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I'm really sorry for not updating faster; there were some family issues for me to take care of. I realize it has practically been a month so here's a really long chapter for you.

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Waiting in the lobby for the Hokage in nothing but pajamas probably isn't the smartest idea. Ino thought to herself. Indeed it wasn't a good idea. You see with both Shikamaru and Ino in pajamas early in the morning was most likely giving off the vibe that they had 'slept' together. Which was not good at all; other early rising young newly formed shinobi couples kept on eyeing them, whilst smirking and giving pats on the back to Shikamaru. It took no genius to figure out what their comrades were thinking.

Or maybe Ino was just observant. Shikamaru looked… well confused as to why his mates were smacking him on the back, chuckling and leaning down to say 'nice' in his ear. What does that even mean? Shikamaru thought after the third couple that morning walked by and the guy whispered to him, 'nice lay.' What does that mean? Shikamaru kept going over this morning's events and not recalling any sexual encounter, even the night before he didn't do anything. His brows furrowed in frustration and he closed his eyes and started to think… and think…and think. Arugh! I've got nothing… Maybe Ino knows, she can normally figure out social situations.

With that thought he turned to pose the question he had pondering for the last half hour, when he noticed something about Ino. She was sitting stiff straight in her chair with a large pink mark covering her pale cheeks. Well that's weird. She doesn't normally get fidgety… Maybe because she gets nervous talking to the Hokage? No, that couldn't be it… Ugh, why must everything be so confusing?

Ino didn't think that everything was confusing. Actually she knew exactly why Shikamaru's friends were talking in his ear. They thought that they, meaning her and Shikamaru, had slept together…and not in the innocent way either. Arugh, why don't I think ahead? Obviously dressing in pajamas would have implications. Geez, why does he look so confused? He's the genius. She stopped fidgeting with the hem of her shorts at that point, raised an eyebrow, and leaned forward to get a look at the flustered hunched over genius who was sitting next to her, "Is something, um, wrong?"

Shikamaru turned his hunched over form towards one of his many newly acquired, troublesome problems, "Yes."

Then silence.

"Well," Ino wondered, annoyed, "What is it? What's your problem?"

"Everything."

"That clears things up nicely." Ino pulled her hands from the hem of her shorts, to push her hair behind her ear and place her hands on her hips.

"Ugh, you're going to make me explain?" She gave him another look, he snorted and rolled his eyes," Fine, I can't figure out why everyone keeps on saying 'nice' and other pointless words in my ear and you. You keep on fidgeting and whatnot. It sucks, I can't figure it out. What's up with everyone, are they smoking something I should know about?"

Ino turned her head away from the 'genius' and smiled…Then snorted, turned to face Shikamaru, saw his expression of pure confusion, then she all out laughed in his general direction. She couldn't tell her eyes were tearing; Shikamaru just looked on with a raised eyebrow, along with the rest of the room. The immediate collective thought was, She's gone mental. "You idiot," She leaned over and whispered in his ear," They think we slept together, just look at us, me in skimpy p-jays and you with practically no shirt? Think about it, way to be a genius." And she laughed again.

Shikamaru had sat up blot right in the crummy plastic chair, his eyebrows in his hairline and a blank mind. He looked like he was an ice sculpture…with frown lines and the largest pink stain scampering across his cheekbones. Shikamaru un-froze and coughed into his hand, so as to hide his blush; He leaned back over his knees and assumed his thinking stance.. Well, that explains quite a bit. Does everyone automatically assume, just because two people are dressed in p-jays, have slept together? Is everyone this perverted? Should be looking into this? His thoughts continued along these lines, while Ino was still laughed at Shikamaru's thinking pose, Only he would think this hard about a situation.

Ino sat and watched him think until their names were called by Shizune," Ino and Shikamaru, the Hokage can see you now." The duo stood from the rickety chairs and walked towards the office; Ino leading the way, with a confident stride, but with her eyes averted to the ground she was walking on; Shikamaru kept up his lazy saunter, but while noticing the nudges and winks sent his ways and towards many other males in the room. Things were so troublesome.

