Author's Note: Before I forget again, I'd like to give credit to Narutoluver0002 for giving me the idea for "Party in the ANBU". Couldn't have done it without ya. :)

Chapter 9: Revenge with a Spider

The group of teenagers crossed out of the sandy part of the desert and into more rocky terrain. The sun was setting in the west, signaling that night would soon fall. Gaara slowed down and stopped running. Kankuro, Izuka, and Temari did the same.

"Let's stop here for the night. We can continue in the morning." said Gaara as he put down his gourd.

"Good, cause I'm tired as hell." said Kankuro as he practically collapsed on the ground in exhaustion.

"Well, at least you can say that you lost 10 pounds from running today." said Temari as she examined the pathetic puppeteer lying on the ground. "Oops, my mistake, looks like you only lost two pounds."

"TEMARI!" shouted Kankuro. He jumped up in rage and started to chase around the wind mistress around the area, again. Gaara and Izuka could only look on in confusion.

"They will never stop, will they?" asked Izuka as she took off her backpack.

"Nope" said Gaara.

"What now?" asked Izuka. Gaara looked around the desolate area.

"First things first, we need shelter. You think you can handle that?" asked Gaara as he continued to observe his older siblings' antics.

Izuka only smirked at her friend. "Watch me."

Izuka walked a few paces away from Gaara. She stopped and bent down to the ground and started to do a few complicated hand signs before stopping.

"Rock Style: Cave Creation" said Izuka as she slammed her hand to the ground.

Slate-colored chakra flowed from Izuka's hand and into the ground. After a few seconds of silence, the ground started to shake. A large piece of rock rose from the ground and formed into a mini-cave. The cave was going to be their shelter for the night and it was able to fit all four of them.

Izuka turned to her red-haired friend. "Good enough?"

Gaara went inside the cave to inspect it. After a few seconds, he came back out. "It'll do."

Temari suddenly came over to Gaara and Izuka. "So, this is what we'll be sleeping in for the night?"

"Yep." said Gaara and Izuka in unison. Gaara looked over his sister's shoulder.

"Temari, where's Kankuro?"

Temari turned around to see that Kankuro was nowhere to be found. She looked to her left, and then to her right, but still, Kankuro was nowhere to be seen.

Temari started to walk to the back of the cave.

"Now where the hell could that lard as-AWWWWWW!" screamed Temari as a spider puppet as big as a fist landed on her head.

"TEMARI? TEMARI!" screamed Izuka as she and Gaara made their way to the back of the small cave to see Temari struggling to get the eight-legged wooden arachnid off her head.

"What the hell?" said Gaara. That's when he heard the maniacal laughter coming from the top of the cave. He looked up to see Kankuro lying on his belly, laughing his guts out. Izuka also noticed the puppeteer on the cave's roof.

"KANKURO, WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS?" she screamed at the face-painted jokester.

By the time Kankuro finished laughing and leapt back down to leveled ground, Temari had finally got the spider puppet off her head, but not without a cost. Currently, her hair made her look like she came out of a wind tunnel. Ironic, huh.

Temari had a murderous aura surrounding her as she murderously stared down her foolish brother. Kankuro turned as white as Sai when he saw his sister's look and immediately started to back away from her and into the cave. Temari threw the puppet to the ground and started to go after her brother, but Izuka held Temari back with her vampire strength before she could make another step.

'LET ME GO! THAT LITTLE BASTARD IS GOING TO GET WHAT'S COMING TO HIM!" Temari screamed as she tried to fight out of Izuka's grip, but to no avail. Izuka was just too strong.

"CURSE YOU AND YOUR VAMPIRE STRENGTH!" screamed Temari as she continued to scream death threats and profanities at her cowering brother.

"One, sometimes it's actually a good thing to be a jinchuriki and two, calm down, Temari. I know you're mad, but you got to get over it for the sake of the mission. Besides, you can get back at Kankuro when we get back to Sunagakure. I don't want to carry a dead carcass throughout the mission." said Izuka as she tried to calm Temari down.

"I DON'T CARE! LET ME AT HIM!" screamed Temari.

