Temari glared at the sky. Today was just not her day. Stupid Shikamaru.

After Izumo broke through the door he was confronted with a furious creased looking Yuki and a smirking smug Shikamaru. It was only then that she finally remembered just who Izumo was and an idea brewed at the back of her mind.

Temari pulled the most hurt expression she could muster and frowned up at Izumo, "How do I tell Hana chan that I was forced to… By a guy! To do… Do… Agh!"

Temari shoved past Izumo who looked fairly dumbstruck. The silence afterwards was deafening. OK, so maybe she had overplayed it a tiny-whiny bit.

Then: "SHIKAMARU NARA!"

She popped her head from behind Izumo to pull her tongue at Shikamaru and dashed off, grinning wildly. But not before she heard a very lazy voice mutter, "Would you believe me if I told you it wasn't what it looked like?"

She suppressed a laugh and rolled over and came face to face with a pair of sandals. Letting her eyes trail up the shorts, to the blue high collared t shirt to a pair of frowning dark eyes, she smiled. "Hello duck head."

Sasuke Uchiha scowled. Oops, Temari thought, I think I made a bad impression.

"Yuki Subaku."

Temari waited patiently. If she didn't get anything out of this, at least she became more patient. However whatever the Uchiha was about to say had to wait because all of a sudden a neon pink blur knocked him over.

"SASUKE KUN!"

Temari plugged her ears automatically, how is it humanly possible to screech at such a high pitch? She sat up and observed Sasuke trying ineffectually to push off the energetic pink blob straddling him. The girl had short pink hair tied up to the side with a long green ribbon, a pink dress with red seams with a long slit up the side. It went so high only the green shorts saved her from indecency. A pink sling bag lay lying forgotten at Temari's feet.

Cute style but not something Temari would ever go near with a burning pitch fork.

"Sasuke kun! Isn't it great that you have a day off? The guards had the gates shut because of the Akatsuki thingy!"

'Sasuke kun' didn't seem too happy, "So how did you get in Sakura?"

Sakura seemed exceedingly proud when she reported, "I climbed over the wall!"

Temari blinked in disbelief, the wall surrounding the school was at least two stories high! How the hell-? The Uchiha seemed equally baffled, but he had his priorities. "Sakura get off me."

"After I finally get to see you? No ways!"

Annoyed at being obviously ignored by the two, Temari stood up and picked up Sakura's bag. Towering over the two Temari grinned in an almost feral way when she hatched up a plan to get her afternoon back and help out Duck-head at the same time. Not that he will happy about it that's for sure. But then again it was his fault her nap was ruined in the first place. Her grin widened when she stalked across the short distance to them.

She cocked her head and offered a hand to Sakura who had sat up at Temari's approach. Innocent green eyes looked up at her, Temari was only faintly surprised that she didn't have pink eyes. Such naïveté was annoying, it made Temari want to punch her into the next dimension. But of course Yuki didn't do stuff like that, so Temari smiled at her and helped the girl to her feet. As poor Uchiha seemed a bit dazed, Temari simply pulled the guy to his feet by his collar and before he could protest, slammed him into the maple with her body.

Temari eyed the younger boy for a moment, Seems like he's shorter. Oh well, that means he will have to be uke then.

She slipped her head next to Sasuke's ear and stage whispered, "So Sasuke kun… Who's the girl?"

Resting her arm against the maple above his head, she tilted his chin with her finger 

so he was looking at her. She couldn't quit grinning when she saw realization dawn in those eyes. It's really amazing how wide humans' eyes can go.

"You never told me you had a thing for girls."

This was strictly true. The emotionally constipated bum never mentioned anything of the sort. A soft thud caught her attention and Temari turned her head to see the pink girl's body lying limply on the ground. Temari let the Uchiha go and dropped the pink sling bag onto her stomach.

"Well, that's a first. She fainted with a bleeding nose… Just like a manga."

The back of her neck prickled and she turned around to see a rather pink faced Uchiha. It was quite amusing really. "Yes? Sasuke kun?"

