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So Temari has a magnetic personality; everyone knows that. To quaint, homey Konohagakure she's the epitome of desert glamour—tall, tanned, with gold hair and green eyes and the sort of curves that most women wish they had. There's a rough charm to her straightforward way of dealing with things, to her lack of artifice and the sheer brusque sensuality she exudes.

So Shikamaru doesn't have that magnetic a personality; everybody knows that. He's been hailed as Konoha's Number One Slacker since the age of five and the only way to make him do work is to threaten him with gruesome death or dangle his favorite food in front of his nose. He's considered attractive in a lazy, laid-back sort of way; he's the sort of man women look twice at but don't usually look thrice at.

These things are accepted about Sabaku no Temari and Nara Shikamaru. It is the order of things, and it is accepted by the general population of Konohagakure no Sato.

What Konoha and the people within have a harder time accepting or explaining is how these two got together.

There's the saying that 'Opposites attract'. Well, anyone with sense knows that the saying really goes along the lines of 'Opposites attract then drive each other up the wall'. 'Opposites attract' isn't sufficient to explain exactly what the attraction between them is.

Temari smiles and Shikamaru notices. Shikamaru makes a half-hearted effort to ask her out and she goes along with it, with the sort of extraordinary patience the citizens of Konoha didn't think possible of someone like her. One makes a comment and the other finishes it.

Well, maybe opposites do attract to the extent that something like magnetism draws them together. Konoha citizens, continuing to scratch their heads, are willing to concede that. From there, they can't possibly be total opposites; they find too much to talk about for that.

Yeah, it's definitely magnetic attraction. That is the only possible explanation for what Temari and Shikamaru are doing together.