Author's Note: Hey readers! Okay, I'm going to attempt a multichapter story, it's my first try at one of these. So bear with me if it's no good. Hopefully, I'll get better. And I apologize beforehand for any out of character people. I'm going to try not to use any Other Characters, but I can't promise anything! Okay, enough of me talking, on with the story!

Disclaimer: Okay, one more thing, I don't own Naruto or any of it's characters.

The Matchmakers

By: Cee Head

Part One: Matchmaking

A beautiful blonde haired girl of about twenty years and her friend, and equally pretty girl with a head of a strange pink colour cast an approving glance at the crowd of men gawking at them.

"Follow me and I shall find ladies fit for you all whom are all as beautiful as us!" She declared.

The men nodded soundlessly, too entranced by her looks to care about the sounds coming out of her mouth. The pink haired girl rolled her eyes; she was too used to this type of behaviour. She nudged the blonde haired girl, "Ino, I think this is enough men. Honestly! We've only got half the amount of ladies! Your promises are leading the men to envision women out of their league!"

The one known as Ino laughed, "You're so uptight Sakura! Loosen up a little bit, and have some fun. Maybe one day you'll find someone just like you and you'll fall hopelessly in love. I think only then will you learn to have fun."

Sakura punched her friend playfully. She thought back, Ino became so reckless after meeting that guy, his name was…Sai? I'm not sure, but I am sure she's not the same Yamanaka Ino I knew before. Yet I wish I had the guts to say some of the things Ino dares to say. And I also wish that I could find a guy that I would actually enjoy going out with. The guys Ino set me up with–namely Sai's friends were the most distasteful…

About fifty metres away from the two ladies was a man with long hair tied up in a pony tail– that looked strangely like a pineapple– looked at the two girls in disgust. In his opinion, matchmakers were supposed to find the most fitting personalities and match them up, and not finding the nicest looking lady for a man.

In fact, Nara Shikamaru was entirely tired of the term love, it was all the fault of that sandy haired beauty from the land of wind. He actually thought her loved Temari, his now ex-girlfriend, but she'd gone as soon as she heard about his financial problem. She didn't even say it to his face! Temari had actually written him a note to break up with him and informing him that she was going to live with her brother.

Shikamaru sighed loudly again, and then turned his head to look at the ladies. They were now leading the men into a large house, labeled with a huge sign as Matchmaking. The more he thought about it, the more he realized that he could try his hand at matchmaking. Because he literally had nothing else to lose. As a lazy teenager, he had gambled away most of his inheritance because he didn't want to work.

Then, at an impulse Shikamaru strode confidently into the house and approached the desk that the girls were sitting at. As he eyed the two girls, the pink haired girl gave him a welcoming smile and began her welcoming speech when the other girl interrupted.

"Hi there! I'm Haruno Sakura and–"

"Nara Shikamaru?" The blonde haired girl asked incredulously, "Oh, it is you, it's been a while hasn't it? I heard what happened to you, I can't blame your old man, your inheritance!"

Shikamaru took a second to place who that that girl was, and how did she know so much about his history?

And then he remembered. "Yamanaka Ino! You're that terribly troublesome girl from my childhood. That one that always yelled at me."

Ino rolled her eyes, "Well, you'd better get out of here because my father said that since you were no longer part of the Nara family, we should stay away from you as not to get the Nara clan angry."

Shikamaru sighed, It's so troublesome having to explain this to this troublesome woman of my past.

Ino tapped her foot impatiently, "Well? Are you leaving? Or do you have something else to say?"

"As a matter of fact, I do. What I was going to say is; you're going it all wrong. People are supposed to be put together by their personalities and not their looks."

Ino scoffed, "Does it really matter to you? I mean, it's not like you have a job anyways."

Shikamaru smiled a secretive smile, "Actually I do have a job. And you're gonna have some competition. I'm trying my hand at Matchmaking."

For the first time since he entered the introduciton, the pink haired girl made a sound, actually she made a loud gasp, which made everyone look at her.

"Ino, I think he should leave, he may steal our techniques."

Shikamaru laughed, and then walked out of the house. Not looking back once, because he was too busy planning out his chain of action.

"Ino?" Sakura asked casually, "Who's he? How come you never mentioned any guy from you past that was good looking!"

Ino looked at her disbelievingly, "Shikamaru was one of my dad's friend's kid. He was always really lazy, I didn't seem to need to introduce him."

But Sakura secretly thought that Ino and that Shikamaru guy would seem a much smarter match than her current boyfriend, Sai.

And that's the first chapter! I would love some reviews! Constructive criticism is appreciated.

Until next chapter

Cee