A/N: It's the first chapter which came out differently than what I first thought it would be because I forgot my storyline and I switched the chapters around! My writing style changed greatly from this chapter to the next one, so don't judge this chapter by the first one. If you judge any chapter, judge the second one. But back to the story, my other stories brought up to this moment. There will be (slight) spoilers! Each chapter will be coming out monthly on the first day of each month. I hope you like it!

"Double quotation marks are spoken aloud"
'Single quotation marks are inner-thoughts of the characters'

Uploaded September 1, 2007

Setting: After Naruto leaves for two-and-a-half years of training but before he comes back.

I Have This

'I have this and you have that…you like this and I like that…what we have and who we are is completely different and practically opposites…what does that mean?'

"Hey you."

"Hm? What?" Shikamaru said with his eyes closed. 'Oh man. It's her again.'

"What kind of 'hello' is that?" Temari asked rhetorically.

Shikamaru sighed. "What do you want?"

Temari sighed as well as Shikamaru. "Unfortunately, by order of the Hokage and Kazekage, I have to ask you stuff about Konoha for Suna records."

"How troublesome. Why didn't Tsunade-sama tell me about this herself?" Shikamaru asked.

"She knew you would have to accept it. So, what's the point in ruining 10 minutes of watching the clouds?" Temari reasoned.

"So you knew I'd be here?" Shikamaru asked.

"You're kind of predictable." Temari understated. "I mean, you do watch the clouds whenever you get the chance. It's only logical that you'd be here on your day off."

"Well, it's not my day off anymore." Shikamaru sat up and leaned on the tree behind him.

"Nope." Temari sighed and sat down next to Shikamaru. "It's not my day off anymore either. So let's just get this over with so I can report back to the Hokage and maybe get some relaxation after this." Temari took out a small notepad and pen.

Shikamaru sighed.

Temari started asking questions about Konoha and what it has to offer and Shikamaru lazily but accurately answered every question.

"How is the neighborhood around here? Is it peaceful?" Temari asked.

"Eh, it's okay." Shikamaru shrugged.

"The families are kind?" Temari asked, no longer looking down at her notepad.

"Yeah, I guess." Shikamaru shrugged again.

"What is it like to have a family?" Temari asked.

"Shikamaru glanced at Temari oddly. "What do you mean?"

"Well as you should know by now, I've never had much of a family." Temari declared. "All I have are my brothers. I don't have parents, remember, genius?"

"Well, my mom and dad are okay. My mother can be very troublesome though." Shikamaru sighed heavily.

Temari chuckled. "Hmph."

"What?" Shikamaru asked, looking suspiciously at Temari.

"Well, I just noticed that I only have siblings and you only have parents." Temari stated. "It must suck not having siblings, huh?"

"No, not really. I don't have to look after younger siblings or be bossed around by older ones." Shikamaru evidenced.

"But isn't it lonely?" Temari continued to ask.

"Well isn't it lonely without parents?" Shikamaru asked back.

"Well what do parents do anyways?" Temari asked since she's never truly had a parental figure to look up to.

"You really don't know, huh?" Shikamaru looked strangely at Temari.

"No…and stop looking at me like I'm crazy or something." Temari barked.

"Hn. Well, parents take care of you and, you know, do stuff for you." Shikamaru said simply.

"Like what?" Temari asked, dumbfounded on this topic.

Shikamaru sighed. 'This is going to be troublesome.' He thought. "They usually help you when you get hurt and cook for you, or at least bring food to the table."

"They sound like servants." Temari shrugged.

"Well they also love you." Shikamaru stated.

"How do you know?" Temari wondered.

"Well if they didn't love you, then they wouldn't do so much for you." Shikamaru explained basically.

Temari sat in silence.

Shikamaru peeked at Temari with one eye opened, without turning his head. "What's wrong?" He decided, after thinking it through, to ask.

"Huh? What? Nothing's wrong with me. I'm perfectly fine." Temari fumbled out quickly, obviously lying horribly.

Shikamaru decided it would be better off to not ask again. Only minutes later, he realized what he had said and how it must've affected Temari. 'I'm such an idiot.'

Temari stood up. "Well, that's all the questions I had to ask." She grinned at Shikamaru as in-character as possible. "See you later, crybaby." Temari started walking off.

"Wait!" Shikamaru quickly slapped his hand onto his mouth. 'What did I just say?'

"Huh? What is it crybaby?" Temari turned around and put her hands on her hips.

'Awww, man. What did I just get myself into?' Shikamaru sighed. Then he decided to say the first thing that came to mind. "Do you want to get something to eat or something?"

"Are you asking me out on a date?" Temari raised her eyebrows.