He more or less growled at her. Then she heard a yell as a blonde boy bounced up to them. Behind him the rest of the school seem to be pouring out. Catching hold of himself the Uchiha straightened up and marginally took down a notch of his glare. Now he only looked like he wished to wipe her existence off the face of the earth instead of wishing to skin her alive and marinate her organs.

"Hello Uzumaki."

The boy grinned at Temari and looked over at his classmate. His reaction was hilariously overboard, "Whoah! Who killed your puppy, Sasuke?"

"Hn. Maybe you should take care of Sakura."

Naruto blinked then looked around. "Sakura chan? Where? Where?"

"Underneath you, you idiot of note!" With that declaration, the sickly sweetness that was Sakura transformed into a rather interesting woman. To be able to kick like that when a guy was standing on your hand is pretty cool. Compared to the fawning Sakura, Temari much preferred this one.

She goes on the list of suspect bipolar along with that Shikamaru and Tsunade. Temari looked through the gush of kids flowing out of the large School Hall, for a certain redhead and face painted Eskimo. Spotting them she didn't call them as they had already detached themselves from the mass and were making their way towards them. She frowned a bit as the others (Kiba and Kiba's friends) were also doing the same. However she was very, very glad a certain Nara was nowhere in sight.

Sasuke huffed and turned towards the cafeteria without a word, Sakura squealed and followed happily, Naruto, recovering from Sakura's fist, gazed after them for a moment before turning to Temari. "What did you do? I think he hates you almost as much as he hates his brother."

Temari blinked at him, "He… Hates his brother?"

"Yeah." But the silly ass didn't say anything else, seemingly content to stare at her. So they stared at each other awkwardly for five minutes until the rest of the gang reached them. Temari glanced at Gaara and Kankuro, "Well, this has been a waste of time. I'm sure Tsunade wouldn't mind if we left now. We've done enough socializing that should leave us scarred for life."

She nearly jumped as Naruto whooped and grinned, "I win!"

Kiba stared at Naruto, "You win what?"

The blonde smiled, "Stare eyes!"

Shino stared at the boy for a long moment before, "Hn."

"You playing stare eyes by yourself again?"

"No Dog-boy! With Yuki. He's pretty good too. But I win cause I'm the best at stare eyes!"

Temari twitched and grabbed Kankuro by the arm, "Gaara we're going home. I've had enough."

Gaara followed obediently.

…

And so did the others. Temari finally figuring out that not only Gaara was following her as, the group behind her methodically waved at people they knew, yelled, jeered, pushed each other around and generally acted as though they were on a freaking field trip. Needless to say it didn't take too long for her to figure it out. "What the fuck! Go home! Or to your dormitories or whatever! What the fuck do you think you are doing!"

From under her arm, Kankuro lifted his arm cautiously, "Erm, Yuki? I think they are following us."

Snarling at him, Temari dropped her brother unceremoniously onto the ground. They had reached the school gates and she was refusing to lead the whole group to their apartments. "Da fuck! Kankuro Subaku, I am going to maul you if you don't get your brain in gear!"

Gaara coughed quietly. Temari turned around to see him pointedly staring at something outside the large gates. Waiting innocently outside the gates was a sleek black Limo. And next to the Limo was-

Kankuro gaped, "Is that Baki?"

Baki nodded at the trio and slid back into the driver's seat. The passenger's window rolled open slightly just in time for the siblings to catch a glimpse of a red head looking back at them when the car drove off.

This time it was Temari's turn to gape. "Sasori?!"

Chouji stopped stuffing his mouth for once and looked at the new students.

"Who is Baki?"

Kankuro stood up from where Temari had dropped him, brushing himself off somberly, "He used to work for our family."

Kiba looked rather impressed.

"How do you guys know an Akatsuki member?"

Gaara nodded, "Sasori is our cousin."



Kankuro and Gaara shared a look. And he's Temari's fiancé.