POOR SAKURA?
TEMARI
"Nee-San!?"
"What is it Em?"
"Can you come here?"
I walk into the bathroom, where Emma is showering.
"What's wrong?" I sit down on the bath steps. I know for a fact that Emma doesn't shower in the middle of the day unless she feels bad - not sick, but as in upset. Also, that if she called me in here, she wanted to talk.
"I feel bad about Sakura." Emma says. "If Neji Hyuga hadn't wanted to show me that room, none fo the others would have come and stayed up there."
"So then...isn't it Neji's fault?" I suggested.
"Nee-San-"
"Sorry." I reply. I sigh.
"Sakura probably feels like she has no friends now." Emma goes on.
"Well, she yelled at us all." I pointed out.
"Because we deserted her." Emma remarks.
"You're right, maybe we should apologize..." I hate saying I'm sorry' to anyone but my family and Emma.
"I'm going to tell Sakura it was because I went up there first." Emma decides firmly.
"What about Neji?"
"What about him? I don't wanna get him into trouble, because..." /
"Imouto, are you blushing!?"
"No!"
"You are!" She's switched the shower off and is standing in a towel in front of the mirror. I can see her red face from where I sit. "Do you like Neji?"
Softly, she says: "He is nice to me...I...I never got that from anyone but Nee-San, and Garaa and Kanky..."
Kankurou? Oh man, he's not gonna like this turn of events...
Of course, it should make sense, I mean Emma's known Kankurou since we were kids, she probably thinks of him as more of a big brother, since she and Garaa both call him Nii-San. Still, I'd always known there was something special between the two...
Until Neji came along...
Oh, why couldn't it have been anyone but him!?
Even Naruto would have...hmm, then again, maybe not...
All day I'm wondering how to tell Kankurou, and I can't face anyone until I do.
If I do, then I run the risk of saying it the wrong way. Kankurou is very sensitive.
I decide to take a walk, and that's when I run into Hinata.
"Oh, Temari!" She looks pleased to see me, but also a bit nervous. "Umm...can I, umm...talk to you...about..?"
"Emma and Neji?" I sigh.
Hinata's eyes widen. "How did..?"
I told her about the conversation I'd had with Emma earlier on.
"Neji, umm...he likes Emma..." Hinata mutters.
"I guessed as much." I reply. "I cannot figure Emma out anymore, sometimes. Like, does she think of Kankurou as her big brother, or does she like him? Why do they get along so well? What about Garaa? He and Emma get along as well. But now...Neji is..."
"I'm sorry." Hinata mutters.
"Don't be." I tell her. "It's not your fault. No one's to blame, except maybe God...aurgh, how on earth will this end?"
"With tears," Hinata says softly. "From one or all of them."
"I'm afraid you're right, Hinata." I say quietly. She's right.
"Poor Sakura." Hinata adds.
I stop and blink. "Haruno Sakura? Poor?"
Hinata glares at me.
"Ohhh," I realise. "You mean poor-poor, not money-poor…"
Hinata rolls her white eyes, and I grin.