"Those two are always together, something has to be going on between them, right?" Naruto nudged Sakura as they walked a reasonable distance behind Shimamaru and Temari.

"Nothing is going on between them, Naruto. Besides, Lady Tsunade first assigned Shikamaru as her escort while she visits due to Suna's history, and now with Kakashi as hokage, it's been made mandatory they work together both being advisors of hokage and kazekage." Sakura rolled her eyes as Naruto stuck his tongue out at her.

Temari's hips swayed while she walked, what the two were talking about could not be made out due to the lowness in each other's voices. However, Shikamaru looked cool and friendly while listening to her.

Naruto scoffed. "Sakura, he NEVER walks with anyone. He either walks solo or walks with his teammates. They're fucking. Change my mind." Before Sakura could greet Naruto with a fist to the face, Kiba crept in between the two putting his arms around their shoulders joining them on their walk.

Sakura made a disgusted face and plucked him from her. "Kiba, you're a great guy, but don't touch me." Kiba rolled his eyes and looked over to Naruto. "So what are we talking about?"

Naruto pinned his glaze towards the two and nodded. "What do you think?"

"Oh there's something going on without a doubt. You can smell her all over him."

"That doesn't mean-"Sakura tried to chime in but Kiba cut her off.

"-Let me finish, I've only picked up Temari's smell once, and it's hardly even on her brothers. But I'm always around Shikamaru. And even after he goes home for the day, cleans up and-"

Kiba put up quotation marks with his fingers "-is alone for the night or next day, he still smells like her." Naruto let out a devilish grin and looked over to an unamused Sakura.

"Okay whatever, let's say they are…'seeing each other'. Why do we care?"

"Because it needs to be Konoha official!" Naruto said it a little too loud causing Kiba to step on his foot to tone it down a notch.

"I'm going to stop by his house later tonight and give him his shogi board if you guys want to come. I can't play this game for my life." Kiba sighed. "He let me borrow it so I could learn and then play him one of these days but this brainy game stuff just isn't for me."

"And then we can stay nearby and see what he's doing in the afterhours! Smart thinking if you ask me." Naruto elbowed Kiba.

Sakura huffed. "I'm NOT going."

"And why not?" Kiba smirked in her direction. "It's not our business to be prying into theirs."

"If you don't go, I'll tell Ino how you've been swapping out her perfume with bug spray."

Sakura's jaw dropped and head sunk to her chest. "SO, PALS, what time are we going?"

"Meet me by the Nara residence at 6."

Later that night

"Why the HELL do you two look like you're about to rob someone?" Sakura gave a distasteful look at the two who were dressed head to toe in black. Black beanies, black shirt and joggers, black socks and black shoes, while Sakura just wore her normal everyday pink attire minus her black gloves.

"We're snooping around. Kiba is just dropping off the game anyways." Kiba knocked on the door softly and was greeted by Yoshino Nara. "Good evening you three, what brings you all here tonight?"

Kiba pulled out the board. "I'm returning this to your son, is he around?" Yoshino looked surprised.

"He didn't tell you all? He moved into his own place months ago. Since he's not married yet, he cannot take over the Nara clan residency just yet. I told him he could stay but..."

She rubbed her shoulder nervously. "he said something about needing more privacy? I guess that's what the young are doing these days ha-ha!" Sakura's face turned bright red just thinking the possibility of Kiba and Naruto being right out of all people.

"If you go two blocks down, there will be a tall brown building with a white door. Once inside, take a right and go up the stairs, he's the first door in the condominium and he should be there by now."

The three bowed in thanks to Yoshino and waved goodbye. "Stay safe you three, tell him to stop by sometime please!" She smiled and waved to them as they walked away.

"Okay, so if you two are right, why do you care still? Maybe they want to keep their relationship… I don't know, private?"

"Sakura, Sakura, oh so naïve. So detached from the real world. Two words: bro code."

"The fuck does bro code have to do with anything?"

"Temari is a very attractive woman. She's developed-"

"-unlike you" Sakura stomped on Naruto's foot per sly remark. "OW!"

