Author's Note: You know the basic we,fanfiction authors always do? Yes that's right- Saying we "Don't owe Naruto Characters." Haven't done that. Trying to not be lazy-I become forgetful instead? I prefer laziness over forgetting important things then again what's the use of remembering things when you're not going to act on it? I'm under the illution I am capable of deep thoughts please don't burst the bubbles (my hope).
I apologize for my past mistakes and my future mistakes. I was never a big fan of editing. Maybe I should get someone to edit it. The only person I have around here-would be my cousin-we share the same name-Anne. Haha. She's a six grader and the toughest critique I ever faced.
I am doomed. Again,may I borrow a wrench?
Out of curiousity do you read this section at all? I am a bubbling idiot.
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Shikamaru watched the clouds,they seem to linger around,so idle,so free. He wished he was free just like them. He doesn't need to pretend anymore. Just be himself. Being lazy is him,but that wasn't the side of him he was speaking of. He sighed deeply.
He sees her face at the randomness times that he would just chuckle,remembering the conversation he had with her. How he fears her especially when she holds a weapon. What's so different about her? What's making him want to pursue her? She's ordinary-someone that challenge,him,someone that makes him work hard. Someone that's destroying his peace of mind. His order.
"I still haven't gotten her to say yes,heh"
What happens when she does say yes? Does he stop wanting? Does the chase end? Or will he need her more than ever. Something is different. Is different a bad sign?
Shikamaru sat up and was listening into his surrounding.
"I will not be hunted." He whispered.
He could hear it coming,there to his right,a pebble. Going very fast....he caught it.
"What the..." He looked at the pebble,there was something drawn on it. He couldn't make it out.
"How are you so good at catching?" That voice only belong to one person. Shikamaru turned and indeed he faces the honey blond beauty.
"What are you doing here?" He asked. Ignoring her question.
"Answer me first"
"A date and I'll answer." Shikamaru said as he went to her. She was wearing a white dress that has V cut. "Did you wear that just for me?"
"You wish" She rolled her eyes. "What are you doing here,Nara?"
Ehh,didn't I ask her that? Shikamaru thought.
"Enjoying the scenery,it just gotten more beautiful with you standing there."
"How long did that take you?" Temari raised an eyebrow,amused.
"I heard Chouji used it to Ino. Thought it works." He shrugged.
Unbelievable,Temari thought.An honest idiot.
"You need to work harder,Nara." She turned and started walking away.
Shikamaru stayed still for awhile just watching her walk,damn if what she said wasn't just so true,she's so beautiful. put the clouds,ocean,mountains to shame.
He was losing.
Temari could hear him catching up to her,hear his breathing.
"Very hard to ask a girl if she has a boyfriend." He said. Already beside her.
"I don't have one,Nara." He took a side glance of her.
"Why can't you say yes?" He asked. "Playing hard to get is an old game."
"You men-pig heads-whatever-never do take an easy girl seriously. You get bored easily. If I give in,you won't think it's challenging anymore. That's why you're persistant right? The thrill of the chase? I'm not a prey."
"Hey"
"Hey,Temari" He tried again seeing as she was ignoring him.
"What?"
"I'm not that kind of guy. Give me a chance." He sounded hurt. He tried to hide it.
"I'll only say yes when I want to say yes,Nara."
Shikamaru fell silent. It's just a game,a stupid game. They could be mature adults about it and end it. But then what other reason could he have to talk to her? He grabbed Temari's hand,twirled her gently-making her face him. He pulled her to him. His other hand against her cheek.
Temari frowned,he was too close,his dark eyes staring intently seems to invade her very core.
"Do you think of me as a joke?" He whispered to her. "I'll never play with you."
That was the truth. Shikamaru decided,it won't be a game. No,if he was going to pursue her,and she would perhaps fall in love with him and he with her,he wants it to be real from the start,even if it's just on his side. One sided,it's okay with him.
Temari was furious. She dug her hills on his shoe and pulled herself free. "Well that's a damn lie and we both know it. You're just determine to win."
He exhaled a deep breath. He guessed Temari won't believe him because they are still stranger to each other. "Fine. Right. You don't deserve lies."
"I lose. You win." He said raising his hands up.
