Ch. 11 The Letter to Temari

Temari and Rain returned to the room and they went back to their business. Rain returned to her fortress of documents and Temari locked herself in her room and flopped on the bed. When she flopped on her bed, she accidentally fell off and hit the floor. Next thing she knew, she was staring underneath her bed. Just then she noticed something under her bed.

She reached for the object and pulled out a letter that was addressed to her. "What's this?" she said to herself. She opened it.

Dear Temari,

By the time you probably get this, I will already be gone. I wanted to give you this letter but I got too nervous to do it in person, so while you were sleeping; I slipped this under your bed.

Tomorrow is our big mission and probably will be my last. At this time, I have taken the chance to slip out of bed and sit under my tree. The moon is so beautiful out here, much like yourself, I wish I could show you it right now. I've reflected upon the past and I want to apologies the way I acted sometimes when I was living with you. I was up tight, shrewd, and sometimes unbearable. However I feel concerned about the feelings toward each other may have been started out on the wrong foot. The truth is that I have had strong feelings towards you ever since we became good friends and began to know each other all those years ago. You made me happy during my stay in Suna; you did so much for me. I will never forget that. When I felt lost, you made me feel like I had a home. Now that relations between our two homes have been patched up due to tensions over me, I know now that I have two homes that I can always go home too. To be honest, I wanted to say that if I made it out alive from this mission, I'm leaving. Heh, after all I am the Outcast Ninja. I'll just be a wonderer, I'll probably settle somewhere else, you might see me pop in every once and a while. I would just travel the world as the outcast that I am, however I would return one day and after a long thought, I decided that if and when I would return that day, I would ask you to marry me. We could live in Suna happily together; maybe settle down with some children. Though I also did plan on leaving and when I did, leaving you in Shikamaru's care. I know you two would be so happy together. If you ever got married and had kids, can I become their godfather? I would protect them as if they were our own. Though I'm sorry that I'm filling you with such joyous fantasies, I know I will not see you again for quite some time whether I die or not. There is no fighting it, however, as much as I would love to have you for myself, I have seen my life ahead of me and it won't allow me to have you. Please understand if that is the most you can get from this. You will always mean so much to me, that much is sure. You are the exact crazy girl that I've always asked for. You're the best. Well, I'm getting tired now; I hope you will get this letter.

Love Don

Temari put down the letter and smiled. It looks like it all fell into place, she was happy and he was gone like he had said. Though she had the feeling that there was something missing. She put that thought in the back of her mind and went about her business. She made herself some food and then began to actually pause and look at her life and think of what she did and wanted to do.

Temari got up and walked into the main room where Rain was. "I'm going to head back to Suna, are you going to be fine here alone?" Rain looked up. "I'll join you. I'm done here anyway and I put a protective jutsu on the lock and room so that way if someone tried to break in they will be zapped and if they do manage to break in, they will be hit harder by another jutsu."

They packed up and left the room. They left Konaha and headed home to Suna.