Disclaimer: Don't own, too bad…
Chapter 2: the Trip.
As the three jounins Kankurou, Temari and Shikamaru started their journey a wild discussion broke loose. Normally they would be quiet while running, and jumping the branches of the first forest they came by.
"I think it will be the Hyuuga girl…" Temari began and giggled.
"Oh, no! Not her, it will be the Ino girl from Shikamaru-san's old team." Kankurou said with a victorious smirk on his face.
"How troublesome. Neither one of them. I think he will go for Sakura, you know. The pink haired girl from Naruto's team." Shikamaru sighed.
"Were are we going to stay tonight?" Temari suddenly asked.
"Camping?" Shikamaru said and looked at the siblings.
"Nope, that's not a good idea, Temari and tents don't match. After the incident…" Kankurou burst out in laughter.
"Incident?" now Shikamaru was curious, it wasn't often that happened, but when it did it hit hard. "Tell me"
"Eherm." Temari blushed and went past the boys that had stopped, since it was to hard laughing and running at the same time. A faint blush made itself noticed on Shikamaru's cheeks. He didn't want to hurt Temari's feelings but, again the story, he just wanted to hear the story.
"It was when we actually were going to the chuunin exams in Konoha, at night we stopped and slept in the tents. And Temari was in her tent when she had a claustrophobic attack, and couldn't get out. She broke down the tent, ripping out the pins from the ground and started running around." Kankurou laughed so hard he fell down on the ground.
"Well, I'm waiting…" Temari continued "You can make fun of me now."
Shikamaru thought and came up with the diplomatic:
"I'm sorry honey, are you feeling that bad? My poor darling."
Kankurou's eyes were about to pop out of hi head, and dropped his jaw almost to the ground. Shikamaru took Temari's hand in his own and continued:
"There are hot springs on the other side of this forest, near Konoha, do you want to stay there for the night?"
Temari nodded and felt so happy in Shikamaru's care, he made her feel safe and of course loved.
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They reached the hot springs around 4 p.m. and Temari glared at her brother.
"Nii-chan, Hyuuga."
"Nee-san, Ino" Kankurou answered and crossed his arms over his chest, making him look like a three year old.
"Calm down you two, you are troublesome." Shikamaru said as he walked up to the woman behind the counter, and started a conversation with her;
"We would like a room each and access to the springs."
"I'm sorry, we only have two rooms left, is it possible if the gentlemen shared?"
Temari chuckled and said:
"Nah, Shika-kun you remember that last time you shared rooms with my brother?"
"Aah" Shikamaru sighed.
"What?" Kankuro asked.
"You snore" Shikamaru and Temari sighed in unison.
"You could stay in my room, if you want…" Temari continued with a smile and a faint blush making itself visible on her tanned cheeks.
"Thank you, Temari-chan" Shikamaru said and kissed her ever so lightly on her forehead.
Temari turned to the female behind the big wooden counter, nodded that two rooms would be okay.
"I think I'm gonna go and soak for a while. Meet you guys in two hours for dinner?" Temari said as she stretched and reached for the sky.
"Sure thing, nee-san, Shikamaru and I will go soak to. Jan ne!" The men and the woman went their separate ways.
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Temari had changed and were only wearing the obligatory towel around her. She put her tired feet into the water with a sigh of the good feeling that came with the warmth surrounding her aching feet.
Then she head it, a loud mouthed voice, screaming:
"SHIKAMARU!"
Temari knew that she had heard the voice before, thinking of who it might be, she continued listening to the conversation on the other side of the walls. Hearing her beloved talk to the loud mouth.
"So good to see you again! How have you been?" that was Shikamaru's voice, a chill ran down her spine as she smiled, her Shikamaru, he belonged to her and her only.
"I've been training and you know my sensei, so I've gathered information for his new." That voice, who could it be?
"Nah, Naruto, tell your sensei that if he peeks at Temari he's a dead man."
'It was Naruto on the other side of the wall, loudmouthed, blondie with blue eyes, now Temari remembered him, chuunin exams in Konoha. The annoying kid that was first and then he was the one that could stop the ultimate form of Gaara.'
She had no more time to think when the wall between men and women came crashing down, because of a white haired man with a nosebleed, who had climbed up the barrier to peek, the women screamed and ran for the shelter of the dressing room. Temari didn't have time to realize that she was the only one left. She took her fan, still wearing only the towel, charging against the white haired pervert.
No time to think she hit him over the head with her fan closed so it could inflict more close distance damage.