When the former teammates entered the room the Hokage was sitting at her desk with a small smirk tugging at the corner if her mouth, "Congrats, you two are the first of the 'Marriage Law' to come in for your session…"She eyed their clothing with the mischievous glint in her eyes," You already know most of the rules and guidelines to this law. However I still have to explain more of them to you. There is a main set of guidelines you should follow: Number One, you must always think of yourselves as teammates, just like in a mission, you must work together to gain success. As comrades, you should respect and value one another, no need for violence just use words…we can't have too many people in the hospital after all. This means that as of now you both must do various activities together to make sure your relationship blossoms into a bond that is unbreakable. Savvy?"

The young 'team' nodded. Tsunade took this as a 'Yes ma'am, we understand.' So she continued," Number Two, always be mindful of each other, blaming does no good in an relationship, if there is a problem, think it through and come up with a solution. Then talk it through and soon enough your problem is gone just like that." Tsunade looked to Shikamaru, who was absorbing every word spewed out of her mouth. "There will be monthly check-ups with your friends, family, and you two; we need to track your progress as a couple. I know that we seem to just be forcing this on the younger generation, but it is vital for our village to survive, are you both willing to help your village? If not, then you will no longer be a ninja in this village, just a normal citizen."

Both shinobi looked at each other, it wasn't going to be easy, but for their village they'd be willing to do anything. Ino looked at the Hokage with a smoldering fire buried in her eye, "I would do anything for this village, it is my honor to do what I must as shinobi." Shikamaru had the same burning deep within his own eyes and nodded firmly.

Tsunade smirked and gave them a sheet of paper,"This has all of the rules, tips and guidelines. Follow them well; if you do not, you know what will come to pass. By signing this paper it states that you agree to the terms and conditions to the law and amendments that might follow in the future. Also by signing your names here the jutsu that will link you to each other will be activated and put immediately into affect. " The young adults signed the paper, then thanked and bowed to the Hokage and left the building with a booklet in hand.

They walked in silence in the still early morning streets. Back to Ino's parents house. You see, it was one of the terms Ino had to fulfill in order to stay at her own place; she had to spend the night at her parent's home at least twice a week. It was lame, but it wasn't too bad. Considering she got to live on her own, it was a pretty good ultimatum.

Well at least before this whole law thing came into plan.

Moving in together? When was that going to happen? Probably sooner rather than later, if anything Shikamaru would think that it would be less troublesome to do the move in the beginning, less stress for later. Ino's thoughts continued drifting through the timeline they had to fulfill and decided to ask Shikamaru what they should do about the living conditions, bluntly she said," Where are we going to live?"

If Shikamaru had been drinking something he would have choked. He hadn't even started to consider any of the standards that had to be met. Was she thinking about them this whole time? Geez, I should put more thought into this 'law'… How long do we have till we absolutely have to move in together? Two months maybe? Well might as well deal with this as soon as possible.

"Well, how big is your place?" Shikamaru decided that whoever had the larger home should be the one they would move into.

"It's a small flat, about three hundred square feet. I think we should move into who's ever is bigger, so how big is your house…or are you still living with your parents? Because in that case we'd be living nowhere and face punishment with the Hokage, and that's never good. Training with her was harsh, but a punishment from her, no thank you." Great, I'm ranting, fabulous. What am I, fourteen?

"No, I moved out a while ago. Mine's bigger." Shikamaru decided to stop Ino from talking, So much for an average life, he sighed and pointed to Ino's front door, "We'll talk later, we're here. I find you later this week."

With a turn on his heel, Shikamaru sauntered away to his townhouse. Of course leaving a speechless Ino standing on her parent's front stoop. Well, that was an interesting conversation. She turned, opened the door to get her things and walked back to her apartment. All the while ignoring her father and mother still frolicking around the house at their daughter's new fiancé. How they could be this cheerful in the morning, marriage or no, was a mystery to Ino.

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The next two days Ino was out on mission to meet and greet some ambassadors from the village of the mist and working in the flower shop. It had two days nine hours and eleven minutes since Shikamaru had last told her that he was going to find and talk to her this week. She had been in a haze earlier, but then got annoyed that he hadn't found her yet and they had to talk about so many things together, not only about the law, but about their past and how it ended so badly. This was going to be, well, troublesome.

While she was thinking she did not notice the small tinkling sound that sounded above the door way in the flower shop. Ino did flinch however when she heard someone kick over a watering can. Ino looked up in surprise, "What's wrong with you Sakura?"

