Notes from the Authoress: I have decided that I like Teacher Knows Best so much that I want to write short, unrelated ficlets based around that AU world now rather than the far future. And here we are! This is for ChipsandSnacks, whom asked why Temari had a change of heart about Shikamaru when there so was tension before. Oh--and you should read Teacher Knows Best before this.
Disclaimer: Roses are red, violets are blue. I don't own Naruto, and neither do you.
Chapter One: Maturity and Fun
Temari remembered very clearly when she saw Nara Shikamaru's name on her class roster. She'd been making seating charts—and trying to ignore her brothers, who were playing a video game in the next room loudly—when she had to stop and take a double-look.
Oh, yes, she knew exactly who this one was.
It took her a few moments to realize that the anger bubbling up inside her was ridiculous. She hadn't seen the boy since he was a freshman after all, and—she looked to the grade level of the class to make sure—he was in his senior year. Same as Gaara, she thought fleetingly, although Gaara went to a different school.
Temari decided then and there that she was an adult, and a childish scuffle with a boy she hadn't seen for three years was not worth it. She would put their fist fight out of mind—well, she had to ignore the smug smirk that appeared on her face when she remembered how she put him in comatose—and try very hard to remember that she was his teacher now, not his classmate. She would take a mature approach to dealing with him.
That didn't stop her from putting him down front and center on her seating chart.
Nor did it stop her from calling him Shikamaru-baka.
Nor did it stop her from finding a sick pleasure in watching his expression change whenever she assigned him "homework" (it wasn't really homework, after all, but class work for an advanced class she was attempting to get him into, and it hurt to look for his best interests, but she did try).
She couldn't loose all her fun.
Notes from the Authoress: I already have the next one written out, am working on the third one, and already have ideas for several more. I am very bad at updating stories, but reviews will compel me, and since these are short chapters with no timeline, hopefully it will work out. The fourth chapter, I think, will talk about Temari making her decision to ask Shikamaru on a date, and likely at some point I'll write their first date. Feel free to give any ideas you might have!