Shikamaru steps up the staircases at a slothful pace. The Kazekage's mansion is way too big for only three people living in it and although it would be easier getting around a hotel, he's become comfortable in the Sand siblings home.
His eyebrows perk up as he realizes he's reached the end of the stairs and not too far off is the door he has anxiously been seeking for, only because it's got the coziest bed he has ever slept on.
He can deal with Temari's nagging later for sleeping on her bed. He was too exhausted from the three day trip. Plus it wasn't like he hadn't done it before. It'd become a custom of his. Which surprisingly her brothers hadn't questioned them about it; they looked like the protective kind. It wasn't like they were doing anything wrong and he figured they knew that, or so he thought.
Not bothering to knock he swiftly opens the door and makes his way towards the bed, but as he approaches it he stops in awe.
"I…" he is speechless at the sight.
There she is freshly out the shower and yeah sure she has a towel… On her head!
Shikamaru is too amazed at the naked body in front of him that coherent words don't exist to him, the guy with an IQ of two hundred.
"Shikamaru what the hell!?" At least Temari has recovered from her shock.
Too bad one couldn't say the same for him. He really didn't mean to stare for as long as he did but he was a man, could you blame him?
Oddly enough Temari instead of grabbing the towel from her head covers herself with her hands.
"Shikamaru!" she hisses at him, and yet he still can't move.
His mind is blank and the image of her is forever imprinted in his memories.
"Ass." He hears her say and quickly runs into the restroom.
The slam of her bathroom door has broken his trance. He really should leave the room, maybe go back to the Leaf where it's safe and away from her, but he doesn't. Although he has fully recovered his mobile functions he is still very tired. He opts for the beating he is about to receive in return that he gets to sleep after. So he positions himself on the bed and closes his eyes.
He hears the door open and mentally prepares from the physical blows he will receive with her fan but they never come.
Instead he hears another door close. He forces one of his eyes to open half-way and she's gone.
The incident is never mentioned, like it never happened. Shikamaru knows he should apologize but since it seems that she doesn't want to talk about it, he doesn't bring it up and that was fine by him
"It was an accident." Shikamaru groans.
"Accident? When an accident like that happens you apologize and walk away! You did neither! So tell me Nara how was that an accident?"
"Tch. Troublesome." he doesn't know how to answer that.
It's true. He did neither. And now that he thinks of it he isn't so sorry after all so it's pointless to say something you don't mean. Besides it wasn't completely his fault.
"It's your fault too. You have a restroom that has a door for a reason."
"It's my room you ass! I can change where ever I want to!"
"You should have known I was coming soon and I'm not one to knock too troublesome for me, you should know that by now."
Temari stared at him red from the face at how ridiculous his explanation sounded.
"I guess what I'm trying to say troublesome woman, is that I'm not really sorry." He had finally said it with a smirk on his face; Temari surprised with his answer a small pink forming on her cheeks.
It was something he shouldn't have said out loud, while replaying that scene in his head he completely forgot that all his friends were there. That wasn't the worst part. No, he had forgotten that her crazy brother was there too.
He only realized he was in deep trouble when he heard Kankuro's puppets clanking quickly towards him.
