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The idea of it always had bothered him. He really wanted to tell her, but he was too scared to here her answer and frankly he was just plain lazy. She had moved to Konoha High just a few weeks ago, but once she entered the room he was breathless. She was absolutely beautiful. You could read her expression by just glancing at her teal eyes. Her sandy blonde hair was always tied back in four ponytails. Every time he saw her his genius mind turned to mush. She was captivating.

It started out as a plain day in Kakashi's class. He was late as usual and everyone was enjoying a pre-class talk. Choji and Shikamaru were in the back of the class talking about how lame the school was. "This school is so troublesome." Shikamaru yawned and placed his head on his desk and closed his eyes. Choji turned around in his chair to face his lazy friend.

"You're so lazy sometimes Shikamaru." Choji pulled out a bag of barbeque potato chips. "You should really go to a party or something. Just get out of your house and socialize." Shikamaru opened his eyes and put his chin on his desk to look at his friend. Shikamaru groaned.

"Socializing is a drag, and all the girls in this school are complete morons." Shikamaru laid his head back on his desk and fell asleep. Choji turned around and tried to start a chat with Ino who was having an argument with Sakura over the jerk Sasuke.

"Good morning class." Kakashi exclaimed as he walked in. Everyone turned to him and glared at him for being late. "Sorry I was late. I got lost on the road of life." Naruto groaned.

"You're late as usual Kakashi-Sensei!" Naruto pointed an accusing finger at the teacher.

"Sit down Naruto. I have some news to tell everyone." Kakashi spotted the sleeping Shikamaru. He threw a piece of chalk at him. He rubbed his head and looked up. "Stay awake Shikamaru Nara. As I was saying I have news. We have a new student." Shikamaru sighed.

A new student. Great! Shikamaru's sarcastic thoughts ran through his mind. "She is moving here from Suna." Shikamaru groaned. It just had to be a girl. She's probably another idiot bimbo. This is wonderful.

"Temari you may come in now. Everyone this is Temari." Everyone turned to look at the sand kunoichi while Shikamaru lazily and slowly moved his eyes. She walked in boldly and stood in front of the class surveying her new classmates. She spotted the spiky-haired lazy ass in the back of the room and smirked. This school is full of losers. "You can take a seat next to Shikamaru in the back there. Shikamaru raise your hand." Shikamaru had fallen asleep once again. Kakashi throws a book at Shikamaru's head. "Wake up Nara!"

"What do you want Kakashi-sensei? I was having a good nap." He rubbed his head to where the book had hit him. Temari laughed at the lazy kid.

"Please take a seat Temari. Now everyone let's start the class." Temari walked past everyone on her way to the seat next to Shikamaru. He had been taking sneak peeks at Temari as she walked to her desk. She isn't like any of the girls around here.

"You're Shikamaru right?" He looked up at her lazily.

"Yeah…" He put his head back on his desk looking away from her. She started fuming. Is everyone this lazy and unsociable? She turned her attention from him to the student sitting next to her. The brown-haired kunoichi smiled at Temari.

"Hi I'm Tenten." Temari smiled back.

As they started talking Shikamaru turned his attention back to Temari. He didn't notice Choji watching him staring at Temari.

"Pst. Shikamaru. I see you can't take your eyes off of the new girl." Shikamaru turned to see a stupid grin plastered on Choji's face.

"Woman are troublesome. I was just trying to get some sleep." Shikamaru yawned. Choji just laughed at him.

"Whatever you say. Hey there's a party at Ino's tonight. Why don't you come and ask Temari if she wants to come too." Shikamaru sighed.

"Fine Choji. If it'll make you happy I'll go to the party, and ask that damn girl too, but she's going to reject me. Then I'll be pissed off at the party."

"Why don't you just write her a note. It'll be less painful if she dumps you." Shikamaru sighed and got a piece of paper out and a pencil. He hastily wrote:

Party:
Tonight Ino's house. 7 P.M. Thought you'd like a good warm welcome to this troublesome school.

