Chapter 16: Side Chapter: The Wigs

"That was probably the best day of my young existence." cried Kankuro as he walked into one of the Wind Daimyo's palace's many guest suites. Since the four teens were staying in Mizukari City for the remainder of The Grand Festival, the group was staying at the Wind Daimyo's palace.

Izuka and Gaara soon entered the suite. The suite had two bedrooms, each with their own bathroom, a living room, and a small kitchen. Kankuro and Gaara stayed in the bedroom on the right side of the suite while Izuka and Temari stayed in the bedroom on the left.

"I still can't believe you ate every single item on that fried food cart." said Gaara as he sat down on the plush living room sofa.

"Hey, it was the vendor's fault. He said that if I was able to eat everything from his cart, he wouldn't charge me anything. I took the challenge and won. Who's the loser now?" asked Kankuro. He put a hand on his stomach as it began to make loud rumbling noises. He made a beeline for the bathroom.

"Apparently you." commented Izuka as she took a seat next to Gaara.

"Temari has always warned him to not eat so much food in one sitting." said Izuka as she leaned back into the soft couch.

"Your right on that account." replied Gaara. He then looked around the room. "Wait a second. Where is Temari?"

"You called my name?" The said wind mistress in question walked into the suite carrying a large box. She placed the box on the table that was right in front of the Sage and Kazekage.

"Ugh, Temari, what's in the box?" asked Izuka in a curious tone.

Temari didn't answer her. Instead, she opened the box and thrusted her head inside the box's contents. When she lifted her head back out of the box, she was wearing a long brunette wig.

Izuka and Gaara gave Temari blank stares.

"Well? Don't you guys love my new look?" asked Temari sarcastically.

"Temari, don't tell me you wasted your money buying a box of wigs?" replied Gaara as he continued to stare down the wig box.

"Nah, I still have some money left over." replied Temari in return.

"Why did you buy a box of wigs?" asked Izuka as she picked out a short blonde bob wig from the box.

"I figured we can use these wigs whenever we go out and don't want to be recognized while out on the streets." replied Temari as she took of her wig.

"That sounds like a good idea, but why so many?" asked Izuka as she dropped her wig back into the box.

"So we can have choices, duh." replied a sarcastic Temari.

"Of course." replied Izuka in return. Kankuro chose that moment to walk back into the living room.

"OOOOOH WIGS!" screamed Kankuro in a high pitched voice as he went straight for the box. Gaara stared at Kankuro with a horrified expression.

"Kankuro, you sounded just like one of my screaming fan girls just now." exclaimed Gaara in a slightly freaked-out tone.

"I don't care! All I know is that I just love wigs!" yelled Kankuro in happiness as he took out a random wig.

Kankuro took a closer look at the wig. So did Izuka, Temari, and Gaara. "Oh yes." said Kankuro in a maniacal tone.

"OH NO!" yelled Izuka and Gaara.

The wig that Kankuro held was a long blonde 80's wig, similar to the one he wore before when he sang Aerosmith's "Dude Looks like a Lady" one night. It still scared Izuka and Gaara to think how Kankuro looked like a drag Pamela Anderson with the wig on.

Kankuro quickly grabbed a skull cap from the box and put it on his head. He quickly put the blonde wig on his head before Temari could grab it out of his hand.

"Duh-nun, duh-nun, dude looks like a lady!" sang Kankuro at the top of his lungs.

Izuka face palmed while Gaara's left eye twitched. Temari ran straight for the room she shared with Izuka and grabbed her fan. She ran out of the room and instantly struck Kankuro in the head just as he was going to sing the body like a Venus line. Kankuro instantly fell to the floor unconscious. Temari grabbed the wig off Kankuro's swollen head.

"Quick, Izuka, use one of your fire jutsus to burn this wig into oblivion!" exclaimed Temari as threw the wig to Izuka.

After recovering from her facepalm, Izuka happily grabbed the wig out of the air and went straight to the bathroom and closed the door. The faint smell of smoke emanated from the room and then disappeared. Izuka came out of the bathroom a few minutes brushing her hands on her skirt.

Kankuro woke up from dream land. "Okay, I really did deserve that." he said as got up to sit on the sofa of Gaara, Temari, and Izuka.

Temari only gave him a blank look and passed skull caps over to Gaara and Izuka. "Put these on. These will protect your hair from being itchy from the wigs."

