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Part 8
"What's going on here?" Rue asked looking from face to face. Then her eyes landed on a face she hadn't seen in a long time.
"Temari?" She asked blinking, before running forward and locking her arms around the older girl's waist.
"Rue… It's been so long." The older girl mumbled while returning the hug. Rue released Temari and looked over at the blonde's brother.
"Kankuro, put Konohamaru down." She said sternly. By now Naruto was gawking at Rue.
"Ugh fine…" Kankuro grumbled and dropped Konohamaru.
"Thank you." Rue smiled and gave Kankuro a small hug. Then she turned to Temari.
"He's with you two. Isn't he? I need to see him." She said quietly so only the siblings could hear her.
"A lot has changed since then kid." Kankuro told her
"He… he may not want to see you." Temari added.
"Hey Rue, want to introduce us to your friends?" Naruto asked making Rue jump. She had forgotten he was there.
"Oh right… Guys this is Temari and her brother Kankuro. Their acquaintances of mine, from Suna." She introduced them politely.
"No offense but they don't really seem like your kind of people." Sakura comments, placing her hands on her non-existent hips.
"The same could be said about you cupcake." Kankuro said crossing his arms over his chest. Rue bit her lower lip trying to hold in a giggle.
"Temari, Kankuro." Came a low, gravely bark from a nearby tree. Kankuro and Temari stiffened and Rue's heart rate began to speed up. She couldn't explain it, but after years of waiting to hear this voice, it almost physically excited her.
Turning, she saw him. Same red hair, same lonely sea green eyes. Except when their eyes met, Rue received a cold, vacant glare. And that was the most heartbreaking thing that could have happened.
"Gaara…?" She questioned, almost moronically. She knew it was him. But she'd been longing for the sweet and lonely Gaara. Not the angry and traumatized Gaara.
"Am I interrupting something?" Gaara asked in a cold voice before vanishing from the tree in a swirl of sand and reappearing between his siblings.
"We were just catching up with Rue." Temari said quickly. Gaara, avoiding eye contact with Rue, looked passed her at Kankuro.
"Not being too much of an embarrassment to our village, I hope?" He questioned his brother almost sarcastically. Kankuro scoffed and Rue's heart leapt as she heard Gaara's voice right next to her.
"Which raises the questiong of why three Suna ninja are here in Konoha?" Someone asked from the tree Gaara was in.
Rue looked up to see Sasuke. She looked back at the siblings questioningly.
"Hah. You don't know? We're here for the Chunin exams."Kankuro replied as he and his siblings turned to leave.
"Gaara! Wait." Rue called. Before she, or anyone else could stop her. She hugged Gaara's side tightly.
"I missed you, so much." She told him softly as he stiffened up and tears she hadn't felt coming slid down her cheeks.