'Someday, I just want to marry a regular girl who isn't too ugly and not too pretty.'
"Do you, Shikamaru Nara, take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?"
'How did that happen? It was supposed to be a regular girl. Not her. Not the overly confident, fiery tempered, bossy, stunningly beautiful girl who was standing in front of me.'
"I do."
"Do you, Ino Yamanaka, take this man to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do you part?"
"I do."
'And how on earth did I ever get her to agree?'
Have two children, first a girl, then a boy.
"What should we name her, Shika?"
"I used both of the names I had on the first two kids."
"Well, now Asuma and Shizune have a younger sister."
"Asuma already had a younger sister."
"How about Sora, for the sky you love so much."
'Three children, first a boy, then two girls. Of course Ino would change my plans.'
Retire after my daughter is married and my son becomes a successful ninja, and spend the rest of my life playing Shogi or Go.
"I now present Mr. Asuma Nara and Mrs. Suzuki Nara."
'My son married at the age of nineteen.'
"Father, I qualify for the ANBU black ops."
'My eldest daughter in the ANBU at seventeen.'
"Now, the family may come and say a few words."
'My youngest daughter died at fourteen while on a mission before she ever got the chance to live. She was my most difficult opponent in Shogi.'
Then die of old age before my wife.
"Sir, your wife is terminally ill. She has a year, at most, to live."
'That was six months ago.'
"Shika, you came again."
"Of course, Ino. I'll come visit everyday if it's you."
'Looking at her pale, lightly wrinkled face, I still wonder how I could have ever gotten her to marry me and give me the life I never knew I wanted, despite the sadness. Ino and her timeless beauty.'