At popular request, we changed the summary. Gee whilikers!! It's not nice to judge a book just by its lame summary. I would HOPE (if you abide by the rules) that you have read Lee's chapter by now so you should know it's not nice to judge things just because they're as ugly as a butt. Your moms, everybody!! Your moms!!
Love, Link and Luigi
Naruto Primer: Shikamaru and Ino
Shindainishin Reversed!!
Shikamaru is known for believing that everything is troublesome. When possible, he will try to avoid any sort of situation that would require effort to perform.
Ino has just that sort of situation. She loves her Sasuke, but as of right now, Sasuke is stuck in Naruto's body and Naruto is stuck in Sasuke. She can't think up a plan, but she knows that Shikamaru is a super genius so she figures he can help her out.
"Shikamaru, do you know anything about the Shindainishin no Jutsu?" Ino asked Shikamaru who was just lying there…staring at the clouds.
He looked up at her. "No, why?" he asked.
"Well, it's used for switching bodies with your opponent." Ino said, sitting down next to him. He sat up and listened, even though it was troublesome and he could tell that a favor was going to come out of this. "You see, Naruto cast this Jutsu on Sasuke and now they're stuck in each other's bodies! The only way to undo the Jutsu is to have them hug each other and yell, 'I love you!!' But Naruto is refusing."
Shikamaru waited. "…And?" he asked. "Why are you telling me this?"
"We need you to come up with a plan." Ino replied.
"It's pretty obvious." Shikamaru sighed. "All you have to do is FORCE him to do it."
"How about a more strategic plan?" Ino suggested, sounding somewhat annoyed. "And don't try to tell me that you don't have an answer because I KNOW you do."
"Very well." Shikamaru said. "I'm starting to wish I had taught Chouji that Kagemane no Jutsu now…"
"Oh!" said Ino, catching on. "You could just use that Jutsu to make him do it! Great idea!"
"But I can't make him SAY 'I love you'." Shikamaru reminded her.
"Oh…" said Ino sadly. "So what's the point?"
"Because, I could stop him and then you could take control of his body." Shikamaru said. "But I have confidence enough in you to do it by yourself."
"Shikamaru!" said Ino, standing up excitedly. "You're a genius! But I DO need your help because I'll miss…"
"You'll be fine." Shikamaru said.
"PLEASE, Shikamaru?" begged Ino. "Please, please, PLEASE?!"
"It's so troublesome…" Shikamaru complained.
"I'll do anything you ask!" Ino said. "Anything at all!"
"Anything?" said Shikamaru. The look on Shikamaru's face kind of made Ino wish that she hadn't made that offer. She was half expecting him to ask for some sort of outrageous request, when he suddenly turned around and plopped a large board with pieces on down in front of them. "Play a game of shougi with me." He said.
At the sound of THAT request, Ino became slightly disappointed. "That's all you want?" she asked. "And then you'll help me?"
"Yeah." Said Shikamaru. "I've had the strangest need to play recently but Asuma's too busy with his 'Teacher and Jounin' party and Chouji, while perfectly willing to play, is, frankly, not very good at all."
"Well I'm not very good either." Ino confessed.
"Really?" Shikamaru asked, getting his famous perturbed face.
"No one's good at that game except for old men." Ino said. Shikamaru looked at her strangely. "And you of course."
"Then there's really no point to this…" Shikamaru sighed, putting the board back behind him.
"Could you help me anyway?" Ino requested.
"No." Shikamaru said. "You said you'd give me in return."
"What if you thought of something else? I'm sure you can!"
"No. I don't feel like doing anything else except play shougi."
"Well then…you don't have to do anything!" Ino said. "I'll…um… lie around with you!"
"No, I could easily just lie around by myself."
"Then I could go and get you something so you won't have to move! Are you hungry? Thirsty?"
"It doesn't matter because I'll have to get up and move to help you with your problem anyway." Shikamaru pointed out.
"How about an IOU then?" Ino tried.
"IOU?" said Shikamaru with a raised eyebrow. "I don't believe in IOUs."
"I'm sure there's something else you can think of that you want!" pleaded Ino.
"Fine, I want you to take off all your clothes and dance around." Shikamaru said.
Ino paused. "…What?" she said.
"I'm just kidding." Shikamaru said, rolling his eyes.
Just then, Sasuke came running out, closely followed by Naruto and Sakura who were both, obviously, attempting to catch him.
"I just want to use the Sharingan once!!" Sasuke called back to them. "Just give me that! And then I'll switch back! I promise!"
"No way!!" yelled Naruto. "Cause I know you'd just use it on something stupid! And I want my body back now!!"
"Well, I guess you weren't lying." Said Shikamaru to Ino.
"You thought I was?!" Ino yelled.
"Man, this is really troublesome…" said Shikamaru as he did his little hand seal for his Kagemane no Jutsu and his shadow extended out and attached onto Sasuke, halting him in place.
"Hey!" whined Sasuke. "That's not fair!! You guys are like… quadruple teaming me!"
"All right, my turn!" said Ino as she did HER hand seal and successfully implanted her mind into Sasuke's who was actually Naruto. Then Shikamaru let her/him go.
"Let's get this over with." Naruto grumbled, approaching Ino.
"Yay!" cheered Ino from Sasuke's body. "I get to hug Sasuke and he's going to tell me that he loves me!"
"Technically you're hugging Naruto!" said Sakura.
"But it's Sasuke saying that he loves Ino." Shikamaru said.
"Actually, Sasuke's saying that he loves himself." Sakura said, crossing her arms.
"So Sasuke in Naruto's body is telling his body which has Naruto in it while being possessed by Ino that…wait…I'm confused…" Shikamaru said slowly. "This is too much."
"Can we just do this?!" Naruto demanded.
"Let's do this!" said Ino, punching the air with horseshoe eyes. It looked extra silly because it looked like it was Sasuke performing those deeds.
Then followed the most peculiar embrace in the world. Not only did APPEAR that it was Sasuke and Naruto hugging, it really wasn't. I can't even begin to explain what's going on now. And then, at the same time, they both yelled, "I LOVE YOU!!!!"