Temari laughed and Ino came back up to them, "Did you see that hot girl totally knock out that guy?", Ino snorted.

Shikamaru took a sip of his drink to muffle his words, "Yeah, it was pretty hot."

Temari eyed him with a shove to the shoulder, "Oh, so now you think I'm hot.", she teased.

"I never did get to tell you what I thought about you.", he shrugged lamely.

Ino threw herself onto Shikamaru and he set his drink down to hold the woman, "Shika. I'm tired."

Temari hopped off the counter and held out her hands, "looks like that's my cue to leave."

Shikamaru uncomfortably readjusted the woman who threw herself on him and the power shut out once more, "Great.", Shikamaru groaned as they were all surrounded in complete darkness.

Temari laughed, "I guess that's everyone's cue to leave."

Choji announced that they usually weren't able to get the power back on a second time because of all the systems they had plugged in so it was the end of the party.

Temari easily took Ino from Shikamaru, "Ino you have the keys to the dorm right.", Temari was thanking Ino in her head for being friends with Shikamaru and planning not to live so far from each other so she didn't have to drag the girl so far.

Ino patted her pockets and started to laugh, "Oopsie."

Temari frowned, "No, Ino... what do you mean 'Oopsies'."

Ino stood up wobbly, "I think left them in the van we rented. We will have to get them in the morning.", the girl sheepishly smiled.

Temari face planted, "Great, Ino."

Shikamaru came back and interrupted as he got most of the people filing out the door, "Everything okay? I know that look, it's usually when Ino does something."

Temari sighed, "Sorry we will leave in a moment. Ino said she left our dorm keys in the van she rented and we won't be able to get it until the morning."

Ino threw herself back onto Shikamaru and snuggled into his chest, "We can sleep here, right Shika?", Ino purred.

Shikamaru smiled, "Yeah, that's what she usually does. You can stay too if you want?", he offered.

Temari narrowed her eyes, "Is this where she always goes when she doesn't come home?"

Shikamaru laughed, "Yeah, whenever she doesn't want to sleep at her own place she usually just crashes here. She's in love with our pull out bed couch for some reason.", he shrugged and Ino got excited, "I LOVE that couch.", she said loudly as she tried to wobble to it.

"Okay, okay. let me get the area cleaned up first then I'll get it set up for you alright?", Shikamaru offered as Ino plopped herself on the couch to sit down and flapped her hand to wave him off.

"I wouldn't want to intrude, really. Ino is like your family, but you just met me."

Shikamaru scoffed, "You have no choice, you're staying."

After everyone left the room, Shikamaru and Choji lit some candles to light up the place enough so they could make it to their rooms.

"Does this happen a lot? You two seem to have a system.", Temari questioned.

"Yeah. We use too many systems, so our parties usually end like this.", Choji explained, "The second time the power goes out, it usually doesn't return until the morning."

"Ahh, gotcha.", She responded as she started to help clean up the place.

"Hey, you don't have to do that. Well get it in the morning", Shikamaru announced.

Temari shrugged and picked up a little more and yawned, "Then I'll help you pick it up in the morning."

Shikamaru rolled his eyes, "You don't have to help at all is what I'm saying."

"I want to help, it's the least I can since you're letting us stay here.", she retorted.

Shikamaru led her to his room with Ino, "My dressers right there. Ino usually picks at random what she wants to borrow, you can too.", he explained before he went to clean up the couch area for Ino.

Ino gleefully started rummaging through the dresser and threw a shirt and Temari, "This one's his favorite, wear this!"

Temari dropped the shirt from her face, "I'm not wearing it if it's his favorite.", she said placing it back in the dresser.

Temari helped Ino get dressed then led her to the couch.

Shikamaru came back into his room with Temari. The way their dorms were set up was when you walked in you were met with a pretty spacious living area connected to an open kitchen. Then off of one of the walls was three doors to each room that usually housed two people. Shikamaru and his roommates, Choji and Neji, were lucky enough that they all three got their own rooms.

"I have two bed's because I don't have a roommate, but you can sleep on my bed since I already have pillows and blankets set up. I have extras in Choji's room I can use for the other bed."

Temari shook her head, "I'll take the extra bed. I wouldn't feel right if I took your room and your bed."

Shikamaru rolled his eyes, but did as she said so. Not wanting to make her uncomfortable, he made his extra bed.

