A.N. - Hello everyone! I am so glad to be back writing. And I wrote a lot since I was stuck in a cold cabin for the weekend after thanksgiving. My brothers are great but they can drive a girl crazy! Lol The holiday was great, but as always now I don't want to even think about turkeys for a while… this chapter is a short little section with a little tiny bit of Kankuro and Yura and mostly Temari and Sasuke (sorry to those who really want to know what happens with Sakura and Gaara-that's coming I promise). I hope you guys all enjoy this chapter!
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To BluePanda22311- lol so busted! Heehee thank you I'm glad you liked that part. I just had to…it had happened to me and I thought eh, it could happen to her too right? Lol she loves her waffles. that's a good point guess she wasn't even thinking about that…many don't when they are rushed so that is what I will claim her excuse was lol. Lol I know mother daughter moments are great! I just love writing them, theyre super sweet. Heh, Gaara is always sneaky lol. You laughed then? Lol so did I. I was like yeah you know he so doesn't care about him…heehee and thank you so much! I hope you enjoy this next chapter too. And I hope you had a really really great holiday. I like the pie too! Lol you don't get much better than pie.

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The cold rainy weather was a perfect mood setter for his day. The way he felt, Sasuke fit right in to this atmosphere the rain created.

Temari….she was such an idiot. And he was too, even thinking she would ever remotely feel the same as he did.

She was like the wind. Nothing held onto this woman. Nothing claimed her.

But…she could have at least…no. He would not think about it anymore.

He would play her little game. If nothing more for the fact that despite his determination to move on and quit feeling for her, he still felt. He still loved. He still wanted. And damn his soul to the lowest levels of hell but he couldn't find a single thing that stopped him from feeling that way.

Temari…

Sighing heavily Sasuke stalked into the dorm building that held his bed that he would bury himself in and not leave until he had to.

Which would, if nothing else happened, be the next day…. He despised being this weak. Behaving in such a manner was the epitome of weakness. But frankly, at the current time he hardly cared enough about not appearing weak to do anything about it.

On his way up the stairs Sasuke was met by Gaara, who stopped directly in his path.

"What do you want?" he asked the red head tonelessly.

"Do not come to the room tonight. I want privacy."

Sasuke glared at the red head. "Yeah and? We all want privacy."

"Then go get it else where. Naruto will not be staying here tonight either."

"And just where the hell am I supposed to go!? It's raining after all! Or have you not noticed?"

"I noticed." Gaara answered not seeing the relevance. "Just find somewhere else."

The sand master then disappeared.

Sasuke growled to himself and started up the stairs. No damned self important sand bastard was going to treat him like that!

"Hey."

He froze mid step.

Of all the people to run into in a stairwell like this, he thought miserably.

"What are you doing here?" Sasuke asked.

"I know just the place you could stay." she purred at him.

"Oh really?"

"Yeah. But you know if you don't want to know…" he saw her step out from the shadows and walk towards him, tail flicking playfully.

"Yura."

"Aw, you remember my name. I'm touched. Really."

Sasuke huffed, "What were you saying a moment ago?"

A very feline like grin spread over her features, "I know an empty room you can use."

"Oh yeah. There is that isn't there." he said to himself.

"You know of it? Good. Then I don't have to waste time showing you to it."

Sasuke glared at her, "Why would you have helped me anyway?"

"You just happen to be my new friend's favorite pet. I would hate for him to get water logged sleeping outside in the rain." she teased.

"I am not her pet!" he snapped.

"Aren't you?" she rose an eyebrow, "Sure looks like you are one to me. And that is what she called you if I am not mistaken. And I so rarely am you know. Yes, now that I am thinking about it, Temari did call you her favorite new pet."

Sasuke felt anger course through him.

How dare she.

How could she?

Gripping his fists tightly he asked, "And just where is she right now?"

Yura smirked, "Is the pet missing his master?"

"No. That's not it. Do you or do you not know where she is?"

