Summary: Team ten's reactions to Ino's and Sakura's relationship.

Rated: K


"Troublesome."

Ino rolled her eyes. "How come I knew you would say something like that?"

The Ino-Shika-Cho trio was gathered on Shikamaru's favourite cloud gazing hill, where Ino had just a moment ago interrupted a peaceful afternoon by 'wanting to tell them something important'.

Nara only shrugged. "But it is, really. Frankly, I think that's a better option than the bastard Sasuke, but otherwise I don't care about who you choose to date."

"I think it's great," Chouji said quietly, munching his chips "Sakura is a nice girl. I'm sure you two will be a great match."

Ino smiled warmly at first, but then her eyes narrowed into slits. "Yeah, we are. So don't you make any moves on her, big boy."

"No, I didn't mean it like that! Just that she is nice in general, not that I know her that much, but I wouldn't certainly do anything, like, you know..."

"Leave it, Chouji." Shikamaru sighed and closed his eyes. "It's okay Ino. We will leave you and your girlfriend be, so you can go now."

She 'hrmph'ed and did as she was told. Shikamaru watched her determined marching with one eye and smiled a bit. He had been waiting for something like this to happen since Sakura had gotten hurt in a mission and Ino just gone nuts. Many shinobi relationships ended when they hadn't even had a real chance to start, and being sure your loved ones knew every moment how you felt about them was only way for them to live without regrets.

How sappy thoughts. Nara closed his eyes again. But now hopefully the most of Ino's bitching would be directed to Sakura, so it was all good.


A/N: It's about time to wrap these up. The next chapter will be the las one, and it will be rated M. Just for you to know.