"She's smart, fit, beautiful, exotic. We need to know if they're a thing or not so we don't go against bro code. Only go for bitches that aren't with the BROS."

"Can I just go home!" Sakura cried out.

Before the three knew it, they were outside of his condo door. "Well here it is…" Naruto knocked and waited a few minutes but got no reply.

"Huh, I don't sense his smell?" Kiba gripped his hand around the doorknob and to his surprise it opened abruptly. Yet nobody was inside.

"Shikamaru?" Kiba placed the Shogi board on his coffee table and looked around. "This place is NICE what the heck? Why didn't he tell anyone about this?" Naruto closed the door behind them.

His condo was mate black with a full kitchen, wine cellar on the wall, chocolate brown leather couches, a flatscreen tv, what looked like an office and library in the back, and a master bedroom and bathroom. His house was very clean and could be described as a bachelor's lounge.

"I don't think this is a good idea just being in his house like this, let's just get out guys it's not worth it." Sakura started backing up towards the door but was startled by footsteps. "Run!" She pointed towards a closet in his living room and the three scrambled inside. Luckily, this closet was empty and spacious with a few small cracks to see what was going on in the room.

Shikamaru opened the door to his place. He had what looked like take-out in one arm and books in the other. After setting his things down on his kitchen table, he noticed the shogi board and chucked. "Ha, he gave up so soon. Oh well."

Sakura whispered to the two. "See! She's not here, let's wait til he goes to his room and let's GO!" Naruto put a hand over Sakura's mouth and kept looking through the cracks.

Shikamaru began to spray his house with some sort of woody air freshener. He started up his fireplace and then set his table up with the food he brought home, accompanying it with two wine glasses and a new bottle of Romanee-conti.

"What in the fuck! I never want to hear him say he has no money to go out." Kiba whispered as he watched him open the expensive wine.

Shikamaru looked at himself in the mirror, fixed his hair and adjusted his collar. A soft knock was at his door.

The three's faces turned pale.

"Did anyone see you?" Shikamaru asked the blonde.

"No, people aren't out at this time of the evening. In Suna, everyone is out at night. So, this is new to me."

Temari's hair was down and pushed behind her ears, and was dressed in a slim fitting, long black dress that went down to her ankles but slit at the thigh. The dress was tube cut with dainty straps that hung on the sides of her shoulders and black stilettos with red bottoms finished the look.

She looked down to the coffee table to see the shogi board. "So Kiba gave up? She giggled.

Behind the closet doors Kiba was gritting his teeth. "It's a hard fucking game."

"I got us some Unagi and Tempura. Did you want to eat now?" Shikamaru gestured towards the table. "I'll take a glass of wine first if you don't mind?"

Shikamaru poured them both a glass and then sat next to her on the couch with his arm draped around her waist and hand on her rear. She laid her head on the side of his chest and sighed. "They have us do so much shit. I'm over it." She lifted her wine glass and drank to that.

Although Sakura was surprised, she cooed and thought how cute this was.

"Everyone expects me to be like my dad, but I'm nothing like him. Sure, I'm smart, but this ninja stuff is such a drag. I rather not." He took a sip and looked down at her. "But I feel better now."

Temari blushed at placed her wine glass on a coaster on the coffee table.

"I can make it even better if you want?"

Naruto made a face. "Man now we gotta watch them kiss? Gross." Sakura and Kiba's faces went stone cold. "What? What's wr- A!" Naruto masked his shriek with both hands as he watched Temari unbutton Shikamaru's pants and pull out his member so she could place her lips and tongue on the head. Shikamaru sat with a cool expression over his face watching her go down on him as he sipped his wine.

She ran her tongue along his shaft several times before bobbing her head up and down his wet dick. She let out soft moans between each stroke and then used her hand to stroke it as she did so.

Sakura covered her eyes with both hands embarrassed and crouched down in the corner. "I hate both of you oh my gosh.."

"She's going to town on him! Forget bro code man." Kiba's jealous whispers didn't phase Naruto. "How is he so lucky? That thing makes my thing look like a joke!"

"Stop staring at his dick you homo!"

"It's a compliment geez." Naruto face palmed.

