Intro: Hello all. I think this is my second time deleting all my fics, again. So, in order to make up to you all, I present you this story. Enjoy ~ !
Title: S.Y.L.M. (Show Your Love More)
Author: The Awesome And Imaginative
Summary: What if... Naruto Characters such as Shikamaru or Anko have siblings? And Itachi and Sasuke has a sister? What in the world...
Rating: T. If there are any changes to the story, the rating will most likely go up.
Genre: Family. Humor? Romance? Let's see how the story goes…
Author Note: There's a few things I would like to say before we continue on with the story. Regarding Nara Shikaru, like I had said before in the summary, he's an OC of mine who plays the role of being Shikamaru's older brother.
Unlike Shikamaru, he (Shikaru) actually would just tell you straight to your face if you annoys him, while Shikamaru would most likely ignore your existence all together.
Another thing would be my writing skills. My writing skills aren't that good ( More on average ) , So please forgive me on that. The second ( Or was it the third? ) would be my usage of language and vocabulary. English is not my first language. It's my second, to be frank with you.
Let's head into the storyline now, shall we?
Disclaimer: I do not own anything except for my OCs, my ideas and this fanfic. The rest belongs to their rightful owners.
7.00 am, Nara household
Third person POV
The thrilling sound of an alarm clock had woke the figure on the bed up. After throwing the clock against the wall, he, yes it's a he, sat up on his bed, before getting off reluctantly from his comfortable bed and walked towards the now broken clock. He bent and picked it up before he began to inspect the clock.
To his annoyance, the clock had woken him up at the wrong time possible. He remembered perfectly well that he had set the clock at 5 am SHARP, and instead someone had somehow entered his room without him noticed and set it to 7 am. Without even trying to guess, he knew who the culprit was. It was none other than his little brother, Nara Shikamaru.
While he started to cuss in German, he quickly grabbed his towel before running into the bathroom to have a quick shower. Once he taken his shower (more like just splashing cold, freezing water onto himself) and thoughts of reason after reason why his brother did that to him (but he gave up thinking because of time), he then changed into his daily uniform, which consists of a dark-blue, short-sleeved turtleneck shirt, jounin vest, dark-blue long pants which he turned it into three quarter pants, his hitai ate around his left thigh, and tied up his hair into the traditional Nara spiky ponytail hairstyle before leaving his room.
As he hurried down the stairs, he greeted his dad who sat at the dining table reading his newspaper while waiting for breakfast, before he headed into the kitchen where his mum was almost done with the food. His mum, like usual, started the conversation before he could.
"Morning Shikaru. It seems that you woke up late today. But anyway, breakfast is almost done, so I want you to go and wake Shikamaru up. Oh, and while you're at it, go get your dad to set the tables, will you?"
He often wonders how does his mum manage to say so many things at once, and then expects them to follow each and every one of them.
"Yes Mother."
He, full name Nara Shikaru, politely replied his mum, and managed to resist rolling his eyes, before taking the plates and utensils out and set the tables. He does the job of setting tables since he was a kid, so it wasn't a surprise he's still doing it although it was suppose to be done by his dad. His dad grunted a 'thank you' to him, which he just pretended he didn't hear him.
Shikaru then headed upstairs, and stopped in front of his destination before taking a deep breath. Not even bothered to knock on the door, he slide open the door carelessly, resulting a bang from his actions. He strode towards the sleeping person on the bed and yanked the person's covers off right before he kicked the guy off the bed.
Shikaru's POV
The person, or rather, his brother Shikamaru, got up groggily before turning towards me, but failed to glare at me as he still has a puzzled look on his face. He gave a groan when he realized who exactly had woken him.
"Aniki, what did I do this time to get you so pissed off at me?"
He questioned me, as he knows that whenever he did something wrong, he will actually get whatever he deserves from me personally. I frowned at his reaction, but decided to ignore that and instead I asked him my question with my voice laced with venom.
"Care to explain why my alarm clock rang at 7 am instead of 5? Hmm? Shikamaru?"
He silently glared (this time more successful) at me before he turned to stare at the ground.
"What's wrong?"
My facial expression softens when I noticed he was silent. And the only time he would be this silent, usually would be only when he's hiding things from me. 'He can hide it from mum and dad, but definitely not from me.' I sighed at the thought before walking over to where he was and sat next to him.
"Alright Shikamaru. Time to tell me what the heck is going on with you."
Shikamaru began to frown (See? We're truly brothers!) when he noticed that I was looking at him, so he bit his lip and he turned his head away from me, a sign often shown when he refuse to tell me anything.
"Fine then, be that way. I'll guess what's wrong. Girl problem?"
He gave me a weird stare before he shook his head.
"Mission problem?"
And again, he shook his head, so I'll take that as a no.
"Nightmares?"
Again, no.
"Friend problems? Or is it Gai san bothering you?"
He shot me a are-you-so-desperate-to-know-what's-going-on look before rolling his eyes at me.
"Aniki, for heaven sake, I'm not going to tell you about it, okay?"
"And why not?"
I retorted back at him with frustration hinted in my voice. 'Doesn't he understand he's making life very difficult for me?'
He squeezed his eyes shut and buried his head in between his knees.
"Look, it's just plain childish and embarrassing. And-"
"What? You wet your pants?"
I asked with an amused look plastered on my face, while he looked up with a shocked look as he replied.
