AN: Here ya go!

Title: I wouldn't mind being with you forever. [ShikaTema, AU]

Rating: M

Wordcount: 1, 350.

"I hate geniuses!" Temari started complaining to the bartender while gulping down her throat a whole bottle of whiskey. That poor old man standing behind the bar and serving drinks to other clients had to listen to her when she was in a bad mood.

"M'am, can I ask why you hate geniuses?" The bartender asked her this question since Temari was coming to this pub regularly. It was his damn job to treat a person responsible for his source of income in the best way possible.

"Isn't this clear as the clouds in the sky? Geniuses act like they know everything about you, like they better than you, but in reality, suck with understanding the feelings of the common people!" Temari expressed her annoyance. It wasn't even that she had something against geniuses. Temari just tried to roast her boss, Shikamaru Nara.

When she moved to live in the Konoha, Temari aimed towards her big ambitions. Being the high-ranked estate agent was like a dream coming true. However, Shikamaru Nara made her dream more suffocating than enjoyable.

Falling in love with your work colleagues or boss was unquestionably forbidden thing to do for Temari. And yet she landed here in this pub, drinking whiskey like a professional drinking champion.

"M'am, I have a feeling there is more to this story." Bartender sighed seeing this woman terrible state.

"There is, hick! But I don't necessarily want to talk about it. I'm not so drunk to ruin my dignity and reputation." Temari shouted while the other pub regular costumers looked in her direction.

Regulars at 'Cigarretes&Whiskey Pub' belonged to the category of either poor people, a bunch of drunks or had anger issues. It was rare to see here a pretty woman that was wearing an expensive black suit. Temari just ignored them, since those people couldn't influence her life in any way, or so she thought.

"Troublesome woman." Well-built men with black hair tied into the ponytail sighed. Temari knew this voice almost too well. What the hell her boss was doing in this low-class pub? On the lucky side of things, he didn't notice she was here, yet. It was just a matter of time before he will. Shikamaru Nara is a genius she hated after all.

Temari watched how her boss got slapped in the face for his words. Ha, he deserved it for making his girlfriend angry. However now was not the time to feel happy that her boss got punched. Now she should get out from this stinky place before he notice she's here.

"Here a little bonus for listening to my rambling." Temari shoved the money into the bartender's hands and quickly put her purse in the bag. She stood up and had an intention to go to the exit, but couldn't stop feeling angry when someone stopped her.

"Hey, hey, pretty girlie wanna come on a ride with me?" Temari wanted to punch that moron right now more than her boss.

"Hey, hey, ugly average joe wanna get punched for wasting my time?" She tried to spit on him to seem more like a real threat than a damsel in distress. Temari didn't have time for teaching this idiot that he shouldn't make her his enemy.

"Ulalalala, the kitty has claws?" Temari rolled her eyes since she wasn't sober enough to not to punch this man straight in the face.

"What a drag! The lady said she didn't want to spend her time with you, so leave her alone." Shikamaru Nara suddenly appeared and like a goddamn hero rescued her, or the man she intended to punch. Who knows? The real problem was that she was in such a hurry because she didn't want to run into him at all.

"Tch. Fine, I can't ruin my pretty face just for flirting." The man walked away.

"Troublesome." It was probably the most favourite word used by her boss. This situation was strange enough, even without running into him. Temari usually was left alone in this pub, since the incident in which she massacred the poor guy that tried to start a fight with her.

"Who's troublesome? Me or that guy?" Temari gave up on avoiding Shikamaru and asked. He looked amused seeing she decided to initiate a conversation with him.

"I guess both. Though, I didn't think that I would run into my co-worker, here." Shit. He recognised her, but Temari No Sabaku never backed down from the challenge.

"Correction, a former co-worker. I plan to give my resignation letter tomorrow." Temari tried to keep up with the conversation, although feeling dizzy. She drank too much of whiskey today.

"What a drag, but to be honest I saw it coming." Shikamaru shook his head still finding interaction with her amusing. Damn, Temari hated how smug he looked.

"I thought so." That was all she could tell. She just wanted to get out from here, but some invisible force stopped her from doing it.

"It's a drag, but can you keep me company for a while?" Temari green eyes widened. Never in her dreams, she thought her boss would invite her to keep him company.

"Why not? It's not like I fear to be fired from my job anyway." And that's how she ended up staying in a pub.

"Hahaha, so that's how you ended up breaking up with your girlfriend?! She slapped you because you used a pick-up line from the TV? That's brilliant!" Temari couldn't help but laugh at his story. Who would've thought that this genius is terrible if it comes to romance?

"I'm reminding you that I'm still your boss, but I guess you too drunk to care about that. Ehh, what a drag." Shikamaru sighed at her antics.

"I know you are, but right now we aren't at work. Besides, I tend to separate work from private life." Temari announced proudly.

"You're strangely making sense, even if you're drunk." Damn, his voice was sexy.

"I always make sense, even if I don't. So what was the pick-up line you used on your ex-girlfriend?" Temari emerald eyes started to lit-up with interest.

"I wouldn't mind being with you forever. Just saying." Shikamaru had a feeling he should regret telling her about this pick-up line he told to his ex.

"You're weird." Temari laughed while drinking her next glass of whiskey.

"Hey, it's troublesome to use the cheesy, romantic pick-up lines. I went through all the trouble to watch the TV programme that would give me decent ideas and you're saying I'm weird?" He looked like a devastated puppy.

"But you're weird. Why bother with the pick-up lines when you're handsome to the point that even I would smash you." Temari expressed her too honest opinion, while Shikamaru started to cough.

"Excuse me?" He lifted his eyebrow when he noticed the bartender giving him a thumbs-up with the look of approval.

"Objectively speaking if you wouldn't be my boss I would smash you without holding back!" Temari admitted.

"Really?" Shikamaru used his question as an excuse to check her out.

"Yes," Temari knew that tomorrow she probably freak out remembering this entire conversation. But now she was too drunk to care about the consequences of her actions.

"I didn't think you were the honest type." She could see his irritating smile.

"You're handsome, no point in denying that. I wouldn't mind being with you forever. Just saying." Temari mimicked his pick-up line jokingly. She didn't believe that her boss got slapped by saying something like that. Those cheesy words weren't offensive at all. Temari liked those words quite a lot to be honest.

"Hmm… You're beautiful too, no point in denying that. I wouldn't mind being with you forever. Just saying." Shikamaru repeated, but this time his words were meant for her.

"You're weird." Temari blushed and after that decided to go home. She had a gut feeling that during the next day she will meet Shikamaru Nara in her favourite pub soon.

She wouldn't mind being with him forever. Just saying.