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It was a warm, pleasant morning in the Sand Village, and Temari was the first one awake out of the sand siblings. They were taking a trip to the Hidden Leaf for Gaara to have a chat with Lady Tsunade's about their boring Kage stuff, and well for her to see Shikamaru. She blushed red just at the thought of him, oh, he could be so annoying but so cute at the same time. Sigh. *Back in the Hidden Leaf, Shikamaru sneezed himself awake. The day was starting to heat up and Temari decided it was time to get moving, she shook awake Kankuro and Gaara and ate breakfast as they stood in front of the mirror getting ready. Once she finished she quickly stood up, grabbed her fan and ran out the door.
"Hurry up you idiots!"
"Oooh, someone's in a hurry to see Shikamaru"
Temari really wanted to punch Kankuro. She ran out the door and stood on the ledge of the balcony turning back and yelling
"I'm not waiting"
She jumped off, propelling herself forward with her fan.
Temari arrived a day later, in the afternoon, exhausted and thirsty from exerting so much effort to get there. Hah, not something Shikamaru would ever do.
She walked to the Hokage's office to report that both Gaara and Kankuro would be coming about a day later.
"Wow, Temari, you're early. Where's Gaara and Kankuro?"
"Oh, they're being slow idiots and I thought I'd get a head start."
"A two day head start?"
Temari heard the door creak open.
"Uh, lady Tsunade?"
The Hokage looked to the door
"Oh! Shikamaru! Do you have the documents? We need to get that message from the Rain village decoded, and the message department isn't doing too well."
Temari startled and quickly glanced towards the door. Sure enough, Shikamaru was standing in the doorway holding a file of documents labeled 'Rain Ninja'. She quickly turned back to face the Hokage.
"Um, well, I just, umm came to uh, see, um..."
She turned bright red and looked all around the room trying to stall the rest of her reply, she saw Tenten through the window of Tsunade's office talking with Sakura and Ino. "TENTEN! Yeah! Um, I came to ask Tenten for some advice on summoning weapons." *outside, Tenten sneezed.
"Oh, um, okay then, well if you all done, then go over to one of the guest rooms on the second floor."
She could feel Tsunade's gaze on her back as she quickly shuffled out of the room. She roamed the halls looking for Shizune as she usually did and found her. She grabbed her room key, unlocked the door and flopped onto the bed. Her face was still warm and her heart still beating hard from the unexpected attack if Shikamaru showing up. She calmed down a bit, unpacked her clothes and walked around town for awhile looking for Tenten and the girls, Temari looked around at the Yamanaka flower shop, even asked Naruto, but she got nothing useful from him. She gave up and went to Ichiraku for some grade A ramen. Turns out when she got there Tenten and the girls were there, eating, ramen. The whole time she was searching. Ugh, Temari sighed in frustration. Sakura was the first to notice her.
"Oh! Temari! Hey! When did you arrive! We were expecting you and Gaara a few days later, where is Gaara, by the way."
"Oh, he and Kankuro are still on their way here."
"When did you leave then, two, three days early?"
Sakura asked
"No, well actually I just left yesterday."
"Wow! That's amazing! It takes some of even the best Shinobi two days to travel from the Sand to the Hidden Leaf, why were you on such a hurry?"
She blushed again, same response as in the Hokage's office.
"Uh, well I I just wanted to come a little earlier to maybe train with, um...uh, well, uh, Tenten." Tenten and Ino both looked up and glanced at Temari, Ino said with a mischievous smile
"Sure you came early for some training with Tenten, sure you did."
Temari's face turned a color not unlike Gaara's hair, she opened her mouth in protest, but just then they heard voices and in walked Naruto, Shikamaru, and Kiba.
"Oh! Look who's here! And just at the right time too." Ino's face lit up, she, Sakura and Tenten looked at each other, smiled and stood up.
"Hey! Where are you guys going?!" Temari looked around flustered
Tenten turned towards the boys and said
"Come on Kiba, Naruto, I think Lee wanted to do some training exercises, let's go." Naruto and Kiba protested
"But we just got here! I was looking forward to my favorite ramen! Whoa HEY!"
Sakura and Tenten each grabbed one boy leaving Temari, Ino, and Shikamaru alone. Ino whispered to Temari,
"Don't miss your chance."
Temari spluttered in protest
"Hey! What do you mean by that!?"
Ino glanced at Shikamaru with a look that only teammates could understand, Shikamaru blushed and looked at Temari. Ino and he shared a look, Ino glared at him and he flinched away,
"Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. Uh. What a drag."
Ino flounced out the door and turned to both of them,
"Don't mess it up..."