The pink haired girl looked at the blonde with a mischievous, evil, sticking-her-nose-where-it-shouldn't smile.

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Shikamaru knew she go and talk to Ino. Really he did, he just couldn't find the time to that's all.

Okay, okay, so he was avoiding her. But who could blame him. All he wanted from life was an average wife, average job and average kids, unfortunately, fate went out of its way to throw some troublesome things in his life. Like a marriage law with an exceeding average woman, a way too demanding job…and most likely he'd have non-average kids as well, What a pain. What did I ever do wrong? Win too many shougi games? He was frustrated, so he did what he normally did when he was confused, he lit up a smoke. Ino probably wasn't going to let him have any of these anymore. She hates the smell of smoking.

He rolled his eyes and stared at the floor attempting to figure out what to do. Shikamaru knew that eventually he'd have to talk to her, key word: eventually. Maybe not though, Ino was known for her impatience so Shikamaru was almost sure that she would get tired of waiting for him to find her, so she would come and find him. Saving him the trouble of finding her, but not saving him from the ear full of nagging, so that plan was shot.

Shikamaru groaned and rolled out of his slacking pose against the wall, finally deciding to get this over with. Taking and enjoying the last drag of cigarette, throwing it on the ground and stomping on it. After all causing a fire right now would be very troublesome.

He shoved his hands in his pockets and started to saunter back over towards the Hokage's office to let his 'friends' know that he was going to take off for the day, he already finished his work, why should he stay and help them? Oh the hassles of being the 'smart' friend. He snorted to himself and entered the building quickly bounding up the stairs poking his head through the door, planning on shouting something really quick then leaving before his 'friends' dragged him back to helping them.

Sadly, Shikamaru's well thought out plan was crushed by the regular greeting of, "Hey," and a grab around his neck that Shikamaru couldn't break. He glared to the offender, Naruto. "So Shika, because we're friends and all, and Baa-chan has been throwing papers at me, do you want to help me do them. Don't forget, every time you help me you're also helping your village."

"Village my ass. You just want me file all of the missions," Shikamaru decided to correct his 'friend'," What do you mean by helping you I'm helping the village; it's only paperwork… besides I'm done. See you later Naruto."

With that said, he turned to leave before Naruto could pull out his puppy eyes. With a wave over his head, we walked back out of the door and left Naruto alone with several piles of paper to go through.

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Ino stared at Sakura. "…Are you serious?"

"Most definitely," Sakura groaned, "Why not? Nobody knows who anybody is with."

Ino huffed, after Sakura came into the store with her devious grin, Ino just knew that whatever Sakura was up to it would be but incredibly stupid, but also so much fun, "What will a sleepover do? What do you mean by the 'nobody' and 'anybody' thing?"

Sakura adjusted herself on Ino's bed grasping a stuffed animal, "Well, none of the girls know who are friends are with, so we don't know who is dating who and we all haven't had a sleepover in a while. All of us females need to confine in one another."

Ino rolled her eyes, "Yeah right, you just want to know who's going to get married to whom. I know your intentions… and I like them." Ino smirked and the two devilish kunoichi began planning a super sleepover for all of the girls.

They talked about their missions, made invitations, and new techniques that Tsunade was teaching them. They had both agreed to not to tell who they were marrying until the night of the sleepover. In the invitation they sent out, they said to each of the girls to not tell anyone but family about who they were going to marry. It wasn't going to much fun if they already knew their secrets.

Sakura stayed for dinner at the Yamanaka house and left afterwards to drop off all of the invites to their friends personally. It was done the sleepover was planned for a week away at Ino's house.

She sighed as she closed the door resting her eyes and leaning on the door when somebody knocked harshly on the door not even five minutes after Ino had finally begun to relax.

With a grunt, she flung open the door and said hotly, "Really Sakura? It can't be that hard to put letters in a mailbo…" Ino stopped her ranting when she realized that it was not Sakura at the door, but Shikamaru,"Um, hi..?"

"That was a lovely greeting, trying to run for Miss. Konoha, you'd win the judges over for sure with those lines," Shikamaru chuckled at his own wit as well as the look on Ino's face, "So what about these letters?" He had a feeling it was stupid and girly, but he wanted to know anyway.

"Letters, you mean like the alphabet? I would think with a two hundred plus IQ you would be able to know at least that much." Ino smirked, sure her comeback was lame, but if it got him distracted then it all worked out in the end.

