Rain drops in Konoha

Anime: Naruto

Pairings: Shikamaru X Naruto and Shino X Kiba

Genre: Romance… so far

Warnings: Yaoi (Shonen-ai maleXmale) and OOC-ness

Personal thoughts: Ugh… I didn't really want to put this up on Fanfiction because it isn't exactly good, I haven't read any of the magnas and so I have to rely on my Television. I'm only on episode 80 or somewhere around there. Plus there's no episodes that I know where to download so I can skip ahead… I would try youtube but it isn't too reliable, I've already tried to find a few episodes and it proved to not be successful. Not to mention this is like my first time trying to write a fan fic about Naruto characters. So everyone must be ready to fear the OOC-ness! Too bad this was the best way to have it as a surprise for my cousin, (I know you don't check on Fanfiction a lot) so yeah. I'm not expecting any comments on this, nor do I want them. I might continue this on here… but not likely. I'll probably only send this to my cousin instead of having it open to everyone. After all this is only up because it's suppose to be a surprise.

Anyways, if you want to read it, try to enjoy it.

Or you can bash it if you swing that way.

PS

"Talking"

'Thinking'

Chapter one

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Naruto was never one for thunderstorms, why? Because it was dark so he couldn't see well enough to do anything, most often he didn't have power during these storms; he was all alone in a crowded area, and he couldn't train! Naruto sighed staring out the window, maybe a walk would be nice but he didn't have an umbrella. The only reason he contemplated going out for a walk was because this storm had been going on for two days. Naruto sighed as he walked outside, he didn't mind if his hair got wet, it was better than being cold by taking off his jacket to cover his head.

Naruto walked outside and stared at the many puddles which were starting to flood Konoha, he missed hanging out with his team, Kakashi, Sasuke, and especially Sakura. He had a crush on Sakura but the problem was she ignored him for the jerk Sasuke. No one would probably be out on a day like this but him. He wondered along with the thumping raindrops and the loud crashes of thunder. Naruto walked to an empty field and stared up at the sky.

"You know it's pretty dumb to be in the middle of an open field during a thunderstorm."

Naruto jumped at the sound of someone's voice, he had grown accustomed to the loud thunder not a quiet and emotionless tone. Naruto turned around and smiled at his friend, Shikamaru, who was out with an umbrella.

"Hey Shikamaru, why are you out?" Shikamaru sighed.

"My parents left recently so I thought a walk could help me think of something to do… Now are you going to come over here?"

"Oh right!"

Naruto ran down the hill towards Shikamaru, who just rolled his eyes and replied with a "How troublesome."

Naruto went beside him but not under the umbrella, as Shikamaru scotched over so both of them were under. "You don't want to catch a cold now do you?"

Naruto just scratched the back of his head "Right."

"Sigh… so why are you out?"

"Nothing to do… hey want to hang out at your house…"

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at the question "Your such a pain, go find someone else to bug."

Naruto pouted "Come on Shikamaru!"

Shikamaru began to walk and Naruto smiled happy, obviously thinking Shikamaru was being too much of his lazy self to argue with him.

"I'm taking you to Sakura's house, she'll take care of you."

Shikamaru looked up at the sky as the walked. 'It's raining even heavier?'

He could hear the raindrops starting to pound the umbrella really hard that it seemed like it was getting hit by bullets. Shikamaru scotched over a bit more to keep Naruto from going outside the umbrella because those rain drops looked like they could hurt. Naruto sighed, which brought Shikamaru's attention to him.

"I don't want to go to Sakura's house…"

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow and sighed "Where do you want to go then?"

"Your house." Naruto smiled again and Shikamaru just scratched the back of his neck rather annoyed.

"Oh come on! How come I can't come over?"

"I don't want to hang out with you for the whole day, you're too troublesome."

"Aww, but Shikamaru everything is troublesome to you!"

"Well… even if we were to go to my house what would we even do?"

"Ermm… hmm… oh! You can teach me to play that game you like… ermm… Shogi!"

"It'd be too much of a pain to teach you."

