Time to pay up Temari!

"So, you remember the bet right?" Naruto grinned as he, Temari and Hinata walked back towards the apartment building.

She blushed heavily, and nodded. "What bet?" Hinata asked curiously. After Naruto explained, Hinata giggled. "Seriously Naruto? Did you have to play her like that?"

"She dragged me out of my apartment because she wouldn't believe me when I told her about Kakashi-sensei's terminal tardiness," Naruto shrugged. "Not my fault she was dumb enough to take a bet on the character of someone against one of said person's students."

"...fair enough," Hinata chuckled as Temari groaned.

"I thought you were turning into Shikamaru with how good you have things, being so popular with all the girls, and bluffing," she defended. While the Sex Note had kept her from finding the whole thing odd or wrong, it didn't stop her from drawing other conclusions apparently.

"... troublesome," Naruto grinned.

...

Outside the village, trying to track down where the Akatsuki duo had retreated to after their teams had driven them off, Shikamaru suddenly sneezed. "You alright Shikamaru?" Asuma asked his former student.

"...I just had the strange feeling that one troublesome blonde in my life stole my catchphrase to annoy one of the other ones," Shikamaru grunted. "How troublesome..."

...

"Oh, you think you're funny do you?" Temari rolled her eyes as Naruto sniggered.

"Hilarious actually..." Naruto replied. "You're talking to the prankster king of Konoha!"

"It's true... He painted the Hokage Monument once," Hinata giggled.

"...I don't know if that's more impressive, given that you should have had Anbu up your ass before you got much progress on that, or stupid," Temari deadpanned, even as Naruto grabbed her hand and pulled her into his room.