ShikaxTemari

Temari sat at her windowsill. She was pretty bored lately... The sun was setting furiously... but all she seemed to see was the incoming air of night. Not much had been happening lately in Sunagakure. She had been there for a straight month, helping out Kankuro and Gaara, though, she mostly helped Gaara, with kazekage duties. Her students were training on there own and had not attempted to ask her for further training. She hadn't much to do, and she was asked to stay out of Konoha for at least another week. The Chunin exams were coming closer. Not much else was happening in her life... and her thoughts were drifting in several directions...

She missed the cool breeze of Konoha to be honest. She couldn't hide the fact that she absolutely loved staying there. It was hot here in the desert, and all she did was paperwork and training. There, she could talk with other females, and run around by herself, not on a curfew, not being bothered by Kankuro about his puppets... She was free.

She didn't know what it was about it... but she knew there was something else. As she watched the sun reach the horizon, slowly setting now, she thought about it.

"It can't be that crybaby Shikamaru..." She told herself. She hitched her knees to her chin, eyes narrowed in slight disappointment."Could it?"

she had found herself thinking about the people of konoha alot lately...but she did think about him too. He was after all, the Key to the chunin exams. He was also her guide through konoha, though, she'd been there so many times... she hardly needed a guide anymore. Temari rebuked herself. She couldn't. She was almost positive that even if she did feel somthing... Gaara or Kankuro would step in... and, she didn't even know if he returned the feelings. He did help her out... He did accompany her everywhere... But she felt like it was fading... Could it be possible that she felt something?

Temari got up and went into her bathroom. She took off her forehead protector and set it down, then looked at her face. her glowing cheeks stared back at her, and her knowing soul through her eyes as well. She felt funny, but decided that it was just a need for sleep, and nothing more. She set herself into her pajama's and again, stared at the window.

"Just another day tomorrow..."

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"have you noticed anything about Temari lately?" Kankuro asked. he and Gaara had been sitting in the living room for a few hours. Neither of them had heard a peep from Temari in a few hours...

"Not much besides the fact that she's been sulky, and she's hiding in her room all the time..." Gaara replied slowly, not looking up from his paperwork. "why do you ask?"

" I dunno... she just seems out of it I guess." He said.

"I don't really think it's a problem... She'll snap out of it after the chunin exams..."

"Well... I personally think it's something more...intimate..." This mad Gaara stop and look up. He looked at Kankuro in confusion.

"What are you implying?"

Kankuro smiled, knowing he had Gaara's attention now.

"I think she's pining for a certain... Konoha nin..."