Disclaimer: I said it before and I will say it again. I do not own Naruto though I wish I did. It belongs to one Kishimoto, and let's leave it as that.
This is the third chapter of the story and I plane to make another chapter after this one. There will be no lemon scene this chapter but I'm sure the next or fifth chapter may have one, and now on with the show.
''Thoughts
Chapter 3
The Break Up
Shikamaru Nara was quietly walking next to his girlfriend Temari No Subaku toward the young Nara's usual spot when he wanted to do cloud watching with his friend Choji. Nothing was said between the two for about an hour and Temari was getting a little impatient about it.
'What could this slacker want to tell me that he couldn't say in front of the others?' She thought to herself and silently hoped it wasn't anything bad.
As for the Nara in question he was pondering on how to start off on what he wanted to say to Gaara's sister without any series repercussions before breaking up with her. He came up with one idea by starting off with a question that came to mind which he would ask her when they reached the spot they were going to.
When they reached their destination Temari turned around and started off by saying, "Well were here, so what is it that was so important that you couldn't just say it in front of the others?"
Shikamaru took a deep breath as he prepared for the storm ahead.
"Temari, we've been going out with each other for over three years now right?"
She nodded her head to him.
"And since then despite a lot of troublesome problems that came our way we have worked through them, and I don't just mean missions ether."
Again she nodded to him, though she started tapping her foot with her arms crossed under her chest.
'Man I got to stop beating around the bush already. I just hope she will hear me out before she bash's my brains in for what I'm about to tell her.' He knew she was going to say something any minute and that would be when he would tell her, and she did not disappoint him.
"What is the point of all this Shikamaru? You're making it sound like you did something to betray my trust and our relationship."
"That's just it Temari. The truth is I think we should break up and not see each other anymore, because honestly I don't deserve you and you deserve to be with someone better."
There was a long moment of silence between the two as nothing was said.
It was so quiet that you could hear the wind blow. That silence was broken when the words sunk into Temari and she responded.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT TO BREAK UP?"
The people in the village jumped in surprise from the shout that was heard and wondered who could shout like that besides their Hokage?
Twenty minutes earlier before the outburst...
Hinata Hyuga was nervous and happy at the moment and for good reason.
Sitting next to her was her long time crush and love interest was one Naruto Uzumaki the number one unpredictable ninja of Konoha.
They were in the Hyuga estate and were in the backyard of the training grounds that she and her family would use to train in their clans fighting styles. Hiashi, along with Neji and Hinata's younger sister Hanabi were surprised to see the Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi in their home. What was even more surprising was that he and Hinata wanted to speak with each other privately with one another. Hinata's father considered their request and decided to grant it to them, but reminded Jiraiya's pupil to be on his best behavior. Now the young girl was wondering what was going through his mind.
As for the blond shinobi of said girls affection he was a little nervous and was thinking on what to ask first of the girl before him, as he was not sure how to say something without sounding like an idiot.
'Man what would Shikamaru do in a time like this? Maybe I should just be honest and ask her if what he said is true about her liking me since our day's back in the academy.'
"Is...T-there s-something y-y-you wanted to ask me...Naruto-kun?"
He was broken out of his thoughts from the shy heiress of the Hyuga clan and decided to just wing it. Taking a deep breath to compose himself he decided to be honest.
"Hinata you are wondering right now why I wanted to talk with you in private and not in front of everyone from before right?"
She nodded her head to him and indicated for him to continue.
"Well to be honest there is something that I learned about today and it involves you and me, so there is something I want to know."
This caused Hinata's heart to skip a beat and it showed on her face that she was shocked by what she heard.
'Does he know about how I feel about him?'
She got her answer in the form of a question.
"Hinata...is it true that you liked me since are days back in the academy?"
She became red in the face and out of reflex started twiddling with her fingers together while repeating to herself, 'Must no faint, Must not faint.'
Looking into his eyes she answered with as much confidence as she could muster and gave her response.
