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Of Words and Fire

2009-06-09T11:02:55-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: M
Genres: Romance/Friendship
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 11, Words: 44,531, Reviews: 176 Updated: 6-9-09 Published: 3-10-09
Status: In-Progress

--AU---Fires are interesting sorts. They burn, they flicker, and they provide warmth. Sure, they can be destructive, but they can create too. So let the flames swallow what they may, and let's see what the result shall be. ShikaTema -- M for swear words

This is More Than Just Temporary Insanity

2009-03-20T11:48:04-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Soul Eater
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Franken Stein & Medusa
Chapters: 11, Words: 5,814, Reviews: 49 Updated: 3-20-09 Published: 11-7-08
Status: Complete

It's a tangled mess of need, lust, and a blind desire for some screwed up relationship that digs into one's skin and boils one's blood. They're killing each other, while serving as their only source of oxygen at the same time. --Collection of oneshots--

Eros & Thanatos

2009-03-09T19:38:31-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: General/Friendship
Pairing: Tenten
Chapters: 19, Words: 18,917, Reviews: 71 Updated: 3-9-09 Published: 4-22-08
Status: In-Progress

Just because you don't pay much attention, doesn't mean that she doesn't shine and rust like the best and worst of us. --Collection of oneshots centered around Tenten--

Aggravation

2009-01-20T19:22:56-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 13, Words: 22,265, Reviews: 105 Updated: 1-20-09 Published: 3-18-08
Status: Complete

The funny thing about them, is that regardless of how perfect they are together, they still cause each other a large amount of aggravation. -collection of ShikaTema drabbles and oneshots. Status always 'complete' because each chapter is a separate story-

What It Takes to Win the Game

2008-12-31T11:54:55-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Fantasy/Drama
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 7, Words: 24,024, Reviews: 76 Updated: 12-31-08 Published: 9-26-08
Status: Complete

--AU-- The curse is gone, the danger is moot, but nothing ends happily in a magical route. Fairies have trouble with their rulers and governments too, and currently, the ones in charge are not too happy with humans mixing in their world. -SEQUEL to WiTMS-

What it Takes to Make her Smile

2008-10-04T21:09:54-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Fantasy/Romance
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 10, Words: 23,440, Reviews: 159 Updated: 10-4-08 Published: 6-10-08
Status: Complete

--AU-- Not every fairy lives a happy life. Not every curse is made to last. Not every girl is doomed to laugh. They say she cannot smile for if she does, then she must grant any wish her jester chooses to bequeath and her life will fade with every wish.

The Mechanics of Friendship

2008-09-20T21:44:17-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Friendship/Romance
Pairing: Temari & Ino Y.
Chapters: 1, Words: 7,978, Reviews: 17 Published: 9-20-08
Status: In-Progress

Someone's pregnant. Someone's pretending to be pregnant. Someone's upset. Someone's annoyed. Through it all, the mechanics of friendship, are still pretty much a mystery. But, it doesn't matter so much how it works so long as you know it works.

Monophony

2008-09-06T22:50:19-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: M
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Kiba I. & Tayuya
Chapters: 1, Words: 750, Reviews: 10 Published: 9-6-08
Status: Complete

It would be nice if he could hate her, he mused. Easy, real easy…Too bad things weren’t that way. --Rated M for Tayuya's mouth--

Here and There

2008-08-23T21:14:25-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,983, Reviews: 18 Published: 8-23-08
Status: Complete

Temari had specific ideas on what should and should not occur on a birthday. Naturally, Konoha just had to choose to do all the things she would dislike on such a day for her... Oh, boy.

The Standard Steps for Problematic Situations

2008-08-07T20:17:20-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Family/Angst
Pairing: Temari & Gaara
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,645, Reviews: 15 Published: 8-7-08
Status: Complete

It's hard to draw the line between Kazekage and brother. ---ShikaTema---

Cornerstone Friendship

2008-07-24T19:34:15-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Soul Eater
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Friendship/General
Pairing: Black Star & Maka
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,921, Reviews: 9 Published: 7-24-08
Status: Complete

How Black Star became Maka and Soul’s friend. Meeting a star does for unforeseen situations.

