AN: I have corrected the problem with the text being bold and underlined. This was no conscious action of mine, for some reason it happened when I upload the, oh, 11 or 12 stories I posted Wednesday. This was the last one I post and so I didn't notice the problem until a review oh so kindly informed me of such. I hope none of you think as little of me to think that I did that on purpose.
There were few situations in the world that could keep Shikamaru from napping – it shouldn't even be said that they would keep him from napping, more along the lines of temporarily delaying said activity. He loved to sleep the same way that Naruto loved to eat ramen or Lee loved to… well, be a miniature Gai. It was like Kakashi's Icha Icha or Asuma's cigarettes – a habit that could be construed as bad but it just couldn't be shaken.
Even Temari – who isn't his girlfriend, she just won't go away – can't keep him from napping. She says she can (she talks a lot, Shikamaru's noticed, about what she can make him do which is usually followed by him snorting and saying "You can't make me do anything, woman." She responds, in kind, by either hitting him over the head with something or smirking as if she knows something he doesn't) because she doesn't realize that she only delays him too.
But really, as Temari comes strolling up to him while he lies in the sun, she's just another road block that, eventually, he gets around. Sure, she's a bigger road block that'll hit him more often than other road blocks and takes a lot longer to get around because of this, but a road black none-the-less. And he has no problem putting up with her 'til she wanders off, because he knows that.
Sometimes it's troublesome, like when she wants to talk. ("Dammit," he said to Asuma one day over a game of shouji, "what self respecting man talks to a woman? How does anyone think that's better than a good nap?" Asuma just laughed in a way that made Shikamaru vaguely suspicious that he wasn't sharing something seemingly obvious with the younger nin.) But he listens and sometimes – if she's not being too troublesome and he's not tired yet anyway – he'll respond.
His responses usually get him hit or yelled at because he says things like "You probably deserved it" and "I could have told you that." Honestly, he'd rather get hit than yelled at. He knows how to take a hit, but Temari had that gift all women have of making a man feel six inches tall when she yelled at him. It bummed him out more than the delay of his nap.
Because of this, he had two responses to this in store. Usually saying "You know I'm only joking" could get him out of the frying pan. In the case that that didn't work, he would pull his trump card: he would kiss her. Anyone but him would be in deeper trouble, but he was just lazy enough that it was taken less as a ploy to shut up and more as a "sign of affection," albeit at an inappropriate time.
She was usually less troublesome after a kiss, pleasant even. Sometimes she would hurry off, embarrassed, and sometimes she would just get real quiet and happy. Either way, he was generally allowed to nap at that point. Once in a while, she would put his head in her lap and smooth his hair as he drifted off to sleep. When this happened, Shikamaru couldn't bring himself to begrudge the hours she took from his nap.
They weren't that badly spent, anyway.