So just a reminder, it is dark during the first of this scene. Again, I will admit that I saw it as it being day, so hopefully it still reads well.

Warning: This chapter does have a bit of sexual content, but not a lot.

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Kento walked in the bedroom, carried Koji over to the bed, and laid him down next to Temari.

"Koji!" Temari exclaimed. She glared up at Kento. "What did you do to him?"

"Nothing. He's just sleeping." He walked around to Temari's side of the bed and undid one of the cuffs. "I'll let you have one hand free so you can hold him, but if you try anything..." He turned around, leaving the threat hanging there in the air, and left the room.

Temari looked down at her son. "Koji," she said gently shaking him.

Koji stirred and rubbed his eyes. "Mommy?" He opened his eyes fully and saw his mother staring down at him with a smile on her face. "Mommy!" He quickly got up and jumped into his mother's arm.

Temari closed her eyes and held Koji closely. She loosened her grip on him and looked down at his smiling face. "Are you alright?"

Koji nodded. "Yeah, Maru tage good gare of me."

Temari let a tear run down her cheek. "I'm sure he did."

"Mommy?" Koji asked concerned when he saw the tear roll down Temari's cheek.

"I'm ok, baby. I'm just so glad to see you," Temari reassured him.

Koji looked around the room then back at his mother. He saw that she had no clothes on. "Why you naged?"

Temari blushed a bit. "That doesn't matter, sweetie."

The door opened and Kento walked back in carrying a tray of food. "Thought you might be hungry. I was gone almost all day." He sat the trey on Temari's lap.

"Who are you?" Koji asked.

Kento smiled at him. "I'm your father, Koji."

"Father?" He turned to Temari. "This bad man?"

Kento grunting and glared at Temari. "You told our son that I was a bad man?"

"Of corse I did. You are a bad man," Temari said defensively.

Kento slapped Temari across the face.

"Mommy!" Koji cried out in fear.

Temari looked back at Kento and glared. "My point," she said.

Kento grabbed Temari's free hand and pulled her to him, causing her other arm to twist in a painful way and making her cry out. "How dare you turn my son against me."

"No!" Koji yelled and started hitting Kento. "Let mommy go!"

"Koji, don't," Temari said afraid of what Kento would do.

Kento let Temari go and grabbed one of Koji's wrists. "I am your father, boy. You will respect me."

Temari grabbed Kento's wrist. "Let him go."

Kento looked over at Temari, grabbed her hand with his free one and pulled it off him. He then pulled Koji until he fell off the bed and tossed him on the floor.

"No, Koji," Temari said, but turned her attention back to Kento when he threw the trey to the other side of the bed and crawled on top of her and starting kissing her. "No, get off."

Koji looked over at them scared. "Mommy?"

Temari looked over at Koji then over to the door. "Koji, get out of her. Please."

Koji just stared there horrified at what Kento was doing to his mother. "Mommy." Tears feel from his eyes.

"Koji," Temari said a little louder than she meant to since Kento was now sucking on one nipple and pinching the other, "go!"

Koji stood up and ran toward the door and out.

Kento lifted his head and watched the boy run. "That won't do any good. I locked the place up. He's not going anywhere."

"Don't you ever touch me with him in here again," Temari said.

Kento looked back at her. "You are in no position to tell me what to do." He took his now unclothed penis and rammed it into her, causing her to cry out.

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"What? You really found out where Temari is being held?" Tsunade asked.

"Yes, ma'am," Shikaku replied. "He is about twenty minutes outside of the village."

"What? But we looked around the village," Shizune said.

"He has a cloaking barrier hiding them," Shikaku replied.

"But how did you find him so suddenly?" Tsunade asked.

"He broke into our home. Shikamaru and I went after him, but he disappear in a small clearing in the forest. That's when I noticed the barrier," Shikaku said.

"Where is Shikamaru now?" Shizune asked.

Shikaku turned to Shizune. "He went to get Naruto."

"Naruto?" Tsunade and Shizune asked at the same time.

"He's the only one with enough power to break through a barrier like that."

"I see," Tsunade said. "Very well. Owl."

A man dressed in a grey shinobi outfit and an owl mask suddenly appeared, kneeling before the hokage. "My lady?"

"Gather more anbu and go with Shikaku. Get Temari back, and take this Kento guy into custody," Tsunade ordered.

