A.N.- Remember how I'd said I'd written a lot? Well I wasn't kidding. Heehee. This is another chapter that came out while I was stuck with nothing to do but watch my brothers find ways to entertain themselves with marshmallows and grapes…lol anyway I hope you guys enjoy this as well! this one pretty much picks up right where the other left off so...yeah...you can get it I'm sure. Again, please enjoy!
Fanggirlx

Disclaimer: Naruto isn't mine.

Temari entered her room to find Naruto standing in front of a very red Hinata.

"What did I just walk in on?" she asked jokingly.

Naruto grinned at her, "Well, your brother told me I couldn't stay in my dorm tonight. He and Saka have some things they have to talk about and he wants privacy for the conversation. I guess it must be some really personal stuff."

Temari chuckled shaking her head, "And you believed him. Really Naruto? Do you honestly think they will be having a nice heart to heart chat there with no one around to bother them?"

The blond looked lost, "Well, yeah. His tone sounded tight. Like he was nervous. So I figure talking would be one of the only things that would make Gaara nervous. Especially since he's already done it with Saka before. He shouldn't be nervous about that." he replied rubbing the back of his neck.

Temari's eyebrows rose, "They've already…wow. Never would have thought that. Go little brother."

Naruto laughed, "Yeah exactly. See? I believe him. But now I have no where to sleep. And its all nasty outside. So I was kind of hoping to take Sakura's bed. And I was just asking Hinata if I could stay here for the night when you walked in."

Temari nodded, that explained the intense blush on the quiet girl's porcelain cheeks.

"I see. Well it's fine with me if you do. Hinata?" Temari asked.

Hinata struggled to speak but found herself struck speechless so she settled for a simple nod.

Laughing Naruto gently chucked her chin, "Aw, Hinata, don't be shy like that. Its me. You have nothing to worry about."

She hesitantly met his eyes and he smiled broadly at her, "I promise we won't play battleship this time. Alright?"

Her blush intensified further and she buried her face in her hands.

Temari laughed and patted her friend's shoulder, "Don't worry girl. Eventually, everyone's battleship gets sunk. Happens to the best of us."

Hinata quickly sat on her bed to calm herself, trying valiantly not to faint. She was feeling a little lightheaded though.

Temari studied the couple and realized the awkwardness between them was in fact because Hinata's battle ship hadn't been sunken. She imagined they had made it somewhere but doing the whole deed had yet to be crossed off.

A night alone just may help these two love birds along.

Smirking she started, "Well I was just coming to let you and Sakura know I wasn't going to be staying here tonight. I have another place in mind for the night. So, since it'll just be you two be good, alright?"

She grabbed her a set of clothes and her toiletry bag and grinned at them.

"Don't do anything I wouldn't." she said with a wink as she shut the door and left.

Hinata glared at the door.

She did that on purpose! She just left her alone…with Naruto.

Wait. Why was she reverting back to her shy self? Naruto loved her. She knew that now. She should be ecstatic to be alone with him…not angry.

Naruto smiled at her, "So Hinata? Wanna play a board game?"

Images of the last time they played a board game flashed through her mind and it went fuzzy. Before she knew it Hinata had fainted even after trying so hard not to.

Naruto chuckled, picking her up and settling her more comfortably on her bed.

"Yeah, I thought that might be what you'd say."

He lay down beside her and pulled her close. Time now for a good nap. What better to do than nap on a rainy day? Well besides play in puddles. Maybe when they woke up he could convince Hinata that that would be fun.

Snuggling closer and feeling her sigh happily against him, Naruto drifted into a sleep with a lazy smile on his lips.

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Temari opened the door to room two and slipped in. She knew they thought she was probably sleeping with some guy tonight. They often did when she was hard to find.

The truth was that wasn't always the case.

Many of the times she was enjoying time with her favorite hobby. Well her favorite besides having sex with Sasuke.

That…

That should not have been a hobby. She should have known getting involved with the Uchiha was bad. But she couldn't resist. And now all she could think of was him. And the only one other time she'd had sex after being with him she'd called the poor sap Sasuke. Needless to say that guy had not been happy. And she hadn't been to thrilled about repeating the process so she hadn't been with anyone else.

