I don't own Naruto...
Temari could feel the butterflies she was getting. It's been almost 7 months since she last seen her brothers. Deep down she actually missed being back home in her village and doing her duties as the ambassador, the leaf became like a second home for her. She feels like a coward for turning her back on the village.
Temari let out a groan. "Your such a coward."
"What was that Tem." Sakura asked before stopping at the hokage's door.
"Oh nothing Sakura, I was just talking to myself don't mind me. Let's just head in before my brothers come searching for me again."
The two girls walked in the hokage's office where they could see Kakashi sitting at his desk with loads of paper work stacked high.
They bowed. "Greetings Lord Hokage."
Kakashi had a sheepish look on his face.
"Please ladies just call me Sensai or Kakashi no need for the formalities."
Gaara stood in front of the desk. "It's good to see you again Sakura how has the medical development project been going?"
Sakura raised to her feet. "Oh. It's actually going great. We've been working on this new food pill that works twice as fast as well as a few extra enhancers. I actually came to give Kakashi a demo, you can join if you want?"
Gaara smiled
"That sounds like a great idea, we could use something like that back home for our higher ranking missions."
Temari cleared her throat.
"Temari how have you been?"
"I'm doing pretty good little bro. It's kind of a surprise to see that your in town, I didn't receive any confirmation of your arrival. What brings you here so unexpectedly?"
"Well me and Kankuro was invited to attend Naruto's wedding as well as the upcoming sports festival but we also had some private matters to discuss with the hokage."
"Wait where is Kankuro?" Temari asked
Kakashi interrupted. "He's in the bathroom. Apparently the feast he took part of this morning isn't really pairing too well with his stomach." He pointed to the restroom doors behind her.
"Well Gaara don't you think you should have given your ambassador a heads up about your plan to visit. That's not like you to keep these things from me.
Temari began to become pique. She always felt like she needed to know her brothers every step and move, it was more of being a big sister rather than an ambassador. Call it being overprotective or whatever but to Temari it's her duty as the elder.
Gaara sighed and crossed his arms. "Well we didn't want to trouble you with any news and have you freak out and rush back home, also kankarou thought it would be a good idea to surprise you."
"Well how abo….."
The room went silent as the group listened to the toilet flush followed by kankarou walking out.
"Hey big sis, we also was planning on catching you and that shadow boy boo loving. You know finally confirming that this thing is official."
Temari faced turned bright red from embarrassment and annoyance.
"Please don't make me sick. His lazy ass is well…too damn lazy to worry about a relationship. Besides he's not my type."
Kankuro sat down on the couch across from gaara. "Yeah whatever you two lovebirds can't get enough of eachother."
"Hey did you wash your hands." Sakura said with a anent tone." But she was ignored.
"Look whatever goes on in my love life is not your concern besides I don't need approval from a grown man that brings home a new chick every week."
Gaara shook his head.
Kankuro stretched and scratched his head. "I mean who wants to continuously deal with your hot headed attitude and that whole "I don't need a man" thing."
"Hey! Did you wash your hands?" Again Sakura was ignored.
Temari gritted her teeth and clinched her fist. "I'm not arguing with you kankarou, we can handle this another way."
Temari towered over the boy while he sat on the couch with a now worried look on his face.
He cleared his throat. "Hmph, typical Temari always wanna resort to fighting when her feelings get hurt."
"I'm warning you, one more word."
"So does anybody care if he washed his hands or not?" Sakura asked again.
Kankuro stared at Sakura and pointed. "Hush it pinky I'm sterile of course I washed my hands."
Sakura growled "Chaaaa what did you say?"
The constant bickering went on between the 3 for another 10 minutes before kakashi become annoyed.
"ENOUGH!" The room grew quiet. "The kazekage has come here with a message and some important information, if you 3 don't mind I would like to get to the bottom of this."
Gaara took a seat next to his brother and stared out the window.
"We've received a tip about a possible cult going around the village and performing rituals and summons. I sent of team of spec ops to investigate a gathering ground but we were unsuccessful."
Kankuro followed "The only thing that was there were some dead rabbits, it's pretty weird but you can tell that whatever jutsu their using it somehow allows the caster to control the target, something like a puppet master."
"How advanced do you guys think the jutsu is?" Temari asked
Gaara continued staring out the window. " I would assume low B class high C class jutsu but I think this group is possibly looking to test this thing out on humans."
Kakashi rose from the desk. "So what do you have in mind gaara?"
"I think we should investigate this closely but cautiously, there's just too much that we don't know. Possibly develop a search squad.
Kakashi nodded. "Okay that sounds like a plan. I have a few people in mind, I also think it would be wise to have Shikamaru apart of the team."
Gaara nodded in agreement "Well I guess that settles it for now, let's check in with Shikamaru some time today then tomorrow we discuss the next steps.
Temari nudged gaara. "Aren't you going to make me apart of this search squad?"
"I don't think it's really a good idea to have both shikamaru and you on a intel mission, considering the status between you. It's just too much of a risk.
Temari scoffed "Well how about kicking the Nara out the squad that way I can take his place."
"You know we can't do that Temari besides it was the hokages call. I think having shikamaru on our side is big for us."
Temari became angry "I should be included in this, this happened in my home, my village. I'm the sister and daughter of the Kazekage. You guys are only doing this because I never returned to the village."
