Chapter One: Flower Shops and Deer
"Keh! My dog does NOT need a leash!" A boy five foot, black eyes topped with black hair called to the girls walking directly towards him down the street. The girls were around the age of 12, scurrying to avoid the little dog that was called Akamaru. The white eleven pound dog that had distinct black strips going down the sides of his two floppy ears barked happily while sniffing everything in sight. The boy watched his dog carefully. If anyone thought this dog was going to cause any harm they had their work cut out for them. The boy walked in silence, hands lodged in his pocket in thought, if only he could leash train his dog maybe yelling at everyone who walked past them wouldn't be a daily activity. "KIBA!" Akamaru took off in an instance! Before he could say anything the dog was in the arms of a little blonde girl, licking and loving as a dog would.
The blonde girl who stood in front of him stared at him with those big blue eyes, she was confused, "What are you doing? Your shift didn't end till 6pm!" Kiba smirked and gave a little shrug, "It got boring. Akamaru needed to get out. You know he's allergic to all those scents in the flower shop, Ino." Ino stood in disbelief as Kiba reached for Akamaru and placed him back down, "Anyways, my shift was over in 30 minutes and I needed to get out of that place." Now she was mad. She glared very hard, it almost felt as though she was burning holes into his pupils, "So NOW you think you can just up and leave, WHENEVER YOU FEEL LIKE IT?" Kiba felt his body move back a step, what was 30 minutes? What was the big issue? She would be there in 30 minutes, and it's not like the place was jam packed with customers. Then he got an idea, he grabbed her index finger just as she was about to start pointing and throwing it all over the place, in the air, in his face, to the ground, to the sky, he barked back, "The longer you stay her questioning me little sisters the longer the thief's have to steal your precious flowers!"
And just like that she pulled her hand back, reclaiming her index finger with wide blue eyes she screech, "Oh my gosh! My flowers!" and took off down the street. Kiba watched as she disappeared from sight. He huffed, stood straight up while feeling accomplished and thought to himself, that was a close one. He beckoned his pooch and continued the walk home.
Back at the Yamanaka house hold Inoichi was welcoming his old friend Shikaku into his house. Shikaku stood tall and thin in the door way. His black hair was pulled into a pony tail as his black eyes smiled with excitement to see his friend, "It's been a long time Inoichi." The two came into a hug for a moment, "How are you my friend? How has life been treating you since the passing of your wife?" Inoichi offered Shikaku inside, "It has been rough but my children, I couldn't ask for anything more. " Shikaku nodded, "Ah." They walked in silence towards the family room, Shikaku explored his friend's home with his eye, and it was just the same as he remembered it when Misses Yamanaka was alive, loving and peaceful. When they reached the family room Inoichi motioned to Shikaku to sit, "Please make yourself feel at home."
They both fell into the couches opposite of each other, both very weary and exhausted. Inoichi placed his hands on his arms rest, "I hope your trip here was pleasant. What brought you here? I know you spoke of our old plans over the phone a few hours ago," Inoichi began to laugh, "you had a few one too many beers Shikaku, does your wife know you're of whereabouts?" Shikaku smirked, yes a few hours prior to heading on the train to meet with Inoichi he must have had a few too many but that was not the issue, "My wife will understand," He leaned forward with seriousness in his expression, "Do you remember our plan Inoichi?" Inoichi was very confused but curious of where this conversation would be headed, he nodded. Shikaku sat there, in all seriousness he spoke, "I guarantee you do not want your daughter," he paused, right next to the arm chair of the couch he was resting on was a picture of a beautiful girl with blonde hair and big blue eyes, he smiled knowing this was the little girl he had once seen at the age of 2 crying for her daddy to pick her up and carry her around the house. He lifted up the picture, holding it up to Inoichi's view, "I guarantee you do not want your daughter to be without when we all pass away. I've been thinking for some time now my son Shikamaru should not be without when his mother or I pass away, merging our businesses will be of benefit to both of them! "
Just before Inoichi could respond Kiba and Akamaru came busting into the front door pretty pissed off and annoyed, "DAD! There's this crazy women outside of our house demanding we have her husband and-" Kiba broke off his sentence and stared at the two men in front of him, "Well, I'm guessing that she was right, the kid outside calling her 'mom' looked exactly like YOU." He growled as he pointed to the man sitting opposite his dad. Inoichi and Shikaku stood up and stared at the front door, Shikaku whispered in horror, "Yoshino." This tiny women with black hair and black eyes came charging inside the house with a stack I.O.U's and a boy following behind her reluctantly, "SHIKAKU!" She glared at Shikaku, Kiba knew that glare all too well, and this woman meant business.
Shikaku gulped and walked towards his wife, "Hello honey," "DO NOT HONEY ME SHIKAKU!" She huffed and puffed as if she were about to breath fire, "What are all these I.O.U's about! And why do they all say 'I promise my son to your daughter to pay for all my debt'?" Inoichi's eyes widened and then closed, now he understood Shikaku's plan! He had a ton of debt and by going by the old plan he'd be able to pay it all off! Inoichi nodded in acceptance, this is what had to be done. He MUST help his friend get back on his feet. Kiba looked towards his dad for any sign of what to do but just noticed him nodding. Kiba arched his eyebrow, what was going on? And why did his dad just stand there nodding! Who were these crazy people in his house!
Shikaku tried to calm down his screaming wife flailing her arms in the air, throwing paper stacks at her husband until there was a loud bang from behind all this chaos! Everything become silent until Kiba pointed out, "The mini you," he nodded to Shikaku while he shoved his hands in his pockets, "just passed out. " And he walked out of the living room, Akamaru trailing him. He shook his head; this was too much drama for one day. In the distance he heard the women yelling, "SHIKAMARU!"