Hey Guys! I am a new author here! Pardon if there are grammar lapses and all in my work since english is not my native language!T.T

Reason I wrote a ShikaHina story is because I simply adore the possibility of these two dating hahahaha ever since that filler episode in Naruto Ship where the young Shikamaru told his classmates that he found the eyes of hinata beautiful, I couldn't get the ShikaHina pairing out of my head!:D

Btw, those quoted words in the summary section is very important to this story! It's not gonna be full of colorful Unicorns all the time for these two. Believe me.

Anyway, Enjoy guys!:)

DISCLAIMER: I wish but sadly nope..T.T They all belong to Kishimoto-Sama..:)

Their Beginning:

"Go out with me."

"Where?"

"Hinata, you know that's not what i meant."

"Shika-uhmp."

"Go out with me."

"You..kissed me."

"troublesome hyuga. I'll take responsibility. Just go out with me."

Hinata could not believe this was happening. Someone was actually interested with her? On top of that this said person was the laziest shinobi in the history of humanity. Genius yes but lazy. So how come he had time to notice her when he was too busy cloud gazing? and he stole her first kissed! The first kiss she reserved for a certain blonde a long time ago. However alot of things happened in the past that made the hairess see differently now. The day naruto made that promise to sakura that he will save sasuke no matter what was the turning point. You can never make a promise to someone with such strong conviction if you only think of that someone as friend. Then Naruto was gone to train under Jeriah to become stronger. Hinata realized, as painful as it is, that she too had to change and become a strong kunoichi. Along with the changes in her personality and life was her personal feelings for the uzumaki. She no longer blushes every time he was brought up to any conversations she was in. Nor she fainted every time Kiba teases her mercilessly due to her feelings for naruto. She never tried to forget him. It naturally disappeared on its own although Naruto will always have that special place in her heart. Everyone dear to her knew that her journey in life was not full of rainbow and sunshine. She crawled her way up just to reach where she was now, a strong and capable kunoichi. She will always be thankful for the hard times and for the people who believed in her especially.. the lazy anbu who just declared she was troublesome, kissed her and asked her to go out with him. She and the nara, aside from being classmates, are aquinted due to the relationship of their respective senseis. They exchanged few words when they were still young but that's about it. She can't remember when or how their relationship suddenly changed although if she's going to admit it, she does not really mind. Being with Shikamaru was like a breath of fresh air for Hinata. He complimented her weaknesses more than her strengths. She was confused at first until Shikamaru told her that without those flaws she'll never be this Hinata that everybody loved now. And w/o those flaws, the nara highly doubt, if he and her would became this close. He's more into flawed people than the perfect ones. Those meaningful words from the lazy anbu brought her new hope. Shikamaru made her embraced her dark side she was so afraid to face. Her view in life changed and she never looked at shikamaru the same way again. She loved his company. His laid-back attitude. His smile and laugh whenever she was being klutz. The funny way he looked at her whenever she blushes. The way he tied his spiky hair. The gracefulness of his movements whenever they trained together. The way he used his shadow jutsu to make her smile whenever she was feeling under the weather. She missed him whenever he was away due to missions. She simply.. oh my god! Since when? Since when did she has feelings for the shadow user? Hinata gulped at her sudden acceptance. The trauma of unrequited love made her dismiss whatever she was feeling for shikamaru. She simply labeled it as admiration but not so much as love.

Until one day this spiky nerd suddenly just decided to ask her out.

Her Iron fortress crumbled. Hinata stood there with tears in her eyes. For the first time in her life she was crying because she was happy. She was sure that she will be an old maid without experiencing what it felt like to be loved in return. Once again The Nara proved her wrong.

"Why are you crying now?"

Hinata robbed her eyes then looked at Shikamaru. The overwhelming surged of emotions directed to the shadow user made hinata throw all her timid self out of the window and jumped to the arms of Shikamaru. The anbu was too shocked to hug her back. Knowing how shy Hinata was, he did not expect her to react this way plus this gesture from her only meant one thing.

"Since when?" He whispered to her ear as he circled his arms around her petite frame.

"I.. I don't know shika." Hinata muffled as she buried her face to his chest. Now that the cat was out of the bag she could not bear to look him in the eyes. Hugging him was too forward but just this once she wanted to be greedy.

Shikamaru chuckled at her response. Her answer does not really matter anyway The nara thought. It's not in his own bingo book to pry information outside missions. That's too troublesome. What mattered to him was that Hinata clearly accepted him and that's enough for now. He looked down at the small woman who was cowardly hiding her face from him. Her hair was so soft and shiny that shikamaru could not help but twirl some of her hair strands on his finger. He could smell the faint scent of lavender and lilac from her. It was very intoxicating. How many times did he imagine her in his arms, just like this, while cloud gazing? He could not count it anymore. once Hinata asked him what he was thinking while looking at the clouds, he was tempted to confess that day but he knew better. Hinata was not ready for any emotional attachment in her life that time. What she needed was people who would help her to become a better version of herself and that's what he did. Commitment can wait. Suddenly remembering those days made him want to stay like this forever with her. He looked up at the sky and saw a messenger hawk flew past them. The shadow user sighed because he knew their time is up. He needed to leave her now.

"How long is your mission?"

"1 month tops."

"Do i have reason to worry?"

"We are shinobis. Our lives are always in danger. But i was not called genius for nothing." He smirked. Under normal circumstances, Shikamaru would never call himself a genius. He was not obnoxious like the others. Except today he had to play that card since it was obvious how worried hinata was. she needed his assurance.

"I guess.. that's good enough."

It took a while before hinata finally looked at him again. She knew her face was extremely red but if she wanted to make her point across, she needed to look at him in the eyes.

"Come back to me in one piece ok?"

"Yes Ma'am."

They stood while looking at each other with so much longing in their eyes. It took years before they came to terms with their own feelings and now that they both reached that point, how do they go from there? They both silently agreed, they have lots to talk about when Shikamaru returns from his mission.

It was the nara who broke their eye contact by looking at the sky again then saw the hawk, this time circling above them, for the second time. A clear indication of warning from his anbu superior. He really needs to go.

He reluctantly separated them but not before he kissed her on her forehead.

"You're getting bold aren't you?"

"But you liked it." He smirked.

"Wha-what?"

"And I made you stutter." This time the shadow user laughed when he saw the shock on her eyes and how cute she looked like with her mouth half opened. She tried to argue but no words came out. It was true she could not remember the last time she stuttered not even when her father was trying to intimidate her. It was some sort of an achievement for hinata but to stutter in front of shikamaru now? She could not believe it. He really must had that pull on her. With that in thought, Hinata smiled while shikamaru was still laughing.

This time, It was she who kissed him on his cheek.

Shikamaru instantly became silent. Too stunned to move as he watched Hinata turned and started to walk away from him.

"I'll be waiting. Be safe." She called as she finally disappeared from his line of vision back into the village.

Shikamaru blinked once, twice.

"Always the worry-wart aren't you? Troublesome woman." He said to the clearing as he leisurely moved his ass to the direction of the main gate. His team could wait a lil bit more as he savored the feeling of her lips on his burning cheek.

This is short but i promise the next chapter will be a long one..:)

so What do you think guys? are they in character? let me know..:)

Any suggestion will very much appreciated!:)

Anyway, I already wrote what happened after shikamaru went back from his one month long mission hahaha i just could not leave them like that!*grins*

Btw, R&R please