"No, but you have to eat sometime." Shikamaru responded obviously.

"Well if you're paying, sure, why not?" Temari crossed her arms. "But where are we going?"

Shikamaru shrugged. "Seeing as how I didn't think I'd be buying two meals today, let's eat some ramen."

"Well isn't someone a little cheap." Temari commented.

"Whatever. Let's just go already." Shikamaru yawned. "I don't like to eat when I'm sleepy."

"So basically you don't like to eat at all?" Temari playfully said.

Shikamaru rolled his eyes. 'This is going to be so troublesome.'

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"I wonder if that Naruto kid's around here." Temari said, looking around as she and Shikamaru headed towards Ichiraku Ramen.

"Nope. He's on a mission today. Thank goodness. It's nice and quiet now." Shikamaru sighed in relief.

"Hmm, I see." Temari half-frowned.

"What? Did you want to talk to him?" Shikamaru looked skeptically at Temari.

"Oh nothing!" Temari grinned.

Shikamaru continued to look oddly at Temari.

Temari noticed Shikamaru's stare. "Why do you care so much? Are you jealous or something?" She emphasized 'jealous' rather well.

Shikamaru stopped staring and looked forward. "No, of course not."

Temari rolled his eyes. 'Boys--they're so stubborn.'

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"Two orders of plain ramen, please." Shikamaru ordered.

"What? Who said I wanted plain ramen, you cheapo?!" Temari glared.

Shikamaru lazily glared back at Temari. "Are you paying for your part?" He asked.

"Maybe." Temari folded her arms.

"What do you mean maybe? It's either yes or no." Shikamaru said.

Temari sighed angrily. "Ugh, fine. Be that way."

"So, that's two plain ramen, right?" Ayame (the restaurant owner's daughter and waitress) asked.

"Yeah." Shikamaru yawned. "I'm already kind of sleepy." He said to Temari.

"You're always sleepy. Too bad though. You're going to have to take me back to your cloud watching spot after this." Temari said.

"What? Why?" Shikamaru asked.

"Because--if it's a good place to watch clouds, it should be an even better place to watch stars. Duh!" Temari said as if it were obvious.

"You watch stars?" Shikamaru asked looking at Temari strangely.

"Yeah, why?" Temari glared, sending a message that read 'you-better-not-say-something-stupid-about-watching-stars'.

"I don't know. I guess star watching seems kind of boring." Shikamaru yawned. He must've not have gotten the obvious message.

'Oh no he didn't!' Temari thought angrily. "What? How is star watching any different from cloud watching?"

Teuchi came over with two bowls of ramen and placed them in front of Shikamaru and Temari.

Temari took a pair of chopsticks and split them apart. "Well?"

Shikamaru also broke apart his chopsticks. He shrugged, "Star watching just sounds pretty boring."

"It doesn't sound boring! If anything sounds boring, it should be cloud watching." Temari argued. Then she took a big slurp of her ramen.

"Cloud watching is relaxing." Shikamaru said while swallowing some ramen.

"Star watching is relaxing too!" Temari also said while eating some more ramen.

"But it's not as relaxing as cloud watching." Shikamaru couldn't help but continue to argue about his favorite hobby.

"Yeah right." Temari said sarcastically with food in her mouth.

"Yeah, right." Shikamaru said differently.

"You really should've never said anything in the first place, idiot." Temari alerted, slurping her ramen vigorously.

Shikamaru ignored her and ate his ramen quietly. 'I should've never taken her out in the first place.'

A couple minutes later…

"I'm done. You done? Good, let's go." Temari said quickly, not waiting for Shikamaru's response. Instead she pulled him away by his vest while he was still slurping up some ramen. "Bye! Ramen was great!" She commented politely to Ayame and her father.

"Wait! I didn't pay yet!" Shikamaru struggled to escape Temari's grip. Unfortunately Shikamaru wasn't as strong as he thought.

"Don't worry, I already paid for it." Temari grinned to herself.

"You did? You have money?" Shikamaru asked with doubt.

"What? You don't think I have money? Of course I have money…but I just used yours. I mean, you did say you were paying." Temari grinned to herself even more.

"But how? My wallet's right he--hey, you took my wallet?!" Shikamaru felt his empty pockets.

Temari gave a sarcastic remark, "No, of course not; a leprechaun took it." She rolled her eyes. "Of course I took it! I'm a ninja for goodness sakes! I have skills unlike you."

Shikamaru sighed. "Well, "skilled ninja", can you stop dragging me by the vest?"

"Ugh, fine." Temari let go of Shikamaru without a warning.

"Owww…" Shikamaru fell flat on his butt. "Gosh, woman, you're so troublesome."

