Author's Note: I own nothing except Reyna; even Kayha and Katara are creations of a friend. Everything you recognize is property of Masashi Kishimoto. Characters are slightly OOC but now we start to get serious for a while again, though we still tried to make it fun! Soon Gaara's birthday will appear…stay tuned for that!

I also have to give credit to my friend, her alter ego is Kayha just like mine is Reyna, for the great ideas and the fun caffeine driven writing!

Character Notes: Reyna has the ability to shift to a wolf as well as all the perks of being one (heightened senses); Kayha and Katara were two of Orochimaru's experiments. If there is interest I will post Reyna's story eventually as well. That's all I have to tell you now...ENJOY!

FIGHTING LIKE AN OLD MARRIED COUPLE

For the next several days, Reyna's temper steadily got shorter and shorter with anyone that she was around. By the time Kayha came home from the hospital even her own teammates were starting to find ways to avoid her when they could. The only time she seemed to be in a good mood was when they were training and she could take some of her aggression out on something. Reyna made herself scarce when Kayha returned, for some reason she didn't even understand herself, she didn't want to be around the other girl.

The following morning, Team Kakashi headed out of the house and into the hot morning to get some more training in. They weren't expected back in the Leaf for another week, so they had decided to stick around and make sure everything was good with the Kazekage and his friends before heading home. They had just started when Kayha, Katara, and Temari appeared on the edge of the training ground.

"Naruto! I want some challenging training today, so I choose you!" Kayha called across the grounds, bringing their training to a halt as they all turned towards her.

"Are you sure, Kayha? I mean, you just got out of the hospital," Kakashi spoke in reply.

"She's going to train, no matter what we say so we might as well train with her," Katara replied.

"Alright, then let's go!" Naruto hollered.

Reyna growled under her breath. This was team training time and now all of a sudden it had turned into something else entirely as Kayha and Naruto squared off. She didn't blame Naruto, he was always looking for new opponents so that he could find weaknesses in his techniques, but this was ridiculous. She turned a glare on Kakashi who seemed to completely ignore her and so, without a word to anyone, she stormed off back into the village.

Kakashi watched Reyna leave and sighed to himself with a slight shake of his head. He didn't know what was going on with her ever since they had found Kayha, but there was something bothering her. He knew that as Team Captain, he should go after her and find out what the hell was wrong, but he also knew that to try to force Reyna to tell him anything was a lost cause. The more he pushed her to talk to him, the more likely it was that she would never tell him anything. He had an idea that it had a lot to do with the fact that they were sitting still, rather than being out and doing missions and such but she was just going to have to find a way to deal with that until they headed back to the Leaf.

Reyna didn't even realize a few days later that Katara had left; at least, not until Kayha went out to find her. Sighing, she settled back on the couch and tried not to glare at anyone who entered the room, knowing that they were probably going to be staying in the Sand a little longer than they had anticipated. She was getting bored, and she hated that feeling. It was Naruto who brought to her attention that there was a festival in the Sand Village that day as he whined at Kakashi to let them go.

"Alright, Naruto, I think we all need some time to relax and have some fun. So why don't we all head out then?" Kakashi finally relented, though in truth he had been planning on letting his team head out for it anyway.

"Alright! Let's go, Sakura, Reyna-Sensei!" Naruto jumped up from where he was sitting next to Reyna and bolted for the door.

"Really, Kakashi-Sensei; we can just go and have fun? I've never been to a festival before," Sakura smiled as she too headed for the door.

"Of course, Sakura; we'll all just meet back at Gaara's at sunset, alright?"

"You've never been to a festival, Sakura? I went once with Pervy Sage, so if you want I'll hang out with you and show you some of the really good spots to hit!" Naruto grinned as they headed outside.

Reyna pushed herself to her feet and sighed bringing Kakashi's attention to her, "Don't you want to head into the festival?"

Reyna shrugged, "Not really; I don't do crowds well and I kind of outgrew the whole festival thing."

Kakashi watched as she headed for the door anyway, "So what are you planning on doing for the rest of the day?"

"Figured I'd grab something to eat; that's one thing I do like about festivals. There's always good food to be found. You wanna join me, Kakashi?" she asked, pausing in the doorway.

Kakashi smiled under his mask and nodded, "Sure, why not? I am getting kinda hungry."

The two headed out into the street and towards the nearest restaurant. Reyna looked thoughtful and Kakashi glanced over at her from reading his book.

"Something wrong?" he asked, lightly as his gaze returned to his book, even though at the moment he wasn't really reading it.