Instead she had started devoting more of her time to her secret hobby. Her passion. Photography.

The only problem with that was that she apparently had taken a lot of pictures of Sasuke without really noticing, so when she developed them his face was there staring back at her.

She sighed and headed for the back room where her things waited for her.

A noise stopped her in her tracks.

Silently she crept towards the doorway and there she saw something that horrified her.

Sasuke.

"You never once mentioned this." he stated quietly looking up from the folder he held, which to her horror was the one with all of his pictures!

Steeling herself Temari defiantly lifted her chin the slightest bit, "Never mentioned what?"

Sasuke studied her a moment and decided against teasing her. That was what she expected if the sudden wall in her eyes was any clue. He'd always believed being unpredictable was beneficial.

"That you did photography." he replied. "There are some really good ones in here. You must have been doing it a long time."

Temari, caught off guard by his quiet gentle tone relaxed her stiffened form and further entered the room.

She crouched beside him.

He was looking at her personal favorite of him.

It was a candid of his face, a sarcastic smirk playing on his lips but in his onyx eyes a true light of happiness. If she remembered correctly, he'd been watching Naruto and Sakura bicker.

There was such honest emotion on his generally guarded face that she just adored the picture.

"I like this one." he said almost inaudible.

Temari studied his profile as he studied her picture.

She then remembered one that was even better that she hadn't taken too long ago. Perhaps two days ago maybe.

"I have a better one if you'd like to see it." she offered almost hesitantly.

His eyes met hers and he didn't show a single thing in his expression but still she saw the silent question.

'why pictures of me?'.

And she couldn't give him the answer. She didn't know it.

She just found herself thinking of him and looking for him and when she saw him if he was unaware of her presence she stole the moment to take honest pictures of him. Many of them showing much more expression and feeling than he did when around people.

"One better than this? I actually look human here how could you have one better?"

She pretended to not notice his looking human remark. He always looked human to her. Always looked like a man to be exact. A man with regrets and with desires. She'd caught a glimpse of both and she had been intrigued she supposed.

Temari stood and went over to her most recently developed pictures.

"Its in here, and trust me you not only look human you look happy." she twisted back to grin at him over her shoulder, "I was going to use it for blackmail someday. You know, if you don't do this then I'll show everyone you truly are a big softy type thing."

Sasuke shook his head, "Wouldn't work."

Temari chuckled, "See the picture first." she found it and handed it over to him.

Watching with bated breath as he studied it with wide eyes.

Sasuke could hardly believe he was looking at himself.

He looked…peaceful.

He was standing on the small foot bridge in the garden on campus staring at a tree and his face…

On his face was a small serene smile and his eyes looked faraway as if he was thinking back on something.

Then utter amazement hit him.

That day…that moment, he knew it. He remembered it. Sasuke knew exactly what he'd been thinking back on to cause such a smile!

Glancing at the object of his thoughts that day he studied her.

Her eyes were unfocused, she must have been thinking deeply. Perhaps about what he was thinking about the photo. Or something deeper even. Who knew.

He placed a hand gently on her shoulder, bringing her back to reality to focus her gaze on his.

"This picture….it is good. This one is now my favorite." he smirked at her shocked eyes.

"Would you care to know what I was thinking about during the time you took this picture? It is really quite funny when you know what it was."

Temari watched him skeptically a moment, her eyes following his movements as he set the picture back on top of the stack and closed the folder holding them.

"Sure." she finally answered once his eyes met hers again.

Sasuke brushed a tender stroke down her cheek. Ending it with his palm softly cupping the side of her face.

"You. I was thinking about you, Temari."

She gasped and could do nothing else because his mouth was on hers in a fervent kiss of love so sweet and tender that she nearly cried.

To her horror she felt his thumb brush her cheek and realized that she was crying!