"It's true Naruto-kun...I have liked you and have even admired you since our time in the academy. It is because of you that I gained strength and the courage I need to get where I am today."
"What do you mean you gained strength from me?" He was surprised that someone like Hinata gave him such praise.
The shy girl paused to gather her thoughts in order to speak her mind and heart out to her intended love interest. When she was read she began to speak to her crush on her feelings for him.
"I used to always cry and give up...I nearly went the wrong way."
She paused for a moment thinking back on her past when she didn't have as much confidence, until her memories of Naruto came to mind and spoke again to him.
"But you...you showed me the right way...I wanted to be with you...I just wanted to walk with you...I was always chasing you...wanting to overtake you...you changed me. Your smile saved me."
Naruto was shocked by what he heard from the lavender eyed beauty in front of him, and what she said next was evening more surprising and shocking. Looking at him she smiled warmly and spoke from her heart.
"It's because...I love you Naruto-kun."
The young blonde could not believe what he just heard from the Hyuga heiress. He had wanted to hear those words so badly from Sakura and yet to hear those from Hinata sounded just right. He began to recall the words his friend Shikamaru and he wondered why he never bothered to figure out why Hinata acted the way she did around him. The way she blushed when he was around her, the food she served him during missions, and the special ointment that she had giving to him during the Chunin Exams.
He started wondering how he could have missed such signs and reactions from her. That was when he realized he always chased after Sakura and never gave her or any other girl for that matter a chance to get to know them better. Then again many of the girls back in the academy were always going after Sasuke. Ino and Sakura were the worst of the group wanting to capture the Uchiha's heart. All except Hinata, and now he felt bad for never getting to know her.
But then he started thinking about what would happen once she learned about the Kyuubi in him and was afraid that she might reject him on the spot, maybe even hate him.
"Naruto-kun, are you all right?"
He was snapped out of his thoughts and saw the worried look on her face.
Naruto decided to answer her to ease her worries.
"I'm fine Hinata, it's just that I'm shocked and to be honest...I don't know what to say, or even if I deserve your feelings for me."
"Why would you say that?"
Taking a deep breath the young Uzumaki gathered his thoughts to make sure he said nothing wrong to offend Hiashi's daughter and then spoke to her.
"I'm saying I don't feel like I deserve your feelings because all this time I've been so focus on trying to get Sakura's affection and when I heard from Shikamaru that he and everyone else knew I just felt so stupid and ashamed that I never picked up on it."
Hinata decided to ease her intended love interest and spoke to him once more to let him know he should not be ashamed of how he felt.
"You shouldn't feel that way Naruto-kun. After hearing what you just said right now, I feel I too share the blame."
"Why would you say that? I'm the one who didn't notice you."
"I say I share the blame as well because instead of telling you how I felt and not asking if you felt the same way, I chose to follow you silently and was too shy to let you know."
The young Uzumaki couldn't help but feel bad at what Hinata said to him, and he knew he shared the blame as well since he never talked to her or any other girl during his time in the academy and he was still a kid for kami sake's. So he decided to let her know that he to share the blame.
"If it makes you feel any better Hinata, I feel it's my fault as well since I was so busy chasing after Sakura that I never got to know more about you or any of the other girls for that matter back in the academy. Heck we were only kids back then, so I'm sorry Hinata-chan."
"I'm sorry too Naruto-kun." She smiled happily as she felt a lot better now and hoped that they would develop a relationship. A thought then came the Hyuga heiress mind and decided to ask the blonde ninja a question.
"Naruto-kun, I would like to ask you something."
"Sure Hinata-chan what is it?"
"Why did you chase after Sakura for so long? What was it that made you want to give your heart to her?"
This had surprised him and he decided to think back on why he developed a crush for Sakura and why he went after her for so long. It was then that a remembered from his memory's when he was very young and this was a year before the Uchiha Clan Massacre.
Flashback...
It was a warm day in the village and everyone was going about his or her business. Children were running around playing and having fun while their parents were talking amongst themselves over the usual things that adults discuss with one another.
