They know that the insults aren't serious. It makes for an entertaining dynamic for the two of them, and it's reassuring for the audience that they both understand one another well enough to not hurt each other. When Shikamaru witnesses Asuma's death, the experience has a profound effect on him. He vows to keep the next generation safe and to do his part in helping the shinobi world have a better future.
The audience doesn't know it at the time, but Temari has the same philosophy. That might be clear by the fact that when she is shown back home in Sunagakure, she's teaching younger shinobi new techniques.
It's also made clearer by her being one of the proctors of the next Chunin Exams with Shikamaru. Fans of the series can also see that creating a better future is listed as a goal for both characters in the fourth Naruto Databook, proving that as different as the two appear to be, they have the same life goals. Fans of Shikamaru love his growth from lazy genius to capable strategist. That growth begins during the Chunin Exams in Naruto. Temari and her siblings, Gaara and Kankuro, are clearly the more dangerous opponents in the exams.
They have no problem injuring someone so badly that their opponent might never be able to fight again. Shikamaru, however, is initially hesitant to have to fight a girl. Temari uses her impressive shinobi skills, including her mastery over wind, to make Shikamaru realize that he's going to have to actually work to keep up.
When Shikamaru folds and gives Temari the victory after a hard-fought match, some might have thought he was "letting her win. He knew his chakra reserves were tapped out and if he kept going, Temari could have seriously hurt him.
He didn't hold back in his skills, but he also knew exactly when to stop taunting her. Their match-up made them take notice of one another. After Shikamaru becomes a Chunin and relations between Konoha and Suna thaw, Temari becomes a diplomatic ambassador of sorts.
When messages are passed between the two nations, it's Temari making the trek across the desert. It's not clear if this is an assigned position for her or a voluntary one. Either way, every time she makes her way to Konoha, she spends her days with Shikamaru. He's the one who acts as her escort around town and goes to meetings with her. Most of the time, the two don't even appear to be working as Naruto wonders if the two are dating at one point.
A handful of Temari's trips to Konoha end with her getting up with the rising sun to begin her journey to Suna. Leaving town at an assigned time isn't something she needs an escort for, but it's something she gets. Shikamaru might be the smartest shinobi of Naruto's generation , but he's also the one who would prefer to spend his days napping and daydreaming, yet he gets up when Temari does so he can walk her to the village entrance. The preliminaries continue as the next match pits Sand Ninja Gaara's teammate Kankuro against Orochimaru's minion Misumi.
The fourth match is between Sakura and Ino, who are childhood friends and competitors for the affection of Sasuke. The fifth match is between Tenten and Temari. The sixth match is Shikamaru versus Kin. In the seventh match, Naruto clashes against Kiba, who brings along his dog Akamaru. By consuming Food Pills, Kiba and Akamaru increase their chakra levels and start their counterattack on Naruto.
Cousins Hinata and Neji of the Hyuga clan confront each other in the eighth match. When Hinata goes up against Neji, he hits her pressure point by using his Byakugan white eyes , and she almost loses consciousness.
Gaara finally appears in the ninth match, and his opponent is taijutsu physical technique specialist Lee. Lee uses the banned technique Primary Lotus to attack Gaara. Lee decides to use the forbidden move Hidden Lotus as a last resort. In the final match of the preliminaries, Choji fights against Orochimaru's minion Dosu. When the preliminaries end, the Hokage reveals the third exam.
In preparation for the third exam that starts in a month, Naruto's former mentor, Kakashi, chooses Ebisu to train the young ninja. Jiraiya, one of the legendary Three Ninjas, suddenly appears before Ebisu and Naruto. Naruto gives Jiraiya the nickname, "Pervy Sage.
The Sound Ninja Dosu appears and intends on defeating Gaara. But Gaara beats him soundly. Watching them are a Jonin of the Sand Village and Kabuto. Naruto continues training under Jiraiya to master the summoning jutsu.
But he has a hard time controlling the chakra of the Nine-tailed Fox. It is three weeks since Naruto began training under Jiraiya.