"Yes, ma'am," he said before he disappeared as quickly as he appeared.

Tsunade looked back at Shikaku. "Bring them back."

"Of corse."

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Shikamaru dropped down into the clearing, Naruto joining behind him. "Why'd we stop?" Naruto asked.

Shikamaru turned to Naruto. "This is where the barrier is." He turned and walked over to the faint shimmer in the middle of the clearing. "Here."

Naruto walked over and stood by Shikamaru. He squinted his eyes and saw a small shimmer that distorted the background behind it. "Wow, how did you even see this?"

"It was actually dad that noticed it first," Shikamaru replied.

"Oh. So, what was it you needed me to do?"

"Dad and I think that if you use your Massive Rasengan, you should be able to break through the barrier."

"Massive Rasengan? Ok, I can give it a shot," Naruto said and took a few steps back. He summoned a shadow clone and quickly made a Rasengan. He then had his clone pour more chakra into it until it became a huge ball of chakra. "Alright, here it goes. Massive Rasengan!" he yelled as he jumped and landed the Rasengan on the shimmer.

The Rasengan collided with the shimmer, making the chakra spark from the impact. After a few seconds the Rasengan dispersed. They both looked at the shimmer, but it didn't look any different. "You'll have to try again," Shikamaru said.

"Right," Naruto exclaimed and backed up to repeat the process.

Shikaku landed in the clearing and walked up to the two. "Any progress?"

"We only had time to try it once, but nothing happened," Shikamaru explained.

"Massive Rasengan!" Naruto once again jumped and put a little more force into the hit this time.

Shikaku and Shikamaru watched the chakra spark against the shimmer, and noticed that it got a little longer. "It's working," Shikamaru said happily.

"Naruto, focus your chakra a little more," Shikaku instructed.

"Got it!" he replied and let out a yell to release more chakra and focus it.

The shimmer cracked again and got a little longer.

Inside the cabin, Kento looked up to the ceiling and frowned.

"You underestimated the Leaf Shinobi," Temari said with a smirk.

"Mommy!" Koji cried as he ran in to the room and over to Temari.

Temari reached over with her free hand and placed it around Koji. "It's ok, Koji. Shikamaru and his friends are just trying to get to us."

"That's not going to happen," Kento said as he got off the bed and ran out the door.

Koji watched Kento run out of the room then turned to Temari. "Maru save us?"

Temari smiled down at him. "Yes, Shikamaru is coming to save us." She looked around and found her forgotten clothes on the ground. "Koji, can you bring mommy her clothes?" she asked as she pointed to the pile of clothes in the corner.

Koji nodded and ran over and grabbed the clothes. He sat them down on Temari's lap. "Here you go."

"Thanks, sweetie." She rummaged through the clothes until she found her weapon pouch. She pulled out a small object and brought it up to the cuff. She struggled with it for a minute until it finally popped open. "Finally," she said as she brought her now free hand and rubbed it with the other. She quickly got up and dressed herself.

Koji turned to look at the ceiling when he heard another loud noise. He stepped closer to Temari and clasped onto her leg.

Temari finished pulling her shirt down and reached down and picked Koji up. She walked over to the window, unlocked it, but when she tried to lift it, it wouldn't budge. "Dang it," she said and turned toward the door.

"We stug, mommy?" Koji asked while looking at the window.

"Yeah, but we'll get out," Temari said. She walked over to the door and pulled it open until it was cracked and peeked through. She didn't see Kento and pulled the door open a little more, enough to stick her head out. She saw that it was a hallway and quietly walked out. "I need you to stay very quiet, ok?"

Koji just nodded.

She carefully made her way down the hall, peeking around the corner when she got to the end of it. It led into a small living room with a couch and a tv and a few potted plants. 'Guess he doesn't entertain much.'

They heard another loud bang on the roof which caused both of them to look up, Koji wrapping his arms around Temari's neck a little tighter. Temari moved toward the door she assumed was the exit, but when she tried to open it, it wouldn't budge. "Dang it. He must have some kind of jutsu on the windows and doors." 'If he did that, why the heck did he keep me in those dang chains?'

