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A/N: Hi, welcome to my second story. The idea for this one came from me listening to a song called Figure You Out by Nickleback. So, here is the first chapter of Figure You Out!

Figure You Out

Kankuro didn't make it a habit to leave the village, especially when he was sneaking out. He also didn't make a habit of going to a strip club in River Country. He didn't make it a habit to have a 'friend' let him in the back for free. He didn't make it a habit to favor girls. And he really didn't make it a habit to come once a week.

But these weren't habits, they were an inclination. Not a habit, no definitely not a habit.

So here he was, his privet room, waiting for the girl of his dreams. She always made him wait. That was never a surprise. The guessing game was in trying to figure out how long she would be. There wasn't a pattern or anything like that, he just poked in when she felt she had tortured him enough. Sometimes it was ten minutes; sometimes it was almost an hour. But she knew that once he showed up he didn't leave until he saw her. Never.

Finally, after fifteen minutes, the curtains in front of the door ruffled and split to revile a girl with long, wild, brown hair. Her eyes had thin irises that made her look beast-like. She had a thin and oddly well-toned frame. Her hips were small but there enough so that Kankuro could hold them under his skilled fingers.

"About time, Koinu." he said as he stood up. "You ever going to let me fuck you or is this going to be just another tease session?"

She giggled and batted her eyelashes. "Tease? Now now, I always finish my job when you come in, and free of charge." she giggled again before leaning against Kankuro's muscled body.

He snorted. Holding her at arms length he said, "I hardly call that finishing the job. I want to fuck you, now for the Gods' sakes, drop the skirt and bend over."

A pout formed on Koinu's face. She made puppy eyes and put her hands on her lap. "Now that's just mean."

Kankuro had thought or a while that Koinu had been hiding something from him and her actions now only made that feeling stronger. she wasn't telling him something. Maybe she had a disease? No then why would she be working here. Maybe she was really gay and only doing this for money. Then why not let him pay her to do what he wanted? Maybe she wasn't really a girl.

Now that was really dumb! She had great boobs and he'd seen them, no way she wasn't a chick!

Just then someone else poked their head into the small room. She was a blonde with her long hair pulled up into pigtails high on her head. She had on a headband with two bright orange fox ears with white tips. On her face was three lines like whiskers on either side of her face. Her blue eyes took in the scene before her and she blushed lightly. "Heh, oops. Sorry I didnt know he was here today. But, ummm, we have to be going. Soon. So finish up in here."

Then she was gone. Koinu sat there with an odd look on her face. It was a mix of anger and embarrassment. Poor girl. So Kankuro, feeling bad for her, walked over and grabbed her. "Hey, I'll come back tomorrow! Bye." then he licked her cheek. "ACK!" So she does wear make-up! Spitting he glanced up at Koinu. There was something red on the cheek where he'd licked.

Her eyes were wide and she was holding the place he had licked. "Um, fine. Bye." she said as she dashed out.

Kankuro glared after her. She was acting really strange lately. Like she was trying really hard to hide something from him. So he made a promise to himself that he'd figure her out. No matter what.

As he walked out his mind flashed over the face of the blonde girl that came to get Koinu. She had looked very familiar. He was sure he knew her from somewhere. But ti was impossible He didn't know many girls that lived outside of Sunakagure. Sure a few in Konoha but only a few and none looked like her. Yet another mystery he'd figure out! so he strode off towards home, completely forgetting he had a mission the next day.

That Morning

Kankuro pulled himself into bed just as the sun began to peak over the roof tops of the Hidden Sand Village. Pulling the blanket over his head he gave a satisfied yawn and curled up into a ball on his bed. It didn't even take ten minutes before Temari was knocking on his door, trying to wake him.

He just curled into a tighter ball and continued to snooze as best he could with an older sister smashing her huge fan on his door. After about two minutes of this his other sibling got sick of the noise and waiting. Gaara unlocked the door and walked right in, yanked off the sheet covering Kankuro, and glared at him.

Turning his head he opened one eye to look at his younger brother. The puppet user narrowed his eye at the intruder and was about to roll back over and go to sleep when Temari grabbed his ear and dragged him out of bed. As she tossed him to the floor she yelled for him to hurry and get dressed while she screamed, for all of Wind country to hear, about him causing them to be late leave for today's mission.

Grumbling he closed the door behind Gaara and got into his normal garb, full body black suit with a yellow and red circle on the chest. He grabbed his cat-ear hood and put on his face paints. As he walked down stairs he saw Temari, or rather her heard her, trying to get Gaara to wait for Kankuro.

"We have to go together! You can't leave until he's done getting ready!" Temari was standing in font of the door, blocking Gaara's way.

The redhead was looking more and more pissed by the second. So Kankuro called out his name. "OI, Gaara. I'm really so stop glare at your older sister."

So, instead, the glare turned towards Kankuro instead. He just ignored it and grabbed his puppet scrolls. Then they felt for their diplomatic mission in Konoha.

With 'Koinu' and her friend

Kiba and Naruto snuck past the two sleeping guards and back into the village. They slipped into an alley and Kiba gave a low whistle. In just seconds Akamaru jumped into the space between Naruto and his master. Without a word both Shinobi hopped on the huge dog and they were off. The Inuzuka dropped Naruto off at his house and waved good-bye as he and his dog sped off towards their house.

Naruto unlocked his door and walked into the area that served as his room. He stuck a small bag under his bed; afterwards he pulled out his frog wallet. He then pulled out another, smaller, change purse. Opening it, he counted the money he'd made that past night.

