So i thought about putting this in my one-shot series but since this has a second part to it I decided to just put it separately. If you want to know what Temari promised review, review, review! :D
"I was tricked into this." Temari grumbles as she slouches on the seat across from her brothers.
"Even so, he seemed serious to me. Plus he came prepared." Gaara says while holding up a folder.
Kankuro is crying so hard from laughter.
She glares at her cackling brother.
"You've got to be careful with that one. Even I know that." Kankuro says to her after he is finally able to inhale air. He is smiling stupidly at her and patting her shoulder.
"It's all up to you Temari," Gaara says flatly, "but just remember, a Sabaku never breaks a promise."
"Surely you wouldn't have promised something you'd know you couldn't keep. Deep down you know that." Kankuro tells her mischief all over his voice.
Yes she knows that, but she can be very stubborn.
Temari get's up from her seat. "I'll go tell him first then."
"Temari the council-"
"The council can wait." Temari stops Gaara from speaking further, her voice is low. He knows better than to defy his older sister even if he was the Kazekage.
She doesn't ask where he is. She already knows. He likes the balcony atop of the tower the Kazekage resides in to do his duties.
In her mind she recalled when it was the last time she had seen him. Spring had come and gone since then. If her calculations were correct it had been four months ago. Even then their encounter had only been for a brief moment. A quick hello and goodbye. She was visiting the Leaf on Ambassador duties. They met at a restaurant she was going in to eat with Lady Tsunade to discuss important matters over dinner. He was already getting out but that was it.
It's been more than a year and a half since the war ended. Since the passing of his father she knew he had been busy. She'd heard from Ino who was now her new guide. Shikamaru had a lot to deal with apparently. Since his father's passing he had taken over his father's duties. So that meant the ones he held now as head of the Clan and as a high ranking jonin. Not to mention his partake in the raising of Asuma's child and the restoration of the Leaf Village after Pain's attack.
Temari understood and didn't bother looking for him during her visits. He was hardly anywhere to be found anyways. The lazy ninja could no longer be found in his cloud watching spots. So during the course of that one year and a half that had gone by she hardly ever talked to him. And if they did it was only for greeting.
It came as a surprise when Gaara had told her Shikamaru was there and the reason for his sudden visit.
She assumed that since the subject was never mentioned again he had never meant it seriously in the first place. So she never spoke of it to anyone.
Yet now here he was demanding for her. How was she supposed to have taken it seriously back then when he said it so boringly.?
But a promise is a promise. A Sabaku never goes back on their promise. As she opens the door that leads her towards outside the knot in her stomach grows because deep down she knows why she had made that promise in the first place, the real reason, no matter much she denies it. After all, Temari does not make promises she knows she cannot keep.