Shadows & Cherry Blossoms
DG32173
Sarah: here's my first ever fanfic that only has one-shots as chapters. I hope you enjoy. I'll be adding onto it whenever I get an idea for a one-shot; there's only one condition: they have to be Shika/Saku pairings. It doesn't matter if its romance, humor, angst, drama, etc; so long as it's Shika/Saku. I do hope you enjoy.
DISCLAIMER: I don't even own one of the manga books; I read the manga on the internet. So, obviously, I don't own the Naruto series.
Watching
Ten-year-old Nara Shikamaru is currently laying out in a field near the academy, watching the clouds go by. Suddenly, he senses someone watching him. He sits up and looks around, but finds no one nearby. The nearest people are his fellow academy students, but they are about ten meters away and not even looking his way. He frowns and lays back down. But he can't shake the feeling that someone's watching him. And he hates being watched by some random person. But, for the past several weeks, he has sensed someone watching him at the academy
Behind a tree nearby
Ten-year-old Haruno Sakura holds her breath, praying that he hadn't seen her. She peeks around the tree to see he's laying back down, and lets out a soft sigh of relief. Sure, everyone thinks she's madly in love with Uchiha Sasuke. But she only pretends that to be cool; she doesn't want people to start teasing her again. Really, she thinks the Uchiha is a jerk and always wonders why anyone likes him.
She is actually interested in another boy in the class, a lazy boy who never does his work. She knows he's smart, very smart. On the few times that they had to team up to do worksheets Iruka-sensei gives them, she had always been paired with him: Nara Shikamaru. And those worksheets are always a lot harder than the ones they're given to do by themselves. She often has trouble with them, but he can easily answer them. And they always got top marks on those worksheets.
When she had asked him why, if he's so smart, are his grades just slightly higher than Naruto, he said that it's "too troublesome" to do the work and that he prefers sleeping instead. She found his saying kinda cute. But he thinks everything except sleeping and watching clouds is "too troublesome". Sometimes, she wonders if talking to her is "too troublesome." But she never dares to ask, afraid of his answer.
Suddenly, he sits up again and looks around. She quickly ducks behind the tree and holds her breath. She doesn't want him to catch her watching him. She doesn't want him to find out that she actually likes him, not "Sasuke-kun". And she refuses to tell anyone that, even her parents. Before she can check to see if he's laying down again, the bell signaling the end of lunch break rings and she darts up to join the other kids heading into the academy to go back to class.
Sarah: very cute, right? Oh, and don't expect before or after notes on all the chapters. Many of them will be just the disclaimer and the story. Bye!