Red String
AngolMoaChan
Requested fic for AngelOnTheRun. You asked for a ShikaTema. :3 I'm more of a ShikaIno fan myself, but I'll write just about anything for my fans! XD Except...you know, SasuNaru or NaruSasu or whatever the hell you guys call it. I draw my line at that and NaruSaku. XP;;;;; (DESPISE NaruSaku. DESPISE)
Erm...I'm taking artistic liberties and saying everyone is jonin at this point. XDDD Naruto's probably Hokage, cause I LOVE him as Rokudaime-sama. X3
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Shikamaru Nara yawned luxuriously as his eyes drifted shut. Lying flat on his back, the jonin had escaped Ino and Choji and was taking time for what he called a "well earned nap". He was finally drifting off after many failed attempts, and the world around him was slowly darkening into dreams when something connected with the back of his head.
Shikamaru slowly opened his eyes and squinted upwards. Standing over him was the honey-blonde Suna kunoichi, her green eyes furrowed at him, "Oi, idiot. What are you doing sleeping in the middle of a field?"
Realizing that it was her foot that had hit him earlier--she was prodding him with her toes with every word of her sentence--Shikamaru sat up and and replied in an almost haughty voice, putting on his best Ino imitation, "For your information, I was taking a well deserved break. You women are so troublesome."
She hit him again lightly and sat beside him, "Suck it up. Tell me, why were you watching the clouds when you were supposed to be meeting me in front of the gate?"
"I dunno...the clouds are more inviting and less likely to hit me?"
"Wrong answer." Temari shook her head and looked up at the sky, "I don't even get a welcome back, or flowers or something?"
Shikamaru knew she was teasing: the tomboyish kunoichi wouldn't like flowers, of all things. Dryly, he replied, "Welcome back."
She hit him lightly and smiled, "It's good to be back."
He met her deep green eyes and a small grin slipped over his lips, "So do you still want those flowers?"
Temari laughed, and lay backwards on the grass, lifting a hand to the sky, "Ha ha ha. Keep that up and I'm leaving"
"Whatever, you troublesome woman." Shikamaru lay down next to her and held out his hand palm up.
She smiled and put her hand over his, and for a while, they just lay there, enjoying each other's company and the sunshine on their upturned faces, just as they always did, the routine never changing.
They argued like an old married couple, they loved like a young one. Distance pulled them together, the red strings of their fate bound tightly across the span of the desert, and those strings would hold them there for eternity.
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Merf...not too proud of the ending, but whatever. XP