Hell No I didn't forget my CHALLENGE, and that's to finish an effing story. And here I am coming back because I love my faithful readers you know. I don't want them to suffer so here we are.

And hopefully I did good in this chapter, I did tell you at least once a week update.

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Temari would have screamed, threw something, destroyed something. But she didn't. She was biting her lips tightly that it drew blood. She clenched her hands into fists so tightly her nails were digging into her skin. She was in short, shaking. Shaking with anger, shaking with worry. She was holding back her own emotion. It was news to her. She'd seen her brothers get hurt once in awhile, but to see someone else beside her brothers get hurt and to know it has that much impact was just too shocking.

He got hurt. Hurt by someone. Gangs, she wasn't sure. His friends weren't exactly telling her shit. She had glared at them, shouted at them. Grabbed them and almost chocked them to death. Like fuck, wouldn't anyone do it too? If it was someone you start to care about, starting to get use to being around, gets hurt, almost die, won't you be utterly piss?

He was on his own bed, laying there, asleep. Knocked out. He was brought here, bloody, looking like shit. Looking like some wild animal had taken many bites from him. His body was full of bite marks.

She would have called the paramedics but then she was stopped by the pale-ass guy named Sai and the blonde, Naruto.

Temari sighed and opened the door to Shikamaru's house and was greeted by some gruesome sight, Shikamaru laying on the carpeted floor that was slowly being coated with his own blood. Temari stood only for a second and went to him and called him name, shouted it, or she was shrieking, and wasn't even talking right. She wasn't sure.

"What happened!?" She demanded of the two. "What did you fucking do?"

"We didn't do shit." Sai said. He just stood there, unemotionless that Temari took a step back and then punched him.

"Don't just fucking stand there! Call 911, ass hole!"

"I don't know the number for 911." Sai replied, his tone not changing.

"Calm down Temari," Naruto said, trying to soothe her, "just relax."

Temari glared at Naruto, "What do you mean fucking relax!? Calm down, fuck it. He's gonna die!"

Temari grabbed the phone in the house and started to dial 911, but then there was no dial tone.

Sai had pulled the chord and the only thing Temari could do was be violent. So she threw the phone at him, hitting her mark.

Shikamaru was pale, and for some reason, he was slowly turning blue now.

".Fuck." She kept repeating it.


"Temari," Naruto started.


"What!?"

"He was bitten by those demons. Their bites are poisonus and deadly. So even if we stop his bleeding, he's going to definitely die."

Temari eyes widened and for a very good reason she wrapped her hands around Naruto's neck and tried to choke him, "Are you fucking shitting me? You tell me relax, calm down and you say that? What the fuck!"

"You could do something." The pale ass Sai, that Temari also want to choke to death said.

Temari raised an eyebrow and without hesitating said, "I'll do it."

"What!? No, Sai. Shikamaru won't forgive you if you let her do it. Remember why he went through it!" Naruto said.

"I'll do it." Temari repeated, her looks were hard. She would convince them. "And what do you mean by that why he went through it?"

Naruto's lips formed a thin line and said, "Nothing, but it's your choice, once we tell you...you won't back out right?" Naruto asked, his eyes were cautious and showed he didn't fully trust Temari, but he was worried for his best friend.


Temari nodded her head, it was set.

Shikamaru stirred and then he remembered he was almost dead, he was expecting pain when he moved, but there wasn't. He was dead right? Of course he would be dead, because if he wasn't he would feel the ache all over his body, the marks that were left would be gruesome. Horrid.

He slowly opened his eyes, and as he did, he saw her eyes. Saw her face, her blonde hair.

She looked tired, bags under her eyes, and the way the light hit her, she would be considered an angel yet again. He wanted to laugh remembering their first encounter. How did it suddenly went to here?

"Te-Temari?" He said weakly. "Does this mean..." He stopped.

Her eyes were shining. Shining? They were wet, wet by unshed tears.

"Hey" She said, a small smile on her eyes."Good to see that you're finally awake, lazy ass." She said.

Shikamaru blinked a couple of times. "I'm not dead." He said, confused.

"No, you're not dead." Reassured him. And then she sighed, "Unless that's what you were really planning to head off...?" She asked.

Shikamaru sitted himself up slowly. His body was wrapped with bandages. He wouldn't even dare ask how he looked like without them around him.

"Shikamaru, we haven't seen you for awhile now."

Shikamaru didn't say anything. He never ever wanted to see them. They had promised the last time they meet, they would get rid off him. His existance erased from the face of the damned earth.

"Shouldn't...I was already gone, wasn't I?" He asked.

Temari frowned. "No, now shut up Shikamaru."

Shikamaru eyes widened a bit and looked at Temari.

They stared at each other like that, both sides have questions.

Temari took one of Shikamaru's hand and held it. She lifted their held hands and kissed it without breaking their eye contact.

Please, don't get hurt anymore, Shikamaru.

Temari...

"Don't get yourself killed 'cause I would hunt you down myself and kill you again." She said, grinning like she's a package full of trouble. She couldn't stay this serious with him, if she does, she was bound to break apart.

Shikamaru smiled.

They needed the lightening mood. Temari was suprised for her actions and to cancel it out, she acted like everything is normal. Everything was far from normal.

In fact, their non-existant relationship, (that does exist) was about to turn into the highest point of...

Nightmares? Or Desire?

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Temari wouldn't have left Shikamaru but she had to. Her brothers called, saying it was an important, as in death and life important.