"Aww,giving up already? I don't care Nara. I'm playing the game too."
"Ahhh..." Shikamaru frowned. "You're made out of trouble. Very good in deception."
And why do I have to stick with pretending I just want it to be a game? Oh,I don't know...maybe because I'm a coward afraid to take a first real step. Stupid! Stupid! Shikamaru thought.
"So..how'd you know where to find me?"
Temari wrinked her nose before answering. "Your editor,Ino. Got a hold of her."
"You were looking for me?" Shikamaru smiled,glad that she was.
"Don't smile,Nara." She was so not looking for him. She didn't want to see him.
Keep telling yourself that,Temari. Whatever you believe.
Shut up.
Hey your subconcious.
Aaargh.
"I was just making sure you didn't kill yourself because I keep turning you down."
"You were worried for me." He said it lazily and added in a "Yay" that really did lack the enthusiasm.
Temari poked his side,"What happened to your energy?"
"Gone,burnt out by you." He answered simply.
"You need some serious energy drinks."
They continued to walk that Shikamaru was starting to realize not only is Temari is witty she is very in shape. Amazing. And she hasn't complained how long she's been walking.
"You work out?" He asked.
"Excercise. There's some sick people out there. My brothers at first had some men in black following me around. Got tired of it so I kicked my brothers just to show them I could take care of myself."
"Independent" .Click. Shikamaru frowned,listening more. .
"Do you hear that?" Temari looked at him and she listened too. "Sounds like someone is taking a picture." He explained further.
"You're being paranoied. I don't hear anything."
Shikamaru picked up a small rock and aimed it,there! He threw it at where the sounds were coming from.
"Ow" A guy with a camera came out of the bushes.
"Sometimes paranoia is a good." He told Temari. Temari didn't say anything.
She did thought along the lines,Sometimes paranoia is a sign you're afraid of something.
How could he have known there was a guy there? She was trained to be aware of her surrounding but was he as well? What for? For a lazy ass he takes his time being completely aware around him even though he takes the appearance of laid back. Was he expecting something? Why is he so aware?
"Oi,what are you doing taking picture of us?" Shikamaru asked.
"It's a free country." replied the camera guy.
Shikamaru grabbed the camera from him and took out the memory card.
"So true,very free. Thanks for the gift." Shikamaru said.
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You know you're kind of in a date when you are with someone that's interested in you and asked out on a date various times,even though you declined many times. You eat together,walked around the mall,made the guy carry your shopping bag. Teased him. Laughing at him and eventually was having fun being around him. That's what happened with Temari during her time with Shikamaru.
"I want some Dots" Temari announced. "Taste much better than a regular ice cream."
"It's the same thing except Dots are in little circular pieces."
With Temari leading and not giving Shikamaru a voice about Dots,they had some. Shikamaru complained about how expensive it was and asked the Dots people if they could lower their prices because they're not helping the economy. Temari disagreed,yes there were helping the economy because that means they could hire more people to work since they would be making more money,to be able to pay more workers. They went into a whole discussion and eventually both got tired and just gave up.
"So Nara that's all you do?"
"Eh?" He had almost fallen asleep because they've been sitting down and was worned out.
"Write,that's it? Usually writers have some sort of other job."
"Well...having another job...troublesome and I'm busy with..."
"Being lazy" Temari finished for him even though that wasn't the end of his true sentence.
"I'm not good with anything else." Temari doubted that.
"I think you were...you were like a taekwondo teacher?"
"No"
"Did you take classes?"
"No"
"Are you lying to me?"
"No
"Are you annoyed?"
"Yes"
"Hey!"
"You asked"
"You're annoying."
Shikamaru glanced at Temari who appeared to be observing him alot now. Temari smiled at him and then layed her hands against his cheek.
"Nara" and then she pulled his cheeks "You look cute like this,awww"
"Yeah,well" Shikamaru tried to get Temari to stop but she was strong.
A battle of will was fought. Eventually,they both got tired and noticed they were getting strange looks from the other people in the mall.
"How does it feel like being you?" What an odd question.
"Dunno. Strange." Shikamaru replied. "You?"
"Sometimes fed up."
"Why?"
"I don't want to have so much responsibility laid on me. Since I was young I've been taking care of my brothers and I still do. But that's fine because I love them. But I don't need other people who don't know me to already judge me as a horrible sister or having no life."
