Sorry it took so long to update, I was is a foul mood when I got back and did not want to rush the chapter.

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Thanks for reading – Kuroda

Text in italic is thoughts (save for a few accented words.)

N.S. P.O.V.

But it has happened,

I looked round my room; it was still sparsely furnished even though we had moved in a couple of months ago. To start with I didn't think that it would be a good idea but my mother decided for me that I would pay a third towards the house I was now resting in.

It wasn't a big house, a small kitchen and living room on the bottom floor with a small yard out the back and a bathroom with three bedrooms on the top floor. Each of the bedrooms are about the same size with just enough room for a bed and wardrobe.

To be honest I am glad that my mother pushed me into this, the house was closer to work for me and I no longer had my mother's tyrannical presence looming over me every second I am in the house.

I rolled onto my side to look out the window and towards the stars; my housemate had been out for almost two hours. I had a bad feeling about her disappearance she was odd enough at the best of times without going out of the house at weird hours of the night.

It wasn't as if she was a high level shinobi who had to go out on missions for the village whenever they needed her.

This was the only downside to sharing a house with her, between her behaviour, family and 'pet' she was quite scary and weird. She did however make a nice change from my mother and I am glad that we are friends.

I sat up as I heard the front door open and close with an audible click of the lock. I sighed, at least she is back, I hope that her 'walk' helped, I rolled my eyes before heading downstairs.

I came face to face with her just over half way down the stair case, her eyes arched in a smile.

"I was just coming to get you so that I could introduce you to our new tenant, courtesy of Tsunade-sama." She pivots on the stair and goes back down them.

I raised an eyebrow and follow her a few paces behind as she made her way into the living room.

I turned into the room and stopped at the doorframe, in the room stood the man that I could not stop thinking about since the day that he ran away. The man who had taken my heart, broken it and rubbed it in my face but it still belonged to him.

"He and his boyfriend are not welcome in this house." I state before turning to leave, however my actions were prohibited as a hand wrapped round my wrist and pulled me into the room.

"Shikamaru! You can't cast out him just because of his sexuality, if we did that you would not be living here ether!"

I growled; was she being this thick on purpose?

"You can't send him out anyway he is under house arrest, he is our mission, just in case I have to be sent out." She added ignoring the frustrated sounds coming from me.

"I will ask for him to be transferred later today then, he is not welcome here." I state, not daring to look at him.

"Nara-san, there is nothing we can do, Tsunade-sama will not change this arrangement." She stated, she looked tired from being out and no doubt talking to our Hokage about this for the past few hours.

"Don't make me pull the owner of this house on you, you know I will." She said, her temper flaring. "Its not like you don't know him, he was in your set of rookie nine. Plus we can't let anyone know he is here for a little while and in Lady Tsunade's words 'it would be too troublesome for him to say anything and you have no one to say it too so long as Naruto is out of town at the moment' we are a team on this and I am team leader." She paused taking a deep breath.

I know it is not wise to annoy a woman when they are tired, even more so when they are your housemate. This is why I prefer men, they are less troublesome.

"Uchiha-san, I will show you to your room." He moved to follow her out the door.

I could feel them both looking at me as I sat on the sofa but I did not raise my head to look back at them. Once they had left me alone my head found my hands, I can't believe that he has been given to me to look after.

I hear the bottom step creak as they go up and their footsteps lead to the back of the house where the spare room is waiting. It isn't long before I hear one set of footsteps come back down the stairs.

"Shikamaru, he will be here for at least 6 months but it is uncertain as we have to monitor his behaviour." My house mate said after returning from upstairs.

"You knew didn't you." I start, looking up to see her reaction, "you knew that we would have this mission; that is why you wanted a house with three rooms! Man I feel so stupid!"

She looks shocked as my voice raises and her hands clamp around her message bag. Her eyes look into mine and harden. She knows what duty is and is not going to give up one of the only missions she has ever received from the Hokage that is not a messaging job.

"How would I have known?" she asks, her voice calm, "I thought having a spare room would have been useful and it turns out that it is!"

"Then why is it I am finding that hard to believe?"

I stand and brush past her, sometimes I wish that I had just stayed at home and lived with my mothers nagging than put money towards this place.

I feel her hand on my arm again, she turns me towards herself and pushed two scrolls into my other hand, "one is from Kakashi who came by with us and the other is from Neji I think, looks like his handwriting."

I look down at the scrolls, "why?"

"So we can get in and out of the house." she smiled, "and I have no idea what Neji wants with you, I can only guess." She added cheekily.

I can feel my face heat up at the implications of her words; I open my mouth to retort but she beets me to it.

"I am sorry Shikamaru-san, for everything this has caused and will cause." She bows before leaving me stood halfway to the door.

I look at the scrolls in my hand, Kakashi's will be information that I need in the morning but Neji's; it could be anything.