Temari lifted her head and used a tissue on the table to clean her face up. "I think I'm ready for dinner." She lifted her shoulders and attempted to stand but Shikamaru pulled her back down with a heavy smirk.

"I'm not."

He positioned her to sit on his lap with her back facing him. He pushed her hair off to one shoulder and began kissing down her neck as he unzipped the dress. Temari crossed her arms to cover her breasts as he signaled her to stand so the dress could fall to the ground. She kicked off her heels and tilted her head back. "You know this dress is new right?" She rolled her eyes as he caught site to her thick butt that was eating her black thong. "Who cares."

"I need to sit down this is too much." Naruto accompanied Sakura on the ground and pulled his knees to his chest. "Sakura, from now on when you tell me to listen to you, I will. I promise- "

"Temari's boobs!" Kiba whispered and Naruto came crawling on the floor of the closet.

She removed her arms from her chest and spread her legs so Shikamaru could remove her underwear. Before he could pull her back in Temari went towards the food. "I told you I was hungry. She picked up some brown chopsticks and bent over the table to grab a piece of Tempura.

Shikamaru bit his lip and got up from his seat to stand behind her. With his pants still unbuttoned and member still erect and out, he positioned himself behind her, gripping her butt with his hands.

Temari quickly moved and chuckled. "You think you can just have it your way every time huh? She began to dance around the kitchen with her chopsticks still in hand.

"C'mon Temari, I'm not doing this every single time. Please stop being difficult." Shikamaru was equally annoyed and aroused by her behavior.

Back in the closet Kiba was now feeling more awkward than amused. "I'm sitting down with you two, we're going to be here for a while."

"I don't know why they just won't go to the bedroom! What kind of roleplay type shit is this!" Sakura kept her hands over her face in embarrassment.

"Do…what? I don't know what you're talking about." Temari's low grin was menacing. She reached towards a laundry basket near his room and grabbed a shirt. "I think I'm done." Before she could put his shirt on, he used shadow possession jutsu and pulled her body towards his. She let out a loud moan as his shadows wrapped tightly around her breasts, waist, and inside of her.

He then bent her back over and inserted himself inside of her wet pussy. Temari gasped with pleasure but grinned and quietly mumbled "You won't do anything."

Shikamaru began thrusting slow…gradually picking up his pace between every moan she let out. One of his shadows then wrapped around her neck to muffle her screams.

"-Shika…maru… please!" He pushed the food to the edge of the table, turned her around and laid her flat on top. From this angle, the closet was adjacent and getting rather hot with embarrassment. Her arms were entangled tightly by his shadows, yet he took full control over her thighs, spreading them wide. Temari panted as she watched him bring his face closer to her throbbing clit before running his tongue inside and out of her.

"I want to go HOME!" Kiba began to pull at his hair. "It was hot but it's weird because it's Shikamaru we can all agree from these angles we're mainly seeing him and not her."

"Well DIPSHIT who's idea was it to come here!"

"Can you two shut up before they hear us. Besides I'm not minding this bonding time hehe." After a whisper screaming match, the three continued to glance at opposite sides of the closet, close their eyes and peek simultaneously.

"NYA!" Temari screamed as she came all over his face. "T-the table!" Her face turned bright red realizing she was within inches from their dinner.

Shikamaru licked his lips and wiped the rest of his face. "Almost done."

He picked her up and put her on the ground in missionary style where he continued to stroke inside of her throbbing pussy, all while making out with her to muffle her moans.

"Do you guys want to get Ramen after this?" Naruto confidently asked the two.

"I want. To go HOME." Sakura pulled Naruto's hair and whispered in his ear. "From, NOW to the end of TIME we are even, and you better not bring this up to a soul or I will beat the living shit out of you."

"Hey Sakura, don't you guys have some girls outing tomorrow too?"

"I do."

"Do you think she'll bring this up?" Kiba curiously asked.

"No, Temari is open but she's private about her relationships. Last time I asked her if she was single, she just told us it's complicated and left it at that."

