[SHIKATEMA] Obvious (English Version)

Chapter 3 : Observation.

Six parts of Shogi, 2 books completed. Nothing could obstruct this obsessive thought : he wanted to know why Temari was so angry at him. It was one a.m. 1:08 to be precise. Was it an hour to visit people? Not at all. Should he wait until the next day? Yes. He must. Could he? Nope. His brain was starting to overheat with his thousand questions and doubts. Then.. he could annoy her. Did she want to see him? No. At last he thinks it sincerely. Shikamaru did not worry anymore, already dressed, he just put on his ANBU mask and left his apartment. The hotel was a ten minute walk, but his agility gained through the shinobi experience allowed him to get there in five minutes. Only three rooms overlooking the streets were lit. Shikamaru, used to spying for a year already, allowed himself to do so. Lovers share a night in the first room, the second was a young man playing at his game console, the third was a young woman, brunette with her son. No sign of Temari. What should he do? Turn back.. yes certainly.

But fate had just given him a stroke of luck. Temari had just left the hotel. Not knowing what to do, Shikamaru just followed her discreetly. He felt really stupid: one o'clock in the morning, following a girl. If he was suprised, what would he answer? Temari went to a supermarket open 24/24: she did some shopping. Had she not eaten? How did she know the place? Maybe Shino had shown her .. Or maybe in her previous comings to Konoha had she spotted the place .. What questions to add to his own trouble. After that she went up the street to return to the hotel. The Nara felt stuck: see her now and ask her questions or enter her room? The last option seemed more appropriate, because it was cold late outside, but also, seemed pervert.

She walked up the street without a sound, opened the front door of the hotel before rushing into it. On the fourth facade of the building, a light from a room came on, Temari's room. Shikamaru then watched her, perched on a tree, buried under the leaves. What stalker he was doing. Temari put her bag on the table of the ridiculous living room (a seat and a coffee table, that's all). She undid her four tails, her blond hair falling on her shoulders. This movement of grace completely charmed Shikamaru. Not suspecting at her so much elegance, delicacy. Temari was above all a warrior. But there Shikamaru face a woman, who removed her kimono. He was so taken aback that he slipped from his branch, causing a noise between the foliage. "Shit shit shit .." he rebelled, praying the gods that she doesn't heard anything. He reopened an eye and found Temari lying on his bed, a book in her right hand and an icy chestnut in his left hand. He sigh of relief.

Why did he keep looking at her? Basicaly, he had to talk to her. To knock on the door of her room like a man would. Not hiding in a tree near the window of her room to watch her. She was in white underwear. Her legs were muscular, but not too much. She was even more beautiful than he imagined that morning. Suddenly a kunai comes to skin the wood of his mask before planting himself in the tree. Shikamaru was on his guard and observed, that in the tree on his left, Temari was present.

He looks at Temari on the tree, and the one on the bed. Which evaporated in a white cloud: a kage bushin. She had him, he find himself stupid. Temari jumped into his tree before pushing it against the trunk of it, a kunai already slightly laid on his throat. As normal Shikamaru would not let himself be done, he had very good reflexes only, he did not want to hurt Temari and even less make him believe that he was an enemy. With the pointed blade of his kunai, Temari removed the shinobi mask. She frowned, seeing that it was Shikamaru. His reaction was quick. First, she replaced the sharp kunai near his throat.

- "You seriously spied on me Nara?! you pervert!

- Ehmm ... That's not what you think. It wasn't my intention !

- And what exactly did you want? Hide in a tree near my window, window overlooking my room ?!

- I wanted to ask you something, but there..  it can be complicated.

She frowned all the more. If he thought she was going to release this kunai, he could always dream.

- "Speak.

- Ksé ... Ok ok .. Why did you exclude me from the mission?

- We already explained that to you.

- The Hokage explained to me, not you. "

He was not wrong on this point. Nevertheless could she tell the whole truth? Absolutely not.

- "Because you were late.

- It's just an excuse. I know there is something else. You can't have so much anger for so little.

- Do you underestimate me Crybaby ?

- Could you release that kunai already? And you think we can have a discussion on the branch of a tree? "

Yeah.. Not thaht stupid his idea. She tidied her kunai then went through the balcony of her hotel room to enter her room, Shikamaru followed her. They took off their shoes out of respect, putting them at the entrance of the room. Shikamaru then turned to Temari, holding his ANBU mask in his hand.

- "Why are you so angry with me?

- You didn't inform me that you had joined the ANBU.

- Just for that? Kss .. It's normal ! The shinobi's identity is supposed to be secret and he gets a pseudonym .. I could not tell you anything even if my friends know it, because it's shinobis of Konoha. And why do you even care?

- I was expecting to see you as a guide that's all. And for a year nobody told me anything. Always "He is on mission".

- What would you have wanted? That I tell about me to your Kazekage? It's stupid Temari.

- Good, you got your answer, get out now. "

The violence of these words struck Shikamaru. He did not know how to react to this: on the one hand, she had just confessed to him the reason for his anger, testifying that his absence had visibly disappointed her, and on the other hand she wanted him to leave, she had removed him from his guiding function today. She folded her arms and then settled on the edge of her bed, ready to go to bed: obviously, the discussion was over. Shikamaru then approached her, squatting to be at his height, seeking her gaze. She struggled a few moments before looking at him, still so angry. Why had not she slapped him elsewhere?

- "Sorry Temari, really sorry, I did not think that .. it would hurt you so much, that ..

- What?

- That we had become so close over the years. "