Darning

Limit

The reluctant elders for once seemed happy after her returning after her trip and seeing the ring on her hand, she had put it on in the morning while at the Nara's house before setting out on her way and having spent the night drifting she forgot to take it off.

So the next meeting was the geezers talking about the importance of the union, and that she should be willing to be a good wife, ready to please her future husband and attend to him always. She managed to hold back the gagging she was getting from that conversation only because her mind was going to think about the brunette and her painful goodbye.

While the Hyūga had never been to her liking, clearly at the time they were a couple Tenten loved him and was sure she would spend the rest of her life with him. Hence how broken the brunette had come to Suna that first time they had been together, devastated that the man of her life had been taken away from her. And then he had become engaged and subsequently married to another, she stared at the ring resting on the night table, she didn't reply to the marriage proposal but neither did she say anything to contradict what had happened, nor to clarify that she didn't want to get married, after all it was what was expected of her.

"I've seen people happier to know that they have a terminal illness than you," she was reluctantly looking at her breakfast when Kankuro entered.

"What?"

"You just came back from a trip where your boyfriend proposed to you, and you didn't show an ounce of joy."

"Do you expect me to dance all over the house?"

"No, if that happened you wouldn't be my sister... but I don't know, it seems like you were sentenced to death instead of being made 'the happiest woman' ," she didn't answer, she just reluctantly stirred the contents of her plate, she wasn't even hungry. "Is everything okay, Temari?"

"Why wouldn't it be? Didn't you just say that I'm happy because I'll have to get married?" she mumbled.

"It was just a comment, I didn't expect you to get upset."

"Then don't say stupid things, Kankuro," she was giving up, she didn't want to eat so she threw the plate in the sink and went to work.

A month passed since she had arrived in Suna, and every night after drinking several beers she checked the scroll in the vain hope that something would appear in it, but she knew that nothing would happen. Was it the end of her relationship with the brunette? No, despite everything she refused to think of a future without her, much less one in which she was married to Shikamaru. She exhaled heavily before putting on her pajamas and finally taking off the ring that decorated her hand, she hated wearing it but the elders had complained to her for not carrying it, she was an engaged woman and the ring was the proof of such a thing, so it was her obligation to always have it.

Some letters from other villages started to arrive at the office congratulating her on her engagement and she just rolled her eyes, damn gossiping elders. She was in her corner cursing at everything as had become her habit when she heard that the results of the new force were in and would soon be announced, they had chosen only six people. Before that there would be one last meeting in Konoha and she was to go, but since with her wedding she would no longer be traveling as a delegate, it was good that Kankuro would accompany her to soak it in a bit more and take over from there on out.

When they arrived she wanted to book a room with two beds but the puppeteer was adamant that that wouldn't happen, as it would drastically disrupt the night plans he had for that trip, and she precisely had a fiancé to sleep with. Grumbling she said goodbye to her brother agreeing to meet the next day at the meeting, and went first to Tenten's apartment, knocked on the door and waited. Nothing was happening so she summoned Kamaichi who seemed annoyed because she had nothing to offer him, he had become an interested weasel without a doubt.