Shikamaru sighed as Naruto continued on with his protests about wanting to hang with him and that he was a fast learner. Shikamaru sighed as the raindrops fell faster as a pool of water was starting to develop… was it going to flood? Shikamaru stopped walking and looked back at two running figures coming towards them in a hurry. Shikamaru could tell who one was by the quiet yapping of a dog named Akamaru. Akamaru was probably not happy about getting wet, but who was with Kiba? It was not a feminine build so it had to be Shino, but what were the two of them doing out in the rain? It wasn't hard to hear them coming since the floor around them seemed to have a pool of water. Naruto looked over at what Shikamaru was staring at.

"Oi!" Kiba called out and waved.

Shikamaru waited for the two and extending his umbrella a bit, taking in the hidden message that Kiba had sent when he said hi. Thankfully this umbrella was quite large, well unlucky for him because he had to actually carry it around. Kiba and Shino had came over and went under the umbrella and Kiba smiled thankfully at Shikamaru.

"Thanks man, the raindrops were sure hitting hard."

Naruto blinked at the two of them. "What are you guys doing out?"

Kiba just grinned. "We had training today!"

Naruto just pouted. "No fair, Kakashi sensei said ours was cancelled because of the rain, it probably had something to do with his damn book."

Kiba just shook his head. "Well we're not too lucky because Kurenai sent us home because we might be expecting a flood. Hinata was at home with the cold, you know, the whole storm thing. And well Kurenai told me and Shino to stay at my house because of the storm; she told us that she'd inform Shino's parents that Shino was staying at my house because it's way closer."

Kiba than looked at the two. "What are you two doing out together?"

Naruto sighed. "We both didn't have anything to do."

Kiba just laughed at the two as he looked at Shino "Mind having a little more company?"

Shino just gave him a silent look that Kiba understood, and Shikamaru just raised an eyebrow, he didn't agree to this 'What a drag…'

Kiba grinned at the two. "So feel like coming over to my house? It's way closer than both your houses and with the storm-"

"No thanks." Replied Shikamaru "I can make it home by myself, I actually have an umbrella."

Naruto walked around Shikamaru as he linked with his free arm "We'll be glad to come over Kiba!"

Naruto said smiling and Shikamaru sent a slight glare at him, but found it too troublesome to keep up and too much of a pain to try and get his arm free.

'Why do I have the feeling I'm going to regret this?'

--- At Kiba's house ---

"Hey mom, sis?"

Kiba glanced around as he slid off his sandals, everyone mimicking Kiba. Shikamaru had already folded his umbrella and it was resting at the side. Kiba walked into his house as he picked a note off the fridge.

"Hmm?" Kiba examined the note over.

"Looks like it's just us guys, mom and Hana went out to go deal with this whole down pour thing." Kiba said waving the note, almost as if they could read it while he waved it. Shino glanced around his house and so did the other two boys. Kiba came back and let Akamaru down before removing his hood. Naruto removed his jacket to only wearing his plain black t-shirt as he tied his jacket around his waist. Kiba just scratched the back of his head, he wasn't used to people coming over to his house.

"So what do you guys want to do?"

Naruto beamed as he suggested a bunch of games, and Shino and Shikamaru just got dragged into the games Naruto and Kiba set up.

After a few games, they where finally playing a new one which turned out to be slower than the others. Shino looked out the window rather bored of the game. It had been hours and it was late, it was rather hard to tell because of the already dark sky. Kiba and Shino had been out early training, and went to his house around ten-ish. Now it was six o'clock P.M.

'The rains not going to let up anytime soon… and the floor is covered with water… I hope this house is sturdy.'

Shino turned his head back to the game. Kiba sat beside Shino and across from Naruto. While Shino sat across from Shikamaru, they where gathered around a small coffee table. Naruto was happy about the game they were playing, it had been going on for a while, each person daring another person to do something or making them admit something embarrassing, which happened when they chose truth instead of dare. Shikamaru had switched to dare after he revealed something he wasn't happy about. The others didn't know much about him so it was easy to ask him questions he didn't want to answer. But Shikamaru hated this game and hated it even more when Kiba got a sick, twisted, and evil grin on his face.

"Shikamaru? Truth? Or Dare?"

Shikamaru yawned rather bored "Dare…"

He said emotionless, Kiba's and Naruto's were normally something childish like stuffing ten cookies in your mouth at once. But Shikamaru had to admit that was funny when Kiba dared Shino to do that. Shino got him back by daring him to kiss Akamaru on the lips.

