III.
"Lost in the crystal sky,
You are my melody,
That's where you take me."
CLOUDS
Temari hated the clouds.
She was glad there weren't many of them in Sunagakure.
Shikamaru knew this.
One day, she found him lying in the grass, looking at the clouds.
Scowling, she began to walk away.
"Wait." She stopped. "Why don't you like clouds?"
Refusing to answer, she vanished.
But her unspoken answer lingered: because he paid more attention to them than he did her.