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•Goal•*
"Mom, Did you ever think you would live in Konoha?"
Temari, Shikamaru and Shikadai has been cooking dinner together when her son asked this question out of the blue. Temari pretty much forced the two of them to help, because the only thing they were doing was sleeping. Of course, they both complained, but Shikadai decided to ask questions while carrying out this boring task of washing the vegetables.
Shikamaru was curious for her to answer, so instead of taking his attention of the meat he was cutting, he just continued to listen without saying anything. Temari, on the other hand, stop cutting the vegetables for a second. For her the answer to the question isn't as simple to answer as one might think. And by the pensive expression on her face, Shikadai could see she was deeply thinking about this.
"To say no would be a lie, but saying yes isn't quite the answer either."
"Didn't you say it would be easier to live in Konoha because you were ambassador" Shikamaru asked, still not taking his eyes off of the meat.
"I did say that, but that definitely wasn't a reason why I'd move here"
Now Shikamaru was starting to get more curious, he couldn't think of any other reasons that would make her want to move to Konoha, before they were together.
"So why mom?"
"Well..." Temari's face had turned red, and her behavior had changed. It reminded Shikamaru of the day the went to look for a honeymoon for Hinata and Naruto all them years ago. At first he had no idea what that behavior meant but now he knows it all too well. She only acted like this when it involved her romantic feelings about him.
"Well Tem?" Shikamaru began pressuring her to finish the story.
"Well, when I was fifteen I had goals. Become the best kunoichi so I could serve Suna to the best of my ability. I didn't care about friends, or family for that matter. But..."
"But what mom" Shikadai could see how she began looking sad, but tried to change back before they could notice. It they both had seen the facial change.
"But eventually Suna and Konoha became allies, so my goals changed. Me and brothers were somewhat of a normal family. So with that, friends somehow came Naturally. And I wanted to use my skills to keep the peace between the two villages, so maybe our friendships could last"
"That doesn't explain if you wanted to live in Konoha or not"
"I didn't finish Dai. As I was saying, When I was about 19, I had to deliver some documents to the fifth Hokage, and as I was leaving, I got into an incident with a kid, and one of my friends intervened and handled the situation well. But the way he talked with the kid and the kid's friends was very nurturing. And it made me realize that I would want to start a family with someone like that." Shikamaru had began smiling from ear to ear and Shikadai could see that, even with his mom in between the middle of them to. "And now my goals were to have that, a happy family of my own"
"You said he, so your friend that intervened was a guy. And he made you want to move to Konoha and start a family?"
"Something like that"
"Was this guy Dad"
"I made it too easy. Huh"
"Yea. So dad is the reason you changed your goals"
"In a since Yea"
"Well I'm glad that I could've helped you achieve them"
Now they both were smiling at each other, distracted from the task Temari had given them.
"Gross" Shikadai left, and his mom didn't even care that he hadn't finished his part.
And I thought I might want one, a family, of my own.
