Temari
After The War everything is slowly getting back to normal. The Sand village didn't get damaged too much during the attacks, but the people were scared and now the relief can be seen on every single face. The villagers respect and love Gaara now that they saw what he was willing to do for the sake of Suna during hard times, even though he remains cold and emotionless Gaara just like before. Kankurou got himself a girlfriend and is in love so his life is very cheerful right now and as for me – nothing really changed, I guess.
I was planning to move out of our family's house and get my own place, but before I could do that I was sent on a trip. Since Gaara moved away to Kage's apartments, I wanted for Kankurou and his girlfriend to have the house for themselves. Rin really changed him to his better self, so now he's much better at controlling his emotions and walks around constantly happy. We thought this will pass eventually but it's been 3 years already and nothing changes. Simply looking at him makes me smile.
There aren't many changes in my personal life. None, actually. I lost a friend during The War, I don't have a bunch of buddies to hang out with, I don't have a boyfriend. Not that I really feel a need of having a boyfriend – I guess most of a time I just miss someone I could talk to, a simple friend would do. Sometimes though I get these urges and wake up with not-very-appropriate dream still in my thoughts, but I haven't found anyone I could realize my dreams with. I certainly don't need a one-night stand who could later go on telling his friends how pathetic and desperate the sister of Kazekage is. I'm not going to give myself up like this for some nobody. As for "normal" relationships – they just don't seem to work for me. Whenever I think I found a decent guy, he runs away as soon as he finds out how, quote: "intolerable, disgusting, brutal, shitty, hysteric, etc", my character is. I guess I could use the similar words to describe his face after he received my answer to that. But the truth is he was right. I'm not sure why, maybe due to my childhood experiences with my dad hating me – I grew up to be the most fucked up person I know. I can't learn to need someone or allow them to take care of me, I can't make compromises and simply I can't stop being selfish. My two only friends are my brothers as pretty much everybody else is still too afraid of me.
Anyway, after the war Gaara requested my help and presence in Suna at all times and as a result I had to give up my position of ambassador, at least for now. I was included in what was called "Committee of statistical analysis". We had to count the damage done to Suna and compare it to all the other villages and nations. This kept me busy so I was glad – that's all I wanted. I figured if I keep myself busy, I will not have time or need for friends. Our analysis' results turned out to be quite shocking – even though Suna itself didn't suffer too much physical damage, we lost the most Shinobis compared to other nations. We even accounted for battle scenes they were assigned to but the percentage of people from other villages was similar everywhere. Which means that our shinobi are (were…) the weakest and most likely to get killed during the war. We continued to analyze the possible reasons for that and we finally came up with something.
The tradition of becoming a Shinobi in Suna is as following: Sensei picks up one student as soon as his own Sensei dies or gets killed and teaches him or her until the end of his own life. Due to this rotation less and less students are being prepared and training time is short. Too short. The population of shinobi is not expanding but decreasing gradually and also there were shinobi's who would simply train themselves. The most stubborn succeeded… only to get killed in the battlefield for lacking practice. Something had to be done.
We took this problem to discuss with Elders, but they strictly disagreed to change anything in the tradition of training shinobi. Thankfully Gaara had his own opinion about that and we soon agreed on a plan: to create a Shinobi Academy similar to Konoha's Academy.
I was appointed creating that from zero, so these last years were busy for me. I gathered some people who could help and soon the constructional work began. We projected two buildings: one was for theoretical lectures, another one was an inside training grounds. The environment was prepared accordingly and I even demanded for an artificial little park – the ground is being soaked with water constantly allowing green grass and trees to grow. They're still young and frail, but I hope in many years they will be as strong as my wish for this Academy to work. The next step was finding skilled shinobi to work as trainers and that was not an easy task. The three of us - me, Gaara and Kankurou will be teaching of course but only one more sand shinobi who was skilled enough agreed to become a tutor – his name is Hikaru. After the four of us were trying to come up with curriculum and such, Kankurou got an idea – go for a visit to some other villages to see how their schools work. Hikaru volunteered to go to the Hidden village of Cloud – he had a close friend there and was willing to visit him for quite a while now. And I chose Konoha. We decided to make a school similar to theirs so it was only natural. Also, I too had some friends I wanted to visit there. Friends I haven't seen for a very long time.