He folded it and handed it to Choji. "Here you can give it to her so she doesn't know it's from me. Tell her someone told you to give it to her and don't tell her who it is." Choji grabbed him and gave him a devious smile.

"Okay Shikamaru." The bell rang. "I'll see you tonight. Hey Temari wait up." Choji got up to walk after the new girl who had made great friends with Tenten. Shikamaru slowly got up and went to his next period which was P.E. with Might Guy. The bell rang as he made it into the gym. Everyone was already changed and ready to start class. Shikamaru still had to change into gym clothes.

"Shikamaru! You're late again. Hurry up and change and then run a lap." Shikamaru was on his way to the locker room when Guy started yelling again. "Temari you're late. I know you're new, but tardiness is not an option. Get changed and run a lap." Shikamaru turned around to see the blonde kunoichi standing in front of Guy.

She's in this class too? What a drag. He went into the locker room to change.

Once he finished changing he came out and walked over to the track. Temari had came out of the changing room at the same time Shikamaru did and walked to the track also. She ran up to catch up to him. "Oi Shikamaru, right? Why do you have to take a lap?"

"I was late to class again. How do you like this troublesome school?" Temari raised an eyebrow.

"Troublesome school?" He didn't look at her because his face began to turn red. Shit. I forgot I put that on that note I- Choji gave her. "Did you right that note?"

"What note?" They reached the track and he started speeding up.

"Oi Shikamaru. Wait up!" She caught up to him. "Someone gave me a note saying something about a party and this troublesome school. I just thought it might be you since you said troublesome school." Shikamaru groaned.

"Oh that party. Ino is having a stupid party and I don't even think I'll go." He rubbed his head and muttered about something being troublesome. Temari scowled at him. He's so lazy and weird. He probably didn't write that note…he's too lazy to do something so 'troublesome.'

"Whatever. I guess I'll go to the party, but I don't know anyone here. So I'll probably hang out with you or Tenten." Shikamaru looked at her, but she turned away blushing.

"What?"

"I just said I don't know anyone so I won't have anyone to hang out with that's all. Well we finished our lap. I'm going to go talk to Tenten. Bye lazy ass." She waved and hurriedly walked off.

"Troublesome woman." Shikamaru muttered to himself.

School had ended and Temari was walking home with Tenten, who was going to help her get ready for Ino's party. Temari was really nervous about the party because she didn't know anyone. "Who do you think will be at the party?" Tenten shrugged.

"I don't know for sure. The usual party-goers like Kiba, Naruto, Sakura, and Ino of course. Choji, Sasuke, and Hinata may go. They only go to certain parties. Every once in a while Neji and I go. That's about it." Temari looked at her feet.

"What about that Nara guy?" Tenten looked at her with a questionable face. "What? You didn't mention him. I was just wondering." Tenten sighed.

"He's too lazy and not very sociable. He never goes to parties." They had reached Tenten's house and she pulled them inside and up to her room to get ready for the party.

"I don't even want to go to this party let alone get ready for it. This is such a drag." Shikamaru was over at Choji's and it was a half hour before the party started. Shikamaru was wearing a black t-shirt with some jeans and he had his hair down. He was laying on Choji's bed with his hands behind his head staring at the ceiling while Choji finished getting ready. Choji was wearing a red hoodie with some jeans.

"Oh come on Shikamaru, lighten up. This'll be fun and you could hang with Temari." Shikamaru turned away to avoid Choji seeing him blush. "Okay I'm ready. Let's go to the party."

"Hey Tenten and Temari. Welcome to my party. The snacks are in the kitchen and the party is mainly in the living room. Have a good time." Ino opened the door to let them in. Tenten was wearing her tomboy style tee with some capris while Temari had a sparkly tank top and a denim skirt on. Her hair was down and curled and Tenten's was down and straight.

They walked into the living room to see it almost filled with dancing people. The stereo blasted a loud rock song while everyone was dancing to the beat. Temari walked over to the couch and sat down not in the mood to dance. Tenten found Neji and started to dance with him. Temari didn't know anyone so she just sat there watching everyone have fun. When someone sat on the couch next to her she didn't look his way. She just listened to the song and tapped her foot.