She screamed as she reached him:
"Damn pervert! I'm going to get you for this. Pervert!"
After she hit him about ten times with her closed fan, she realized that Shikamaru, Kankurou and a blond man looked at her with big eyes.
As Kankurou saw his sister looking back he turned his head, repeating to himself:
"I did not want to see my sister like that. I did not want to see my sister like that."
"Hot, hot, hot…" Naruto said as he watched Temari.
"Shut up Naruto, that's my future wife, I hope you understand what I mean" Shikamaru hissed.
"But I accept the compliment on her being hot, 'cause I think so to."
"Yo, Ero-sennin" Naruto screamed "I think the future Mrs Nara could have some privacy? Go on Temari, we'll fix this."
"Thank you Naruto, right?" Temari said carrying her fan on her right shoulder as she walked towards the ladies dressing room.
She turned around and continued:
"By the way Naruto, do you know that pervert?"
"Unfortunately he is my sensei; Ero-sennin, also known as one of the three sannins, Jiraya." Naruto sighed.
"Oh, I understand. And thank you again for cleaning up." Temari went out of eyesight and Jiraya starded to regain contusness again. Kankurou had long gone slipped in to the men's changing room.
Temari closed the door behind her and heard an extremely loud shinobi yell:
"Thousand years of PAIN!"
"Aaaaaaaaaah!" she heard the old pervert scream with all his lungs.
Temari took her clothes and began dressing as she heard the men outside talk.
"He's really out of it. Ero-sennin, that's what you call him right?" Kankurou said.
"Yes, he's always been like that. Sneaky old Ero-sennin. Always getting me into trouble." Naruto sighed and mumbled.
"Temari and you, ne?" Naruto continued.
"How troublesome, yes, ever since I left for the hidden village of Sand." Shikamaru said with a smile.
"You're smiling!" Naruto yelled.
"Eh, well, she does that to me." Shikamaru concluded.
"That's not the only thing she does…" Kankurou smirked and raised an eyebrow.
Shikamaru looked down at the ground with an extreme blush coming over his cheeks. Naruto looked confused as he dragged the old pervert by his
hair in to the dressing room. Jiraya's nosebleed got worse as he obviously understood what Kankurou implied.
"Neh? What?" Naruto said, still confused.
Kankurou and Shikamaru sighed as Jiraya started to giggle.
"He isn't that clever?" Kankurou looked at Shikamaru who nodded.
The guys started to get dressed and Naruto looked at Kankurou and wondered:
"Can I borrow some of your puppet's bandages?"
"What? Sure, what are you going to use them for?" Kankurou asked.
"eeeh, I don't want to dress Ero-sennin, but he'll keep the towel on." Naruto nodded to himself as he bandaged Jiraya so he almost looked like one of the puppet master's puppets, exept for the white hair.
"I'll see you guys tomorrow, and by the way Naruto, are you going to Konoha?"
"Yepp, Tsunade-baa-san wanted us to take a short mission. Something about a top secret sand mission." Naruto said as he threw Jiraya over his right shoulder. Shikamaru and Kankurou fell down on the floor laughing, when Kankurou said between laughs:
"So you… are our sneaky partners… for our… TOP Secret mission." Shikamaru starded to laugh even harder when he realized:
"Dating tips from Jiraya" Kankuou squeeked and tears started to fall down his cheeks (messing up his make-up).
"Ne?" Naruto said and looked even more confused.
"You'll see tomorrow when we meet with the Hokage." Shikamaru chuckled, Kankurou whipped away his tears and started to pull himself together.
"See you tomorrow."
Temari sat on a chair brushing her hair and smiling happily this was the first time that Shikamaru was able to sleep in the same room as her, ever. Sure they had done other things, but not slept a whole night.
"Hello there, sweet thing." Shikamaru said, he was another person when he was alone with Temari.
"Hi, want to sleep soon?" Temari smiled as she asked him that.
"Yes, but I have to write today's report for Baki-san." Shikamaru answered.
"Okay, but I'm going to bed." Temari said and kissed Shikamaru's blushed cheek.
Temari crawled down into the cool sheets. Shikamaru sat down by the desk and started to write, it didn't take long for Kankurou next door to start snoring, loudly. The tired man by the desk sighed:
"How troublesome…"
He turned and started to walk towards the bed, when he realized that Temari was already asleep and almost took up all the bed.
"Troublesome woman" Shikamaru sighed again and laid down beside her. As he drifted of to sleep, he found himself enjoying the warmth of Temari's body next to him. He could get used to this…
