All right so here comes chapter number 4 guys! I hope everyone enjoys it!

Is anyone else super tired today or is it just me? Lol

Disclaimer: HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO REPEAT MYSELF? NARUTO DOESN'T BELONG TO ME! *SIGH* SAD FACE.

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Women. Never my strong suit, and never people I'd like to associate with. Still they all like to infiltrate my life even in the smallest of ways and now I was alone on my favorite hill with nothing to do that day but look at the sky. This was a prefect day for me, or it should be. That one troublesome woman had yet to leave my mind though she had physically left Konoha 3 days, 15 hours, 33 minutes, and 46 seconds ago… Not that I was counting. Different troublesome things kept repeating themselves over and over in my mind; I was still having difficulty comprehending that the whole thing had actually happened. Temari, of all people, Temari! I remembered the feeling of having my mind completely blank, I myself did nothing to make my mind achieve such a level and probably would have handled each situation with the troublesome woman differently had I been at my full mental capacity but I ached to have that feeling now. To be able to forget all the smirks that had fell upon her face, to forget the subtle curves of her figure that had been burned into my head the moment I watched her walk out the village gates. Damn her.

"…Shikamaru? Can you hear me in there? Huh. I think we lost him Naruto."

"HEY! WAKE UP YOU LAZY BASTARD!"

"UGH! I wasn't sleeping Naruto! Now will you shut up!"

"Sorry man! Maybe you should have responded to Chouji before then!"

"Yeah. Hum. Shikamaru are you ok?"

"Yeah, Yeah. I'm fine. I just have a lot on my mind recently."

"Wait. Wait. You have had a lot on your mind? You? Ok, who are you? Where'd you put Shikamaru?"

"Calm down Naruto, everyone has off days. Speaking of days; where have you been Shikamaru? I haven't seen you in a while."

"Umm. Doing my duty as the ambassador from Suna's guide." The statement ended up sounding more like a question than a fact.

"… You were right Naruto. This is not Shikamaru."

"Ha ha, funny Chouji."

"Yeah, I thought so." He responded smirking. "So want to tell us what's really going on?"

"No, not particularly."

"AH! I KNOW IT'S PROBABLY ABOUT SOMETHING TROUBLESOME! LIKE …. HUMMM," Naruto took a moment to think then resumed his shouting, "LIKE A GIRL!!!!"

"Will you stop shouting we're right next to you, Naruto!?" I took a moment and began to rub my forehead, wondering how the most clueless guy in the village could have guessed that quickly that I was thinking of a woman. Am I that easy to read or I'm I as predictable as Ino? No, I was defiantly not as predictable as Ino, this idiot just got lucky.

"Oh right. Sorry."

"It's ok you're just being the usual Naruto. Ha ha ha. So anyway Shikamaru we were asked to come find you. Apparently the fifth Hokage is looking for you, she seemed kind of stressed." As Chouji said this he somehow pulled a bag of chips out of thin air and started his ever familiar munching.

"Yeah. She wasn't being her big mouthed, drinking, old self." Naruto looked overly worried for the old woman, but I don't think it could be anything that bad.

"Huh, so why is she looking for me?"

"We don't actually know, she said that the reason she needs you is classified information. But she said that you need to see her A.S.A.P."

"Ok. Well then I'll see you two later I guess." Lady Tsunade wanted to see me as soon as possible? Maybe this was worse than I thought. I headed for the Hokage tower jumping from roof to roof through the village, barely noticing where exactly I was, thinking of every possible scenario that could be the cause of why I was needed. I realized that I had arrived at the tower while in my thoughts and apprehensively made my way inside to her door. I knocked softly and heard a muttered, empty "Come in," from within the room. I entered and saw the woman sitting in her chair with her face in her hands not moving an inch. I cleared my throat slowly and she lifted her eyes the seemed heavy and sunken.

"Shikamaru," She said in a slightly horse voice, "Good, you're here. Sit down."

I walked to the front of her desk and sat in the hard wooden chair, I looked straight at her.

"I bet your wondering just exactly what is going on huh?" she tried to chuckle but it sounded strained. "All right, well, as you can probable tell, we have a bit of a situation."

"You've assumed correctly. So, what happened?" I asked calmly.

She sighed and then started "Well it seems that a shinobi of Suna has gone missing and presumed to be dead, killed by Konoha. The Sand village seems to be having some what of an uproar. Gaara can't even seem to calm them. I don't want distrust and incivility to happen in Konoha so I've decided to leave the village uninformed. We hope to settle the matter without alarming our village, but the way things have been going, so far it seems we're on a one way path to war." Another strained chuckle made its way through the end of her speech.

Something about what she had said stirred me, I couldn't figure it out.

"So, Shikamaru, as you are the ambassador to our village I'm asking you to take on a very dangerous mission. I need you to go to the sand village and try to salvage what is left of our relationship with the Sunagakure people. In order to do this you will have to go alone to show that you are not there to fight and to show you still have trust in the people. You will be facing the hatred of the Suna nation and must be on your guard at all times. In times of unrest there is no telling what may happen."

"I understand Lady Tsunade."

She took a relived sigh, "Thank you Shikamaru. No matter what happens I thank you for trying. You'll leave as soon as you can."

I stood and turned prepared to leave but stopped as I again felt something within me spin. I turned again to face Tsunade.

"Umm, one thing Lady Tsunade."

"What is it?"

"It seems kind of trivial for the Sand village to get angry over one shinobi death and to automatically think it's an ally." As I spoke to her she seemed to be anticipating my next question which only made me more worried that my slight speculation might be correct. "Who…" I took a deep breath then continued, "Who was it that was killed?"

She again looked at me with sadness in her eyes and then looked down at her desk and uttered words I never in my life wanted to hear.

"It was Sabaku no Temari."

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Ok yeah again a little short [well actually it's like 1,160 words] but seriously what's a better ending than that? Answer: None. Well unless it's the very end cause that would just suck, but chapter ending, its awesome. Weird thing I just wrote a really sad chapter but I'm actually not so sad. In fact I'm ecstatic! Well anyway thanks for reading guys!

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