"Ah, man," yawned a relieved yound Nara, "I thought recess wasn't ever gonna get here. These classes are such a drag." He wasn't speaking to himself, he was speaking to his best friend, Akimichi Chouji. Chouji, a rather plump young boy, simply nodded while scarfing down a handful of chips.

"Shikamaru, you want some?" asked Chouji.

"Seriously, not every single break has to be a snack break, you know what I mean?" Shikamaru replied lazily. Chouji simply shrugged and continued his snack. The young Nara yawned and stood up from his seat. 'Might as well go outside and sleep.' He told himself. So, he walked out the class room and down the hall. 'Not again,' He mentally whined, 'I really need to start leaving before that Uchiha kid. Having to push past all those screeching fangirls crowding the hallway is to much work.' But, he continued anyway. Once he reach his destination, outside, he skimmed the area for a decent place to rest, one where he could observe the clouds, just in case the wasn't able to sleep due to the noise that always accompanied recess time. 'Gotta find a place where Chouji can find me, too.' He reminded himself. Even though Chouji didn't follow him, he'd always be somewhere where the boy could find him, he knew that Chouji would eventually stop eating and come find him. Then, he spotted the perfect spot. He made his way there and layed down under the tree, shading him from the sun. Luckily, he could still spot the clouds threw the branches.

"Sasukeee-kun!" 'Dammit!' Shikamaru cursed, 'I thought I was far enough away from that group of troublesome girls.' He sat up and watched what the 'genius' Uchiha was doing, maybe it was something that was actually amazing. But, of course, it wasn't anything amazing, at all. The boy sighed, 'those girls get worked up over nothing. Uchiha is just sitting there. How is that anything special? I'm sitting too. There aren't girls crowded around me,' the boy thought to himself, 'whatever. I feel sympathy for the dude. It's not like anyone would want such a loud group of girls following them.' Shikamaru shifted his position so that his back was leaning against the tree, that way he could observe the antics of all the other students. As usual, the grade above his own was there too. They all had the same recess, it made sense. 'Geez,' he thought, 'even the older girls like this guy? Psh, troublesome females.' He couldn't believe what he just saw, a group of about five older girls joined the fangirl vortex, amazing. He looked to the door that led inside, waiting for Chouji to come out. Chouji wasn't his only friend, in case you were wondering, the Nara had plenty of friends, there was Kiba Inuzuka and Shino Aburame, hell, when she wasn't acting completely Sasuke crazy or yelling at him, he considered Ino Yamanaka his friend, one of his best even. Dispite the fact that she acted like she didn't know him, he and Ino had been friends since the day he could remember, probably because her father and his father had been, and still are, best friends. Oh, and then there was that Uzumaki kid, Naruto, even though other kids told him not to talk to the blonde, he still did. Naruto was actually a nice person, other then the fact that he was a bit to loud when Shikamaru got to know him better, he accepted the blonde as a friend. The Nara had enough friends, he just found Chouji a lot more, what was the word, tolerable? The door opened and out came a figure. Much to his dismay, it was a girl that was a year ahead of him, if he wasn't mistaken. 'Another Uchiha fangirl,' he sighed, 'great.' Surprisingly, the girl didn't walk into the mosh pit of fangirls, in fact, when she walked passed them, she yelled something along the lines of "YOU GIRLS DISGUST ME! GO HOME!" She made a face, he guessed it was supposed to be her angry face, clearly she wasn't actually mad because the face she was making didn't make her look all that scary, she looked kind of cute, at least, he thought so. 'Wait,' he mentally slapped himself, 'I did not just think that.' Even more surprising than her yelling at the girls was the fact that she walked right up to Sasuke and stuck her tounge out at him, then she walked away from the loud group. Shikamaru couldn't help but laugh a little, it was the first time he'd actually seen a girl that didn't like Sasuke, well, other then that Hinata Hyuuga girl, but she obviously like Naruto. He closed his eyes, 'I guess Chouji's staying inside today.' He heard someone sit down next to him and huff. He opened one lazy eye and looked at the person, it was the girl. She had brown hair that was tied up in two, perfect, buns.

"Can you believe it?" she spoke, "It's unbelievable! Those girls shouldn't be stalking an ice cube all day! They should be focused on becoming konouchi! That IS what we're here for! It's pathetic. And, what's so great about that kid anyway! He's pale! Like really pale! Pale-er than that jerk Neji! I'm surprised either of those two can come outside and not burst into flames or melt!"

