Temari frowned when Sakura dropped her chopsticks for the third time. "Are you alright?" She asked. "Is your hand bothering you?"
Sakura frowned at her wayward hand. "I'm fine." She told Temari. "It's my hand here that has a problem. It's been acting up all day. Maybe I'm nervous about something." She said with a grin.
"You should get it checked out." Temari said.
Aki laughed a little. Temari turned to Aki with a glare. "What?"
"Telling the best medic in Suna to get her hand looked at – it's kind of funny don't you think?" She said.
Temari shook her head at Aki. "It's the people who take care of others who take worst care of themselves." She said wisely. "That's one thing I've learned from life."
Aki nodded in mock solemnity. "Yes, I see." She said, stroking an imaginary beard. "Truly, your words are wise."
Sakura sighed. "Maybe you're right. Maybe I'll get someone to look at it."
"Good."
"Where is my cousin these days?" Aki asked, now that the matter of Sakura's hand was resolved. "She never joins us for lunch anymore."
"Of course not; she's off spooning with Setsuna I'm sure." Sakura said with an airy wave.
Aki made a face. "Somehow Setsuna doesn't seem like the spooning type."
Temari grinned and nudged Aki. "That's why he probably is. When he gets fired up I'm sure he's most passionate. The ones who are coldest in life are hottest in bed. Like Gaara, right Sakura?" She said.
Sakura stared at Temari, a little shocked at what she had just said. Temari grinned at Sakura for a moment, and then slowly her mouth dropped open, as she too realized what she had done. She glanced at Aki, and then back at Sakura. "Oh my god, I'm sorry!" She said. "I wasn't thinking – I mean..."
Aki burst out laughing. When Temari and Sakura just stared at her she held up her hands and grinned at them. "Oh come on guys! As if I didn't know!" When they still didn't say anything she went on. "I mean, they lived together in Konoha for how long? I went to see them there, it was pretty obvious even back then."
"But we weren't together when you came." Sakura said.
"But you wanted to be." Aki told her. "Point is, anyone who knows the two of you, and doesn't know you guys are together, has to be pretty blind."
Sakura put her head in her hand and sighed. "That's not good..."
Temari patted Sakura's head. "Lucky for you, very few people actually know Gaara. Which means, as long as they only know you, they just think you have a crush on the Kazekage, which, let's face it, most of the ladies in this city do."
Aki nodded. "Your boyfriend is very popular."
Sakura just sighed again, even more deeply. "That's not good."