For this Oneshot, I decided to do a ShikaTem, set in a Modern AU. I may build upon this one later but it's just an idea. Regardless, enjoy the chapter and leave a review!

Midnight Mayhem

To Shikamaru, this Tuesday night had been much like every other night; He got home late from working overtime at KPB (Konoha Private Bank), played FIFA for a couple hours while he waited for his beloved wife Temari to return home from her hangout with her 'gal pals', and ordered Chinese takeout for dinner, as a nine month pregnant woman is expectedly reluctant to make dinner herself. They watched some Game of Thrones reruns, and by midnight, Shikamaru was ready to call it a night.

"Good night, Temari" Shikamaru kissed his wife in the lips once before turning the lamp off next to him to go to sleep.

….

"AHHHHHHHHHH!"

Shikamaru sat up in his bed, groggy with sleep and left confused by the sudden screech. He turned to his right to see Temari sitting up, holding her stomach as she continued to yell and gasp for air.

"Shikamaruuuuuuu! My water!" the Suna native yelled once more. Shikamaru immediately knew what had just taken place; his wife was giving birth.

"I'll go get the car ready!" Shikamaru said, falling out of his bed with a loud thud as he quickly scrambled to get ready.

"You fucking baka! You sent the car into the repair shop yesterday!"

Oh. right. Shikamaru groaned as he scratched his head, trying to think of something "How troublesome."

Temari's patience, which was never that long under normal circumstances, wore even thinner "DO SOMETHING! THIS KID WANTS TO GET OUT!"

Shikamaru put his hands together in his trademark thinking stance (well tick), as he thought of an idea. Shikamaru took a quick look at the clock. It's 4am right now, I have no idea how to help my wife give birth, let's think. Think. Think.

Shikamaru opened his eyes as he said "Aha! Temari, put on something warm, I'm gonna make a call!" The Nara clan head dashed to the living room, where he his phone was charging. He picked up the phone, and dialed up the phone number of the person he knew would be able to get them across town (to the hospital) in a dash.

"Hello? Shikamaru, do you have any idea what fucking time it is?"

Shikamaru paced around the living room as he frantically searched for his shoes. "Naruto! I need your help right now!"

Naruto took a moment to an answer, which at this point may as well have been an eternity. "What's the matter? This is very unlike you to be in a rush. Is something wrong?"

Shikamaru bit his lip in frustration as he found his shoes, putting them on as fast as he could. "My wife's in labor! Choji is out of the city, and I don't know who else to call! Can you drive here ASAP and take us to the hospital please!?"

Naruto seemed to pick up on the reality of the situation, as his voice changed to a more alert tone, and Shikamaru heard movement in the background, as well as someone else seemingly talking to Naruto, presumably Hinata. Naruto spoke up, "Sure, sure, man no problem! I'll be there in five minutes! BE READY!", and with that, Naruto hung up the phone. Shikamaru stopped for a second to catch his breath, before being startled once again by his wife's yelling, "SHIKAMARU WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU! CAN'T YOU SEE I NEED HELP!?"

Shikamaru ran back to their bedroom, his mind moving a million miles a second. "Temari! Temari! Naruto is gonna drive us to the hospital, lemme help you get ready, he'll be here in a couple of minutes!" He gripped his wife hand as he helped her sit upright on their bed. "Just take some deep breaths, okay? I'll get your shoes and clothes." Temari only shook her head.

"Shikamaru, just get my shoes! I'm not gonna be able to change clothes like THI-AHHHHHHHHHH! THIS FUCKING BABY!" Temari yelled at the top of her lungs, gripping her husband's hand so tight, Shikamaru thought it was gonna shatter.

"OW OW OW, let go of me!" Shikamaru pleaded with his wife as his hand turned white. He had to fight for his hand to slip out of his wife's vice-grip, before hearing a loud HONK HONK. Thank Kami for your Ex Machina-esque timing, Naruto.

"That's our ride. Temari, we have to go now!" Shikamaru said as helped his wife stand up and walk to the door.

