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Spoiler alert: up until (including) chapter 342!
Ten Reasons: Why Does Shikamaru Loves Temari?
1. The first thing he thought about women was-Troublesome.
2. Than he met Ino; between his mother and his new teammate he was certain women were troublesome-epically blond ones.
3. So it was no surprise when he first saw the blond sand-nin in the beginning of the Chunin exams the first thought he had was-troublesome and categorize her as a "troublesome women who should be avoided".
4. When Temari beat TenTen with her huge fan-Shikamaru knew he was right in his assumptions.
5. The fact that he was right didn't help the fact of his oncoming battle with said and-nin; Naruto pushing him to the arena didn't help, either.
6. He lost the fight; he gave up (after capturing Temari with his Shadow Possession Jutsu). But he had to admit; even thought she was a troublesome women-she was very smart, almost intriguing. But he didn't do anything about it; it was too troublesome, and it's not like he'll ever see her again…right?
7. Wrong. Near the end of his battle with Tayuya, who came to his rescue? Temari; sometime latter he can remember 5 things about his first mission as a Chunin: first the mission was a failure. Secondly Temari somewhat arrogant smile after she beat T. thirdly the waiting in the hospital with Temari scolding at him and than his father. Fourthly the relief he felt when T came out to tell him that Chouji will be o.k. and than his promise to do the next mission perfectly.
8. The fifth thing that he remembers doesn't come up until the sand trio is leaving with Temari calling him a "crybaby": while waiting in the hospital with Temari-not once does he think of her as troublesome.
9. He once asked his father why he married such a troublesome women; he told him it was because even the toughest women can show her tender side to the man she loves.
10. He didn't get that at first; but than Asuma has died. His role model had died and he been the one to tell Kurenai that he was dead. It was those few seconds that he decided a few things: first he was going to kill the bustard that killed Asuma. Secondly he'll start to take his responsibilities-it was now one of his goals to be a 'cool adult' just like Asuma was so he could be for Asuma and Kurenai unborn child. After that he'll make sure to do the following things:
A-Take the first mission that would lead him to Suna
B- Meet Temari and
C- Tell her that he loved her.
He'll figure out how to make their relationship work; he'll make sure of that. After all Temari may be tough and she had the tendency to boss him around-but than he remember the time in the hospital, the small concern he saw when she called him "crybaby" and her silent promise to be there for him. In the end his father was right.
Fin
Wow-that was tougher than I thought!
Originally the idea for this fic came from my other fic "Ten Reasons: Why Does Neji Loves TenTen?"-personally I thought my Neji/TenTen fic is better written than this, but Shikamaru character is very different from Neji, so I hope my writing shows this difference.
Also to all of you that find grammatical/spelling problems please e-mail if you want something to be corrected-I'm not a native English speaker so I can't really tell if there's any mistakes.
So thanks for reading my fic-and if you want to make this author happy all you need to do is very simple: REVIEW! REVIEW! And REVIEW!
21.10.07-So to make things clear: this is a fanfiction so even I rely on the original story there is fiction that doesn't appear in the manga, one of this things is Num.10 as much as I like this pairing there's any indication of Shikamaru desire to go to Suna, though I truly believe it should be real!