Shikamaru reluctantly accepted his orders from Lady Tsunade but was not happy at all, why was it always him that had to guide that knucklehead, Temari around Konoha. She had been there time and again, she knew where everything was located and she had even found where Shikamaru's house was much to his dismay. So why did he have to be her guide this time around.

He went home and waited for Friday to come. He was looking forward to seeing the siblings; they had become good friends of his over the years, especially Temari and him. They had this yo-yo kind of friendship, he would save her, she would save him, they would argue and he would like the challenges she would give him. He fell asleep and before he realized it was Friday morning. After his every day morning routine he waltzed towards the front gate, found a place to sit down and waited. He looked at the sky and occasionally would check if Temari's gang was approaching and then would return to glare at the sky. It was around ten when they finally showed up.

Shikamaru was annoyed; he had after all been waiting for two and a half hours. Kankuro was the first to spot Shikamaru who had some girl with big round glasses and messy blond hairy standing by him. He saw her giving something to Shikamaru and then ran off in a hurry, and he let out a loud laugh.

Temari was annoyed too because Kankuro had been flirting with some girl at a rice ball stand and because of that they were late. She hadn't slept over the past three days as she had gone training when her brothers were resting, trying to perfect that one jutsu.

Somehow Kankuro's laughter eased Temari's and Shikamaru's annoyance.

"Hey troublesome woman" Shikamaru smiled his 'smartass' smile.

As he looked at her he saw she was still a pretty gi..woman even beautiful. He began to feel a little tingle in his chest and mind. Calm yourself hormones.

"Crybaby, there you are, long time no see" Temari returned the smile with a near devilish look on her face.

She looked at him with his cheesy smile and laughed to herself. Why am I happy to see you Lazy?

"Has not! Has it?.."

"It's been almost a year actually" Temari butted in, becoming instantly irritated. Did he not realize they hadn't seen each other for so many months. Maybe he never thought of her like she thought of him.

Shikamaru had no smart reply to her. He did notice that they all had indeed grown physically, but they still looked almost the same as they did many months ago.

"Can you take us to the hotel now?" Temari demanded.

"Your wish is my command" he replied with a tacky bow, which he didn't mean to do.

Temari felt a little silly and rude, she knew that it wasn't her right to demand that of him as they hadn't seen each other in such a long time but to her defensive she was about to cave in from exhaustion. Temari told Shikamaru not to worry, she could find her way to the hotel herself and ran off before Kankuro, Gaara or Shikamaru could reply. They all shared the same thought she's very weird today.

Temari had run far enough from her brothers and Shikamaru before she began feeling dizzy, a combination of drowsiness, hunger and trying to run on energy she simply didn't have in her system. When she stopped running, she leaned up against one of the walls of the building. She had no idea where she was and tried to control her breathing and stay awake. The bag she was carrying in her hand suddenly weighed her down like concrete, so she dropped it.

"Hey Temari is that you?"

Temari heard the familiar voice but shrugged it off as she believed she had begun hallucinating. She felt incredibly heavy, and her eyes were beginning to shut on their own, fighting against Temari's will. She collapsed right there on the street.

"What the hell?" Chouji panicked seeing Temari falling down so suddenly. He didn't know how to determine what the cause for her falling down so suddenly so he followed his intuition; he picked her up and her huge heavy fan and ran towards Konoha hospital.