"I dare you to kiss Naruto, lips."

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow, obviously Kiba wasn't the only one who wanted to have to kiss something/someone. Naruto was blushing, Shikamaru sighed, not really affected as he began to lean over and Naruto blushed tremendously.

"H-Hey I didn't agree to this!"

Shikamaru ignored Naruto's complaints and slid his lips onto Naruto's to silence his wails, lingering there for a moment to make sure the boy would be quiet.

'Hmm… Naruto's doesn't taste that bad.'

Kiba was laughing at Naruto's reaction and ended up, once Naruto's turn, daring Kiba to kiss Shikamaru. Shikamaru began to wonder how he got dragged into this kissing game? Him of all people. Kiba glared at Naruto and then leaned across the table and slightly kissed Shikamaru's lips. Shikamaru didn't react, there was still the same small blush but it was pointless to react, the guys were just being weird, although he was the only one who hadn't dared anyone to kiss someone/thing. But he didn't feel like it, too troublesome, he'd have to think of who'd they would have to kiss… although Shino had not been forced to kiss anyone yet… But Naruto or Kiba, he'd be nice to Kiba, why? Because Kiba had already had to kiss Akamaru and himself. Naruto was the only one who hadn't been kissed twice, besides Shino, who hadn't been kissed at all.

When Shikamaru dared Shino to do it, people would have thought that Shikamaru was used to this sort of thing with how cool-ly he acted about it. But he wasn't, sure it was embarrassing, but he probably didn't react because it wasn't real. There was no point in freaking over something when he knew his friends were not gay that would be too troublesome. Naruto liked Sakura; Kiba liked Hinata, and Shino? Well… he didn't know about Shino but he didn't seem like the kind. Too bad Shikamaru forgot to calculate that they could be bi.

Plus he didn't freak out because Naruto hadn't kissed him and Kiba was willing to kiss Akamaru, he'd be willing to kiss a guy too. Shino was not pleased about being dared to kiss Naruto and his kiss was barely able to be called a kiss just based on how light and fast it was. Kiba was amused at Shino, who was rather distant but he was also very happy because he had actually agreed Shino to go along with this. Not to mention he was still going along with this. Kiba smirked as he managed to get Shino to do another dare.

"I dare you to remove your shades."

Shino's eyebrows narrowed as he closed his eyes and removed his shades before finally opening his eyes to his teammate and his teammate's friends. Kiba couldn't help but stare in amazement at Shino's beautiful brown eyes. Shikamaru just watched for a bit before turning his attention back to the wall, while Naruto was in awe with Kiba. Naruto just looked away nervously afraid to be caught with the thought that lingered in his head.

'I sure didn't think those would be Shino's eyes… I thought they would be monstrous or bug eyes, just something creepy, not… like those.'

Shikamaru smirked at Naruto's reaction, he was good at reading Naruto, so he knew exactly what Naruto was thinking, but Shikamaru shifted his attention back to Kiba and Shino when Shino finally spoke.

Before that Kiba was stuck staring at Shino's beautiful eyes, they looked like they belonged to an extremely handsome guy. You know, muscular, blond hair, that sort of guy, not a guy like Shino. It was just sort of weird to see Shino with those sort of eyes because he looked sort of… hot. Kiba couldn't help but blush and Shino felt disapproved from the people around him and insecurely tucked his head slightly into his collar. He was blushing but because his eyes were the part just barely peeking from his collar, you couldn't see it.

"What?"

Kiba blushed more because he realized he had been staring rather intensely into Shino's eyes.

"No-nothing!"

Kiba said stammering and shaking his hands rapidly, trying to prove that there was nothing wrong. Shino made a move for his shades, not feeling comfortable at all.

Kiba stopped his hand.

"No!"

Kiba blushed brighter when he realized he yelled that, and that he was holding Shino's hand. Everyone stared at Kiba for a response as he let go of Shino's hand, that stayed there waiting for an answer before it would try to reach for his shades again.

"You just… look good without them."

Shino moved quickly and grabbed his shades and put them on before having Kiba comment anymore on how good he looked without his shades. Shino stood up after a few more rounds of truth and dare. He asked to be excused for the next while as he walked off to the back of Kiba's house, most likely to be alone. Kiba just sighed… it wasn't the same there without Shino.

