In Between The Lines

by glockcourage

A/N: Just read in between the lines. A couple of drabbles and some I can't seem to control. Uhm things are really getting out of hand. Ratings vary. No spoilers. Complete.

21. Crisis

Part 2

Crisis

Temari flicks the lighter's cover open and close, a smile on her lips.

Lazyass, is asking me tomorrow.

Grinning to herself, she turns on her bed sideways, tucking her hand clutching the lighter beneath her pillow. She closes her eyes and thinks about the next day.

-o0o—

On her way to meet Shikamaru, a puppet's detachable limbs suddenly attack Temari out of nowhere.

"Dammit! Not now Kankuro!" Temari shouts, sliding backward dust smoke billowing at her feet, arms outstretch for balance, to be able to avoid the puppet's appendages.

"Oi ever since we arrived in Konoha, you haven't trained" Kankuro grins, his chakra threads at a ready and Karasu creaks.

"I train. Now go away" Temari snaps, glaring at her brother.

"Not if you are always with that lazy chunin" Kankuro replies and resumes to attacking Temari.

"Kankuro!" Temari continues to evade the puppet "Dammit stop!"

Kankuro just laughs.

Temari with a glance towards the direction of her and Shikamaru's meeting place; doesn't notice the attack from behind her. It throws her up in the air before she plummets face down.

"That does it!" Temari spats out the dirt and grass trapped in her mouth as she stands up. Temari glowers at her brother and follows his every move, while her hand reaches for Shikamaru's lighter inside her right side pocket to transfer it to her secret pocket since it is more secure. Her hand unable to grasp anything, she turns her head from Kankuro to take a look into her pocket. Opening the pocket hole wider with her left hand while her right does the rummaging, she still comes up empty.

Temari swivels her eyes to Kankuro, a petrified expression on her face.

"Wh—what?" Kankuro seeing the look on his sister's face and then her odd behaviour of going down on her knees on her fours, to poke around the shrubs all the while murmuring "I fell down near here, so it's just here"

"Oi" Kankaru addresses his sister's behind "We're in the middle of training"

Sitting on her heels and turning around to face her brother, Temari with her eyes gleaming, shouts "NO, WE ARE NOT TRAINING. WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A CRISIS SO BIG THAT SHIKAMARU IS LIABLE TO KILL ME... SO MOVE YOUR ASS TO—TO HELP ME!"

3/19/11

A/N: Review guys?