[Open] This is *not* Suna!

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She'd only walked out of her rooms and ended up in some strange village. It was most decidedly not the home of the Kazekage, where she had been just two seconds before.

Temari was already tired. She'd just spent time watching over Kankurou after he'd been poisoned and then she'd gone to retrieve Gaara and bring him back to Sunagakure. She just wanted to sleep. Surely the fates weren't that cruel, where they? At least she had her tessen with her.

With an annoyed sigh, she started walking into the village proper, determined to find out what was going on and how she could go the hell home!

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"Training with Sakumo huh? Nice~ That guy's really fun! I mean, uh... after I got beyond the whole.. not-used-to feeling. Sakura as a guy's actually pretty great~ I don't mind these weird other timelines much!"

...at least it was better than this girl-Sasuke he dealt with. It did feel like Sasuke though, down to the hatred of Konoha...

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"Yeah.... Hey, doesn't Hinata-chan have medical training? Maybe if I can do it, she could help me learn."

She looked at him for a beat. "Sakumo is actually kinda cool. Sakura always seemed a little stand-offish with me, even when she was helping my brothers out." She shrugged. "It's okay though. I can kinda understand her attitude."

[heroscomeback]

"Hmm.. she does have some, yeah, so I guess you can ask her. Pretty sure she'd help out~" he gave a wide grin. "Just ask her nicely~"

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"No, Naruto, I'm going to walk up to your girlfriend and demand that she does what I want or I'll kick her ass."

[heroscomeback]

"...I hope you're joking..." The way his expression changed, the shift in those blue eyes? Indeed, she had better be joking.

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Oh, yeah, there was a bit of a story about how his violent his reaction was. However, no matter what it was, she approved so long as it didn't bother the girl herself. "Of course," she said with a huff. "Just 'cause Gaara used to have a bit of a temper problem doesn't mean that Kankurou or I suffer from the same, you know."

[heroscomeback]

He let out a breath. Good... even if he -really- shouldn't have suspected her in the first place, right? "Yeah. uh.. sorry 'bout that." he murmured, slightly sheepish. "I mean, I.. guess I had t'make sure..."

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"You know, I wonder what it is you think of me, Naruto-kun. How dare you suspect your older sister of being so cruel!"

[heroscomeback]

"Sorry" he murmured, hanging his head. This is another of those times where he really should have thought things through before talking, right?

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"It's too easy," she muttered under her breath. "Don't worry about it."

She checked the surrounding area. "So, why are you out here instead of bumping uglies with Hinata?"

[heroscomeback]

"Eeeeeeh?" okay, so somehow, once you were with someone, people just assumed you would.. eb.. bumping uglies 24/7 or what? This isn't an icha-icha book! "I can have time to myself and she can have time on her own too yaknow?"

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"I owed you that one for your crack about Shikamaru."

[heroscomeback]

"..oh.." it all made sense, suddenly. That was sooooo long ago though. "How am I even supposed to remember something like that?"

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"It might be ancient history for you, but not so much for me, dork," she said as she flicked him in the nose. "And if you're going to make jokes about other people's love lives, you should be ready for them to return the gesture."

[heroscomeback]

"WAUGH!" he recoiled pinching his noise. "Heeey! No fair!" well, yeah, he went through more pain than that, but still.. "I only ever made it that one time!" plus, well, Shikamaru killed it pretty fast by reminding him he was still genin...

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"Mmmm, but it's only fair that I get you back, right?"

Besides, Hinata's blush would be more amusing than Shikamaru's boring response about how Naruto was on a genin. Which reminded her....

"Have you even managed to get to chunin or jounin yet?"

[heroscomeback]

"Che!" he linked his arms behind his head and pouted. "Who cares about rank? It totally doesn't even matter!"

....yeah, he was still genin....

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"Isn't that what you told Shikamaru then too?"

[heroscomeback]

"Yeah, so?"

PoutPoutPoutPoutPout!!

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She patted his head again. "It's okay. You're so stupidly strong that I'm sure you'll be the first Hokage who was only technically a genin when they were appointed that."

[heroscomeback]

"..uh.. yaknow, I can't tell if that's good or bad for history, but yeah, if I gotta do it, I will!" and then everyone will be slightly confused but still acknowledge him. "I'm gonna be the best Hokage ever too~" then again, he was pretty sure maybe that might have been his dad...

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She cocked her head to the side. "Hm, that I don't doubt, Naruto. And then, I can tell everyone that I'm the older sister of two of the strongest leaders of the Elemental Nations." She gave him a slightly vicious smile. "And no one would every try to push me."

[heroscomeback]

"...uuh.. not sure anyone's tryin to push you regardless." he coughed. She could get so scary!

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She was amused by his reaction. "No one's that stupid, yeah, I guess."

[heroscomeback]

No, even he wasn't that stupid... nu-huh! "y-yea... they'd end up in th'moutain or somethin if they did.."