*Third person pov*

Four mystery people swayed through the forest fastly, leaving no trace of anything behind. Two broke off from the group while the other two ran faster forwards.  They all jumped out of the trees just as their fellow shinobi were about to die.  

"You're gonna die kid,"  Sakon yelled as he was just about to kill Kiba, Kiba looked up at the sky. 'guess this is it huh,' Kiba thought accepting his death.

"Die!" Tayuya yelled as she was about to knife Shikamaru. 

"Now die," Kimimaro yelled as he charged at Lee with a bone in his hand. 

Suddenly a shadow jumped in the way of Kiba, leaving the shadow to be stabbed.

A burst of wind hit Tayuya knocking her out of the tree. 

Sand grabbed Lee and moved him out of the way, Kimimaro then got kicked sending him a ways back tumbling across the ground.

"What the heck!"Sakon yelled as his knife was stuck in a puppet. He jumped back a bit and glared.

"Grrr" Taya growled at the unknown shinobi who saved Shikamaru. 'What a relief' Shikamaru thought as the figure stood in front of him. 

"Who are you?" Kimimaro asked the two people in front of him. 

"Who are we?" Temari asked Tayuya who was in front of her hurt with a smirk.

"We are," Kankuro said with a menacing voice and glare to match.

"The sand siblings," Gaara finished. 

"Hi Kimimaru! You already know me so need for the introductions!" Hiroko yelled at him waving, everyone sweat dropped. 

*Timeskip*

"Mission. . . Failed," Hiroko reported with a heavy heart to Tsunade. Tsunade sighed. 

"Kakashi you can leave,the sand and Hiroko stay," Tsunade said. Kakashi left leaving Hiroko and the siblings. 

"Yea what do you need?"  Hiroko asked while leaning against Gaara who looked like he couldn't care less about anything. In fact he liked it though. 

"I'm sending you on a mission. . . For along time," Tsunade said with tears in her eyes. Hiroko's eyes watered a bit. 

"How long?" Hiroko asked.

"Forever. . ." Tsunade said while biting on her nail. 

"Explain," Hiroko said while glaring at the ground.

"Why is she so sad?" Temari asked Kankuro quietly. Kankuro shrugged.

"You are going to live in the sand, but you will come here and visit a lot. In order to make peace with the sand and show we trust them I am sending you. . . The most precious thing to me." Tsunade said while tears spilled down her eyes.

"Precious?" Kankuro asked quietly. Temari and Gaara looked equally confused.

"My beautiful daughter, I want you to go there and help maintain peace. Please," Tsunade continued. 

"Daughter?!" The sand siblings shouted. Hiroko ran up to her mom and hugged her. 

"I love you," her mom whispered. 

"I love you too, i'm going to miss you so much." Hiroko replied.

"I'll miss you more. The rest of the details are in the scroll. Be safe Hiroko," Tsunade said.

"I will," Hiroko replied as she let go of her.

"You're dismissed," she said. Everyone walked out.  

"The hokage's your mom?" Kankuro asked. 

"Hm? Yea, crazy right." Hiroko replied happily. She was happy because she gets to be with Gaara, but sad she had to leave her home.  Hiroko smirked as she heard her mom yell 'What?! Hiroko! You should've told meeeeeee' from down the hall.  What no one knew was she slipped a piece of paper in her moms pocket telling her she was dating Gaara . .