Sakura glanced over to the crack in the closet door. They were kissing so passionately and looked overall happy with one another. "So…why do you guys think they keep their relationship private?"

"I heard Kankuro doesn't like Shikamaru, but I see Yoshino talking to Temari all the time. Do you know anything about Gaara, Naruto?" Kiba asked.

"Nah, Gaara's cool now. I don't think he understands the concept of a relationship though so for all he knows they're just friends."

"Maybe this is how they stay so mellow? Being within one another's presence seems to make them forget about everything going on. You do know they are the right-hand assistants to hokage and kazekage right?"

"Yea but that's just papers and stuff." Naruto added.

"No dummy, they're the ones scheduling meetings, going into the community to see what issues are happening and reporting them back to the leader, then on top of that, when hokage or kazekage can't be there, they must step in for them. It's a lot of work, and both are still young doing things elders should be doing." Sakura scratched her brow. "They probably relate on so much but don't want to acknowledge it publicly because they like the privacy."

"Deep shit." Kiba looked through the cracks wishing he didn't.

Shikamaru bust his seed out inside of the kunoichi wincing as she wrapped her arms and legs tightly around him. His back was covered in red scratches from her grip. The two finally got up from the floor. Temari quickly grabbed her dress and shoes and walked over to place them in his room.

"Shikamaru?"

"Yea?" He buttoned his shirt and pants back up not gazing over to her.

"Can I stay here for the night?" She looked down with innocent eyes.

"You always stay after you come over. I'll meet you in the shower once I clean all of this up."

"Okay." Before she could fully escape into his bedroom and the bathroom within it he called back to her.

"Hey Temari?"

"Yes?" She turned towards him.

"I…I don't know what this is, but I like it."

She smiled softly. "Me too." She tried to turn back around but he caught her again.

"-I think what I'm trying to say is I love you?"

"-You've never said that before…" Her face flushed red and her teal eyes widened.

"I know it's a drag and I'm-"

"I love you too." She walked over to the slender shinobi and kissed him on the cheek finally disappearing into the room.

Shikamaru finally managed to clean up the mess they had made and then disappeared into his room shutting the door.

The three let out a sigh of relief, waited a few minutes before bolting towards the door. All three managed to escape his place successfully. Kiba, Naruto and Sakura all ran towards the exit. Unfortunately for Sakura, she ended up tripping and falling. "WAIT GUYS WAIT!" Shikamaru's door cracked open, and it was him in some plaid pajama pants and a shirt.

"Oi, hey guys what are you doing here?"

All three were winded in the face. Kiba interjected. "I dropped off your game earlier and wanted to see if I got the right place while I was out with them, but I figured you weren't awake so we just decided to go home.

"Kiba, it's only 8:30."

"You nap a lot." Naruto added.

He shrugged. "Fair enough. Hey sorry I didn't tell you about the place earlier, still trying to get adjusted. I'd invite you in but there's a big mess and all."

Sakura gave a deadpanned look.

"Mhm yup it's all good man! Hey we'll see you later okay?" Naruto and Kiba both waved and exited not lending a helping hand to Sakura.

Shikamaru grabbed her hand to help her up. "Long day?"

"Extremely." She sighed. "Hey, not that it's any of my business, but have you ever thought about asking Temari out?"

Shikamaru nervously scratched the back of his neck. "I mean, now that you think of it… Should I?"

"Yea, I mean us girls talk all the time and she seems to favor you a lot. What's the worst that could happen right? Sakura dusted herself off and walked towards the exit.

"Take care of yourself, Shikamaru."

"You too."

The two parted ways and he turned back into his place releasing his breath.

"What was that about?" Temari came from the bedroom.

"Kiba, Naruto and Sakura were about to show up at random. That was close."

"Hm" Temari shrugged and grabbed a bag of chips.

"Did you maybe want to go on a date sometime?"

"A date? Like today?"

"L-like a date in public."

"Oi!" She was shocked but not in a bad way. "I mean only if you're comfortable with it."

Shikamaru grinned and laughed.

Without hesitation he ran up on her, threw her over his shoulder and onto his bed.

"THE CHIPS DAMMIT!" She screamed in laughter.