Wind And Fire

A/N: All I can say is thank god the chapters are short. rotflmao.

Thanks for reading! -Ani





Chapter 10



When Shikamaru woke up a few hours later the first thing he noticed was Temari wasn't home yet. He got up to look for her; sure enough she was nowhere to be found. It kind of worried him. "What a drag," he said out loud to himself. He jumped in the shower and in 10 minutes he was dressed and ready to look for her. He passed his mom on the way to the gate.



"Shikamaru, where are you rushing off to? I just saw Temari down by the academy. What's going on?" she asked him.



"I'm not sure, I'm going to look for her now," he replied, hopping over the gate.

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She sat on the roof of the school basking in the sun. Ahh, it's so peaceful here, she thought looking up at the rock faces. She giggled to herself, one day I'll see Uzumaki Naruto up there. She had no doubts about it. She stretched out and tucked her hands behind her head and closed her eyes. She didn't mean to fall asleep.

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He'd looked everywhere and couldn't find her. Panic rose up inside of him. Where could she have possibly run off to? No one he ran into had seen her. At least he knew she hadn't left the village, because Genma and Raidou were at the gate. And they hadn't seen her for a few days. He looked up at the academy. Well there's always the roof, he supposed. He walked down the empty the halls of the school, the silence was deafening. His mind raced. Calm down, he told himself, think about this rationally. He knew the roof of the school was one of her favorite places. As he climbed the stairs to the roof entrance, his heart raced. Please let her be alright, his mind screamed. He knew he shouldn't let panic take over, but he couldn't stop the thoughts.

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White Rabbit

(G. Slick)

One pill makes you larger

And one pill makes you small,

And the ones that mother gives you

Don't do anything at all.

Go ask Alice

When she's ten feet tall.

And if you go chasing rabbits

And you know you're going to fall,

Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar

Has given you the call.

Call Alice

When she was just small.

When the men on the chessboard

Get up and tell you where to go

And you've just had some kind of mushroom

And your mind is moving low.

Go ask Alice

I think she'll know.

When logic and proportion

Have fallen sloppy dead,

And the White Knight is talking backwards

And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"

Remember what the dormouse said:

"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"

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I looked around and rubbed the sleep out of my eyes. Wow, I can't believe I fell asleep like that, I thought. I got up to stretch. I could smell smoke on the wind, a lot of smoke. I looked over to the east and saw an explosion rock the part of the village the Uchiha compound was located in. Another explosion rocked the academy. What the hell is going on? my mind screamed. Who was attacking the village? I looked left and saw the building next to the academy fall.



Thick smoke burned my eyes and lungs, I fell to my knees and crawled toward the side of the roof. I could hear more explosions and screams. Good God, what the hell was going on? Who was attacking the village?

my mind kept screaming at me. The screams got louder as I got closer to the edge of the building. I looked over the edge and saw nothing, heard nothing, nothing but the flames licking closer to the academy.



I took a deep breath and summoned all the chakra I could to my legs and jumped down the ground. I hit the ground harder than I thought I would. My fucking chakra reserves were still fucked up, I'm lucky I didn't break anything. The air was slightly easier to breathe down here except it smelled like burning flesh. I gagged and choked and kept heading towards home.



A thought occurred to me belatedly, why couldn't I hear any sounds of battle? The clink of kunai as the struck each other, the yells and grunts of taijutsu. This has to be a trick of some kind. I cleared my head and made a hand sign, "kai!" Nothing changed, fuck this was no genjutsu. My ears rang and my heart raced, but still I kept running in the direction of home. A hand reached out of the smoke and grabbed at my arm, I slapped it away and kept going.



I could hear a voice calling my name from a distance. I stopped and cocked my head to the side. Nothing. I couldn't hear anything. Wait, there it was again. Where was it coming from? I looked around and saw nothing but smoke.



There! Up ahead, I could see someone. I headed over to the person. At that moment the smoke cleared and I could see the identity of the person all too clearly. It was the person who had hunted my dreams since I fell out of that tree. Then he spoke to me.



"Temari, my beautiful little girl."



I froze in my tracks, there was no way. I tried to move but couldn't. He was coming towards me. Every nerve in my body screamed 'move', but I stood frozen in place. I screamed at him, "You can't be here! You're dead! I saw your body. What kind of trick is this?"



He stopped about 2 meters from me, looking me up and down he said, "It is you who has created this place, you're asking the wrong person." He put out his hand, "Temari, come with me."



To my horror my arm rose to meet his, he started walking toward me again. My body mimicked his movement. "What is this?" I screamed at him.



"Tsk tsk, you're breaking your father's heart," he said as we got closer to each other.



"But you're dead... This can't be." A single tear ran down my cheek as I spoke. A person on either side of me stepped out of the shadows, four arms restrained me. I couldn't move, I screamed until my throat gave out. The light was fading rapidly into the darkness. I could still hear my name being called.

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A/N: Yeah, the first person is Temari's nightmare.