How had she come to be here, in the kazekage's office, sitting next to her boyfriend? How was it that she, a successful twenty year old was sitting in an uncomfortable chair, being lectured by her brothers as if she were some kid in elementary school?

The answers to these questions were simple. She had been caught in a hotel room with her boyfriend. Again.

She sat there, ignoring her brothers. It would be the same argument as always anyway. Gaara and Kankuro were always complaining that she was never in Suna anymore, and that even when she was, she was with her boyfriend. She was putting her relationship before her duties as a ninja. Blah, blah, blah. Okay, so maybe she was paying more attention to her relationship with Shikamaru than she did to anything else. Honestly though, she should have been allowed to have a private relationship without her brothers always interfering . She continued to ignore the constant drone of her brothers untile the "p" word was brought up.

"What if it turns out that you're pregnant Temari?" Gaara asked matter of factly. "Are you prepared to take care of a child?"

Temari was silent. She could feel her heart beginning to beat with more speed. She couldn't be pregnant. There was no way in the world she could afford to be pregnant. She knew that she was in no way prepared to get married let alone begin to raise a family.

While Shikamaru admitted to Gaara and Kankuro that he had been way out of line with their sister, and that maybe slowing the physical aspect of their relationship down would be a good course of action, Temari went into panic mode. She thought about the fact that if she was pregnant (and thank goodness she wasn't, right?) she would get fat, and end up having to get married to Shikamaru, even though she was planning to do that anyway, and move to Konoha. Even though that was where she spent most of her time anyway, the thought of actually becoming a Konoha Shiniobi was daunting.

A moment of silence passed, and Temari realized that someone had asked her a question. "Huh? Oh, yeah right, we'll slow down," she muttered while still thinking.

"Fine then Temari, Shikamaru, the two of you may go now," Gaara grumbled.

The two shinobi left the office, Temari still deep in thought.

"Hey, Temari, I'm sorry, but I have to get packed to go back to Konoha," Shikamaru stated while kissing her gently, "I'll be back soon ok? It's just my mother..."

"I know," Temari replied. Shikamaru's mother didn't much approve of her son's relationship with the Suna Shinobi. "I'll see you soon then."

With that, the two kissed one more time before Shikamaru departed. Temari had only one thing on her mind. She and Shikamaru had stopped using protection a long time ago, and the possibility of being pregnant was certainly plausible. She shook the thought from her head and headed back inside the Kazekage's mansion towards her room.

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Two weeks later, at the Kazekage's mansion, an ear splitting shriek could be heard, followed by sobbing. Kankuro burst into his sister's room to see what the problem was.

"Temari, what's wrong?" Asked Kankuro. He was quite shocked to see his sister in such a state, she was not usually the type of girl to be found collapsed on her bed bawling her brains out.

After a few moments, Temari had regained her composure. "R-remember a f-few w-weeks ago w-when you and Gaara asked Shikamaru and me w-what would happen if I was p-p-pregnant?"

"Yes," Kankuro replied, not very much liking the direction in which this conversation was going.

"Well, then I thought that I should thank my lucky stars that I wasn't pregnant and start thinking from that point onward. But then," She paused, "Kankuro, I think, I think I actually am pregnant."

Kankuro stood absolutely stunned before he regained his senses. Without a word, he grabbed Temari by the arm and began dragging her out to the room.

"Where are we going?" She asked with a note of panic in her voice.

"You my dear sister, are going to tell Gaara of this recent, horrific news, and then if he doesn't kill you, we are going to send an urgent message to Konoha. Shikamaru needs to know that you are pregnant with his child."

The pair arrived at Gaara's office and burst through the door. Gaara looked up from his paperwork, "Is there a problem?" He asked.

"Our idiot sister has something she needs to tell you." Kankuro spat.

"Is that so, what is it then?" Gaara asked in a rather irritated tone.

"Ummm..." Temari began, "Well, I'm," she paused.

"Get on with it Temari, I don't have all day you know."

"Fine then," said Temari, now somewhat angry, "I'm pregnant. How's that for quick?"

Gaara snapped the pen he was writing with in two. "You're what!"

"I believe I said I was pregnant." Temari retorted.

"Well," Gaara was rubbing his head with his hands as if he could feel a migrane coming on, "It's not like we can really say it's a shock now can we? We've known all along that a relationship as careless as yours and Shikamaru's would eventually end up in some sort of mess."

Temari was silent. It was finally beginning to sink in. She was pregnant. She had a little person growing inside of her. She would have to get married to Shikamaru and move to Konoha. She would have to swallow her pride and ask Shikamaru's mother for help. She could feel her heart begin to break as she wrote the letter to Shikamaru. In about a day, he would recieve news of her - their situation and begin his trip to Suna.

Temari smiled at the thought of being able to see Shikamaru again, she only wished that it coud be under happier circumstances.