After all it was one of the conditions that Sakura and she concocted during their planning of this devious scheme. The main plan was to know the other girls' new found husbands, but the other part of the plan was to force the guys together for some male 'bonding'. Otherwise known as trying to get the guys to brag about their new found wives while the girls spied on them; it was intensely smart, especially since most of the girls were trained to be better spies than the guys in the first place. It was a part of their training in the academy, girls were normally spies and guys were expected to do all of the dirty work.

It was pure genius. So simple that Shikamaru would never even come close to figuring it out.

Ino giggled, "So what brings you to my humble abode?"

"Troublesome," he whispered out before he continued, "Well, speaking of 'abodes' we need to talk about living together." It was obvious she wasn't going to let him know what she was planning so why waste the energy in trying to pry it out of her sneaky brain.

Ino paled and gestured for him to come into her home. She led him past the sitting area and into her kitchen, "Do you want anything to eat or drink?" Ino's nervous tendency kicked in as she didn't even wait for the lounging ninja to respond as she started to cook something.

Shikamaru sighed, Troublesome, every time without fail. Shikamaru knew that when Ino got nervous she always had to do something to keep her from over analyzing a situation. Guess Ino hasn't changed too much then. Should be easy to get her to move in with me by the end of the week; She'll probably go along with it. Hope her cooking got better.

As Ino was cooking he looked over her attire, some ninja Bermuda pants and a long sleeved shirt, pretty typical clothes for a normal shinobi but definitely not for Ino, "Why are you wearing those clothes?"

Ino paused her whirling around the kitchen, blinked at Shikamaru and looked at herself, "Obviously it's better than being naked. Why are you commenting on my fashion choices?"

"Well, where are your other clothes? I was wondering where your normal clothes were."

"Oh," Ino spun back around and got back to cooking some curry, "I thought we were going to talk about living arrangements and not my fashion choices. Start talking smart kid."

A sigh was heard, so she wouldn't even tell him something as simple as where her regular clothes were, "Well, we decided that we are going to live at my place, when do you want to move in?" He decided to be blunt; it would at least get a reasonable answer from her. She was being much too quiet for the normal Ino that he knew.

"Soon, I have to get some things settled down at the hospital and pack," Ino inwardly groaned, of course he had to bring up the subject of moving after she had just finished planning a party at her house, "I'll be able to move in, in about a two weeks," she put the curry and rice in a bowl and gave it to Shikamaru, "Why do you want to move in together so soon anyhow, just to get it over and done with?"

"Something along those lines," Shikamaru grinned at her and he bit into his food, "Still tastes bad Ino, if you're going to be my wife you need to learn to cook." The statement was completely false, but he wanted a rise out of the girl, she was too emotionless, "Here's where my home is; I'll see you by the end of the week."

Shikamaru figured he'd show some authority. He wasn't going to be whipped like his father, if wanted to succeed at his goal of not being whipped he would have to show Ino that he wore the pants in the relationship.

Ino's eyebrows furrowed as clenched her hands, "If you're going to live your need to stop insulting me," she coolly stated, "I will move into your house in two weeks time, that is final. If you don't like my food, then stop eating it and leave, I'm done talking to your sorry ass."

It was obvious she was pissed. If he even thinks he's going to be slightly in charge he's got another thing coming. He insulted her way to many times for her liking. If he thought she was going to be some housewife that would cook, clean and be jobless, Ino was going to prove him extremely wrong of his assumptions.

She was one of the two Hokage's assistants, not to mention an accomplished spy and Jonin. She was not going to sit on her butt all day and be defenseless and of no use. Ino had already done that when she was younger, she changed herself for the better of the village and she liked the change.

Ino worked up a sweat when she trained; she applied herself to her studies to become a doctor and changed her outward appearance. She changed for the better, and Shikamaru was not about the change her again to his likings, she was no longer manipulated by what others thought of her. She judged things for herself and no longer cared for the staring eyes that used to follow her.

Ino was independent, and independent she would stay.

All of this flashed in front of her mind's eye in a few seconds before she stalked up to Shikamaru and poked his chest, "Get over yourself. You couldn't lead a relationship if you even tried." Ino poked him again; well more like shoved him out of the way only to pull the door open expecting him to leave.

