Ok this is my first attempt on actually writing a story so please bear with me. If you have any advise please let me know but if you are going to flame me, please be a little on the gentle side because sometimes I have a tendency to take things the wrong way. I will try to please my readers the best I can so if you have anything that you want me to add to the story for later chapters, let me know and I'll consider your advice. Oh, and by the way… Disclaimer I own nothing Naruto. Now, on to the story. Hope you enjoy.
Chapter 1: Trapped
It was a rather hot morning, and Shikamaru Nara awoke with a start with sweat dripping down his face. Unfortunately, he found out he had been drooling in his sleep and very gracefully (hint the sarcasm), he wiped the spittle with the back of his hand. He then stretched and yawned quite loudly. It was rather unusual for him to wake up so early, despite the heat, on a day off at that.
He had been busy on an important escort mission which almost went wrong since the escort-an elderly man who in Shikamaru's opinion, had lost his wits with his youth-insisted that the route back to his village was a different route than the one they were taking. (The route the elderly man suggested was a way back to his village, but unfortunately, the route he wanted to take would not only take a month longer to travel, due to the rough and rugged environment, but also, it was a well known fact that that route was full of bandits and rouge ninjas waiting to ambush unsuspecting travelers, steal their goods, and kill them afterward.) The mission took about a week and a half due to a few stops along the way for various reasons, and he had just gotten back early in the morning-at about one or two A.M. When he had reached his home, he quietly went inside-his parents had a lock on the door, but never locked it-and climbed the stairs to his room. In his room he undressed to where he wore only his boxer shorts and was sound asleep a few minutes later in his bed.
Nothing really made him wake up. He had no dreams due to the fact that over the course of the ordeal he had roughly 36 hours of sleep over the eleven-day mission. He usually would sleep 88 hours in that amount of days or maybe even more if he had free time and it was too hot to watch the clouds. He looked outside of his window to see how bright it was, and the sun was about half-way up in the sky, so it must have been around noon. It was rather quiet, usually he would hear his mother downstairs causing some commotion-she always had to keep busy and when possible, made her husband, Shikamaru's dad, Shikaku, keep busy as well even though he was just a normal lazy Nara man.
Suddenly, he heard commotion downstairs. He figured his parents must have found out that he had returned and he was pretty certain that his mother was about to awaken him, force him to eat something, and then set him to work in the family forest. At first, Shikamaru minded having to tend to the deer, but soon after Asuma's death, he realized that he needed to take care of those he was in charge of. He finally understood and believed in the "Will of Fire" which was the duty to protect one's village and look at the people in it as family. He guessed the concept must have applied to his family's deer too.
Then, he heard someone coming up the stairs to his room. Figuring his mother was about to either A: drag him out of bed, or B: yell in his ear to wake up, he decided to get dressed. He slowly sat up Indian style, stretched, and yawned loudly once more. It was troublesome to have to work on a day off, but he knew that if he tried arguing with his mother, he'd never hear the end of: "Shikamaru, you are old enough now to know that you have more responsibilities than just being a ninja. For example, if you're not responsible now, how will ever make a good husband and father in the future? Now, get to work! I don't want you to be as lazy as your father. Take after me for once!" This was actually something she would say on a good day. On a bad day, well, he would probably have a few cuts and bruises, if he was lucky, by the time she was done with him. His mother was not mean, she just liked to see work done. He still had not a clue as to why she married a lazy man like his father. The Nara clan men were know for being lazy.
Preparing for the worst, Shikamaru uncovered himself and draped his feet over the bed. Just when he was about to stand up, he heard a familiar female voice outside of the door shout at him. Well, it wasn't really a shout, it was just that her voice was loud enough for him to hear her through his door.
The woman outside of the door said, "Shikamaru, you better be awake you lazy baka! We've got work to do! I'll drag you out if I have to!"
Suddenly, terror and panic flooded through Shikamaru. His door was starting to open as he stood up wearing nothing but his boxer shorts. Worse yet, he knew it wasn't his mother, but an even more troublesome woman outside his door. He prepared hopelessly for the embarrassment of a lifetime. He will never hear the end of this one when she walks in and sees him like this. He was about to become the laughing stock of the village. Oh man, what a pain. Why can't that troublesome woman just knock. Besides, who let her into my family's house anyway. I don't think my parents know her. That's when a sudden realization hit him: the Chuunin Exams were coming up and she was most likely sent by the Kazekage to go to the Hokage, who then sent her to get him to help her plan them. What a pain. He moaned silently to himself. Life was about to get harder for him having to deal with her. With this re-introduction after not seeing her for about seven or eight months, he knew that this will be a bad situation. He had no where to hide and no where to go. He was trapped and forced to face the inevitable embarrassment she will provide him.
Ok that was my first chapter. I figured I'd stop here for Chapter 1 since I am going to need a little time to determine how this story will go. This chapter was not as action-packed as I intended, but the next chapter will be. Just be patient with me please. Like I said before this is the first story I've ever written and posted. I've posted some poetry, but nothing like this. Poetry just pops into my head. For this story, I just have to let it write itself and edit it along the way. Any advice you could give me would be nice and very well appreciated so please review. I will try to make this a ShikaXTem as the story progresses and I'll try to throw in some other pairings too, so if there is a pairing you'd like to see, just let me know and I'll think about adding it. I'll try to update with chapter 2 either later on in the week or early next week depending on how much time I have.
