Remembering

When she saw him for the first after she came back he stared at her for a long time before he realized it really was her. He hadn't expected her ever tocome back. He still remembered that day he had returned her headband to her with some emotion akin to sadness. Maybe when he had done that, he had thought she would be back, but when a year had passed and still she had not returned he began to doubt she would ever return here.

But then, she was there and he didn't know what to say to her. And then she walked past him, on her way to see the Hokage, escorted by two jounin. He wondered, did she see him? Did she ignore him?

Last time he saw her she'd told him she didn't like him. And he didn't like her.

'We don't even like each other!'

He hated remembering.