Live For Tomorrow: Chapter 1
Temari stood in absolute fear. A simple mission of spying on the sound ninja and gathering information had turned into a full out battle. Temari stood there, defenseless and without her fan. Shikarmaru was fighting his own battle, Naruto was down, Gaara's battle was going badly, and Kankuro had been taken captive, the sound nin grinned at Temari, she was alone. "A couple of kunais will finish you." He said lazily, pulling a couple out. Temari easily dodged them. "Oh shit!" Temari cried, it had been a trap. A second sound nin charged her, intending on stabbing her to death. Temari knew that it was over, there was no way to escape. She braced herself for the kunai to come, but it never did. Temari opened her eyes. "Shikamaru!" She shrieked. He was laying on the ground, a kunai in his shoulder blades. She immediately understood what happened. Shikamaru had never finished his battle, but had heard Temari cry out. "Shikamaru." She repeated again, softly and with grief. He had risked his life to save hers. "How troublesome. The damn woman can't even take care of herself." Shikamaru said before fainting. Temari cradled his head, not believing this was happening. The last thing that she had said to him, was well, just another argument. How could she have been so mean to him? What if that was the last thing she would ever say to him? Temari shook her head violently, her four blonde pigtails a complete mess. That would never happen to Shikamaru, she wouldn't let him die. Gaara stared at Temari, he had just barely managed to win his battle. "Get Shikamaru, I'll take Naruto, we have to come back with reinforcements, for Kankuro." He commanded his older sister, his voice not showing a hint of emotion. Temari glared at him, 'Why doesn't he care?' She thought miserably. Temari stopped herself, 'This is Gaara you're talking about, of course he wouldn't care.' She told herself firmly. But Gaara had never seemed to like Shikamaru anyways; maybe Gaara thought that Shikamaru was better off dead. Temari didn't know why she was thinking all this. She carefully picked up Shikamaru. His head rolled to the side, he practically looked dead. 'He's not dead yet.' Temari told herself rather firmly. She ran after Gaara looking down at Shikamaru every once in a while.
Temari stared at Tsunade expectantly. Tsunade looked nervous. "Well… he's not dead…." She started Temari knew that Tsunade had just barely caught herself from saying 'yet'. "Let me see him." Temari demanded. "That might no-" Tsunade got cut off as Temari pushed by her. She stopped suddenly. "Shikamaru." She breathed. He was laying on the bed, his face an ashen white. He was asleep, making him look almost dead. His upper body was covered completely in badages. Blood was visibly seeping thorugh tem. Her hand shaking uncontrollably, Temari peeled way his bandages she winced at the sight before her. There was a gigantic, gaping hole, and the wound was badly infected. Temari had no other words for it, the wound looked like it would never heal. 'It was just a kunai Temari thought desperately. She left the room in a rush, biting back tears. 'Why is this happening to me." She thought in complete dispair
Hehe! My first fanfic, review please? I'm not that great at this stuff, lol. I'll try and update tomorrow. I might bring in some GaaraxHinata, just because I really like Gaara, but it'll mostly be TemarixShikamaru ) And sorry for the shortness, it was kinda hard for me to get started.