You're sitting in the courtyard of the Nara main house, playing Shougi with Shikamaru. Mainly because you're bored since you've been forced to – ahem - politely requested by the Godaime to take a month off, Sakura is off on a mission and because it's one of your guilty pleasures to beat the Nara genius at the only thing he doesn't find "troublesome". Okay, maybe you don' t feel so guilty about it. Still, you're bored and he invites you for a game when you're not with Sakura, which is pretty much anytime you're not sleeping when she's home. You haven't seen her in a week and your resolve to not ask the Godaime about the status of her apprentice's mission, more than you already had at any rate, is beginning to crumble like a wall that's been bowled-over by an Akimichi. It's no wonder you're losing, thoughts of pretty pink and jade occupying most of your thoughts. And just as Shikamaru's about to make the final move I will not think about her. I will not think about her. I will not- "Aha, knew I'd find you guys here." Both men turned to look at a slightly grimy, yet all the more beautiful - Damn it - pink and red clad jonin walk towards them with a slight frown marring her forehead. Seeing her after more than a week, you realise what a love-sick puppy you've become in the last month. You decide to put your foot down and get some distance because Damn it, Hatake Kakashi doesn't get whipped and she bends down to kiss you on the forehead. You freeze at the show of affection and your lone visible eye widens, ignoring Shikamaru's snort and muttering about troublesome women interrupting Shougi. Nobody's kissed your forehead before, at least, not since your father. And your heart constricts with the sudden overwhelming affection you feel for the girl. You are rudely yanked out of your train of thought with an elbow to your ribs. Well, that's going to bruise.
"Any reason you're both here and not at the Jonin headquarters, where Tsunade-shishou asked you to be four hours ago? No, don't even bother answering. Shishou asked me to give you these -" she said, handing each of them various scrolls, "as punishment or as she called it, "character building". You're to go around handing these mission scrolls around the village. In fact, I insisted on it. Je ne."
With that, she walked off, leaving the two men staring after her, wondering why she'd trust two of the laziest men in perhaps the whole of fire country to do any sort of work that can't be classified as 'urgent'.
"So, another game?"
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