Title: Without Words

By: darkemptyheart/DarkSeductress

Theme: Commitment

Word Count: 100

Shikamaru should have stayed put. Temari had demanded he hold his position. He should have listened, if only so he wouldn’t have to endure her lecture.

He almost misses her demanding, ‘Why?’

How could he tell her, he’d seen her death as the next probable move? And that it scared him completely senseless?

He can’t.

He won’t.

Instead he meets her eyes and states, “Because I wanted to.”

Shikamaru can see Temari fumbling for a response.

He hopes she understands what he won’t say.

Shikamaru thinks maybe she does, when she looks away and murmurs, “Baka...Don’t do it again.”