"Wow,Deep" Was all Shikamaru managed.
"Yupp"
"I think I admire you more and more,I'm really losing huh?"
They both smiled.
Who's really losing?
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Again Shikamaru was missing in action. Sometimes he would call. Sometimes he would visit at her house when Gaara calls him up-they developed some kind of friendship-shocking. Sometimes there would be no sign of him. Sometimes he's predictable,sometimes very suprising.
So it was a suprise when he appeared for the very first time in Temari's working place,bringing food,that he apparently cooked.
A couple of young ladies that have seen him and checked him out were almost drooling.
Temari doesn't understand it as she also watched him. He looked the same. Taller than her,lean,wearing an american eagle polo and jeans that looked sexy on him.
What did I just say?? Sexy? Oh gaaah.
"You never told us you have such a handsome boyfriend."
"Because I don't have a handsome boyfriend. And he's not my boyfriend. He's just..." A friend? Could she call him that?
"If you're not interested then we could go after him,right?" They asked.
"By all means go ahead."
Yeah,right.
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Shikamaru was examining Temari's office and it doesn't seem like her. He saw the picture she has with her brothers. She must really love them.
He layed out the food,setting things.
"Nara,you actually cooked." Temari said,the food looked edible enough. "For me?" as Shikamaru handed her a plate.
"Yeah,it's in my book-women loves a man that takes their time to cook for them. It be weird if you don't appreciate it. Then again you're odd." Shikamaru said. Temari ignored the last comment.
"So...it takes you five days to prepare this? You really do take your time."
"I tried. Laziness." He said. "Do I get points of what?"
Temari tasted the food he cooked,whoa. Damn. This is good. "Yes"
"You should cook for me often." Temari said as she took a sit.
"Ah..haha." Shikamaru had a deadpan expression on. "Darn,you going to keep expecting it?"
"Wait hold up...You counted the days I haven't been in touch?"
Temari turned red a buit. She started doing that just to see patterns Shikamaru does. But it's weird now because she'd been so disappointed when he's not in his particular pattern schedule.
"I keep schedule so I know when to hide from you."
"Uh huh" Shikamaru didn't believe her one bit. "You should call me."
"No"
"You're going to make me do all the work?" Shikamaru asked.
"Relationship only works if both of the people in it work together." Shikamaru told her,he looked so serious and sounded so sincere that Temari nodded and then laughed.
"We're not in a relationship,Nara!"
Shikamaru decided to go for playfulness since that's her mood right now.
Okay,going good so far.
He winked.
He walked around her table and was in front of her as she was sitting on her sit.
She stared up at him and then he leaned down.
He picked up the rice near her rosy lips and ate that bit.
"Almost as intimate as kissing you huh?" He waggled his eyebrows.
Temari couldn't speak for awhile. For a moment her heart kind of skipped a beat and that was freaky. Is she actually...No,no,no.
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Weeee,okay so I wrote this 3-16-09.
Asked me you guys. Asked me hows the first day of my exam???? Hahaha. It was great.
What I did? Well,watch tv. write the chapters,trying to get rid of laziness. There we have it. and sleep and eat and play guitar hero band thing. Yay! I'm a kid at heart. Still a kid,well teenager.
Right now I'm watching...TFC-filipino channel. My family says I cannot forget my native language. Ehhh. I had always sucked in filipino-tagalog from the start. I can never get the basic of it.
Ikaw,.Musta? Mabuti. Hehe.
Have a question,am I getting better in writing? I have a friend named Veronica,I admire her for when she writes stories and i read them I am so hooked and scared. She writes scary stories. I like to write comedy,action,romance. She's very amusing.
she said Juliet is such a whiny bxtch in front of my teacher who ended up laughing. I on the other hand complained that Shakespeare likes to kill everyone one off in his stories-i read most of them-and I said it reminds me of Nicholas Spark(read most of his books),they're great writers but I've become ehhheehhh when it ends in tradegy,my english teacher laughs.
Reviews. Flames. Very welcome. Help me. I tend to bubble on thinking-you read this part. lol.
Give me a couple of days. I will update soon. Just exams. Hahaha. Gotta act tomorrow.