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KiraUzamaki- as always thanks for reading girl! XD

totaltheTERRIER- Ok. Thanks for not saying this is fluff! Personally, though I do read fluff, I feel as though they don't have much substance or … reality? I not sure if that's the right word but to me nothing comes easy especially love and Shikamaru and Temari happen to be ninjas so that's also a part of their lives and romance. Romance is more than sweet words and kisses. Ha ha ha. Well now that I'm done with all my philosophy talk, thanks so much for the review I hope you continue to read. :)

firemageallanna- ha ha ha ha. Fear not! Shika will kick lots of ninja "**" in the future. (Oh yes he will. *insert evil cackling here*)

Ok so I've decided to continue a little into Temari's view of the story so far but Shika will be taking over again once I'm able to explain the reason why Suna believes that Konoha is responsible for Temari's so called "death," which means I'll probably go into someone else's point of view because as you saw in last chapter Temari wasn't fooled by their appearances. ;)

Disclaimer: OK THIS IS JUST RIDICULOUS! NARUTO ISN'T FROM THE LIBRARY OF WritingIsMyDrug! GOSH!

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Light murmurs caught my muffled attention as I began to rouse from the deeps of the darkness that had captured me. I felt myself open my eyes but they flickered feebly to clear the blurred darkness that refused to come into focus. The minute my eyes tried to grab any sort of light around them, the talking abruptly stopped. The darkness suddenly swirled and twisted a bit and when I finally looked up I saw I was in Konoha's high security prison. Or what was supposed to be.

"Sabaku no Temari." The face of Hyuga Hinata had come within my cell that, I realized, had me fully secured to the wall. The supposed Hyuga heiress walked with a slight hint of superiority, completely opposite from the way the shy girl usually acted especially around those she didn't know very well or Naruto. "I bet your wondering why we captured you Miss sand princess."

"No," I said spiting at her feet, "But I sure as hell want to know why you and your friends insist on trying to make me think that you are Konoha civilians when clearly you're imposters."

Her face had a brief look of shock cross her face.

"What did you think that I wouldn't know the faces and habits of those in a village that was not my own? Did you really think I'd be that stupid?"

"No," She said while the cell walls dissipated and her true form came into being, "We just figured that the princess would think herself too superior to even need to notice." She scowled and turned her face which had finally come out of the shadow she was under giving me full view of her face.

I froze.

'No it couldn't be,' was all I could think as I looked onto her face.

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"Ugh"

"Will you stop that, you idiot! You're really getting on my nerves!"

"Well I can't help it! Why do we have to do something stupid like this just because we're genin?"

"Maybe cause you're always being a baby about it!" a tall girl with long brown hair that reached her butt snapped at the boy, acting high and mighty to him in an outfit that seemed better fit for a shorter girl that had actually grown in the chest area not in height. I was a dark maroon dress with a gold sash around her waist reaching more than a foot and a half above her knee.

"Kimiko, Hitoshi, you two are on a mission please act like it by remaining silent." The boy from the head of the group stated wearing a completely black outfit that covered most of his skin with a light brown belt looped around his shoulder and diagonally across his front that held two swords in place on his back as well as his ninja gear on his chest.

"You're not our sensei, Junichi!"

"Maybe not but I was asked to be the leader for this mission while Izanami sensei isn't here."

The two fighting genin grunted and continued forward behind their older, chuunin team mate.

"So…" Hitoshi said addressing Junichi, "Uhh… what exactly are we doing for this mission again?" He smiled a bit awkwardly while scratching the back of his neck. He was a young boy with short blond hair that dangled in front of his rounded, tan face. He wore a light blue, short sleeved shirt that had the sand village symbol in navy blue on its back along with a pair of pitch black pants with white stitching and a pair of ninja sandals strapped to his feet.

As Kimiko laugh at Hitoshi's stupidity, Junichi sighed and recited again for the 57th time, "We are to go into the wooded area at the edge of Suna to gather as many logs as we can carry back to the village in preparation for the return of Sabaku no Temari and an extremely important announcement to the village that will remain confidential until said time when…" Suddenly the chuunin stop causing the genin to almost crash into him.

He made a quick sign to the other two to remain silent and follow where he went. He dashed into the trees with the others in tow stopping abruptly upon seeing a foreign figure. As it approached, he discovered it was none other than the sand princess they were waiting for. Hitoshi noticed as well and made a move to say hello when Junichi stopped him just in time when he realized that she was not the only one approaching. Kimiko made her way over to the boys as silently as she could when to her surprise she heard a snap under her foot and jump at her own noise, brushing lightly into a near by bush. The team froze staring at each other not daring to move a muscle. It seemed as though nobody had noticed as Temari's pursuers past by them without a second look. They quickly followed and watched from a little ways off, the scene that unfolded; watching the Leaf ninja raise a kunai to the woman's throat.

Junichi knew that with only their small team of genin they would be no help to Temari here and he bolted straight back to the village to try and get help for her in time; believing that Temari would be able to hold her own at least for a little while until he returned. Kimiko and Hitoshi again followed in shock of what the saw, realizing the numbing fact that they could do nothing to help.

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"… Junichi took us to the scene but all that we found there were slight traces of blood and part of her torn clothing. With the rest of the evidence we believe that she is dead and the leaf shinobi intended to hide her body to make it look as though they are not at fault," a medical sand ninja angrily concluded his report to Gaara.

Gaara's face was blank when he quickly got up whispered that Kankuro was in charge in his absents while leaving quickly to the yells of the investigation team asking where in the hell he thought he was going.

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Ok! Finished with that chapter! Hope you guys like it. :] I'm not really sure how I feel about this chapter so I'd really like feed back. Since today was a snow day at my school (Yeah!), I decided to go through all the chapters and fix any mistakes I may have miss, finding a little more than I expected but I hope people still understood what I meant in some places. Anyway thanks for reading.

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