I'm so sorry that it's seemed like I've died for the past month or two. But I have an excuse! And it's a real one! I had to do my junior cert which are big state exams in Ireland and I'm just finished now! So...I'll try to make it up to youses!!!
Ino watched Sasuke and Sakura subtly flirt with each other. It was an unfair twist of fate (to her anyway) that Sakura got put on the same team as Sasuke. Ino had long ago given up her crush on Sasuke, but had built herself up a strange reputation the she had to uphold, so she pretended she still like him.
Ino turned her head to look at her team-mate and quite possibly the laziest Shinobi out there. He was sitting beside her, head laid back and staring out the window at the stars...he didn't seem to notice Ino looking at him. Key word 'seem'. Ino didn't fail to notice the very, very small blush that was ghosting over his cheeks.
"Nara Shikamaru, your time to sing...don't take too long, I've got four more people to announce out. Wait, four? Good, my shift is almost over. So come on up." The DJ said, he was getting a little irritated with all these people singing.
'I don't get paid enough for this.' He thought.
Shikamaru heaved himself out his chair and gave Ino one glance before he got up on stage with his oh-so-original 'troublesome'.
He walked over the stage and hoisted himself up onto it, not bothering to go ten extra meters to reach the stairs.
"Right. Whatever. Yeah. Troublesome." Said the genius. That music started and he began to sing...It was a slow song, of course.
We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads
I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life
All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see
I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all
If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
As he was singing this, he kept glancing at Ino. It wasn't uncommon for him to glance at her now and then, but any chance he got, he actually went to the trouble to turn his head and stare at her for as long as he could.
When he was finished, he jumped down from the stage and walked lazily back to his team-mates. When he got there, he plopped back down in between Ino and Chouji and resumed his interrupted sleeping.
Ino was now the one watching Shikamaru with interest. 'Why was he staring at me all the way through the song? He couldn't possibly...no, he likes Temari.' Ino thought the other girls name with disgust.
"I'm gonna go get more food." Chouji said and he stood to go to the counter, but on his way there, he bumped into Ino, who was pushed forward and into Shikamaru. And then the incredibly cliché thing happened. They kissed by accident. Shikamarus eyes snapped open and stared wide eyed at Ino. Ino stared back and was extremely surprised when Shikamaru closed his eyes and started to kiss her. Ino didn't realise that she had closed her eyes and was kissing him too.
"Hey, Sasuke, I think Ino's over you." Sakura said to her black haired team-mate.
Sasuke is next guys!!! Maybe I should wait three weeks to let that one out to be extra mean...but I won't. XD The song was Chasing Cars, by Snow Patrol.