"I'll see if I can bring him back, you two think of a new game."

Kiba got up and went to go talk to Shino as Shikamaru lay across the floor as Naruto crawled over to him.

"So what do you want to do?"

Shikamaru just let out a shrug.

"You think of something."

"But me and Kiba have thought of everything, you think of something."

Shikamaru sighed as he began to ponder, what could they do now… but was pulled out of his thoughts as Akamaru ran over and began lapping at his face.

"Aka-Akamaru!"

Shikamaru said pushing the dog slightly and sitting up so he couldn't reach his face.

"Where's Kiba?" Naruto asked.

Akamaru just yapped as he took off heading towards the back door. Naruto got up to follow, walked for a bit, then walked back, grabbed Shikamaru's arm and dragged him along. Akamaru went to the back and sat at the door as he pawed at it, wanting to be let out.

Naruto just laughed "Sorry Akamaru, but Kiba has to be the one to let you outside."

That's when Shikamaru tugged Naruto's shirt slightly and pointed to the floor, which had water, where did this water come from? It must have came from outside, which meant that Shino and Kiba was outside, in the rain, without an umbrella. Naruto looked at Shikamaru.

"Think we should go after them?"

"Why bother?"

"Sigh… fine I'll go alone."

Naruto walked off without waiting for a response and quickly untied his jacket and put it over his head, he slipped on his sandals and headed out the door. Shikamaru sighed…

'He forgot my umbrella the baka.'

Shikamaru grabbed it and then looked at Akamaru.

"Sigh… you want to come too?"

"Yap! Yap!"

Shikamaru rolled his eyes and walked outside, extended the umbrella before picking up the dog to go chase after Naruto.

"Hey! Naruto!"

He called that out as soon as he got sight of the boy ahead of him. Naruto turned around to look at Shikamaru and stood there to wait for him. Once Shikamaru was beside him, he put back on his jacket and asked Shikamaru a question.

"What are you doing here?"

"You left without my umbrella baka."

"Oh… that would have been smart… why… do you have Akamaru?"

"He's worried about Kiba and he might be able to find a faint scent, even in this hard rain."

Naruto nodded as he looked at Akamaru for the way to go. Akamaru just pointed his head in a direction and barked, he would have preferred to have ran instead of being held. But Akamaru didn't want to get wet and the water level had reached a new height which could prove difficulty to him. Akamaru barked rapidly as if telling them to hurry and Shikamaru blinked at Akamaru, why was he in such a rush? Shikamaru walked in his slow pace as Akamaru struggled and slipped out of his hands. Water sprayed up as the little dog started swimming through the deep water. Shikamaru wasn't happy about getting his pants wet and sighed.

"What a drag..."

Naruto than ran out of the umbrella to chase after Akamaru since Shikamaru seemed too lazy to follow. Shikamaru sighed as he chased after Naruto, he didn't come out after him just to be left behind. Shikamaru caught up to run beside Naruto, who had picked Akamaru up and was running to where he was telling him to go. Shikamaru noticed the path was leading to Shino's house just until a little while ago, did Shino decide to go home?

The only explanation to this might be that Shino wanted to ditch Kiba, but that couldn't be it. Shino wouldn't go to this level to avoid Kiba. Akamaru barked more quickly indicating that they were close to their destination. As they took the next corner the scene caused both of them to stop dead in their tracks. What was going on here? Akamaru leapt from Naruto's hands and went to attack the guy that currently had a hold of Kiba, as if he was a stranger.

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Personal thoughts:Or maybe Akamaru is just being overprotective of Kiba?

(Baka means idiot)

Anyways enjoy, don't review if you don't want to… I really don't care.

Happy Birthday X-Words-That-Turn-To-Scars-X this is for you! I hope you liked it… it was suppose to be a fluffy oneshot but I decided to turn it into a story, I thought you'd like that better. I hope it isn't too short either. I was going to draw you something but as soon as I decided I would, I just couldn't force myself to draw -- so I hope this makes up for it. Right, sorry the signs for ShinoKiba are bigger than the ShikaNaru ones, but they are there.

Happy Birthday!