Naruto has been on the brink of collapse many times. Naruto is able to draw out the Nine-Tailed chakra and utilize the summoning jutsu. Gamabunta appears and does not believe that Naruto summoned him. On the day of the test, Gaara disappears from the inn where the Sand Ninjas are staying and goes to Hidden Leaf Hospital. The day of the Exam finally arrives. Naruto's first opponent is Neji Hyuga. Finally, Chunin Exam starts with the eight ninjas who qualified in the preliminaries.
But Sasuke is nowhere to be found. Naruto is unable to use his Shadow Clone Jutsu against Neji who can see chakra points! Naruto and Neji's battle continues with Neji showing enormous power. Defeated by Naruto, Neji is being taken to the hospital, when Neji's uncle Hiashi appears. Sasuke's match is postponed and suddenly it is Shikamaru's turn. He has shown no eagerness to fight, thinking that his is merely a secondary match.
In Shikamaru and Temari's match, Shikamaru -- who had the upper hand -- suddenly makes a surprising decision! Sasuke and Gaara'a anticipated match begins. Gaara eerily talks to himself, as though addressing someone. Sauske's speed and moves are identical to Lee's Taijutsu. But Gaara is not an opponent who can be defeated with just Taijutsu.
Someone has used genjutsu to put everyone in the arena to sleep. The Sand Ninjas, led by Orochimaru, have begun their plan to destroy the village. The arena has become a battleground. Pakkun senses nine of Orochimaru's men coming after them.
Orochimaru traps the Hokage inside a barrier and they continue to battle. Sasuke finally catches up to Gaara, Temari and Kankuro. Kankuro escapes with Gaara, leaving Temari to face Sasuke. The battle between the Hokage and Orochimaru rages on. Shino appears as Sasuke and Kankuro battle. Leaving Shino to handle Kankuro, Sasuke goes after Gaara. Half of Gaara's body has transformed and Sasuke continues his battle against him. By the time Naruto and Sakura catch up, Sasuke has exhausted his strength and collapsed.
Naruto is helpless against Gaara's immense power. While Naruto declares that he fights for his comrades, Gaara says he fights for himself. Naruto is helpless against Gaara's overpowering strength. However, he sees Sasuke risking life and limb to save him and Sakura. With every ounce of their power, Gaara and Naruto continue to fight. Determined to protect Sakura, Naruto attacks Gaara again and again. While Team 7 enters a multi-leg race to save a family, Naruto tries to master tough new techniques, and Orochimaru offers Tsunade a tantalizing deal.
Orochimaru's plan to destroy the Village Hidden in the Leaves is stopped. But the damage is extensive and work proceeds quickly to make repairs. Kakashi arrives in the nick of time to help Asuma and Kurenai, and Itachi enters the fray as well. The battle between two Sharingan users begins. Jiraiya and Naruto are on a journey to find Tsunade. Jiraiya's purpose is to protect Naruto from the clutches of the Akatsuki, and to train him.
Intent on confronting Itachi, Sasuke rushes to the town where Naruto is staying. On the way, tragic memories of his past come flooding back. Jiraiya saves Naruto from Kisame. If only the medical specialist Tsunade were there Naruto begins his training with Jiraiya. The technique Naruto will learn was the trademark of the Fourth Hokage and took three years to master.
Naruto manages to complete the first step of his training. But the next step -- making a rubber ball explode with chakra -- proves to be difficult. Orochimaru and Kabuto appear before Tsunade and Shizune.
Orochimaru, injured by the Reaper Death Seal, seeks the former Sannin's medical expertise. In exchange for healing his arms, Orochimaru offers to bring back to life both Tsunade's younger brother Nawaki and Dan, her sweetheart. Naruto is incensed at the way Tsunade disrespects the position of Hokage and challenges her to a fight.
