Try
Shikamaru Nara did not like to try. He didn't like it all. The few times he did try was only to make other people stop complaining about him not trying. And cause normally after he DID do something, his friends/family/comrades would leave him alone and he could do other things. Like watching some clouds and napping.
That's exactly what he was doing when Asuma came to him, telling him that he had nominated him for the Chunin exams. It was such a troublesome thing to have to do, but he figured to achieve his dream of being a normal Jonin, with a wife and two kids, he had to start by making it to Chunin. So he decided the try out for the Chunin exam.
The first part of the chunin exam he didn't have to do anything. Being a genius with a IQ over 200, he could have solved all the problems… but it would have taken too much thinking power… and Ino could just use her Mind Transfer Jutsu to find out the problems, and then she could just take over his body and write the answers for him. So during the first part of the Chunin exams, Shikamaru did not try.
The second part Shikamaru knew that his team was at the disadvantage, and the only way they would survive, was if he tried. So he tried, if only because he wasn't ready to die. He hadn't achieved his dream of a nice simple life. Then he could die; but not until then. And when he saw Sakura getting beaten up by the Sound Nin, he knew, logically there was nothing he could do… but he couldn't sit there and watch them all die either! It was to troublesome to decide for himself, so he asked Ino to decide, pointing out that her and Sakura had once been friends. And then Ino dragged him into the fight, where he tried. Some.
During the Preliminary Rounds Shikamaru had decided that he would try. He and his teammates had made it this far. Thanks to the Ino-Shika-Cho formation and Shikamarus brains, so he had to make some effort. If he didn't make then that was fine, and if he did then that was fine to. He had seen how much his peers had grown, and he knew how behind he and his team was. He was Sakura and Ino duke it out, ending up with both of them knocked out. And then right after that was another few females. One from Suna, and the other from Konoha. The girl from Konoha, her name was Tenten, he thought, was fighting some scary chick from Suna. Her scary confidence and bossy attitude reminded him off his Mother. Scary like a rhino, he thought as he watched her use her Wind Scythe Jutsu to destroy Tenten. But he had to admit. He was inspired by her. Her confidence and her power; her intelligence and battle strategy, and the confident smirk that she flashed at the girl, who she knew she could demolish without even breaking a sweat. She made him want to win. And he did. He won against the sound nin, Kin.
And before he knew it he had gotten to the third round. With all the tops in his class, like Sasuke and Neji and the scary Suna people. And then he was up against the rhino women. Temari. He wasn't even gonna fight her if it wasn't for the fact that Naruto decided to push him off the stupid viewing platform. After all no one wanted to see this battle, everyone was waiting for Sasuke, and Shikamaru had no reason to fight anymore. All his teammates had failed, and no one even cared about this round. And then he saw her charging toward him. Exactly. Like. A. Rhino. And his face lifted in a half smirk as she tried to bring her fan crashing down on his head. He couldn't just beat her up. A man shouldn't beat on a women. His mother had taught him that. But a man couldn't just let himself be beaten by a women either. And he told her that as he stood on a small part of the wall staring down at her. She scowled and tried to attack him and he ran away. After all he had to think out his strategy. After thinking for about it he decided to attack using his shadows to his advantage. Then, when he caught her, he just gave up. After all his chakra was gone and there was no point in continuing. She would just destroy him. He could see the anger and humiliation on her face when he forfeited. But one thing was for certain. She had made him try. Like no one else had before.
He had made it to Chunin. He was the only one in his class who had. And now his comrades lifes were in his hands. He had to protect them. He had to try. Try like he did when he was fighting Temari in the Chunin exams. He and his team were going after Sasuke Uchicha to save him from some Snake Sannin freak. He tried and tried. But his team kept getting spilt up and he had a feeling that not all of them where going to make it back. And when he was fighting Tayuya he knew he was going to lose. And then she showed up. And she made him try again.
When he was in the hospital he was almost ready to give up being a ninja. All of his friends were close to dead. And all that was wrong with him was a few broken fingers. He didn't know if he could do it anymore. Deal with the stress and worry of having all these people's lives in his hands. And that crazy rhino. She told him the truth. She told him that he needed to stop being a crybaby. And that it wasn't his fault. And his dad of course helped him not to give up to. But the sweet concern that she tried so hard to hide in her eyes was that made him want to keep trying. And it always would.
HI! This is my first Fanfic... please don't hate... :) So yeah. I might make a squeal talking about their relationship in shippuden, and maybe make them get in a actual relationship. And I don't normally right in this POV this is just how I was writing it in my head... Am I the only one who writes stories in their heads? lol. Anyway, if I get one review I will write a second part for it. I love ShikaTema sooo much! Imma gonna write a SuigetsuxKarin one next cause I love them even more:D then maybe a KakashixAnko...? Also this is to the person who is my first reviewer. Give me a pairing or a idea or a story idea,(ONLY FOR NARUTO PLEASE) and i'll write you a story about it. It may be no more than 5,500 words, depending on how much i like the idea.:) NO GAY PAIRINGS! I have nothing against gays my bff is one, I personally don't like writing gay stories though. xD
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