Temari felt so out of place going through his stuff, but found that mostly everything he had was super comfy. Finally she pulled out something she saw was familiar in the second drawer. A hoodie he always wore to their 8 am class on Tuesdays. Temari smirked and bit her lip, he always looked so cozy in it and so peaceful when he slept during class. She just had to try it on.

She threw off her top and yanked off her skin-tight pants Ino forced on her and slid her arms into the sweet softness of his black hoodie. She sighed as the comfort took over her body. She fluffed her hair out of the hoodie and sighed a relief once more.

Shikamaru knocked and entered when she said, "Come in."

"You look comfy.", he snarked as he dropped of the blankets he was letting her borrow on the bed.

Temari giggled, "I had to try it out. You always look so comfy during class."

"I always am. that's my favorite hoodie so you better not ruin it, or else those 8 am classes are going to be dreadful to power through.", he joked.

Temari looked at him worried, "I'll wear a different one then."

Shikamaru stopped her, "Don't. you look good in it."

Temari blushed as he stood before her, blocking her from the dresser to change. She realized they were getting close again and he cleared his throat, "Okay. I'll wear this one then.", she breathed lowly between their space and stepped away to clear her mind.

Shikamaru tore his gaze from the girl that was only wearing his hoodie and watched as she climbed into the taller bed showing her legs.

Shikamaru turned around and tore off his shirt and pants to snug on some sweat pants, leaving them lower than the band of his underwear.

He turned around lazily to blow out the candles in his room seeing if Temari was adjusted, but she was staring at him awkwardly, "What?"

"Do you always change in front of girls you just meet?"

Shikamaru looked at her lamely as if he couldn't care less, "Did you not enjoy the view?"

Temari laughed and held up two hands in defense, "You're right. I'm not complaining", she joked.

Shikamaru's face turned a deep red and he blew out the last of the candles, "Shut up and go to bed."

Temari chuckled, "You're such a romantic when it comes to talking to a lady."

Shikamaru laughed and crawled into his own bed, leaving silence between them, "Yeah, yeah. Night, tem", he said sarcastically, as he faced the ceiling.

"Goodnight... Nara.", she said in a low anxious tone.

Shikamaru's eyebrows creased hearing the shakiness in her voice, "What's wrong now?"

Temari stiffened in her bed, "Nothing. I said goodnight."

Shikamaru wasn't buying it, "Yeah and your tone says you aren't going to sleep anytime soon."

Temari huffed, "I just keep having flashbacks of the haunted house."

Shikamaru smirked, "like of that clown that scared us at the end?"

Temari physically cringed.

"Or what about the eyeballs dropping from the walls?"

She pulled the covers up to her neck, "Shut it, Nara."

"Or the hands coming out at us?", he said in a low scary, mocking tone.

Temari physically screeched and jumped off her bed and climbed over Shikamaru to the inside of his bed towards the wall. Shikamaru's eyes grew wide as a woman shared his bed next to him.

He smirked even more and got closer to whisper, making her feel his breath tingle against her ear, "Or the time when we had to dissect a fake body?"

Temari shook and jumped under the covers with him and buried her head into his chest, "I'm sleeping with you tonight and you're not allowed to leave this bed. That's FINAL!"

Shikamaru laughed and wrapped a hand around her back, pulling her closer in comfort, "You sure you don't want the outside of the bed?", he joked.

Temari shook her head furiously against his chest, "Nope.", she confirmed with a popping sound to her single word, "The demons can get you first."

Shikamaru laughed and Temari peeked her head out of the covers to glare up at him.

"And you say I'm the crybaby."

"You have a woman in your bed, why are you complaining?", she huffed.

Shikamaru reddened and could feel his body heat up, but Temari hummed breaking him out of his thoughts, "You're so warm.", she said as she cozied closer to him, nuzzling into his body.

"Well geez, probably because I'm so hot it just radiates off of me."

Temari rolled her eyes, but didn't even care about his egotistic comment, "I would buy that."

Shikamaru slightly laughed, "So you do think I'm hot?"

Temari lifted her head and propped in on the back of her hand that laid flat on his chest to look up at him, "That's not all I think, but it's not my turn. Is it?", Temari teased In a hushed seductive tone.

Shikamaru groaned, "You're still waiting for that response, huh?"

Temari nodded.

"Why?"

"Why?", Temari repeated.

"Yeah... Why does it matter to you so much what I think of you? I'm sure my response is going to be more positive than what you have to say about me...", he said unconfident.

"Is that really what you think, Shikamaru?", she said in a hurt tone.

Shikamaru felt butterflies fly into his chest finally hearing his name come from her mouth in a caring tone, but he only shrugged in response.