Naruto practices hard so he can win the necklace from Tsunade. Meanwhile, Tsunade is in a dilemma over Orochimaru's offer. Gripped by the desire to see Nawaki and Dan, Tsunade almost succumbs to Orochimaru's tempting offer. Orochimaru and Kabuto use a summoning jutsu to call forth a giant snake. Still drugged and unable to fully use his chakra, Jiraiya summons Gamakichi.
Naruto's ninja way is to never go back on his word. Naruto is seriously injured by Kabuto and hovers on the verge of death. Jiraiya, Tsunade and Orochimaru all release their summoning jutsu. And a fierce battle begins. As Tsunade, Naruto and the others head back to the Leaf Village where Tsunade will become the Fifth Hokage, they stop at a town with hot springs.
Naruto asks Tsunade to heal Sasuke and Lee before she is installed as the Hokage. After examining Lee, she tells him to not pursue becoming a shinobi. Tsunade asks Lee whether he will quit pursuing the path of a ninja or choose to undergo a risky surgery with only a 50 percent chance of success. Tsunade advises Lee to quit the path of the shinobi. Unable to master either ninjutsu or genjutsu, Lee has always been looked down upon by the others.
Naruto and his two squadmates have always wanted to see what Kakashi looks like under his mask. The three do whatever they can to reveal his face. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura are to protect the runners in a race being held during the Todoroki Shrine's ceremonial ritual held every four years. The chief retainers think that Idate has made a farce of their traditional festival.
Jirocho believes that Idate has fled with some plan in mind. Naruto and his squad manage to catch up to Idate, only to find him hurt and unconscious with Aoi nearby. Idate still trusts no one, and it's revealed that during the Chunin Exams, Idate's older brother was the proctor who posed the 10th question. Boss Jirocho waits, confident that Idate will win.
But Aoi, the ninja sent by the Wagarashi clan, stands in the way. Bent on revenge, Sasuke defects from Team 7 and joins Orochimaru. Naruto vows to bring him back, sparking an epic showdown between the former friends. Shikamaru is promoted to chunin.
Lee decides to undergo a dangerous surgery so he can remain a ninja. Sasuke broods over Naruto getting stronger. Naruto and Sasuke release their ultimate weapons against each other, but Kakashi arrives to stop the fight. Sasuke seeks revenge against his brother. The Sound Ninja Four suddenly appear before Sasuke.
Sakura is concerned about the Curse Mark placed on Sasuke by Orochimaru. Sakura's pleas fall on deaf ears, and Sasuke leaves Hidden Leaf Village. Tsunade summons Shikamaru to lead his first mission as a chunin. They're challenged by the jonin Genma and Raido, but the Leaf ninja are fatigued. Naruto and the others are trapped in Jirobo's Earth Dome Prison. The five slowly weaken as Jirobo drains their chakra from without.
Freed from the Earth Dome Prison, Shikamaru and the others take off after the remaining Sound while Choji stays behind to face his challenger alone. After Choji takes the yellow pill, it looks as if he may win the battle, until Jirobo transforms into Second State.
Choji has only one option left. Assuming the Leaf squad could never get past Jirobo, the remaining Sound ninjas don't bother to lay traps along the way, so Shikamaru poses as Jirobo. Neji takes on Kidomaru while the others pursue Sasuke and the remaining Sound ninja.
Neji uses his Gentle Fist and Kidomaru must find Neji's weakness. Kidomaru changes tactics and creates a bow and arrow to attack Neji's blind spot.
Can Neji turn Kidomaru's attack back onto the attacker? Meanwhile, Orochimaru lies on the verge of death. Akamaru sets explosives in the trees to trap Sakon, but an incensed Sakon turns the tables. Meanwhile, Tayuya steadily advances towards Naruto's team. Shikamaru tries to stop Tayuya, who uses her Summoning Jutsu to call forth three giants. And the battle between Kimimaro and Naruto is about to begin. Ukon enters Kiba's body. Naruto is shocked by the power of Kimimaro's Kekkai Genkai, and Shikamaru is in a desperate battle with Tayuya.
