't a coward.

She walked into the hospital and even stopped a few times in the middle of the hallway, wondering why the hell she was here. Then she reminded herself that she was here to mock the Fairy. She smiled to herself as she pictured herself beating Hikaru in the Jounin exams. She could see it now! Her in the arena, both of them facing off. She would first start of with close combat, avoiding his gold dust jutsu, trying to trip him up and BAM! She smacks him away with her fan and he ends up in a crumpled heap as she jumps up and down with a victory sign and the 3rd Kazekage promotes her to Jounin status. Yes, she could practically taste the victory.

She was nearing he room and she was planning on to slam the door open until she heard something that made her stop.

"Damn it Hikaru, you are lucky that I found you instead of an ANBU. You could have gotten yourself killed." A voice said that sent shivers down Karura's spine.

She saw the crack in the door and peered inside. She could see Hikaru on the bed sitting up; he had a couple of bandages on his cheek and she could barely see the bandages on his arms that were splotched with blood, the same would say for his bandaged chest as well. His eyes held defiance and respect to another redheaded figure in the room.

"Sasori, I'm not that easy to kill, I just took a wrong turn somewhere. It's no big deal." He said smirking.

Karura furrowed her brows in confusion. "A wrong turn? He was following me and practically shouting at me to walk me home. I didn't even know where I was going, I just wanted him gone." She thought as she frowned in distaste.

The redheaded figure, Sasori, spoke again. "Damn it. I can't always be around to save your sorry ass Hikaru. You know that the Slums are dangerous, even for you. Look at you, when I found you, you were nearly bleeding to death, and you had a poison in your bloodstream. You are damned lucky that I know how to make antidotes, or you would be dead right here, right now." Sasori said as he slammed his hands onto a nearby table.

Karura jumped at the sudden sound but listened intently.

"He could've died…protecting me?" She thought as she fiddled with her fingers, twisting and wringing them. She frowned at the thought.

"I don't even like the guy! And I'm pretty sure that he hates me as well, so why the hell would he fight off thugs for me? Wait, will he tell his friend that I was there?" She thought panicking a little.

She felt her heart rate go up and she looked into the crack of the doorway again. She didn't want anyone to know about what happen to her and Hikaru. That was a one-time deal. Running away was a one-time deal for her. Next time, she will stand her ground.

"Sasori, I thank you to taking care of me again, but really, this is nothing compared to the worst. Testu-jii's Iron Sands technique is more frightening than poison or cuts and bruises." He said flippantly and emphasizing his point as he pointed at his chest.

Sasori sighed again and pinched the bridge of his nose. Karura has heard of Sasori, he was the head of the puppet brigade. From what she heard, he was deadly with the puppets he made; she shook her head and kept listening.

"Testu knew how to stop when he has pushed you too far, the thugs you got in trouble with, didn't. You know if you keep this up. You will never become Kazekage." Sasori said with finality. Karura saw Hikaru lower his head. She couldn't see his eyes.

"I will become Kazekage; in order to do just that, I have to protect my precious people." He said as he looked up at the ceiling.

Then he laughed. "Being Kazekage, means to protect the people no matter what. The ones close to me that I care about I want them to be protected. The village is everything to me, but there are some things, that I will change for the better of the village." He said as he turned his head to Sasori.

His face cracked into a genuine smile. Karura's breath hitched a little. She knew that Hikaru could fake a smile and she could always tell. The smile that was on his face was soft and gentle. She could feel a blush rising. She stepped away from the door and shook her head furiously.

"I don't like that guy. I hate him. I HATE HIM!" She muttered as she balled her hands into fists and glared at the door.

She walked back to the crack and peered in again, only to hear, "Who was with you Hikaru? There was absolutely no way you would be at the Lower East side unless you were absolutely forced to. So tell me, who was with you?" Sasori said as he folded his arms.

That was when Karura froze. If Sasori found out that she went to the Lower East side with the Fairy, she would possibly die of embarrassment and maybe her rank would be pulled. She looked up the map of Suna and saw that the Lower East side was off-limits to those who don't hold the title of Special Jounin or higher. Meaning that she could kiss her ninja career good-bye. She felt her heart beat in anticipation as she closed her eyes and waited for her fate.

"Ha! You have got to be joking. Who was with me? No one. I just zoned out and just kept walking." Hikaru said as he lay back on the hospital bed. Karura eyes snapped open.

"He…lied?" She thought curiously.

"Yeah, explain the bite mark that was on your hand, I pretty sure it wasn't there when you left the house." Sasori said as he bumped Hikaru's head with his fist. Hikaru chuckled.

"Oh, I was trying to escort a Sand cat home when she bit me on the hand. Took off before I could do anything else." He said smiling.

Karura couldn't take it anymore. She walked away from the door and left the hospital.