The Fight of a Lifetime

2008-07-12T09:15:34-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Drama
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 4,879, Reviews: 21 Published: 7-12-08
Status: Complete

Shikamaru knew he wanted no troublesome woman in his life the minute he was smart enough to figure out he would need a woman in his life at some point. He knew this and he was even willing to fight the one woman he wanted more than anything in the world

Worst of Days

2008-07-04T20:24:16-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Friendship/Hurt/Comfort
Pairing: Chouji A. & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 886, Reviews: 9 Published: 7-4-08
Status: Complete

A friend can make even the worst of days seem not so bad.

Lines of an Overprotective Father

2008-07-01T20:11:31-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Soul Eater
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: General/Friendship
Pairing: Maka & Soul
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,046, Reviews: 10 Published: 7-1-08
Status: Complete

Was there every any particular reason Death Scythe seemed to dislike Soul Eater Evans hanging with his daughter so much?

Waiting

2008-06-21T22:08:26-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Soul Eater
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Angst
Pairing: Medusa & Franken Stein
Chapters: 1, Words: 341, Reviews: 7 Published: 6-21-08
Status: Complete

Medusa can wait for him. She's rather patient when it comes to she wants.

His Name Was

2008-06-19T20:46:10-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Soul Eater
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Friendship/General
Pairing: Death The Kid & Elizabeth
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,676, Reviews: 25 Published: 6-19-08
Status: Complete

Death. The kid. Death the kid. Who was he? Was he just 'little death? Was he just death, the kid? Death the kid. That was his name. Until he met Liz and Patty.

A Stupid Excuse for a Fairy Tale

2008-06-03T20:56:10-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 11, Words: 41,911, Reviews: 248 Updated: 6-3-08 Published: 4-4-08
Status: Complete

Princes aren’t real, but demons are; kingdoms fall, but others are discovered. The heroine shines and everyone else dulls. Modern day fairy tales are hard to come across and this one isn’t one at all. --AU--

Shrinked!

2008-06-01T11:39:36-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Friendship/Humor
Chapters: 10, Words: 24,256, Reviews: 145 Updated: 6-1-08 Published: 7-15-07
Status: Complete

The worst idea in the history of worst ideas, this was going to be, but Tsunade allowed it, only for the sole reason that it would provide prime entertainment. In which the young shinobi are sent to have a weeklong session with a shrink...

When I Was a Little Girl

2008-05-24T22:04:41-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Poetry/Angst
Pairing: Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 681, Reviews: 7 Published: 5-24-08
Status: Complete

It happened that she didn’t understand things anymore. It happened that things didn’t connect anymore. It happened that things changed, she changed, and the world just wasn’t the same.

Luck is NEVER On My Side

2008-05-16T20:03:40-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Hurt/Comfort/Friendship
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,946, Reviews: 4 Published: 5-16-08
Status: Complete

There were some mornings when she woke up, that she just hated herself. --A friendship fic--

It Clicks

2008-04-17T21:30:03-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,900, Reviews: 21 Published: 4-17-08
Status: Complete

Some things are just WORTH it.

Upside of Sickness

2008-03-17T17:33:43-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 3,799, Reviews: 41 Published: 3-17-08
Status: Complete

Good things can happen when you're ill...

Sand

2008-03-14T22:15:51-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,132, Reviews: 19 Published: 3-14-08
Status: Complete

-- “I’ve come to a conclusion, Nara.” She said suddenly. -- Whoever thought those simple words would be the catalyst that would change his entire life. And really, all in the course of twenty minutes.

Our Stupidity

2008-03-11T19:47:37-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Family
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 5,194, Reviews: 16 Published: 3-11-08
Status: Complete

This was the only mission --the only order-- she had ever refused.

What We Discover

2008-03-10T20:23:17-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Family/Hurt/Comfort
Pairing: Temari & Gaara
Chapters: 10, Words: 23,733, Reviews: 127 Updated: 3-10-08 Published: 1-14-08
Status: Complete

There are some things in life you have no control over, and family is one of them. Hating them and despising them is ridiculously easy. Loving them and caring for them is infinetly difficult. Sometimes love is irrational, but sometimes, it's all you need.