Shikamaru's face went from boredom to furious within a millisecond. He walked calmly up to the woman who insulted his masculine qualities and pushed her up against the wall none too gently and forced his mouth on Ino's with a bruising force.

Just as suddenly as the kiss came it ended with Ino biting the soft flesh of Shikamaru's lip. Hard.

He jerked back and bit out with a rasp of anger, "You get over yourself," He left without a backwards glance. "See you in two weeks."

Ino's face did a fantastic impersonation of a tomato as she slammed the door shut and stomped up to her room. As she flopped down on the bed she groaned and wriggled her hand out from underneath her to touch her lips gently. How does kissing someone show that you are in charge? Ino's face turned red again at the memory of the 'kiss' they had just shared, Stupid lazy ass troublesome man. At least one of the requirements for this stupid law is done.

Ino sighed and then promptly fell asleep.

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Ino woke up to the pleasant sound of her thunderous alarm clock beeping away at four thirty in the morning. Unfortunately, she had the morning shift at the hospital, that and Tsunade wanted to talk to her about something important. The Hokage probably wanted her to do some of the mountains of paperwork stacked at the hospital. With those wondrous thoughts in Ino's head, she groaned, smacked her alarm off and then stumbled off to her bathroom for a quick shower.

She hated working morning shifts, especially where she was at now. In the ER, seeing all of the mortally wounded shinobi coming in and out of the hospital; it was exhausting to say the least. After a quick breakfast Ino sprinted out of her parents house dressed in her normal non-descript clothes and to the hospital.

She made it to the locker rooms in record time and spotted a friend, "Hey Sakura!"

The pink haired woman turned around, "Hello Ino. I hear that Tsunade-sama wants to speak to you?"

"Yep, it's pretty odd; she normally doesn't want anybody to bother her when she's here at the hospital." Ino bit her lip and waved a dismissive hand in the air, "She must be desperate to get that paperwork done."

"Maybe so," Sakura giggled, "In any case you shouldn't keep her waiting on you. It's got to be important for her to personally ask for you," she gave an un-lady-like snort, "She'll pitch a fit if you don't show up soon you know."

With a smirk and friendly hug from Sakura, Ino donned her white coat bade her friend goodbye and headed out of the locker rooms. Ino stopped by the front desk to say good morning to the busy receptionist and to punch in for her shift.

She quickly strode down the twisting sterile hallways until she saw the Hokage's large oak office door. Ino swallowed her nervousness and knocked softly on the smooth wood. Taking the rough grunt on the other side of the polished door as a, "You may enter." Ino shoved the door open lightly and shakily said, "Good morning, Tsunade-sama."

Another grunt was heard before the Hokage looked up at Ino and smirked at her obvious discomfort, "Good morning to you as well Ino," she gestured to the small comfortable seat in front of the demanding desk, "Have a seat. I have much to discuss with you."

Ino gulped and sat down on the edge of the tiny seat and braced herself for the worst.

Tsunade chuckled at the girl, "What are you so nervous about? The Ino I know almost never gets nervous." She pressed a hand in front of her mouth to suppress the mirth threatening to come out, "I bet your thinking that I want you to do my paperwork for me. That's not the case however I wish it to be so, it is much more important than any piece of paperwork. Are you prepared to face the challenge that I am going to give you?"

Ino's azure eyes widened at her teacher's words. Tsunade always had the challenges saved up for Sakura, not for her. Something was going on and Ino desperately wanted to know what was going on with her teacher. Plus any challenge that Tsunade handed out was considered more of a job than a challenge. "Y-yes," Despite the stuttering, that answer went well, "I would love to take one a c-challenge." Who am I Hinata? Get a grip.

The elder woman gazed into Ino's baby blues with mirth sparkling in her own honey ones, "Okay, here is your challenge:" She paused for dramatic effect, she couldn't help but tease the girl, she looked to cute all flustered, "You are to become head of the Pediatrics and Obstetrics Departments. I need the help with all the soon to be new mothers and all of the children. I think you are the best fit we could find."

Ino's eyes widened more, if at all possible, and her mouth popped open, "Why me who gets to head this department, surely there are older and much better medics to head that particular area of the hospital." Ino couldn't help it, after being seen as so helpless before, she had to question why the Hokage and the greatest medic-nin of all time wanted her to head such an important department.