Everyone was having a good day all except one person. Sitting on one of the swings by himself was a young boy no older than six who was wearing an orange t-shirt with the Konoha symbol on the front and had on a pair of blue shorts. He had blonde hair, blue eyes, and the most noticeable thing about him was that he had six whisker marks on his face. This child was none other than Naruto Uzumaki.
He couldn't understand why no one wanted to play with him. The other kids would ether call him names or ignore him whenever he asked to play with the other children. The only ones who did play with him were Shikamaru, Choji, and Kiba since they liked to ditch class now and then.
But when the time came for them to leave with their family, he was alone by himself once more, wishing that he had parents like everyone else. It didn't help when the parents told their kids to stay away from Naruto, and he always was looked at with hate and disdain as if he had done something wrong to them. There were even times that the citizens of the village would go after Naruto and try to hurt him, and even tried to end his life.
'What is it that I've done to be hated so much? Why can't I have a family to protect and love me as well?' He had always asked himself this question since the time he could walk, but he never could find the answers.
He was about to leave back to his apartment when he heard something going on a few feet away from where he was sitting. Curious he decided to go and have a look to see what it was making the noise. When he got there he saw a pink haired girl crying and holding her arm which had a bruised on it.
Wondering how she got hurt he went over to where she was sitting.
"Are you okay?"
The girl looked up to see who was talking to her and was surprised to see it was Naruto. Now like every other child's parent her mother told her to stay away from Naruto saying he was a trouble maker and a bad kid. She decided to tell him nothing was wrong hoping he would leave her alone.
"It's nothing. I just tripped and fell that's all."
The young blond however didn't believe her as he could see in her eye's that it was something else that caused her to get hurt and he made that fact known.
"I don't think so. If anything I bet some stupid bully was picking on you and gave you that bruise."
"Would you please just leave me alone? It doesn't concern you."
With that she got up and walked away from him. Naruto however wasn't going to let this go and decided to silently follow her in hopes of finding out what had caused her troubles.
A short while later...
After following her for awhile he saw her sitting outside of a bakery shop next to a blond girl which he recognized.
'That's Ino. I wonder how those two know each other.'
Naruto knew about Ino from Shikamaru and Choji when they talked about her a few times. He had also met her once or twice and she was rather bossy to other people.
Deciding to figure out what they were talking about he quietly made his way to them and made sure not to be seen. Standing a few feet away he listened on their conversation.
"Sakura why didn't you tell me that jerk Ami was messing with you again? I would have helped you out."
"I couldn't Ino. She and her friends threatened me that if I told anyone they would go after you and use a knife on you."
"You can't be serious! They were probably just bluffing and trying to scare you."
The young pink haired girl shook her head and looks her in the eyes.
"I am serious. Ami even pulled it out of her bag and showed it to me while putting it against my throat."
She pointed to her neck for her friend to see.
The Yamanaka heiress looked and saw a tiny scratch mark on her friends neck and could look with shocked eyes that soon turned to anger and then she got up to walk away.
"Ino wait! Where are you going?"
"I'm going home to find one of my Dad's kunai's and to give that bitch a piece of my mind that is what!"
This caused Ino's friend to become worried and went after her hoping she could talk her friend out of doing something she may regret later on.
From what he heard and saw Naruto found out everything he needed to know and started to think of a plan on what to do with Ami and her band of idiots. He too was picked on by Ami and her friends during his time in the academy. Decision final he decided to go look for the bully.
End of Flashback...
"Naruto are you okay? You haven't said anything yet."
The student of Jiraiya was brought back to the present from the sound of the lavender eyed girl and he saw the look of concern on her face.
"I'm okay Hinata, I was just remembering something from my past and it involved something that happened with Sakura."
"What was it?"
Naruto began to tell her about when he first meet Sakura and found out that she was being bullied by some kids they went to the academy with from their younger days. Hinata listened as she remembered Ami as well since she bullied her and the others as well. When Naruto brought up that he was going to follow them she decided to ask the first thing that came to mind.
