((sorry i haven't posting in a hell of a long time, I've had a lot of school and no inspiration.))
Baki led the others through the gate, many ninja were there. " If the word got out that Gaara was ill, we'd be attacked, we needed to take precautions." he explained.
He took them into the medical ward, guards also lined the walls. " Is there a bathroom around here?" Naruto said doing the potty dance (( sorry i took care of 3 year olds today)) " Or is that lined with Guards as well?"
Sakura smacked him, Hinata blushed, Kiba scoffed, and Shikamaru hung his head in shame.
Baki led them into a room without a word, there lied a unconsciousness Gaara with Temari looking over at him, while everyone was looking at the sad display of the powerful Kazekage Shikamaru only looked at Temari, how her hair seemed to glow in that light, her eyes held mystery and yet pain, only when she looked up he snapped himself out of his gaze.
Temari looked up at Shikamaru, slightly blushing, she looked him over, she hadn't seen him in over a year and she noticed how he changed, how the muscle in his arms showed off his chest, and how his face elongated which made his eyes stand out.
Naruto looked at both of them with a soured confused look. " will you two get a room?"
"NARUTO!" he got a swift smack on the back of the head, Sakura looked angry. "Naruto-kun..." Hinata said quietly.
The aura of the room was tense and nobody wanted to talk in fear of being attacked, but none of them had to talk, the doctor came into the room and broke the painful silence. " sorry to interrupt but i have a update on Gaara-sama's condition."
All ears perked up, all eyes were on his man, and it made him unconformable, but he pressed on and pressed up his glasses. " he has a high fever and shakes. I believe he was poisoned."
A gasp went over the group, Temari slammed her hands on the table in front of her. " who? Nobody has a chance at poisoning him...do you think we have a spy?" she sounded raspy, and when she talked the bangs under her eyes showed, like she hadn't slept in days.
-Later that day-
Naruto, Shikamaru, Lee, Hinata and Kiba stood outside Gaara's room, Sakura was inside talking to the doctor. Shikamaru shifted uncomfortably against the wall.
"So you still want to bang Temari?" Kiba said with a wicked grin on his face. Hinata blushed. " Kiba-kun!" Shikamaru looked at him with a sour, bored expression.
"Why would you say that?" he said looking away, trying to hide his blushing face.
" You were totally checking her out! Almost as much as Lee was looking at Sakura!"
Lee looked up, he had a blush, one almost as red as when he was drunk. " WAS NOT!".
Shikamaru stood up and sighed before walking away muttering. " Too Troublesome" under his breath as he walked outside in the cool evening air of the Sands.
He walked around, trying to get the nature of the village, nobody was out, even though it was still early, all windows were closed and it had a ire feeling, he decided to go to the Kazekage's office to send Tsunade-sama a letter telling they arrived and the current situation, but when he got there he found out it wasn't empty, Temari was in the office, doing paperwork.
Shikamaru tired getting away without being seen but failed, before he knew it he heard her voice call out. " Yes? What do you need?" she looked up and instantly regretted talking at all, she blushed and looked back at the paperwork.
Shikamaru had no choice, he walked in and closed the door behind him before sitting in the chair in front of Temari's desk. " yes, i need to send a message to Tsunade..." he scratched the back of his head.
Temari looked up. " Can it wait till morning? We already locked up the birds... i would think you would figure that out genius." she chuckled at herself and signed a piece of paper.
" Oh." Shikamaru said as he fiddled with his hands, Temari looked up. " is that all?"
Shikamaru looked up. " Yes..." but he stayed there. Temari put down a piece of paper. " apparently not since your still here.."
He looked up at her nervously, he sweated lightly, you can do this, he told himself, she's just a troublesome female. What can she do...? he looked up, kill me. He gulped lightly. " so you want to do something? Looks like you need dinner..."
she looked at him. " are you asking me on a date?"
His face turned a color only known to tomatoes and shook his head. " i-" he stammered. " purely professional.."
She nodded, she almost matched his coloring. " alright, i could use some food anyway..." she got up form behind the desk and walked to the door, Shikamaru followed behind.
They walked the streets of the Sand, Shikamaru looked at her and broke the silence. " so your the temporary Kazekage?"
She nodded. " Kankuro is out on a mission in the land of lighting and couldn't get back till tomorrow so they chose me...I'm the oldest anyway.." she looked uncomfortable.
They didn't say anymore till they got to a small food shop and sat down.
They talked for a hour, about what they have been doing, about the mission, about how Naruto was still a idiot, but they didn't talk about how everyone said that they each liked each other, it would cause them to blush if they even thought about it.
Later, after they decided it was late out they headed back, Shikamaru walked Temari back to her home and stood there. Temari looked at him and blushed, but Shikamaru couldn't see since it was so dark.
Temari walked a step down to give him a handshake but tripped because of lake of light and fell into his arms, he caught her and looked down in surprise, she looked up in equal surprise and a bit embarrassed for her klutziness.
They stood like that for a bout a minute looking at each other, blushing like a mad man when they both got closer and they're lips met, thoughts ran though their minds.
Temari thought, what am i doing? How did this happen?
Shikamaru was thinking. Oh my i am kissing her, why? We shouldn't be doing this!
Despite both of their thoughts they didn't stop, they held the kiss, and they fell into it, finally they parted, blushing madly, Shikamaru was scratching the back of his head, Temari was playing with her shirt. Without a word they parted.
When Shikamaru got back to the hotel, he found all they guys were sharing a room and all the girls were sharing one, when he went into his room Kiba and Naruto ran up to him, Rock Lee was working out.
"Where were you? What happened? You look like you've seen a ghost!"
Shikamaru didn't say a word, which convinced the guys he actually saw a ghost. He laid down and was instantly asleep.