Insomnia
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Thanks to Kurayami no Sayokyoku, bakusensei and AriesFalcon for your reviews. For a starter like me I really need encouragement (just don't kick me if I fail to live up to good standards ;-) )
Here goes the next chapter…I just hope it doesn't suck that much…
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CHPT 2 Over the Breakfast TableThe clouds are floating peacefully in a bright blue sky. She was lying on a stretch of grass staring up into the sky. It was just another plain day out here, but then suddenly the clouds sped up to form a face against the vivid blue background…his face…with that lazy, unconcerned expression on his face…The wind started blowing all of a sudden and things suddenly became oddly blurred…She sat up and looked around, to see him standing not far from herself, leaning on a tree with his hands pocketed…
She felt strangely disorientated as she sat up and rubbed her eyes. Streaks of light were cast casually on the floor; it was already dawn. She couldn't have had more than 5 minutes of sleep.
Shaking her head, Temari leapt out of her bed and started chucking all the woeful things she had written on paper subconsciously the previous night into the bin.
Temari stared at her reflection in the mirror. She thought that her brother had been right; she did look gaunter than she used to be, and there were heavy shades under her weary eyes. I'm not as spirited and brisk as before, she thought. But this is my falt is it? It has nothing to do with him, really…
When she appeared at the breakfast table 5 minutes later, Kankuro and Gaara were already there. She recognized a furtive look I Kankuro's face. Trying to ignore this, she plodded herself down at the table and picked up her chopsticks.
'I say, Temari, you do have something on your mind these days, you appear wearier and wearier each day…' Kankuro struck up another attempt.
'Never you mind,' Temari said dismissively, prodding her food with her chopsticks. 'I told you to mind your own business.'
'Look, I don't like you being like this…'
Temari cut across him, 'But you won't even let me eat in peace!'
'I just thought…'
'If you are trying to wheedle stuff out of me then I'm not speaking to you!'
'I'm not…'
'You're unnaturally nosy, you bastard, stop asking me what is wrong with me, I'm perfectly fine!'
'I've let you have your own ways enough, Temari, I'm not putting up with it anymore!'
'Hark who's speaking! And I thought I'm the oldest here!'
'You're my sister, naturally I want to know what's going on…'
'Of course I understand that perfectly well, but---' She emphasized the words, 'I DON"T LIKE THE WAY YOU"RE DOING IT!'
Then without bothering to finish her breakfast, Temari stood up and marched across the room.
'Temari, wait.'
She stopped instinctively and looked across the room at Gaara.
'I've got a task for you to go into Konoha with plans for the alliance.'
Temari's eyes widened. 'But I thought you said that I had been removed from the post…'
'We're lacking messengers at the moment, and as you've been on the job for a long time, you ought to know the village perfectly well, so we're sending you as a substitute. I shall discuss the matter with you in detail this afternoon.'
Temari's heart raced. Alliance meant Konoha, and Konoha undoubtedly meant to her…She thought her brothers must have noticed the half astonished, half longing look on her face, because both were looking at her with a peculiar expression. Hastily rearranging her face, she said, trying to sound as indifferently as she could, 'Well, OK then.' Throwing a dirty look at Kankuro, Temari walked out of the room.
The door slammed.
Kankuro cast a look at the door, then he muttered to Gaara, 'She wasn't like it before. Now she freaks out every time I try to ask her a question. I wonder…' He looked at the wall thoughtfully for a moment, 'Hey, doesn't it have something to do with…you know…'
So that goes for Chapter 2! I hope it isn't too bad…well, R&R pls! And no flamers!