"Why did Ami bother Sakura again, and what did you do to them?"
"I found out that she went taken a locket that belong to her and it had a picture of her dad in it."
"Really, how did you find out and how did you get it back from them?"
Naruto began to tell her about the prank he pulled on them and on how he retrieved it from them.
Flashback...
The young blonde had been looking around for the one who made Sakura cry and she found the bully with two of her friends Kasumi and Fuki laughing and gloating about what they did to Sakura earlier.
"Man did you see the look on that fat head?" Ami snickered to her friends.
"Yeah I know heh heh. I saw someone cry so much over a stupid little trinket like that." Fuki said as she sat under a tree resting against it.
Kasumi decided to ask Ami a question.
"So what are we goanna do with that thing, sell it or break it?"
"I'm not sure but I think I'll hang onto it for awhile and make that pink haired bitch my little servant if she wants it back so badly."
Naruto had heard enough and decided to put his plan into action to teach these bimbo's a lesson for what they did. Reaching into a bag he brought with him he pulled out some homemade pepper bombs mixed with itching powder that he had used to prank the Anbu and school teachers that had harassed him a few times.
Without further delay he launched his attack on the unsuspecting bullies.
Ami and the others were unprepared as while they were laughing they didn't see or react in time to dodge the bombs that hit them right in their faces causing them to cough and cry out in pain making them stand up and rubbing their eyes in reflex to being hit in the face.
"ACK! WHAT IS THIS?"
"WHO THE HELL THREW THIS AT ME?"
"MY EYES WON'T STOP BURNING!"
This caused the lead bully to drop the locket and that was the young Uzumaki queue to jump in to get it and he decided to add an extra amount of pain to these jerks by throwing a punch into each of their faces followed up by a kick to their stomachs.
BAM! POW! WHACK! SMACK!
The girls doubled over in pain not seeing what had hit into them, causing them to roll over in pain. The young blond then picked up the locket and ran off to find Sakura to return it.
End of Flashback...
"I was searching around for Sakura and Ino but I couldn't find them anywhere so I decided to head back home and return it to her at the academy the next day."
Hinata was shocked at Naruto's actions from how he dealt with the bullies though she couldn't blame him and then asked, "Did anything happen when you went to give Sakura the locket?"
"Yeah and Sakura did something I never expected."
Flashback... (Last one I promise.)
It was during the lunch hour at the academy and Sakura and Ino were sitting together chatting and having lunch talking about the usual gossip that came around. One in particular was about Ami and her friends getting the beat down of the century.
"Man I wish I could have seen who it was that cleaned Ami's clock yesterday." The blonde Yamanaka said excitedly to her friend as she took a sip of her tea.
"Me too, though I'm wondering who it was that attacked them and why?" Sakura wondered aloud as she heard that Ami got a broken nose, along with her friends. She and Ino also heard that their eyes were hit by a mixture of pepper and itching powder.
"Who knows, it was probably someone they messed with and didn't expect them to get back at them. I even heard that something got stolen from them."
"Do you think it could be my locket?" Sakura asked with hope as she didn't know if she could face her mother again after losing something that was a reminder of her father.
"To be honest I hope not Sakura, but then again maybe whoever took it from Ami might recognize the picture and bring it back to you."
Before she could answer her friend the young Haruno heard someone call out to her.
"Hey Sakura!"
This caused both girls to turn to the sound of the voice and saw it was none other than the village prairie Naruto Uzumaki.
The young Uzumaki came running to them with a smile on his face, hoping to gain another friend to ease the loneliness in his life. Stopping before the girls before him to catch his breath before speaking with them, though Sakura was wondering how he knew her name.
"How did you know my name?"
The blonde academy student smiled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head while giving off a goofy smile replied, "To be honest I followed you around to the bakery shop and I heard what happened to you."
"You followed her around?" Ino said surprised that the blonde Uzumaki would do something like that.
"Well I wanted to know what was bothering her yesterday but she wouldn't tell me so I had to find out somehow and I learned she was bullied by Ami and those other jerks."
