The gate of Konoha could be seen faintly. Her teal eyes flashed under the blazing sun. Her enormous fan was strapped onto her back, while she was holding a suitcase with her hand. She took another look behind her, then smiled to herself. Of course no one was following her, she knew it everytime. Shaking her head, she realized that she has reached the gate of Konoha. She stood under the shade of the colossal door. 'Damn, he is late again,' she thought to herself, but couldn't help to smile. After fifteen minutes, she was sitting on her suitcase, looking at the village road impatiently. "Hey," then she heard his voice. He smiled lazily. Her eyebrows frowned, but a smile remained on her face. She said snappily to him. "You are late, again." He grinned. "No, you are early. Stand up." She stood up, and he took the suitcase. "Let's drop this off at the hotel, then I will take you to the Hokage." She walked next to him. A smile crept onto their faces. "I want to ask you something," he suddenly said. "It is kind of troublesome." Temari raised her head. "Go on," she said, with slight anticipation in her air. "Erm... how should I ask Ino out?" He said, a shade of pink appearing on his face. "Well, er, since you are her good friend, I guess you know what she like, do you?" He smiled with a silly look. Temari sighed silently, so quiet he could not hear. "Well, she said she likes you last time we talked, so er...I guess that you will be fine, in whatever ways you ask." She gave him a reassuring smile, and hit him on the back. "Don't worry there crybaby," she grinned. He yelped lightly, smiling. "Thanks," he said. "Well er, why don't you go now? I have been here quite a lot of times, so erm, I guess I could find my way to the hotel and the Hokage's office." She smiled and said. "Really? Thanks." He smiled and then vanished. Temari sighed again and picked up her suitcase, walking alone towards the hotel. She suddenly stopped, and turned to the Hokage's office.
"Ino!" He yelled out towards the blonde. She turned, her baby blue eyes flashed under the sun. "Hi Shika-kun," she smiled. He scratched his head. 'Erm, do you want to go out with me, like erm... you and me, the two of us?" His face was like a tomato. She chuckled and nodded. "So, pick me up at the hospital at six today, Shika-kun?" She smiled. He was left stood there, as she walked away, leaving her air of jasmine fragrance along with him. He smiled to himself. Then suddenly he saw Temari, leaving in a quick pace. "Hey, troublesome woman," he said, running towards her. "Er... hi." She said. "I thought you were resting in your hotel room or something." Then he took a quick glance at her suitcase. "You're leaving?" He asked, looking rather amazed. "Well...yeah," she said. "Since I am more needed in my country than here, so I have to go back ASAP." Then He took her suitcase from her. "Well at least let me accompany you, I am your guide and man should always help a woman in need." He smiled. She smiled, and walked along with him. "So you got a date with Ino, right?" She smiled and asked. "Yeah, where do you think I should take her?" He asked back, looking rather confused. "Well considering that it's Ino, why not take her to that new restaurant, I bet she likes it." He smiled at the answer. "Gee, thanks." He replied. Then they stopped at the gate. "So...erm I guess I will be seeing you later, crybaby?" She smiled. He frowned for a second, then smiled with a reply. "Tch, troublesome woman. See you later." Then he left, walking back into the village. She took the suitcase and step by step walked away from the village. This will be her last time that she will meet him in the village. Next time, it will be on the battlefield.
"So you have delievered the letter of our Daimyo," Gaara said calmly. "Yes, Kazekage-sama." She replied, looking out of the window. "He was really angry about the Konoha Daimyo's son's refusal in marrying his daughter, and declared him to be a nemisis. This mark the beginning of the war." He looked up at his sister. "Are you sure, you will be fine?" Temari gave him a reassuring smile. "Don't worry, I shall die serving you, Kazekage-sama." Then he nodded. "I shall give you a place in the ANBU assualt unit, so you may hide your face , from your former friends." She did a little bow. "Then I must sharpen myself, and kill in the name of the Wind Nation." Then she walked outside of the office.
"War has been declared by the Wind Nation towards us," said Tsunade. "We will not fail our Daimyo, and we will not lose." They nodded. "Shikamaru, you stay behind with Ino, the rest of you may go." The others walked out of the office. The couple stood in front of the Hokage. "As I recall, you two had a strong attachment to a suna ninja, Temari." She said. "As a warining, I wish to notify you two that, from the intelligence we gathered, she has been appointed as the head of the Suna ANBU assault team. Thus there is a great probrability that you will encounter her on the battlefield, and you might have to terminate this...threat. Do you understand?" The two nodded reluctantly. "I knew it is hard to do so, but remeber that we kill in the name of the Fire Nation. You may leave now." They walked outside. Ino held Shikamaru's hand in hers. "I can't believe that suddenly we are at war." Shikamaru smiled faintly. "This is fate, always unpredictable. God knows what will happen," he said. In his thought, the images of Temari appeared over and over. 'How could I kill her?' He thought to himself. Then he looked upon the sky. 'Damn, there are no clouds today.'
