Remus Lupin, PhD has just moved across the country to start a new job at a university in Southern California. He's got quite enough on his plate already, thank you, but the universe decides that he needs to navigate feelings for a certain leather jacket-wearing department manager, too. Title has no significance, but it's prof-r's birthday so they get what they want

I would choose this life, every time. Forgive me, Padfoot. But I would. / Six lives that could've been, and the one that was.

Shikamaru manages to save one valuable life, and then everything falls apart, or maybe it's everything falls into place. ShikaNeji.

The only day Shikamaru stil had off, was Christmas Eve, and he intended to keep it that way. That was until someone familliar swept in and invited him to spend the evening with him. And how could Shikamaru honestly refuse? NejiShika, oneshot, AU, Christmas themed!

Neji's death reaches Shikamaru normally. It is reported as just another casualty of war, a random shinobi stopping by and casually informing him about it before being hassled away as if the news he carries is not important.

Before his birth, Shikamaru is foretold to be taken by the barasingha, a clan of deer-monsters who ensnare young travellers and devour their souls. One night he is saved by a barasingha, sparking a chain of forbidden love and foretold fate. Neji/Shikamaru

Neji's having THAT dream again…Shikamaru is there to comfort him. ShikaNeji...as if it wasn't obvious enough.

Giftfic for Sanee for being awesome! Warning: boy on boy love, Shika/Neji to be more exact. Hope someone will enjoy my randomness here.