Naruto rolled his eyes, "…That you steal from your super-hot sister…"
Kankuro finished his sentence, "…That I steal from my super-hot sister!" Kankuro blinked and retracted his statement, "No! Wait! Take all of that back!"
A grinning Naruto looked at the puppeteer, "What? The 'you steal make-up part' or the 'your sister is super-hot part'?"
"Both! My sister isn't hot!" Kankuro felt a glare from behind him from Temari and deadpanned a look at Naruto, "Ugh… damn you kid…"
Naruto chuckled and decided to save Kankuro from his fate, "Yo Temari-chan, how close to Suna are we? I'm kind of on blind auto-pilot up here."
Temari lowered her ill intent towards Kankuro and looked over at the leader of the makeshift squad, "We should be right on top of the village any minute now." Right on cue as they reached the top of a dune a massive dome-esque structure came into view, "And here we are."
Naruto let the others take the lead from this point on as fighting a slew of pissed off foreign ninja due to a misunderstanding didn't really appeal to him at the moment. As they arrived at the opening he noticed the faint glares from the guards and rolled his eyes, 'Woohoo… Trading one village's glares for another, and I can't even kick anyone's ass here or I'll start a war.'
They made their way into the city leading Naruto along. Kankuro turned to get his attention, "Hey, the first thing we should do is let Baki-sensei know we made it back. I'll go find him, you can go with Temari and Gaara to our house until I get sensei."
Naruto shrugged, as the fact that there currently was no Kazekage meant that he couldn't really go straight to his office and give him the information on the treaty, and the council wasn't just going to be called at the drop of a hat for something that wasn't an emergency. He decided that waiting was cool.
The blonde foreigner nodded and followed Gaara and Temari as they made their way through Sunagakure to their home. Naruto eventually ignored the reaction that the citizens of Suna were having towards a Konoha shinobi in their village and took to a pastime that could draw his attention for the remainder of the trip, the 'watch Temari walk and not get caught' game. He had to admit, Jiraiya did teach him something useful besides Rasengan on their search for Tsunade.
The ever useful advice from the super-pervert was, when caught peeking at a girl in the street do not look away as if you weren't looking at her, make eye contact instead. Usually guys like Naruto and himself would end up staring at girls that were kunoichi, a side-effect of living in a ninja village, and they could sense when they were being watched, lying like you weren't looking makes it worse, but letting her know you were looking, just not letting her know what exactly you were looking at is a very good way to get your looks in, and Naruto, being an old hand in espionage under Danzo had a killer poker face. Temari could tell he was looking at her, but the fact that whenever she looked back at him to call him a pervert he was already looking into her eyes ended up silencing her and making her quite flustered at his serious gaze.
Naruto wasn't a pervert. He just had a healthy respect for the female condition. He was a growing young man just like anyone else, so what?
Eventually that had to come to an end as they all arrived at the house of their family, and by house I mean big-ass mansion.
Naruto whistled as he walked through the gates and looked at the massive structure. It was the same color as all of the other desert buildings in Suna, it was just the biggest damn house out of all of them by far, "This is your house? You guys have got a big-ass house."
Temari smirked as they made their way inside, "We are the children of the Yondaime Kazekage. Where did you think we lived? Come on and let's find you a room."
As they traveled to the upper level of the mansion Naruto was confused, "Wait, I thought I would end up getting a hotel or something when I got here. I don't want to impose on you guys like this, it isn't really fair."
Temari rolled her eyes while Gaara just stared at him, "Uzumaki I insist that you stay here. I won't accept anything else." Gaara then left Naruto and Temari in the hall alone.
Naruto turned to his fellow blonde and pointed off in the direction that Gaara went, "Did he just try to be nice and tell me he was cool with me staying here?"
Temari nodded as she kept leading him down the hall, even when Naruto asked why, "It's because of what you did. I think he likes talking with you, it didn't really happen much before he met you, I think he's spoken to you more than anyone else in this village. I'm okay with it too I guess."
"Why?" Naruto was looking around and realized this place was too rich for his blood, "I did kind of get you all captured and all of that other stuff you know?"
Temari waved off his excuse, "It was your job. I'm just glad you didn't kill us or anything, it was an invasion after all."
Naruto grinned at her, "I would never. Killing such a beautiful thing like you would have been madness for me to get over after the deed was done." Naruto once again ducked a swing of her fan that surprisingly didn't break anything in the hallway when she missed.
Temari placed the fan on her back again with the faint traces of a blush on her face. She honestly wasn't used to being flirted with at all. The entire time before this everyone had been too afraid of Gaara to even attempt to get close to her. And out of the blue here comes this kid that not only has the gall to try it, but who doesn't fear Gaara because he'd already beaten Gaara cleanly once before. She had to admit, it was kind of nice for a boy to talk about her like that, and it wasn't like he was bad looking. After ditching the orange jumpsuit he was far better looking than before and the mysterious scar on his face didn't detract from said looks at all. They came to a stop in front of a door that Temari opened for him, "This will be your room for your stay."
Naruto went inside and had to do a complete spin to fully take in the aesthetics of the room, "This is my room? This is probably as big as my entire damn apartment. Does this room have its own bathroom? What the hell do you guys do with all of this space?"
Temari had a humored smile on her lips, "We're rich so, anything we want would be the correct answer to your question." Naruto chuckled and began setting his things by the bed, "The rest of us are down the hall. If you need something our rooms aren't that hard to find."
