#shikatema

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songs i think that are shikatema coded

“you can hear it in the silence”

“and for once, you let go of your fears and your ghosts. one step, not much, but it said enough”

BABE THE ENTIRE FUCKING SONG like?

shikamaru and temari don't need to constantly verbalize their feelings because their relationship is built on all those tiny things that become second nature. the comfortable silences. sitting beside each other without needing to fill the space. knowing what the other person means from a look. temari knowing when shikamaru is genuinely exhausted versus just being lazy. shikamaru knowing when her irritation is real and when she's teasing him.

“you are in love” it’s as simple and heavy as that. and truly it’s either one of their peers who simply just said it and they just acknowledge that yes, they are in love

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songs i think that are shikatema coded

“a moment, a love, a dream, a laugh”

like? because THAT feels like the texture of their relationship. it’s not just one enormous romantic moment. it’s all these little pieces accumulating over time.the arguments, the missions, the conversations, the teasing, the rare moments where shikamaru actually laughs because of her, the quiet familiarity that develops without either of them noticing.

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songs i think that are shikatema coded

“there’s not many people i’d honestly say i don't mind losing to but there's nothing like doing nothing with you”

hello? like imagine them just cloud watching or walking around like they always do? ugh.

shikamaru spends so much of his life calling things troublesome, wanting to lie around and look at the clouds, acting like he’d be perfectly happy doing nothing forever—and then temari becomes the person with whom doing nothing actually means something

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songs i think that are shikatema coded

“because maybe, you're gonna be the one that saves me”

classic, timeless, oasis. like shikatema

because i like imagining that as the thing shikamaru would never actually say out loud. temari becomes this wall he can lean against. not because he's incapable of standing on his own, but because she's the person he trusts enough to finally stop standing alone.

and that's basically their entire love story to me; two incredibly capable people who don't need rescuing, but eventually find someone with whom they don't have to carry everything by themselves.

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songs i think that are shikatema coded

“you call the shots babe, i just wanna be yours”

honestly majority of shikatema fans and artists have this one in their playlist and couldn’t blame you, babes. i listen to this and daydream about them.

i wanna be yours” is actually so shikamaru-coded in the most humiliatingly romantic way, because the song doesn’t feel like a grand confession. it feels like someone who has already fallen and is trying to disguise the depth of it by turning his feelings into something casual, almost practical.

“i wanna be yours,” i don’t picture some lovesick shikamaru dramatically pining from a window. i picture adult shikamaru lying beside temari after a long day, half-asleep, listening to her talk, and realizing with that quiet little ache that this; her voice, her presence, her being there—is the life he actually wants. and that is devastatingly shikatema to me.

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songs i think that are shikatema coded

“it’s just you and i tonight why don’t you figure my heart out?”

“heart out” feels so painfully shikatema-coded to me because their entire relationship is built on that quiet, almost reluctant realization that they care about each other far more than either of them ever intends to admit.

there’s something so shikamaru about wanting someone while pretending it’s all just a little inconvenient, like he could intellectualize his way out of having feelings for temari if he tried hard enough, only for her to become this constant presence in his life that he notices, trusts, relies on, and eventually can’t imagine being without. and temari, for all her bluntness and confidence, has this softer side with him that makes their dynamic feel so intimate without ever needing to be overly sentimental.

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bruh I was tweaking because I thought I'd be late for drawing temari for her birthday 😭 turns out I switched her birthday with my late gramp's😭

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“my eyes have always followed you around the room.” perhaps that is the quietest way to describe shikamaru’s love for temari. the kind that existed long before either of them had the courage to name it. across crowded rooms and endless meetings, his gaze would find her without thought, as though some part of him had already memorized where she belonged. he could pretend he was only watching out of habit, curiosity, or simple awareness, but love has always had a way of revealing itself in the places we forget to hide it. and for shikamaru, it was in the way his eyes always found temari, again and again, as if no matter how many people stood between them, she was the one person in the room he was always searching for