Sweet Scenes Buster
Scene 2
While lying on the ground, his body cradled by the short blades of grass, Shikamaru, with his hands outstretched above his head, spreads a clean folded handkerchief.
Staring at the sun through the hanky's thin, now unfolded width, he murmurs, "Tch," to himself, wondering why he found the small piece of garment inside his pocket.
Naruto arrives and announces it with a loud blow of his nose, using his orange and pale pink handkerchief. Done wiping his nose, he hollers belatedly, "Oi!"
Shikamaru gives Naruto an uninterested glance before returning his attention back to his own plain dark blue handkerchief. No, he doesn't have a cold so he has no reason to carry it on his pocket but he's sweating, not profusely but enough to feel the liquid trickling from his temple to the ground. Shikamaru folded back the piece of blue cloth, and wipes the moisture off from his forehead.
Hinata who had noticed the blonde nin together with the dark haired one, decides to climb the hill herself. Panting not a bit, Hinata asks, stuttering, "Anou—can I stay with you guys for a while?"
Shikamaru quickly sits straight in deference to Hinata's presence; arranging his shirt that has bunched up on his torso. "Sure," Shikamaru answers simply while Naruto just stares dumbfound at Hinata.
"Um, you okay?" finally Naruto finds his tongue.
Which made Hinata burst into tears, it is known around the village that the young woman has just lost her pet, a unique animal that is a mixed breed of fox and dog that she had for six years.
Hinata uses the heels of her hands to wipe her tears away; knowing that even Naruto cared enough about her feelings to asks, makes her cry even harder.
"Anou-sa, anou-sa." Naruto swivels his panicky eyes from Hinata to Shikamaru, who just shrugs his shoulders, to the handkerchief in Shikamaru's hand.
Sensing Naruto's meaning, Shikamaru spells out, "I already used it."
"But mine's—" Naruto says sheepishly as he scratches his head, "—is already you know."
Shikamaru stands up and approaches Hinata, offering the handkerchief to her after he has refolded it in such a way that the soiled part is hidden when suddenly a kunai breezes through, piercing the handkerchief and pinning it to the trunk of a nearby tree.
"Whatda hell!" Shikamaru swears in surprise, his hand nicked by the flying kunai.
"That's disgusting!" Temari subsequently yells at Shikamaru before approaching the crying girl, pulling a clean piece of cloth she uses for emergency tourniquet from her own pocket. "Here," she addresses the younger kunoichi.
"Thank you, Temari-san," Hinata replies as she accepts the thin, elongated piece of white cloth, carefully dabbing her eyes with it. "It was terrible. Kiruto—my dog—died suddenly. Kiba told me it was because…" Hinata hiccups as she wipes the fresh tears away, "….because the fox in his blood rejects the other part of him and it slowly, slowly…" Hinata continues to cry, the words becoming garbled.
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Shikamaru, on his way home, both his hands inside his pants' pockets but one hand fingers the torn handkerchief lodged inside. He's still puzzling about the tiny square's presence; it doesn't seem to have any particular use. The wound from the kunai is insignificant, no need to bandage his fingers with it like a sissy.
When suddenly, someone shouts behind him, calling him, "Ass!"
Shikamaru sighs, pivots around and then has a very quick but clear view of two perfect breasts and more.
"You like it, lazy?" The blonde woman smirks as she hastily re-ties her obi.
Shikamaru finally figures out why someone armed him with a once was clean but now torn hanky as he wipes his bloody nose. Damn, troublesome woman.
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Scene 2 Title: The 'Clean' Hanky
~01/07/12AF~
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A/N: With just two scenes, I hope somebody out there figured my theme. Hey, if you do, I don't mind if you suggest some. Thanks. Oh and review.