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Ch1

Temari and her two brothers, Gaara and Kankuro, were traveling back to Konaha on their annual visit to the Hidden Leaf Village. Temari was in a daze thinking about how she didn't really like Shikamaru as much as she thought. She began to slow down not realizing what she was doing, until Gaara turned around as saw that she was almost at a dead stop while looking intently at the ground.

"Temari are you ok," Gaara asked his sister with a worried look on his face.

"Hmm…" she said looking up at her brother trying to smile a little.

"You don't look so good," he said taking a step closer to her.

"I'm fine Gaara, don't worry about me," she looked at the ground again; she began to walk again to catch up with her brothers.

"When you say that it makes me worry even more," he said as moving in front of her to make her stop.

"Gaara I'm fine, come on we have to get to the village before dark," she said stepping to the side past Gaara, she began to walk forward again. Her brothers caught up to her still worried about how she was acting today.

"Is it about Shikamaru, is that what's bothering you," he asked her cautiously knowing how she was with this relationship.

Temari looked at the ground with a pained look on her face. Gaara walked up to her and put his hand on his sister's back, as his hand touched her back she twitched a little.

"I'm sorry, does it still hurt," he asked her softly worrying even more.

"It's ok," she said with a little smile, she tried so hard to hide her feeling inside but it wasn't working much anymore.

"I know there is something wrong so you might as well tell me," he said looking from her to his brother, "we're both here for you."

"I…I'm going to break it off with Shikamaru," she told them with a scared look on her face.

Her other brother Kankuro walked over to the other side of her, "do you want me to go with you," he asked caringly.

"No…I'll only be a minute and then I will come to find you," she said reassuringly, "besides if anything happens you will know because we are so close."

"Are you sure, I don't want to see you get hurt," he said with a pained look on his face know what Shikamaru was fully capable of and what has happened to his sister in the past at the hand of him.

"Yea, I am sure," she said to them both knowing how overprotective they both are, "if anything happens I will come and find you two right away."

She looked in front of her and realized that they were at the gates of the Hidden Leaf Village; she took a deep breath and walked through the gates with her brothers. She stopped in the middle of the street looking at her brothers she smiled weakly.

"We'll be with Tsunade-sama if you need us," Gaara said looking at his sister sadly.

"I'll be back later," she reassured them, she walked off in the direction of Shikamaru's house.