After working all day with Sakura... Shikamaru is exhausted... he sits down at a table with a tray of food. He looks at his food and thinks he saw it move... He sorta lost his appitite. Just then Sakura appears and is holding something behind her back.

"Huh? Sakura? What do you want... more help?" Shikamaru says in a irritated voice...

"Hehehe..." Sakura giggles while standing next to Shikamaru with her hands behind her back...

"What's so funny, Sakura?"

Again, Sakura just giggles.

"I have a treat for you... to thank you for helping so much... I hope you like it..."

Sakura hands Shikamaru a rectangular object wraped in a pink and red hankerchief.

"What's this?"

"It's a homemade box lunch... I made it myself."

Shikamaru opens the box and finds cut up Miso Braised Mackeral and Vinager flavored seaweed.

"Allright!! How'd you know these are my favorite food?!"

"Well... when you became a Jonin... you orderd only thoses two things... and I thought that you might like them."

"Sakura... I love them... Thank you so much!!"

Shikamaru eats his special box lunch while smiling the entire time... When they are walking up the stairs to go back to work, Shikamaru is talking to Sakura.

"Thanks again, that food was delicous... you cook better than my mom..."

"Really? Thanks... I didn't know it was that good."

Just then, Shikamaru gives Sakura a quick kiss on the cheek and as soon as his lips touch her cheek... he forgets about the top stair and falls and cracks his jaw off the floor. Sakura, who was blushing, but then was real worried about Shikamaru.

"Shikamaru!! Are you okay?!" She helps him up and sees his chin is bleeding. "Shikamaru... come here..." Sakura puts some antibiotic cream on it and then puts a band-aid on it.

"Is that better Shikamaru? How about this?" Sakura kisses him on the chin. Shikamaru blushes and looks at Sakura... Sakura looks into his eyes.

Shikamaru then slowly goes in to kiss her... they kiss for a few seconds then Shikamaru and Sakura both step back, blushing.

"Um... Shikamaru... I think I love you..."

"..." Shikamaru is silent, until he looks into her eyes. "I love you too."

Later... once their shift is over... it's eight p.m. and Shikamaru walks Sakura home, at the doorstep... Shikamaru kisses her again, but Sakura's mom opens the door while they are kissing.

"Aww... How sweet Sakura..."

Sakura and Shikamaru back up, blushing..

"Mom!!"

"So, what's your name?"

"Um... Shikamaru Nara... Mam..."

"Oh so your the Nara boy that became a chunin and a Jonin before any of your classmates. You seem like a nice boy..."

"Mom." Sakura says in a pouty voice.

"Oh, well, I should go, don't want Sakura any angrier. Goodnight Shikamaru."

"Yeah... goodnight Shika-Kun."

"Goodnight Sakura-Chan..."

Shikamaru walks home and heads straight to bed... and dreams of Sakura...