Days passed and she was due to go back home. As she stood at the Leaf's village gates, a certain lazy boy stood there with hands in his pockets and in a lazy stature.
He walks up to her a bit and opens his mouth to say something, she stops him from saying anything and she pushes him away a bit, gently. He stands there frozen in place and shocked that she pushed him away.
She looks at him standing there as if he's blocking her from leaving. She stops her walking and crosses her arms. She says in a harsh tone, "Move."
He gulps and sighs at her, "Man, what's up with you lately?"
She ignores him, "It's time for me to go home, so move. Now."
He looks away from her with a hurt expression on his face. He mutters, "And your not even going to say goodbye to me this time? What a drag."
She rolls her eyes, "How childish. You always find things to be a drag. Try getting a new word to describe things."
He looks at her and only sighs in response, "Stop being so troublesome. It's a perfect word to describe how your acting."
She ignored her attempts to tease and banter with her. Any other day she would humor him and continue this banter. Today is a different day. She isn't a mood to deal with his constant poking and prodding at him.
"Stop this now. Just let me leave."
He frowns, "Your in a hurry to leave."
She retorts back, "And your being annoying."
He shoots back with a stern expression on her face, "You may call it annoying, I call it caring."
"Then we have different definitions of the word annoying then. Let me rephrase it for you better then. You're annoying me."
When she sees how hurt he looks in his eyes, part of her feels bad. That same part of her wants to stop this facade and try to open up with him more. But at the back of her mind she's still afraid about what he'll think when she tells him.
She's tough, that's what people think about her. So her telling him that she's still afraid of her brother would sound crazy in some eyes. In her eyes that will show weakness.
She would rather not show any weakness. Especially to him. The lazy boy that makes her feel weak at times. So she puts up a mask.
She scoffs and rolls her eyes at his comment, "Why does it matter to you? It isn't like we're dating."
"I can still care about you, Temari. Something is wrong, so can you please tell me?"
She questions him with an annoyed expression written on her face, "Why do you care so much? Your not my boyfriend, so move."
He frowns, "Like I said before, I'm not a heartless person."
She narrows her eyes and accuses him, "Are you implying that I'm heartless."
He sighs, "You're such a drag, you know. I never meant to say that."
She snaps at him, "Then what are you trying to say?"
He sighs in frustration, "Can't I just care about you without a reason?"
She looks at him, "Everything has a reason. You can't do things absentmindedly."
He shrugs and yawns aloud, "Well why not? I want to live my life with meaning and overthinking everything sounds like a drag."
"Stop saying that word."
He looks at her confused, "What word?"
She only rolls her eyes at him, "You know what word I'm talking about."
He mutters and pushes her buttons by saying the word she hates the most, "You're such a drag."
She rolls her eyes, "Honestly, if your going to keep on calling me that it's a good thing we aren't dating."
He mutters and rolls his eyes as well, "Yeah your right, it is a good thing we aren't dating. Your cold and unfeeling at times."
She raises a brow at him and asks, "Did you say something?"
He looks at her again with a scowl on his face, "Yeah your right. It's not like we're dating."
She walks passed him, ignoring his gaze upon her. She says over her shoulder, "Goodbye, Shikamaru."
He stands there in the back and rubs the back of his head. He mutters, "Goodbye, Temari."
She exhales sharply as she walks passed him and out of the village gates. She walks as she makes her how back to the Sand.
As she walks back to home and she aks Kankuro, "Where's Gaara?"
He shrugs, Your home early."
She rolls her eyes, "Just answer my question, where is he?"
He smirks and pesters her more, "What's wrong sis, did you and your boyfriend get into an argument."
Well. he was half right. They did get into an argument, at least that what she thinks. It's hard to tell with him. He speaks in that same lazy tone of his no matter what he says. It's hard to tell when he's angry or not.
And another thing is certain. He is most definitely not her boyfriend. The mere thought that her brother would think that she would date someone like him is quite insulting.
She shakes her head, "He isn't my boyfriend."
Kankuro laughs and teased her more, "Sure..whatever you say.."
She fumes out in a mixture of annoyance and anger, "Just answer my question. Kankuro."
He still laughs and smirks at her. He shrugs, "Relax. Learn to take a joke at times. He's in his office. Why do you ask?"
"Because I want to spar with him."
He raises a brow at her, "Remember how well the last time you guys went to spar. You just stood there frozen in place freaking out over the first time the two of you spared."
"This time it's going to be different."
He looks at her with a confused expression written on his face, "What's so different about today, hm?"
She looks at him and just shakes her head and she makes her way towards Gaara's office. Today was the day she was going to get over her fear.