It had been a while since she last came into the Leaf. And when she finally went back to the village she waited at the village gates for the lazy boy to lazily great him. But he didn't. She stood waiting for him but he never came. She was getting annoyed and angry.
She grows angry both at him and herself. Him for stooding her up like and her. For her for getting so riled for him not greeting her. It's almost as if that she is starting to fall for the lazy boy.
She exhaled sharply as she mumbled to herself, "Get a hold of yourself Temari. Don't fall for him."
She sighed loudly as she entered the village gates and walked through the streets looking for Shikamaru. She looked and looked until she finally found him.
He was sitting on the grassy ground and leaning on the tree. When she found him she walked up to him.
She mumbled to herself in order to calm herself down from the rising anger when she saw him looking at the clouds, "He better have a good reason."
He looks down and sees her. He simply shrugs and takes a long puff from the cigarette from his mouth. She stands there shocked at his action. In the three years of her going to the Leaf, she has never seen him smoke like that.
She walks up to him and sits down in front of him and looks into his dark brown eyes. He shrugs and puts out the cigarette in the ground and she narrows her eyes at him. Expecting him to answer her, he just yawns in her face.
She looks away refusing to meet his gaze and says, "You didn't greet me at the gates, like you always do."
He says in the lazy tone of his, "Why does it matter, not like we're dating."
She scoffs, "I said I was sorry."
"Doesn't matter, troublesome woman. Those words hurt."
She sighs, "Shikamaru.."
He sighs too, "Why do you care about me so much, Temari? It's not like we're dating."
Ouch. Those words stung like a poison blade in the heart. She imagines this pain is what he felt when she first said those words to him. She shakes that feeling away and looks back at him. She doesn't say a word to him and examines what he does next.
She sees him reach into the pocket of his vest and he pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. He puts the cigarette in his mouth and lights with the lighter.
She looks at him deep in the eyes. Her teal eyes starting into his dark brown. Without thinking about her actions she reaches towards him and pulls the cigarette out of his mouth. She puts it out in the ground, all without breaking her stare at him.
He glares at her, "Temari-"
She cuts him and without thinking she says, "If I died would you wear a giant fan on your back?"
His glare softens and he looks away from her glare. He asks in a confused tone, "What?"
She reaches a hand to to his cheek and gently pulls him to look back at her. Her hand still on his cheek. She calmly repeats herself, "If I died would you wear a giant fan on your back?"
He answers her in a soft tone, "I don't fight with a fan, so why would I carry one around?"
She withdraws her hand from his face and pulls at the grass. She sighs, "Then why do you smoke?"
"To remember my sensei."
She bluntly said to him, "Would he want you to sulk around and smoke like a chimney?"
He sighed and leaned back on the tree. He rolled his eyes, "Lay off Temari. I'm not in the mood to deal with your troublesome self."
Her eye twitched in annoyance at his words. But still she remained calm and said, "You act of if your the only that has dealt with death before."
His eyes widen at her words and sits forward and looks at her, "I didn't-"
She glared at him. She felt something snap inside of her and she blurted out, " My father viewed my brothers and I as mere weapons and not his children, my mother died giving birth to Gaara, and you don't see me sulking around."
He looks at her with eyes widen unsure of what to react with the words she said.
She resumed her rambling, "My father was fine with having my mother die to make his sick wish of making a living weapon."
He looked at her and said her name, "Temari you can-"
She went on, feeling her face get dampt from the tears streaming down her face, "And I would hate my brother would taking my mother away, she was the only one in my life that would ever show me love and kindness."
He gulps and pulls her into his arms, hugging her tight, and keeping her close. He pats her back and whispers sweet things into her ear.
Moments passed and she's still in the hug and her crying soon stops. She pulls from the hug and gently pushes him away.
He looks at her with a concerned expression, "Are you okay?"
She sniffles as she wipes her tears. She ignores his words and starts while looking directly into his eyes,"I know how sad it can be to lose someone you care about dearly, but all your doing is making yourself worse by pushing away the people that care about you."
His hand touched hers and he holds it. He looks into her eyes, "Temari...I didn't know about-"
She blushes as his hand holds her hers and with one hand. She covers his mouth her index finger she leaned in close, and whispered to him, "Promise me you'll stop smoking okay?"
He nods. She smiles and kisses him on the cheek.
He blushed as she got so close to him and blushes even more when he felt her lips on his cheek. And he smirked a bit, "Hey Temari?"
She dropped her finger and looked at him, "What is it?"
A sly smirk crept onto his face as he kissed her lips softly and quickly pulled away. He smiles at her and says in a soft tone, "Thank you for opening up for me. It was probably a hard thing to do, but I acceparite it."
