Disclaimer: Shikamaru and Temari are Kishimoto's. But the thought of them getting together seems not to be his idea.

The break up

So this is how the end feels...Barren, wanting to care but can't. The feeling is gone, replaced by apathy. I know I love you but I cannot feel that I love you. I'm not even torn or confused. I feel nothing but I'm not numb either...Hollow? If I said yes I think I'm only pretending that I feel the loss, an emptiness left by the thing that I have lost. I know I should feel incomplete but I don't. Losing you won't make my world shatter. You have become nonessential to my life. So this is how the end feels...

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I won't beg and I won't cry. I'm strong. You know that already. I still love you. But I always suspected that I'll lose you one day. It just came sooner than what I predicted that's all. I'm not gonna ask, was it me?...I'm not gonna blame myself or you. I'll move on and forget all about you. One day I'll wake up and recognize that the end you've spoken has come for me too. Then, like you, there won't be regret in my heart only relief. I love you and now that your feelings have changed I will learn to unlove you.

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~8 1 11AF~