Passion Fruit

The morning sun peeked through the blinds. Temari awoke still rubbing the sleep from her eyes. She looked over only to find Shikamaru still asleep. This wasn’t unusual as he often slept longer than she did. She quietly got up and dug through her closet until she found her pants and a t-shirt. She softly opened the door and closed it behind her. She went to the bathroom and washed her face. She would wait on Shikamaru to wake, and if he didn’t wake soon she knew exactly how to get him up.
Temari waked into the kitchen and found Gaara and Kankuro sitting at the kitchen table.

“Good morning.” She said to them.

“It would be for you, wouldn’t it?” Kankuro asked. Temari rolled her eyes at him and searched through the refrigerator for juice. After pouring a glass, she sat down with her brothers. They both looked at her for what felt like an eternity.

“What?” she finally asked.

“Did you have fun last night? Because it sounded like you did.” Gaara asked delivering to a vicious smile.

“What’s wrong jealous, Gaara?” She asked him, with equal spite.

“Yeah, a little.” He answered her honestly, and frankly. Temari sat with her brothers and discussed the plans for the lake trip that was supposedly happening. Shikamaru finally emerged somewhat half asleep. He put his arms around Temari and kissed the side of her head.

“Good morning.” His voice was groggy. Gaara reached his hand up toward Shikamaru. That was Shikamaru’s cue to slap/grab his hand. He sat down beside Gaara and Temari poured him a glass of juice that was seemingly popular at this morning’s breakfast table.

“What time are we leaving today?” Kankuro asked.

“After noon, I need to make some calls and see who’s going with us.” Temari answered. With that said, she went into the living room and made her first phone call. Even though Sakura was supposed to call her, Temari knew she would be awake and took it upon herself to call her. Gaara, Kankuro, and Shikamaru remained in the kitchen. She spoke with Sakura who agreed to join them on the outing. Temari called Ten Ten but there was no answer at her house. Temari guessed where Ten Ten may be…and left it at that. She called Chouji, Kiba, and Ino. Once her calling duties were complete, she told Shikamaru and her brothers to start getting ready for their trip.
“Let’s go Gaara, you, me and the cooler.” Shikamaru said getting up from the table. Shikamaru followed Gaara towards the utility room to get the cooler. The morning passed quickly and by mid afternoon everyone had arrived that was going on the lake trip. Fortunately, the lake wasn’t more than a mile walk from the house. Temari walked along side Sakura and Ino. She wasn’t particularly friends with them, but none the less sometimes they were fun to pal around with. Chouji, and Kiba kept up with Gaara, Kankuro and Shikamaru. Temari had towels and other ‘lake essentials’ in her tote.

“What’s with the cooler?” Ino asked Temari.

“I didn’t ask; they seemed pretty adamant about icing it down and loading it up. I have no idea what all they put in there.” Temari answered. The girls talked until the shoreline of the lake came into view. The lake was actually quite large and this was simply a fraction of it. It was fabulously clear and pristine. The rocky shoreline extended well out of distance. The group decided to hike up into the rocks and ‘camp out’ there. Temari nearly laughed herself crazy at the sight of Gaara and Shikamaru continuously cursing at the cooler as they clumsily dragged it up the rocks. She felt bad for enjoying this as much as she was, and she hated to see him struggle on a normal day; but this was just too hysterical.

Once at the top of the piles of smooth rocks, Temari and Gaara assessed the situation. There was a clearing that was surrounded by trees and there was a blackened spot in the rock where an obvious fire had once burned. Temari dug through her tote and pulled out the large sheet she had brought with them. Sakura helped her unfold it and flatten it to the rock’s surface. Gaara and Shikamaru set the cooler on top of it. The rock was actually somewhat high above the water, approximately fifteen feet. It was the perfect high dive. Kankuro and Gaara were the first to strip their shirts. They assessed the water below them to check for visible rocks, there were none above water, but they were uncertain what was below the surface, therefore they decided to take the long way in…back down the rocks. Chouji and Kiba were next. Kiba placed Akamaru on his shoulders before following Chouji back down the path which they had taken.

Shikamaru hadn’t yet followed them. Ino and Sakura stripped down and threw their clothes on the sheet. Assuming, Temari was right behind them, they too started down the path. “Well.” Shikamaru was staring at Temari. She eyed him mischievously.

“Well, what?’” She said in a most obvious manner.

“I’m waiting.” Shikamaru smiled. He peeled his shirt off. “There, I went first.” As if Temari had never seen that before. Her emerald eyes danced. She shed her t-shirt, leaving Shikamaru taken slightly aback. What was worse, was when she bent over to shed her shorts. Still bent over, she looked up at Shikamaru with the same naughty emerald eyes. She was practically falling out of her top.

“Something wrong…Shikamaru?” Temari loved to play innocent, Her bikini was a most pleasing shade of aqua with black accents, she was the only one of the girls who had the body to wear something this…daring. Shikamaru had still said nothing. She walked over to him and leaned into his body. She gently kissed him, snaking her tongue quickly in and out of his mouth. “That’s for not closing your mouth.” She whispered. Temari turned around and started down the path, leaving Shikamaru paralyzed. He finally managed to follow her.
“You know, the back of you is just as sweet as the front.”