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My first fic here in this site so I hope you would enjoy this. ShikaIno haters are not allowed here. Hint of ShikaTema just a hint but not really important to this chapter because ShikaIno is the main thing here! Now read

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Maybe it's her face,

"Look at this picture! I so want Tsunade-sama's face from when she was young and now, old!" Ino Yamanaka yelled with jealousy and a tint of frustration as she looked at the Fifth Hokage's picture in the history books.

"We're here to research about Konoha's hidden techniques, remember?" Shikamaru Nara yawned as he rolled his eyes before he flipped the dusty book he found nearby.

No way was he going to walk five steps away from his current position to get a book.

"I know but look at her face! I can't believe Tsunade-sama still looks the same in that elegant face she got until now." she sighed sadly as she continued to try to read the book she was currently holding.

'Glad she closed her big mouth. Next thing, you know, she wants Orochimaru's hair.' Shikamaru snickered with this thought.

Suddenly, his eyes started to look at her face. He had a weird feeling on why his eyes suddenly looked at her face . . .

. . . The face that is so beautiful and innocent right now. The texture: smooth and gentle like a baby's skin only it was obvious that from that face, she grew into a beautiful young lady. A face that could make thousand opponents faint at the sight of it.

Shikamaru flinched when those words were his description on his female teammate's face. He shook his head and continued to focus his mind on the pages in front of him.

'Never mind about that. The fact that she's still concentrating on the book where her eyes is scanning at makes her gullible therefore she didn't see my eyes gaze on her face.' Shikamaru theorized and knew this would be proven in the next second. He smiled slightly to himself.

'Temari's more mature, anyway.' He thought but shook his head again. 'Damn, now Temari had to get in here? Oh please, let not Tsunade come in this topic. I've heard enough of her name awhile ago.' Shikamaru groaned as he continued to read the book.

no makeup at all.

'I still can't believe she has a pretty face. Usually, she would wear heavy makeup like purple eyeliner, cherry lip gloss and rosy blushes also imported foundation, too! Wait, why do I even know how her makeup is organized? But right now, she's not wearing make up . . . and yet she's still beautiful.' He thought as he looked at her face again. His eyes fixed at her face once again. Not to mention, wide eyes because one: he's still thinking loud Ino is beautiful and second: he's mesmerized by her pretty face.

As she tells me she's not beautiful.

"Shika!!!" she whined as her head rested hardly on the desk. "Ow . . ." she expressed the slight pain. Shikamaru's face turned sour because Ino did a usual dumb thing but mostly because he couldn't see her pretty face. 'Troublesome.' he thought plainly.

"I'm not beautiful." she said sadly when she turned her head that is still on the desk to see Shikamaru's expression . . .

. . . Which was a satisfied smile on his face.

'There's the pretty face.' he thought as he sighed in relief and started to read another book.

"If you're not beautiful then clouds don't exist." he whispered sarcastically to himself.

He gulped.

She must've heard it.

Oh boy.

"You didn't even reply to my complaint." Ino pointed out. She didn't hear him whisper after all.

"It's beautiful if you want to hear that from my mouth. Now let me research, troublesome pig." He said with no enthusiasm in his voice. It seems that his attraction to Ino faded quickly.

He gulped again.

That was worse than his comment awhile ago.

"Troublesome pig?!" She asked sternly as a vein popped on her forehead.

"Troublesome." he then sighed with regret as he knew Ino was going to yell at the top of her voice and the usual rants were going to arrive to his ears.

Meh. He was used to it.

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