"Wha- No! Not that!"
He struggled to keep a shocked face and failed since I began to see a blush making its way on to his face.
I arch my eyebrow at the look.
"Then what is it? I promised I wouldn't laugh at you." 'After all, I've seen you in more hilarious situation than now.' "If not, I'll use your weakness to my advantage."
I gave a sly smile to him in which he cussed at me softly before he gave up.
"Ch. Fine, fine. Mendokse nah, Aniki. "
Shikamaru kept glancing at me after saying that, which was something common that shows he was nervous whenever he begins to tell me things. In return, I gave him a reassuring smile, trying to make him continue his sentence, which he eventually did.
"The reason why I set it to 7 am… Was…"
"Was…?"
Gently rubbing his back to make him feel more comfortable and at ease, which began to show its effectiveness since he started to continue.
"I rarely see you at home nowadays. Back when you were a chunin, you would at the very least either chat, or play shogi and go with me. But now?"
He shook his head as he look out the window.
"It seems that-"
"I don't spend much time with you? Busy working and hanging out with friends instead of playing with my only brother?"
I cut him off the second time. Not even caring if he's going to continue, I was determined to finish what I had begun.
"Shikamaru, I'm a jonin, while you're a chunin, you should know that both of us have responsibilities passed to us by the Hokage, or in my case, both the Hokage and Meiko sama. And, as the fukutaicho of the team, Meiko passed papers to me to be filed and checked, and sometimes…"
I paused to catch my breath before continuing.
"I'll be sent on missions that require me to stay there for some time before I return to Konoha. Last but not least, if you think I don't care of you because of work, you're highly mistaken, Shika."
Shikamaru's POV
I mentally sigh as I bit my tongue. I fully know that we have our own jobs and all. And most of all, I know that I'm acting like a kid that needs attention. 'And why all of the sudden he use my nickname again?'
"Aniki… I understand you. It's just that… It's just that, sometimes I wonder, if anyone actually notices me, and actually appreciates me for my work."
I glanced at him, only to find he actually resisted rolling his eyes and instead he ruffle my hair.
"Shika…"
Again, the nickname.
"… I'm sure everyone appreciates you. And of course, I do too."
A smile was on his face, and the next thing I know was that he had pulled me into an embrace. Instead of talking loudly and all, Aniki began to softly whisper into my ear as he was still hugging me.
"If anything, anything, ever bothers you, I'll be there to hear you out. So don't ever hide things from me. Okay?"
He gave me a lazy smile after pulling away from me.
"I'll be free in the afternoon, like around 3 or something. You wanna have lunch with us?"
"Us?"
"The whole gang, of course."
He gave an are-you-stupid-look before he stood up and look at the time as he exclaimed.
"Shika, you might need to get ready now, it's 7:45 am. Mum's gonna come after us if we don't hurry."
"Ugh… Women are troublesome… But anyway, I don't mind joining you guys for lunch, I guess."
Before I could turn to get ready, a loud, booming voice came from downstairs as mum began to yell at us.
"SHIKARU! SHIKAMARU! WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU TWO DOING UP THERE FOR SO LONG?"
We both winced from the sound and looked at each other, before I grab my towels and clothing as I make a rush to the bathroom while Aniki began yelling back to mum something about trying to wake me up and all. 'Aniki's such a liar…'I chuckled at the thought before hurrying to finish my bath.
8 am, Nara household, dining room.
Third person POV
The two Nara brothers had began to make their way to the dining table as their mother, Nara Yoshino, began to question them about their lateness, before turning and giving her husband, Nara Shikaku, a lecture about not disciplining them enough and such. Shikaku was quiet during the whole time while being given an earful by his wife. During that time, Shikaru had took the food out of the kitchen and set the food on their respective places on the table before taking his seat beside his brother.
After all the lectures and all, the whole family sat at the table, as they were eating, three resounding knocks were heard at the main door. Shikaru, being the oldest son in the family, got up (not that he was asked by his parents or anything) and open the door, only to find Meiko standing there, with a scroll in her hands.
"Morning Meiko sama. Is there something you need?"
He asked after he swallowed the last bits of his bread down his throat.
Meiko raised her eyebrow at him, before she peeked in to find the Nara family at the dining table, equally staring at her with mild interest.
"Sorry to disturb you all. I just need to talk to Shikaru for a while."
She said to them before turning back her attention to Shikaru.
"Anyways, here is the scroll that is needed to be address during the meeting later. Do be punctual. And while I'm on the topic, this is the first time you actually ate with your family. So I assumed you woke up late, care to fill in the details?"
Shikaru glance momentarily at his brother,as he accepted the scroll from Meiko.
"Got it. Regarding me waking up late, it's a long story. So… Can I tell you later?"
Sporting a curt nod from her, he mouthed a thank you as he shut the door, while Meiko just turned away and vanished back to wherever she was supposed to be at the current moment.
The day has just begun.
(To be continued…)
Phew! Finally, the first chapter to 'Before the meeting' has finally ended. The next chapter would have more characters, so stay alert! :D
Author Note: This is the edited version. I know there's still some mistakes, but do let me know if you're willing to beta-read this fic by PM me. I made several changes (i.e. Masaki to Meiko in order to avoid confusion with my future fics, Shikaru acting more brotherly than the first, and so on.) Thank you for reading!