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Shikamaru had never much cared for parties. Loud music, drunk idiots and people constantly bothering him, nothing seemed less fun. He was perfectly content to spend his evenings as he had planned, playing shogi with Asuma. Instead, he was spending his time on the phone with Ino as she insisted he come to one of her constant parties that started a few hours ago.
“C’mon, you never come out! And today will be Temari’s first party in Konoha. As The ambassador to Suna, you kinda have to come.” Inos's excited voice screeched through the phone over the sound of music booming in the background.
she did have a point, after all, he didn’t like the idea of her being there without him. Not because he was jealous or anything. Of other guys getting to see what Temari looks like in casual clothes, what she looks like dancing or drunk, putting their hands on her perfect skin when shaking hands and passing drinks. Definitely not, professional interest only.
“You should go,” Asuma sighed from across the board. “You have to be a teenager eventually. Get drunk and dance with a pretty girl”
He couldn't deny he wanted to see her. Over the years she had been working in Konaha she had become a place to let out a breath. Let go of all of the stress of life and just focus on her, mature and brilliant and always so unattainable. She was older and she was a princess from a land three days away and of course, she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
“I don't dance” Shikmaru laughed “but fine, fine. I'll go”
Shikamaru retreated back to his room and left Asuma to share drinks and jokes with his dad. He put on simple jeans and a T-shirt. if he was going to this thing he was putting in as little effort as possible. He made the quick and cold walk to Ino’s house, the closer he got the more he questioned why he was doing this. Shikamaru knocked on the door.
“What took you so long? Temari's been waiting for you all night” Ino winked
“Yeah right” She should really mind her business.
Shikamaru stepped into the living room where Naruto was dancing like a drunk idiot with Lee, Sasuke stood silently in the corner ignoring Sakura’s attempts to get his attention, Kiba and Shino were trying to get Hinata to do shots at the kitchen counter. The house was filled with motion mostly people he didn’t know all bumping up against each other to annoying techno music.
Temari was playing beer pong at the table with her brothers and some people he didn’t recognize. It was obvious she had taken a few losses as she swayed drunkenly, attempting to aim her ping pong ball. She was wearing a small black skirt he was pretty sure he had seen Ino in before, but god it fit her… different. Her thighs were thick, strong, like he could sink his hands into them. On the top, she was wearing a simple tight t-shirt that stopped just above her belly button. It held her curves so perfectly it made Shikamaru jealous. Her hair was in her trademark four ponytails and her makeup the simple eyeliner and lipgloss she always wore. The lipgloss that always made him imagine her lips somewhere else….
Great now he was facing a humiliating evening of trying to conceal a boner, if Ino saw she would never let him live it down.
“Doesn't she look sooo hot I picked it out myself, no way was I gonna let her wear her normal boring clothes to her first konoha party! No offense”
As Temari leaned forward to make her shot her cleavage came into full view.
He was going to need a few drinks to make it through this evening.
“So do you have any vodka or something?” Shikamaru clumsily changed the subject.
Ino laughed, taking pleasure in his discomfort, and passed him two shots seemingly from nowhere which he downed eagerly.
Temari spotted him and began to adorably drunkenly stumble towards him before tripping and plummeting to the ground turning into a giggling puddle on the floor. Temari. Giggling. Then her face fell
“Urgh I don’t feel so good” she moaned looking dizzy
“C’mon Shikamaru help her! Go help her lie down” Ino interjected, he had forgotten she was standing there
“Uh right ok ok”
He wrapped Temari’s arm around his shoulder and used his other hand on her waist to hold her up. The warmth of her skin radiated from her exposed midriff and into his body. He was close enough to smell her coconut shampoo and the alcohol on her breath. The vodka had begun a light pleasant buzzing throughout his body. Shikamaru carried her down the hall and opened the door to Ino's guest room. He helped Temari stumble onto the bed where she flopped down in relief. She would be safe here. Shikamaru turned around to head back to the party when he heard Temari’s voice call out to him.
