Hello people! This story is different from all the other's I've written. Basically just cause its not GaaSaku. Also because I am writing it with my friend...its a lot harder than I thought so kudos to all those who write amazing stories with other people. Since I am writing it with her updates will be slightly more difficult to come by so patience will make this story run smoothly...
We don't own Naruto, so to the story!
Four adults gathered in a living room chatting about the old days, the two women holding their newly born children. A boy and a girl, both born on the same day. While it is unknown exactly how the topic came up, it did.
"Wouldn't it be great if someday our children got married?" One of the women sighed dreamily as she looked at her daughter.
"Oh they would be just so cute together, I can already tell." The other woman replied as she looked at her little boy. The fathers both just laughed at this but agreed.
"Of course they would look good together, look at their parents." One of the men boasted.
"If we all agree, why not just arrange it?" The other man suggested.
"Agreed!" The other three replied enthusiastically.
"Oh Sakura you are just going to have the best hubby ever!" One mother cooed at her daughter.
"Let's not forget my Shikamaru will have a most beautiful wife." The other mother countered.
-18 years later-
A girl with pink hair sighed as she began her trip out of the hospital. Her mentor, and also her Hokage had let her out early saying she needed to relax every once and a while. What does she know, I can help people but noooo I have to go home...Sakura thought. During her musings she didn't realize she was about to walk right into someone until they hit.
"Troublesome woman, watch where your going."
"Yeah well what about you, you could have gotten out of my way." Sakura scowled at him.
"To do so would only make more work for me. And work is such a drag." He said to her smirking.
"Of course it is lazy bum." Sakura replied shaking her head at him. Just when she thinks Shikamaru couldn't get any lazier...he does.
"Shouldn't you be doing hospital work, not bugging me?"
"Tsunade let me out early, says I overwork myself." Sakura told him but then smiled slyly at him. "But you wouldn't know anything about overworking yourself would you?"
"As troublesome as ever I see."
"Of course, if I wasn't I wouldn't be your best friend."
"Of course, you'd just be another troublesome woman..." He said with a smile.
"Why do you always call us women troublesome? What's so troublesome about us?" Sakura asked curiously.
"Reasons are troublesome.." He said lamely.
"You ever think this is why you've never had a girlfriend?" She asked laughing.
"Like I said women are troublesome" Sakura shook her head.
"Why do I talk to you...If anything your the troublesome one..." Sakura whispered under her breath. "By the way what are you even doing here?" she added.
"My parents invited yours over for dinner, unfortunately I was home and they made me the messenger boy." Shikamaru sighed and Sakura laughed.
"Poor you, sent out to do work. And you call yourself a ninja." Sakura teased before she continued her way out of the hospital and headed towards Shikamaru's with him in tow.
"Tch, they wouldn't even tell me why this dinner was so necessary and why it was so urgent to have you there. Parents are a drag..."
"You didn't even get a clue?"
"No."
"Well then what are we waiting for, I wanna know!" Sakura said before running off leaving Shikamaru in her dust. He sighed shaking his head at her before stuffing his hands in his pockets and walking towards his house.
Sakura kept looking between the four adults in the room as she ate. They hadn't said anything except that they had great news and she was dying to find out what was so great. Shikamaru on the other hand looked quite bored and ready to fall asleep at any moment. It was all just so frustrating for the young pinkette. Seriously if I have to listen to another story about their old missions and that crap I will explode! Sakura thought angrily.
"...I was nearly killed but luckily my wife Hana here was there to save me in the nick of time." Sakura's dad Takeshi said. And Sakura exploded.
"You've got to be kidding me!" Sakura shouted standing up. "You dragged me all the way here to listen to you talk about the old days after planting the seed that you had something important to tell us. Well I want to know, so if someone doesn't tell me in the next minute I will punch something." Sakura finished with a threat. Everyone in the room grew wide eyed and her mother motioned for her to sit.
"Sorry honey, but we just get so caught up in the memories." Her mother apologized trying to calm her daughter down before the house went down. "Dear I believe its time to tell them."
"Tell us what?" Shikamaru questioned trying to figure it out what they planned. He knew it couldn't be good for him, nothing his parents did was ever something he particularly enjoyed.
"Well now that your both 18 we thought it would be a good idea to tell you." Shikamaru's dad Shikaku started.
"Spit it out!" Sakura shouted agitated. What was with all the beating around the bush? I mean we already know they need to tell us something, no need to repeat it...
"You're engaged!" The two mothers exclaimed together. Shikamaru's brows knitted together in confusion as he tried to decipher what their mothers just said. Sakura on the other hand burst out laughing.
"Good joke mom. You really had me there for a second." Sakura said still laughing slightly. "I'm not engaged."
"Sakura, your engaged to Shikamaru." Takeshi told his daughter quite seriously. Sakura stopped laughing and looked at him shocked.
"Shikamaru?" She yelled incredulously.
