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Seeing that there was no other choice, Shikamaru dragged his feet reluctantly behind Temari as they both searched for Sai. But he hoped with all his heart, that they would find Naruto first. But his wish was not granted.

"There he is, now let's go talk to him."

"I'd rather not if I can. Let's go find Naruto. He's got to be around here somewhere," Shikamaru groaned trying to get out of talking with Sai. But with the irritated expression on Temari's face, he doubted he'd get out of that. He sighed and rolled his eyes, while Temari walked over to the artistic member of Team Seven who looked at back at them with a type of curiosity.

With jet-black eyes, Sai tilted his head sideways and looked at them, "If you are here to get me to draw a picture of you, I will not. I don't care if the picture is for your girlfriend."

"What?" Shikamaru exclaimed, confused and scared all at the same time, "Has there been girls coming up to you and asking about drawing me? Ugh. . . How troublesome."

Temari fumed over that little situation with fevered jealousy. But she was glad, that this Sai character had refused them. Maybe this guy wasn't so bad after all.

"Anyways," Temari began, grabbing Shikamaru's arm to keep him by her side. He looked disgruntled as if he didn't want to be here. Which was definitely true, " We're trying to get those fan girls away from Shikamaru and we decided the best way to do that was to find someone else for them to chase everywhere."

"I don't want to be bothered by them. Choose someone else," Sai announced turning away, "Maybe you can get Naruto-Kun to do it. He's stupid enough to fall for your scheme."

"We want your advice on how to take off Hatake Kakashi's mask," Shikamaru corrected sighing. Sai was being half-way polite, but he figured it was because Temari was the Ambassador of Suna.

But Sai was already walking away, and disappearing around the corner. He looked at Temari and saw that she was a bit irritated. Feeling like she should blow Sasuke and Sai away with her trusty fan, Temari muttered, "First Sasuke, and now Sai. Those two are making me angry. I can't believe Sai didn't even wait until we were finished speaking."

"He was a lot nicer today," Shikamaru commented carefully, trying to improve her mood, "Let's go find Naruto. He's always ready to help out when he can."

Her greenish-blue eyes flashing, Temari glanced at the worried dark-haired ninja walking beside her and grinned, trying to reassure him, "Come on let's go find the hyperactive blond."

"If we stay close to the Ichiraku Ramen Shop, we should find him rather quickly," yawned Shikamaru as he glanced up at the darkening sky, "It's getting late, so I hope he shows up soon."

"Maybe a bit sooner than you think," She shouted as a orange-clad boy bumped straight into Shikamaru and knocked him down. Shikamaru was in a state of shock as dust covered the two guys.Naruto quickly brushed himself off and glanced straight behind him. A sudden look of terror lit his face and he glanced back at the couple in front of him. Shikamaru was already back into a standing position and was focusing on Naruto.

"Hide me!" Naruto half-shouted trying to keep his voice low, "Sai just found out that I was the one who told the girls that he could draw expert portraits of people. Now he's going to kill me for making all those fangirls bother him!"

"So you're the one who started that," Shikamaru calmly stated thinking that Naruto would be more willing to help if they saved him, "Get behind us and we'll keep Sai from finding you."

Temari liked the idea and nodded to confirm her consent.

"Thanks you! If you need a favor, I'll be happy to help," Naruto thanked the two of them, as he dived behind them. Sai was closing in on him, and stopped when he saw Temari and Shikamaru.

"Have you seen Naruto? I need to punish the baka for what he did." Sai asked, looking left or right to see if the blond was anywhere in sight. He smiled his normal fake smile and waited for a clear response.

"Sorry but no. I haven't seen him, but he's probably at the Ichiraku Ramen Shop since he eats so much," Shikamaru thought carefully as he answered, "Other than that, I'm not sure where else he would be."

"Thank you for you information. I'll check that location," Sai acknowledged them, as he rushed off toward the shop. As he went by, Temari stepped off to the side, to block his sight of Naruto. In relief, Naruto looked at the couple who had saved him and grinned.

"Thanks! But still I wish you wouldn't have mentioned Ichiraku" whined Naruto as he thought about the fact that now he wouldn't be able to visit.

"Hey Naruto. How's about helping us out? We thought we'd get the fangirls off my back by finding another guy to take my place as most popular. We thought about getting Kakashi-Sensei's mask off but we need some advice," Shikamaru explained as Naruto stared at him. Naruto shook his head to clear his thoughts and spoke up.

"Me, Sakura, and Sasuke all tried but we all failed. We even treated him to ramen, but you and the rest of your team got in the way," Naruto accused pointing his finger straight at Shikamaru, "But we tried other ways, and it still didn't work. And after so many failures, the others didn't want to continue anymore."

Temari thought that over, wondering what would have happened if any of those plots had worked. For one thing, there wouldn't be the problem of the fangirls and Temari would have never gotten in the supposed relationship. Anyways, it was kind of a good thing Naruto's plan hadn't worked.