"YOU THINK I DON'T FUCKING KNOW THAT!? I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Temari's wrath knew no bounds. Mr. Nara helped his wife walk out of the front door of their townhouse as fast as possible, as he saw Naruto's Bentley Mulsanne double-parked outside their steps.

"Deep breathes, Temari. We're almost at the car."

Naruto jumped out the driver's seat as he walked towards Temari, helping her into the car. Shikamaru speeded his way to the other side of the car, getting in the back seat next to Temari. Naruto made his way back into the driver's seat, before typing in the address of the nearest hospital. "Buckle up, guys! It's GONNA BE A FAST RIDE!" Almost on cue, the care speeded forward, reaching top speed at an insane rate as Shikamaru felt the momentum of the car push him into his seat instantly. Shikamaru held his wife's hand.

"Temari, how are you doing?" Shikamaru asked concerned.

Temari, sweat forming on her face, turned towards Shikamaru before saying "I feel him pushing out, Shikamaru! I don't know how much longer I can hold it!"

Naruto spoke up as he drove the car through the empty streets of Konoha's North Side, "I'll get to the hospital as fast as I can! Just please don't leave any stains or make any spills on the seats, it's a lot of money!"

Shikamaru groaned at the comment, but kept his focus on Temari. He could feel the luxury car gather velocity as it began to swerve around cars as they got onto the highway.

Shikamaru felt his heart beating so fast that it was practically jumping out of his chest, but kept his voice level as he tried to fight through the stammers his anxiety were giving him. "We're gonna be there soon, babe. Hang in there."

Temari nodded her head as she closed her eyes shut, before screaming again with another "AHHHH!" Once again, Shikamaru felt his hand crumble under the crushing grip of his wife.

Why couldn't this kid just wait till morning before causing a racket!?

Shikamaru felt his sweatshirt, before realizing that it was damp. He quickly looked outside to notice that it had been snowing. Funny what things a person could miss when put under distress in a situation like this.

"Shikamaru." Shikamaru snapped his head back to the front of the car, where Naruto had called his name.

"Yeah?"

"Things may get a bit bumpy from here on out. I suggest you hold onto your wife tightttt! WHOA!" the car started to blitz past the cars in front of it as Naruto swerved his way through the traffic up ahead.

Temari caught notice of this too as Shikamaru held on tight to his wife, making sure she didn't bump against the wall to inflict further distress. "Why in the name of KAMI are there so many FUCKING CARS ON THE HIGHWAY!?"

Shikamaru tried to ease his wife down again, rubbing the back of her hand with his. "There's always something happening in Konoha, hun. Not quite as quiet as Suna is. You fit in well." Temari chuckled at the joke, as she gave her husband a peck on the cheek. "How much further, Shikamaru!?"

Shikamaru repeated the question to Naruto, who took a look at the GPS before replying "at this rate, just a couple minutes."

Thankfully for both Temari and Shikamaru, their child's kicking and pushing subsided for the rest of the ride, as though the speeding automobile had soothed it's fit. In just a couple minutes, Shikamaru saw the hospital come into view.

"Temari! We're almost there!" Shikamaru reassured his wife, sweat starting to form on his forehead as well. As the car pulled up to the ER entrance, Shikamaru sat up in his seat, saying "Naruto, look after my wife for a second, I'm going inside." Naruto nodded his head as he got out of his seat and moved towards the back, while Shikamaru sprinted out the car and into the lobby. He juked his way around several people before banging his hand against the lobby desk and shouting,

"I need help! My wife's in the back of my friend's car, and she's going into labor as we speak!" The receptionist seemed taken aback by the whole situation, and took a second to recollect her bearings before saying "We'll take care of her, sir." She spoke to someone through her earpiece, and a few moments later a crew of staff came running down the hallway with a hospital bed in the middle.

Shikamaru shouted in his panicked state "It's the Bentley car!" before rubbing the back of his neck in nervousness. A minute or so later, Shikamaru saw the same team roll back inside the hospital, snow resting on each of them, and Temari sitting up in the bed as medical staff assisted her. Shikamaru walked out into the hallway as he saw them go past him. As Shikamaru went forward to follow them, the receptionist got in his way, saying "Let them take care of your wife, she's in good hands now. They're professionals."

