shikamaru learning suna dialect for temari is canon to me
• shikamaru secretly deciding that if he’s going to date temari he needs to understand whatever she and her siblings are saying when they suddenly switch into suna dialect
• him pretending he’s too lazy to care while secretly taking notes every time kankuro and temari start talking fast in it
• gaara being the first to notice shikamaru slowly understanding their insults and just quietly observing the situation like a social experiment
• shikamaru practicing suna phrases under his breath while playing shogi and accidentally calling a piece by the dialect name
• temari freezing mid-sentence like “hold on. why did you pronounce that correctly”
• shikamaru acting confused like “pronounce what” while internally panicking
• kankuro immediately escalating the dialect difficulty like a language exam just to see shikamaru suffer
• shikamaru finally trying to flirt in suna dialect and accidentally saying something that technically translates to “your wind technique terrifies my soul”
• temari staring at him for five seconds before bursting out laughing because that’s the most awkward compliment she’s ever heard
• gaara calmly confirming “grammatically correct. emotionally catastrophic.”
• shikamaru learning all the sand-village metaphors just so he can say things like “the desert’s quieter when you’re not around” and pretending it’s accidental
• temari realizing halfway through a rant that shikamaru is smirking because he understood every word of the insult
• her switching languages mid-sentence to test him and shikamaru responding in the same dialect without even looking up from the board
• kankuro immediately yelling “TRAITOR” because now temari has someone else to gossip with in suna dialect
• gaara approving of the relationship purely because “anyone willing to study an entire dialect to annoy my siblings is admirable”
• shikamaru eventually using dialect just to whisper sarcastic comments during meetings so only temari hears them
• temari pretending to be annoyed but actually being ridiculously flattered that the laziest man alive learned a whole dialect just to flirt with her
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