A/N: This is almost the last chapter. Thanks to everyone that reviews, favourites, follows or reads my story. I really like Kankuro in this last chapters, i hope you like him too.
A lot of things were going through Temari's head. She was now aware of everything the advisors told Yuuto. She wasn't sure why Yuuto told her all those secrets, but she was really thankful about it.
The next thing she had to do was tell Gaara.
"Gaara," she knocked his door.
Gaara was in his office. Being the Kazekage really keeps him busy, and luckily he was talking to the advisors. It was now Temari's turn to spill everything out.
Gaara made Temari to come in. She walked into the office with great confidence, so much that she didn't even look at the advisors or greet them.
Temari approached Gaara and said silently, "We need to talk,"
Gaara looked at her in confusion, but followed her outside.
In the hallway, Temari continued, "The advisors are trying to get me to marry Yuuto because they want to manipulate you. They think that you're softer, and that you'll lend them more power, and that I'm getting on the way of that plan,"
Gaara stayed expressionless, "Source?" He asked.
"Yuuto," she answered.
Gaara just soaked all the information in and nodded slowly. After a few seconds of thinking, he just said, "Follow me,"
They walked into the office again, and closed the door behind them. Gaara sat in his office chair as Temari just stood next to him. The advisors were still sitting down.
"We're cancelling the marriage," Gaara said. That fast choice was made blindly. He knew there was a possibility his sister was exaggerating, but Kankurō also told him a similar thing, and lately, she's been really weird, and maybe this was it. Gaara couldn't miss that chance.
Both of the advisors looked at each other in disbelief and laughed. Temari and Gaara continued with a serious face.
"It's a joke, right?" one of the advisors asked.
"No, it's not. That wedding is not happening," he said as he stood up from his chair. He walked to the door and opened it, "Actually, I've had enough. You're both fired," he said as he held the door for them.
The advisors stood up and looked at Temari. One of them took a kunai knife out, pointed it at her and said, "you're gonna regret this," the other advisor just stared at Gaara who was still holding the door for them, he started walking outside the office and called the other advisor who was still holding the kunai knife.
The one with the kunai knife looked at Gaara, then started walking to where he was. He then threw the kunai knife to Temari, who dodged it like a professional, and then he left. Gaara finally closed the door, leaving both siblings alone.
Temari and Gaara took a deep breath and sighed. Temari ran to her brother and hugged him like she had never done it before. She thought Gaara was behind the whole marriage plan, she thought he had done it as a way of improving Suna's economy.
"I'm sorry," Gaara said to his sister as he also held her in his arms.
"No, don't worry. I thought we were doing this marriage thing for Suna's development, but no," Temari said as she separated from her brother.
"No. I'm sorry for not being present. I should've know, or at least notice you weren't happy with this decision. Before being the Kazekage, I was your brother," he said.
"I just wanted you to be proud of me," she said as she started to cry.
"I am proud of you, I've always been," he answered as he approached to hug his sister.
Temari was happy with this outcome. Her wedding was cancelled. And hopefully, those advisors wouldn't get in their way again. She really had to thank Yuuto for telling her everything. Even though she wouldn't like to get married with him, she would still love having him in her life, he is a nice person.
After that conversation with her brother, she still needed to do some work. She was hoping Shikamaru would come to Suna to give her the documents. It would be the perfect timing, she was not engaged anymore, and she would now have the courage to tell him everything, the only problem was the possibility of Shikamaru not liking her back. Once again, she would put out her feelings and get rejected. It had happened to her two times now, that's why she settled with the whole dating whoever is best for Suna and all their royalty rules.
Temari went to her office and started arranging all the papers that had arrived, she ordered them in a way she would know if a document is missing or if it's doubled. Several hours went by, it was about to go dark when a shinobi from Suna arrived with an ANBU next to him. Temari took the documents from the ANBU and thanked him. This was it, the strategist from Konoha was not coming, she opened the files one by one and started arranging them. They were all there, but there was one document she didn't know where it belonged. It was a red Hokage folder with Konoha's seal. She was confused. She had ordered the villages to put the documents in different coloured folders so that she would be able to put them where they belonged easily, but this type of folder wasn't requested. Her curiosity was that much that she ended up opening it. There was an envelope inside it, it looked like money, maybe a letter, could be anything. After a few seconds of thought, she decided to open the envelope too, revealing a letter. Temari saw who it was from, she took a deep breath and closed the door with the letter still on her hands, she sat down on her chair. She saw the date and thought it was a mistake, but she proceeded to read it out loud anyways:
"Temari," she said, almost whispering.
She continued reading quietly, but at some points, her voice would get loud enough to hear a small whisper-like sound.
"I'm jealous," her eyes widened, she kept on reading, "I'm jealous because it should be me," her eyes started to water and her hands began to shake, "I need you," Temari left out a small squeak and started crying, she placed her hand on her mouth to keep any sound from coming out and finished reading the letter, "I'm sorry,"
Temari couldn't believe what she had just read. She wasn't supposed to read that letter, was she? Shikamaru sent that almost a year ago, but she's receiving it now. Why?
Temari was shocked with what was written inside that letter. This was a good sign, Shikamaru liked her, he loved her. But that was almost a year ago when she was with Yuuto. If only both of them would've said something, it would all be different now. At this moment, Temari isn't sure whether Shikamaru likes her or not. They haven't talked in a long time.
Temari closed her eyes and a tear fell off of her cheek, she took a deep breath while holding the letter near her heart. She then opened her top drawer and put that letter next to the rest of the letters she had from Shikamaru. She retained only the first letters, the ones that were cute and simple, not the pre meditated and cold letters, she then closed the drawer and stared blankly into nothingness.
It was now late at night, she finally had the courage to go out of her office, but instead of going to sleep, she went straight to her brothers. She didn't know what to do, those feelings he had for her could now be past, but what if they're not. She couldn't stay silent, not again.
She walked into Gaara's room with Kankurō on her side and explained the situation.
"I knew it!" Kankurō yelled as he clapped his hands as a sign of victory.
Temari and Gaara just stared at him, then laughed.
"I knew he loved you. I think it was so obvious that the only two people who weren't aware of it were you and him… and Gaara," Kankurō said.
"Thank you," Gaara answered as he chuckled.
"But what should I do?" Temari asked in a more serious tone, "I'm out of ideas. I don't know if he likes me now or not,"
"Ask him," Gaara suggested, "That was the problem since the beginning, your lack of communication and that you never talked about how you both felt,"
"Really? Gaara talking about feelings and communication skills," Kankurō said as he walked to the door, "too much,"
Kankurō opened the door and there was a shinobi from Suna with his fist up about to knock the door.
"Umm, goodnight. There's one shinobi that demands a document back," the shinobi said, standing tall and with his hands behind his back.
Temari walked to the shinobi and said, "That's with me. Most of the documents are complete, we're just missing a few more. That shinobi can't take back any documents, or else it's like their village is hiding some important information. Take me to the shinobi,"
Kankuro and Gaara stayed while Temari and the shinobi from Suna walked to the outside of the building where the other shinobi was. Temari was thinking about all the documents she had, and from where that shinobi could be. Her first guess was Kumogakure, mostly because the Raikage is always getting on her nerves. It wouldn't be weird for him to change his opinion on the chunin exams. Temari took a deep breath and hoped for the best when the doors from the entrance were opening, but nothing would've prepared her for this.