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To Lady Temari & Yue Heartphilia & anyone else who helped in suggesting the other story I posted thank you! I hope you guys liked it if not read it! It's called Diapers, Bottles, & Kages. :D
Here's a warning: this chapter is a little more serious & less cutesy then the others. But I feel like this is an important aspect to write about. Plus the next chapter totally makes up for it in awkwardness/cuteness for poor Shikamaru (Who let's not forget is a teen boy :p)
A/N: My apologies that my updates have been behind I really wanted to be caught up this weekend so I could do the Independence Day chapter on Independence Day. But you know stuff happens in my case a lot of stuff. I never got to take my vacation family stuff came up, the next week I had drama all week ended up sleeping in my car one night, & then this week I have the flu, pink eye, & girl issues. Then on top of that I couldn't agree which version of this chapter I wanted the 1st version was sweet but not for my liking the next was pretty dark & just didn't seem to fit this story so this is my compromise version! I hope it works!
FATHERS DAY
"We don't have time for this Shikamaru!" Ino complained as they walked the opposite direction of their destination.
'We would have been on time if you didn't take an extra hour to get ready.' Shikamaru thought to himself but knew it'd be way too much trouble to say anything out loud. Lucky for him Choji seemed to be thinking the same thing.
"But if we would have left 40mins ago instead of waiting on you we'd be early." Choji said reaching into his always present bag of potato chips.
"Hey! It is not my fault-"Ino started up Shikamaru just let out a sigh putting a hand behind his head.
"It's no ones fault. I'd rather go straight there too. So I don't have to hear my mom complain but this is work so it has to be done. Or it'll get way too troublesome." He said looking down at the files in his other hand as they walked up to an apartment. He was about to knock when they all stopped hearing loud yelling from inside.
"Are you sure now is a good time?" Ino asked as they all stood there staring at the door wondering what to do that was until the door open & an annoyed looking puppet master came storming out.
"I'll be back when ever I'm back mother." He yelled behind him into the apartment not noticing the people in front of him.
"If I was your mother & you were in my womb I'd taken care of you in utero!" Came an angry voice from inside Shikamaru knew belonged to Temari.
"If I was in your womb I'd have strangled myself with the umbilical cord." He said before turning around seeing the group stare at him. "What do you want?"
"I'm just here to give your sister some papers." Shikamaru said ignoring the evil glare he was getting he was more then used to it from her brothers. What he wasn't ready for was the smirk that soon replaced the glare as he looked over at Ino.
"Why hello beautiful." He said looking at her with a smirk.
"Hello yourself." She replied in a flirty voice.
"Say why don't you ditch those losers & let's go somewhere?" He suggested.
Shikamaru was about to interrupt the little flirting sessions to remind Ino that she was in a rush but that wasn't needed as the young puppeteer went flying out of the door way.
"Leave them alone loser she's not that desperate." Temari said rolling her eyes leaning back in the doorway from where she pushed him.
"You're such a bitch." Kankuro said getting up.
"Yeah what ever you say Princess. Now you don't want to be late for that date do you?" She reminded him. He didn't bother to respond with an insult realizing she was right as he started off into the night.
"Remember call me if it's past 1!" She yelled at to him as he flicked her off.
"FUCK YOU!" He yelled not looking back.
"Love you too!" She responded with a laugh walking back into her apartment leaving the door open for them to follow her. "He'll call he always does."
They all followed her into the apartment Shikamaru couldn't help but notice the smell coming from the kitchen.
"Smells good." He commented as he followed her into the living room where she sat down in front of a pile of clothes.
"It really does." Choji agreed doing his best to stay away from the kitchen.
"Aww thanks just some fish. You guys can have some if you want I made plenty & Kankuro ditched me." She said as she started folding the clothes in front of her.
"No we can't were supposed to meet our dads at the restaurant & we are already late remember?" Ino said annoyed leaning against the wall Shikamaru let out sigh.
"I had these papers to give you from Lady Tsunade she said that they are due in 2 days." He said handing the files over.
"Oh goodie. I suppose I can't get my co-reader to stick around can I?" She said looking through the files.
"No we got family stuff I got to do." Shikamaru said with a small shrug.
"Speaking of which our parents are going to kill us soon." Ino said impatiently. "Besides Temari shouldn't you be doing something with your family?"
Shikamaru managed to hit Ino in the arm as Temari looked at the girl confused for a moment before I look of realization came over her.
"What was that for?" Ino said annoyed rubbing her arm.
"Well Ino ambassador work comes before anything else. But I think he hit you to remind you that my dad is dead. Remember? There for Fathers Day pretty pointless." She said casually looking back down to the clothes she was folding.
"Ohhh yeah I totally forgot you guys don't have a dad do you?" Ino said oblivious to the looks the others were giving her.
