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Here comes some ShikaTem and ShikaIno. And just so you guys know, I FUCKING HATE LOVE TRIANGLES.


(Normal POV)

"Ino," said girl looked up from the flowers she was tending to and saw Shikamaru.

"Oh, hey, Shikamaru!" She stood up and dusted herself off. "What's up?'" She smiled brightly.

"Where's a good place for a dinner date?" Shikamaru was looking her dead in the eye and a blush coated his cheeks.

Ino was shocked for a moment before cracking a smile and raising an eyebrow. She chuckled at him, which made the pink on his cheeks go cherry red. He really hated this.

"Why? Where you gonna take me?" Ino winked but she knew he wasn't going to take her. She may have liked him a long time ago, but life goes on and so do crushes.

"Temari's coming tonight and I'm trying to muster up enough courage to ask her," Shikamaru looked a little perturbed and he was watching a bee land on a flower.

Ino held back her laugh behind her hand and stood behind the counter. She picked up the phone sitting next to her, pulled out a sheet of paper, dialed a number and handed it to Shikamaru. He eyed it for a few seconds before taking it.

( Person on the receiving end of the phone- Will be talking in bold italics.)

"Moshi-moshi! This is _. How may I be of assistance to you?"

Shikamaru looked a little beyond helpless in that instant. Ino took pity upon him, and with a big sigh, took the phone from his hands. She quickly made reservations for Shikamaru and hung up.

"She'll be here by tomorrow, right?" Ino looked slightly skeptic.

"Yeah, she's coming here around three today." His shoulders slumped just slightly as relief somewhat washed over him.

"Alright, good. Your reservations are tomorrow night at 7. You should come here first and get her some flowers and chocolate. Oh~! Also,-" Shikamaru stopped her by mumbling; "Tch, troublesome," And walking out the door.

She puffed her cheeks out and crossed her arms, yelling after him; "PARTY SHITTER!" Ino turned around and continued to arrange the flowers.

Shikamaru watched as the clouds drifted lazily by. He took a drag from his cig and closed his eyes and leaned back against the bench. He was still nervous as hell about asking Temari out to dinner and possibly to go watch a movie at his apartment. He fidgeted in his seat and took a few deep breaths before opening his eyes again. This was definitely not going to be easy.

"Hey, cry-baby." Shikamaru jumped just slightly and turned his head to the side. Temari was leaning against her fan, one hand on her hip and a scowl on her face. She was obviously in an irritable mood.

"Oh...Hey, Temari." He looked back towards the sky and ignored her irritated huff of breath. She sat down on the bench next to him and made sure her arm touched his.

This is how it usually went; he would act like he didn't want her there, and she would verbally abuse him. They would ignore the sexual tension between them and use fighting words to get it out of their system in a weird kinky way. They had a lot of physical contact bordering on the line of sexual.

"You didn't come and get me today, lazy-ass. I had to come and find you, granted it wasn't that hard, considering you never leave this damn place." Temari said, her eyes skyward.

"Tch, it was too troublesome. 'Sides, you knew where I would be." Shikamaru threw the butt of his cigarrete on the floor and ground it with the heel of shoe; Temari watched with a slight scowl. She wasn't particularly fond of his smoking habits. She mentally cursed Asuma for letting Shikamaru get addicted to the nicotine sticks.

"You should stop smoking. No girl will kiss you if you have cig breath." Temari didn't look him in the eye, but rather glowered at the bug flying by.

Shikamaru smirked and threw an arm behind her shoulders, ignoring the obvious blush on both their cheeks.

"Tch, troublesome." He muttered. They sat in silence for a little longer before Shikamaru finally found his courage and asked; "I'm taking you out to dinner tomorrow. Be ready by 6:30. Dress nice." With that said, he got up and walked away, leaving Temari to register the fact that he had just 'asked' (more like told) her out on a date.

Once it did register, she felt a smile take over her red face.


"Ino," she looked up to see Shikamaru back in front of her.

"Did you ask yet!? It's four so I'm assuming she's-" He cut her off once again.

"Yes, I did. Where's the restaurant at?" You could tell Shikamaru was uncomfortable and Ino sensed this.

"Down the street, and around the corner. It's_." Ino was going to tease him but decided against seeing as he would probably bug her about liking Choji.

"Thanks," and he was gone.


(With Asuma and Kurenai)

"I do hope you know that you're losing this bet." Asuma smirked at his wife.

She cursed and smacked him upside the head as she walked away from their hiding spot. Asuma mumbled and held the back of his head where she smacked him.

"NO SEX TONIGHT!" Kurenai yelled out behind her.

Asuma wilted to the ground. Well, damn. Maybe he shouldn't have bet against his wife.


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