Hello people!! Ummm……. I LOVE THIS COUPLE!!!

Ero does too… everyone in the story is like 16 or 17 Soooo yeah… here it is…

With the lazy bastard…

Nara, Shikamaru was the smartest person you would probably ever meet. He was very, very, very lazy and he knew nothing about how to express the four letter 'L' word. Which he is currently having a lot of trouble with.

'What the hell is wrong with me?!' He currently was blushing at what had just happened.

Flashback

Shikamaru was yawning at practice while Asuma was yelling at his team.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU MESSED THIS MISSION UP! EVEN WITH YOU SHIKAMARU! A CHUNIN!"

Shikamaru sighed, 'How troublesome'

"Asuma-sensei I was protecting the team, we may have lost the scroll but we didn't lose any lives."

Now that Asuma calmed down he just sighed.

"Fine just spar for a bit. Ino with Shikamaru, Chouji with me."

So the sparring began and abruptly ended when Ino slipped. And fell on our poor Shikamaru ending up about a centimeter from his face. To make matters worse for him team seven was heading up the hill to train with them.

At this sight a loud mouth blonde decided to make everything even worse, "WHOA SHIKAMARU I THOUGHT YOU WOULD NEVER HOOK UP WITH INO!!"

Shikamaru blushed a blush able to rival those of Hinata Hyuga.

Ino on the other hand got up and smacked Naruto on the back of his head, "SHUT UP NARUTO! I only love my Sasuke-kun."

Sakura was sent fuming at this and she started yelling in colorful language. But this is not important all that is important is the fuming, blushing Shikamaru walking of the practice field.

End flashback

'ARGH! Why do I feel so jealous?! This is so troublesome!'

Than Chouji came into the clearing Shikamaru was now sitting in, pointed and exclaimed, "I FOUND YOU!"

He walked over to him, "What's going on? You looked really pissed when you left."

Shikamaru sighed for what seemed like the hundredth time today, "Nothing's wrong."

Usually Chouji just would've said ok and left but today Kohona's brilliant strategist made a mistake he let his feelings out in his voice. Confusion, hurt, jealousy, and anger were evident in his voice. Chouji being his life long friend knew in a second something was up.

"What happened," Chouji let out bluntly he wanted to know now.

Shikamaru caught this and knowing if Chouji wanted an explanation He wanted it the second he asked. Accordingly Shikamaru decided to pour out his guts for the next fifteen minutes.

"Soooo … From what I get your jealous of Sasuke for having Ino's attention?"

Chouji couldn't help but smirk at Shikamaru's answer,"Yes. … I mean NO!"

'I hate you Chouji…how troublesome.' Chouji laughed for the better part of ten minutes before Shikamaru decided to give him a nice whack to the head.

"OWW!!" Chouji rub the now red bump on his head, "Jerk! Don't take your frustration out on me! It ain't my fault you don't want to accept you're jealous of him because you love Ino!"

Shikamaru froze up did he love Ino?

"Hah! I knew it! Well just tell her," Even though Chouji didn't look like he was pretty smart.

Shikamaru hung his head Chouji couldn't be righter, "Damn you Chouji."

An hour later

Shikamaru gulped he was about to ask the most troublesome woman in the world to help him.

"Mom?" Shikamaru called into her den she kept records for the hokage and sometimes went on missions with his dad. Which he personally thought was crazy for choosing this slave driver as his wife.

"Yes son?" His mom muttered.

'YES she's tired!' He knew she was less harsh when she was tired.

"I uh … n-need help" He blushed and Shikamaru's eyes widened at the mistake he just made.

'Shit I'm blushing and I stuttered, how troublesome.'

Unfortunately his mom had noticed his stutter. She noticed everything, poor, poor Shikamaru.

"So who do you like?" She suddenly questioned after a small silence.

He immediately blushed and fell over.

"H-How d-did you know?!" Shikamaru asked in a shocked voice.

His mom laughed, if Shikamaru wasn't a sane person he would think the world was about to end.

She finally stopped laughing and sighed, "I was in love too you know and that was the exact way I went to my mom when I found out I loved your father," she continued,"Now, who is it?"

Shikamaru was feeling a bit confident and actually closer to his mom so he decided it was okay to tell her. "Ino."

His mom almost laughed herself to death. "You're having trouble telling her?! After being through all the shit you had to do you can't tell your own teammate?!"

She continued laughing and Shikamaru lost his entire small amount of self confidence which is pretty bad because all of his control over his feelings went too. His failure four years before on his mission he led to get Sasuke back when everyone suffered almost fatal wounds, the failed mission earlier today, being criticized for knowing only one jutsu, not having Ino so the tears he had held in for the last FOUR years just flowed out.

He curled up into a little ball as his mind raced through his self-proclaimed idiotic failures, he began to cry harder.

'STUPID, STUPID, STUPID!! YOU ALWAYS MESS UP!'

His subconscious was repeating in his mind until for the second time today he had to remind himself he was sane. Why? His mom was hugging him. She hadn't hugged him for the last six years; she would smile a coy smile at him but other than that nothing.

And his mom was just surprising him today, "Just… Just let it all out."

So he did he just cried for a time until he had cried himself to sleep.

Ino was sent reeling at what she had just seen. Shikamaru had forgot his weapon poach at training so she had decided to return it to him. When she arrived no one would answer the door so she decided to see what was going on. She peeked into a random window which happened to be Mrs. Nara's office window; she had caught the whole thing. The conversation, Shikamaru's breakdown, everything.

'Shikamaru…likes me? ... Ch- Chouji… was right?'

To be continued…hopefully.

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Till later your Hispanic hottie vally27