He tied his ponytail low. "What do you think?" he asked.
"I think it looks better the old way," said Temari. "You look way older with that ponytail low."
Shikamaru shrugged. "Thought it'd be more compatible with you that way."
Temari scrunched up her face. "Kankuro at you for our age difference thing again? You know it doesn't matter. Not to me."
"Not to me either." He sat down and shook his hair out. "Still, I don't want your family to be, y'know, put in a difficult place by the council."
"Oh please." Temari looped her arms about his neck. "The last kage we had killed his wife and implanted a homicidal monster into his own child. You think age difference is gonna be a sore topic with the council?"
"Riiiiight." Shikamaru didn't protest when she sat him down and tied his hair up again. "Silly of me to worry about something as minor as that. Especially since Kankuro keeps harping on it..."
Temari snickered and got into his lap. "Tell you what. We'll have dinner, and then we'll hang out at Kankuro's pad, and we'll show him just how much we don't care about the age difference."
Shikamaru smiled evilly. "I like that plan."