"Having fun?" A lazy voice asked. She turned to see Shikamaru sitting next to her. When she saw him she was breathless. His hair is down? He looks so hot! Wait did I just say that. She looked away and avoided his question. She took another peek at him. He looks so different. Sort of hot, but he's not like drop dead gorgeous. "I'm not a dancing person. Especially with people I don't know." He stared at her.

"Oh I see. I don't like to dance. It's such a drag." He couldn't take his eyes off of her. She curled her hair. It looks good on her. His eyes looked down at her wardrobe. She's showing a lot of leg. And her top is low-cut and exposing. She looks so hot. Shikamaru shook off this thought and stared at his hands. "You want to go get some snacks?" She nodded and he grabbed her hand and guided her into the kitchen. She blushed when she noticed he was holding her hand.

"You can let go of my hand." He hurriedly let go of her hand and rubbed his head.

"Oh sorry." He got her some punch and handed it to her. "So what made you move to Konoha anyways?" He was trying to make a conversation after their embarrassing hand holding.

"I don't really know. My parents just told us we're moving and we moved." She shrugged as she took a sip of her drink.

"Oh. Do you have-" The doorbell interrupted him. "I'll get it Ino." He walked over and opened it to see a brown haired guy with purple makeup on his face and a red haired kid next to him.

"I heard there was a party so we decided to come." The purple guy said.

"Who are y'all?" Shikamaru asked, but before the guy could answer someone interrupted him.

"Kankuro! Gaara? What are y'all doing here!" Temari yelled as she ran over to them.

"You know them?" Shikamaru asked confused.

"They're my idiotic brothers. What are y'all doing here?" Kankuro laughed.

"Lighten up sis. I was asked by that Ino chick. Have fun I'm going to go party." Kankuro walked past her with Gaara following behind him. Temari was fuming and was so angry she got a headache.

"Damn those two. They always give me a headache." Temari rubbed her temples. Shikamaru grabbed her wrist and started pulling her. "What the-"

"We're going to get away from this troublesome party." He pulled her into the master bedroom and shut the door behind them.

"What are we doing in here?" She was yelling at him.

"I thought you had a headache. I was just trying to help it. Now we can't hear that annoying music. Don't worry we're just going to talk. I don't want to have sex or anything." Shikamaru yawned and went to lay down on the bed.

"You really are a lazy ass." She went over to the bed and sat on the floor next to it rubbing her temples. "My fucking head hurts like hell. Damn Kankuro giving me a fucking headache."

"Why does your brother wear makeup?" Shikamaru rolled over and peered over the edge and Temari looked up at him.

"He's just weird." She rolled her eyes. Once her eyes went back to Shikamaru's she realized how close their faces were. She sat there staring at him because she couldn't really move. His head was above hers so she couldn't stand up because she would hit his head and she didn't want to crawl away because she'd look like a complete idiot. She looked away from him and at her hands.

"Why didn't your other brother talk at all?" Shikamaru didn't notice how she was embarrassed at being so close to his face.

"He's not sociable. I don't even know why he came to the party in the first place." She shrugged. "Kankuro is the party animal in our family." Shikamaru laughed.

"That was obvious." He sat next to her on the floor and continued to talk. "So what was your old home like?" They continued going on like this. He would ask questions and she would reply. Then she started asking him questions. They talked for a long time until someone knocked on the door. "Come in." Shikamaru lazily replied, unhappy someone interrupted their conversation. Tenten opened the door and smiled.

"Hey Temari. I just wanted to let you know I was going home if you wanted me to walk you home." Temari looked at her then over to Shikamaru. She then looked back to Tenten.

"No Tenten. I think I'm going to stay. I'll see you at school." Tenten nodded and then waved bye.

"Bye Temari." She shut the door behind her. Temari looked over at Shikamaru who was staring at her.

"What? Why are you staring at me weirdo?"