I Want a Family

2008-03-09T18:54:23-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K
Genres: Family/Friendship
Pairing: Tenten & Lee R.
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,466, Reviews: 17 Published: 3-9-08
Status: Complete

Birthdays. Pfft. She could do without them. She always had. But...at times she wished it could be different. She wished she could have a family. One that would celebrate the day with her; one that would love her. But that was just a stupid dream...Right?

Cursed to be 'Mom'

2008-03-05T22:09:02-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Friendship/Family
Pairing: Tenten & Kiba I.
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,397, Reviews: 24 Published: 3-5-08
Status: Complete

Sometimes she just really feels left out of the loop. She's not their buddy, partner in crime, or comrade. To them, she's more like a mom. How lame is that?

Types of Coercion

2008-03-01T10:47:21-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,890, Reviews: 18 Published: 3-1-08
Status: Complete

Sometimes it feels like all there is when it comes to women is manipulation. Then, he's proved wrong by he woman who ALWAYS proves him wrong. Troublesome...

It's a Shame, Really

2008-02-05T21:55:09-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,376, Reviews: 22 Published: 2-5-08
Status: Complete

Sometimes plans get skewed. Sometimes thing just don't go the way the should. It's a shame, really, the way these things seem to work out.

Slowly I Learn

2008-01-17T19:24:53-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Friendship
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,796, Reviews: 16 Published: 1-17-08
Status: Complete

Everytime I'm with you, I learn. And that time we laid there, talking the night away, that's when I knew... That's when I knew I was in love.

What Really is 'Yummy'

2008-01-07T21:11:10-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Friendship
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 7,509, Reviews: 48 Published: 1-7-08
Status: Complete

Yamanka Ino and Sabaku Temari have verry different perceptions on what makes a man attractive. Ino tries to discover just what Temari finds Yummy.

Liar, Liar

2008-01-05T19:47:49-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Drama
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 5,588, Reviews: 33 Published: 1-5-08
Status: Complete

It's easy to hide behind anger and indifference. It's easy to lie when you're pretending. It's just plain easy to lie. But lying is much harder when your body betrays you and fear invades you.

All the Things

2008-01-02T13:13:12-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,158, Reviews: 22 Published: 1-2-08
Status: Complete

Temari has meant many different things to Shikamaru over the years. Troublesome things. Annoying things. Things that give him a rather large migraine. Things that that that...that he's glad he had the chance to see...

Because it's Better in Suna

2007-12-23T20:32:34-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Humor/Family
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 3, Words: 7,765, Reviews: 89 Updated: 12-23-07 Published: 12-21-07
Status: Complete

Nara Shikamaru doesn't really like Christmas. He thinks it's one of the more troublesome holidays there is. Temari is determined to change his mind. So Shikamaru is spending Christmas with Temari and her brothers... IS it better in Suna?

Hina

2007-12-18T19:08:44-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Family/Hurt/Comfort
Pairing: Hinata H. & Hanabi H.
Chapters: 1, Words: 3,779, Reviews: 12 Published: 12-18-07
Status: Complete

Family is a complicated thing. Family isn’t always family. And luckily sometimes family IS a good family. Especially when you have news like this to deliver… The silence of the Hyuuga compound isn’t really unsettling, because it’s not really silence at al

Having to Think and Liking to Think

2007-12-15T22:38:46-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 2,341, Reviews: 10 Published: 12-15-07
Status: Complete

It's all the thoughts in his head that make the day more tedious, but the thoughts concerning HER aren't so bad. He could live on the thoughts concerning her. He could live just sharing thoughts with her. Living isn't quite a chore with her...

