wh00! I'm on a roll! Chapter two up already! I am good! Enjoy and please send me feedback! I love feed back!

Edit: I fixed the content in this Chapter

Disclaimer: no ... No ... NO!!!! -struggles to hold on to Naruto- but I want him!!!!!!!!!! Why, why can't I have him? Why is fate so cruel?????

"Wow … just, wow." Chouji said dazed. All he could do was blink absentmindedly at the pair in fron of him.

"I know, right?" Ino asked with a slight laugh.

"How did this happen?" Chouji asked, his eyes flicking back and forth from the two.

"Remember that party Naruto threw a while ago?" Shikamaru asked.

"Yeah, it was great." Chouji replied.

"Then, we were both a bit drunk and one thing led to another and the next morning I woke up in Shikamaru's bed. I still haven't found those panties." Ino murmured the last part as she cast a glance to the man sitting next to her.

"Wow, I just can't believe it. How far along do you think you are?" Chouji asked.

Shikamaruperked a bit, he wanted to know that too. How far along was Ino? A few weeks? Probably, if his math was right, which it always was.

"About three weeks." Bingo! Shikamaru silently gloated as he sipped his tea.

"Have you told your parents?" Chouji asked. Ino went pale and Shikamaru choked.

"I'll take that as no. Any ideas on when you're going to?"

"We were planning on going to see Shika's parents after this." Ino said softly. It was obvious the girl didn't want to

"Well, I'm sure it'll go fine. I mean, they love Ino. Yoshino thinks of her as the daughter she never got, right? How bad can it be?"

"You're what?" Yoshino asked. He tone coming across as disbelief.

Shikaku went slightly pale, he knew that once his wife got worked up there was no calming her back down until she saw fit. Ino and Shikamaru just sat on the couch of the Nara Household, both of them with wide eyes turned to Yoshino.

"Have you told your father? He'll be furious! You can't possibly keep it!" Yoshino went on.

"I'm keeping it, and that's final." Ino said sternly. She was getting mad. How dare Yoshino judge them!

"What do you know about raising a baby Ino? Your not even twenty yet! Kami help us!" Yoshino cried. Ino jumped up with hands on her hips, her faced staring to get red. Shikamaru knew that face, and he knew what was coming.

"How can you be so hypocritical when you were seventeen when you had Shikamaru?" She yelled.

"Those were different times, and I was married Ino! I see no ring on your hand." Yoshino shot back as she stood up.

"Have you ever stopped to think that maybe these are different times as well? And the reason there's no ring on my hand is because I don't want to be married! And I'm not going to let you stand here and denounce my unborn child! For heaven's sake Yoshino! This is your future grandchild we're talking about here! Not some stray that I brought home! It's Shika's kid, your grandchild! If I knew you were going to be so cruel then I would have gladly gone to my father first! I'm raising this baby with or with out your help" Ino said before stomping her foot and turning to march out the door. Yoshino didn't fully recover until she heard the door slam.

"Did she just yell at me?" Yoshino was feeling stunned.

"Yes." Was Shikaku's cautious reply.

"Shikamaru, you better take full responsibility for that baby. I swear to Kami, if you don't I will mount your behind on the wall along with the other deer that weren't up to snuff." Yoshino told him before leaving the room. Shikamaru breathed a sigh of relief.

"Don't get too comfortable, I've got some questions for you as well." Shikaku told him.

"Yeah, what old man?" Shikamaru asked.

"Are you going to take care of her?"

"I'm going to try."

"What do you mean try?"

"Ino's very independent, you know that, I'll help if she'll let me, but I can make no guarantees."

"You better do your damndest."

"I'm going to."

"One last thing."

"What's that?"

"Don't let Inoichi kill you when you tell him you knocked up his little girl."

"Troublesome."

"Troublesome indeed."

Ino opened the door to her Father's flower shop slowly. If Yoshino's reaction was anything to go by, then her father was going to go ballistic.

"Hello, how can I help you?" Came Inoichi's voice, expecting a customer. Ino watched as he came from the back room only to pause when he saw her.

"Oh! Ino, it's you." Inoichi said with a smile as she fully stepped inside.

"Hey Tou-san." She said softly. Ino watched as her father's smile turned to a slight frown.

"What's wrong?" Damn, how did he always know when something was wrong? Ino wondered.

"Can we talk?" She asked him. Just then Shikamaru made his way through the door almost crashing into her. Ino jumped forward a bit, giving him some room.

"Hey." He said gruffly.

"Hey, sorry about that." Ino told him, referring to the scene that had unfolded at his parents house.

"It wasn't your fault." He told her quickly as he began to notice Inoichi eyeing the two.

"Alright, what's going on?" Inoichi demanded.

"We need to tell you something." Ino told him nervously.

"What?" Inoichi asked with a glare at Shikamaru who had placed his hand on Ino's shoulder blade.

"Well Yamanaka-san, Ino and I found out some news." Shikamaru began.

"Some pretty amazing news actually." Ino told him with wide eyes.

"What has Tsunade assigned you to now?" Inoichi growled.

"It wasn't Tsunade-sama." Ino said quietly as her gaze dropped to the ground. There was a long pause, filled with awkward shuffling and a few sniffs.

"Ino's pregnant sir." Shikamaru finally spit out. When he finally drug his gaze up and looked at Inoichi he felt that sort of calm you feel when you know you're going to die. Ino looked frightened, and Inoichi looked calm. And this scared Shikamaru more than his mother's wrath.

"Ino, please go into the house." Inoichi said calmly as he pointed to the door that led you from the shop to the Yamanaka residence. Ino stubbornly shook her head, tears starting to sting her eyes. She knew what her father was going to do.

"Ino, go, now." Inoichi told her, his anger rising.

"I won't go and let you hurt Shikamaru, Tou-san! It wasn't his fault!" Ino said boldly.

"Ino, get your skinny ass into the house!" Inoichi roared as he stormed up to the scared couple. That's when Ino did something that made Shika's heart skip. She moved in front of Shikamaru and threw her arms out.

"No!" She told him as the tears started to spill over. The tears made Inoichi stop immediately and straighten up looking worried.

"Ino, baby, don't cry." He said softly, trying to make the tears stop.

"Then don't hurt him!" She sobbed.

"I won't, baby, just please stop crying." Inoichi practically begged.

"Ino, it's alright." Shika whispered softly from behind her. Then he took her into his arms and she turned to start crying on his shoulder.

"It's fine, Ino. We'll work this out." He said as he rubbed her back.

"Okay." She sniffled. Inoichi could only Gawk. The Nara brat had his hands all over his little girl and he could do nothing to stop it.

"What are you going to do?" Inoichi questioned.

"Ino wants to keep it. And I support her decision." The young Nara replied.

"And marriage?" Inoichi asked.

"We haven't discussed it… yet." He added on for good measure. Inoichi nodded.

"I hope you know that, if I ever hear of you hurting my daughter, or my grandchild", he could barely say the word, "That I will kill you."

"Yes, I know." Shikamaru replied cautiously.

"Good, now leave."

"Come on Shika, we need to talk." Ino said as she grabbed his hand and led him through the shop door out into the street. Inoichi felt his heart break as he watched them leave.

"Damnit, I need a drink." He said as he got up and flipped the open sign to closed. Maybe a night with his former teammates would help him wrap his head around this. And maybe alcohol would help him cope with it.