Title: Public Indecency Aside…
Author: tanikara kohitsuji
Theme Used: 2. Who'sasking (who)?
Pairing: Nara Shikamaru x Yamanaka Ino
Because It's too Troublesome
Ino had somehow allowed herself to be talked into cloud watching. She didn't really know why (though Shikamaru's blush definitely had a hand in it), because personally she found it rather boring. Who wanted to lay on the grass all day (umm, hello, grass stains are the devil to get out of her clothes) and stare up at snail's pace clouds?
Not her.
She sighed again and waited for Shikamaru to say something.
Silence.
A slightly louder sigh.
More silence.
A very overdone sigh.
"You say something?" he asked.
"No," she huffed, crossing her arms despite the fact that most of the effect of that was ruined by the fact she was on the ground. It felt weird if she didn't, okay?!
"You sure?" he asked, still staring up at the clouds and not at her, darn it!
She was wearing a very cute dress today! Lavender with a touch of lace at the hem. With cute little tie straps! He should be ogling her, not some giant clump of suspended water!
She had dressed for attention, and she would really like to receive some! (And it wouldn't hurt if it were from her teammate who lay next to her.)
She frowned and huffed again. "No, I did not say anything! Just like how you've said nothing about my dress!"
He ignored the dress part. "Are you sure? Because I could have sworn you did."
She flipped over with a frustrated growl before pounding her head against the ground three times.
"Ino, you'll ruin your dress if you keep moving like that," he said with a sigh. Troublesome woman…
Suddenly watching clouds was not so bad. The sun shone bright white, the birds broke into the Hallelujah chorus, and all was right in her world!
"So… what did you think I said?" she asked, grinning like an idiot. (She can't help it! She's so in love with him right now!)
"I thought you asked me to marry you," he replied, still staring up at the clouds. "Does that one look like a rabbit to you?"
Ino sat up slightly, gaping at her teammate. "I asked you to what?"
"Marry you. Hm… on second thought, it looks more like a goat."
"I didn't—wouldn't—" (she so would if he actually asked! But she's just a troublesome woman. Wait… had he ever brought up marriage around her before?! Ohmigosh, what if he was?! In his own way?!) She shot a skeptical, blue-eyed glance over at him before continuing. "Would you marry me?"
No, she is not proposing! She's wondering if he would even consider spending his life with her. If it had ever crossed his mind. (No, she is not obsessed with how he feels for her. She's just really tired of always not being sure.)
"Sure. When do you want it?"
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Obvious misinterpretation here!
"Uh…" Ino, for the first time ever in all her eighteen years on this planet we like to call Earth, was shocked speechless. Pigs took off in flight, hell froze over, and the Sahara flooded.
"So, when do you want the wedding?" he repeated.
It was like he set that up. If it were Naruto, she would've dismissed that idea. But Shikamaru, a genius strategist? Oh yeah, it was plausible.
"Wait… are you trying to get me to propose to you?" Ino asked, finally.
"Yes."
"WHY?!" she shrieked. Some poor creature's eardrums shattered in the immediate area. Unfortunately, it wasn't Shikamaru's.
He shrugged slightly, his jacket scratching over the grass. "Seemed too troublesome to do myself."
The girl was torn between wanting to strangle him for his confounded laziness or kiss him for wanting to marry her.
"You-I-Yargh!" She flopped back into the grass.
Shikamaru moved over, sitting up slightly to place an arm next to her. She glanced up into his eyes as he leaned over her slightly.
"So… Is that a yes?" he asked, smirking a little.
Man, that was sexy, Ino thought. "Um..."
"What do you think of June?"
"Um… sure." Okay, he needed to stop looking so cute. It was darn distracting! She couldn't stay mad at him when he was looking at her like that!
He smiled and kissed her.
She would have to come cloud-watching again.
A/N: Ah…. a little cuter for the ending. But I hope this made you all laugh. Although if a guy tried that with me, I probably would turn him down. Because I wouldn't be okay with him tricking me into proposing to him. But apparently Ino didn't mind.