Whatever could that mean.

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Shikamaru got out of his room slowly walking out, and then saw Naruto and Sai plopped on his couch, looking like shit. Looking like some guilty fuckers that screwed him over.

He went to his fridge and opened it, and took out his carton of milk and poured himself a glass. He slowly drank it as he stared at the two guys who remained to not look at him, their faces hard.

"Gyah!" Naruto started and breathed in and out loudly.

"You were holding your breath?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yeah, 'cause when I don't that means I won't talk!"

Sai covered his face with his hands and shook his head and mummbled,"Naruto, shut up."

"I'm guessing you two did something wrong." Shikamaru said.

"Yeah, we did!" Naruto stood up and threw his arms everywhere. "We used Temari to save your life!"

"What?"

"He's a lying bastard, Shikamaru. Don't believe him." Sai said, expressionless.

Oh yeah, Naruto the loud mouth is definitely good at lying. And Sai is the epitome of honesty.

"Save my life? Save my life how?" He asked and then his eyes narrowed, "I'm going to kill you both." He said. "I swear, I would."

"She said she would do it." Sai added easily/

"Did you explain to her what would happen if anything goes wrong?" Shikamaru asked, calmly.

"You mean...how your life force are sort of together now?" Naruto asked nervously.

"Don't answer my question with a question." Damn. That was cold, Shikamaru thought. Maybe he should take a breathing.

"We skipped it." Sai informed him. "We skip the point once life force are connected, it means you two are sort of married. And divorcing each other means one has to die...to break the bond. And once you guys are bonded, she's like one of us."

In this case the old vow of, till death to us part is actually very true to us, and it's called a divorce.

Shikamaru frowned.

Just thinking about it.

"I don't want to fucking marry a lazy ass like you. You're not normal! Even though you're a very sexy not normal being. I want a divorce."

She pulls out the gun and shoots his head, sploosh. Blood and brain everywhere.

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Shikamaru paled at his imagination. Surely Temari wouldn't wish him dead when she was so worried. But he can't hide the fact about their kinds bonding together life force thing. He has to talk to her about it.

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Shikamaru was sitted on the couch, when Temari came back.

He looked up and wanted to just crawl some where. Sulk at a dark corner. He was a coward, shit.

"You don't need to tell me." She started, her arms crossed against her chest, her eyes were sort of cold and distant. "I know. And it's not your fault. Or your friends fault, but mines." She said.

"Huh..."

"We need to talk. No more secrets, if it means being tied and married to your...kind. My kind is different." She said.

"Your kind? You mean human right?"

"I'm half."

"You're a mutt." Shikamaru said amused."You're human and..."

"And...that's the problem, we have a problem. As a married couple we need to have some understanding and...compromise."

Shikamaru blinked a couple of times, "So being married to me doesn't bother you?"

"Huh. I should say that to you."

"I'm afraid."

"Good." Temari went to him and kissed him on the lips. "Now, I want a real wedding not a bloody macabre shit and our marriage will not be consumated until we're in love with each other."

"We're in love." Shikamaru said quickly.

Temari laughed. "We would know definitely know when that happens."

"What compromise? Do you mean like if a guy wants sex and the girl doesn't? So they make a compromise?" Shikamaru asked. "So does this mean no sex?"

"No sex"

"Does getting hurt turn you into a perve?" Temari narrowed her eyes. "I'm not fond of perves."

"I lack the imagination to become a perve. It's too troublesome." Shikamaru replied honestly.

"How about kisses?" Shikamaru asked.

She lifted her eyebrow and rolled her eyes before agreeing. "Only kisses."

"There's this rule, you know. I ask for King hershey bar and when they say no, I would ask for the normal one. They would say yes. And I still win because I wanted the normal hershey all along."

Temari opened her mouth and then closed it and she burst into laughter, hugged Shikamaru her 'one and only new husband and kissed him on the cheeks.

A/N

They're not in love yet. They're in definite lust.

See I told you it was worth the wait. I mean c'mon they just got hitched. x_x i know don't kill me. I never got so far in any of my fanfics without hurting Shikamaru. XD in Stubbornly engaged he gets shot at and ends up in Temari's care. In Remember, he's dead by some unknown reason, leaving Temari, and they just happened to get married that day. And now this? O_o

Except now, he gets hurt and then got married to Temari. if that bloody macabre shit is considered marriage. XD

Who knew i was twisted. I mean I love Shikamaru and all, But If I have to chose, between Shika and Tema, Ima save Tema-chan, because Shika would complain and say "I'm the man in the relationship, let me take the pain I can take it." etc etc. Chauvanistic attitude. you know. haha.

Next Chap-

Shows you what happened to Shikamaru.

Shows you what exactly Temari did to save Shikamaru's life.

Shows you what the important emergency between Temari and her brothers.

Shows you what the newly weds, non-consumated marriage life would be.

Shows you Temari's half-half side.

Ehh, and truly explains you what Shikamaru is and what haunts him and hunts him.

It would be very detailed because I owe you guys that. And I'm getting bored with my monalouges (didn't you guys notice that!? I was getting angry at myself for it) and find that I want to end this story soon. And it's gonna end soon. Just a few more chaps.

Next Chap is Long. And very descriptive.

Oh, my gosh. Does this mean I wrote it down already?

Why yes, I did. But I'ma update next week-Saturday or Sunday.

Love Anne.

P.S. I peaked your interest yes? Curious? haha