Author's Note: Hello all! I very much enjoyed writing "She Sang", but I've got some leftover drabbles/shortfics kicking around that didn't quite fit in and thought I'd post them here for fun. Mostly random thoughts, conversations, or snippets featuring our favourite Shinobi couple. Thanks, constructive criticism and reviews are welcome.
Disclaimer: "Naruto" and all related characters, peoples, places, and themes are the sole property of Masashi Kishimoto. The following is a work of pure fiction.
Affinity
Song of the Day - "For You to Notice", Dashboard Confessional
Shikamaru wasn't quite sure when it happened, but sometime between now and their match during the Chunin exams he had developed an affinity to a certain Suna ambassador's presence. It was a rather strange phenomenon to Shikamaru as his initial feelings toward Temari morphed from trepidation to irritation, from irritation to indifference, from indifference to sufferance, and now from sufferance to tepid interest. Stranger still were the physiological anomalies that accompanied Temari's presence: burning sensations in his ears, moisture on his palms, heightened visual awareness, a dry mouth, and irregular palpitations of the heart.
It was all rather troublesome.
But perhaps most troublesome of all was the thought that perhaps Shikamaru, in all his lazy glory, might actually give a damn what Temari felt when she was around him too.