Shikamaru as an escort? Temari as his client! Oh no its not like it seems! With a threatening war on hand and kohona destroyed, missions are deemed illegal by the council and the only way to communicate and serve your countries is through an "escort business" where your allies hire you per hour. But when shikamaru is hired as an escort for temari, he has to wonder what kind of escort he really is!
Sliding and clicking his leg holster into place at about mid thigh, Shikamaru Nara Shuffles off the bed quietly trying to collect his belongings scattered on the floor without waking the other occupiers of the household. He spots a familiar item on the floor a few centimeters away by the edge of the bed.
He sighs groaning with annoyance
"There goes another shirt" He mutters scrunching it into his pack.
He doesn't ever remember this happening in missions.
How troublesome.
Speaking of troublesome, with his skilled ninja ears it doesn't take him long to realise most of the household is beginning to stir awake.
Looks like his cue to leave.
He scans the room frantically for any remnants from the night before and his shoulders relax when he finds none.
He turns and focuses his eyes on what he has been trying to avoid all morning.
Her
There she is lying on the bed, her blond hair lying delicately on the pillow
He sighs and wishes it didn't have to end this way.
He had no idea this came with the job description.
He leans over her and checks for the last time.
Yeah mission complete.
He didn't want to.
Just like him to get stuck with a woman.
He hears someone approach the stairs.
He takes one last look at the blond regretting almost everything he did last night.
With the bedroom door beginning to creak open he takes his chances and jumps out of the far right window fleeing into the nearby forest.
The screams can be heard in the forest.
At 12:00 last night in her own bed.
A cloud nin was killed.
By her own escort
He is about to open the apartment door when Ino approaches him,being annoyingly gleeful from someone who came back from her own escort service a mere 20 minutes ago.
"So..." she says waggling her eyebrows a bit, "how did it go?"
He sighs and rubs his hands over his temples
"Ino..."He drawls lazily "I've explained this to you a million times... this is actually a mission"
He clicks the door open with some frustration and continues onwards
" This isn't actually an escort business..."
She furrows her eyebrows together and snorts at him
"Pfft... of course I know that" she says and makes her way over to the fridge complaining on the way about chouji's inability to stock the fridge rather than empty it.
Shikamaru is about to get a clean getaway when she irritates him again with the details of particular escort job he had just finished.
"I thought something might of actually happened is all" she adds as an afterthought while sitting down on the couch
He shudders,
"Ino... now why would I …."
He stops mid sentence as chouji enters, looking just about as tired and frustrated as he is at this point.
Chouji slops down lazily on the couch plopping next to Ino who if anything seems more delighted by his company.
Shikamaru stares at them for a second and then frowns.
"Why not question him?" He drawls pointing his thumb for emphasis.
Ino instead of applying an answer, begins to engage in a conversation with chouji about the details of Shikamaru's last job.
Shikamaru aggravated, annoyed and deprived of sleep, decides that now would be the best time to leave the room.
He makes it halfway down the hall when the call of chouji is heard from his retreating back.
"You know your next job was three hours ago right?"
Shikamaru groans and curses inwardly to no-one in particular.
"Where?" he replies back wondering if a minor injury can prevent his going.
He turns and chouji throws him a unusually coloured scroll with precise accuracy.
"Came through today" he nods and shikamaru nods back.
He slides it into his pocket and is about to make his way out the door again when Ino calls again for what he hopes is the last time but he knows really is just the start.
"Oh shikamaru..." she says holding in her laugh " ….next time you get a job, try to make sure that they know what kind of escort you are" She spurts off into laughter and as a retort shikamaru slams the door on her.
"Stupid Ino" He says cursing her under his breath.
Every day since he set up this business shes been making fun of him.
The last job didn't seem to help either...
He wanders down the unfamiliar alleyways until he is met by a more familiar doorstep.
He knocks twice and releases a seal..
"Shizune let me in" He calls
A sigh can be heard from the other side of the door before it opens and a head pops out and swivels the area suspiciously.
"You are late shikamaru nara!" she scolds, but lets him in anyway.
He makes his way down the hall accompanied by Shizune and met by all the Jounin and Anbu glaring at him with a combination of hatred and a stack-load of paperwork,
A few dozen doors later he manages to reach a small red painted door with a newly severed hole through it.
"She has been waiting a whole 3 hours!" Shizune hisses
He slowly creaks the door open and is met with a sour faced Tsunade eying him with disinterest.
"GIRL, SUNA, NOW!" she exclaims.
Shikamaru blinks in confusion.
"Huh?"
Tsunade smirks and relaxes into her chair sorting through some papers.
She looks up "For every minute that you were late shikamaru, I decided to deduct a sentence"
"Wasn't that a sent-"
"OUT, NOW!"
He scuttles outside barely avoiding a badly aimed chair in his direction and by the time he leaves the building, he decides a course of action and sets off on his journey.
About 10 minutes into his journey he unfurled his scroll and sighed mentally,
He hates it when Ino is right.
Chouji does have an inability to stock the right thing.
Its probably the reason why he now staring down at a take out menu...
And that is also the reason shikamaru ended up travelling to Suna, for a job and a girl that he had no idea about.
"How troublesome" He sighs.
A/N: My first A/N admittingly... what do you think? Was it ok?
More shikatema interaction next chapter of course...
Oh its not set in the manga timeline to be clear :)
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