She moved over to the window and looked out, hoping to see Shikamaru or whoever was attacking, but all she saw was a blurred forest. 'Must be some kind of barrier. No wonder it took them this long to find me.' She looked around and saw a few scrolls tossed on a table. She walked over to them, put Koji on the ground, who quickly latched onto her leg when he heard another loud crash, and opened one of the scrolls. She skimmed through it, but didn't see anything, so she closed it and started on the next one. She looked through a few more before she finally found what she was looking for.

Another loud crash resinated through the cabin and the walls shook a bit. "Mommy," Koji said afraid and buried his head in her legs.

Temari reached down and placed a hand on the back of Koji's head without turning away from the scroll. "It's ok, Koji."

"Maru?" he asked as he looked up at her.

"Yeah, it's just Maru trying to get past the barrier." She sat the scroll down and walked over to the door, Koji quickly following.

Temari closed her eyes and focused her chakra. She made a few hands signs and a bright light appeared around the door. When it went away, she reached down and turned the knob and it opened easily. "Yes," she said and quickly picked Koji up and made her way out the door.

She looked around, but again all she saw was the blurred forest around her. She looked up at the area where the loud noise came from and saw a long sliver of light. "That must be where they're trying to break in through," she looked around again, "but where the heck did Kento go?"

A loud crack sounded through the barrier and she heard what sounded like glass shattering. Temari and Koji looked up and saw Naruto falling down toward the cabin. "Naruto!" Koji yelled out as he pointed to the blonde boy.

Temari looked around and saw that the barrier was falling to the ground and spotted Shikamaru and Shikaku. She smiled and ran towards them.

Koji looked over when he saw his mother running away from him and spotted Shikamaru as well. "Maru!" He dashed after his mother and ran straight to Shikamaru, plowing into his legs.

Shikamaru smiled at Temari, who stopped in front of him, then knelt down and hugged Koji. "I'm sorry I let him grab you, Koji," he said quietly.

Koji looked up at him, his smile not wavering. "It's ogay. You here now." He then wrapped his arms around Shikamaru's neck.

Shikamaru picked him up and walked closer to Temari. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine," she replied. "Thank you for taking care of Koji."

"He wouldn't leave Shikamaru's side," Shikaku said as he walked up to them.

Temari looked towards the older man. "Really?" She looked over to Koji who was now resting his head on Shikamaru's shoulder. She smiled. "He really has taken a liking to you."

"Yeah," Shikamaru said.

The anbu wearing the owl mask dropped down behind Temari, which caused her to quickly turn around. "Sir, there is no sign of the man who captured Lady Temari and her son."

"I didn't sense him after he ran out when he heard Naruto attacking the barrier," Temari said. She then looked over to Koji. "He's going to come after us again, I know it."

Another anbu with a bird mask landed next to the one in the owl mask and whispered into his ear. Once he was finished he disappeared instantly.

"Report," Shikaku said.

"We have found his trail and are pursuing him," the owl responded.

Temari looked at the owl. "Please get him. I don't want him to come anywhere near Koji again."

The owl nodded and disappear to join the rest of the anbu chasing Koji.

"Let's head back to the village," Shikaku said and turned to leave.

Shikamaru looked around the area. "Hey, where did Naruto go?"

"He went into the forest. I saw that he was in his sage mode, so he probably picked up Kento's chakra before the anbu did and went after him," Shikaku said, not turning around.

Shikamaru and Temari quickly caught up to him. "So he's as good as caught," Shikamaru said.

Shikaku only smiled.

They made their way to Tsunade's office, and when they got the ok to come in, Tsunade smiled when she saw Temari. "Temari, it's good to see you're ok."

"Thank you, ma'am," Temari said smiling back.

Tsunade looked over to Shikamaru and saw Koji sleeping. "Is he alright?"

"Yeah," Shikamaru said, "he just fell asleep on the way back to the village.

"It is pretty late," Temari said.

Tsunade came over and looked him over. "Did Kento do anything to him?"

"Not that I know of," Temari said. "Kento was with me pretty much the entire time."

Tsunade nodded then turned to Temari. "And what about you?"

Temari looked down and a slight blush appeared on her face. "I'll be fine, although..."

"What's wrong?" Shikamaru interrupted worried.

Temari looked over at him sadly. "He used no protection when he was..." she couldn't finish.

"You want to check and see if he got you pregnant again," Tsunade asked matter-of-factly.

Temari turned back to Tsunade. "It only took the one time before," she stated sadly.

