Cursed love

Ch. 1 unification

"Shikamaru, you do know that you won't be able to tell your family or hers about this you set up?" Choji had a bad feeling about what Shikamaru was doing even if the only people in the world who knew were himself, Ino, Asuma, Tsunade, and Temari's sensei knew what the couple was doing.

Shikamaru had just changed into a tuxedo. "Choji, we'll tell once we certain we are not going to get our heads ripped off for doing this."

"Do you really think Gaara will ever not want to rip your head off?"

"I have to marry her Choji. We really don't like being away from each other. Besides my dad then won't disown me for going through with this without him knowing. Then he'd look like the bad guy and Temari can go back to Suna and tell her brothers before she comes back here."

"You do know that you will be so dead later, this is going to make more trouble for you in the long run."

"Choji…. Do you really have to be drilling me about this now?"

Choji gives his best friend a look. "You planed this out ahead of time didn't you?"

"Temari had the idea of not telling her brothers till all was said and done with."

They exited the tent that had been set up for them to change in. Shikamaru looked at his sensei who had convinced Choji to be the best man and Ino to be the only bridesmaid in order to give Shikamaru and Temari the most normal wedding between the ninja from two different villages.

"Shikamaru, do you really want to do this without telling any one?"

"Asuma, I don't want to risk my dad's fury leaving us with nothing but her inheritance from her parents and the cloths on my back. This way if my dad disowns me he will look foolish in front of the village because everyone already knows that Temari and I love each other. We are certain in what we are doing."

Shikamaru walked out into the clearing where he had a couple of months ago proposed to Temari. This was where Tsunade insisted that the secret ritual should be held, and since she would be the one performing it they had little choice but to oblige.

When all was said and done the ceremony had been beautiful. Tsunade had given them keys to a brand new house for when they came back from the surprise honey moon that Asuma, Temari's sensei, and Shikamaru's team pitched money in to pay for.

Ch.2

Gaara's reaction

"Hmmm……. Odd, she won't be back for a couple of months on this emergency mission, and the Hokage won't tell me what this mission is about. Kankuro what do you think of this?"

Kankuro gave his brother a look. Gaara only asked his advice on very big issues. Which was why Gaara was Kazekage and he was not. "Does it say which ninja's she went on the mission with?"

Gaara took another look at the scroll, "Nara Shikamaru……Damn him. No wonder the Hokage won't say. What does she see in him anyway? There are better ninja here in Suna."

"Gaara how long it will take you to learn that our sister is not very straight forward in how she feels and why. You'd know if our dad hadn't used you as a science experiment."

Just then Gaara and Kankuro's old sensei walked by.

"Oi! Bakashi get in here! I have to ask you a question about when you went to visit my sister!"

"Uh-oh." Bakashi looked into his old student's office.

"Now." Gaara looked annoyed. He was holding the scroll Tsunade sent him.

"But I have a mission."

"It can wait. What kind of mission is Nara doing with my sister?"

"Gaara, if I lie you'll kill me, but if I tell you she'll kill me."

"No she won't. Gaara'll see to that," said Kankuro. He normally didn't care what his siblings did, but if Temari was in danger he wanted to know.

"Well, it really isn't a mission." Gaara's eyes narrowed. "She, uh, decided to get married to one of the leaf ninja and she didn't want you to know because you'd kill him. She told me because incase something happened she wanted to have some one to contact who knew that they were married. I even helped them go on their honeymoon, which is what Tsunade is trying to hide in sending you that scroll."

"……. She What!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! To which ninja??!??"

"Nara Shikamaru."