Temari sighed and looked at him, "I think you are very handsome. Like Ino made me confess earlier." She brought a finger to trace the line of his jaw, "but I also think you're intelligent, witty, caring, sweet, and the nicest person I've met."

Shikamaru chuckled, "You think I'm nice?"

Temari nodded and poked his forehead, "You are very nice. Now what do you think of me?"

Shikamaru gave a nervous chuckle, "Man, what a drag. This is going to be sappy."

Temari chuckled back, "What? Are you embarrassed to admit your feelings?", she mocked.

He cleared his throat, "Yeah.", he said with a crack in his voice.

Temari looked at him seriously, caressing his cheek then thought, "I never fixed your kiss mark."

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow, "You're thinking about that now?"

Temari nodded and sat up on her knees, leaning over him, "How about a compromise. For every time you tell me what you think about me, I'll give you a kiss mark."

Shikamaru leaned up in his forearms, "No one is going to see it, what's the point?"

Temari shrugged with a playful smile, "Motivation."

Shikamaru laughed and laid back down, running his hands through his hair tensely. The girl never moved, only looking down at him, waiting for him to agree.

He finally gave in, letting out a large exhale, "I... I think you're super smart.", he confessed sincerely with eyes closed.

Temari smiled before leaning over to him and kissed his cheek with pressure to leave a lipstick stain with what she had left on her lips.

Shikamaru chuckled, "This this stupid.", as he dropped his hand to her bare leg and looked at her.

Temari shook her head, "Keep going, I wanna know, Nara."

"It's Shikamaru. We keep getting so close.", He glared at her, "I think you're troublesome", he groaned.

Temari giggled and kissed lower on his cheek, making Shikamaru chuckle too, "I think you're fun to talk to."

Temari grinned and kissed his jaw, making him shudder and his mind become groggy, "I uh, think you are-" he cleared his throat, trying to recollect his thoughts, "-you were a good partner to have in the haunted house."

She smirked confidently and put her hand on his neck to position his head to give her room to kiss his neck.

Shikamaru tensed, squeezing her leg as he shut his eyes at the feeling of her soft lips surrounding a spot on his neck gently.

He took a sharp exhale, "I t-think you are enticing", he gulped.

Temari hummed against his neck and lifted the kiss to give him another on his jaw.

"I think you're only using me to get a better grade than me.", he chuckled.

Temari giggled and looked at him, "That is not true.", she said as she playfully kissed the corner of his lips.

Shikamaru chuckled and looked up at her as she hovered over him waiting for another answer.

He reached up and tucked a strand of loose hair behind her ear, "I think you are very, very beautiful.", he said in a hushed raspy tone.

Temari looked at him with furrowed confused eyes like she was searching for something, but then she lightly brought her lips to his. Shikamaru inhaled nervously at the sweet touch of her lips and brought his hand to the back of her head.

Temari hummed at the touch and barely pulled away from his lips with her eyes half lidded, "What else?", she seductively hummed to his lips.

"I think you're a really good kisser.", he admitted as he licked his lips.

Temari smiled and kissed his bottom lip then bit it which made him bite back a groan of pleasure.

Temari smirked at him and he glared at her with his chest feeling heavy. She tossed her leg over him to straddle him and sat on his lap. She propped her forearms on each side of his head and leaned in close, "What else, Nara?", she said with a click of her tongue."

Shikamaru narrowed his eyes, "I think you're a big tease, and it's Shika-"

Temari curled a smirk as she cut him off with a kiss, opening his mouth to let her tongue travel around seductively.

Shikamaru groaned against her lips as his hands traveled up her bare legs and underneath his hood to hold her waist, feeling her skin in his hands.

She pulled back slightly, "It's Shikamaru. I know.", She whispered playfully and started kissing his jaw line.

Shikamaru chuckled with a shuddering inhale with her touch, "It doesn't seem like you know.", he said breathily.

She made her way up to his ear and bit his ear lobe and whispered, "I can prove I know it."

Shikamaru scrunched his eyes shut instantly wincing at her seductive words and squeezed her waist tightly, "Temari.", he growled in a stern voice which made her hover above him and look at him, "You're playing a dangerous game.", he warned.

Temari looked at him unpleased, "It's not a game anymore, Nara.", then brought her lips back to his.

Shikamaru eagerly deepened their kiss and flipped her over, "Fine.", he said in a breathless husky tone as he slid off the hoodie she was wearing, "Prove It to me then.", he demanded.