#temariweek

For Temari week!

Day 1- FAMILY REUNION

Temari and the family that she deserves.

@heartofthesand

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*Sand siblings: talking about the past

*Shikadai: eating all the dangos

*Shinki: wondering how can he eat that much

*Shikamaru: drinking a whole bottle of beer alone

*Yoshino: yelling at him because he's already drunk

[August 17-23]

We have reached our 4th year in celebrating Temari week! So let’s get started!

Rules!

1. Anything is accepted: fanarts, fanfiction, GIFs, edits etc. with the only condition to post your own work! We will not accept any stolen artwork!

2. Tag your work with #temariweek in the first tags and mention @heartofthesand so we can find it easy and reblog it. You can also submit to us.

3. The event starts on 17th of August and will end on 23rd August

 (no pressure with the dates. you can submit after 23th as well. The whole month is her month ♥)

4. We absolutely won’t accept any other character hate/bashing. This is for everyone who loves and support Temari. No hate towards other characters is allowed.

5. There are 2 themes per day so you can choose one, both or combine them, depending on your own liking.

The daily themes for the event:

DAY 1. Family reunion/New Mission

DAY 2. Memories/Summer view

DAY 3. Favourite fight/ Weapons

DAY 4. Role model/ Teacher

DAY 5. Fantasy/ Medieval AU

DAY 6. Modern AU/ Fashion Icon

DAY 7. Gift

 I love that so many people still show support and love for our Temari. Let's enjoy another year of Temari love ♥. Help us spread the word and have a great week full of wonderful works. Let’s have fun ♥

Happy Temari week!  Thank you to everyone at @heartofthesand  for hosting! I’m excited to help celebrate our queen.  Enjoy this small introspection! 

Prompt: Reunion

Summary:  There’s nothing in the world like being home. 

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Homecoming 

The area was a natural phenomenon out in the barren desert.  A small oasis of green trees and plants with a pond in the middle of miles of sand.  It was the perfect place for the previous Kazekage and his wife to have their final rest.  

“Hello mother, father.  I’m sorry that I haven’t had a chance to visit in so long.”  Temari placed a few gifts at the headstones.  Various flowers and treats before settling down.  Her fingers traced over the names etched in stone.  Willing herself to imagine their spirits there with her.

“I’m getting married tomorrow.”  She took a deep breath.  Calming herself, centering her thoughts. 

“I just wanted to have a moment to talk to you.  I pray that you are both at peace. Please know that you raised three wonderful children.  I wish that you could be here to see it. Gaara is so strong now.  Not just physically but mentally and spiritually.   He has grown in all this time.  He found peace along the path you set him on.  Suna is prospering under his watchful eye.”  She took a moment to remember the frightening monster that her brother once was.  Now he was so much more.  A dependable leader, brother, and friend.  

“Kankuro, well Kankuro is the same.”  She grinned thinking about the puppet master.  “He may joke, and he annoys me on a good day but I think that in some ways, he is stronger than all of us.  Please don’t ever let him know I said that.”  Kankuro had always been the annoying younger brother.  In many ways though, he was her best friend. 

“As for myself.  I’ve held onto a lot of anger for so long now.  Mother, I hated that you left us.  You left me.  You weren’t there to protect us.  I had to learn about love, the world, and my place in it without you.  I wish you could be here to help me.  To teach me how to be a good wife.  I’m terrified about having my own child.”  She brushed away those sorrowful tears.    

“I wanted to hate you forever father. I carried so much anger and resentment for what you put me and my brothers through.  I hated what you did to Garra.  How you taught us to treat him.  I allowed how I felt about you to fuel me. Now I think that I have a better understanding.  I’m not angry anymore.  I want you to both know that I forgave you a long time ago.  Perhaps you don’t need my forgiveness but I needed it for myself.”

“Father, you raised me to be fearless and selfless.  To give everything that I am to Suna.  I have done all that I could but it is time to move on.  I will still continue to love and support my home but I have a different mission now.  I would do anything for the Sand and my brothers but I can’t give up my heart.  I’m sorry to leave Suna but it’s in good hands.”  She choked back a sob as the realization began to sink in that she was leaving. 

“Shikamaru makes me so happy.  I didn’t know that I could feel this way. That I was even allowed to.  I’ve never known a love like this and I don’t think that I ever will again in this lifetime.  I can be myself with him. I can be messy, cruel, soft, and vulnerable and it doesn’t scare him away.  Even if it probably should.  He makes me feel safe and I haven’t felt that way in so long.  Shikamaru is my home now and I have to be with him.  Marriage, being a wife, and having a husband.  These were never things that I wanted.  But I want these things with him.  In all honesty, I think that he needs me more than Suna does.”  

A soft smile crossed her face as she thought about the pineapple haired ninja.  “It’s silly huh, the famed Princess of Suna marrying a foreigner with no title or station.  The Council gave us a hell of a time.  I pray that you are not rolling in your graves.  But please believe that he is the only person for me.  There is no one in Suna or across the great nations that I could imagine loving more.  I know that he will love and care for me in the way that I deserve.  I pray that we can be just as happy as I believe that you two were.”

She stood up with one last longing glance, feeling the wind kick up around her. “Thank you both.  Watch over all of us.  I will be back before I leave to reintroduce Shikamaru to you as my husband.  When our child is born he will know his grandparents.  I love you both.”

She made the trek out of the hidden area, the desert sun drying her tears.  Her steps were light as her heart was now unburdened. 

Shikamaru turned hearing her return and opened his arms out wide to her.  She settled into his chest a kind of peace and love radiating from her.  Knowing that this is where she belonged.  He was her home.

He pressed soft kisses into her hair.  “How was the reunion?”

“Good.”  Shikamaru was thankful that she could have some peace.  

“Ready to be married to me?”  He asked with a grin.  

She glanced up at him with an excited gleam in her eyes.  Eager for this next chapter in life.  

“Absolutely.”   

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This is actually the first digital art piece I really ever did, but came back to it and added a little extra. Ya know, cause she’s the best.