#and i think the next chapter may be a bit saucy 🤭🤓 but not sure

[twnj]

'Temari wanted him to watch her, see her, hear her, not only to exhibit herself in the way she had always wanted but to show him her world, even if that world was nothing more than a foreign whisper across the room. She wanted him to hear it, and as he drew up beside her to stare down her massive printed face, his gentle smile said he had.

Satisfied, Temari turned to face herself, too. “I have a banner,” she whispered proudly. Her smile stretched into a broad grin as she heard Shikamaru snort beside her.

“You have a banner,” he echoed.

“And I look good in it.”

He hummed.

Quiet fell, slow and warm, punctuated only by soft chattering by the elevators.

“We fucked like half an hour before the photo was taken, you know?”

Grandmaster on ao3 by @notquitejiraiya