Women are troublesome!

No intro, except the fact that I don't own Naruto... poor me, right?

Temari's P.O.V:

I woke up in the middle of the night, and I stood a little watching the stars. They seemed so... peaceful... I went for a walk a few minutes in the forest, and then I returned to the clearing where we have all settled for the night. I saw the bimbo rolled away from Shikamaru, so I took her spot. I watched as he lazily opened his eyes, and kissed me on the top of my head.

"I love you…"he whispered to me.

"I love you too…" I whispered back. My only wonder: was I the only one who he loved?

In the morning…

"Heeeeeh… good morning everyone…" Choji woke up, noisily stretching.

"Hey, Temari! I want to ask you for something!" Ino called.

"What?"

"Let's fight!"

Was she serious? I was way superior to her… she was just a chunin, I was a jounin… Plus I could finish her very easy considering I had no problems in killing her.

"Alright. Let's fight." Now that I think, I have two persons that step on my nerves, but Runo was smarter than this bimbo not to challenge me!

Shikamaru looked like he wanted to say something to stop us, but in the end he muttered something like "Troublesome women…" and retreated with Choji somewhere in a tree far from the clearing. Good choice, I was going to do a pure deforestation as I did during the short fight with that Sound Shinobi, Tayuya.

"So you like Shikamaru? You won't anymore!" she yelled, getting an offensive stance.

"We'll see that! What chances does a bimbo like you stand against me?" I leaned on my fan, smiling.

Bad thing I looked her straight into the eyes. Before I could realize she used her Mind Switch Technique and entered in my mind.

Ino's P.O.V:

I succeeded! I was inside her mind! I looked around, and saw something I couldn't have imagined. The images of Shikamaru, my Shika-kun, and that girl… that Temari… it couldn't have been true! This meant… all the time he acted like he was my boyfriend… he was with her too? No… this couldn't be… I thought I knew everything about him… I thought he was trustworthy… but…

Yet I was wrong. He was the one troublesome, not me!

Those images faded from my eyes, but remained fresh in my mind. First Sasuke-kun and now Shikamaru… Why was it all happening to me?

Why…?

And everything went black.

Somewhere near Suna, in a cave:

"The sandstorm is too big, we can't keep going… How is bimbo doing?"

"She's regaining consciousness." I heard those voices, but the words didn't really make any sense to me, like they were speaking a foreign language. I have been cheated. I had to keep sticking with Shikamaru because we've been friends from a long time, but that didn't mean I could forget all that I saw so easily…

"Hey, umm… Shikamaru?"

"Yeah?"

"Friends?"

"As troublesome as it is, friends…"

Woah, no one would have expected Ino to react this calmly… The next chappy will be some sort of an epilogue.