Hi again.

I don't know why I normally don't write Naruto fanfictions but then the new generation kids are such a heartthrob! Plus I have the time and the idea to make one. Enjoy, and please read and review!

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Boar, Deer, and Butterfly

1. Meeting

The three of them stared on each other with their big, longing eyes, tried to wonder what and who exactly the strange babies were, on their first meeting ever.

2. Skin

"Why is your skin so pale?"

"Why is yours so... red?!"

"I don't want to join this conversation."

3. Bribe

Inojin cringed everytime he counted his monthly allowance. Most of them were gone; he had used it to buy snacks and sweets so Chouchou would show up to the training ground. He contemplated whether he should blackmail Shikadai on to combining their monthly allowance.

4. Attitude

Shikadai once had been so eager to really do a practice with Inojin and Chouchou, before he found out that it was extremely tiring to be excellent at something. He decided that slacking off was the best for him.

5. Resolution

After an hour full of vomitting, cold sweat, and stomachache, Chouchou vowed that she would never eat too much ramen before trying to master her family's ancient jutsu.

6. Punishment

Inojin and Shikadai agreed that the reason why Chouchou gave them a lot more of bitchy side of herself to them was because they accidentally touched her chest when practicing.

7. Company

When Inojin was grounded by his mother for drawing on the wall, Shikadai sneakily climbed on to Inojin's window and stayed there for four hours in entire week, despite of how troublesome it was.

8. Present

Chouchou's secret present for Boruto was a pair of goggles, knowing that his father used to rock the style before.

9. Dessert

Inojin was trying to figure out what dessert he should order before he was even realize that Chouchou had stolen his wallet to buy pudding for herself.

10. Advisor

Shikamaru was Naruto's advisor, but that did not mean Shikadai allowed Boruto to boss him around, trying to take advantage of the said situation.

11. Secret

Inojin and Shikadai once kissed each other on the lips, out of curiosity, when they were four; they swore no one else, even Chouchou, could know about this.

12. Relax

"Inojin, you should try to be more relax when practising! Try be more like Shikadai, would ya?!"

13. Class

Inojin was doodling, Shikadai was brooding, and Chouchou was eating. None of them was paying any attention to what Aburame-sensei got to tell that day.

14. Treat

The three of them said nothing good, in purpose, when Chouchou's dad treated them to restaurants when practice ended so Chouji would bring them to another restaurant the next day, trying to please them. Free food!

15. Accident

Chouchou and Shikadai was trying to give Inojin a surprise birthday cake, but instead they accidentally dunked their friend's face on to the cake.

16. Generosity

Chouchou did not say anything when she accidentally saw Inojin fanning a sleeping Shikadai, knowing that the boy could not stand the hotness of Konoha's summer.

17. Boyfriend

"You know, I really would date one of you if I don't have to grow up with you. You boys kind of gross."

18. Brain

"Shikadai, you are the smartest in the three of us," Inojin chirped, his hands full with ninja books for the next tests, "But please, if you don't study enough, you would be joining Boruto as the duo dumbs of the class!"

19. Birthday

Birthday present for Shikadai from Chouchou and Inojin was a handful of free pass no training coupons, which Shikadai took it weirdly happily.

20. Union

"You are all have these quite individuality and each of you really stand out," Sarada once said, "But as a group, you guys complete each other. And that is really cute."

21. Uncle

Gaara treated Shikadai, Chouchou, and Inojin like his own children. No matter how busy he was, he would took them around the city when the kids visited Sunagakure.

22. Paint

"I want to learn how to draw faces, so I can show Chouchou how fat she is." Inojin plainly said to his father during one of their training sessions.

23. Support

Shikadai and Chouchoi purposely leaving Inojin behind so the boy could ask Sarada whether she wanted to go home together or not.

24. Sleepover

One night together with the Hokage family when his parents were out for a mission, Shikadai found out how less troublesome Inojin was, compared to Boruto's neverending chatter and lame jokes.

25. Crush

"Geez, Mitsuki! If you really like me just say it! No need to stare at me like I'm somekind of a greasy meat!"