"Why didn't you just listen to me and leave me alone?" Sakura asked him.
"I don't like to see others bullied, especially cute girls."
Sakura blushed at being referred to as cute. Then she realized something and decided to ask him a question.
"Naruto was it you who attacked Ami and the others yesterday?"
"Yeah it was me and I managed to get this back for you since it meant a lot."
He went into his pocket and pulled out the locket showing it to the pink haired girl.
"You got my locket back?"
"Yup, I figure I save you and Ino the trouble of getting it back and I didn't want ether of you to get hurt after hearing they had a knife."
Handing her the locket Sakura looked at the boy before her speechless on this act of kindness. She looked him in the eyes and couldn't help but smile as tears started to form in her eyes.
Naruto being clueless of girls was worried he did something wrong got worried and started to panic a little.
"Sakura what's wrong? Was that the wrong locket? If is I'm sorry..."
He didn't get to say more as he was suddenly enveloped in a hug crying tears of joy. Then what she did next was unexpected.
She kissed him on the check and backed away slowly standing next to her shock friend while smiling at the shocked Uzumaki.
"Thank you so much Naruto, this means a lot to me."
It was then the lunch bell rang indicating that it was ending and time for the students to return to class.
"I'll see you in class Naruto, later."
The pink haired girl waved and ran off with her friend following behind her. The blonde Uzumaki stood at the spot he was at and then he had a goofy grin on his face with one thought on his mind.
'She kissed me.'
He then made his way back to class.
End of Flashback...
Hinata was shocked at the affection Sakura showed Naruto that day and wondered if that was what had started her crush's feelings toward the student of Tsunade.
"Did anything else happen that day Naruto-kun?"
"No nothing else happened after that, except for playing a prank after school."
The Hyuga heiress smiled since she wondered what kind of trouble Naruto caused that day then asked him the question she first started with.
"So is that why you went after Sakura for so long because you brought her back that locket?"
"Yeah since then she was nice to me and we used to talk sometimes, and when I asked her out she would say no nicely."
This surprised Hanabi's older sister as she did remember seeing Sakura act kind toward the blonde once or twice and then started seeing her act hostile toward him whenever he used to ask her for dates, and brought up another question.
"If she was kind to you before why did she act mean afterwards?"
That caught the student of Jiraiya by surprise and before he could think of what it was both he and the lavender eyed girl heard a loud shout.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT TO BREAK UP?"
This caused both teens to jump slightly and look in the direction of where it came from. Hinata at first thought it was Tsunade but then realized it was the older sister of Gaara.
"That was Temari. I wonder what could have upset her."
Naruto knew the answer and could only hope that his friend would be all right and that Gaara wouldn't kill him. He then had one final thought.
'I hope you two will be okay and can still be together.'
Back to Shikamaru and Temari...
The son of Yoshino and Shikaku Nara could only gulp loudly as he felt like he was lined up in front of the firing squad to be executed. Especially with the look Temari was giving him.
Gaara's sister was pissed as she couldn't believe what her intended love interest had just said not so long ago and was ready to beat him over the head with her fan, but settled for glaring at him.
"You have about thirty seconds to explain why we need to break up right now!"
The young Chunin knew of his soon to be ex-girlfriends threats and held his hand up in a gesture asking her to let him speak.
"I'll need a little more than thirty seconds to tell you why and it is a good reason why I shouldn't be with you anymore."
"Start talking now slacker." Temari demanded as she was trying hard to keep calm and not strike out at him.
Shikamaru took a deep breath and looked her in the eyes with sad eyes.
"Do you remember when my sensei had died a couple days ago and later on I got revenge for him against the bastard that took his life?"
"I do, but what does that have to do with this?"
"The day before I went to get back at him, it was at night I decided to check on Kurenai Yuhi, who was my sensei's girlfriend, to see if she was okay since she was in a lot of pain from losing him."
Temari's expression softened as she remembered the distraught Jonin who had lost her lover. She waited for the student of the late Sarutobi to continue on which he did.
