Disclaimer: I Do Not own Naruto. If I did Shikamaru and Temari would already be a couple.

This is my second fanfic. Rated T just to be safe. Thank you so much for the reviews on my first fic and Please enjoy this one too!

You're Late

"Alright mission complete," newly made jonin Shikamaru says to his team as they finished up their mission in the Land of Waves to help out with a bandit problem. Shikamaru looks towards his team that consist of Kiba, a chunin, Shino, a fellow jonin, and Hinata, who really shouldn't go on missions, but asked to come anyways, and finally with Shikamaru being the team leader. "Let's head back to the Hidden Leaf Village," Shikamaru said to his team. They all nodded in agreement, it might not have been a hard mission but it was really tiresome to find and catch a large number of bandits.

"I bet you just want to get back to your wife, Shikamaru," Kiba called out with a smirk on his face. Yeah his wife Temari. They got married about seven months ago. Even though she still spends a lot of time in the Hidden Sand Village, she lives in the Leaf Village. She's an important consultant to the Sixth Hokage and is constantly traveling to work on treaties and important papers with her brother the Kazekage. Well that was until four months ago when not only did his world turn upside down, but Temari's crazy brothers attempted to rip him limb from limb…

Flashback

"Man, I feel horrible," stated a nauseous Temari to Lady Tsunade. Tsunade may have stepped down as the Hokage but she was still a revered medic. Temari had finally got fed up with this nausea and morning sickness she's been having and went to see Tsunade. Along with her were Hinata, probably her closest friend in the Leaf village and Tenten, who she had to respect for being an amazing weapon master on par with herself and the fact that she's currently engaged into a strange family (no offence to Hinata.)

"Hmm," was all Tsunade said as she looked over all of Temari's symptoms, when her over protective younger brothers, (she was fully trained kunoichi and completely capable of protecting herself, damn it!) the visiting Kazekage burst in along with her other idiot brother Kankuro.

"We heard you were in the hospital from the Sixth Hokage, are you alright Temari?" Kankuro asks clearly out of breath. Gaara trying not to look fazed by this event stands there in the doorway awaiting the answer to the said question.

"I'm fine just a little nauseous. Why? Did you think I had a serious condition or something?" Temari ask and judging from the twitch in their bodies caused by her question they were worried. With a cat like grin she leans in like a predator about to pounce.

"W-worried who's worried? That stupid spiky haired idiot made it sound like it was life or death," Kankuro mumbled that last part to himself and Gaara looked like he was about to beat up an idiot who thought he could get away with tricking him.

"Ah… so you were worried. *fake sniffle* I never knew you guys cared so much," Temari pretending to burst into tears and leans on Hinata's shoulder. Tenten was using all her will power not to burst into laughter at the expression on Gaara and Kankuro's faces.

"Temari when does that lazy husband of your return home from his latest mission?" Tsunade asks out of the blue seemingly making a decision with whatever was wrong with Temari. Looking up at Hinata, Temari asked,

"He should be back any minute, right Hinata? I think it was only supposed to be a short recon mission," when Temari finished Hinata nodded remembering what her husband said about the mission Shikamaru and his team should only take a week at most and that they would be due back at any moment. "Why do you ask Lady Tsunade? Is there anything wrong?" the simple yet very heavy question Temari asked raised a thick tension in the hospital room.

"No, not at all. Unless you weren't aiming for children anytime soon," after Tsunade finished her sentence she regretted saying it almost instantly. For not only was Temari not prepared for such an outcome her two little brothers were there to hear the news as well. After it finally sunk in Temari fainted, and this is the woman that would never and I mean never do such a weak thing like fainting or crying or anything so… weak. She was caught by Hinata and Tenten who both had concern and worry etched into their faces. Gaara and Kankuro getting over the initial shock of it all asked if Tsunade was sure to which she replied "of course." With that the two disappeared to go hunt down the Nara boy. When Temari finally came to she also rushed out to stop her brothers from killing her lazy, yet lovable genius.

Just as Shikamaru reaches the gate mumbling something about how troublesome the mission was and how he and the sixth Hokage needed to have a friendly chat, sand came out of nowhere and before Shikamaru had the chance to dodge he was at the mercy of a very pissed off Kazekage. By the time Temari and the others showed up along with the sixth Hokage who happened to be on a ramen run and was dragged along, seeing as how this was partly his fault. Shikamaru was already sweating wondering what the hell he did this time.

Laughing the sixth Hokage states "Gaara you're not really going to kill your own brother-in-law are you?" Obviously not helping the situation Hinata pulls her husband aside and tells him the full situation to which he became absolutely speechless.

"Gaara! Kankuro! Put him down right now!" shouted Temari at her idiot brothers, who were slowly crushing the life out of her lazy, crybaby husband. Shikamaru to say the least was absolutely lost. Did he… do something wrong?

Just then the sixth Hokage came to and exclaimed loud enough for the whole village to hear…"Temari's pregnant!?" to which a large number of people face palmed and replied "Naruto you idiot!" After that Shikamaru blacked out and that's how he came to be very close to death and a father to be in less than seconds of returning to the village.

Shikamaru sighs as he recalled the memory. He still couldn't believe it, he remembers how he lamely asked whathen passed out, how lame. Yeah guess it didn't really hit him until he came to in the hospital.

Shikamaru groans as he comes to, was that all just a dream, he thought to himself. No not a dream he's in the hospital. "What's going on? Why am I in the hospital?" he asked and everyone's attention was brought on him. Temari's brothers barely containing themselves from lashing out and really killing him.

"Jeez Shikamaru, not only where you out for an hour, you don't even remember why," Ino whined shaking her head and giving a sympathetic look to Temari. Shikamaru was about to make a comment when he finally remembered what happened including what that idiot Hokage of theirs said. He turned all his attention to Temari.

"You're… you're…" Shikamaru couldn't get the words out. How lame he thought. When she looked him squarely into his eyes he gulped. 'I can't figure out if she's mad or not, does she even want,' before he could finish that thought tears started to fall from Temari's eyes. "What … Temari? Hey don't cry. I'm the crybaby remember," Shikamaru stated trying to get her to stop crying. She smiled at him and said with crystal clarity,

"I'm pregnant."

Cliffhanger for now, see you in the next chapter!