Love's Misconstruities

style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Love’s Misconstruities

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style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Chapter 22

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            “Hey,
Gaara!” Kankurou said, barging into his Kazekage’s office.style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  His brother, like always, was hard at
work. 

            “Yes?” the red-head
calmly asked, knowing that lecturing his brother for disturbing him would only
be a further waste of time than whatever it was he had come here to say.style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  He did not bother to look up from the scroll
before him as he carefully examined its contents, simply waiting for his
brother to say what was on his mind.

            “Don’t you think you
should take a break for a while?” the older boy questioned, taking a seat in
front of the desk. 

            “No,” class=GramE>came Gaara’s simple reply.

            “No,
huh?” Kankurou echoed.  “Not even
for something more important?”

            “It was requested of
me to examine the new border defense plans before submitting them to the
council for approval,” he explained.  In
the past, such matters were not deemed worthy of his input, but after his loss
of Shukaku, the council had been more willing to include their Kazekage in such
decisions, as it should have been all along. 
Yet, however important it may have been to Gaara, his brother knew his
priority list only too well. 

            “So, I guess you’re
too busy to read this?” he asked, pulling out a scroll from his bag.style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  “It came addressed to you…from Konoha.”style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  Two green eyes swiftly targeted the object in
his hands, causing Kankurou to grin. 
“Here you go,” he said, handing it over. 

            The Kazekage quickly
opened it to reveal a letter of a personal nature, however as he read into it,
he realized that it could not be from his beloved, for she was much more
composed than this.  It read:

Gaara! 

            You never told me that
you and Hinata had something going on, and now I hear that you two are getting
married?!  And I thought we were
friends!  Well, whatever. style='mso-spacerun:yes'> As long as I’m invited to
the wedding.  But, good for
you!  She’s a little weird, though, don’t
you think?  I mean, she used to faint
whenever she’d see me!…although she didn’t the other
night when she slept over…  I was sure
that she would, too!  Oh, uh, nothing
happened between us, though, okay?!  It
was just that she needed somewhere to stay because of what happened!style='mso-spacerun:yes'> 

            That’s why I’m writing
to you!  Hinata told her dad that she was
going to marry you and he freaked out and threw her out of the clan! style='mso-spacerun:yes'> You have to do something, Gaara!style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  She’s really upset about the whole thing, so
as a man you have to do something about it, okay?!style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  Okay. 
Well, I’ll see you at the wedding! 
Bye!

Your cool and awesome friend,

The #1 ninja in Konoha,

The future Hokage,

UZUMAKI NARUTO

            “So, what did your
fiancée have to say?” Kankurou asked, grin still in place.

            “It was from Naruto,”
was all he said as he took out a blank scroll of his own and began to compose
his response. 

            “Oh.style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  What did he have to say?”

            Gaara paused, pen in
hand above the blank paper, contemplating his answer.style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  “That I need to make Hinata happy…and he
expects to be invited to the wedding.”

            “Heh.style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  Like he has to tell you
that.  Oh well...guess I’ll leave
you to your work, then,” the older brother replied.

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