"Well…" she began then her right ear twitched and a slow smile came to her face.

A moment later Kankuro appeared at the top of the stairs.

"Yura?" he asked, seeming startled to find his new girlfriend alone in a stairwell with Sasuke Uchiha. Angry jealousy flashed in his eyes.

"Konkers." she purred, genuine approval in her eyes as she watched her Konkers get angry she was not only late but with another man.

"I was helping this poor puppy out. He has lost his master." she answered to Kankuro as he stomped down the steps towards them.

"Not that I don't find it incredibly attractive if not amazingly sexy that you are jealous, do please keep in mind, my dear Konkers, that I find nothing worth the time of an affair in this stray. And besides, I currently find myself drawn only to you and have no true desire to stop this pull." Yura soothed as she approached and hugged his arm, placing her much smaller clawed hand over his tightly balled fist.

He stared her in the eyes.

Seeing no hint of falsity Kankuro decided she was either damn good at lying, which he knew she was, or she was telling him the truth. The heat there in her gaze as it locked with his was enough to convince him that what she spoke was truth.

"Attractive huh? Amazingly sexy you say?" he teased gently taking her chin in his hold.

"I am sadly finding that with most things you do, I tend to find them to be one or the other." she replied, voice husky with anticipation of the true meaning behind why she was in this dorm building in the first place. He had called her. Wanted to see her. Asked if the kitty was too scared to come out in the rain. If not to come to him because he craved her presence. Which amazed her to no end to really be true. They could go up to his dorm right now and do nothing but talk and laugh it up and he would be perfectly content. She didn't have to give him her body to keep him with her. He wanted her as she was. Yura found that honestly to be the most appealing thing of him, more sexy and more attractive than anything else about him.

Sasuke rolled his eyes.

They had completely forgotten about him.

Yeah, that's right. Let's forget the friggin' pet standing here watching all this shit take place.

A pet!

She called him that?

He started to move and leave in search of a certain girl when Yura called to him as she moved up the stairs at Kankuro's side.

"The room. The empty one. Here in this dorm its ours now. We already moved into it, sorry." she called to him.

She wasn't sorry. There was absolutely no remorse on her smug face. None that Sasuke could see anyway.

"Come again?" he growled.

Kankuro smirked, "Hey dude, that's my line to her."

Yura chuckled and swatted his arm lightly. "Ignore him. But yes. The room here is ours. Come by and see for yourself. Or you could find the one I was talking about."

Sasuke swallowed his angry retort and simply asked, "Fine. Where is it?"

"Ah ah ah, my dear fellow. The service fee." she replied waving her finger back and forth.

Kankuro let out a low barely suppressed chuckle at his swindling little kitten.

"Service fee?" the Uchiha repeated.

"Yes, you pay it and I tell you where the room is. And for a small addition to the fee I will also tell you an interesting fact about this certain unoccupied room." Yura said with a smile coming down the stairs a few steps.

"So what do you say? Deal or no deal?" she asked cocking her hip to one side placing a hand on the curve of it.

Sasuke debated the options. He didn't really care too much about an interesting fact as she put it, but the room's location could be useful, especially since a particular pompous red head locked him out of his own dorm.

"Fine tell me what the fee is. But no fact. I don't need it."

"Even if it is valuable information concerning our naughty Temari?" Yura asked knowingly.

Sasuke wanted to smack her. Or throttle her. She was so smug. She knew something more than she was letting on. He could sense it. But what? And why did it have her grinning like a Cheshire cat?

He smirked inwardly, No pun intended.

"Fine whatever. I'll take the bait. What's the fee?"

With a toothy grin she answered, "Thirty dollars."

"What!? Are you out of your mind?!"

Chuckling, her tail swayed playfully, "No, I'm not. The price for the room knowledge is a regular twenty. Just as each piece of information I give out costs. But since the little fact is just a tid bit, I cut the regular price in half. So it is only ten. Therefore, the overall price is thirty."

