Sugar, Spice, and a handful of Sand

"Out! GET OUT!" Izzy shouted, smashing the front door open and forcing the boy out of the house. Sakura and Ino stood outside the house, shoving the clothes into his hands and smirking as the boy stumbled out into the streets. Sighing, Izzy sat on the floor and stared out onto the miles of trees and streets, houses of people she knew.

"Bad romances suck" She stomped her foot and looked to her best friends. Ino smiled and sat beside her friend, Sakura looking out to the streets with her.

"Well… who haven't you broken up with?" Ino asked.

"How about who you have, so we can find out who" Sakura added. The girls glowered at each other as Izzy sighed and put up her fingers to count.

"Lets see, I've dated Kai, Neji, Heio, Leo, Sasuke, Kiba, Shikamaro, Jui, … Ugh! Too many guys, I'M A HORRIBLE ROMANTIC!" She screamed, throwing her hands up into the air. Ino looked to Sakura who looked back.

"Time for a vacation" they nodded and hoisted Izzy up.

"No! No, it's not time for a vacation! I have a job at the flower shop and the front desk at the hospital, you two need me so you can be ninja's too" Izzy cried, trying to get out of their grip. But it was in failure, they were ninja's and she was not.

"Look, we're putting you on the next convoy to the sand village, the complete opposite of here," Ino stated breathlessly, pushing her friend onto the couch, Sakura adding to the blockage.

"Yea, I bet Temari, Kankuro, and Gaara would be thrilled to have a Kohana kid with 'em for a few weeks"

"WEEKS?" She screeched, her hands instantly flying up to her hair that she began to ring around her fingers as her face filled with worry. Sakura smiled to Ino, Ino returning it before pulling out paper and a pen, and beginning to write on it, Sakura skitting around putting things in a suitcase.

"Weeks?" Izzy whispered, biting her lips while she continued to ring her hair in her fingers. "But… I don't know anyone there"

"We do, and we're confident they'll like you, Gaara's the Kazekage and so much nicer than he used to be, Plus, Temari must be going mad without another woman in the house. Kankuro is a handful"

Izzy just frowned and put her head in her hands, Why did she even bother. Her best friends were much stronger than her, and Izzy was definitely not like them. She was outgoing, and fun loving, but horrible at flirting and horrible at relationships.

"This isn't going to work" She whimpered.

.x.o.x.o. Sugar, Spice, and a handful of sand .x.o.x.o.

"This isn't going to work" Gaara whispered, looking to the plan for the irrigation systems. The plan out, the heat, the sand, all factors that made the blue-prints impossible. Engineers sweated in front of him, smiling sheepishly.

"We're sorry Lord Kazekage, we'll fix it-" Gaara wave a hand, for them to leave without the blue-prints.

"I will make some corrections myself, first" he stated, not even looking up. As the door opened, Temari and Kankuro squeezed through the door, around the engineers with worried expressions. Without needing a word, they knew what had happened. Water was becoming shorter and shorter as the days went on, the people were about to riot up if they didn't fix it right away. That was the problem, there was no saving the old irrigations, and new ones had to be made in order to survive.

"No success yet, Gaara?" Kankuro sighed, looking at the plans with a puzzled look. They must be desperate to try something like that. It was stupid and easily ruined, it might not even work and spend thousands of country money on something that won't work.

"No… I'm on the edge now" He whispered, putting his hands to his head and running his fingers through his hair.

"Well there is some good news, the Kohana ninja have sent you a letter, maybe they're going to come by and help?" Temari smiled.

"Maybe" Gaara pulled the envelope into his hands and opened it.

Dear Kazekage-sama/Gaara

We know this is out of the blue, and we hope you don't hate us for this, but we have a favor to ask of you. A friend of ours is having trouble here in kohana, her life is just going down the drain and she needs a change of scenery. She's a real heart opener, a sweet heart, and it would be great for her mental health if she were to stay with you and your siblings for a couple of weeks. She'll do whatever nessicary to pay you back if need-be.

Her name is Izzy Moiki,

With hope and love,

Kohana Kunochi

Along with it was a picture that Gaara's eyes ran over and couldn't stop as he handed the letter to Temari.

"A girl? FINALLY! SOMEONE I CAN TALK TO!" Temari cried, smiling and walking from the room cheering to herself.

"Our sister is crazy, you do realize this" Kankuro stated and walked around. Looking at the picture, he grinned to Gaara.

"Maybe she'll be good for you too" Kankuro chuckled and walked off. Gaara rolled his eyes and put the picture down and aside, only to let his eyes flicker to it then to a piece of paper.

"I guess I should write back" he sighed and pulled out a writing utensil and ink.

Dear Kohana,

It is fine, send your friend, we have plenty of room. Please tell her when she arrives to look find a guard and ask him for a 'Baki' I will send him to the gate to bring her to the house. Does your friend know anything about engineering? Or problem solving?

Gaara.

He looked to the picture. Izzy had choppy brown hair that went to her shoulders, a bright smile and big blue eyes that glowed as she stood with flowers in the picture. She was holding a potted plant, handing over to a customer, a dirt covered apron against blue jeans and a t-shirt, she was beautiful.

Gaara put it in the drawer, he didn't have time for girls.