Winds of Truth & Sands of Change

2007-12-10T20:09:30-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Family/Hurt/Comfort
Pairing: Gaara & Temari
Chapters: 26, Words: 16,904, Reviews: 196 Updated: 12-10-07 Published: 7-9-07
Status: Complete

100 drabbles about Gaara, Kankuro, and Temari. All they needed was to see the truth, to move beyond the lies and tales they’d been told so they could become the family they should’ve been. The family they had always wanted. Loneliness gets hard…

Everyone's Eyes

2007-12-02T15:57:50-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Romance/Friendship
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 12, Words: 14,915, Reviews: 142 Updated: 12-2-07 Published: 10-27-07
Status: Complete

They could deny it all they wanted to. They could refuse to admit it to anyone. They could do anything they wanted to...Except maybe hide the truth from everyone else. When you love someone, you know. When you're IN LOVE with someone, everyone else knows.

Given Poison

2007-11-28T20:53:31-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Family/Angst
Pairing: Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,308, Reviews: 3 Published: 11-28-07
Status: Complete

She wants to live. She wants to be who she knows she is. She wants to prove she can because she CAN. She knows she can. She wants to live. And she want to die, the way SHE chooses.

Pieces of Broken Glass

2007-11-21T19:45:56-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Family/Hurt/Comfort
Pairing: Temari & Kankuro
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,159, Reviews: 10 Published: 11-21-07
Status: Complete

Glass. Glass. Glass. Everything she saw and touched was glass. Feeling in such a world was dangerous, and she knew. She knew well... Thousands of unshed tears. Because Temari cares so much more than she lets on.

Shinobi Sin

2007-11-13T21:59:22-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Angst/General
Pairing: Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 878, Reviews: 7 Published: 11-13-07
Status: Complete

It's the dark creeping terror of his actions that consumes him whole. Or it will, at one point or another, he knows that all the things he's done will destroy him.

Makeup

2007-11-10T20:41:49-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: General
Pairing: Temari & Ino Y.
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,661, Reviews: 16 Published: 11-10-07
Status: Complete

Beauty is not attained from mixes of pig fat, dye, and chemical nonsense. Real beauty lies in a certain je ne sais quoi that can only be achieved by being yourself, but maybe it's harder for some people to understand that than it is for her.

Letting Her Win

2007-11-10T10:48:32-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,273, Reviews: 21 Published: 11-10-07
Status: Complete

Nara Shikamaru loved to see her win...

Since Long Ago

2007-10-17T21:49:53-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Friendship
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 3,304, Reviews: 17 Published: 10-17-07
Status: Complete

Temari and Shikamaru’s relationship was one a long time coming. One that started since LONG ago

Watching

2007-10-02T21:25:49-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K+
Genres: Romance
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,083, Reviews: 19 Published: 10-2-07
Status: Complete

Shikamaru has learned mostly everything of value from watching. He watches and learns, but the most important thing he's ever discovered from watching, he learned from watching her.

So Extraordinary, It's Boderline Crazy

2007-09-26T16:23:54-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/Family
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 7, Words: 11,207, Reviews: 127 Updated: 9-26-07 Published: 8-21-07
Status: Complete

Temari KNOWS she doesn't blush. Temari KNOWS she isn't a pathetic lovesick floozy. Or at least, that's what she had thought. Because now Temari is beginning to feel like she KNOWS...absolutely nothing. She might even resort to asking her brothers..

Signs of Attraction

2007-09-13T21:04:36-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: K
Genres: General/Romance
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 797, Reviews: 16 Published: 9-13-07
Status: Complete

Everyone knows Nara Shikamaru is a genius, they've just never be able to discover the extent of his intelligence. Who would've thought he would know something like this?

Akin to Love

2007-08-20T22:00:05-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: T
Genres: Romance/General
Pairing: Shikamaru N. & Temari
Chapters: 1, Words: 1,837, Reviews: 24 Published: 8-20-07
Status: Complete

Love is a stupid thing that last about three and a half years, replaced by the ability to tolerate someone. Love is moronic. I don't love you.

When Clouds Laugh

2007-07-24T17:16:49-08:00

Author: TaintedMoonlight
Category: Naruto
Language: English, Rated: M
Genres: Angst/Romance
Pairing: Temari & Shikamaru N.
Chapters: 1, Words: 4,652, Reviews: 33 Published: 7-24-07
Status: Complete

All she hears anymore is the incessant laughter of the clouds and the cruel voices in her head. All there is anymore is pain, so she tries her hardest not to feel. --Lighter than it sounds.--