Sweet Scenes Buster
Scene 3
Naruto watched as something that glinted disturbed the tranquility of the river, an object that sent ripples radiating from where it hit the surface before sinking to its depth. Swiveling around, he spied suspiciously the woman who just arrived. "Anou sa, Temari-san, did you just threw your gold mini-fan?"
"YES!" the scary blonde yelled.
"Why?" Naruto asked perplexed. He was already used to seeing the pendant with its chain tied around Gaara's sister's neck.
Rather than answer, Temari hissed, "Why are you here anyway?"
"I train here," Naruto replied, staring back at the general area where the expensive gem fell. "If you didn't want it anymore, you could have given it to me." Eyes glinting, Naruto added, "If I sold it, the money—"
"SHUT UP!" roared Temari.
Undeterred, Naruto suggested, "If I find it, it's mine okay."
"NO! Don't look for it!"
"But…"
"Keep out of this, Naruto!" Temari growled her warning. Then just as sudden as she arrived, she pivoted around and left. Each step she took speaking volumes of her anger.
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The next day, Temari was back on the river. Going back and fro along the bank, she seemed to be waiting for someone.
"Naruto," she came up to excitedly when she saw the orange and black shirted nin arrived. "Where the hell are you? I have been looking for you all over the place."
"Eh?" Naruto mumbled, surprised.
"Did you find it?" Temari asked, expectantly.
"Find what?"
"My necklace!" Temari opened her hand, offering her palm to Naruto. "Give it fast. I'll even pay."
"But you told me not to—"
"Find it, dim wit!" Temari ordered.
"But—but the current has already moved it along," Naruto stuttered. "It's impossible to find it now."
"Nothing's impossible!" Temari announced before she glanced at the river and frowned as she watched the water coursing rapidly. Squaring her shoulders, not yet ready to face defeat, she proclaimed resolutely, "Of course, you can find it!"
"But—"Naruto looked at the older woman, noticing her eyes. "Alright, dattebayo!"
Temari gave a sigh of relief and muttered, "Thank you."
—o0o—
After six hours, about ten Naruto clones still combed the river bed looking for the gold mini-fan pendant. He had already found the chain two hours ago but not the pendant.
Temari looked on from the river bank. She had helped. She had made two clones herself but after hours and hours she was near to exhausting her own chakra.
They already combed a couple of hundred miles following the river stream but still no luck. Now, she watched Naruto. The younger shinobi was just about a few feet away from another fall.
Inhaling deeply, Temari stood up. She created just one clone and joined Naruto. Her ten minutes break was up.
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After another hour, Naruto's clones started to puff one by one when their feet touched the jagged rock or if he fell because of the current.
After one more hour, only two clones remained and one of them ran away.
"Naruto, come back here!" Temari shouted but the remaining one gave her a thumbs up sign, indicating that it was okay.
—o0o—
After another hour, the last standing Naruto puffed out. After swimming and diving nonstop for nine hours looking for a tiny fan-shaped pendant, Naruto disappeared.
Temari glowered at where the clone should be before gazing at her own hands, already shrunken and wrinkled while clamping her lower jaw as her teeth clatter.
She shivered. The temperature was dropping fast as the sun's light started fading.
"I'll find it!" Temari growled under her breath before striding with a purpose once again towards the river.
A hand suddenly grabbed her forearm, halting her progress.
"Stop it, Temari," Shikamaru uttered.
"What are you doing here, ass?" Temari snarled then paused as she remembered belatedly. "I'm not talking to you," she snapped, forcibly removing her hand from Shikamaru's grip.
"Damn it, woman! I repeat I wasn't hugging Shiho because I like her. I was hugging her because—"
"I don't care why you're hugging her. The fact remains that you're hugging her. God knows what else you two are doing while I'm not here!" scorned Temari while wrapping her arms around herself in the cold.
Shikamaru grunted then started to removed his flak jacket, shrugging it off his shoulders.
"Keep your jacket," Temari snapped and started to leave. She didn't want him to ask what she was doing there near the river, soaking wet and shivering.
"Look, don't throw away what we have just like what you did to the necklace I gave you."
"I didn't throw it away! You did!"
"I didn't!" Shikamaru shouted to be heard. "I was simply comforting Shiho like what a human being would do for another. I wasn't doing it like I would for you. If you still haven't noticed woman, I am chasing you like my life depends on it."
Temari was taken aback by the frustration and exasperation she heard in his voice.
Seeing her expression, "I take that back," Shikamaru muttered, "If you haven't noticed, I am chasing you because my life depends on it."
"Too cheezy, Nara," Temari snorted. "Give me your jacket. I'm cold."
Shikamaru gave a deep sigh of relief; hastily removing his flak jacket and offering it to the woman.
"Now, go look for my pendant."
"Tch, woman."
"I'm not leaving until you find it."
"Look. Your pendant's gone," uttered Shikamaru before slowly he took something out of his pocket. "Here. It's not the same but it stands for the same thing as the one you threw away."
"But—"
"I know I gave it as a symbol of my unfaltering affection for you and now that its gone—"
Temari interrupts, "It's not gone—"
Shikamaru put a finger atop Temari's lips, halting her words. "Trust me. If Naruto can't find it, nobody can."
"He told you?"
Shikamaru nodded his head.
Temari's lips pursed into a defeated pout.
Seeing the disappointed look, Shikamaru took the old necklace and threaded in the new tiny gold fan before putting it around the woman's neck. Done, he enfolded Temari in a tight hug, muttering, "Troublesome woman, you won't ever lost the thing that the gem stands for—my heart. I assure you, you can't discard my love as easy as that pendant. But you must still remember how hard you tried to find it."
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Scene 3 Title: The Thrown Memento
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A/N: I found this, gave it an ending and tada!