"A hundred thirty. Not bad!" When he was satisfied, he took it out of the smaller pocket and shoved it into the froggie one. When everything was hidden and put where it belonged, he stripped into his boxers and fell right to sleep on his bed.

Meanwhile

After dropping off his partner, Kiba and Akamaru made their way back to the house they called home. Quietly they snuck in Kiba's open window and fell right onto the bed. Laughing Kiba scratched Akamaru behind his ears.

"Good boy! Don't worry we won't be going back there for about a week." then he froze.

'I'll be back tomorrow.' Kankuro had said. That wasn't good.

"Fuck." he said under his breath. Naruto had said that both of them had a mission coming up that would take up all their time, night and day. They wouldn't be able to get back there if they wanted to. Oh well. Kankuro could wait for a while, while 'Koinu' had to see a sick relative. He'd put out a bird later. Right now he and Akamaru both wanted to sleep before the mission briefing. And sleep they did. A bit too long.

After about three hours Kiba was woken to a blonde boy screaming in his ear. "WAKE UP LAZY! WE HAVE TO GO GET OUR MISSION!"

In one swift movement, Kiba threw a punch at Naruto who ducked and grabbed Kiba's leg and pulled. The dog-boy fell off his bed and onto Naruto. Akamaru was still on the bed but he was standing and barking playfully. Kiba bit Naruto's arm and Naruto bit Kiba's leg, which he still held firmly. The wrestling match continued for about another five minutes before there was a knock at the front door followed by a chorus of dogs howling and barking like mad.

Both boys jumped up and ran down stairs. Naruto was used to the behavior of the dogs at Kiba's place. He'd been there enough. Kiba and himself had become close friends ever since Sasuke had left. Needless to say Naruto spent a lot of time at Kiba's house, playing with the puppies and Akamaru. When people knocked on the door the dogs would bark loudly if it wasn't someone who came by at least twice a week. And with all the noise it seemed like it was a large group of people. Not just normal people, Shinobi.

Both boys reached the door. Naruto pushed the dogs to the side with Akamaru's help as Kiba pried open te screen and wooden doors. Just as he get them open Naruto and Akamaru were pushed into him, causing all three to fall out onto the porch.

Two girls screamed, two people burst out laughing, and one sighed. Looking Naruto came face to face with Kiba. Both screamed like girls and pushed away from the other. Inside the dogs had calmed down and left to go back to doing what ever it was they did. Akamaru stood up and bucked both Naruto and Kiba off of his back and barked happily. Before either boys could see who was watching them Akamaru leapt into the air and came crashing down on one of them. Kiba shot up when he heard someone fall to the ground.

"AKAMARU!" Kiba shouted. When he saw who was there he turned beet red. "Get off of him!" he tried to pull off the huge dog but he wouldn't budge. "Naruto get off your ass and help!"

Naruto quit laughing and helped Kiba pry his dog off of Kankuro. AS the puppet master stood up and brushed himself off Akamaru jumped around and yelped playfully. He looked down and the large animal and smiled. As he began petting him Naruto and Kiba were both being lit into by Tsunade and Sakura.

"Where were you two? The mission briefing started almost an hour ago!" Sakura shouted at the shrinking form of the two boys.

"You're lucky you even have this mission! We could have picked plenty of others. You know even D-rank missions are rare nowadays! And you two go and strat screwing around!?" Tsunade screeched.

"B-ut Sakura-ch-chan Obaa-chan we-" Naruto tried to calm the two livid women.

"NO EXCUSES!" both Naruto and Kiba flipped backwards and hit their heads on the house.

Laughing Temari walked up the pink-haired girl. "It's okay. This show was far worth it." she said giggling.

As they stood up Naruto grumbled to Kiba. Great, we're entertainment."

Gaara stood next to the blonde. "If you keep acting like that you will be."

So after Tsunade informed the two boys that they would be helping the three Sand Shinobi around Konoha and also aiding them with anything they would need. She and Sakura left to go make their rounds at the hospital. They were also told that Shikamaru would be joining them as soon as he was found and woken up, no doubt. And that it was their punishment and job to do so.

And they agreed after Naruto had tried considerably to change their minds and assign the horrid burden to someone else. He had begged and even offered to help organize the papers at Tsunade's office. Kiba thought it wasn't as bad as Naruto made it out to be. Finding Shikamaru wasn't the hardest thing to do. He would most likely be in one of three places. His house, under the large oak tree on 'his' hill, or under the roof top canopy where he slept after watching the clouds. Kiba guessed that the hard part that made the blonde so desperate to get out of it was the waking part. Shikamaru had always been a pain to wake and keep awake. Kiba was starting to dread the mission as well.

Kankuro had walked over to his brother and the other two boys with Akamaru still jumping around him. Kiba whistled sharply. "Calm down Akamaru. You'll kill if you keep jumping on him." then he turned to Kankuro. "Sorry. He hasn't had any company besides Baka no Naruto here so he's really excited to see someone else."

At this Naruto puffed up his cheeks and folded his arms. "What's wrong with me?" he huffed. Akamaru whined a bit and started to lick and jump on Naruto. Laughing he pushed the dog off his chest. "Air, Aka-chan, air. It's a good thing." Kiba helped him up and suggested they head to the hill because it was closest. Naruto agreed and so the six of them set off. Naruto and Gaara out in font Temari behind them and Kankuro, Kiba, and Akamaru just a meter or two behind her.

TBC…

A/N: There you have it! I hope it was up to snuff! Please rate and Review, it makes me happy! And I update when I'm happy!