THE VIOLET PAPER

By: elvinda

Summary: "That is exactly the paper I was looking for! Thank you, Shikamaru!" but what is that paper about? Find it out in "The Violet Paper". Pairings: ShikaIno and very slight SasuSaku.

Tuesday, 2 August 2005

Hello, everyone, this is my first ever fanfic. Hope you enjoy reading it! I would really appreciate it if you review on this piece of work of mine.

Disclaimer: if I were the owner of Naruto, I will create a new character to be paired with Temari No, Temari! I'm not letting Shikamaru be with you. He is made for Ino! Muahahaha… No offense to ShikaTema fans intended. . Alas, I can only dream about it…

"Shikamaru! Help me with the cleaning while I'm feeding Shikano!" Ino, being the overbearing Ino she was, commanded her husband. Aware of the futility of arguing with her, Shikamaru started sweeping lazily. As he advanced to their bedroom, he heaved a sigh. The room was chaotic. Things and papers were laying haphazardly on the floor, but his eyes were fixed on a violet paper.

While he studied the paper, an excited 10-year old blonde sat beside him. The cloudy sky became clear. Their bedroom was slowly turning to their academy classroom. He, too, gradually transformed into a 10-year-old boy. The blonde was busy cutting her violent paper into two equal portions of rectangles. She was thrilled and determined to show Uchiha Sasuke how much she loved him.

Proudly, she took out two sheets of photographs; one was of a raven-haired boy with cold onyx eyes, whereas the other was of a chocolate-eyed boy, his hair was in pony-tail. Her cerulean eyes gleamed with enthusiasm as she glued the photos onto the paper of her most favorite color.

"Shikamaru, do you really love clouds that much? When taking photos, you have to pose! Not watching the clouds!" she started demonstrating few poses that she liked to the bored-looking boy.

'Why did I sit beside her again? Oh! She forced me to' Shikamaru grumbled, of course, in his mind. He had known her ever since the beginning of time, therefore he chose to do so, rather than getting more bumps than what he already had for rejecting to allow her to sit between Chouji and him.

Upon realizing that his troublesome childhood friend had stopped talking, he took a glance at her. She was cutting two shapes of red hearts; one was bigger than the other. He sighed, believing that she would stick the larger heart beside the picture of that heartless avenger. In that instant, he felt an uncontrollable urge to strangle Sasuke.

"Okay, class, now is the time to present your project. Who wants to go first?" a gentle voice of their teacher was heard.

Fluttering with glee, Ino stood up, "The person I love the most is Sasuke-kun! Secondly, it is Shikamaru!" Ino began extolling Sasuke loudly, oblivious to the fact that she had, actually, pasted the bigger heart beside Shikamaru's picture.

"Nara Shikamaru! What are you doing!" a yell snapped him back to reality.

At that point of time, Ino ran and clung to him cheerfully, "That is the paper I have been looking for! Thank you, Shikamaru!"

The moment he stroked his wife's golden locks, a loving smile made its way to his face. Kissing Shikamaru's cheeks, Ino whispered, "I should have realized it that the one I love the most is you all along."

He laughed warmly, "You know what, Ino? Even though you are the most troublesome girl I have ever known. Oh yes, of course you are! Even before you claimed that you liked Sasuke, I have fallen for you. I just cannot stop it." He kissed her pouting lips.

Faraway, in Uchiha's residence, a sneeze was heard…

"Sasuke, are you sick?" a pink-haired woman started reprimanding her husband for staying up late to practice.

How was it? Please review. Constructive criticisms are, undoubtedly, accepted, as long as it is done intelligently. Remember, nobody likes flame. Thank you for reading!