"He lied about me Reiko! He said that he just zoned out and got lost. Obviously Sasori wasn't buying the shit that came out of his mouth, so why bother?" Karura said as she buried her head into her best friends pillow on the bed.

Karura went straight over to Reiko's home after eavesdropping on Hikaru and Sasori. She did feel a slight bit of guilt about leaving Hikaru back in the slums, but that didn't matter anymore.

"Well girl, I hate to say it…but I think he likes you!" Reiko cooed as she batted her eyes at Karura.

She could feel the hairs on her neck stand straight up at the suggestion. She slowly turned to her best friend who had a grin on her face.

"You have got to be kidding me. He and I are RIVALS. We are ENAMIES! He hates me; I hate him, simple as that. It's a mutual hate/hate relationship." Karura said as she threw the pillow at her friend's face.

Reiko wasn't buying that excuse. Karura was blushing a bit and she knew something was going on.

"Then why are you blushing? You don't usually blush that much anyways, but I think…you are falling for him." Reiko said as she pulled Karura into a tight hugged and rubbing her cheek against her head.

Karura gave a shout of disbelief then pushed Reiko away. "I. DON'T. LIKE. HIM!" She ground out.

"It's just that…I'm confused to why he lied for me. I'm gonna pummel him." She said as she planted her fist into her left palm. Reiko lay on her stomach with a wide grin on her face.

"Girl…I really think that he likes you if he was lying for you, protecting you, and YOU, my dear, like him too. Face it, from what you told me, you liked the fact that he wanted to take you home, and I think it was romantic of him that he protected you when you went to the slums. Really Karura, Hikaru Sabuku may be a Casanova, but he does mean well to the woman he treats." Reiko said as she rolled onto her back.

Karura shook her head. "He probably sleeps with woman at night anyways, why would he even think of going for me. Ha! I hate him. Stupid fairy." She muttered. Reiko looked over at her friend.

Karura was obviously conflicted and in denial. Her enemy, in a sense, saved her, she never had saving before. Sure her teammates had her back when they went on missions, but this was completely different.

"Why don't you ask him?" Reiko piped up as Karura started to fidget in her seat. Karura's head snapped to Reiko. "

What?" She said in confusion. Reiko rolled her eyes.

"Karu-chan, Ask him why he saved you. Ask him why he told you to run. Maybe he will answer them truthfully." Reiko said as she closed her eyes.

Karura frowned. She didn't like the idea. On one hand…she didn't have to deal with people who could obviously be stronger than her –also the reason why she trained so much- on the other, it absolutely burned her pride that she was protected by her rival, but she wanted answers… and she will get them, one way or another.

"Okay…" Karura said as she shot up from the bed and walked out the door. "I doubt he would, but I will beat him if he doesn't tell me the truth. See ya later Reiko." Karura said as she left. Reiko cackled.

"She likes him. She just doesn't recognize it." She said giggling madly. She can't wait till Karura and Hikaru gets together. They would be a cute couple.

TAL21:Wow...it's has been a while! Sorry for the wait, and i hope that you guys didn't mind, i have to bang my head and scrap up a chapter for this, i got lost in the Avengers and Transformers fanfictions XD. I do have a life outside of the internet and college is a BEAST! Medical terminology, Intro to Kinesiology, and a whole bunch of other crap. But hey, that's life and i need to keep moving foreword! So...we have Karura being a bit conflicted here. She generally can save her own butt, but now that Hikaru surprised her with something she didn't expect, she is very confused. You can practically smell the denial on her. Now onto some shout-outs!

Emblem7799:It's true that some of the stories of Karura and TFK are depressing and i was like 'yeash, too much angst and drama let's spice things up a little', pluss i saw a couple of comic on deviant art about the couple and i figured, 'hey, what if they were just normal shinobi just doing their job?' that why i wanted to make this fic. XD

Sandydragon: Well at least Hikaru isn't as damaged as you thought he would be, but don't worry, he's a tough guy, he can take heavy hits. XD

SpunkyPaperAngel:Yeah, i really like that part too. I figured that Karura would be too stubborn to let Hikaru walk her home so she would rather be a safe distance away from the guy. But Hikaru was also stubborn and he wanted to have the chance to walk her home. I thought it would be a cute scene. XD

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! The next chapter won't be coming for about a month or so (It's really hard to write a story when you are in college and have work at the same time) but i promise you that the next chapter will be a lot longer than the last! So i hope you have the patience to wait! :D Also check out my other stories (If you haven't heard of them already) The Dead Tell No Tales, and my new Transformers story, Silver Heart.So give them a chance if you have the time! REMEMBER! REVIEW AND FOLLOW!FEEDBACK IS A GAL'S BEST FRIEND! :D REMEMBER TO KEEP ON READING AND IMAGINING!