Naruto nodded, "Okay, I guess I'll just go to sleep tonight and worry about other stuff in the morning, like the scroll and all of that. No one will probably even get into gear about this until then anyway."
"Okay, Kankuro or I will help you with that tomorrow." She watched as he walked into the bathroom and began splashing his face with water from the sink, "Goodnight then Naruto."
He heard her and yelled out from the bathroom, "Goodnight Temari-chan." As the sounds of her shutting the door rang out through the room Naruto sighed and shut off the water before returning to flop on the bed.
As Temari walked through the hall to reach her own room she had to giggle when a familiar voice rang out shortly after she shut his door, "Oh Kami, even their beds crap all over mine! This mission is awesome!" XxX
The next day Naruto met up with the Suna council that, surprisingly, showed him more respect than he had received anywhere prior to this, however he chalked it up more to the fact that he was something of an ambassador in this case. After that meeting, which mostly consisted of him sitting and listening to the old men bicker over how this should be taken, Baki assured him he wouldn't have to sit through something like that for the rest of his time in Suna which brought a laugh from the boy.
He and Baki eventually met up with Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara at a training ground and found Temari obliterating the desert-scape. It was then that he was blindsided with a request from the fan-wielding girl. Naruto blinked incredulously, "You want me to what?"
Temari leaned against her fan staring Naruto down, "I want to fight you, so come on."
Naruto kept blinking at her, "You against me? Really? Why would you want to fight me?"
She huffed at him and began to walk up on him to poke him in the chest, "I saw you using wind chakra and fuuton jutsu back in Konoha. I use them too and I want to see who is better, me or you."
Naruto looked to the others for help but only saw Baki and Kankuro looking anywhere but at them, "Temari-chan, I'm not much for the casual sparring. When I spar, people get hurt, and my jutsu aren't really the probing type, I only have two jutsu right now that don't have the potential to kill you." Temari glared at him, "So you think I can't take it? Alright, now we're definitely fighting! Get ready Naruto."
Naruto sighed and backed up to set down in a stance, "Someone call this…"
Baki walked forward, "The fight will end when I say or when one of you surrenders. Ready?" He got nods from both Naruto and Temari, "Hajime!"
Temari wasted no time and whipped her fan out to send a massive gust at Naruto. Naruto immediately went on the move and tried closing the distance, but was forced to go serpentine in his movements so that he wasn't lifted clear off of the ground. Naruto drew closer and saw Temari swing her fan at him in an effort to end the fight. Naruto brandished his sword and blocked, sliding slightly through the sand until he gained some footing.
As she pushed against his sword she realized that he wasn't budging, "Why are you so strong?"
Naruto grinned at her, "Because it's more useful than being weak." Naruto pulled his sword away and caught her fan in one hand while sheathing his sword in the other. Temari was marveling at the raw strength it took to hold her back. This moment of awe came back to bite her as Naruto swiftly disarmed her by grabbing onto her fan with both hands and swinging away with it to throw her off.
As she slid through the sand and regained a standing position she saw Naruto holding onto her fan, looking at her blankly, "You want to give up? I'm really not in a fighting mood right now."
Temari gritted her teeth in anger, "Stop underestimating me!" She then charged in and tried her hand up close against him.
Naruto sighed and threw the fan aside as the sandy-blonde girl got ever closer. Temari threw a series of punches that Naruto swiftly swatted aside, however he didn't want to counter and injure her so he stayed on the strictly defensive.
Temari was getting progressively angrier at her inability to injure Naruto, apparently the guy that had been hitting on her for three days and the guy that she was currently in conflict with actually did exist in the same body at the same time. Seeing that during their short skirmish she had gotten her back to her fan she broke off and picked it up, unfurling it with a smirk, "Now what are you going to do?"
Naruto pointed at her fan, "You're going to be dead in like five seconds, just so you know."
She looked at her fan to see a slow burning explosive note attached to it and hurriedly threw it away just in time to see a small puff go off on her fan. As she turned back to Naruto she had no time to react before she was on her back looking up at the sky with a kunai at her throat. She blinked and realized Naruto was pinning her down with a kunai at her throat, "But… What?"
Naruto looked at Baki who announced his victory and he helped her up. She dusted herself off and went to retrieve her fan, "It was a dud?"
Naruto nodded, "Well yeah, did you really think I was going to blow you and your fan up just for a spar?" He took her fan and dusted off the soot from his note before handing it back.
Temari snatched it back heatedly and placed it on her back, "You completely destroyed me… I never had a chance." She clinched her fists, "I'm weaker than I thought I was…"
Naruto shook his head as they met back up with the others, "It's not that you're weak, it's that I'm not a genin, hell I shouldn't even be a chunin. You're chunin level from what I saw during the exams, but I'm a hard guy to fight."
Kankuro patted Temari on the shoulder, "I told you it wouldn't have been a good idea to fight him, why do you think I didn't?" Temari glared at him, "Because you're a lazy bastard maybe?"
Kankuro frowned, "No. This guy beat Gaara. We didn't have a chance against him, not yet anyway. I want to try, but I know that I'll lose if I do so there's no need."
Naruto scratched his head and tried to walk away, "This is why I didn't want to spar. No matter how I handled it I was going to hurt your feelings and I didn't want to do that." He turned back momentarily, "I like hanging out with you guys. The idea of me doing nothing but spending time with jounin and other adults just because I can fight doesn't really work for me, so I don't want to squash everyone in my age group and make them feel inferior, but it's the only way I know how to train or fight, full-blast."
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