Hey people, here's another installment in my little oneshot ShikaSaku series...

This is the THIRD one, the sequel to The Reasons of Naras and Medics. SO, please, if you HAVEN'T read that, but have read Of Avengers and Clouds and Cherry Blossoms, PLEASE go read it before you read this one...?

Okay. Enough whining. I'm here to give you a new story, not complain all the time.

RIGHT! -does female version of the Good Guy pose-

LOLZ!

Anyway...

Explaining the Reason

Sequel to The Reasons of Naras and Medics

"Okay, forehead. Tell me what's on your mind," Ino encouraged, eating some ramen. Sakura hesitated.

"Forehead? Helloooooo? Fore-head-io?? Anyone in there?" Ino prodded Sakura's forehead.

"Pig! Cut. It. Out!!!!" Sakura snapped.

"Well, than, are you going to tell me what's going on behind that HUUUUUGE forehead of yours?"

"Jeez, Ino, all I wanted to tell you was that Shikamaru and I are going out, and you turn it into the hardest thing to do on the planet!" Sakura snapped.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAT?" Ino screeched.

Sakura blinked. "Oh. Heh heh heh…Um…"

"Did I HEAR YOU RIGHT? YOU AND SHIKAMARU NARA? MY LAZY-ASS TEAMMATE?" Ino yelled unbelievingly.

Shikamaru chose that moment to walk in.

"SHIKA!" Sakura waved at him.

Shikamaru blinked, saw Ino, muttered, 'Troublesome," and then went to join the two.

"I can NOT believe you hooked up with my best friend, Nara!" Ino glared at one of her male teammates. "Just don't hurt her!"

"Pssht. Troublesome," he muttered as he took a seat next to Sakura.

Sakura rolled her eyes at her best friend. "Done spazzing yet, Ino?"

Ino turned her glare towards her best friend. "I AM NOT spazzing, Sakura!"

"Yes you are!"

"No, I'M NOT!"

Shikamaru stared at the two arguing females. Troublesome.

"Yes, YOU ARE!"

"NO, I'M NOT!"

"YES, YOU ARE!"

"NO I'M NOT!"

"YES YOU-"

"Troublesome."

The two glared at Shikamaru, who stared lazily back.

Sakura was the first to recover. "Right. Whatever. I'm done here." She paid for her ramen, got up, kissed Shikamaru, and left, not expecting him to follow her.

But he did.

"Troublesome," He muttered as he caught up to her. She smiled at him, and grabbed his hand.

"Sorry."

"What for?"

"…"

Shikamaru eyed his pink-haired girlfriend, who was biting her lip nervously.

"Sakura."

"Mmm?"

Shikamaru rolled his eyes. "Troublesome."

She opened her lips, closed them, then re-opened them. "That didn't go as well as I'd thought it would."

"You tried."

She sighed, turning her head toward the sunset.

Shikamaru watched as her hair began to blow back.

"I'm half-surprised they haven't tried to kill you already," Sakura said after twenty minutes of silence.

"Hmm?"

"My teammate."

"Oh…yes. They have."

"WHAAAAAAAAT???????????????????????"

Shikamaru winced. "Ow. My eardrums!"

"Sorry…" Sakura hugged him.

"Troublesome…"

Sakura smiled, grabbed his hand, and started running with him in tow.

"…Sakura…? Where are we…GOING?"

"I…DON'T KNOW!"

Shikamaru stared at his girlfriend.

Oh well. Troublesome as it is, it's nice to spend some time with her…

Hee hee hee...I don't think the ending is as good as the others...but...er...well, tell me what cha thinkin!

...I cannot believe I just said that.

IGNORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

pleaSE REVIeW

BYe...

MaybelleDragon