26. Beauty

Chouchou liked visiting Yamanaka's residence, so she could see Inojin's mother and ask her for beauty advices.

27. Liking

"Mom, please! I promise to clean those troublesome dishesã…¡just don't make me train with Metal Lee! He likes to practice more than Inojin and it creeps me out!"

28. Holiday

"We won't cut the rope until dusk," Chouchou said as Shikadai tied the last knot of the rope, which held a struggling Inojin to a tree, "Now enjoy your first day of skipping practice!"

29. Insult

"No one can tell her that she's fat, ugly, and annoying except me and him," Inojin snapped furiously, while Shikadai pinned the poor civilian boy using his shadow jutsu, "We're the only guy who can make her cry, and not you!"

30. Turns

Chouchou was sick because she ate a bunch of expired snacks. It left Inojin and Shikadai playing rock paper scissors to determine who was going to be the first one carried her to her home.

31. Intelligence

When Aburame-sensei called the top three students of the class, he also mentioned Inojin and Shikadai's name. Chouchou then would clap the hardest and whistle the loudest.

32. Mess

When they together had a failed practice which led to a fire and catastrophe, Shikadai pretended to not hear sobs from Inojin, and Inojin pretended to not see Shikadai's shoulder trembled heavily.

33. Date

Everytime Chouchou went with Anko for a dango date, she never forgot to bring at least one for each boy.

34. Picture

It took a promise of giving Inojin junk food for the whole weekend, promise of letting Shikadai choose the material for practice, and a promise of giving Chouchou a special beauty class, but Ino managed to take a picture of three of them in a decent clothes and expression.

35. Uptight

To make his friends see that he was not always thinking about practice all the time, Inojin agreed to make a prank with Boruto.

36. Appreciate

Temari liked having Inojin and Chouchou come for a sleepover. Partly because Inojin helped to cook and clean, and Chouchou ate everything Temari gave her.

37. Friends

They all had tried to have and mingle with different best friends but they always went back together again and again.

38. Happiness

Inojin almost died of excitement when Sarada asked him to come and babysit Himawari together.

39. Horror

"NO. MAKE THE ROACH GO OR I WILL MAKE YOU KNOW HOW MY CHUBBY FIST TASTES LIKE."

40. Women

"Dad, if all women are as troublesome as Chouchou and eat as much as she does, I want to be a gay instead." Shikadai blatantly said, leaving Shikamaru's jaw hanged open.

41. Party

For Chouchou's birthday, the boys combined their allowance and rent Ichiraku's for a whole night. Chouchou could pick any menu she wanted and as many as her stomach allowed it. She nearly broke in tears.

42. Ponytail

"I think you should let your hair long and don't cut if even if you're a grown man later."

"Hm? Do you think so, Chouchou?"

"I know so! You'll be a heartthrob!"

43. Itinerary

"School, trying to skip practice, eventually go to practice, come late, get yelled at by Inojin's mother, beaten up, almost die practicing, go home, eat, practice a little bit more, then sleep. How troublesome."

44. Suggestion

Inojin voluntarily suggested that they skip practice for today. Shikadai and Chouchou almost knocked him on the head, believed that someone with shape-shifting jutsu just replaced their friend.

45. Tears

Inojin cried violently when he accidentlly left his bedroom windom open and the wind took his sketches away.

46. Father

Chouchou still wondered whether Chouji and Karui were her real parents. He preferred the Seventh or maybe Sarada's father.. or Uncle Shikamaru seemed okay too. Her mother must have been Aunt Ino, because they both are pretty.

47. Maternal

Shikadai tried really hard to pretend that he was not excited when his mother told him he could practice the wind jutsu with one of her mother's old fans.

48. Understanding

"Pffft! There's no waaaay I'm going out with Inojin! I'd rather be single! You can have him, Sarada-chan. You have my blessing."

49. Troublesome

"Well, you are still a girl, and my best friend on top of that. So, I don't care how troublesome it is, if you are home alone I will accompany you."

50. Team

Despite everything that had happened and would happen, the three of them eagerly counted the days where they would be the one who preserve the heritage of their clans, and anticipated the time when they could finally surpass their ancestors as the new generation of Ino-Shika-Cho.