Here's the first chapter, hope you enjoy~ thought i'd poke fun at Temari's small crush on the shadow ninja to start out the one-shots.
As usual it was hot in Suna, but at least it wasn't summer. In their ally's village it's becoming fall. The leaves on the trees change color and the weather gets cooler. But again that's in Konoha. In Suna it gets a little cooler and the sun is not as brutally shining down on them during the afternoons. Nothing else changed. But for one purple faced puppet master everything was changing. Alright maybe that's exaggerating, but Kankuro just couldn't get over what he overheard when he was passing by his gossiping older sister around the village. This morning Kankuro decided to go out and collect more wood for carving his newest puppet project, what he didn't expect was to run into Temari confiding in Matsuri about a crush. I mean it's obvious to everyone that Matsuri likes Gaara. She's practically obsessed, but he didn't expect Temari to be the one talking about a crush. Kankuro however was not being stealthy enough to overhear the name of said crush. Rather than trying to hear who it is, Kankuro dropped the wood he collected and ran back to the village to tell Gaara. As if the already stressed out Kazekage would care. This is where we find them now, in the Kazekage office.
"What do you want Kankuro? I have paperwork to get to." The young redhead sighed as he placed the pen down and reluctantly looked up to the babbling puppet wielder.
"Temari was telling your stalker fangirl about a crush she has!" Kankuro placed one of his hands on his hip and stared at his brother. This only caused a sweat drop to form at the back of Gaara's head.
'Why is Kankuro standing like that? He's so weird…' Gaara almost inaudibly sighed as he closed his eyes.
This caused Kankuro to stop his continued blabbering and glared at his younger brother "Gaara are you even listening to me?!"
"Unfortunately." Gaara confessed, opening his eyes once more to return the unwelcomed glare.
This caused Kankuro to ease up but he still continued the bothersome topic to Gaara, "we need to find out who Temari's crushing on!"
"Kankuro, I have more important things to focus on. Like the village. Besides if Temari likes a guy who are we to stand in her way? She's just about 20 years old now. Do you want her to be single still at the age of 50 like Tsunade?" Gaara raised his invisible eyebrow as he picked up his pen again and went back to his paperwork.
"Ouch. Didn't have to put it that way…" Kankuro winced as he thought about what Lady Tsunade would do if she heard that.
Back in Konoha Tsunade's eyes widen a little as she could feel herself become angry. She turned violently turns the window and frowned.
"I feel like someone just insulted me." Tsunade balled up her fists and slammed them down on her desk.
Back to Suna.
"Gaara please. Just help me this once!" Kankuro almost pleaded. Though Temari was known around their village as a gossip queen, Kankuro takes second place. If anybody was dating someone in the village he'd want to know.
"Kankuro I already told you that i'm busy." Gaara sighed to himself and closed his eyes again, wishing Kankuro would leave.
"Please! If you help me, I'll leave you alone the rest of the day." Kankuro batted his eyelashes and made puppy eyes at his redheaded brother in an attempt to persuade him. Gaara isn't effected by the eyes, but he can't resist an offer to be left alone in peace.
"Fine. The rest of the day though. And if you take back your word on that, I'll just about end you." Gaara sent an icy glare towards Kankuro before rising from his desk.
Kankuro gulped and nodded in response before leaning up against the door. "Well what should we do?"
"Maybe ask her?" Gaara inquired, crossing his arms over his chest.
Kankuro seemed to find his response amusing and laughed about it, "Ask her" haha. "That's really funny."
"I wasn't kidding." Gaara rolled his eyes and remained stoic.
"Gaara, we can't just ask her. We'll have to spy on her. When she gets back in the building to continue her tasks, we'll listen in and try to find hints." Kankuro said out loud as he smirked confidently, as if his plan would work.
Gaara sighed once more but surrendered any argument, after all he gets a Kankuro free day after this mess is over with.
Soon enough the blonde haired kunoichi walked into the building humming to herself as she set her fan down beside her desk. Kankuro figured this could be his chance not only to find out said crush's name but to impress his brother with what Kankuro thought to be his amazing information techniques. Kankuro put on a calm but confident face and bee-lined for Temari's desk.
"Oh hey, Kankuro. What's up?" Temari smiled and greeted Kankuro who was now leaning on her desk.
"Heya, Temari. Back from your walk around the village huh?" Kankuro casually asked, almost losing his balance on the elbow he was leaning on.
"Um yeah." Temari frowned a bit wondering what he was up to.
"So. Any cute boys in the village?" Kankuro raised his eyebrows and looked her over. This made Temari uncomfortable and shift in her seat a little.
"Cute boys? What're you trying to get at?" she questioned.
Kankuro smiled to himself 'got her!' he thought before replying "well I just thought you'd know of some cute boys in the village." He added in. This caused Gaara to facepalm behind the wall he was standing behind as he knew what was going to be said next.
"Well Kankuro if you really want to meet some cute boys… I guess I could see if Matsuri knows any." Temari smirked a little "I knew you liked boys."
Kankuro's purple marks did not hide the tomato red blush that soon found its self on his face, he stuttered out "I-I am not gay, Temari!" Kankuro frowned deeply and turned to leave. Gaara hid a snicker as his fuming brother made his way over.
"I guess it's my turn." Gaara sighed before walking towards Temari who was raising her eyebrows again.
"Gaara? Is everything okay?" she questioned with concern.
"Yes, why wouldn't it be?" Gaara frowned now and crossed his arms over his chest.
"Well you're not usually here at my desk." Temari babbled on "is the new hang out area my desk?"
Gaara mentally facepalmed before speaking again, "So where were you?"
"I was out walking around the village as usual, why did I miss something here?! I'm sorry!" Temari's concerned look intensified as she flailed around a bit.
