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"Human Talking"

Human Thoughts

Jutsus

"Tailed Beast/Summoning animal Talking"

Tailed Beast/Summoning animal Thoughts

CHAPTER 15

Decision

Life has been happy and memorable for Temari's family for the last 5 years. She is now 8 years old and is now 3.9'' taller. She had already started training under her mother Karura for 3 years till now. She actually did not join the academy yet, but still learned the basic three academic jutsus that are needed for her to qualify as a genin. She could now lift her mother's Giant Folding Fan with only a little difficulty. Her mother thought of teaching her the prospects of Chakra Natures but decided that she should wait till Temari to join the academy. Kankuro also started his training two years ago and can now perform basic academy jutsus like his sister.

It was night time and Temari had just finished her regular training. She was walking towards her room to get to bed. On her way she noticed that the door to Kankuro's room is left open. She kept walking towards her room and just side glanced inside when she passed by his room. She only walked forward 4 feet and stopped mid step when it clicked in her mind about what she saw in her 7 year old brother's room. Without turning back she reverse walked four feet and came right up to her brother's open door. She slowly turned towards Kankuro's room.

"Kankuro... Whatcha doing?" She asked quizzically.

As soon as he heard his sister, Kankuro tried his best to hide whatever he's been doing earlier and childishly shouted, "None of your business...!"

Karura came up along with a 5 year old Gaara to see what the commotion is about. "What's the matter..?" She asked her daughter.

"I saw Kankuro...." Temari started to say and paused trying to find the right words. After few seconds she said again, "I saw Kankuro... playing with dolls..!" And then she pointed to Kankuro's hands which he was trying desperately to hide behind his back.

"They're not dolls...! They're my puppets...!" Kankuro shouted. His face almost resembled that of a tomato with embarrassment.

"Puppets..?" Karura asked sounding interested.

"Yes mom... I want to become a great Puppet Master like Lady Chiyo..!" Kankuro said excitedly. He was so distracted in his excitement, that he didn't notice his younger brother Gaara sneaking behind him.

"A Puppet Master like Lady Chiyo..." Karura said feeling happy that her son chose the most legendary ninja technique of the Sand Village. She than ruffled his hair and started to say, "I'm so proud of y...." But she was not able to finish as Gaara interrupted his mom, "Mom aren't those the Barbuu dolls, that I saw in TV today." He asked pointing to something in Kankuro's hands which he is trying so hard to hide behind his back. He did not spell the word correctly as he is too young.

"Gaara...! When did you..." Kankuro started to say in surprise but was not able to finish as his mom directed a pointed look at him. "Barbuu dolls..?" Karura asked quizzically.

"I think its Barbie dolls..." Temari said answering her mother with a sigh.

Kankuro looked like he wanted to say something but he was not able to as Gaara took the dolls right out of Kankuro's hands and ran up to his mother. "Mom see... Barbuu dolls..! They look exactly like what I saw in TV." Gaara said in confusion showing his mother two Barbie dolls. One doll has blonde hair and the other has red hair.

As soon as she saw the Barbie dolls, Karura's eyes became the size of dish plates. She opened and closed her mouth two or three times not knowing what to say. Temari was trying hard not to laugh but she was failing miserably, while Kankuro's face was red with embarrassment. Gaara was just confused about how the two dolls that looked like what he saw in TV can be in real life.

"Kankuro..." Karura started to say but paused trying to find words that won't hurt her son's feelings. "What were you doing with these Barbie dolls..?" She inquired after few seconds.

"Mom... I.... I..." Kankuro started to say as he was sweating comically. Then he got an idea, "I'm trying to find way to make puppets out of Barbie Dolls..!" he exclaimed.

Karura and Temari looked at Kankuro like he grew a second head and a third leg, while Gaara was still looking confused about the dolls existence in real life.

"Okay Kankuro..." Karura said after a few moments deciding not to question her son's weird habits. She took the dolls from Gaara and returned them to Kankuro. She then picked up Gaara, "Let's go and see your father Gaara. He said he wishes to meet you in his office." she told her youngest son who nodded feeling excited to meet his father. Then Karura left along with Gaara.

Only Kankuro and Temari were in the room now and the later was still having trouble to control her laughter. After few seconds when Temari still didn't leave, Kankuro shouted "What..?"

Temari pointed to something that was on Kankuro's bed side table, "If you're trying to find a way to make puppets out of Barbie Dolls, then what are you doing with that..?" she asked in between laughs. The thing she was pointing to was a Barbie Doll House.

"None of your business... Get out of my room...!" Kankuro shouted childishly with a red face.

"Yeah yeah... Barbie boy..." She said and left Kankuro's room laughing so much that she got tears in her eyes. "First you wear makeup and cat suits... Now you're playing with dolls... Oh My God... If this goes on you will start stealing my future dates too..." she shouted in between uncontrolled laughs as she got to her room and closed the door.

Kankuro's face looked like it was about to blast with embarrassment, but he took a long breath to relax. He then tenderly hugged both his dolls to his chest and murmured, "Don't feel sad Casey and Dana... She doesn't mean it..." Then he removed them from his chest and brought them to his eye level and said with a stupid grin, "Now let's go back to our tea party..."