This is a message to all that people who's telling me that Temari is kinda OOC:

I'm really sorry but I don't share your opinion. Here's my explanation:

I think that Temari is a tough girl but when she's with Shikamaru she even can't say why she's behaving that way.

She only does it and she doesn't think about it. And also considering that she's very young and innocent right now. She's not thinking that her behaviour is going to make Shikamaru fall in love with her.

I think that the essence of the characters, now talking about Shikamaru is that he LOOKS like a lazy boy and he's always blabbering BUT he really isn't a lazy person. The truth is that far of being a lazy person he's one of the Konoha shinobi that works like anyone else.

And Temari, she LOOKS like she's tough and rude BUT with other people thats OK. But when she's alone with Shikamaru she's really different. You only have to see how is her behaviour on the chapter 6-7 of the Shippuden. The most "tough" phrase that she could tell to Shikamaru was to make him work a lot. The rest of the conversation was calm and relaxing. Like other conversations they had time ago, when they were on the Chunin exams. Have you seen the fillers of the Chunin exams? I think the answer is on there.

This fic is arriving to its end in four chapters (there is this part: the prequel, the part I, and the part II, I'm writing the part II when she's going to live with Shikamaru.) I've watched very carefully every chapter to arrive to this conclusion of the behaviour of the characters so please, try to understand me and believe in me.

In the future you will see a tough Temari but she's not going to be that way right now.

Original story in Spanish: WhiteTigerKiara
Translation to English: Anamicenas

Chapter 3.

Love? In what moment Nara Shikamaru…

You only think you like her. You barely know her! But truth to be told, he could never stop feeling weakness for people that needed him. Like she did or Chōji…

I don't have to protect Temari from mean comments about being fat because…. She is not fat but…. I feel like I have to protect her from loneliness and… the hate some people feel for her and her brothers.

Temari is a good girl…

I hate seeing her sad. I have never felt like this before. I never thought that I would care so much for a girl…

Shikamaru, while thinking about that, went home still confused with Temari's words in his head saying "don't die", "I need you in my life" or "I feel good when I'm with you".

He felt his little heart beating so fast when she said those things and she was happy. A whole new experience in his life.

The Nara got home and stayed at the door and suddenly he felt a cold sweat running through him when he remembered he was supposed to get together with his friends to eat and he didn't showed up.

"Oh shit…" he said going inside the house and taking off his shoes. He thought that they probably were already at home. And on top of that, his mother didn't leave anything for dinner because that morning he told his parents he was coming late since he was going to eat out with his team.

When Shikamaru got in, all the lights were turned off and he thought his parents were sleeping but then he realized that wasn't the case. Under the door in his parents' room he could see the light coming from the inside. Also, he could hear some weird noises that he haven't heard in a while. The first time he heard them was a day when he was already in bed. The other times it was always the same, when he was already going to sleep.

The sounds came from a bed creaking from the movement and heavy breathing and his mother moans.

It took Shikamaru months to figure out what was happening in there, but when he finally knew he just wanted to cover up his ears with a pillow. However, that day was the first one he heard the noises being fully awake and conscious. Also, the hall to get to his room forced him to walk in front of the room his parents were. He didn't want to spy on them on purpose.

That day was one full of coincidences because not only Shikamaru was able to see the light coming from under the door, but also he could see the side of it and it was a little open.

The Young Nara could feel his hands sweating and his heart racing fast. Spying on his parents was wrong, but it was their own fault for leaving the door open. What he saw next is something kids should never see.

Shikamaru saw his mother, sitting on his father's lap, hugging and kissing him while he was penetrating her on that position and was holding her from her buttocks.

His mother back was sweaty and her butt cheeks where pink from having his dad hands holding and squeezing them, keeping her close to him.

He kept looking for what was less than a minute, but felt like forever. Shikamaru felt how his heart was beating so hard that felt like it was going to come out of his chest. First because of what he was looking at, and second, because of the nerves knowing this wasn't alright.

The young Nara decided to give them their privacy and started to walk towards his room but then his steps made the wood creak. Inside, the couple stopped for a moment, and Shikamaru heard how one of them stood up and heard steps coming towards the door.

He hurried up towards his room so they wouldn't see him there standing in the hall. He got in there on time and closed the door.

It seemed like, whoever got up, didn't go too far, much less go into his room, so he felt relieved. Minutes later Shikamaru heard how the couple just resumed their activities, so he got inside his bed and covered his ears with the pillow.

"This is embarrassing…" the thought while closing his eyes and finally falling asleep.

The next day was a Sunday. So Shikamaru woke up later than usual but his mother wasn't screaming at him for sleeping too much. Instead, he noticed how good it smelled inside his room. It seemed like she was cooking breakfast.

When he got up, he went to the bathroom and washed his face and mouth. Suddenly his stomach started growling letting him know that he needed to eat some of that delicious breakfast, so he went to the dining room.

He was expecting to find his dad, sitting as usual, reading the newspaper. But the only thing he found was the table set for three and his parents laughing together in the middle of the kitchen. Shikamaru came close and saw how it was like they were inside a bubble. For him it was a weird situation because not very often they were so affectionate with each other like that day. The young Nara looked at them and was filled with happiness at the scene. Suddenly, his mother turned and noticed him standing there and he saw how his dad looked at her with such bright eyes, but turn to look at him too. Both of them were smiling like they were totally different people.