"Ino!" Choji scolded totally taking his attention off the food in the kitchen knowing that sometimes the blonde said inappropriate things without thinking.
"No I don't have a dad he died about 4 years ago. Now do you want to start talking about my dead mom next?" Temari said sarcastically not bothering to look at the girl who started to nervously fidget with her hair.
"No I know you don't have a mom. I mean it's kind of obvious." She said with a small laugh still fidgeting.
"Wait...what does that mean?" Temari said looking at the girl confused.
"I'm just saying look at you're not like a girl at all." Ino said as Temari just stared her down.
"Well I think it's time for us to go. Thanks for having us. Come on Ino." Choji said grabbing Ino's arm & pulling her out of the house as quickly as possible.
Shikamaru sighed to himself this was going to be troublesome.
"Hey look I'm sorry Ino she doesn't think sometimes & the things she says well…she's just kind of-"
"Stupid?" Temari cut him off as she returned to folding the clothes.
"Yeah basically." He said with a shrug sitting down across from her he did the only thing he could think of & that was start to help her.
They sat for a few minutes in silence folding the clothes in front of them. Some how it was during that time that he realized a part of her life he didn't even think about. All this cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, watching out for her brother this was an everyday occurrence for her. She was the mother of the house even though she wasn't even an adult herself. Part of him wanted to ask her how long it had been like this but when he looked at her he saw something in her eyes that he never saw. Her eyes seemed to be filled with sadness making her look venerable instead of like the strong deadly shinobi she was. It seemed right there that he knew the answers she was always the woman of the house, she never had a real normal life or family, & she'd never admit to wanting one.
"You know I think Ino's right." He said breaking the silence that seemed to fill the room.
"Wha-" She started but he cut her off before she could even start.
"You don't act like a girl at all. But that's a good thing you know? Because you act more like a woman then some immature little girl." He said he looked up to see a smile on her face as she looked down.
"Thanks." She said looking at him as he shrugged.
"You're welcome besides not all guys like girly girl types anyways. They are annoying." He said with a smile before going back to what he was doing.
Suddenly he made a nose that almost seemed to be a cross between a choke & a surprised squeal Temari looked at him suddenly startled by the sudden nose.
"Are you ok!" She asked looking at him as all the color seemed to drain from his face.
"I…uhhh….these are yours…" He said it more like a question as he handed over a small thing of fabric she just looked at it before starting to laugh.
"Did you seriously just freak out because you touched my panties?" She asked holing the black fabric in her hand.
"They're your under wear I think that's your job to fold." He said trying his best to block out the thought of the black lace panties she held in her hand.
"What you don't want to touch these?" She said holding them up a few inches from him as he backed up.
"I'm sorry but I don't want to touch a girls under things." He said scouting back as she laughed moving towards him.
"What if I was wearing them?" She teased still holding them by him laughing evilly.
"Oh God." He said trying his best to hold back the mental image it was just at that moment God had pity on him as someone knocked at the door.
"Who could that be?" Temari said totally forgetting her past train of thought tossing the underwear back in the pile of now folded laundry as she walked to the door opening it.
"Thank you." He said quietly thanking the forces That Be that stopped the girl from teasing him. At least he thought he was safe till he heard a voice he knew all to well.
"Is our son here?" Came Yoshino's voice from the door.
"Yeah he's here I'm sorry I kind of got side tracked & kept him here." Temari apologized.
"Hey." Shikamaru said walking to the door to greet his parents who had come to drag him away.
"Ino said you had to drop some work off." Shikaku said Shikamaru just nodded.
"Yeah but I suppose you guys want to go." He said in a bored voice before turning to Temari. "Hey if you still want the extra help I can come back later or tomorrow?"
"Yeah I could use the help." She said with a nod looking at Shikamaru. What neither of them noticed is that his parents were looking right at them.
"Hey Temari would you like to join us for dinner tonight?" Yoshino asked looking at the young girl.
"I couldn't impose I know it's a family thing." She said politely Shikaku just laughed.
"No don't worry about it. You'd be a good addition to our family. Besides it'd be nice to pretend like I have a child who doesn't refer to me as old man." Shikaku said causing everyone to laugh but Shikamaru who turned bright red.
"Well I suppose I can & I'll really try not to call you old man." She said with a smile.
"Good then from now on if you ever want any parents we are here." Yoshino said with what Shikamaru noticed was the kindest smile he had ever seen.
'She likes her. Oh God that can't be good.' He thought to himself but couldn't hold back his own smile.
There ya go thank you for being so patient! :D Remember the Dr said the best cure for being sick is rest, liquids, & plenty of reviews on your last fanfic chapter. Come on you don't want me to stay sick for ever do you?
Next chapter is going to be titled "Salty & Sweet"