An injured Kiba and Akamaru barely escape from Sakon and Ukon. Naruto is locked in battle with Kimimaro, and Shikamaru fights Tayuya's three giants. Shikamaru succeeds in trapping Tayuya, but Tayuya fights back. Kiba tends to Akamaru and his own wounds. Naruto is having trouble defeating Kimimaro. Lee attacks, and Kimimaro is pushed back by Lee's fierce taijutsu.
Shikamaru, Kiba and Lee are at the limits of their strength when Gaara, Temari and Kankuro appear to assist their Leaf allies. Kimimaro realizes that close combat is impossible against Gaara's wall of sand, so he moves further away for a long-distance attack. Gaara is unfazed. Kimimaro shatters Gaara's sand shield and attacks Gaara.
Naruto finally catches up to Sasuke, who is racing to his destiny at Orochimaru's hands. With the Curse Mark covering half his body, Sasuke is changed. Sasuke's fight versus Shiore saw him ending the battle with his Fire Release technique.
Shore was actually Orochimaru in disguise and he bit Sasuke's neck to leave a cursed seal. Orochimaru begins to retreat but Anko finds him. She makes up her mind that she would end Orochimaru's life.
Anko puts her own life at risk, but she fails and Orochimaru escapes. This episode focuses on another great fight in the Chunin Exams, specifically the one between Neji and Naruto. Naruto and Neji were arguing about the match's outcome already being predetermined. Neji landed several hits on Naruto and expected to be announced as the winner.
As his own was sealed, Naruto managed to gain access to the Nine-Tails Chakra. With this to aid him, Naruto gained enough speed and power to give Neji more than just a decent fight. The fight ends with Naruto using his shadow clone technique to trick Neji and land an uppercut. When Lee landed the Primary Lotus on Gaara, he thought that the match was over, but Gaara had other ideas. He had managed to survive the attack by using a clone made of sand. Gaara started his attack on Lee, who was still recovering.
Lee ended up opening the Third Gate, which frightened everyone. There is a flashback of Lee before he became a genin. It shows his grit to become one of the best ninjas by only using taijutsu. Shikamaru and Temari talks to Shikadai before his fight with Boruto. When Shikadai admitted defeat during the battle, much like his father did when he was younger, Temari laughed. This technique allows its user to expands their shadow to cover a wide range, thereby reducing the chance of escape. Shikadai managed to catch every single Boruto's shadow clones with this technique.
Shikamaru then proudly explained to Naruto that the technique could only exist thanks to Temari who worked with him and Shikadai. In the anime, when Mitsuki apparently betrayed Konohagakure by attacking two gate guards and leaving, the village was put on lockdown to handle the matters. Later, Boruto and Sarada left to find their team-mate despite orders. When Temari learned that Shikamaru sent Team 10 to retrieve the two genin before they were branded missing-nin, she confronted her husband about such a decision, not liking the idea of putting their son in such a difficult situation with his best friend.
Shikamaru insisted that it would both aid Shikadai in his growth and because Shikadai thinks so much like Shikamaru, their son would probably realize the inconsistencies in the situation and could help figure out the truth, something that Shikamaru would have wanted to do himself if not too busy.
He voiced his disdain at how much the Nara Clan appeared to slipping since the Fourth World Shinobi War and the constant gossip of the Land of Wind that the Nara Clan was not worthy of the unity between the Kazekage Clan ever since Shikamaru married Temari. However, in the end, he instead decided to prove the worth the Nara Clan by mastering Wind Release techniques from Temari, which she happily agreed to teach him.
When Konohagakure began celebrating a new annual holiday, Family Day, Shikamaru offered to set up a schedule to ensure Naruto would have time with his own family. Later, Shikamaru joined his son for the day, accompanied by Sai , Lee , and their respective sons. However, they soon overate, leaving them physically sick and unable to continue.
Later that night, the Nara men nervously ate dinner under the stern watch of a noticeably angered Temari due to their failure at the competition. He had fallen asleep the moment he came back from work late at night - he missed his bath, forgot to eat the dinner his wife cooked for him, and has a massive headache from his excessive drinking. As he leaves his room, he bumps into his son, Shikadai Nara, who mentions that his mother, Temari, is in a bad mood.
