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Title: I wish I could turn back time
Rate: Rated K+ - T
Main Characters: Nara Shikamaru and Sabaku no Temari
Summarization: Shikamaru has been having these dreams about a childhood event, he couldn't get it out of his mind, especially after continuous popping images on his head about a certain girl. What has Temari got to do with this?
--oOo--
The two went out of the office of the Hokage without looking or even speaking at each other. The atmosphere around them was pretty tense.
Temari had had enough. She started a conversation.
"Hey… so… you a jonin yet?" she asked.
"nope." He replied.
"oh…"
"you?" he asked her.
"yep, me and Kankuro are both Jonins." She replied with a smile, or rather, a grin.
"oh really? What about Gaara?" he asked half-heartedly.
"uh, he's a Chuunin actually, he could easily become a Jonin, but he doesn't seem like he wants to be promoted… however, a lot of people on the council are actually considering him to become the Godaime Kazekage because we currently don't have any leader, and if this continues, Suna will be in great danger."
"a Chuunin as a Hokage?" he asked, he was quite interested now.
"well, he is currently the strongest Shinobi at the wind country…"
"hmm, you have a point."
The atmosphere around them was quiet again. Until the teammates of Shikamaru, Choji and Ino, bumped into them.
"hey Shikamaru! Uhm….." Choji looked at the woman beside Shikamaru in a puzzled look.
"Temari…" she told him.
"oh, uhm, Ohayo Gozaimasu, Temari-san!" he smiled at her while eating a couple of potato chips.
"so, you two dating or what?" Ino asked, grinning.
Both of them were surprised, Shikamaru was so flushed he looked like he ran out of blood. Temari immediately blushed.
"what? No way! This is a…"
"a what?" Ino asked again.
"it's a mission!! Hokage-sama told me to escort the ambassador of Suna throughout her stay here for the benefit of the Alliance of both villages."
"ooh…" Ino and Choji replied in unison.
"so that means you two will be with each other, whenever, wherever?" Ino asked again, obviously with a malicious look on her eyes.
"stop being a perv Ino…" Shikamaru told her.
"yeah, whatever…" she told him grinning.
"hey, I'm hungry…" Choji told them.
"you're always hungry."
"whatever, let's go to the barbeque house. Come with us Temari-san, I'm sure you haven't eaten yet after your long journey from Suna." Choji said
"well, uhm, I am quite hungry."
"good, let's go." Ino immediately grabbed her in the arms and dragged her along.
--oOo--
The four quickly sat at a table in the Restaurant. A waiter approached them and asked what they wanted to order, Choji ordered for the four of them without even asking what they want.
"okay sir, your order will be served for around 5-10 minutes." The waiter told Chouji.
"anything else for you Ojoo-san?" the waiter asked Temari.
"uhm, I'll have a miso soup, nothing else."
The waiter nodded and left.
"hey, Temari-san, how old are you again?" Ino asked her.
"I'm 16, you three are…?"
"13" she told her.
"wow, you're the eldest in the family?"
"yep, I'm 16, Kankuro is 15, and Gaara is 13." She told them.
"oh… I see…"
"how long are you going to stay here at Konoha?" Chouji asked her.
"well, every six months I'll come back to Suna and stay there for about two weeks before I come back again, it's quite short, but the Chuunin exams are near so I have to stay here more often."
"the chuunin exams , huh, how nostalgic…" Choji said in a whisper, though, everyone could hear it.
"yeah, nostalgic…" Temari looked at Shikamaru, and quickly looked away.
A waiter approached them carrying a tray full of beef.
"sorry to keep you waiting, here is your order."
The four of them ate their tasty lunch.
--oOo--
It was night time and Shikamaru already changed into his pajamas. He quickly went to bed because of such a tiring day. There were no killing, no running, no protecting… rather, acquainting with a very bitchy woman.
He never thought that one day with her would be more tiring than being with Ino. She was more demanding, more noisy, and well… more bitchy.
'I'm never going to get a proper woman' he thought and mentally laughed.
