Sorry took so long. Lot of crap I have to deal with right now. Grounded for a while and the dreaded boy crap, but with out further ado Chapter 4!
Chapter 4 A Strangled LoveShikamaru's eyes looked at Sakura sort of paralyzed. He didn't know what to do or what to say. He didn't care much for Sasuke but was somewhat glad he was alright but now that he was back and conscious he was scared. Not of Sasuke's power but of whether or not he will still have Sakura's affection. They had a past and he was scared he was going to lose her to this past.
Sasuke looked at Sasuke and then Sakura turned to see the slightly green with envy Shika. Sasuke didn't know what was going on or anything about the relationship between Sakura and Shikamaru. "So how have you been Sakura-chan?" Sasuke laced his fingers around the top of her hand resting on the side of his bed.
Shikamaru stood there and balled his hand into a fist, as he was ready to hit the Uchiha upside his head for touching her.
Sakura stood torn between the two boys. Yeah she really liked Shikamaru but she was in love with Sasuke at one point. She moved her hand as a smirk crept across Shika's face. She got up and walked out of the room quietly. She was quiet shaken up and she needed to report this to Tsunade-sama.
Shikamaru walked hesitantly over to Sasuke's beside and looked at him with a cold glare. "Keep your hands off Sakura. She's you past and my future."
Sasuke looked at him coldly. "I don't think so. One of the reasons why I returned what to get what was once mine. I'm pretty sure she'll take me back. We were in love at one point."
With that Shikamaru picked up his hands and placed them around Sasuke's neck. As he was about to put pressure Tsunade and Sakura walked in to the room. Sakura ran over between the two boys and she removed Shikamaru's hands and sort of pushed him away. Sakura wasn't too thrilled with the way that Shikamaru was acting and she looked at Sasuke's face kind of worried.
Shikamaru backed off and looked as if he didn't think what he and Sakura had would last. Finally Tsunade spoke. "Shikamaru, I think it would be best if you left. You put a patient in danger and that's never good."
Sasuke let a smirk slip across his face. For now he had won the match but he knew he had to do a lot more to completely win the heart of his love. Shikamaru glared at Sasuke with cold eyes with hate. Sasuke scooted him away with his eyes. There was no way he was going to let that lazy freak be the one in the picture.
Sakura watched as Shikamaru left the room really upset. She had to make it up to him, she just had to.
Tsunade pulled the curtain around Sasuke's bed and Sakura sat in the chair next to him. Tsunade stood at the end of the bed with her clipboard and they began to ask questions about Sasuke's health for the past little while.
After the interview Sasuke was feeling tired and so they let him rest and Sakura left the hospital and as she walked home she stopped into Shikamaru's house to see if he was all right. She walked up to his front porch and knocked. Shikamaru's mom opened the door to see a very worn down Sakura.
Sakura looked at her, her emerald eyes weakly looking into her eyes. "Is Shika home?" Sakura asked gently.
Shikamaru's mom looked at Sakura and then looked over her shoulder to see if Shikamaru had slipped in the back door unnoticed. "As far as I know he's out training or something. He was in a bad mood when he left with his things so he could just be out training."
Sakura felt the heat rise in her cheeks. Had she upset him? She didn't know but when things like this happen everything could go out of control. She thanked Shikamaru's mom with a bow and ran off into the woods looking for Shikamaru where he usually trained. He trained in the near woods to the hospital because he was too lazy to walk all that way if he ever severely injured himself.
Sakura walked into the entrance of the woods and soon found an angry Shikamaru kicking the shit out of a wooden practice stump. "SHIKAMARU!" Sakura yelled as she ran towards him and immediately grabbed a hold of him and hugged him close to her. She smelt the woods around them and the smell of his shampoo.
Shikamaru just stood there with Sakura's arms laced around him. There was nothing he could do or say at this moment, he was so out of breath.
Sakura whispered in his ear. "Shika, there's so much going on right now. I don't know what I'm going to do with Sasuke back but things are defiantly going to change." Sakura could feel Shikamaru's face kind of drop against he shoulder. "But for now, I'm happy here, with you, and I think that's the way it's going to stay.
