disclaimer: not mine, hurr durr.
dedication: to vintage bookstores & lounging around with a cup of coffee.
note: i really love tuesdays.
note1: i know it's summer & all, but i still sleep with the blanket on because i'm afraid a monster will come to chew off my feet. seriously.
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Tenten, Shikamaru muses, is a breath of fresh air.
She provides interesting topics to talk about when they are lying on their backs in the meadow, away from nosy friends and honking cars. Shikamaru finds that every day they have something intriguing to discuss and notices that they have never repeated a subject.
She does not wear makeup. Not like Ino, or Sakura, or even Temari. Her face is free of the paint that so many women find these days to be vital to life. And she is beautiful.
Her intelligence is very high. She is quite the challenge when they play chess and on rare occasions, she wins.
[Shikamaru likes to think he lets her win.
Deep down, he knows it's because he is distracted by the way she bites her lip when she's thinking really hard, or the way her eyebrows furrow when she's stumped.]
She does not yell at him—not over his habit of smoking when he is upset, not when he shows up late, not when he pretends to sleep just so he can get out of doing something. She is patient and understanding, and when he thinks of her being so caring, he almost wants to stop being such a lazy asshole and do something productive.
Almost.
And he knows that no matter how many times he tells himself he doesn't, he truly does like her. He likes her smile, her cheerful brown eyes, the way she's patient and pretty and smart and imperfect but that's what makes her beautiful…
…and then he remembers how pissed Hyuuga Neji would be if he ever found out that he liked Tenten.
"Troublesome."
…
footnote: shikamaru / tenten is cute.
footnote1: shikamaru's ass is so dead if neji finds out. r&r?