She looked away from as a blush grew on her face. She touched her lips and laughed a bit, "Like I care, remember we aren't dating."
He sighed, "So let's change that"
She looked back at him, blushing a deeper shade of red, "What?"
He smiles and looks up at the clouds, " Wanna go out on a date?"
She blushed harder and looked at him. She can't help but to smile and nods, "Of course, lazy ass."
He sighs, "I asked you out on a date and you call me a lazy ass? What a drag you are."
She laughs and smiles and so does he. She feels so happy around him. So happy and at ease, for once in her life.
The next couple of days are a blur to her. Everything happened so fast and she felt as if she blinked and she found back at the village gates with him kissing her goodbye.
She smiles and hugs him. He hugs her back and whispered in her ear, "Why can't you stay?"
She pulls back from the hug and rolls her eyes, "Maybe next time, but not now."
He yawns, "Will you at least come back?"
She laughs, "I always do."
He smirks, "Good. Well, see you next time. Trouble."
She frowns and pretends to pout, "After all this, I'm still troublesome?"
He simply shrugs at her words, "Correction. I called you trouble not troublesome."
She deadpans, "Is there a difference?"
He laughs, "Well of course. Trouble is a nickname that I gave him and troublesome is how you act at times."
She smiled at him some more and crossed her arms. She rolled her eyes at him, "Trouble and troublesome still sound like there the same thing."
He shrugs his shoulders and yawns, "You're such a drag, Temari."
She smirks, "And you're my idiot, Shikamaru."
"You should get back home then. Don't Gaara to assemble a search party for you, do you?"
She nods along with his words and remarks, "Well my brothers and I just recently started to get along with each other. I don't think it would be wise to test their limits."
He nods and smiles at her, "Right. So, see you soon. Trouble."
She scoffs at the nickmane she is given by him and just rolls her eyes. She turns around and makes her way back home.
She finds her way back home and she goes to her room and falls asleep on her bed. She falls asleep with a content smile on her face.
Morning comes and she is rudely awoken by someone poking her sides. She opens an eye and sees Kankuro's grinning face as he waves at her.
Sleepy and groggy she says, "Kankuro?"
He grins and speaks, "I know your secret."
Her eyes open wide open, "What?"
"You know the one."
"I'm sorry. Please rephrase that, I'm afraid I don't speak idiot."
Her brother sits on her bed and laughs a bit. She lays on her back looks at the ceiling. She rubs her eyes to wake herself up some more. She sighs, "What are you doing in my room?"
Kankuro smirks, "Ah man sis, guess what a little birdie just told me."
She sits up and glares at her brother, "Little birdie?"
"Well it wasn't really a birdie. It was more of a fox and he was talking to Gaara, not me."
She sits up a bit snaps, "Kankuro, what did I tell you about eavesdropping?"
He smirks, "How many times will it take you to learn, sis? I don't listen."
She sighs, "Did you come into my room and woke me up just to annoy and peser me?"
"When you put it like that way...yes I did!'
She sighs in annoyance as she pinched the bridge of her nose.
He laughs some more and smirks. He teases, "So you and shadow boy, huh?"
She scoffs, "What about it?"
He shrugs, "Just making conversation geez Temari, chill out."
She sighs and rubs her eyes again, "Dealing with you is exhausting at times."
She huffs and lays back on the bed. Her head being buried by her hands trying to hide her blush. She shoots back "At least I have a lovelife, brother."
Kankuro fell down on her bed and grabbed his shoulder pretending to be hurt. He laughs, "Ouch, you've wounded me with those words."
She giggles a bit and resumes teasing her younger brother, "Its true. Lose the makeup and the dolls and maybe you'll find yourself a girl."
He frowns and glares at her, "I told you a thousand times. It's not makeup, it's war paint."
She grins and laughs, "Then loose the dolls."
"They're not dolls! They're puppets!"
She laughs a bit louder this time, "Someone is getting defensive!"
"You say dealing with me is exhausting at times? Dealing with you is annoying at times."
She yawns a bit, "Are you done harassing me?"
"No. I have more teasing to do."
She sighs loudly and turns on her on her side and pulls the covers over her head.
Kankuro stops his laughing and asks in a serious tone, "Do you love him?"
She lays back on her back and raises a brow at his question. Confused, she asks, "Why do you ask?"
He shrugs as he looks at the ceiling of her room, "Brothers are suppose to look out for their sisters. So. Do you love him."
She pulls the covers down and she looks at the ceiling of her room as well. She nods and answers him, "I think so."