prologue 1: is way too troublesome to name this chapter!
Shikamaru and Choji laid in a field, both careless of what was happening in the village.
The air was really cold, it was going to snow soon for sure. Not like they can do something about it: it was the 22nd of December after all, it was a miracle it hadn't snow yet! Choji offered him some chips but, needless to say, he had drifted asleep…
- Ohi Shikamaru, you're asleep? Sure you're lazy…- he said while munching.
- *yawn* sorry, but did you say something?-
- Nothing important… I was just reminding you the fact that you're a slacker and a lazy-ass… your mother will probably yell at you for…
The rest he said was not very important… he knew he had something to do for his mother, something he hadn't done of course, and he knew she'd probably yell at him for this. After all his mother was Yoshino Nara, not some submissive and sweet woman… and he knew no one could really blame her for her temper: her son was lazy, never awake before noon, her husband, who for unknown reason loved her, was as lazy as their son and often drunk. The Nara family was not one of those always happy family, always smiling, one of those family Ino always wished to have; in his family there were problem, misunderstanding, yelling…
"but there are health and love too.."
Temari's words ringed in his mind. Hell, she was right. She was the one with a weird family, she was the one raised only with fear and hate, she was the one who couldn't trust anyone in her childhood. " a wonder how she's now so equilibrated, I would have expected a psycho…Temari… "
- next year the chuunin exams will take place here once again, you know?
- And where did this thought come from?
- When you have that look on your face you're thinking of Temari-san…
- What?!- oh my…now I have even a particular face when I think o.. – I was not thinking of her!- he lied.
It was not that he didn't wanted him to know that his guessing was correct, it was just that lately everyone were starting to think weird things about their relationship. "me and that hard-ass? Never." Or at least that was what he kept telling himself , in his mind. In fact he had already noticed her, how she'd always "sparkled" among the other girls: sure troublesome and bossy, but smart, caring, quiet (when in a good mood) and, why not? Pretty too. It was because of her he was made chuunin, and always because of her he was made jounin at the age of 16. "4 years ago…". Now that he compared her temper to his mother's one he decided that the two of them would never meet each other. Otherwise, only two scenarios could follow: the first in which her mother and Temari would start to argue, bicker, fight each other, even hurt each other; the second in which they would love each other…so much that Yoshino would ask her to stay and live with them together forever and the two of them would love to make him mad.
- you're thinking of her again!
- Tsk, shut up! Why in Christmas time we're ending up talking about her?
- Hey, cool down.. she's just a friend right?
- Y-yes… "why the heck am I stuttering?"
- Then we're just talking about a friend, who for this Christmas will come and stay here in town…- "damn him, he know how to push the matter…"
- Tell me, what are you talking about?
- Looks like I've picked someone's interest…- he said malicious – the message is arrived this morning. There were some problem sending it, so Tsunade sama has not organized anything yet for her, not even a place to stay. This morning she was running back and forth in her office, thinking out loud and saying things like: she's going to kill me, God she'll hurt me pretty bad and so on.
Choji laughed, a lot, but Shikamaru didn't really find anything funny on the scene: an angry Temari meant trouble for him too.
- I met Shiho chan yesterday…
- Shiho… Shiho.. – who the..- oh yes the one who helped us to decipher Jiraya sama's message…
- Correct
- Well, what about her?
- She's in love with you boy…
- No she's not
- Tell me Shikamaru, haven't you noticed how nervous she's always been around you? Or are you dumb?
- Of course I have. But hers is just a crush… nothing more.
- What do you mean?
- I mean… you won't fall in love for someone you don't know, for someone you've only talked about work now… won't you? She thinks I'm a strong man, hard working… she won't even raise her voice at me… never!
- And isn't this a good thing?
After many years of Yoshino and Ino's yelling, and then again Yoshino and Temari's one, he had understood that they really meant what they said. They yelled at him just because they thought that what they were saying was something important, which could lead him into becoming a better man.
- yes and no… I'm not very sure if the quietness and submissiveness is a good thing in a relationship
- love can make this kind of thing…like totally changing your mind…
- what?
Oh… how much he hated when people assumed things wrong…
hello!first of all thank you for reading... it's my first attempt at doing fanfiction, and I persist on writing everything in english from the start, even if it's not my first language (I'm Italian :) ). for this reason mainly I would really love to see some review (critique...I need it!!!). feel free to point out my mistakes! thanks again!
mike