Me: Okay, so, "insert whatever excuse you prefer to hear" and thats why it took so long.
13 : You let them choose your excuse?
Me: Well I had so many, I didn't want to fill the whole page with them.
13 : -_-'
Me: (: So without further ado,
Both: Enjoy!
"Alright," Sasuke said as Gaara and him walked to school," I cook from now on."
Gaara looked away and glared as he remembered his latest failure. Everyone in the building had cleared out in fear of a fire.
"Fine." He answered depressed.
They walked up to the shadowy school, darkened by the lack of morning light, and went to their classroom. Gaara sat down in his wooden chair and looked out the dusty window. Outside he saw an image of an older boy with brown hair walking to school along side an older girl with yellow hair in four puffy pony-tails.
He looked away emotionless and took out a book.
"What were you looking at?" Sasuke asked hardly looking up from his own book on taijutsu.
Gaara wondered for a moment how Sasuke had even seen him through the hat he always wore, but set aside the thought to answer him.
"Just my brother and sister." He said referring to the older kids he'd seen outside.
Sasuke looked away from his book.
"You have a brother and sister?" He asked curiously looking out the window.
He the two just as they walked out of sight.
"Yes." Gaara answered as he began to read the book.
"Hn." Sasuke replied and went back to his own book.
Gaara and Sasuke walked out of the school and began their journey to the playground. As they were walking Sasuke bumped into someone.
He recognized the someone as the girl Gaara had pointed out as his sister.
"Hey! Watch out you little..." Her sentence trailed off as she noticed Gaara. Gaara looked back at her and she closed her mouth and walked away stiffly.
That's his sister? Not very nice.
Sasuke didn't say anything about his thoughts as they made their way to the playground.
After all, who was he to judge another's siblings antics.
A teacher had caught them staying out late in the training grounds and told them it was off-limits to beginners as young as themselves. They might get hurt by someone older or something else could happen. Sasuke just thought the teacher was being stupid. It wasn't like they had ever gotten hurt before, and the other kids in their class could train after school.
But sence the teacher said it, they had to obey the rule. So they came to train out a little past the playground instead.
Here a small tree grew in the shade of a boulder and the rock walls weren't as steep as they were in the play area, perfect for sitting against.
As soon as they got to their spot Sasuke took out some scrolls and sat beside the boulder as Gaara set up a target to practice aiming sand at.
Right at the moment Sasuke was working through a scroll on chakra control. The teacher had taken away his book on offensive taijutsu and accidentally returned this to him at the end of class. So now he was stuck with this until next week because the weekend started tomorrow.
He would practice physically but he'd injured his arm last week from excessive practice and was forced to promise Chun that he would only learn from written work for two full weeks.
"That sucks." Was all Gaara had to passively say about it.
I'll show you what sucks when I learn an amazing new jutsu from one of these books that you can't do! Sasuke thought becoming angry as he remembered and he began to read with more determination.
Suddenly he heard a whimper from behind himself.
"Hn?" Sasuke looked up from his book and searched for the noise.
"What are you doing?" Gaara asked with a mild amount of curiosity.
"Don't you hear it?" He asked as he heard a scuffle from behind the dying tree.
"Umm..." Gaara looked at the tree apprehensively.
"Well..." Saasuke pushed him forward, "Go see what it is."
"What! Why me? I don't care what it is." Gaara asked.
"You're the one with super sand! So whatever it is, it can't hurt you." Sasuke reasoned.
Gaara glared at him.
"And you really do want to know what it is?" He added weakly.
Gaara rolled his eyes and took a step forward towards the tree.
Suddenly a golden streak flew at him and bounced off his sand shield with a yelp.
"Ahh!" Gaara yelled as he jumped back, nearly tripping over his own feet.
Whatever it was darted to Sasuke and scurried behind him.
Sasuke turned around and crouched to get a better look at it.
It was golden everywhere except the tips of its pointy ears, fluffy tail, nose, and paws, which were all black.
"Oh," Gaara said peering over Sasukes shoulder, "It's a Suna Kitsune."
"A what?" Sasuke asked quietly, giving the creature in question his hand to sniff.
"A sand fox." Gaara said boredly. "A long time ago, they use to live all over the desert and a lot of ninja used them as pets. But then they started hunting them so they all started to die. Now they're really rare."
"How do you know?" Sasuke asked.
"Someone told me."
Sasuke nearly asked who, but entertained himself with petting the sand fox instead.
The fox was now licking his hand and sniffing him. Sasuke picked it up and walked towards Gaara.
"Lets keep it." Sasuke decided suddenly out loud.
"What!" Gaara cried out. "No." He said emotionless.
"Yes." Sasuke said with an equal lack of emotion.
"No." Gaara answered with just a hint of frustration.
"Yes." Sasuke replied with just a drop of animosity.
"No." Gaara felt his irritation increase.
Both of the boys stood still, having a silent stare down with only Sasukes hat blocking each other from looking at one another. A ball of weeds rolled in between them.
"Awww! Isn't he the cutest little thing!" Chun picked up the fox and spun him in a circle while hearts floated around the two.
"I don't see anything cute about it." Gaara glared.
Chun stopped spinning and covered the foxes ears.
"Shh!" She glared at Gaara. "Don't listen to him, his just a big meanie yes he is, oh yes he is. You're so cute I could just squish you!"
The fox yelped and jumped to the safety of Sasukes arms.
Chun laughed a little as she sat down at the table with the two others and started to eat some noodles she'd brought over.
"So are you guys keeping him?" She asked.
"Yes." Gaara answered almost angrily. Almost.
Sasuke pet the fox and gave it noodles to eat on the floor.
"He looks pretty young. Probably abandoned by his mother. It's a good thing you found him."
"Hn." Sasuke answered before eating some noodles.
"Hmm. You know they're suppose to bring good luck."
They both looked at her. Encouraged by their interest she started up again.
"Yep. When I was younger I used to search all of dawn and dusk just to see one, but I never really did."
She looked lost in her memories for a moment before snapping out of it.
"Of course, I thought they were extinct until now." She said through the rest of her noodles.
She got up and headed towards the door.
"Alright well, I need to file my report. So, you two have fun. See ya soon." She closed the door.
Sasuke set his plate in the sink and sat on the couch with the fox.
"He needs a name." Sasuke stated as Gaara stared at the fox with little flames in his eyes.
The fox stared back at Gaara and then yawned.
It's mocking me! He thought annoyed.
"Why don't we call him Damu?" Gaara asked irritably.
"No, we have to find a good name."
"Orokana sounds good." Gaara answered sarcastically.
"No, I think Nazu sounds better."
"How is that better?"
"Because he's strange. Which means he's a mystery and that's what his name says."
"Hmph." Gaara ending the self proclamed staring contest he was holding with the fox and went to his room to read.
"Whatever. Just keep him out of my room!" He said before shutting the door.
Me: *Smiles* I hope you like the newest addition. I got all of my names off of the internet, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Damu means dumb.
Orokana means stupid.
Nazu means mystery.
13 : Creative.
Me: Thank you. Bye!