"When I meet up with her she was drinking a little and seemed to be intoxicated a little bit. I decided to have a talk with her about what happened. She didn't want to talk but I insisted we did just so she could get whatever she was feeling off her chest."
"How long did you two talk for?"
"We talked for a little while and then she decided to offer me a drink."
"You didn't drink did you?" Temari really didn't see Shikamaru as the drinking type, though she heard he started smoking as a tribute to his sensei.
"I said no at first, but then she went bringing up about if I was old enough to kill then I was old enough to drink. It was such a drag."
"Everything is a drag to you Shikamaru." Kankuro and Gaara's sister said while rolling her eyes then looked back at him asking, "You only had one drink with her didn't you?"
"I had MORE than one drink with her Temari. Kami-Sama I don't know how many I had with her. For a while Kurenai and I talked about our time with Asuma, our mission, and my team mates."
"Is that all that happened between you two?" She hoped to herself.
Shikamaru knew that the next few things he was about to tell her would more than likely cause bodily harm to either him or Kurenai and could only hope Temari would not go on the warpath on them. Sighing he went on to tell her the same thing he told Naruto today.
"I wish that was it, but it wasn't because the next thing I said to Kurenai caused her to cry."
"What could you of said that was stupid enough to make her cry?"
"I didn't say anything to hurt her feelings; I went saying something that my sensei once called her before."
"What was it?"
"I went calling her a rare beautiful flower that deserves to be loved and nurtured."
This surprised her as Shikamaru had never spoken to her like that in all the times they knew each other. While she was a little upset that he never spoke to her like that she figured it was due to the alcohol he had with her and hoped nothing else happened between the two that day.
"That's all that happened to you two right?"
Unfortunately for the blonde kunoichi the young man before her said something that he wished didn't happen.
"I REALLY wish that was all that happened because she kept crying and I started to panic so I did the only thing I could think of to try and comfort her."
"What did you do?"
"I...I kissed her Temari."
Gaara's sister became wide eyed and her mouth hung open gapping like a gold-fish. At first she wanted to believe that was it but in the back of her mind there was something else he wanted to tell her, while silently hoping that was the end of it.
Before she could utter a word he looked straight at her with eyes filled with sorrow, sadness, and regret.
"This is the reason we should never see each other and why I don't deserve you anymore Temari because after I had kissed her...We...we made love."
That did it. The older sister of Gaara felt like she had been stabbed in the heart with a rusted kunai after hearing those words causing her to fall to her knees with her head down, and shaking uncontrollably.
Shikamaru became worried and made his way over to her kneeling down to face her.
"Temari?" Shikamaru asked as he slowly reached one hand out to her.
Before he knew it the sister of Gaara reacted in a way the young Nara never thought was possible.
WHAP!
He staggered back and fell on his rear end while holding the right side of his face and looked in shock. She had just slapped him!
Temari slowly stood up and made her way over to him. If one were to look into her eyes one would think twice about angering the kunoichi.
Stopping just in front of him she reached down and ranked him up by the front of his vest until they were face to face, her eyes burning holes through him. Then she started speaking in a strained voice that was filled with hurt and anger, "Give me one good reason not to beat the shit out of you and Yuhi-san Shikamaru. One good reason and it better not be bull crap!"
Choji and Ino's friend knew she had every right to beat him within an inch of his life for what he did, but he could not see or allow Kurenai to be harmed in any way. So he spoke from the heart to his now former love interest.
"I can't give you any reason that is good enough to be spared from you, but all I ask is that you leave Kurenai alone."
"Why should I leave her alone after what you just told me?"
"I'm telling you to leave her alone because if you were to fight with her or attempted to harm her in any way shape or form, it would incite a war between our villages, and neither of us wants that."
The sister of Gaara and Kankuro couldn't deny those words as what he said was true. She wanted to so badly find the red eye Jonin and beat her senseless but knew it wouldn't help ether of their villages. There was also the fact that both she and Shikamaru were intoxicated.
