some short drabbles from requests people sent me on tumblr.
Requested by anon
Pairing: Shikamaru/Temari
Theme: "first kiss, fluff"
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"You never kissed me."
Oh. He stops.
It's months in the coming (in the making), probably. Years, maybe. He's never been sure.
He hadn't realized it could be like that: love. That it could just sneak up on you without you even realizing.
Wait— to clarify: it's not spontaneous. It's not as though he blinked and she was there. She'd always been there, like an itch in the back of his mind, like she took a sledgehammer and kept bringing it against a cement wall, over and over, cracks runnings and dents growing, until the whole thing came down.
No— that's not right either. It wasn't violent like that (except violent in the way all feeling is, in the way, if his mind lingered on her with any intent, he felt like he was drowning, like everything about her ruined him (and didn't it? if she was everything, if he gave her everything, if she took everything (which he knew she did, even if she never asked for him to give it), then what was left of him? if he gave her everything, he had nothing)).
Don't you think you're being overdramatic? Ino would say.
You're purposefully making excuses. Choji would say.
(that's why he never says anything to them)
She understands though. She's always understood, which is part of the problem. For all those months, all those years, she's understood.
It's in the way she looks at him, in the way she walks beside him, in the way her reaction is his first thought; her name always at the edge of his lips.
Hm. Her fault too, probably.
"You're thinking too much," she says. Her tone is soft, but her face is harder than usual.
Oh. He moves now.
She's nervous too.
"I don't know if I can help it."
Temari shrugs, as though this were any other conversation, and takes her place once more by his side. They walk, in silence, a bit further.
"I was waiting," she says once they get down the hill, "but you never did anything."
"Should I have?"
She laughs so suddenly, so loudly, he seems to shake with the boom of it.
"Done something?!"
"Kissed you?"
She is the one to stop walking this time. Shikamaru, so caught up in his own head, doesn't notice for a moment. When he turns to see her standing there, she is a few feet back.
Her eyes are hard. Angry, even. And sure. As though she is trying to get something across.
"Yes." She says shortly.
Troublesome, he thinks, without even paying attention to the word. It's not like he doesn't know already.
"Yes." He repeats, agreeing.
There is a long pause. There is no wind, no sound to drown out the pounding of his heart in his ears. His mouth is suddenly very dry. His lips, he knows, are shaking.
Finally, slowly, she steps forward. He meets her halfway.
a/n:
sorry for the delay in posting i kept forgetting
i will post the others too and i have more to do eventually
but requests always open to please find me on tumblr (*at*senbons) and put in requests!
notes from my original post are, in short: fluff is my weak point im sorry, i know this is longer than a drabble should be - i'll work harder at cutting down, and my parenthetical usage here is a joke i know (thank you for reading!)
