Shikamaru
We slowly went down the street towards Ino and Choji's house. It was Friday's evening and the city was full of people, taking a walk with their families, tourists wandering with cameras or going out to party like we were. Everybody was staring at us. We were walking in silence, small smiles on our faces as we saw the girls and boys equally checking us out. It wasn't surprising – with such a beauty sailing besides me every man would want to be in my place and every woman wanted to look like her. She was the single most beautiful woman I have ever seen and the way she looked tonight was absolutely breath taking. I tried my best to avoid staring at her for too long as I knew it would result in scoffs and my compliments might lose its' power on her if I used them too often. She smelled so tasty I wanted to bury my face in her neck. I smiled, noticing a group of three men turning around to stare at her and suddenly felt the urge to put my hand on her shoulders and indicate that she's mine. Even though I knew she'd never be completely mine, even if we would be together. But now I felt proud simply by walking next to this amazing creature, trying to figure out why the most awesome things have to be the most troublesome.
We reached my best friend's house where he lived with my ex and rang the doorbell. Ino came to open the door and her mouth literally dropped when she saw us. She glanced from me to Temari and back and finally said:
- Oh dear god, you guys look amazing.
Temari only smirked to that, giving her a short hug, and I simply nodded, noticing she avoids my eyes. We entered the room full of our friends and had a long moment of being stared at, before everybody came to greet us and someone gave us some glasses of drinks. Temari was shining. She enjoyed this kind of attention and was smiling non-stop, while I started feeling quite uncomfortable and hurried to chat to the guys. Choji grinned at me with an evil smile so I didn't get my comfort there as well and all that was left was the beer, while the girls were elegantly sipping white wine. All of them looked pretty amazing today, but in my eyes Temari was the sun and I couldn't keep my eyes off of her. Once in a while I'd catch her glimpsing at me and she would quickly avert her eyes shyly. Shyly? Temari was never shy. I'd be a fool to not notice something happening here between us.