Not connected to the previous ShikaTem story.

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"What the hell Shikamaru?!" Temari shouted her frustration out. "What the fuck were you thinking?!" Her heart was still beating hard in her chest and the adrenaline rushed through her veins.

"Have you completely lost your mind?!" The black haired man she was yelling at looked annoyed, more at her than the situation. It just made Temari angrier. She could hear him mutter his favourite word 'troublesome', but he continued to not answer her questions.

"Say something, bastard!" She could kill him! She could send him flying and she wouldn't have to be bothered by his dumb expression anymore. She could…

"Are you done anytime soon?" came a snarky remark.

ARGH! That's it! Temari reached out for her tessen, but just as she was about to close her fingers around it her movement stopped.

"LET ME GO!"

"Tsk, and have you send me flying?" The grin on Shikamaru's face was killing her. He and his bloody shadowbinding! How could someone so… so… No she refused to think of him as hot! REFUSED! He was a crybaby and pain in the ass!

"I prefer to have my feet on solid ground, thank you. But if you like flying…" Temari felt the shadowbonds tighten around her and then how they lifted her up.

"PUT ME DOWN."

"Why?" Too casually Shikamaru walked up to her. He had kept a distance before when she yelled at him but now he got enough for her to look him straight into his eyes. The look he gave her sent shivers across her body. She didn't answer him though. This was ridiculous. She relaxed her muscles.

"Put me down, Shikamaru." She sighed trying to ease some tension away. "I won't hurt you, just let me go."

He raised an eyebrow smirking at her.

"After you innocently reached for your tessen? And I just saved your life. That's not nice…" Temari bit her lip and looked away. So, she might have been overreacting a little. He had saved them both with his quick thinking when a earthquake unexpectedly hit as they travelled towards Suna, but the way he had done it, was so not like him and well… Temari had gotten scared that she's lose him. Asshole! Couldn't he just remain the lazy boy she once met at the chunnin-exam. Since when did he become a man?

Temari tried to calm herself. Deep breaths and speaking calmly…

"I know, I know… I got mad without good reason…" though she thought when Shikamaru pushed her away to sacrifice himself for her a good enough reason to overreact! Sure he survived. Always countless plans ahead, but it didn't stop her heart from beating for a second when he disappeared down a huge crack in the ground.

"Why don't I believe you?" He kept smiling. He kept standing too close. He kept her bound in the air with his jutsu, damnit!

"PUT ME DOWN! OR I SWEAR YOU ARE GOING TO REGRET IT!" She fought the bindings. They were strong. He had become so strong.

"Temari…" his overly-patient voice reached her. "I'm not stupid." His smirk had changed. It was a little smile, somewhat nervous but he kept his eyes on her as she paused her struggle. Okay, yeah, it was pretty obvious she would still hurt him, when he put her down, no matter what she promised right now…

"Wh-"

"We got scared. It was unexpected. And we both felt it. The fear of losing." She couldn't help but stare back at him. He wasn't saying what she had expected him to. His words matched her feelings too well.

"Shikamaru…" she breathed and for a whole second she just melted into the way he looked at her, forgetting her vulnerable position, something she hated to be in, it was just the existence of him and her.

His returning smirk woke her up. His lips on hers made her want to hit him. She tried but the bindings were still holding her up, so instead she attempted to bite him. But she was conflicted. On one hand his lips felt sooo good. Their warmth, their softness, his smell as he leaned close to her…

On the other hand she could have kicked him senseless. What the hell did he think he was doing?

"OW!" He shouted as she set her teeth on his lip. Pouting as he jumped back he took his fingers up to feel the damage. There wasn't blood.

He stared at her shocked and curious at the same time.

"The hell? Troublesome woman!"

"PUT. ME. DOWN!" she just said insistently. What did he think she would do? Just accepting him to hold her up like a scarecrow in the field? As if! He clearly didn't know her enough yet!

"What are you going to do then?"

"Tsk, not bite you again…" it was meant as a warning, that she had other bad things planned for him, but it ended up sounding like… she had like the kiss. Which she did not!

Tugging hard at the bonds Temari suddenly fell to the ground and she heard Shikamaru ask, his voice all too calm.

"Am I going to die now?" She narrowed her eyes at him while massaging her wrists and angles. Her heart had started beating fast again but for another reason than before.

"Yes." She got up and walked slowly over to him. "In five minutes." He smiled again and the way he looked at her made Temari adjust the time in her mind. Maybe she would wait with killing him for half an hour…

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These two are so great for creating sexual tension. And we know they been fancying each other since Part I. (^-^)

Next story will probably be with SasuSaku.