A Konoha ninja was strapped onto a chair with chains. A tall slender female ANBU, with the mask of a demon, slapped him on the face so hard that he yelped. "Now tell me, where is the camp of you Konoha ninjas?" He spat. "I will never tell you, you suna bitch!" She slapped him again. "Tell me, now." She said coldly, a kunai was in her hand. "If not, you could say farewell to your eyes." He heard a cold chuckle. "For I shall gorge them out, and spray salt onto your eye sockets." She laughed as horror turned his face into a sheet of white paper. She placed the kunai onto his eye lid. "Now, would you tell?" He took a gulp and said nothing. "I will take that as a 'no', then." She then swiftly pushed the kunai into the eye and cut around it, then she stuck her fingers into the wound and pulled. His screams filled the room, some of the ninja turned around, refuse to look at the blood and gore. Then she pulled out a bloody sphere and cut off the optic nerve. "I wonder how could you continue your life without your eyes." She laughed coldly. "Now would you tell?" She said with fake pity as she sprinkled rock salt onto the bleeding wound. He screamed. "Now tell, or you will lose the other one as well." Then she removed her mask. He stared at her teal eyes with horror. An ANBU entered the room and whispered at her ear. Then she smiled at him, her eyes cold. "Well, we have discovered the campsite, thus you are of no use to us." Then she placed the bloody kunai onto his other eye lid. "Memorize my face, for you will see it later in hell." She laughed and pushed the kunai deep into his eyes. Then swiftly she gorged out his other eye. "Leave him near the Konoha campsite." She ordered. "We will show them our brutality." Then she dipped her blood-covered hand into the sand. "We attack at dawn."
"Shikamaru-san," said a ninja that stumbled into the tent. "We found Daisuke." His face was covered with tears and horror. "He...they gorged out his eyes and hung them around his neck." Shikamaru nodded frowning. "And, there is a note attached, which is addressed to you." He handed over the note. It was a piece of paper covered in blood and mud. Then he opened the note.
Shikamaru,
You have to understand that we have to serve our nations and we must kill in the name of it. I have been ordered to kill you, as well as you were ordered to kill me. I believe that we shall meet at the battlefield tomorrow, before that I should tell you that I will have no mercy on you or the others. And I guess, we will see each other later, crybaby.
Temari (The troublesome woman)
P.S. I love you
He cluctched the note in his hand. 'She loves me?' He thought to himself. 'If she loves me, how could she kill me?' Then suddenly he had a playback of the memories with Temari. 'Now the million dollar question is, do I love her?' He walked back and forth around his tent. Ino walked inside, and hugged him. "Good luck tomorrow, Shika." Then she kissed him on the lips. He could not feel love, suddenly he was struck by an epithany. "I am sorry, Ino. I don't think what I have for you is love." He said to Ino, whose tears are appearing at the rim of her baby blue eyes. "You are my best friend. But I don't think this is love, this is friendship." He said. "I had a feeling that I won't be able to come back tomorrow. So, I beg that you move on." Ino smiled a bit. "It is Temari, isn't it?" She said. "After all, we are buddies right?" She slapped him on the chest. "Good luck, Shikamaru. And live." She smiled at him.
Then suddenly a loud explosion disrupted them. "We are under attack! Battle positions everyone!" Then they all rushed outside. Then he saw her, covered by a demon mask, her dirty blonde hair let loose and was blown by the wind. "Temari," he said softly. Then he heard her whisper his name. "Shikamaru." And she leapt from the tree which she was standing on. Then with a swept of her fan, she knocked Shikamaru on his feet. "Aren't you going to fight?" She asked with a smirk. Shikamaru smiled and leapt onto the air, throwing kunais at her position. She dodged with ease. A gust of wind stormed towards Shikamaru. He avoided the wind and then punched Temari. She blocked and kicked him. He produced a kunai and tried to slash her. She held another in her hand, and blocked. "In reply of your letter," he said, as he blocked another attack. "I wish to say that I love you too." Temari was silent. Then she was pierce through by his kunai. He was stunned for a second. He pulled her towards him, and removed her mask. She smiled and touched his face with her hand, while the other stabbed him with her kunai. "Now we are even," she smiled and said. "You troublesome woman." He said and kissed her on her lips. "Why did you do that?" He asked, with sadness in his eyes. She smiled at him. "I told you before," she coughed out blood as she said. "That women are very selfish. So selfish, they want to be with the one they love all the time. To me, it... means that I want to be with you, even in hell." Shikamaru held her hand in his, as blood slowly rolled down his wound. "Troublesome woman, we will be fine," he said. "No, my kunai is poisoned, its almost time for both of us. I have prepared to kill for my nation, but I only prepared to die for you," she said. He smiled at her. "You troublesome woman," then he coughed out blood and hugged her closer. "So, I guess I will see you later, crybaby?" She smiled. "You will always be mine." Then she closed her eyes. He smiled. "Tch troublesome woman, troublesome...Temari." Then he closed his eyes. Her body fell onto his, both of them smiling, as if they were sleeping. The sun rised from the far east. The clouds are white, and wind blew across the battlefield. Everything seemed to be stopped. Everything seemed so peaceful, so perfect.
The End.
Author's note:
I just feel like typing it so don't kill me.
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