Behind Closed Doors

Summary: In a village far away, on a undisclosed mission Shikamaru and Naruto lay in bed together after another intimate night. While Naruto worries about Ino and Sasuke, Shikamaru sleeps soundly. Why?? You'll see!!

How did this happen, he asked himself as he laid in bed next to the warm, delicate body next to him. None of this was supposed to happen, he was only supposed to be my most trusted ninja, he bit his bottom lip as the dark hair of the man next to him began to resemble that of an old lover that abandoned him and he shook his head quickly, no he is not a replacement, not for that bastard anyways. Old bitterness began to come back to him, as he thought of his teammate that left for power and the will to want to kill his brother eight long years ago. Naruto tan hand stroked the pale arm that belonged to greatest genius of the leaf village tenderly, and he sighed as he laid back in his bed. This was right to him, somehow and someway this was right to Naruto, after so many years of chasing after Sakura and reaching to understand Hinata's feelings, lying next to Shikamaru in this bed was right to him.

Is that wrong, him mind began to question again, was it wrong that he fell in love with Ino's boyfriend, and as hokage kept her from him by ordering him onto mission after mission with him and him alone. He always disguised it as Shikamaru was a great taction and spy, but really all he really wanted was to see if he could get under his skin, and make it so that he could make the genius his own. He kissed his neck softly and smiled at the small groan that it earned, but then that smile turned sour, as thoughts of Ino, sitting and waiting for him to come home came to him. This far away from Konoha he could see her in his mind, pacing back and forth at night, waiting and wondering where Shikamaru is and if he could be dead. What would she say if she found out that this is why he constantly requested Shikamaru, and only Shikamaru, for certain missions in villages far away?

He shook his blond head quickly, no this is not the time to think about that. He sighed and leaned back into the bed and looked at Shikamaru once more and he groaned once more. "God that man could sleep through anything," Naruto said out loud to no one in particular.

Unknowingly to Naruto, Shikamaru did hear him and he laughed under his breath. He did this everytime, because dispite what Naruto thought, he knew about the private battles that his lover would go through every time that they did this, went off for the purpose of just being together away from the ivading eyes of the village. "All of this is your idea, and yet you are always the one to worry," He said into the pillow his face was stuffed in.

Naruto looked down at him and blushed madly, "well someone has to, Shika, you are a commited man that keeps going off with me for well to put it bluntly sex. You are supposed to be in love with Ino, and as far as I can tell she is in love with you."

That made the man turn over and face his lover, with a disbelievling look on his face. "Who said that I was in love with Ino?? I never once told her that I loved her, I am just in a mutal relationship with the woman." Little did anyone know, that Shikamaru was never once in love with his blonde female, he just choose her as a girlfriend and future wife to soothe that fears of her mother. No one knew what he really felt, and this time he wasn't going to allow anyone to decide what he felt, for his one public realtion was an act. While the other one that only occured behind closed doors far from anyone that knew them was the one he really cherished.

Naruto looked down at the man he claimed as his own oh so many times, questions etching his face. "What is that supposed to mean?"

"It means I am not in love with her, your troublesome idiot. If I was, do you really I would go on these private missions with you? Why do you think I sleep so comfortably out here, while you toss and turn and wonder what the hell Ino is doing?? Mind you I can tell you exactly what she is doing right now, or who, because everyone knows that I won't give it to her."

The blond sat on the bed blinking at his lover, confused and conflicted, everything that he had been worrying about was all for naught?? Of course all that his lover had told him brought up knew questions to him, like one in particular that he just had to ask, "Does she know?"

He heard his lover laugh and scoff at the notion, "Does Sasuke know?"

Naruto looked down quickly and shook his head, which made Shikamaru let out a light laugh. "Exactly what I thought, because what happens behind closed doors, shouldn't concern the outside world."

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