Temari stared at her husband. He had been sleeping ever since they had brought him home from the wedding. Every one that had been present had no idea what happened. They all claimed to have been in some sort of nightmare and when they woke up they found Naruto on the floor in his own blood. How could we all have let this happen. It wasn’t as though she really cared for Naruto; it was just that she didn’t want to fail this mission. Yet she felt that she owed him for saving Gaara from himself, but other than that she didn’t feel indebted to the boy. Another thing that bothered her was that he was younger than her and yet here they were married to each other.

Naruto stirred, he felt the presence of another being, but who it was he couldn’t discern. When his eyes finally focused he realized who it was. Sitting up he realized he was bandaged on his left chest. Temari gave him a quizzical look as he began to pull at them. When he had finally torn the damn things off she was surprised. She knew that Tsunade was good, but no one was that good.

“Naruto are you sure you should be doing that?” Asking as unemotional as possible.

“Yeah I heal really fast. Besides what are you doing up at a time like this?” One of the first things he had noticed when he had woken up was the moon light filtering through the window.

“Why shouldn’t I be, is it not right for me to be worried about my husband?” The way she said it felt like she was forced to utter those words. “Besides I wanted to know what happened.” So this was the real reason she was up.

He knew that he was going to be asked this sooner or later. “What was the last thing you remember about the wedding, Temari?”

“I remember hearing an explosion and seeing smoke coming into the room, but then I seemed to fall into some nightmare.”

“Yes, everyone was put into a genjustu, well everyone except me. There were three people who claimed to be there to stop the wedding. While everyone was in the genjutsu I had to fight you to try and stop it. They got away and then I lost consciousness.”

Temari had finally grasped on what he said, “You mean I stabbed you?” He nodded.

“But don’t worry about it you weren’t yourself. Besides here I am all fine.”

Forcing a smile onto her face she nodded in agreement. Standing up she walked over to the other side of the bed. Pulling up the covers she got in. Naruto had shock written all over his face.

“Ah… Temari, what are you doing?”

“Well now that we are married I think it would be wise for us to sleep in the same bed.”

“Oh…” Lying back down, he turned over so that he was facing away from her. Looking at her husband’s back Temari could only shrug. It would be a long week to come if this continued.

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The next morning Gaara and the rest of the sand-nin who had come left the village. She and Naruto stood there watching them leave. She knew what was expected off her and she embraced it fully, but for some reason it didn’t feel right.

“So what do you want to do today?” Naruto asked trying to break the uncomfortable silence that had enveloped them.

“Why don’t you show me around the village?” Sure she had been a representative for the Chunin exams, but she really hadn’t seen much of the village.

“Sure.” They began their walk in silence.

After visiting the Ichiraku’s Ramen stand, the school, His team’s training grounds, and hokage monument; Temari dint think she could listen to much more about the kid. However she did notice that some of the older villagers looked at Naruto with contempt and wicked intents. It wasn’t that she wasn’t use to this, but she couldn’t understand why the villagers didn’t like him. He had defeated Orochimaru and Akatsuki almost single handily, so why was Naruto disliked.

“Don’t let it bother you they aren’t staring at you.”

She couldn’t help but wonder how he had known she was thinking about the villagers.

“They have always been like this to me.” The smile that had graced his face was replaced by a frown. “Why don’t we go home?” Temari just nodded in agreement.

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When they got back to the estate. Naruto began to head off to the back portion of the house, but Temari stopped him.

“Naruto you do know what marriage entails right?” Trying not to be completely blunt about it.

Understanding came across his face. “Yeah, what about it?”

“Well one of the reasons for the marriage was to produce offspring that would be strong in the ninja ways.” She hoped she had gotten her point across. “They may not have said it, but the signs suggest that they would like one as soon as possible.”

Naruto’s frown deepened. She was suggesting that they do it just to make offspring, yet it was always a hope to have a family, but not one that was forced. “I guess you are right, but I don’t know.” Turning his back to her he continued on his way.

