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Part 33

"Rue. Are you here?" Asked a loud voice that pulled Rue from her dreamless slumber.

Carrying her stuffed animal loosely, Rue went to the door and slowly opened it.

"Hello?" She asked, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Standing before was Kankuro and Temari.

"Whoa kid. I did not take you for a stuffed animal type of girl." Kankuro laughed.

Rue's grip tightened on the animal and she swung up and hit him with it. Temari stood by and looked on, stunned.

"I thought you were nonviolent."

"He was asking for it." She told Temari while motioning for them to enter as she returned to bed.

"How'd you guys know I'd be here?" She asked. Temari sat on the bed with her and Kankuro sat in a chair he dragged over.

"Gaara asked Naruto so Gaara could se how you were doing." Temari answered and Rue raised an eyebrow at how much emphasis was being put on Gaara's name.

"Oh? And where is the Gaara part of that now?" Rue asked.

Each time they said Gaara, Kankuro looked like he may explode into a fit of laughter

"He chickened out!" Kankuro exclaimed, laughing hysterically.

Temari hit... wait no, she clubbed him with her giant fan after a couple minutes.

"He doesn't seem like the type to chicken out." Rue said softly. Kankuro stopped laughing and both of Gaara's siblings stared at her.

Rue's soft voice and doubtful tone brought out Temari's affectionate older sister side and she moved next to Rue at the head of the bed, wrapping an arm around her.

"Aww sweetie. Everyone chickens out at some point. Whether or not they seem like the type to." Temari told her.

"Yea. He probalby doesn't want to add to the emotional stress you're already feeling." Kankuro added, rubbing where Temari hit him.

Rue nodded slowly. She understood what they meant. Though she didn't like Kankuro being right about something that had nothing to do with puppets.

"Not to mention being around the real you might be making him nervous." Kankuro said.

Rue froze. Temari scowled

Both girls stared at him.

"Real... me? You mean to tell me that there is a fake me in Suna?"

"I told you to get rid of that thing."

"I worked too hard to just get rid of her!"

"Her? You're calling that thing a her?"

"Can someone please tell me what you're talking about!?" Rue shouted, looking from Temari's sickened scowl to Kankuro's accomplished grin.

"Kankuro made a Rue puppet. That he taunts Gaara with." Temari said

"Stop downgrading the genius of her! She's an anatomically correct Rue puppet!"

Rue's eyes widened and she slipped under the blankets, suddenly feeling very violated.

"Temari?"

"Yes Rue?"

"When you get home... will you burn me?"

"Yes Rue."

Temari and Rue spoke quietly, nodding.

Then someone knocked on the door.

"Come in!" Rue shouted, poking her head out of the blankets.

Gaara opened the door and looked from his siblings to Rue's traumatized expression and sighed.

"What did Kankuro do now?" He asked

"He brought up that thing. Now Rue's hiding and probably wondering what goes on behind closed doors between him and it." Temari said. Rue shuddered and brought her tanuki stuffed animal closer to her. Gaara's eye twitched.

"Well now I am!" Rue cried going back under the blankets.

Kankuro made no attemt to deny the accusation. All Rue could hear were grunts and cries. Then Temari lifted the blankets.

"You can come out now." She told her.

Rue peeked out. Kankuro sat, bruised, on the floor in a corner on the kitchen. So she sat up and held her stuffed animal loosely in her lap.

The toy caught Gaara's attention and he stared at it.

"Gaara, if you're thinking dirty thought about Mr. Tanuki, you can Join Kankuro in the naughty corner." Rue warned playfully.

"Wha-? No. It just looks familiar." he said slowly.

The stuffed animal was the color of sand with blue-black markings all over it's body and black ringed yellow eyes..

"Is it? Exactly how many tanuki's do you know Gaara?" Rue asked.

"Just one and it looks a lot like that one."

"Hm. Maybe I should name this one after that one."

"I think you're giving him too much attention."

"I think you're giving him too little."

Rue and Gaara stared at one anothing. Gaara was sitting where Kankuro had been. She laughed and wrapped her arms around him. Gaara froze.

"I missed you."

"Yeah... you too." He told her softly, slowly wrapping his arms around her.