A/N: I know in my profile it said I would probably only write about Teen Titans, but lately I've become freakishly obsessed with Naruto, so here I am...writing Naruto! This is just going to be a collection of drabbles. I enjoy writing drabbles. They're fun.

Anyhoo, I would appreciate it if people didn't flame me for the pairings shown in this fic. I'm allowed to like whatever pairings I want, so respect my opinion, please, and I'll respect yours. :)

Disclaimer: Like anybody would actually believe me if I said I owned Naruto. Sheesh.

Odds and Ends

Chapter One: Crybaby

Pairings: Shikamaru/Temari

What a bland guy. She had never met anyone as boring as him in all her life. He was hopelessly plain and, in many cases, hopelessly predictable. She didn't know him terribly well, but she had a pretty good idea of what he was like; lazy, bored, aloof. Everything was too troublesome for him. Why bother? Too troublesome. Who cares? It's so troublesome. Troublesome this, trouble that.. Troublesome, troublesome, troublesome.

She had to hand it to him, though, he was smart. He had her in a very sticky situation back when they had fought in the Chuunin exams. But he had withdrawn at the last minute, announcing that even victory would be too troublesome. That had irked her greatly. Did he not take her seriously? What kind of idiot forfeited at the last minute? It made her grimace just thinking about it. That had been pretty embarrassing. But she was a confident, proud woman, and she had managed to maintain her composure. She had won the match, after all, even if it was by default.

Luckily, she had been given the chance to redeem herself later on, though, when she had come to his rescue on his mission to save that Uchiha boy. She hadn't been a moment too soon. Indeed, he would have most likely been died if it weren't for her.

And then, upon their return, while the two of them sat in the Konoha hospital awaiting the result's of his comrade's surgery, the dull, predictable boy had some something rather unpredictable; he had turned on the water works.

Apparently crying wasn't too troublesome for him.

What an unbelievable guy! Crying in the presence of a lady, like some whiny infant! A lazy ass and a crybaby all in one? Pathetic.

He was a waste of space.

A real hypocrite, being so troublesome himself.

He was aggravating, irritating and entirely not her type.

But I've got to admit, Temari thought to herself with a mischievous smile, He's pretty cute for a crybaby.