"Oh stop your grumbling!" said Ino, extremely agitated with Shikamaru at that moment.

"Damn woman! You're not the boss of me!" Shikamaru retorted bravely, of course his bravery didn't last too long when he saw the death glare that Ino was giving him.

'Curse that comfortable tree for making me fall asleep. Ino never would have found me hiding in it if it weren't for my snoring.' Shikamaru thought as he sighed and stared up at the sky.

"What now?" He questioned, stuffing his hands into his pockets.

"Don't ask me! I'm not the genius here." Ino grumbled while shooting another glare at Shikamaru. Opening his mouth, Shikamaru gets ready to complain about how much of a hassle it is to think up the plans, but he shuts it again before any words got a chance to come out.

"Hmmm..." He pondered aloud.

"Hm? Hm what? You have a plan already!?!?!" Ino asked, clapping her hands together cheerfully.

"No." Shikamaru said, tearing his eyes from the sky to Ino. Ino's face visibly darkened.

Seeing Ino tense up again, Shikamaru quickly added before he could receive another torrent of shouts from Ino, "But I thought we should get something to eat first and then think of a plan later."

Ino perked up at his words and she grabbed his arm as she happily skipped down the street to the nearest ramen restaurant. Shikamaru allowed himself to be dragged down the street by his rather hyper girlfriend.

Upon entering the restaurant they were both startled to see Sakura eating by herself at one end of the restaurant while Lee and Gai ate on the other side. Shikamaru grumbled to himself when he saw Ino clap her hands together and her eyes light up.

"Look Shikee-poo! They're here already! Getting them together will be a sinch!" Ino commented as she turned around to face Shikamaru. Shikamaru just blinked, visibly startled.

'Shikee-poo? Aw crap. Now she's giving me damn pet names.' Shikamaru thought to himself as he walked towards an open table with Ino in tow. Sighing, he sat down on the chair and looked thoughtfully up at the roof. When he looked back to Ino he almost jumped out of his chair when he saw Gai sitting there instead..

'Why the hell does Gai seem so perky? And where did Ino go to? This is definitely not an enjoyable day today. It's too much of a hassle thinking up plans, initiating plans, and in the end having them backfire on us.' Shikamaru thought to himself, as he ignored Gai and hoped that he would go away on his own. No such luck.

"I heard you and Ino got into a fight. No worries though! I'm here to help you through your problem." Gai said cheerfully as he flashed Shikamaru a toothy smile accompanied with a thumbs up.

"We did? You are?" Shikamaru questioned as he tensed up and furrowed his eyebrows together.

Glancing around the restaurant he discovered Ino, sitting beside Lee, crying.

'Damn it! What the hell did I do wrong?' he asked himself as he searched his minds for answers. Being the genius he was though, he was able to figure out the whole ordeal.

'Hmmm. So Ino told Gai and Lee that she and I got into a fight. She asked Gai to talk to me about it just to get rid of him. Now that Ino and Lee are alone, Ino is going to start using her crying trick that she uses on me, against Lee and make him tell her if he still is in love with Sakura. How bothersome is this! I should be getting paid.' Shikamaru concluded as he relaxed again.

"Yes you two did and Yes I am! After all I've had a fair amount of girlfriends when I was your age. Far more than that... Kakashi." Gai said cheerfully but ended up spitting out Kakashi's name as if it were poisonous to say.

"I bet you did." Shikamaru said sarcastically as he crossed his arms.

"Yes indeed! Let's see there was Kieko, Katsu, Sayanya..."Gai replied, completely oblivious to Shikamaru's sarcasm.

Sensing that it was going to be a long time before Gai stopped listing off the names of all his "girlfriends" Shikamaru stood up and started walking away.

"Hey Hey Hey!!! Where are you going?" Gai asked standing up as well.

"To the bathroom." Shikamaru replied dully.

Just as Gai was going to reply, a shrieking cry interrupted him. Shikamaru knew all too well whose that was. Looking over at Ino he did his best to hide the smile that was starting to slide onto his face. It was, indeed, a very comical scene before him. Ino crying herself a river and pounding the living shit out of poor Lee while Lee is confused as hell as to what he should do. When he tries to comfort her she punches him. When he tries to move away she yells at him for leaving her.

Throwing his arms over his head in order to protect himself from the chopsticks that Ino was throwing at him, Lee threw a worried glance around the restaurant. When he spotted Shikamaru, he growled. Ignoring Ino, he suddenly disappeared only to reappear in front Shikamaru.

"HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO INO-CHAN? I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU MADE-OUT WITH SAKURA-CHAN JUST TO MAKE YOUR OWN GIRLFRIEND MAD!" Lee yelled, causing everyone in the restaurant to look over at them. Sakura gasped when she heard this and stood up immediately.

"Lee-kun, I never did such a thing!" Sakura said to Lee as she stood up and walked towards him. Lee glared at Sakura.

"To think I liked you, Sakura-chan." Lee said dully as he turned his back towards her and walked out of the restaurant.

"But Lee-kun I didn't do that! I swear!" Cried Sakura desperately as she followed Lee out the door.

Sensing all eyes upon him, Shikamaru sat back down at his table and said,

"Hey, can I get some service here?"

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Sorry about the delay. I'm in the IB program at school and it's hard! I'm not even smart and I'm in it O_O! Anyways my new goal is to update once a week and if I go over one week, I won't listen to my Tori Amos CD until I do.

I had a rather interesting week at school though. I ended up going out with this really cute guy but it only lasted two weeks. Next my new friends ended up getting suspended for a week cause they got drunk at a dance (I was stuck at home due to being grounded) so I'm going to be all alone for a week now :S. Lastly, I found a cookie! I was so happy because I haven't had a cookie in such a loooooooooong time. It was good too! It was shortbread ^_^!

Anyways I'm going to end this ramble now before I end up boring you guys. If any of you guys have MSN please add me at: gambit_and_wolvie_gals@hotmail.com, I need to meet some more Naruto fans out there :S. I've only talked to one so far and that's AznGothic (She's really cool! Hi AznGothic *Waves*)