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I am a Shikamaru x Sakura fan as of now!
So any ShikaSaku I wrote that's less than 300 words will go in here.
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Gamble
Word Count: 190
Summary: But on those few times he won the gamble, he was glad he received those injuries...
Life as a shinobi was troublesome.
When he thought that trapping an enemy's shadow and fighting with kunai would be less troublesome than scooping up deer crap and feeding them routinely, he was wrong.
He graduated the Academy.
Then everyone just had to "recognise his abilities" and move his status up to Chuunin.
However troublesome it was, he had to move up to jounin afterwards, and became the strategist of many dangerous, not to mention troublesome A-rank missions.
But however troublesome they were, he had something to look forward to after those missions (even though he had multiple gashes and was near-death most of the time).
Maybe that something didn't change the fact that shinobi life is troublesome.
But it made it worth it.
Sure, it was troublesome to risk his luck at the hospital- most of the time he would get a trainee medic instead.
But on those few times he won the gamble, he was glad he received those cuts (even though "cuts" was seriously underestimating it), troublesome as it is.
After all, you can't get the healing touch of Haruno Sakura when you weren't injured, can you?