"Yeah, yeah. I know. Every time I do anything that offends, upsets, annoys, injures, or harms you in any way, you say I'm troublesome. You're such a crybaby." Temari crossed her arms.

"Gosh, you make it sound like an uncommon thing to say." Shikamaru said. "What should I say? Oh, thank you so much for infuriating me to death! I should take you out to dinner; my treat!"

"Well didn't you?!" Temari said case in point.

'Nice example…' Shikamaru thought stupidly in his head. "Okay, that wasn't the best example."

"You think?" Temari started walking away.

"Wait a minute! Where are you going?" Shikamaru asked, following Temari with his sore butt.

"Weren't you listening to me at all? I want to go watch the stars!" Temari yelled frustratingly. 'You really don't listen at all, do you?' She asked in her mind.

Temari continued to walk with her arms crossed. Her pace increased as she tried to keep the distance between her and Shikamaru as big as possible.

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Once Temari was at the same spot she was a few hours ago, she sat down on the grass. She sighed. 'Great, now he's going to say something to me.'

"Temari, why'd you walk so fast?" Shikamaru said in an almost whiny voice.

"Think about it, genius." Temari answered without really answering.

Shikamaru sighed. "You're so troublesome."

"Well yeah, I'd better be troublesome! I have every right to be!" Temari said irritated at Shikamaru, almost shouting at him.

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Shikamaru said, actually raising his voice to Temari's.

"You really know nothing about me, huh?" Temari shook her head back and forth slightly.

"What? I know about you." Shikamaru said.

"How much do you know about me?" Temari asked intently.

"Enough." Shikamaru said plainly.

"Well enough isn't enough for me. You don't seem to know anything important about me other than my name and where I come from." Temari bluntly told Shikamaru.

'That's not enough?' Shikamaru thought.

"If you think that's enough, you're dumber than I ever thought." Temari turned her body to the opposite direction of Shikamaru so she wouldn't have to look at him at all.

Shikamaru sighed. "You're right."

"Of course I'm right. I may not have an IQ over 200, but I'm not a dumb blonde." Temari muttered. "But of course, you probably thought the only thing I could do is fight. You probably thought that I'm clueless in being social, making friends, even talking to strangers. Well whatever you thought was wrong, so stop thinking that way."

"How do you know if I was even thinking that?" Shikamaru shook his head slightly.

"It's because I actually know you. Unlike you, I'm not lazy. I actually take the time and energy to have an interesting conversation with someone. I learn details about people that can't be taught unless you actually communicate with the person. I'm nothing like you." Temari explained, always looking down at the dark green grass below her feet. 'At first I thought you were different, but you're just like all the other guys.'

"You have two brothers who you love very much. You're very much overprotective when it comes to your siblings' safety. You're a strong kunoichi who wants to become even stronger. You're ninja rank promotions have always been delayed due to other circumstances like the attack at Konoha. Even though you used to be scared of your brother, you're now closer to him than ever. Oh yeah, and you like watching stars." Shikamaru mumbled making it audible to only Temari.

"Well…I guess you do know enough about me." Temari smirked to herself. "But don't think you know even close to everything you need or should to know about me." Temari decided to lie down on her back to get a better view of the sky. "You're not all that bad, Nara."

"Thanks?" Shikamaru said hesitantly. 'She still scares me to death.'

"Don't think that just because I'm not hurting you right now, it means that I've guard down. I'm not that kind of girl." Temari warned.

"Don't worry; I'm not thinking that at all." Shikamaru admitted. He decided to lie down as well. He was getting pretty tired anyways.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Temari sounded offended.

Shikamaru sighed. "Nothing…" He closed his eyes and drifted off into a very deep sleep.

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The next morning…

Shikamaru woke up to an odd sight. A piece of parchment was left on his forehead, glued onto with who knows what. Shikamaru ripped the paper off to read the note. 'Do you always fall asleep that easily? I guess it's only natural since you seem to be sleepy all the time. Oh yeah, I'm leaving for Suna in the morning at 6:30, so by the time you wake up and read this, I'll be many kilometers away from Konoha. P.S. Just to let you know, that stuff I asked you yesterday "for Suna records"? It was all faux. I just needed some questions answered. I guess it would be polite to say thanks for answering them, but I'm not a polite person unless I feel I need or should be. From obviously you-know-who. I shouldn't need to write it out. You're the genius after all.'

A/N: I could've made it mushy at the end and written "P.P.S. Thanks." at the very end, but I wasn't really sure how I wanted this chapter to feel, mushy or not, so I just decided not because not enough stories end that way. I also think this should be a gradual relationship. It would be more in-character that way right?