Shikamaru knows it's because of his bad habits, and after lightly teasing his son, he delicately greets his silent wife and heads off to take his bath. When Shikamaru sits down to eat breakfast, he and Temari have a strained conversation; eventually, Temari asks whether he remembers what day it was yesterday. He apologizes profusely, promises that he will definitely make up for it, and Temari remarks that she hopes those feelings are true, because that day will never come back again.
Realizing that he's going to be late for work, Shikamaru apologizes one last time before leaving. At the Five Kage Summit , the Fourth Tsuchikage, Kurotsuchi demands that Konoha disclose all its confidential information to the other villages, otherwise her village, Iwagakure , will withdraw from the Union; she gives the next Kage Summit as a deadline. Their game is interrupted by the arrival of Kurotsuchi.
Kurotuschi suggests this hasn't been a good use of Shikamaru's free time, especially in the aftermath of his forgotten wedding anniversary. As soon as he returns to Konoha, Shikamaru begins going over the paperwork that's accumulated in his absence.
Shikamaru is interrupted in his work by Moegi Kazamatsuri , leader of the team that Shikadai is assigned to. Shikamaru begins contemplating whether Shikadai is ready for such a mission, but Moegi cuts him off, informing him that Shikadai declined and could not be convinced to change his mind. Neither Shikamaru nor Moegi can figure out why Shikadai refused the mission, so Moegi suggests that Shikamaru speak with him about it.
Shikamaru does just that when he gets home, sneaking into Shikadai's room and waking him to ask. Shikadai explains it was "troublesome", which is all Shikamaru can get out of him before being discovered by Temari; she insists Shikadai be allowed to sleep. The next morning, after Shikadai leaves early for a mission, Temari tells Shikamaru what Shikadai's reason was: the client for the S-rank mission - a dignitary from some small country - was trying to use Shikadai in order to get close to Shikamaru.
Shikamaru is frustrated that someone would try to exploit Shikadai like that, but before he and Temari can discuss it they notice that Hinoko has returned. On one evening, Shikamaru visits Ino's shop with the intention of buying flowers for Temari to make up for his forgotten wedding anniversary. Ino seems to have known this from Temari, the two of them are quite close because their sons are on the same team.
Ino suggests yellow flowers from Sunagakure, which immediately reminds Shikamaru of Temari. Shikamaru asks Ino to make a bouquet of flowers with all the yellow flowers but in the end shikamaru forgets to take home the flowers.
Shikamaru avoids Temari, who he worries is still angry about forgetting their anniversary, and seeks out Shikadai, who himself is hiding so that Temari won't reprimand him for playing video games.
Shikamaru watches Shikadai play a roguelike until his character dies. Shikamaru asks if any part of what he just watched was "fun", but understands little of Shikadai's answer. Shikamaru apologises to Shikadai about the S-rank mission, feeling guilty that Shikadai was inconvenienced because of him. Shikadai doesn't understand why Shikamaru would be sorry. Shikamaru explains how, when he was Shikadai's age, he wanted to relax all the time and would dismiss any sort of responsibility as "a total drag"; he fears Shikadai is now taking after him.
Shikamaru explains that it was only when he stopped avoiding responsibility that he started feeling fulfilled as an individual. Although he still regularly calls things as a drag, he no longer does so as a way of complaining or avoiding. Shikadai smiles with new appreciation for the word and asks if Shikamaru can try teaching him shogi again.
Shikamaru responds with, "What a drag. Temari's answer at that time was "what a drag", Shikamaru's favorite phrase. She says while smiling to him that it is an uninspired but a good phrase. Shikadai asks what's going on, as he's noticed Konoha is teeming with ninja that have been recalled from missions elsewhere, a sign that Konoha is preparing for battle. Shikamaru tells him not to worry and to instead enjoy some time off with his friends, a sentiment Temari echoes.
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