As Izuka tried to calm the eldest sibling down, Gaara walked over to Kankuro, who was still cowering in the cave. Kankuro moved his attention from his older sister to his little brother.

"Kankuro, why did you drop a spider puppet on Temari's head? You know she hates spiders, especially the ones that are bigger than a person's hand." asked Gaara as he crossed his arms while giving Kankuro a disapproving glare.

"Well" said Kankuro. "This was all to get back at Temari for calling me fat back in Suna a few days ago. That's all."

"Kankuro, you are an idiot. Don't you remember what happened to the last person who tried to scare Temari with a large spider?"

"No." answered Kankuro.

"Temari summoned a gust of wind so large, that not only did it blow the guy halfway to Konoha, it damaged every single building in its path." Gaara exclaimed.

"Wow, that must have hurt Suna's infrastructure." said Kankuro as he started to move away from the cave.

"It certainly did." said Gaara, recalling the memory.

"You know, I could have blown him away to Konoha, and possibly to Kiri, if I had Izuka's powers." said Temari as she walked up next to Gaara. Kankuro immediately cowered back into the cave.

"Good thing you don't have my powers." said Izuka as she walked up to Temari. Gaara turned to his sister. "Have you really calmed down?"

"Yes Gaara, I've calmed down. Besides, I can always get Kankuro back in a more sadistic way when we get back to Suna." said Temari as a creepy smile appeared on her face, which made Kankuro faint at the sight of it.

Izuka turned her attention to the puppeteer on the floor. She bent down and checked his pulse. "Yep, Kankuro is officially out cold."

"Good, let's eat. I'm starving from all that running and screaming." said Temari as she grabbed her backpack from outside the cave. She walked into the cave and started to look for food within her bag. Gaara and Izuka did the same.

"So, how are we going to wake up Kankuro this time? He needs to eat too you know." said Gaara as he fished out a sandwich from his bag.

"Three words." said Izuka as she took out a package of rice dumplings from her bag. "KANKURO, FOOD'S READY!"

"FOOOOOOODDDDDDD!" groaned Kankuro as he woke up like a zombie, again. But this time, he spoke one sentence extra. "WHERE ARE GAARA'S COOKIES!"

Apparently, Kankuro was half asleep. He then groggily got up from his spot and went straight for Gaara's backpack, which held a five-day supply of cookies.

"COOKIES!" screamed Kankuro as he grabbed for Gaara's backpack.

"Oh hell no!" You are not getting my cookies!" screamed Gaara. He snatched his bag away from Kankuro and ran out the cave. Kankuro followed Gaara zombie-style out the cave. As soon as he got out the cave, he quickened his pace.

"COOKIES!"

"You are not getting my chocolate chip cookies, you arse!"

Temari and Izuka were still in the cave, eating and listening to the screaming match between the zombie-like puppeteer and the cookie-loving sand manipulator.

Temari turned to her pig-tailed friend. "Did Gaara just say arse?" she asked.

Izuka turned to Temari. "Yep."

"Izuka, what does arse mean?"

"It's Irish for ass."

"Oh. That makes sense." said Temari as she turned her attention back on her brothers.

"Should we stop them?" asked Izuka

"Nope." said Temari.

"Good enough for me." said Izuka, who finished off her rice dumplings.

"COOKIES!" screamed Kankuro.

"NEVER!" screamed Gaara in return.

As the chaos between the two brothers ensued, the mysterious follower was laughing his arse off quietly behind a nearby sand dune. How his prescence was not detected by the Lady Sage, Kazekage, Wind Mistress, and Puppeteer still remains a mystery. For now.

End of chapter 9

Author's Note: Kankuro wants cookies. Will he get them away from Gaara? Will Gaara eat them first? And who is this mysterious follower? All will be revealed next chapter. Please visit my profile. Please vote on my poll. And please review. I want to hear your constructive criticism. X)

P.S. Shout out to anyone who has Irish roots or ancestry. Oh Ireland, you are the home of potatoes, gingers, beer, and the word arse. You must be one fun country. :)