He had both his eyes opened now, he just stared at her, observing her. The way she moved her arms when she spoke was humorous, though, it did make it seem like what she was talking about was absolutley unbelievable. 'Crap!' He scolded himself. He just noticed she was staring at him, waiting for him to say something. What was he supposed to say? He never talked to a girl that bad mouthed the Uchiha, or the Hyuuga. Hell, he never talked to a girl, the only girl he's "talked" to was Ino, and she'd just yell at him or blab on and on about Sasuke. Oh, and then there was his mother, but, did she even count as a girl? 'ANSWER HER!'

"Uh...yeah." he managed to get out. She kept staring at him. 'This is getting kinda awkward..' Shikamaru stared back. She made her "mad" face, still staring at him, and he raised an eyebrow in return, staring in return. They stayed that way, staring at each other for about two minutes, until:

"Hahaha." she burst out laughing.

"What?" he was confused.

"Nothing! That was fun!" she laughed. "My name's TenTen."

He kept staring at her, 'she's weird. TenTen, huh? I'll try to remember that.'

"Ah-hem!" she said, a bit annoyed, "You're supposed to tell me your name."

"Not if I don't want to." he informed her. 'She's a bit bossy...'

"Hmph!" she pouted. He sighed and mumbled "troublesome", 'now I have to tell her...'

"It's Shikamaru." He said plainly, finally looking away so he was facing forward, and closed his eyes.

"Shi-ka-maru..." she slowly said, "Hmmm, yeah, you look like a Shikamaru." He looked at her again, 'is she thinking out loud?'

"Eh, yeah, I hope so." he said, once again looking away and closing his eyes.

"So?" she started. He sighed in frustration, 'why doesn't she leave? It's weird having a girl talk to me, I mean, honestly, I don't know what to do. Do I ignore her? Nah, if mom found out I was being "rude" she'd scold me.' He continued thinking, not opening his eyes, but, furrowing his eyebrows in concentration.

"You think a lot, don't you?"

"...yeah, I guess." he said. He didn't realize that he answered, seeing as he was thinking of ways to actually talk to this girl.

"Ah, I see. You know, you'll be a great stragetist one day?" she smiled, well, at least he thinks she smiled, he could kind of hear it in her voice.

"How old are you?" he asked bluntly, eyes still closed.

"Huh?" she was caught off guard by the off topic question, "I'm eight."

"...alright" he said. 'Ok, she's eight. So, she is definetly a year ahead of me. Ok. TenTen, she's a girl, she's eight, she doesn't like Uchiha or Hyuuga...'

"Uhm, ok. How about you?" she asked.

"...I'm seven." he was still thinking.

"Oh, alright." she said, watching him think. She thought that she might as well leave, seeing as he was so engrossed in his thoughts, but, she couldn't help but wonder what he was thinking about, so she asked.

"I don't know how to talk to you." he said, as if it was no big deal.

"H-huh?" TenTen was confused now.

"I'm thinking of ways to solve that problem." he stated, eyes not opening, "If I don't figure out a way to talk to you, then you will yell at me for just sitting here and ignoring you, and I've already had the pleasure of my mother trying to yell my ears off when I didn't want to get up to go to school this morning. My ears have suffered enough, I don't want them to suffer more." She giggled at his "problem", he finally opened his eyes and look into her chocolate ones.

"What?" he asked. 'What's up with this girl?'

"You don't know how to talk to me? You're doing perfectly fine right now!" she laughed now. 'She's right,' he realized, 'man, I'm such an idiot.'

"Oh."

"Yeah," she stopped laughing, she was just smiling now, "You don't have to talk to me thinking that I'm gonna yell at you if you say something "wrong", ya know?"

He just stared at her as she got up from the ground and dusted off her pants.

"I may not be a boy, but, I'm definitly not one of them." she said as she pointed to the three girls that had strayed from the fangirl herd and started yelling at Kiba because he "accidentaly" insulted Sasuke. "That poor kid."

"Yeah." Shikamaru said, feeling sympathic for his friend, but, he wasn't going to do anything about it, going over there was to much work.

"Well," she turned around, "I'll be going now. See ya around, Shikamaru."

She left before he even had the chance to say "yeah" or "bye". He watched her walk away, surprisingly enough, she went over to the three girls that had just finished harassing Kiba and started yelling at them, it was something along the lines of "LEAVE HIM ALONE! HE'S ALLOWED TO SAY WHATEVER HE WANTS ABOUT THAT STUCK UP LITTLE UCHIHA OF YOURS!"

Shikamaru had to admit, this girl was...different. 'If she's serious about that "see ya around" thing,' he thought, 'life might get even more troublesome.'