12. Just Right
He knew it wasn't anything special. It was a Saturday night, they'd both got out of work at a reasonable time, they'd cooked dinner together and now they were sitting on her sofa together; she was reading a book with her huge "old lady" reading glasses as she called them, while he watched something half-heartedly on the TV. He kept glancing at her intermittently just to have a look at her face, to see her eyes skimming over the page and absorbing whatever it was on there. He smirked to himself.
"Stop staring." she said bluntly, without looking up from the page.
"I can't." She looked up from her book. He had a cheeky smile on his face that said he was trying to annoy her. She couldn't help laughing at his face and sniggered as she prodded his thigh with her toes.
"Stop it! You're weirding me out." He grabbed her feet and pulled them across his lap.
"I just like looking at you alright? Now leave me alone." He spun his head round to the TV and stopped looking at her. He could feel her eyes on him but refused to look at her.
She just kept her eyes on his. She just needed to hold her laugh in for a little bit longer until he cracked. She saw him slowly turn his head back to her and that was that. They both burst out laughing so hard that Temari snorted.
"Attractive," he breathed out mid-laugh.
"You're an idiot," she said turning her attention back to her book. He loved his evenings in with her so much. He really felt like he'd never been more relaxed in his life than when he was just sitting with her in peace. He absent-mindedly ran his fingertips up and down her calf and went back to watching his programme on cooking.
There was a part of him that felt as though he never wanted any of his friends to see him like this; whipped, completely, and nothing like he'd ever been before. He was a bit embarrassed, if he was being completely honest, about the way he felt. But at the same time he wanted everyone to know just how much he loved this woman, just how blissfully happy he was.
He thought the world of her. He thought she shouted at him just the right amount to get him to do things with his life, he thought she gave him just the right amount of love to make him feel amazing but never to let him take it for granted. She was just tough enough to admit how she felt but be independent and strong. She was just right for him in so many ways. But that wasn't, he decided, something he needed to tell the world right away.
Because he had well and truly fallen for Temari, and there was nowhere he'd rather be, and no one he'd rather be with.