Done With Me Yet?

Chapter 3. Changes in One over Time

"Whew, all of this work is wearing me out." I said to Temari as I stretched my arms and let out a breath of satisfaction. "Who knew that staying behind to help you guys would be so much work?" 

A vein formed on her forehead and she smacked me. "Stop being a lazy ass. Shikamaru must have rubbed off on you." 

"I could have sworn he rubbed off on you though." Mischievously, I muttered under my breath and snickered as I rubbed my head. 

The vein on her forehead grew larger as she turned away. "You act as though he could handle me." 

I shrugged my shoulders with a small grin on my face. "Maybe he could, you would only know if you let him." 

As much as Temari complained about Shikamaru, it was known to the whole universe that she liked the guy. I could see the small smile that was on her face when she thought of him. They were both obviously into each other despite how much they would deny it. 

 "You can be honest with me Temari; does he have the booty goodness?" Seriously, I asked her and motioned with my hands the universal sign of the booty. At that point in time she had given up on being mad at me for the trash that came from my mouth. Instead, she took a different route.

"I don't know, why do you ask me?" She inquired with a smirk on her face. I almost choked on air from her sudden change in demeanor. I guess she has been able to be used to me. 

Suddenly, there were footsteps towards our room. A man opened the door and bowed as he gave us an order. "You are both needed to guard the northern gate of the village." 

Both of us nodded as we followed the man to our new post. We were told that we would be dragged from post to post to watch over the village in case of an attack. I remembered that Temari pointed out to me that it was on the unlikely side they would be attacked, but they should be prepared anyways just to be safe and to have the villages feel at ease. 

Once we reached the post we leaned over the railing and examined the sand sea that seemed as though it went on forever. I sighed at the sight and looked at her. 

"How do you live here in the sand? It has to be a bit of a downer sometimes." I said to her with a small frown on my face. "You do not have many booty options here either." 

She shrugged her shoulders at me. "I have lived here my whole life, I have gotten used to it." A small grin formed on her face. "If I remember right, you have said multiple times that Gaara has the booty."

I sighed at her and scratched my head as I thought of a reply. "It is kind of difficult to describe how I feel about Gaara now. You know that sometimes people can only have unrequited love for so long until they realize that it will not happen."

"It might happen with Gaara." She pointed out to me and wagged her finger.  

I tapped my fingers against the rail before I spoke again. "That is true, but at the moment I am just kind of accepting that love should not be on my mind much and that I should focus on other things." 

She looked at me with a raised eye brow. "You have changed from the last time we talked." 

A small, regretful smile was on my face, "Yes, I have, many things have happened." My tone was sad and I knew that things had to be perked up. "I still have a nice booty though." I then grabbed my booty and squeezed it. "So of course, some things have not changed." 

"Oh Mika, you know what is important." Temari remarked sarcastically with a smirk on her face. She then lightly punched my shoulder. Actually, she thought that she punched me lightly however, it hurt a bit and I tried to rub it without her noticing. She then looked at me with wondering eyes. "So you are a Chunin finally?"