Shikamaru wasn't gonna have any of this fucking nonsense. "My wife needs me! I have to be with her!" As he tried to go around the receptionist, she tried to get in his way again. This prompted Shikamaru to shove the woman aside, but before he could progress any further, he felt someone pull him back from behind. Shikamaru turned around to see it was a flustered and intense Naruto. Shikamaru tried to pull away, "Temari needs me Naruto, Fuck off!" Naruto responded by gripping onto Shikamaru's arm tighter and then using his other hand to grip Shikamaru by that same arm's shoulder, before pushing down his weight to force Shikamaru to the ground.

Naruto said with a tense calm to his voice, "You need to relax, bro. Your wife's fine, but you need to let the nurses do their job and take care of her."

Shikamaru chose not to answer, instead of looking up intensely at his friend, as his panting calmed down. After a minute, Shikamaru nodded his head. "Okay, I'll let them do their work." Naruto smiled down before offering his hand to Shikamaru. Shikamaru took it gratefully, pulling himself up from the floor.

"When can I see my wife?" Shikamaru asked the receptionist again.

"I'll notify you as soon you can. For now, take a seat in the waiting room upstairs." Both Shikamaru and Naruto walked up to the waiting room.

As Shikamaru waited impatiently in the waiting room, he looked outside at the snowy skyline of downtown Konoha. There was a pristine beauty to the image in front of him, the sprawling, martially run city in the dead of night. His train of thought was broken, when a nurse walked up to him and tapped his shoulder. "Your wife has given birth, sir. I will escort you to her room now if you would like." Shikamaru nodded and followed the nurse.

Once they reached the room, Shikamaru frantically walked in, before pausing when his eyes fell on his wife. Temari lay in her bed; her clothes damp with sweat and her hair sticking to her forehead, clutching their child in her arms as she looked down at the baby. Shikamaru couldn't help but smile. He walked up to Temari, before kneeling down to be able to look at their baby at eye level.

"It's a boy," Temari said, before handing their son to Shikamaru. "What should we name him?"

Shikamaru was speechless. Words couldn't describe the emotions that were coursing through him at that moment; Relief, excitement, joy, exhaustion, a little bit of pain, and several other ones that Shikamaru couldn't quite put his finger on. He lifted his son up to his eyes, who shared much resemblance with him. "We should call him Shikadam."

Temari looked up at her, waiting for a second before saying "Are you serious?"

Shikamaru turned to his wife, "What? Something wrong?"

"That's a stupid name. How 'bout Shikadai?"

"I like Shikadam," Shikamaru said back, knowing where this conversation was going.

"No, no, no. It's gonna be Shikadai." Temari said, crossing her arms and giving an expression that got the point across that this was not up for debate. Sighing, Shikamaru mumbled "What a drag. Okay, we can name him Shikadai." Temari immediately smiled, before gesturing for Shikamaru to sit next to her.

Once Shikamaru sat down beside Temari, his wife embraced him in a hug, "We're finally together as a family." she said softly. Shikamaru kissed his wife, handing Shikadai back to her, "I have to use the bathroom."

"Geez, thanks for your being such a gentleman," Temari said back, smirking as her husband got up to leave the room.

He simply raised his hand in the air, "You're welcome." He could hear Temari laugh as he entered the hallway. The first thing he saw was Naruto standing a few feet outside the door, phone in his hand, as he smirked at Shikamaru.

As Naruto walked up to Shikamaru, he said: "Welcome to the squad, homie."

"What you mean?" Shikamaru said, eyebrow raised.

"The #Father Squad!" Naruto gave Shikamaru a chest bump and a dab, to which Shikamaru willingly returned.

"Don't tell me it's too troublesome?" Shikamaru asked.

Naruto only sighed, "You have no fucking idea, sometimes I wonder why we're even considering a second one."

Shikamaru laughed, "Don't say that too loud; Hinata might hear."

Naruto chuckled and turned away "Good luck, Shikamaru. It's gonna be a drag."

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