With those thoughts she dropped him and stepped back to catch her breath before chosen her next words.
"Do my feelings mean anything less to you?"
"No Temari, your feelings aren't any less. I care for you more than anything else, which is why I told you about what I did and how I feel I don't deserve to be with you anymore or anyone else for that matter."
The Suna kunoichi could see in his eyes that he meant every word he meant and that was when something came to mind and decided to ask him about a certain red eye Jonin.
"What did Kurenai do to you when she came around? I'm pretty sure she must have been upset after finding out what you two did since you were both intoxicated."
"To be honest I was surprised by what she did and I didn't expect it."
Shikamaru then began to tell her about what happened between the two of them when they had both woken up from their night of love making. How he had apologized for what he did to her and meant to comfort her and not take advantage of her. What surprised Temari the most was his honesty and how she forgave him. He decided to leave out the part of where she wouldn't mind sharing him with Temari as he wasn't sure if the red eye Jonin was series or joking, and he didn't want to know how Gaara's sister would react to such a thing.
"So what are going to do about her?" She asked him since she figured after what happen he might start seeing somebody else.
"I don't know to be honest Temari, but I don't want to start a relationship with her because in all honesty I still feel horrible for what I did even though the both of us were drunk." He paused to gather his thoughts on what to say next, before continuing.
"Then there is you and me to think about. I honestly believe that you deserve better and I don't deserve to have you after what I did to hurt even if it was unintentionally."
Temari felt horrible for slapping him, but even worse after what he was suggesting between the two of them. Though she wanted nothing more than to find Kurenai and scream at her for what happen between them it would only lead to a fight which would no doubt cause a bad reaction between their homes. So with those thoughts in mind she decided to say her peace.
"If...if that is what you want to happen, then...I guess it's better this way."
Shikamaru could tell she was doing her best not to cry in front of him. He so wanted to go over to her and hold her in his arms but he was afraid he wouldn't let go and it tore him up inside.
"I'm going to leave tomorrow. I won't tell my brothers of this since I know how Gaara can be when he gets over protective." She paused and decided to ask him another question. "Who else knows about this besides us and Yuhi-san?"
"The only who knows this besides us is Naruto."
"When did he find out?" She asked shocked.
"I told him when he saw me today and got worried about what was wrong with me. He was also the one who gave me advice about this since he didn't want ether of us to feel horrible or anything bad happen to us." He responded to her.
She paused and thought about the blonde Jinchuriki who like her brother was treated horrible like he was and couldn't help but feel thankful for him since he cared a great deal about those close to him. She then looked at her former lover and asked, "Are you going to tell anybody else of this?"
"No I won't. As far as I'm concerned no one else needs to know and I feel it's better this way. I also believe Naruto won't breathe a word of this to anyone else so long as he lives." He gave her a sad smile. "I guess this is good bye for us?"
"It is you slacker. But don't think I'm going to forgive you just yet as I feel like kicking your ass around." She chocked back a sob and turned away from him before walking off leaving so he would see the tears going down her face.
When she was gone, the son of Yoshino and Shikaku Nara fell to his knees and began to weep for the woman who was most important to him and wished that he could undo on what just happened. In a choked voice he uttered these words.
"Temari...I'm so sorry...I should of told you I love you."
To Be Continued...
Authors Note
Well here is the third chapter to my story and I hope you all like this. I'm sorry I haven't posted anything as of late because my mom got out of surgery in November and I've been helping taken care of her. She is doing better now just so you know.
Now I did want to make this the final chapter but my friend King Kakashi pointed out it wouldn't be a good idea and gave me some advice which I thank him for, along with helping me out with this chapter.
As for my crossover stories with Devil May Cry I'll try to get to those as soon as I can. But right now I'm working on the next chapter of Rune Soldier Fury.
On the next chapter we will see Kurenai have an interesting conversation with Temari and the results between Naruto and Hinata. And trust me you'll like what I have planned for Temari and Kurenai. +Insert Jiraiya grin+
Happy New Year everyone!