Shikaku placed his hand on Shikamaru's shoulder. "Why don't we take Koji back to the house."

Shikamaru looked at his dad then down at Koji. "Yeah." He looked up at Temari. "Will you be ok walking back to the house by yourself, or do you want me to come with you?"

Temari blushed a little harder. "I... If you don't mind, I don't really want to walk alone in the dark with Kento still out there."

Shikamaru nodded and handed Koji carefully over to his father. Koji stirred a bit, but didn't wake up. "I'll take care of him," Shikaku said to Temari.

"Thank you," Temari said bowing her head a little.

After Shikaku left, Shikamaru and Temari walked to the hospital to have some check her out. Shikamaru looked over at Temari then down at her hand. He reached over and grabbed it.

Temari looked down at their hand then up at Shikamaru who wasn't looking at her. She smiled and moved closer to him. "Thank you."

Shikamaru looked at her. "For what?"

"Just for being here." She laid her head on his shoulder the best she could. "You took care of Koji while I was gone."

"There's no need to thank me. Koji was taken because I wasn't paying attention. If dad hadn't sensed him, we wouldn't have even known he had taken him."

Temari lifted her head and looked at him. "He let you sense him?"

Shikamaru stopped and turned to her. "What do you mean 'let me sense him?'"

"Kento can completely mask his chakra. He did it years ago when I met him in that cave, and he did it when he snuck up on us in the forest. If your dad sensed him when he took Koji, that means he let you know that he was taking him."

Shikamaru looked down in thought. "So, he wanted us to know he was taking Koji, and he also let us follow him." He looked up at her. "But why would he do that?"

Temari laid her head back on his shoulder and pulled him to start walking again. "I don't know. I think he wanted you to know. He wasn't too happy that I like you."

Shikamaru looked down at her again, but returned his gaze forward. They remained quiet the rest of the way there.

After they arrived, Sakura took them to a room, got the urine sample from Temari, and they were now waiting for her to return with the results. Temari was sitting on the edge of the bed, Shikamaru sitting next to her.

Shikamaru looked over to her, took a deep breath, gently grabbed her chin and turned her face to him. He leaned in a captured her lips before she had the chance to protest. He moved his hand from her chin and around to the back of her neck, deepening the kiss when she opened her mouth.

She placed her hand on his chest and felt his heart beating fast. She smiled in the kiss and pulled back. "Nervous?" she teased.

Shikamaru blushed and turned his head away. "Troublesome woman."

Temari chuckled and this time she was the one to turn his head and kiss him. They lost themselves in the kiss and didn't notice when Sakura walked in the room.

"Sorry it took so long, I..." Sakura started but stopped when she saw the two kissing. She blushed. "Should I have knocked first?" she said with a smile.

Shikamaru and Temari pulled away from each other, blushes heavy on their faces. "What did you find out?" Temari finally asked.

Sakura walked toward them, the smile not leaving her face. "It came back negative."

"Really?" Temari asked.

"Yes, I double checked just to make sure we weren't getting a false negative, that's why I took so long, but both times it came back negative."

Shikamaru grabbed Temari's hand and smiled at her.

Temari sighed in relief. "Thank goodness."

"I would suggest doing another test in a couple weeks just to make sure that we didn't do the test too early for it to detect, but I think you're safe," Sakura said.

"Thank you," Temari said as she and Shikamaru stood up.

"Any time," Sakura said.

Temari looked over at Shikamaru and leaned in to him. Shikamaru smiled and wrapped his free hand around her. "We should get back to the house. If Koji wakes up and doesn't see either one of us, he'll become real troublesome for mom and dad."

Temari pulled away from him and nodded. "Yeah."

They made it back home and told Shikaku and Yoshino the good news and headed up to Shikamaru's room where Shikaku laid Koji down. They both laid down on either side of him, draping their arms over him protectively and fell asleep.

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The next morning, they saw Naruto who told him that they found Kento and he was not safely locked up, waiting for the transfer to a more secure prison in the Land of Fire.

Over the next several days, Shikamaru and Temari began to get more comfortable with their new status as a couple, and Koji had decided to start calling Shikamaru daddy Maru. This surprised Shikamaru at first, but he realized that he didn't mind and actually like Koji calling him daddy.

They were now sitting in the meadow, watching Koji run through the flowers. Shikamaru was laying down, his head in Temari's lap, with his eyes closed. Temari reached behind her and pulled out a piece of paper.

