Sighing, he turned his back on the sun set. Gaara was tired; his desk was over following with paper work and Tsunade said that there was still no sign of Naruto, Temari and Shikamaru. Kankuro was pacing back and forth behind Gaara's desk, impatiently waiting for news of their sister. They were six months late, the mission had been a simple one; the hidden leaf and sand village decided to sign a treaty with a small village sitting on the borderline of both wind and fire countries. The village itself wasn't much, but most of the villagers were from the Odion clan. The clan had a select few members with massive amounts of chakra. The village had been left alone till it became apparent that one of the clan members possessing a huge amount of chakra was one of the Elite Assassins of the world. For both sand and leaf villages this was going to lead to a war, they couldn't allow the clan to have an Ea. The clan of course did not want a war so it was decided that if the clan gave over the assassin there would be no trouble. Problem was the clan had no idea who was the Ea, whether it was a lie or not the sand and leaf did not know, but respecting the clan's elders they sent out envoys to the village. The envoys had still not returned.

~ Naruto, Temari and Shikamaru~

Temari sat down next to a platinum blond headed girl, handing her a glass of water Temari pointed towards the yellow canary flying around the dogwood tree and then quickly whispered into the girl's ear. Laughing the girl turned around and pointed towards Shikamaru who was lying in a hammock.

Blushing Temari turned away from her and looked out over the trees to the setting sun.

'Oh shut it!'

'Ha! So you do like him!'

'Ok so not funny. You knew that I liked him from the second you saw us.'

'Well it was a bit obvious.'

'Oh right, then why wouldn't Naruto have noticed?'

'He has, you just haven't noticed.'

'Bull! He is such an idiot! He could never have noticed that I like-'

'Oh, he didn't notice that you like Shikamaru. He noticed that Shikamaru likes you.'

'What have you been smoking?'

'Love darling. It is LOVE!'

Grabbing Temari the blond girl pulled her up and stated dancing. At first there was no rhythm and they just swung each other around, but after stumbling around dizzy for a few moments the two girls started to slow dance around the yard. After 10 minutes or so the two stopped when Shikamaru yawned and woke up from his nap.

Still a bit sleepy it took Shikamaru few minutes to readjust to the dimming sunlight. Looking around he spotted the two girls in the back garden holding on to each other as if they had been dancing. Shaking his head he slowly rose from his hammock. Life here was simple, he felt at peace, there was nothing he'd rather do than lay in the hammock all day and night, but he guessed that his body had other needs.

Damn that girl, He thought getting out of the hammock, why does she do this to me?

'Marchosia, what the hell are you two doing?'

'Having sex. What else would we be doing,' at this Temari struggled out of Marchosia's hold, running over to the hammock and plopping herself down on it.

Shikamaru groaned on the inside, Temari was in the perfect position for him to come and lay down beside her. Seeing this Marchasia ran over to the two of them and pushed Shikamaru and Temari together.

'For god's sakes ask each other out already! The sexual tension is getting WAY too high.'

Blushing, the two of them turned away from each other, although they were just in time to see the other one's face.

'Fuck off Mars!'

'So troublesome.'

'You two are no fun!'

'Shut up!' The two muttered angrily.

Laughing Marchosia walked away from the two love birds.

The door leading out onto the patio opened revealing Naruto and one of Marchosia's cousins. Looking up Mar caught the eye of her cousin, in one swift movement the two were immersed in battle. Rolling their eyes the other three turned their attention elsewhere. It was a daily recurrence for those two to fight, no one ever won and no one ever lost. They were evenly matched; no matter how much they trained there was never an end to the battle, until one of them won.

Shikamaru looked over at Temari, 'which one do you think it is?' he whispered.

'It's hard to tell both of them have a great amount chakra, I highly doubt we will find out until it's too late.'

'We can't leave till we find out who it is though and it's too dangerous to try and imprison them both.'

'Yes, I agree with you there, but there might be another way.'

'Like what? We've been here for 6 months, what can we possibly do to figure out which one it is?'

'We need to separate them for a while, it's not possible to tell when their together, but if we could get them to be separated for more than a month then it might work.'

'hmmmm, I never thought of that,' a smile spread across his face. 'Naruto and I will take Todausha, and you can have Mars.'

'Fine by me.'