Sasuke glared at her as he pulled out his wallet. He was stunned he would actually pay this swindling cat anything.

Shoving the bills needed in her hands she grinned her satisfaction and tucked it inside her shirt.

"The room is in the dorm I live in, on the floor I live on. It is room two, right beside the Dorm Leader room. No worries though she is hardly ever in there. The second girl never showed so there is only one to deal with. The girls meant to move into that room decided to both go for a different school but failed to inform the school here. Therefore, much like the one in this building it is empty, stripped of everything but the essentials, like the desk and bed and closets and what not. You should have little to no trouble getting into it and using it when you need. And if my thoughts regarding Sakura and her red haired hunk are correct, which they usually are, you will be in need for it quite often from now on. Pleasure doing business with you." she turned and started back up the stairs to leave with a now very impatient Kankuro.

Sasuke watched her retreat. Well, at least she gives a lot of information for the money she gets. But, hey! Wait a minute she didn't-

"What about that damned extra fact?" he called after her frustrated.

"Oh, did I forget that? Sorry. But," her eyes locked on Kankuro, "My mind is else where, if you can understand."

"Yeah, yeah, just tell me what it is."

"Did you know that Temari has a secret hobby? It is quite the passion of hers."

Sasuke stared into the light blue eyes of the damned evilest creature to ever walk the earth.

"That's it?" he demanded.

"You want the rest? Pay me ten more dollars. I said it was a tidbit." she smirked. "Oh and for that room may I suggest the farthest from the door? It has no windows and can easily bock all light. You seem like the vampire type."

"Vampire type…?" he uttered completely baffled by her strangeness as she and Kankuro finally left.

"What the hell does that mean?" he muttered.

Deciding to forget the crazy cat girl he grabbed his abandoned school bag and left to face the rain long enough to get to a bed. Then he would sleep until he could sleep no more.

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Sasuke snuck into the female dormitory and around the corner to see room two not too faraway.

He hurried to it, quickly found the key resting up above along the edge on top of the door frame and let himself in quietly.

Yura had been right. It was exactly like the other room at his building. Empty and devoid of almost everything. Sighing heavily he dropped his bag near the door and headed for the bed.

He didn't care if he was wet. He was just tired and his mind was even more exhausted. Between thoughts of Temari plaguing him and having to deal with that wench of a cat, Yura, his mind was a haggard heap of mush basically.

He lay on the bed and try as he might couldn't help but think about Yura's little 'fun fact'.

So what if Temari had a hobby. It wasn't as if he cared really. And who the hell was he trying to convince with that excuse? Himself? Ha. No one else was there for crying out loud.

And he couldn't really forget that one remark about him being Temari's pet. And the fact that she said Temari herself had called him that angered him more than anything he thought could these days. He'd been pretty angry about things and yet that…that took the cake.

A pet!

How the hell did she get that?

Huffing he rolled to his side and found himself gazing out the curtain-less window.

He sat up and contemplated the window for a moment, staring at it. If someone walked by they would see him.

Sasuke remembered Yura's suggestion of the last room that had no window. Well at least she was kind enough to tell him that.

Leaving that bed he grabbed his bag and went to the last room.

Stepping into it Sasuke's mouth dropped open the slightest bit.

So this…this is what Yura meant. This is what she was talking about when she said Temari had a hobby.

This was her hobby? He would have never guessed., would have never pegged her as this type.

Sasuke reached out a hand and gently ran his finger down a particularly interesting piece. It was good. She must enjoy it. And put a lot of hard work into it.

So how….how could a girl who does something like this be so callused as to call him her pet?

It didn't fit. Was Yura messing with his head? Why would she? What interest in doing such a thing did she have? Sighing, Sasuke decided to forget the worrisome cat girl as he set down his bag and turned on a built in lamp on the desk in the room. He then set himself to looking through the things that held a piece of Temari she obviously didn't let many people see.