"Its true, Temari. I was thinking about how much you got to me. And how often I found you gracing my thoughts, even when I didn't want you to be. And," he smirked, "I was thinking about how fiery your eyes get when you are angry. And how sexy that look is. And how amazing," he placed another sweet kiss on her lips, "it is to kiss you. And be kissed by you. And more than anything I was thinking about how you make me feel things, and do things that I would never contemplate doing or feeling for anyone else. And what shocked me was I didn't care. As long as I still saw you, still stayed near you, I didn't care what you made me feel or do. There, in that picture….Temari, I was thinking all those things. And watching the wind play with the leaves in a tree in front of me. And I realized that you were very much like that wind."

She finally found her voice and mumbled, "Like, like the wind?"

He nodded, "Mmmhmm. Powerful and untouchable by anything but can touch anything it pleased. Yet also playful and light, gentle and caressing like the breeze in the tree that day. But no matter what, you like the wind were untamable. That day, that moment I was coming to terms with the fact that-" Sasuke paused, wondered if he should continue forth. The wide stunned eyes that watched him waiting as she held her breath convinced him that no matter the outcome he had to tell her. Because he was wrong, he couldn't play her game. He couldn't share her. Wouldn't. he wouldn't be a pet. He'd either be a man in her eyes or he'd be a fool. Never her play thing.

He took a calming breath and continued forth with his ultimate confession, "I was coming to terms with the fact that I was in love with the wind. I was in love with something, someone that nothing could hold, no one could catch. I wanted to keep her to myself and selfishly be the only one to enjoy her, but just like the wind I am unable to prevent having to share her. And I had been angry about that at first. But then I decided, I still love the wind. Still want the wind. Still need the wind. So there is no way, even if I couldn't have it all to myself, that I could forget the wind. I had tried and failed miserably. I hate to fail. But for the wind, for the one so much like it, this once I would. That, Temari, is what I was coming to terms with. And as you can see by the picture I was at peace with my decision."

He brushed away a few more of her tears and held her watery gaze.

"I…I am not like the wind." she muttered.

Sasuke almost laughed. Of course Temari would argue with his love confession. He should have known.

He chuckled inwardly, even as outside he exposed nothing of what he felt or thought. Suddenly he had a thought. What if she was looking for validation? He quickly took away his guard and opened up, letting his love, his heartache, his desire shine in his eyes just this once.

Temari couldn't believe this! Sasuke loved her! He wasn't just attracted to her, he loved her. No man could say such heart breaking things as he just had if he didn't love the one he was speaking about. She'd never been loved like that before…it felt amazing to her those words from him.

And his eyes…they actually shined with his emotion. His love. His pain. He was letting her see it all! The ever guarded Sasuke was letting her see inside him.

"I…" was she sure she wanted this? Staring into his dark and for once completely open eyes, she knew for certain. She did. "I'm not like the wind because…I was caught."

Sasuke gasped, was she…? Did that mean…?

A slow hesitant smile started on his lips, "Temari?"

"You have me. Now."

Sasuke laughed. It was filled with happiness. His happiness. An emotion he'd practically given up on actually feeling ever again. He had it now.

He without warning crushed her to him, her body flush against his.

He hugged her tighter than he ever had before.

As they pulled back the desire he felt that was mirrored in her own gaze exploded and they met each other in a hot needy kiss. Slowly they sunk to the floor.

From below him between his arms, Temari smirked at Sasuke, "Come on, Uchiha."

Chuckling darkly Sasuke claimed her lips, in between kisses he rumbled out in what was almost a growl, "Its Sasuke."

"You gonna make me scream it till I never forget?" she teased.

Fire engulfing his eyes, Sasuke whispered against the sensitive skin of her throat where he nibbled, "You won't forget."

The sheer confidence and promise of his words had Temari trembling with excitement. But she couldn't resist the urge of retorting teasingly, "You so sure? Uchiha."

Sasuke shuddered at the sound of her husky voice purring in his ear.

He pressed her down to the floor and smiled darkly, "Its Sasuke. And I'm positive."

With that he set about proving his point in every way he possibly could.

And as they both finally fell to the floor sweaty and exhausted, unable to move a single muscle, he heard the wonder beside him whisper, "I love you too, Sasuke."

And the black haired boy went to sleep with a wide smile on his face and both arms around his lover.