I can't sleep, school has been kicking my ass with finals and projects. I sit on my desk looking out the window. It's late November and the nights have grown colder.

"So troublesome."

I snicker as I recall my classmate murmur those same words when ever he was called upon. He's an ok guy, pretty smart if you ask me but his laziness is a tad bit of a problem but not as serious as mine.

"You should really stop doing that."

I look up at him, the look of concern clear on his face.

"Why not?"

He took my blunt and threw it away.

"You'll thank me later."

I light up a blunt and take a good hit. It is too late for me, my life is spiraling downwards. I am failing school, I have no job. My family… is not of an importance. I have no one that would give me some sort of support. I keep to myself rarely having human contact except for Shikamaru who would talk to me and his friends who exchanged a few words with me when Shikamaru was with me. We didn't hang out or anything, I didn't seek him out because of his dislike of my habit. He always sought me out. I took another hit, I could feel the back of my neck and the sides of my skull tingle. It was becoming numb and my eyelids felt heavy. Thank god I didn't have school for the next four days.

"Didn't I tell you to stop smoking."

I lazily look towards the direction of the voice, I live on the second floor. There is a tree right by my window so I immediately found him. Sitting in a tree branch closets to my window I lazily smiled at him taking another hit. He got up and jumped through my window entering my one bedroom apartment.

"I don't remember inviting you in."

Taking in a deep breath I held in the substance until it burned my insides. Shikamaru slapped the joint from my hands.

"That's not nice."

"You can't keep doing this to yourself."

"What are you talking about?"

"Failing, not attending class, getting high. Your hurting yourself."

I look at him with half open eyes.

"No one cares, you shouldn't either."

I get up and walk past him towards my door.

"Where are you going?"

"Going for a walk since I can't have privacy in my own home."

I turn to leave but find myself unable to move.

"Please release me."

My body starts to move on its own towards the bed.

"I can't let you wonder out there in the state your in."

I sigh as my body is laid on the bed, he covers me with the bed sheets. He closes my window and sits on a chair by my bed.

"What are you doing?"

"I'm going to stay here until you go to sleep."

I was still unable to move, if my calculations are correct he can only keep this up for a few minutes. I was feeling sleepy so I decided to play along, I grunted and mumbled a few inappropriate words and slowly closed my eyes letting my body relax. I could feel myself going into a deep sleep but I stopped myself, I was in the middle of consciousness and sleep. I heard him stand and walk over to me, his warm hand made contact with my cheek. The warmth and comfort his hand provided made me snuggle closer to it, his jutsu released me, his hand never leaving my cheek. Suddenly I felt his lips on mine but it didn't last, he withdrew and I barely heard his 'goodnight'. I waited until I couldn't feel his chakra signature anymore, I lazily got up and walked out the door into the cold dark night.