After what seemed like seconds, darkness quickly approached his eyes and thinking.
Dreams. The mystery of sleeping.
"Shika-kun! Come here!" Yoshino told her son who was staring or rather, hiding from someone at the window.
"Shika-kun? What's going on there?"
"oh, uh,… nothing Okaa-san. I just saw the a man covered in pure white and had a had with a kanji of "wind" in it. Who is he Okaa-san?"
"oh, him? he's the Kazekage of Suna ."
"oh… but, why are they covered except for the eyes?" Shikamaru wondered.
"well, their country is called the country of wind, that's the reason why in the hat, there was a kanji of "wind". Their country is very hot and windy, it's actually a desert, and the only way to protect yourself from the heat and constant sand storms is to cover yourself." Yoshino told his son.
"oh, I see…"
"come here now, breakfast is ready." They both sat at the table.
"tomorrow is your first day at the academy Shika-kun." Yoshino told his son after taking a sip of coffee.
Shikamaru just merely looked at his mother.
"so today, I'm going to give you 50 ryo and enjoy the whole day with Choji, because when you're already at the academy, your days are going to get busy due to homework and training…"
Shikamaru's eyes brightened. "Thank you, Okaa-san."
After Shikamaru finished his breakfast, he approached his mother who brought out her black wallet. She took a red paper bill with a "50" in it and gave it to Shikamaru. Shikamaru looked at the bill shortly before thanking his mother again.
He quickly went out of the household and was very excited to see Choji and the money that he had. Yoshino smiled at herself.
"hey, hon, where's Shikamaru going?" asked Shikato who just came back from feeding the deers.
"oh, hey…" Yoshino kissed his husband. "he's going to play with his friends, it's his last day anyway before the academy."
"but I saw him carrying money…"
"I gave him 50 ryo…" Yoshino smiled at her husband.
"50?! Isn't that too big for a 10 year old?" Shikato told her wife.
"don't worry, I don't do things without thinking them out…" She smiled. "oh, and… take a bath please…" she said while covering her nose in a mocking way. "you smell…"
"oh really…" Shikato asked while raising an eyebrow. He tickled his wife and in turn they headed both at the bathroom. It was going to be a long day for them.
--oOo--
Shikamaru was walking at the streets of Konoha, looking for his bestfriend Choji. He saw a group of kids talking with each other. He quickly approached them.
"hey, Obaru, Enou, guys." He smiled at them.
"hey." They replied.
"have you seen Choji?" he asked them.
"oh, Choji, he's at the west training grounds. Probably preparing for tomorrow."
"oh, okay, thanks." He quickly ran off and went to the training grounds at the west of Konoha, the most basic and largest training ground there.
After five minutes of running, he stopped and saw what looked like two silhouettes of people. The other one was a large man with spiky hair and the other one is probably his son, fat too, but smaller.
He new who they were and quickly approached them.
"hey, Choji, Chouza-san!" he greeted them while panting.
"hey, Shikamaru! Me and Otoo-san are doing shuriken training for tomorrow!" Chouji told his bestfriend while grinning.
"isn't Shikato going to train you?" Chouza asked Shikamaru.
"well, I'm too lazy… and… he's too lazy." He smiled and both of them laughed.
While Shikamaru was waiting for Choji to finish his shuriken training, he saw someone behind the trees. he ran at the direction where that person was.
"Shikamaru? Where are you going?" Chouji stopped and asked his bestfriend.
"I saw someone behind the trees, I'm going to come back, don't worry."
Shikamaru approached the person, but this someone quickly saw him and ran, but before he did, he got a good look at the person's eyes, the were emerald. He stopped running and just stood there.
--oOo--
Ojoo-san – young lady
A/N: hey! This chapter is a bit longer than the first one… so I just wanted to tell you about the 'Shikamaru was 10 when he entered the academy' thing… well, I don't know about the timeline but I'm pretty sure the rookie 9 were 10 yrs old when they entered the academy.
and, the current timeline here was one year after Naruto left with Jiraiya, that's why Temari was 16.
So that's all…
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-LadyArbhie