"Simply put, your chakra is better suited for children and pregnant women. It's softer and gentler than any other healing chakra that I've personally ever come across." Tsunade chuckled, "You also excelled at healing small children and healing women in birth during training. Don't deny your skills Ino, you may leave now and you can start moving all of your things into that department's head office. Good luck Ino."

With a shaky nod Ino fled the office in a sprint and went straight to the ER yelling at the top of her lungs as she went, "SAKURA!"

With a too large smile and a loud laugh, the Hokage turned back to her work, all too excited for the up and coming year.

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One week passes

Shikamaru stayed home from work that day. Even though he was lazy he had never missed a day at work, ever. It made him angry, Damn woman, not giving me a specific day. The reason for Shikamaru's anger was because when her went to Ino's house to 'discuss' the moving day, she failed to give him an exact date of when she was going to move in.

Normally this wouldn't be such a big deal. However, Shikamaru had no idea when his new fiancé would move in. So instead of planning on cleaning a certain day of the week, he decided to just clean everything from top to bottom. This is going to be a drag. He sighed loudly and began the search for cleaning tools.

Now Shikamaru wasn't the tidiest person alive but not the messiest either. He just kept his space reasonably clean, it would have been more troublesome to leave everything messy and eventually leading to have to waste more time to pick it all back up again. Versus just keeping it sort of clean and in turn wasting less of his time. Which obviously lead to more cloud gazing.

As this line of thought ended, Shikamaru found the cleaning supplies after squatting down and plucking it from under the bathroom sink. Might as well start now, troublesome; Ino better do the cleaning when she moves in. He sauntered over to the entrance hall with a bucket full of clean warm water, a few old rags and bunches of the chemicals meant to clean.

The next few hours past quickly and efficiently while Shikamaru dusted, washed and sanitized nearly every surface in his home. Well, that wasn't too bad; Shikamaru glanced around the newly sparkling house when he started to head towards his room to take a nap. Tossing his clothes into the hamper by the door and climbed in to his single bed…Single bed? Crap, I guess I need to buy a new bed, so much for relaxing. With a sigh and a mumbled 'troublesome' Shikamaru threw on some clothes and wandered out into the market.

He was just about to enter a shop that sold numerous beds of all sizes and shapes when he heard a rather annoying voice calling, rather shouting, his name in the distance, "Troublesome, Naruto what do you want now?"

"Hey! I was thinking, wouldn't it be great tonight to go out for drinks with the guys?" Naruto's eyes were shining with over-enthusiasm, "Because all of us guys haven't hung out for a while and with everyone getting married and all, I think it would be great if we all shared some male bonding before, um, females take over our life."

"No," Shikamaru sighed, "Why do you suddenly want to hang out with me? I don't think it's because of 'male bonding', it's because you want to know who is getting hitched with whom."

Naruto pouted, "Please Shikamaru old buddy, old pal? Think of all the fun experiences a night with the boys will bring."

"You mean a hangover that I'll regret in the morning? I think not."

"Aw come on! You don't have to drink; you can just sit there and pick up on some black mail." Naruto looked up at Shikamaru with puppy eyes, "Think of it as information gathering that you can use at a later date. Please please please please?"

"Urgh, fine I'll go, what time and where?" Shikamaru wanted to face-palm himself for his supreme idiocy, "I've got some stuff left to do Naruto, hurry up and tell me."

With an excited fist pump in the air Naruto practically yelled in Shikamaru's ear, "YES! We'll be meeting at eight in the bar across from Ichiraku's ramen place." In a blink of an eye Naruto was off running to whoever else he was going to invite tonight, "Later Shikamaru! Don't be late!"

Sighing Shikamaru turned back to the bed store front and bought a nice King sized bed for him and Ino to eventually use. As a second thought he also bought a nice comfortable couch to go into his living room, a strange premonition came to Shikamaru saying that he would be spending sometime on that couch, for relaxing or otherwise.

He signed that bill for the purchased items and moseyed back to his home where he would sleep for a few hours before going to the 'get together' Naruto set up.

Little did Shikamaru notice the pink haired women listening in to his and Naruto's conversation outside of the bedding shop.

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A/N: Thank you guys again for all of the reviews and alerts things! I'm sorry it took so long for me to get this chapter up.

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