Hello everybody my name is Trevyler and welcome to a Naruto short series. This'll be maybe five-seven chapters at most unless I can keep coming up with new ideas. Now this is a pairing I haven't seen all that often that I really like. I'll say this before I tell you though. I don't like the ending, the pairings or any of the kids really. It just feels weird and the kids are bad for the most part. I'll keep ShikaTema for this since they're key to part of the pairing despite preferring ShikaIno. So this is a MiraDai fic. If you're not familiar that is Mirai x Shikadai. I thought about this recently and decided I liked it so I'm going to write some stories for it. I don't know how much the age gap is between them so they'll be 3 years apart. I hope you this enjoy everyone.

CHAPTER 1:A THOUGHT

Mirai Sarutobi was the daughter of Asuma and Kurenai Sarutobi. Her father had died before she was born so she'd never met him. That didn't mean she was alone though. She had her cousin Konohamaru along with both teams of her parents. Shikamaru had particularly been present out of teams 8 and 10.

He'd visit Asuma's grave with her and tell her stories and play with her. As she got older she regarded him as her older brother and admired him greatly alongside her mother.

They were her two most important people. That is until Shikamaru had a son. Then a new person was added to that list but for an entirely different reason.

Shikadai was almost a carbon copy of his dad like his father before him.

From the day he was born, Mirai had been a near constant companion. They'd play, they'd come over to each other's houses and were close friends.

As they got older, things changed. The Nara curse of laziness set it on Shikadai. Of course that didn't mean they didn't hang out, it just wasn't as energetic. They played Shogi, which Mirai was surprised to find the younger boy could best her at. Shikamaru had done the same thing to her for years. Of course he did the same thing to her dad apparently and his own father always beat him.

Mirai was thirteen and Shikadai was ten when they first decided to play it together.

Shikadai looked to her, "Hey Mirai. Will you play Shogi with me?" he asked.

She smiled at him, "Sure. Why the sudden interest?" she returned.

He scratched the back of his head, "Dad showed me it. I tried playing against him but he kept beating me. So I wanna try against someone else." he answered.

The two sat across from each other trying to decide their move. Mirai was winning for the first couple minutes, then Shikadai started taking her pieces like crazy.

The game was over pretty quickly, leaving a happy Shikadai and an irritated Mirai.

She looked down at the board, "Like father, like son." she mumbled.

Then she grinned, "Let's try this again." she challenged.

He nodded in return and they played another game. This turned into several rematches that all ended in the young Nara's victory. Along the way, Mirai stopped really being mad. She chose instead to be encouraging to her friend.

She had to admit that she enjoyed watching his expressions change as he made each move and his smirk that grew every time his strategy was successful. There was something oddly cute about it. She had no doubt he'd be a good looking young man one day.

She stopped her thoughts, 'Did I just think about little Shikadai that way?" she asked herself in her head.

Shikadai noticed that she wasn't really paying attention, "Do you wanna stop?" he asked.

She blushed, "Uh...yeah! Let's go get something to eat." she suggested.

He looked confused, "Um...okay." he agreed.

She just happily went along after that trying to forget that she'd thought of someone who was basically her brother in such a way.

That's chapter 1. Aren't gonna be long as they're meant to be short stories. So usually 1000 words or less for the most part unless I get a really good idea that needs more. I've seen some Tumblr and Facebook pages with this couple, but only like two stories on this site that mention it. So I thought I'd add something. I like this pairing and I hope it gets more popular than it is because it's a rather good one despite half of it being the product of a pairing I'm not really into. If you have any suggestions for scenarios I'll be glad to here them. Just make sure they don't exceed T rating. I don't do M rating unless it's for language and violence occasionally. Have a great night everyone and I'll see you next time.

~Trevyler