Izuka and Gaara nodded their heads and put on their skull caps. Gaara had no problem with his skull cap because of his short hair. Izuka had to take the rings off the ends of her braids and had to wrap them in buns similar to TenTen's in order for the skull cap to fit on her head. Temari had to take her hair out of her pigtails in order for the skull cap to fit.

"Alright, here's how it going to go down. Each person will take a turn to go into the box and grab a random wig without looking. That person will try the wig on and the rest of us will comment on whether the wig looks good on them or not. Got it?"

Izuka, Gaara, and Kankuro nodded their heads in agreement.

"Good. Izuka, you're first." said Temari.

Izuka leaned over to reach into the box. She took out a random wig and placed it on her head. The wig was a black mullet.

"Well?" Izuka asked the siblings.

Gaara was the first to answer. "Well, to put it simply, you look like a smoky-eyed Joan Jett."

Izuka raised an eyebrow at Gaara.

"This is such the perfect 80's look for you." cried Temari as she took out a camera from her pocket and took a picture of Izuka wearing the wig.

"Really?" asked Izuka in an incredulous voice.

"What? We'll use the picture to compare the looks. Gaara, you're next." said Temari.

Gaara only shrugged, but soon reached into the box to grab a wig. It was a black wig that Gaara grabbed, which was soon placed on his head.

"What's the verdict?" asked Gaara as Temari took a photo of him.

Izuka, Temari, and Kankuro looked at Gaara, then at each other, and then back at Gaara. "You look like Ulquiorra from Bleach." they all chorused.

"Do I- yeah I do." Gaara said as he turned his head towards a mirror.

"Me next." Kankuro shoved his hand into the box and pulled out a rainbow afro. He put it on his head and said. "Give me a big red nose and some clown shoes and you can call me Bozo the clown."

Temari laughed and took Kankuro's photo. Izuka and Gaara smirked at the thought of Kankuro as a clown.

"He already has the makeup for it." commented Gaara.

"Indeed." replied Izuka in return.

"Okay, it's my turn." replied Temari. She reached in and took out a long platinum blonde wig from the box.

"Oh my God, it's a valley girl!" yelled Kankuro. Temari smacked him in the face.

"Never compare me those airheads, EVER!" replied Temari in a cold and menacing voice.

Kankuro only nodded his head in understanding. "Good." replied Temari. She then took a photo of herself with the wig on.

"I guess it's my turn again." said a bored Izuka. She took out another wig and placed it on her head.

She looked up to see Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro staring at her. "What?" she asked.

"That wig looks amazing on you." cooed Temari.

"Really?" asked Izuka.

"Only because it proves mine and Temari's point that you look like Gaara's long lost twin when you are wearing red hair." replied Kankuro.

Before Izuka could reply, Temari cut in. "You so do. Look in the mirror."

"Okay then." replied an unsure Izuka. She walked over to a nearby a mirror.

"Oh snap." cried the young Sage. The wig Izuka was wearing was a shoulder-length bob with bangs that covered her forehead and was red as Gaara's hair.

"This is weird." commented Izuka.

"I'll say." said a monotone voice.

Izuka turned around to see Gaara right behind her looking at their reflections in the mirror. "We really can pass off as twins." he said.

Izuka could only nod her head in response.

"SAY CHEESE!"

Izuka and Gaara turned their heads to in time for Kankuro to take a photo of the two. "This will make a great postcard."

"KANKURO!" yelled the Kazekage and Sage. The two then chased after the puppeteer throughout the suite.

"Looks like these wigs will have to wait." replied Temari in an exasperated tone. She took the box of wigs and placed it in hers and Izuka's room.

A few minutes later, Temari walked out of the bedroom with her video camera in her hands to see that Izuka and Gaara were still chasing after Kankuro for his camera.

Temari let a mischievous smile crawl onto her face. "This is so going on YouTube." she thought.

She then joined the chase around the suite, filming every second of the funny scene unfolding in front of her.

End of Chapter 16

A/N: Don't you just love wigs. I know I do. A third side chapter is planned in the near future, but for now, we'll be getting back to the main story, in the next chapter. In the meantime, look out for my next chapter of "A Sage, Some Siblings, and a Whole Lot of Song Parodies."

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BTW: Ulquiorra belongs to Tite Kubo, the creator of Bleach.