"I'm glad he made that," Shikamaru said.

Temari moved the paper and saw that Shikamaru was now looking up at her. She smiled. "I am too." She looked over at Koji and frowned. "He's not going to want to leave tomorrow."

Shikamaru sat up and moved to sit next to her. "I don't think he's the only one that won't want to leave tomorrow."

Temari smiled and turned to him. "And who would that be?"

Shikamaru rolled his eyes and looked away from her. "Troublesome wo..." he started, but couldn't finish his famous phrase because there was a pair of lips suddenly on his.

Temari pushed him down on the ground and deepened the kiss as Shikamaru wrapped his arms around her. They stopped only when they heard a small giggling sound coming from beside them.

"And just what is so funny?" Temari asked.

"Mommy and daddy," he stated still giggling.

Shikamaru sat up a bit, causing Temari to move off of him, and he grabbed Koji and pulled him on his lap. "Oh really? Are we really funny?" he asked as he started tickling the boy.

"Stop! Stop!" Koji squealed with laughter.

Temari joined in and started kissing Koji all over the face.

"Stop it, mommy! No kissy face!"

Temari leaned back. Shikamaru also stopped tickling the boy. He leaned down and whispered something in Koji's ear and the boy nodded his head and got up and ran off.

"More secrets?" Temari said as she watched her son picking flowers.

"Yep," Shikamaru said, also watching Koji.

When Koji came back, he had a big group of different flowers and handed them to his mother. "For you, mommy."

Temari took the flowers. "Thank you, sweetie. They're lovely."

Koji looked over to Shikamaru who nodded at him. He looked back at Temari and smiled. "Will you marry daddy now?"

Temari was shocked at what he just asked, but before she could get mad at him, she noticed that Shikamaru was now holding up something that sparkled in the sunlight. It was a small diamond on a silver band.

She sucked in a breath and looked up at Shikamaru. "Well, you gonna answer his question?"

Temari just sat there wide-eyed, before she smiled and threw herself onto him, kissing him fiercely as they landed on the ground. When she pulled away, Temari had tears rolling down her face and the biggest smile Shikamaru had ever seen on her face. "Yes."

Shikamaru smiled and kissed her again as he sat back up. He then broke off the kiss, took Temari's hand, and slid the ring on her finger. He then turned to Koji and ruffled his hair.

"Yay! Yay! Yay!" Koji exclaimed as he jumped up and down. He then grabbed Shikamaru around the neck and hugged him.

Temari also leaned into Shikamaru, and Shikamaru placed his arms around both of them. She looked down at the ring on her finger. "It's so beautiful, Shikamaru."

"It's been in my family for a long time," he said.

She looked up at him. "So you got it from your mother?"

"Yeah, when I told her I wanted to marry you, she took the ring off her finger and told me to use it."

Temari looked back at the ring. "I'll have to thank her."

Shikamaru smiled. "Yeah."

"We stay with daddy now?" Koji asked looking over at Temari. He was now sitting in Shikamaru's lap.

Temari looked at him sadly. "We still have to go back to Suna tomorrow," she said, but quickly continued when she saw the tears welling up in his eyes, "but we won't be there for long. We'll have to come back so we can start planning the wedding."

Koji smiled. "Ok," he said and looked up at Shikamaru. "We go, but we come back soon."

Temari sat up straight. "Koji, you just said your K sounds correctly."

Koji looked over at her with a huge smile and nodded. "Daddy helped me."

Temari looked at him. "When did you have time to do that?"

"When Ino and the other girls kidnapped you yesterday, I asked Koji if he wanted to practice his K sounds. We worked on for at least an hour before he finally got it, didn't we, buddy?"

"Yeah, I finally got it," Koji said happily.

Temari pulled Koji over to her and hugged him. "I'm so proud of you."

Koji snuggled into Temari.

"You should've heard him. After he figured it out, he went up to dad and said his name, stressing the Ks. It was funny," Shikamaru said chuckling a bit.

"I bet." She looked back at Koji. "You'll surprise your uncles too."

Koji looked up at her. "Yeah, I'm gonna surprise Uncle Gaara and Uncle Kankuro."

Temari laid her head on Shikamaru's shoulder, closed her eyes and smiled. 'Everything is perfect now.'

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Thanks for reading.