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Chapter 7.

( It's the next night I missed a day for convenience and it'll add more chapters and make it longer and troublesome so I saved you from unnecessary reading!)

'Finally leaving tomorrow, it took long enough to get here... Should I go talk to the Kazekage and see if anything last minute has changed? Nah. It'll be fine.' Shikamaru thought to himself while looking at the television not actually paying any attention what so ever as to what was actually happening on the program.

"You look a little out of sorts Shikamaru, mind telling me what;s wrong?" Shino asked him closing the heavy door behind him.

"Oh, it's nothing just thinking about finally getting to go out tomorrow and make sure the Kazekage has a safe journey to where ever he needs to go." Shikamaru said in a monotone back to him,

"Well it's late I'm going to get some sleep. Then again I am not sharing a bed with another male so what's happening there Nara?" Shino asked him in a more serious that joking around tone.

"I'll sleep on the couch and you can take the bed plus I don't think I'll be getting much sleep anyways." he said back turning off the television sitting on the rather uncomfortable couch.

'This will 100% mess up my back if a get my usual amount of sleep on it... Brilliant. I should be in the bed I'm the one in charge of this mission! Man I hate Shino sometimes but anything beats sharing a room with Ino or Neji would rather be with Chouji! He would give me the bed any day! Wonder how he's doing with Ino. Most likely got a splitting head ache by now. Feel sorry for the guy.' Shikamaru thought to himself and he uncontrollably fell asleep on the uncomfortable couch.

The next morning!

'Rise and shine I guess. Time to take the Kazekage to... I expected at this stage to know where we are taking him! Why don't I know? I AM GOING TO GIVE HIM WHAT FOR!' Shikamaru thought rather angrily to himself as he left the room slamming the door shut and he left.

"Wonder what worked him up." Shino said over looking the destroyed door hinges Shikamaru broke on his way out.

"Hey Gaara, mind telling me where we are actually going?!" Shikamaru said walking through the door into his office, to find he was walking in on Temari and Gaara talking but all he heard from their conversation was "Get it all in place if necessary" but he wasn't paying that much attention to be bothered noticing he picked it up but the back of his mind knew and maybe that would be important later in life, but he didn't know that yet.

"Of course, there is a small village two days away from the sand that are actually still classed as a 'sand village' and they haven't actually been informed that Gaara is the knew Kazekage so we have to go and tell them and he needs to make an appearance so they can trust him and stuff but the problem is to get there we need to pass one of the other 'sand villages' and they absolutely HATE Gaara and disprove his leadership and I'm scared when we pass through they attack him and try to take him down. That's why you guys are here." Explained Temari giving Shikamaru a suggestive look but Shikamaru being a lazy guy didn't pick up on it.

"So when do we head off?" Shikamaru asked him straight up, it didn't seem rude it was sort of what he went for.

"We will be heading shortly. Get your team ready in 5 minutes and then we are leaving." Gaara said to him walking out with Temari, whom gave Shikamaru a wink on her way out.

"Get going Shika." Temari said cutely towards him,

"Right, I guess I should be going. See you guys in 5." Shikamaru said to them almost like he was in a trance and left the building in the same manner he replied.

After gathering the team.

"Is that everyone here?" Shikamaru asked looking round.

"Temari"

"Neji"

"Shino"

"Chouji"

"Gaara"

"Kankuro"

"Where's INO?" Shikamaru yelled a little concerned.

" She said she would catch up and watch out backs in case of a secret attack from behind!" Temari said in such an innocent way it made Shikamaru believe her.

"Makes sense, good thinking Ino. More brains than I thought she had." Shikamaru though aloud.

"Yeah, good for Ino now let's go." Temari said a little pissed off but with sarcasm so people didn't think she wanted to kill her by the end of that sentence but would she go that far to get her out the way?

'It's not like Ino to think that far ahead and certianly not with help, someone wanted her out of the way, ut of my way. Was it Temari? Would she really go this far? What's possibly going on in that little head of hers right now? Can I stop it? Can I convince her to leave her alone? Can I convice her I love her more than Ino? Considering I turned her down? She threw my girlfriend off a cliff once... Would she really do it again?! Was It Chouji so I didn't fall in love with her! He was petty cool about the whole thing. What could possibly be going on in his head.? Was Gaara jeleous and decided he wanted her so took her and captured her?! So many possibilities. What in Gods name is going on around here and when the hell is Ino?!'

"Right if Ino is actually by her own choice staying back. Let's get going on our way to the next village." Shikamaru said walking out of the gates of the sand into a world unknown.