Everybody's Tired of Something

Untitled Part 22

/We are finally in the home stretch with this story. It's been a wild ride, but I'm pretty proud of this one./

Gaara's arrival caused a whole slew of issues.  "Gaara, there's someone you need to meet but I have to ask for you to keep an open, no a very open mind." Mika stood nervously beside Sanbimu as well, fidgeting.

"Of course dear, but you're worrying me and I've never seen you so jumpy before Mika."

"Ha, me jumpy? No not at all, I'm perfectly fine actually!" She wasn't believable at all in her cover as the pitch of her voice was totally off.

"Uh huh." Gaara was unconvinced as he followed the two into Sanbimu's house. "So I prepared all of your favorites, rare steak, miso soup, spicy rice-"

"You've got to be kidding me." Gaara said, anger bleeding through his usually nonchalant tone.

He began swirling his sand up and pushed Sanbimu and Mika protectively behind him.

"Wait! Wait! Just sit down, over here, not by them and let me explain from the beginning."

"Why are there three Akatsuki members in your dining room?! And who is this child?" Gaara seethed but let the sand drop as the child hid behind Deidara's legs who awkwardly patted her shoulder.

"Ex Akatsuki members." Itachi chimed in, not likely to change anything anytime soon though.

Mika sighed. "I told you this wasn't going to go smoothly."

"Can it!" 

"Alright. So, remember how I told you I had a brother who was likely dead." She didn't elaborate but knew from Gaara's quick glances between herself and Deidara that it was painfully obvious now.

"Yeah, that's him, Deidara, mass terrorist, bomber extraordinaire. And, well I guess you know the other two also. But just in case Sasori and Itachi Uchiha."

Mika smacked her forehead. 'Not much was really explained San. God.'

"Okay, so your brother's an evil psychopath but that doesn't explain why he and the other two are here. Do you have any idea how dangerous just one of those people are? Let alone three!"

"Who the fuck are you calling a psychopath?" Sasori spat out, extending his arm.

"I'm scared!" Lysandra cried.

"And who is the illegitimate child?!"

"That is incredibly rude and insensitive as her parentage shouldn't be questioned at this time." Itachi said smoothly.

Mika waved her arms. "Okay let me try instead! Deidara is Sanbimu's long lost brother and Sasori is his boyfriend. They came here to get reacquainted as both of the two siblings thought the other was dead."

Gaara deflated a bit as Itachi had a point and MIka was making some sense. 

"Itachi was found injured a the edge of our village recently , unrelated to the other two's arrival. Actually, I get the vibe they don't even like each other all that much."

"We don't." Deidara said quickly.

"The girl, whose name is Lysandra knew Deidara and Sasori from their time in another village and apparently followed them here. She is staying here for the time being." Mika finished.

"Okay, so now everybody knows everybody and we can all make a concerted effort to get along." You could have heard a pin drop and cut the tension with a knife.

Gaara sighed. "It's going to take more than that to convince me they're not an active threat to this place or you more importantly. I never liked the idea of you living here. Too much riff raff."