When he had shut the door, she couldn’t help but feel frustrated with him. What was his deal? She had practically said here do it with me, and I will do nothing to stop you. A knock at the door broke her from her imagination. Does he not think I am good looking or is there something else. Opening the door to see Sakura standing there she tried to smile, but failed.

“Hey Temari, how are you?”

“Fine, how are you?” Forcing a smile to grace her lips.

“I just came by to see how Naruto is doing?”

“Oh you just missed him he went out back. Would you like me to call him?”

“No that’s fine, I was also wondering how everything is going?” Sakura smiled brightly hoping that Temari wouldn’t think she was trying to pry into her life.

“Well it has been only one day so nothing to really complain about.” Yeah right I threw myself at him and he denied me

Sakura could see something wasn’t right. “You know you are the first person to ever really get close to Naruto.” Temari looked at her questioningly. “Well he and I did date, but we never really got too close, because of Sasuke.” Sakura fidgeted with her hands. “You really are the first thing he has ever had close to family. He is an orphan.”

“I had heard that, but I never really knew if it was true.”

“Well now you do. Though if you do anything to him, I will find you and kill you.” Sakura glared at the sand kuniochi, smiled. “Have a nice day.” Turning her back she began to leave.

Unfazed by the glare and harsh words; she had to ask something that had been bothering her, “Hey Sakura, why do some of the villagers hate him?”

“I don’t want to pry into Naruto’s life.

I will let him tell you when he is ready.” With that she continued on her way.

Confused Temari headed back into the house. Everything that Sakura had said to her kept going through her mind. Why am I so bothered by this? Continuing the back of the house she couldn’t find Naruto.

“Where the hell did he go?”

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Naruto sat on the top of Hokage Monument, looking over the village he watched as light blinked on as people began to get settle for the night. Releasing a breath of exhaustion. What have I gotten myself into, she already wants kids.Feeling a shift in the wind he smiled.

“I was wondering how long it was going to take you to find me.”

Temari smiled, he sure had grown up since she had last seen him. “I was wondering Naruto…”

“Why many of the older members of the village stare at me?”

He never ceased to amaze her; it was almost as if he could read people’s minds.

Turning to face her she looked into his eyes. In them she saw loneliness and pain. “They hate me because they think I am the Kyuubi, but no I am just the container.”

Naruto nodded. “I am one of the few people who actually understand what Gaara went through. Now I can understand why you would want to leave now that you know the truth, but I thought you should know the truth before anything was to happen.”

I can’t believe he thought I would leave after he told me something as shitty as that. Gaara was a monster before and yet I never left Gaara. The more she thought about it the more she felt sorry for him.

“I wanted to tell you because I feel a small connection with you.” Turning his back to her, he never noticed her walk up behind him.

Temari gasped, she hadn’t expected that one. Yet it made sense as to why after the fight Gaara became more human. Why he strived to protected the Suna. “So you are a just like Gaara. That is why you two are such great friends.”

She may not love him, but here was a boy who had gone through so much pain in his life that it tore at her. She felt something inside of her grow slightly bigger, am I falling for Naruto? No it can’t be I feel sorry for him. Wrapping her arms around his waist she embraced. It wasn’t an embrace of love or anything romantic, but one of comfort. They stood there for a while.

“I used to come up here because I could get away from the hate, but also because I could see everything so clearly. Up here I feel at peace. I feel like the world is calm.”

She looked into his eyes. No more will your eyes show sadness Naruto. I may not be able to say I love you, but I think I will someday. Placing her lips against his cheek she gave him a chaste kiss.

Temari you are an amazing women. You have calmed the raging wind that was my heart. I may not love you, but I promise you this I will love you and I hope that that affection will eventually be returned. You are a precious person to me. I swear this as my lifetime promise.

“Temari-chan.”

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