Hey-llo! I pulled my inspiration from watching the tube, and not YouTube, but surfing the channels and I picked out the random objects I saw on the TV and just pen and paper it. Well it's mostly dialogue I jot down first then add all the pretty little sprinkles later. :d
I'm random, yesss. XD

Disclaimer: Kishimoto is the man with the skillz. (=

Theme: First experience with drinking coffee.
Pairing: ShikaIno
Category: Friendship/Humor

Caffeine Craze

The door slammed again making the loud-mouthed teen go nuts again. Her sleepy teammate decided to rupture in without knocking and plop down on HER couch like he owns the place.

He has his own reservation with Ino's couch rather than resting in his suitable bed, which it only a block away from her apartment.

She swore she was going to go ballistic the next he rushes through the damn door.

" Shikamaru, shouldn't you, well I don't know, go to your house and sleep in your bed," Ino ticked away her anger by chipping away at the ends of the kitchen furniture.

He made a groaning gesture and remained quite as he slept through Ino's yakking. With the click of her tongue she up in a second and hovered above the genius's sleeping form. She was going to shake him senseless so he wouldn't want to visit ever again.

Shikamaru yawned and peered upwards at Ino who was, now, grinning as always.

" I'd like to get some rest before I have to wake up in the morning to doing my usual routine. If you were so kindly could you be considerate and pip down?" he mocked a grin before laying his head in the same position.

Ino scoffed and fussed over Shikamaru and his urgency to sleep and sleep and sleep. She prodded his head with a finger and he stirred with a grumpy look on his face.

She smiled and waved at him, teasingly. " Hi me again. Here is a good suggestion," she started adding more volume to her voice, " why don't you drink coffee to stay awake more often?! Isn't working errands and at the Chuunin Exams threatening your pupils to fall asleep?"

His body is curled up against the warm couch, soundlessly drifting to sleep. Ino calmed herself for a second or two and thwacked his head. Immediately, he startled upwards, scratching his scalp.

" I'm trying to rest," he sneered at her to force her to let he be.

She rested her elbows lightly against the navy couch. " You have been doing that for the past two months now…hmm should I maybe charge your stays from now on? Say ¥3220 each visit, yeah?"

He seemed to choke on his spit. Ino really liked to mess with his head, some manipulator.

" It's not my problem you apartment is conveniently closer to visit and sleep. You didn't have a issue with it before, in fact I was starting to speculate that you were enjoying my visit," Shikamaru answered with a smug smile.

Ino gawked at him and countered him, " Well if you would stay awake and get your troublesome ass to sleep normal hours like a good boy, then we wouldn't have been having this conversation at this moment."

He grabbed the soft couch pillows from underneath his head and chucked it at Ino. " Quiet, your being too obnoxious again." He obtained the other pillow and jammed it under his head.

Ino flicked him for abusing her furniture, " Exactly my point, dummy. Coffee will help you stay more alert and keep your eyes from closing. The caffeine is what you need so you can stop crashing here like a bum."

He expressed his disapproval with a short scoff. " Caffeine, huh? No wonder you drink that sacred coffee…it goes straight to your brain cells. This addiction may have caused your loudness to be quite the side effect."

She felt her ears redden listening to his 'observation and advice' talk. " You baka, my apartment doesn't scream sleep providing motel!"

" Quit whining, and let me sleep," he mumbled trying to get to sleep for the past hour and a half.

Ino deeply let out all stress by inhaling and exhaling to channel her nerves. " Fine, Shikamaru. We will settle this now."

His eyes were closed yet again and Ino shrugged it away. She let him have his peaceful sleep, though inside she was a time ticking bomb waiting to just send him off to where he should be– his rightful home.

She skittered to the kitchen counter top and refilled the pleated paper cups with ground up coffee beans before turning the machine on. Now all she had to do was sit and wait and also hear the unnecessary snores from the pineapple-d hair of a lazy bum teammate.

Once the hot coffee brew to a full soluble amount in the pot, she turned the power off and grabbed a burgundy mug from the cupboards. Carefully pouring the steaming contents in the mug then marched on over the couch and nudged Shikamaru's shoulder.

" Tch, lazy ass get up," she ordered him to awaken.

" I'm comfortable here," he verbalized.

Ino yanked hard on his ear and he rapidly straightened up. He groaned and rubbed his ear lightly.

" Hey troublesome, here's your coffee, so drink up."

He raised a peculiar eyebrow at the liquid that steamed from the cup, and his face went fickle. Ino edged it closer to his disgusted face.

" This looks like the consistency of that grimy make-up liner you use everyday," Shikamaru saw his reflection in the pool of black liquid.

Ino nodded impatiently, not tossing out any uninformative insults at him whatsoever. Shikamaru grudgingly grasp the mug with his finger and hesitantly pressed his lips to the warm mug. He sip a little of the 'poison-looking substance' and coughed at the bitterness.

" What the hell are you trying to kill me?" he hastily wiped his mouth from the coffee taste.

Ino chuckled and held her stomach while gripping one hand on the couch. " A little genius can't handle a sip of coffee? Ha, gold. Can't you try new and different things Shikamaru? You're such boring lump of usual."

" Tch, troublesome. I like the common, the usual. Sleep is a common thing."

Ino flapped her hand at him and tapped the mug, producing a clink type noise that peeved Shikamaru.

She fiddled with her hair and watched him attempt to take another sip, but he halted once she noticed.

" Even if coffee isn't entirely healthy for the body, it sure beats smoking," Ino explained logically and shrugged away.

Shikamaru looked at the darkened coffee color again, and silently took a slow second sip. He was right, coffee doesn't even live up to his standards. He will sleep as wants, psh what does Ino know anyway?

Ahh, coffee, I don't drink it straight even with milk and sugar just package cocoa sometimes. :'D
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