"Why didn't you leave with her? I thought you wanted to leave this party because of you're headache. Am I that fun to talk to?" He gave her a playful seductive smile and placed his hand on hers. "Or do you secretly have a crush on me?" He had been joking around, but Temari didn't know that. Her heart sped up and her hormones got the better of her. His hand is touching mine and he's so close. This is so weird. He is so hot. Wait! Stop thinking about that. Calm down Temari. He's just a guy.

She turned her head away to avoid him seeing her blush. "I just didn't feel like getting up. You're laziness is rubbing off on me." She smirked at him not turning to look at him.

"What do you want talk about now?" He asked nervously. He then realized he still had his hand on hers and he pulled it away fast. She looked at him and gave him an evil smile.

"You nervous." He placed her hand on his chest and leaned in to him. She leaned into him and stopped a few centimeters from his. "I think I do have a crush on you and I can't control myself anymore. I think I really do like you Shi-ka-ma-ru." She said his name slowly and seductively. His heart race quickened and Temari could feel it with the hand on his chest. She laughed on the inside. Let's see how nervous I make him. I truly am evil. She leaned in a little bit closer. Her lips a millimeter from his. "What are you thinking about Shikamaru?" She didn't pull away from him.

"I was thinking about how sexy you look." He finally realized she was just messing with him to get back at him, so he decided to play along. She started to blush and pull away, but he put a hand behind her head and kept her in place. "Temari. Let's be serious. I'm tired of playing this game." He let go of her and let her pull away. She took her hand off his chest and scooted away leaving a gap between them.

"Sorry I was just getting back at you for doing it to me earlier. Sorry." She didn't look at him. Her hormones were getting to her and she was thinking about Shikamaru. I was so close to his face. I could've leaned in and kissed him. Would he kiss me back? His chest was so warm. I wonder if he has a ripped stomach just like most guys. Get a hold of yourself Temari. Stop thinking about that lazy ass. Temari shook her head to get rid of the thoughts.

"Oh." That was all he could think to say. He let his mind wonder. She was so close to me, but it was just a joke. She doesn't really like me. What do I care. Ugh she's so troublesome, but she is looking really hot tonight. He stole a quick glance at her. She had her arms crossed underneath her breasts making them look a lot bigger. He shook his head to stop the thoughts that came.

She turned to see him staring at her. "What are you looking at." The anger in her voice shocked him.

"Nothing. I was just thinking." She looked confused.

"About what?" She was curious about what he was thinking about.

"Nothing." He looked away. What would she say if she knew I was thinking about her chest?

"Liar. You had to be thinking about something. You just said you were." She crossed her arms again which made him stare at her some more. She looked to where his gaze was and gasped. "You pig!" She stood up with her hands balled into fists. "How the hell could you be staring at my chest you stupid lazy pig!" He waved his hands frantically.

"No I didn't mean to. I'm a guy. It's hormones." He rubbed his head nervously.

"I don't care. I thought you were different than the other guys in this school, but you're not. You're a pig just like my brother. You make me sick." She turned for the door and began to stomp off, but stopped when he grabbed her wrist. She tried to pull away, but he held onto her wrist tighter. "Let go of me pervert."

"I'm sorry I was staring at your boobs, but please don't go. It's such a drag to admit, but I like talking to you." He nervously rubbed his head.

"Fine, but if you stare at my chest again I will leave." She walked back to him and sat down next to him. He was still holding her wrist, but he didn't make a move to let go. "Do you have to hold my wrist?"

"You don't like it?" He gave her a smile. She just ignored him.

"Whatever."

"Why are you so mad? It's not I did something really bad. I was just staring at you're chest. Troublesome woman." He sighed.

"I don't know. I guess I just overreacted. The guys back at Suna were all perverts, so when you did that I was just thinking that the guys here were like that too. This party sucks." Shikamaru laughed at her.

"Technically you're not at the party. So by saying that you're really saying you hate talking with me." He was smiling at her.

"I don't hate talking to you. In fact it's actually fun." She blushed at the realization of what she said.

