#I should add that if shikaku is sweating its bc kakashi is that much closer to being involved in his life and no one needs that

[rozaceous]

while zabuza pov would be ELITE, sakura must be entirely off the rails at this point and im dying to know how, and tenzo is my severely underrated bestie; shikamaru having a thing for mariko is THE funniest thing holy shit. canon shikamaru says "i want a normal wife who isnt too pretty or ugly and doesnt nag" and then his brain points at mariko like THAT ONE and hes like hey. what the fuck <3. i dont necessarily want them canon and we JUST got fed with the new haku chapter but holy shit the idea of them together being the ultimate [NO ONE liked that] couple. i NEED to see team ten roast him alive over this. yoshino doesnt LIKE it but shes absolutely lowkey hoping this girl beats the misogyny out of him and meanwhile shikaku is sweating bullets at the idea of having to add her to the family tree.

(we're getting all these snippets eventually, dw)

ohohohoho anon. shikamaru in canon wants the stereotypical calm life and then marries SABAKU NO TEMARI, whom he once termed, very complimentarily, "the cruelest kunoichi." this boy has no idea what he actually likes/there's some dissonance there lol.

so if mariko kicked his ass definitively in the chuunin exams (again, she gets out of his hiden, which no one has ever done before, literally) and only gets scarier from there? well. his father's preference for domineering women might just be genetic.

for the record, shikaku thinks this is hilarious. yoshino thinks this is a sign of shikamaru developing taste. (also, you want the girl who can break your hiden in the clan. just...putting that out there.)

mariko tho would not take shikamaru's casual misogyny well. she'd look at him like he was scum lurking at the bottom of a stagnant pond. this, unfortunately, would not help matters. and you can BET that ino is roasting him, absolutely.