Kit or Fawn
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D/C: I own nothing.
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"Yin-Kurama Speaking."
"Yang-Kurama Speaking."
'Naruto and Shikamaru's mental link to each other and to their respective Kurama's. Or to emphasize something.'
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Naruto wrote down notes in a notebook as he waited for class to start. He heard the chair next to him screeched loudly and the sound of someone trying to catch their breath caught his attention. Looking over his shoulder to see Sasuke trying to catch his breath as he had plopped himself in his seat.
Sasuke looked over at Naruto and gave him a glare. "I tried calling out to you this morning."
Naruto only shrugged before he returned to his writing. Sasuke only rolled his eyes as he ran his hand through his now sweaty hair. The Uchiha internally groaned when he heard many of the girls in the class started to squeal about him and how 'hot' he looks. Could he just go one day without being hounded down by the raging fan-girls for once? At least there are only two girls in the class he could, to a point, stand their presence is Hinata-chan and Ino. To a point.
"I win! Take that Ino-pig!"
Everyone turned their sights to the supposed best friends attempt to beat each other for being the first person to arrive in the classroom. Today's winner, Sakura Haruno.
"Whatever, Forehead Girl." Ino stuck out her tongue out at Sakura before she headed up towards her seat. She elbowed Shikamaru to wake him up and rubbed her hand through Choji's hair before she sat between them. "I just let you win this time~"
"Admitting defeat?" Sakura quickly headed towards the empty seat next to her crush with a winning smile. "Ino-pig?"
"Oh, please." Ino waved her off. "I've known Sasuke since we were tots. I've got enough dirt on him to make him do anything I want. Isn't that right, Sasuke-kun?"
Sasuke blushed heavily and plonked his head against the desk. She has so much dirt on him. Naruto and Shikamaru had introduced him to Choji and Ino early on in their childhood as their parents knew each other. Plus, playdates, babysitting, and Clan's business. Including the fact of how Inoichi-sama has been helping him with… what he had witnessed some years ago. This did result with him getting to know Ino and realize how terrifying she could get at times.
For example, The one time she gave them all makeovers… and masquerading them as girls on a market day. The upside on that day, it had Naruto create that anti-pervert jutsu and him developing a healthy amount of respect towards women for trying to live up to the ever-changing beauty standards.
"Tsk." Naruto grinned at Sasuke's dismay.
"You too, Naruto."
Naruto cringed at being called out, he reached up a pulled his hoodie to cover his head and face to hide his own dismay. Oh, the dirt she has on all of them. With a grumble, Naruto continued on to write in his notebook. His face scrunched up when he felt he was being watched, turning his head around and he heard a loud eep coming from the back of the classroom. Oh, that would explain it.
The weird Hinata Hyuga. She always gets red and would occasionally faint in his presence for whatever reason. Even if she's weird to many, Naruto likes weird. At least Hinata-chan is soft-spoken and polite unlike many of his classmates… Right now, the girl is trying to hide in her cream-colored hooded-jacket. Giving her a short wave, Naruto turned back around in his seat, picked up his notebook to switch to a different page and continued to write. Maybe one day she'll get over her fainting spells.
"Hi, Naruto-kun~"
Oh, no…
Naruto heavily grimaced when he saw his supposed own group of fan-girls. It wasn't as big as Sasuke or even Itachi's own entourage of fan-girls, it was still enough to cause a huge amount of annoyance to grow within him. Apparently, he had taken Sasuke's fan-girls after he beat the Uchiha after a sparring match. Things have never been the same ever since. He could sense Shikamaru chuckling at him from his spot in the classroom. From somewhere in the class, Naruto started to sense a rise of killer intent started to rise from within the room and before he could turn around to pinpoint it out, it was gone.
Suspicious.
'Please… just one day… one day please… let me nap.' Shikamaru mentally pleaded with Kumara to give him a break and finally allow him to nap.
"Didn't you say to your old man, that you were going to do better at school?"
'…Troublesome.' Shikamaru let out a loud yawn as he sat up straight in his seat. It was almost time for class to start anyway, might as well get ready for it. At least Iruka is easier on him compared to previous instructors he had throughout the years. Iruka doesn't mess with their grades intentionally or make up the stupidest reasons to get him and Naruto in trouble. It got rather troublesome.
"Waking up already?" Ino jested, nudging Shikamaru with her elbow once more.
"Troublesome… What are we doing today?"
"Revisions, followed by sparring matches." Ino responded without missing a beat. "The graduation exam is coming up soon, Iruka-sensei and Mizuki-sensei are getting us prepared for it."
Shikamaru's face scrunched up at the mention of Mizuki's name. The guy is right down troublesome, and it made him wonder how the guy even became an academy instructor. It was clear the guy has a clear distaste towards teaching, especially those that have a sheer talent in the Shinobi arts. He always tried to fail Naruto, but with Iruka there and Naruto staying on top of his work, that's not happening. As for himself… there's no way you could fail someone if they are already failing in the first place, is there? "Great…"
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"What changed?"
Shikaku didn't look up from his drink before he drank it down. He placed the cup back down on the bar top and motioned for the bartender to serve him another round. "It… it was slow, neither of us saw it coming."
"And…?"
"We understand each other. Through our grief, we grew closer together."
"…and the boys? Do they suspect anything, or have you've told them already?"
"We don't know."
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"How much in trouble would we be if our parents find out we are doing this?" Naruto asked as he and Shikamaru looked over a makeshift blueprint of the location of the forbidden scroll.
"Mizuki has me doing this for extra credit, you don't have to do this with me, Naruto."
"I want to be unpredictable… and we both know there's more to this than just-" Naruto cleared his voice and changed his tone to match that of Mizuki. "Retrieve the scroll to boost up your grades to pass the class, Shikamaru-kun. The Forbidden Scroll… the one which no one can even look at it without getting in trouble."
"I know. That's why I had Kakashi to get in contact with Iruka-sensei. Play along, okay?"
Naruto snorted before he grabbed the blueprint and stuffed it into his hoodie. "Let's go… how long have our parents been seeing each other?"
Shikamaru quirked an eyebrow at him.
"What? What!" Naruto followed after Shikamaru as the other preteen only shook his head for whatever reason. "Shika! Did you know about it? For how long?"
"I'm just surprised you even noticed it. Your usually very dense when it comes to it."
"Dense. First is predicable, now it's dense…"
To be continued…
R/R.