"Wait me?" Shikamaru questioned thinking he heard wrong.
"Yes you two are going to be married." Shikamaru's mom Ayumi said still excited about sharing the news.
"Since when!" Sakura demanded.
"Sakura hun, we arranged it shortly after you two were born." Hana told her. "We agreed to wait until you were 18 to tell you both."
"An arranged marriage...to him?"
"What's wrong with my son?" Shikaku asked with narrowed eyes and Shikamaru looked at her like he agreed with his dad.
"Why would I want to marry someone who thinks women are troublesome! That includes me ya know!" Sakura explained like it was obvious.
"I think your overreacting Sakura." Takeshi said to his daughter. Sakura turned to him with a glare.
"Overreacting? I think your under reacting!" Sakura shot back angrily before turning to Shikamaru. "And you, why on earth are you so calm about this?"
"Unlike you I like to think things through." Shikamaru told her. "Maybe you should calm down some and try it."
"All of you are insane!" Sakura shouted before stomping towards the door. "Excuse me, but I'm going to leave now. Thank you Mr. And Mrs. Nara for the lovely dinner."
"Sakura honey where are you going?" Her mother asked worriedly.
"To go punch something!" Sakura growled before slamming the door shut a few bits of debris coming off the ceiling and on their heads.
"I think I should go get her." Takeshi said heading to the door.
"No, I will." Shikamaru offered. "If she sees any of you, you'll probably end up in the hospital..."
"Gah!" Sakura grunted as she demolished a giant boulder. She continued to push herself to get out all her anger. They have some nerve, arranging a marriage for me without my permission! Sakura thought angrily ripping a tree out of the ground and chucking it. And to him of all people, the lazy ass didn't even disagree, telling me to calm down. Moving to her next victim, the side of a mountain she pictured Shikamaru's face. Right where she was punching. "Take that you bastard!"
"Nice change of the landscape." Shikamaru complimented as he approached her. Still in the middle of her rage Sakura pounced a chakra infused punch aimed at his gut. It never landed as she froze, caught by his shadow possession jutsu. "You should know to think one move ahead of your opponents."
"I did." Sakura said smirking and he looked confused. He was given his answer when he went flying in the air and Sakura was released. "Damn it." Sakura said as Shikamaru turning into a log. A substitution.
"A clone, clever." Shikamaru told her impressed as he stepped out of the trees.
"I swear Nara one day I'll hit you and when it happens you'll be in the hospital for so long that you'll forget your name." Sakura threatened but made no move to attack. The mini battle having calmed her down some...not to mention her redecoration of the clearing they were in.
"Once again, women are troublesome." Shikamaru said sighing.
"Would you stop with the 'women are troublesome' thing!" Sakura growled at him, clearly annoyed with him. Shikamaru just stared at her. "How can you just sit there, and let our parents tell us what to do! Do you not care at all?" She yelled with a huff.
"Well, it's all too trouble-"
"Troublesome, I know!" She said exasperated, turning around and walking away. Men! They're troublesome! She thought. However, her movement was interrupted but Shikamaru's hand grabbing hers.
"Wait-"
"Wait until when? The wedding?" Sakura demanded as she faced him. "I don't want to get married."
"No, you never let me finish the sentence." Shikamaru stated. "I was going to say that we can figure this out"
"What's there to figure out? There isn't going to be a wedding, because I'm not going to marry you. End of story." Sakura stated.
"What wrong about marring me?" He asked.
"I don't love you that's whats wrong. I'm not going to marry someone I don't love." She told him.
"Now that we have established that, what exactly is your plan to get out of this marriage?" Shikamaru questioned his eyes holding a bit of pain at her statement. Does she really despise me that much? He thought not wanting it to be true but her actions gave him no reason to think otherwise. Sakura in the meantime was thinking about his question. She knew she wasn't going to do it, but how was she going to stop it?
"Well I heard Suna is doing quite well, I'll move there." Sakura told him coming up with this off the top of her head. If she wasn't in Konoha how was she going to get married?
"Your honestly okay with leaving behind all your friends and family behind?"
"I don't see you coming up with anything." Sakura shot back glaring at him. He's supposed to be the genius where is his great plans? Sakura thought ruefully.
"We could flatter them for a while, ya know act like an engaged couple around them-"
"How is that going to get us out of anything exactly?" Sakura interrupted with a raised eyebrow, He's lost it...
"Troublesome woman, never let me finish..." Shikamaru mumbled under his breath. "Then before the wedding we make a big fight scene and pretty much break up. They can't marry us if they think we hate each other, and this way they know we at least tried."
"Huh, not bad Nara and here I thought you lost it." Sakura complimented.
"Sheesh I get no credit all because I'm so lazy."
"Pretty much." Sakura agreed. "Let's head back and give them the 'oh so wonderful news.'" Sakura suggested sarcastically.
"What have I gotten myself into?" Shikamaru thought to himself.
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