"Kakashi, how long are we going to be in the Sand for?" she asked, glancing over at him.

"Hmm? Oh, I don't know. We should be gone by the end of the week. Why are you getting bored?"

"Yeah, a little and Kankuro and Temari always seem to be really busy. I can understand Gaara not being around much but not really them. And the other two, I don't know what it is, but there's something not quite right about them."

"I'm sure they're fine. They are really close with the Kazekage and his family so I'd just forget about it."

"Alright, but, Kakashi what if the Kazekage doesn't know about it?"

"That's not really for us to decide. We aren't here to find threats to the Sand Village; we are here, more or less, on vacation. If there is a threat to the Kazekage, it's up to the Sand ninja to realize it and neutrilize it, not us. Besides which, I talked to Kayha earlier today and I don't see them becoming a threat to the Sand. So relax and enjoy yourself for a change."

"Fine, Kakashi. Whatever you say," she muttered, not at all happy with the way he was brushing off her instincts; after all they had kept her alive on a few occasions and she was not one to ignore them.

The two didn't hurry through their meal, although Kakashi still managed to eat without letting her see his face. It seemed every time something drew her attention away from him, he'd inhale about a quarter of the food in front of him so he was finished eating long before she was. Still, they didn't hurry as they lingered over their drinks and talked about past missions and the antics that Naruto seemed to always get up to. Over the course of the afternoon, she had been tempted to confirm her suspicion that he was, in fact, the ex-ANBU agent Wolf, but remembered her vow to not mention it. Finally she glanced out the window and realized that they'd have to leave now in order to meet the rest of their team on time.

"We should head out now or we're going to be late to meet with Naruto and Sakura," she glanced up at him.

He smiled under his mask, "And why would that be strange?"

"Because unlike you, I am never late and they don't need to think that you're starting to rub off on me."

Kakashi chuckled at that and shrugged, "Can we be a little late? Not much just say…about an hour?"

"An hour? Why do you always have to be late for everything anyway?" Reyna growled.

"I have my reasons. So we're in agreement then? An hour late; after all that is early for me to get anywhere."

"No way! We can be ten minutes late."

"Forty?"

"Fifteen?"

"Half an hour."

"Twenty minutes and that's my final offer Hatake."

"Fine, twenty minutes," Kakashi finally agreed, grumpily.

"Good, that means we have leave now. Let's go, and you're paying."

"What, why the hell do I have to pay?"

"Because you're the senior Jounin and I don't want to," Reyna snapped.

"Well, neither do I and it was your idea to go out and get something to eat."

"You didn't have to come when I invited you either. You could have gone off and read that bloody book of yours. I'm surprised you actually put it down for as long as you have this afternoon."

"Maybe you should try reading the books before you decide they're a waste of time to read. They are really good books."

"They're porn, Hatake. No wonder you can't get a girlfriend," she shot back.

"Me? I don't remember seeing you on any dates in the Leaf either. Unless there's something more going on between you and Iruka than anyone knows about?" there was an undertone in his voice that if she didn't know any better would have sworn was jealousy.

"Not likely. He's a friend, nothing more and how the hell did we get on this subject, we were arguing about who was paying!"

"Well, it's not going to be me!" he actually sounded a little happier that she was only friends with Iruka.

"Well, I'm not paying for everything that you ate," Reyna muttered.

"Me? You're the one who had six freaking cups of coffee and two desserts."

"You were the one ordering sake which is almost double the price of my coffee!"

"Alright, we're not getting anywhere like this. Let's charge this to the Kazekage."

Reyna quirked a brow, "Doesn't the Leaf Village have an account here?"

"Oh yeah…expense account!" Kakashi grinned.

Kakashi signed off on the expense of their meal and the two headed back out into the streets. Kakashi was moving at his usual relaxed pace, while Reyna attempted to get him to walk faster. By the time they reached Gaara's home again where Naruto and Sakura were waiting they were thirty-five minutes late.

"Great and we still end up being later than what we agreed on," Reyna grumbled under her breath, but Kakashi heard her and smiled.

"That was my plan all along, you know."

Reyna merely growled at him and stormed past their students back into the house. Naruto and Sakura watched her and turned back to Kakashi questioningly. He merely shrugged and shook his head before the three of them followed the wolf back inside. They didn't see Reyna for the rest of the evening and they headed for bed early that night.

A/N: Alright, so the muse is working overtime tonight! Hope you enjoyed this chapter as much as we enjoyed writing it! Keep the muse fed and we will continue to update! Until the next chapter!