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Failure to Fangirl

Chapter 2: Shikamaru

I started off my second day at the academy by arriving just on time. Why because that's when Shikamaru arrives. He always seems to know exactly how long it will take him to do something and how much work is required to do said thing. In all honestly I was early, I just didn't make my presence known, like a good ninja. Plus I had to watch how Sakura and Ino interacted with Sasuke in the morning.

When Sakura and Ino came into the room Sasuke was already there (he knew I was here too since he saw me walk in but shh I was hiding) so they screamed "Sasuke-kun" at him. He just ignored them. Then they started to fight over the seat next to him.

When Shikamaru came in, about 2 minutes before Iruka is expected, I shouted out to him.

"Shika-Kun." Okay in my defense Shikamaru-kun is way too long to say. This caused all the early, well on time, people to look at me strangely especially Sasuke because I appeared behind him magically. Okay so my version of hiding was to hide behind him since he demands attention. I think of it as using a distraction to your advantage, Sasuke being the distraction. It's good ninja skills I tell you.

"Shika-kun?" he asked, I ignored the troublesome that he added to that and completely omitted it from my memory. He then sat down in a chair mind you not the floor. I quickly rushed over to sit next to him. He looked at me but then laid his head down. Once again he did not say troublesome, ignorance, ignore the bad points the key to all good relationships.

"Nami, what are you doing?" Chouji asked.

"I'm Shika-kun's fan-girl." I told him honestly. Well actually I told everyone since they all were listening to our conversation, how rude.

"That means that you don't like Sasuke-kun?" Ino asked.

"Yes." I answered causing all the Sasuke fan-girls to gasp in unison, quite eerie if you ask me. Note to sell evil mob of fan-girls is not to be messed with.

"But Sasuke-kun is the best!" Sakura tried to convince me.

"Well that may be, I am not discounting that, but as long as I am someone else's fan then I won't be after your Sasuke-kun." I informed them.

"True." Ino admitted. "Why Shikamaru?"

"Well I think its cool how he can sleep through class." I gave one of my reasons.

"That's not an admirable characteristic." Sakura countered. I wanted to tell her neither is glaring at windows but then I would get beaten up.

"He also magically knows what time it is and how long it will take to do something." I decided to omit the 'and how much effort it would take to do something'.

"Well I suppose that is true..." Sakura said trailing off.

"Let's get class started already." Iruka-sensei said dragging in a late Naruto who looked around the room and looked sad when he noticed that there were no seats near me.


At lunch time I followed Shikamaru to the rooftop to watch the clouds. I, after watching Sakura and Ino for a time, was grasping his arm in mine as he walked and continuously smiling at him. Don't their cheeks ever hurt?

"Hey Nami!" Naruto shouted to me.

"Hi Naruto!" I said waving with the hand while holding our dear Shikamaru hostage.

"When did you get to be such good friends with Shikamaru?" Naruto asked having not been there that morning.

"I'm his #1 fan girl!" I announced proudly.

"You're his only fan girl." Kiba said laughing.

"Will you still hang out with us even though you're a fan-girl?" Chouji asked eating something.

"As long as my dear Shika-kun is with you."

"Such a drag." Shikamaru said not meeting anyone's eyes. It would be so cute if he was blushing.

"Shikamaru's got a fan-girl." Kiba taunted him as we all walked up to the roof together.

"You're just jealous because you don't." I stated sticking my tongue out at him causing everyone but the two boys in question to laugh.

"Why are we on the roof?" Naruto asked confused.

"It's nice up here?" Chouji suggested.

"The clouds are closer." Shikamaru said simply.

"No anti-window pro-glaring Uchiha's in the trees above us." I supplied my reason noticing that Shikamaru had decided to lay on the ground to better stare at the clouds.

"What?" Kiba asked confused.

"You didn't notice that Sasuke was in the tree I was sitting under yesterday hiding from his fans?" I asked as if it should have been obvious that he was there.

"No." Kiba, Naruto and Chouji all admitted.

"Oh, well he was there."

"You know what this means?" Kiba asked a mischievous glint in his eyes.

"What?" I asked unsure.

"We know where he hides during lunch now. We can expose him to his fan girls." Kiba said with a slightly evil smirk.

"Yeah let's go!" Naruto shouted excitedly.

"I'm out of chips." Chouji replied sadly.

"Oh no, that is just wrong." I exclaimed seriously causing Chouji to look at me with watery eyes.

"You understand!" He said.

"You must go and remedy your loss." I told Chouji ignoring the stares that Naruto and Kiba were giving us. Chouji immediately nodded his head and left the roof to go down and get his emergency chips from his bag. Well one of the bags of emergency chips anyway.

"We're going down to taunt Sasuke!" Kiba said pointing to himself and Naruto then they rushed off too. I am actually quite surprised they remembered to say goodbye at all.

The three of them leaving left me with Shikamaru and Shino. I soon became bored of the not talking, since no one seemed to want to talk. I decided to lay down next to Shikamaru and watch the clouds with him. The cement of the roof was uncomfortable. I looked over at Shikamaru and looked at his stomach. His stomach looks much more comfortable then the cement roof floor. Okay the phrase 'cement roof floor' sounds strange.

I quickly swiveled gracefully on the ground so that my head was on Shikamaru's stomach as he watched the clouds.

"Troublesome." Shikamaru whispered as I laid there. I stared at the clouds until I fell asleep in that position.


I woke up and it must have been much later since Shino had gone off to class and left us. I say us because Shikamaru was still under my head but he was still sleeping. I guess Shino decided not to wake up because we looked so peaceful, how nice of him.

"Troublesome." Shikamaru said indicating that he was awake. I sat up and turned to him so that I could look at him just in case he wanted to start a conversation.

"Have a nice nap?" I asked happily.

"I should be asking you, since you did fall asleep first." he pointed out.

"It appears that class has already started."

"Let's just stay here then, it's much too troublesome to go down there when we already are late."

"I agree completely, it's much too comfy here to move."

"That reminds me," Shikamaru began sitting up, "Why are you suddenly my fan?"

"How did me being comfy remind you of me being a fan-girl?" I asked confused tilting my head to one side.

"You were comfy only because you used me as a pillow." he pointed out.

"I would have used you as a pillow even if I wasn't a fan-girl."

"Most people wouldn't. Answer the question already."

"Fine. I figured that since to fit in with the girls I had to be a fan-girl then I would be yours because you are not Sasuke."

"No other reason?"

"I think you're cool?"

"What a drag."

"Don't worry tomorrow I will stalk someone else."

"Why?"

"I figure I can stalk every male other than Sasuke until I figure out who I want to stalk the most. Wait did I say stalk I meant fan-girl. Yeah fan-girl."

"Same difference. Fan-girl, stalker, practically synonyms." Shikamaru said smiling causing me to laugh.

"Yeah, that's true."

"We should go they are about to get out and if I am home late today my mother will be angry, what a drag." Shikamaru told me.

"How do you always know exactly what time it is? No wait don't tell me it's more fun thinking that you are just psychic." I said before we went down and said our goodbyes, both of us successfully avoiding Iruka-sensei and then going to our respected homes. I had to think for a while about who I was going to fan-girl next. It would have to be someone really interesting to top fan-girl-ing Shikamaru. He does make an oddly good pillow, since he barely moves at all. Well since I tried Shika I might as well go with the person closest to him, Chouji. Let the love of food triumph!


Preview of next chapter: Chouji?!

"You know it's not the window's fault that people can see through it." I informed him, sticking up for the poor window that was just doing its job and now will be eternally glared at unless I decide to help it by talking some sense into Sasuke.