"I've never been this sociable and I'm surprised I haven't fallen asleep yet." He laughed to himself. She laughed with him and then they both were laughing really hard for a long time. They fell over clutching there stomach. They had laughed for a few minutes which made their stomachs hurts. In their laughing fit she fell over on him with her head on his chest. She laid there holding her stomach listening to his heartbeat. She felt his chest rise and fall as he sighed. She didn't get up and continued to listen to his heart. The steady beat made her eyes close with drowsiness. She was almost fast asleep when his soft voice woke her up.

"Are you going to get off me?" She looked up to see him staring at her. She sighed and sat up by pushing off his chest.

"Sorry I almost fell asleep. I must be tired." She looked down at him and stared into his eyes. His eyes are brown, but they look like they're smiling. His eyes are beautiful. She continued to stare into his eyes.

"Do you want me to walk you home?" His voice broke her trance. She smiled at him.

"Yeah that would be good." He stood up and put his hand down to help her up. She grabbed it and he pulled her up, but she tripped and fell on him. She looked up into his eyes.

"Sorry. I'm a klutz." She backed of him. He just smiled at her.

"It's okay. Let me take you home." He grabbed her hand and pulled her out. He held her hand as they made their way to the front door.

"Hey Temari." She turned around to see her drunk brother smiling stupidly at her.

"Kankuro are you drunk? Ugh you're such an ass sometimes." She was still holding Shikamaru's hand and Kankuro saw there hands intertwined. He walked over to Shikamaru and put a finger in his face.

"You hurt my sister and I'll kill you." His drunk breath reached Shikamaru's nostrils. He backed up and pulled Temari away. "Hey baby." Kankuro had spotted a hot girl walk by him and converted his attention to her.

"I see what you mean about him being a pig." Shikamaru stated as they walked through the house. The party was still going strong and everyone was either dancing, talking, or drinking. They almost made it out of the house, but someone stopped them.

"Where are you going Shikamaru?" Ino stood in front of them. Shikamaru groaned.

"I'm walking Temari home. She's not feeling well. I'll talk to you later Ino." He tried to walk around Ino, but she put her hands on his shoulders.

"You're not leaving Shikamaru. You didn't even dance with me yet." Ino grabbed his hand and pulled his other hand away from Temari's and started pulling him towards the dance area. Temari stood there pissed. Shikamaru turned and saw Temari and pulled away from Ino.

"Sorry Ino, but I have to take Temari home. I'll see you whenever troublesome woman." Shikamaru went over to Temari and started pulling her through the door.

"Don't you want to dance with your girlfriend." Shikamaru stopped walking and stared at Temari.

"She's not my girlfriend. I can't even stand her. She is the most annoying woman I've ever met." Shikamaru walked closer to Temari. "Woman are too troublesome."

"Can you just take me home already?" She started walking, but got pulled back by Shikamaru who was still holding her hand. She stood there tapping her foot waiting for him to move. He stood there staring at him with those stupid eyes. The same eyes from earlier when I was laying on his chest. They're so gorgeous. Okay calm down Temari. Just get him to take you home. "Shikamaru?" He pulled her in closely and stared into her eyes.

"Do you really want to go home?" She stared back.

"Yes. If you don't take me then I'll leave by myself." He started pulling her by her hand. "Thank you."

"Temari?" They were almost to her house and the awkward silence was getting to Shikamaru. He had to break the ice.

"Yeah?" She didn't look over at him just kept staring ahead of her. She just realized they were still holding hands. What does this mean? Does he like me? Do I like him? He is pretty hot.

"Thanks for going to the party. It was fun to hang out with you." She looked up at him in shock. Did I really just say that?

"Thanks for inviting me." She smiled up at him.

"I didn't invite you." He looked away nervously.

"Okay whatever you say. Well I'm home. Thanks for walking me home. See you at school." She gave him a hug and went into her house leaving Shikamaru standing outside thinking to himself. She gave me a hug. This wasn't such a drag.