Hello everyone! I apologize endlessly for how abrupt the ending for this is. lol. I hope you've enjoyed The Moon in My Night and I thank you so much for the reviews, it really meant a lot to me to hear back from you guys. Till my next fanfic, I bid you adu.

Quest for marbles

Ch. 21 The End

The next day, Saylin met Gaara on her way to school. "Hi!" She said when she spotted him, attacking him with a hug.

"Good morning to you, too." He said, giving her a kiss on her head. "How's your stomach? Fully healed yet?"

"Not yet." Saylin said with a sigh.

"Hi people." Ki said in her usual 'I just rolled out of bed' monotone, joining them.

"Wait for us!" Temari and Kankuro called from behind.

"Who's this?" Temari asked when she saw Ki.

"Temari, Kankuro, this is my friend Ki. Ki, meet Temari and Kankuro." She introduced.

"Nice to meet you." Ki said formally, trying to sound awake.

"Hi!" Temari cheered, a bright ray of sunshine to the sleepy ninja.

"Nice to meet you too." Kankuro said, staring at Ki with interest, who was blushing as she shook his hand.

"So… you're in Saylin's class?" He asked, turning his attention to Ki.

"Yeah…" Was the dull reply.

The two started talking and walked a little further away from the group, keeping them out of earshot.

Temari smacked her head. "I give up! Why can't my idiot brother restrain himself!"

"Gaara! Wait for me!" Saylin cried, trying to keep up with her boyfriend.

"Saylin, you're right." Gaara said.

"About what?" Saylin asked.

"People. You always forgive them even if they wrong you. You give them the opportunity to change." He said.

"I have to be right about something. And there's something else I am right about." Saylin said with a mysterious smile.

"What?" Gaara whispered, sliding closer to Saylin. She could smell the musk on his clothes and feel his breath on her skin. His eyes were sparkling with a needy desire, anxiously waiting for a response.

"You will become Kazekage and then the whole village will respect you, not just your family and friends." Saylin said softly, her eyes hardened with determination to make the dream a reality.

"You think that?" He asked, slightly amused.

It was hard for Saylin to think with Gaara so close. His presence made her thoughts fuzzy, disoriented; she could only nod in response.

Gaara smiled in approval and cupped her face with his hands in a mere second, and then collapsed his lips onto hers in the next.

"I will become Kazekage, someday." Gaara vowed, to Saylin's immediate approval.

"Arg! My eyes!" Screamed Kankuro in the back round, "And you tell me to keep it G rated!" He screamed, making Saylin and Gaara quickly break apart.

"We tell you to keep it G because you are a pervert whilst they are in love!" Screamed Temari, smacking him over the head.

"Be careful around him." Temari warned Ki, "He's a little forward." She hinted.

"I've dealt with guys like him before." Ki sighed, remembering the past. She fingered a few locks of her long hair and turned away from Kankuro, who stared at her, puzzled.

"What do you mean 'guys like me'?" He asked suspiciously, turning away to interrogate Ki.

"Young love." Satsu said with a sigh as the group passed her shop.

"What?" Saylin asked.

"Not you, Saylin, I know you like Gaara. I'm talking about those two." Satsu said, jerking her thumb over to Kankuro and Ki, who were talking shyly among themselves.

"He's a perv!" Temari cried.

"Look carefully. If he was a perv to her, he'd be making out with her by now." Satsu reasoned.

"You're right." Temari noted suspiciously. "I'll have to keep an eye on them."

"Good luck! Now get to school before you are late!" Satsu ordered, shooing the students away to the academy.

The five ninja were friends for the rest of their life. Saylin and Gaara got married only a mere year after Gaara became Kazekage. Their only child was named Ayumi and quickly became the prodigy of the village. Ki and Kankuro were wed a year before Saylin and Gaara and had three children, twin boys named San and Yoko, and one girl named Toki. Temari soon met Shikamaru and the two got married two years after Gaara and Saylin.