"No, no. Everything was fine here. I was just curious." Gaara calmed her down.
"Oh! Well I talked to Matsuri and then I went to the store and bought an apple, the clerk is such a klutz though and he dropped it. How troublesome." She sighed thinking about the incident.
"Troublesome, hm?" Gaara widened his eyes as he thought about what she just said.
"Yeah. But it's okay. Anyways, as much as i'm sure most of the girls here would kill to have your attention, I'd like to get back to my own paperwork." Temari shooed Gaara off her desk and attended to her tasks. Gaara turned on his heel and walked back to his office with Kankuro in tow.
"What?! Did she tell you?" Kankuro was acting like a kid in a candy store.
"Pretty much." Gaara closed his eyes and sat back down at his desk. "Now leave me alone the rest of the day."
"Wait, who is it?!" Kankuro jumped up on Gaara's desk and stared at him. Gaara summoned some sand and the sand threw Kankuro off the desk.
"Keep off my desk. And it's rather obvious, Kankuro." The redhead straightened his papers out again.
"What?" Kankuro got back up and dusted himself off.
"Did you not hear what she said?" Gaara looked back up at the puppet master.
"Yeah she said some boring story about her time at the store." Kankuro thought back to what happened a few minutes ago.
" 'Troublesome' " Gaara gave away the last bit she said to give Kankuro the hint. To no avail, the brunette did not get the hint.
"How am I being troublesome?" Kankuro shot back, glaring at his brother. Gaara facepalmed for what seemed to be like the millionth time today before his sand pushed Kankuro out of the office.
"Just leave me be." Gaara got back to work.
"Whatever. I can figure this out without him." Kankuro pumped his hand through the air and marched down the stairs to see Temari absent from her desk. 'Must be lunch time for her. This means gossip time.' Kankuro smirked and grabbed Crow.
"So he's coming to Suna today." Temari said to Matsuri as they ate at the ramen shop in Suna. There wasn't a ramen shop in Suna before Gaara met Naruto. After the sand ninja became Kazekage and Naruto visited Suna often, the blonde insisted there should be a ramen shop. So Gaara managed to have one built much to Naruto and the villagers enjoyment.
"He is?!" Matsuri widened her eyes and smirked before stuffing her face with noodles.
"Mhm." Temari blushed a little and finished off her bowl of ramen.
"Temari and Shikamaru sitting in a tree K- I- S –" Matsuri's silent teasing was soon cut off by Temari quickly placing her hand over the brunette's mouth. Her face turned red.
"Shush. I don't want everyone or anybody else knowing who it is." Temari shushed the brunette who simply nodded her head and giggled when Temari removed her hand.
"Actually he should be here soon." Temari said, paying for the ramen and waiting for Matsuri to finish up. Kankuro's smirk grew as he listened from outside of the ramen shop.
"Hear that, Crow? It's Shikamaru. A leaf weakling." Kankuro said to his puppet before thinking back at the hint Gaara gave him. "Oh that's what he meant." Kankuro facepalmed calling himself an idiot. As Kankuro stood there for a minute he thought of something he could do next about the information he received about his sister.
"Payback time. Come on Crow." Kankuro rushed with his puppet back to his workshop and seemed to create a disguise.
It was about late afternoon when Temari was spotted again walking towards the front of Suna to see if there's any signs of visitors. She was very hopeful. And sure enough as she drew near the gates to Suna there was a guy in a green shinobi jacket standing off to the side, his hair was pulled back in a short black ponytail and he was just casually leaning against the wall. Except he wasn't facing the same direction Temari was.
"Oh look who showed up." Temari began teasing as she got closer to his hearing range. She placed her fan on her back and placed a hand on her hip. Slowly the guy turned around.
"What a drag." The guy said as he started laughing and turned around to face his sister. His purple lines painted on his face still.
"K-Kankuro?!" Temari flinched back and looked at her brother. At first she was surprised but then she was just angry.
"Heya Temari. I found out about your liking for the leaf shinobi." Kankuro obviously stated as he took the wig off.
"I can tell." Temari balled her hands up into fists and almost punched Kankuro "who else knows?"
Kankuro was about to answer before someone walked up behind Temari and asked what was going on. Temari turned around to see who it was. This time it was the real Shikamaru but the wind kunoichi thought it was somebody else trying to also play a joke on her.
"I don't think so!" Temari shouted as she punched the guy in the face and he fell backwards. Temari snapped back to look at her brother "Oh and who's this that you got to play along in your joke?!"
"Umm… I was the only one." Kankuro said as he knelt down to see if the leaf ninja was the real Shikamaru. "Temari, you knocked out the actual Shikamaru."
Temari's anger subsided as her cheeks were now decorated in a blush and she started panicking "Oh no! Shikamaru, I'm sorry!" she knelt down too and shook the dark haired boy awake.
"What was that for?" Shikamaru asked as he got back up and pinched his nose, it was still bleeding.
"I thought you were pulling a prank on me…" Temari left out other details since she obviously didn't want to confess to him.
"Women are so troublesome." Shikamaru sighed and began to walk away. Temari followed suite, feeling bad for punching him. Kankuro merely shrugged and walked back to the Kage building.
And so the day ended with Shikamaru being apologized to profusely by the blonde kunoichi and Kankuro chuckling to himself the whole time. Of course he knew when the shadow ninja leaves back for Konoha the next day Kankuro would get the beating of a lifetime. This didn't bother the puppet master though as he felt that it was worth it. Gaara on the other hand ended up staying in the Kage building all through the night trying to finish up his seemingly endless paperwork and when he heard about Temari punching Shikamaru in the nose over Kankuro's stupid plan, he could only sigh and agree with the shadow-nin's choice of words.
"Troublesome."