“Shikamaru? Will you stay with me? Just for a few minutes” Her glassy eyes gazed up at him desperately, she was impossibly cute.
“Um, uh sure tem.” Shikamaru laid down on the bed next to her, leaving extra space between them.
She slowly inched closer.
“mmmI didn’t think you would come”
“Yeah I wasn't planning on it”
“... sho what changed your minddd? Ino says you never come to her partiessss” Temari glanced up at him expectantly. Inviting him to acknowledge the tension between them. The one they had been ignoring for years.
He was too tipsy to be having this conversation.
Shikamaru looked away, his hand habitually going to his neck “Well…I didn't want you to be alone I guess” he had to remember she didn't know what she was saying.
She moved closer again humming something he didn't recognize, her warm arm pressing up against his, he wondered if she could feel how fast his heart was beating.
Slowly Temari climbed on top of him straddling his hips with her hands on his chest, the pressure of her body against his intoxicating enough to make his heart stop. “You want me to suck your cock shika?” she giggled. He couldn't tell if her face was red cause she was blushing or from the alcohol.
“W-what!?” Shikamaru stammared. He had no idea what to do. Did he actually have to tell Temari he didn't want to see his dick between those plump glossy lips…
“Mmm I like you so shoooo much” Temari slurred, she moved in closer next to his ear “hehehe..I want you inside me….” Drunk Temari was not something he could've ever prepared for. Her predatory eyes, her slurring and panting, and hands on him. This was definitely the hottest moment of his life. He hadn't even known it was possible to be this turned on. But he had to stay strong
“Look Tem you're not thinking straight”
“I've thought about it! I've thought about it a lot, over and over and over…..”
Had she really been thinking about him the way he thought of her? It wasn’t his imagination? He prayed in that moment it wasn't just the alcohol.
“It's just that, you're drunk, like really drunk” Shikamaru began to gently push her off of him
“You.. don't want me?” temari looked just. Disappointed
“No it's not that. I want you, I really do.” Of course, he wanted her, he had always wanted her. Shikamaru took a deep breath “It's just, I want you to remember this. I-i want it to be special” Now his face was almost as red as hers.
“You think I’m prettyyy?” she smiled
There was no point in dishonesty now “I think that you're beautiful Temari”
She leaned in to kiss him, then passed out. Her face headplanting into his shoulder.
Shikamaru lifted her off of him gently, placing her next to him on the bed. He laid the blanket down over her so she wouldn't be cold and got in next to her. He did promise he would stay with her. Her sleeping face looked impossibly gentle and soft. Not two words he would normally associate with Temari. As much as he knew she would be humiliated about this tomorrow, he was grateful to see this adorable side of her. Not to mention he was going to need a few moments to process what had just happened. It occurred to him he had no reason to pretend anymore, to be afraid. She wanted him. The biggest dopiest grin Shikamaru was capable of spread across his face. He was not going to get much sleep tonight.
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Shikamaru got up earlier than everyone else the next morning, much to his chagrin, to avoid Ino’s inevitable interrogation into what had happened last night, and to get ready for work. He hadn't expected Temari to show up today considering how wasted she was last night, but to his surprise, she was already waiting outside the Hokage tower when he arrived.
“Hey,” Temari greeted him as she always did
“Hey, how are you”
“Shitty I’ve never been so hungover in my life”
“Did you have fun at your first party in Konoha?”
“ I seriously don't remember anything, I think I had fun?” she couldn't look him in the eyes “I didn't do anything embarrassing did I?”
He tried to withhold a smirk “nah don’t worry…. So breakfast?”
“We haven’t even started and you’re already trying to get out of work huh?”
“It'll be there when we get back Temari” He looked her in the eyes, hoping they could say what he couldn’t without the aid of alcohol.
“Yeah sure, breakfast” she smiled.