"Hey Shikamaru you've been working for nearly 10 hours for the past 4 days this week why don't you head on home early? Give that wife of yours a nice surprise" Ryo, Shikamaru's boss, winked at his employee.
Shikamaru turned his head, his face full of shock. The fact that his boss had just suggested that grossed him out.
"Nah it's alright I'll do an hour or so more before I head off," Shikamaru said, waving off his boss' offer.
While most would have taken the opportunity to leave work early, Shikamaru did not. For the past week whenever he had returned home it had been to Temari trying to calm down Jinto and failing. For some unknown reason that boy just would not stop crying and it was driving Shikamaru and Temari absolutely crazy. Everything the pair had tried had ended up in Jinto throwing everything within reach across the room and in most cases, breaking the object. Shikamaru had made a mental note to ask Naruto why his child was so similar to him.
It must have been a few hours after dinner before Shikamaru returned home. As he knocked a few times on the door he was surprised to hear absolute silence, he figured that Temari and Jinto were both probably sleeping. However when Temari opened the door he looked past her shoulder and saw Jinto sitting at the dining table peacefully playing with his toys. Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at his wife.
"Why's he so calm?"
"I don't know, I was just playing with him and I noticed how calm he was" Temari shrugged.
"Well then while he's normal perhaps we should clean up a bit," Shikamaru suggested.
Temari glared at her husband "No, you can clean up"
"What? Why me! You're the wife"
If looks could kill Shikamaru would have died at that point because the glare that Temari gave him after that sentence silenced him to the point where he just wanted to jump out of the window.
As Shikamaru stood in the living room Temari marched past her shell shocked husband and proceeded to head on into their bedroom. Shikamaru sighed, sometimes his wife was scarier than even Tsunade.
As Shikamaru started to pick up all of the various objects that Jinto had thrown around he looked up to see Jinto watching him carefully. The two remained in that position, just watching each other.
"Papa!" Shouted out Jinto suddenly, clapping his hands together and smiling widely.
Shikamaru just smiled at him and continued on gathering up all of the mess in his apartment. Tomorrow he'd ask Neji and Lee for some help.
Alright it's super short and all and not that great so if people are actually bothering to read this then yay! :D