"Good morning Shikamaru" his mother said looking so brightly that it was almost as gorgeous as Temari's smile. His little heart felt so alive that he smiled too. His mother came close to him leaving aside what she was doing and just hugged him and kissed him. He just stayed there paralyzed while his mother was saying something he could barely hear: "Set tea cups in the table." but he was hallucinating and took a little time to react until his mother said: "Come on Shika!"

The family finished breakfast and Shikamaru just kept looking at them so happy, and sometimes a little surprised at the attitude his parents had that day.

The young Nara went out to meet his team. He knew that the night before we was supposed to meet them for dinner and he never showed up because he went out with Temari.

Now that he thought about it, it was kind of embarrassing. He went out with a girl to watch the sunset and she said things like "don't die, I need you in my life".

His brain was still immature to be able to process and understand all that.

After some time walking, he got to the Yamanaka flower shop to find one of the members of his team:

"¡SHIKAMARU!" a furious Ino said behind the cash register.

Shikamaru got scared and started sweating when he saw how angry she was. It seemed like what happened the day before affected her more that he thought.

"Wh… what is happening Ino?" he asked stuttering.

"What is happening you ask!?" the blonde girl said coming from behind the register. "Yesterday we were supposed to meet for dinner, but since you decided not to show up, at the end it was just Asuma-sensei and me eating alone. It was SO awkward."

"I swear I thought Chōji would try to escape the hospital to come eat with you" Shikamaru tried to explain.

"Have you lost your mind?! How the heck was he going to escape? Sometimes I think you are so stupid Shikamaru…" the Yamanaka was screaming at her friend. "What were you doing yesterday that's got your brain not working today?"

The Nara got stressed at the question. Ino should never find out that he was meeting up with Temari every evening since three months ago. And even more, that the day before, he went out with her all day and they watched the sunset together. All that would sound so confusing for Ino and she wouldn't understand that they are just friends.

"I fell asleep" Shikamaru said thinking about a perfect excuse that his friend would believe.

Ino sighed, she believed him. It was a normal thing that Shikamaru would just fall asleep completely.

"Next time, don't miss it, since we will probably go out when Chōji gets out of the hospital."

"Sure!" Shikamaru said leaving the store and waving her goodbye. When Ino got like that it was best to just leave and he didn't want to stay to listen to her complains.

When he left he thought about going to visit his best friend. It was going to be three months now since Chōji was staying in the hospital and it was almost time for him to finally leave.

Shikamaru decided to go visit him.

"Hey, Chōji" he said finally going inside the Akimichi's room.

Chōji said hi to him with his hand since his mouth was full of food.

"I see you are getting better" the Nara said sitting at the edge of his bed.

"They take good care of me" the Akimichi answered smiling.

"What day are you getting out?" Shikamaru asked trying to confirm a date.

"In four days" his friend answered putting even more chips in his mouth.

"Ino said we'll go out to eat barbeque when you get out" he informed him.

"That something I won't forget!" exclaim the Akimichi.

Both friends stayed talking for a long time until a nurse came in and told Shikamaru that it was time to go.

When he talked with Chōji time always flew, almost as fast as when he was with Temari…

"Temari…" he whispered when he was leaving the hospital and suddenly saw her and her brothers walking in the streets of Konoha.

Shikamaru wasn't sure about talking to her like if they were close since she was the daughter of the Kazekage and the sister of the recently appointed Kazekage. Usually, he wouldn't care about things like that but since her brothers were present at the moment he did.

Temari noticed him and turned quickly to look at him. The young kunoichi was so excited to see him too she said hi to him with such intensity:

"Hey! Shikamaru!" Temari called at him smiling. Shikamaru slowly came close to the three siblings and said:

"Hello Temari, Kazekage-sama…"

Kankurō was very surprised at the way that boy was talking to his sister so he said to Temari:

"Do you know this guy?" the puppeteer asked arching an eyebrow. Temari quickly realized her mistake and tried to relax a little and act natural.

"Of course, you know him too Kankurō" she said acting like she didn't know what was he talking about.

"I mean, are you his friend or something?" the brunette said explaining himself so there would be no misunderstanding.

"Well eehhh… I asked Shikamaru if he could be my guide in Konoha…"

"And he accepted?" Kankurō was talking in such a tone, because he couldn't believe a guy like him would accept that easily to be a guide for his sister.

"That is very kind from you, Nara Shikamaru. I was looking for a guide and an official escort for us. It is perfect that you already accepted to be an escort for my sister, you could do the same for us. It would be a payed job of course, you could talk to the Hokage about it" the red-head boy said, not understanding how close his sister and that guy were, so he thought it was a good idea. But he didn't thought it would be a little awkward for his sister now that they knew she was going everywhere with Shikamaru.

"I don't know if it is a good idea…" Temari said almost whispering.

"Why?" Gaara asked without any expression in his face.

"Well…. If it's ok with you Gaara…"

"That's fine, that works Shikamaru" Gaara showed his siblings where to go, but Temari just stayed behind. She needed to talk to Shikamaru.

"Can I go somewhere just for a moment? since Shikamaru is here he can take me" his sister said trying not to sound so obvious. But for Gaara there was nothing suspicious about it. It wasn't like that for Kankurō though.

"Go ahead Temari, have fun" Gaara said and kept walking taking Kankurō with him before he could complain.

Shikamaru watched surprised at the scene, and now it looked like he was going to be alone with the Suna girl. Temari turned slowly towards him, with a hand in her face, giggling.

For Shikamaru it was just another of those awkward moments but also very interesting since he enjoyed the company of the girl that now had secretly become his little muse.