"How can i tell you?"

A HinaNaru (also a SasuSaku, ShikaIno) pairing!

Authors notes: Yay! I'm here again! (waiii!) anyways, so... were back at Iwai with Naruto and the gang , to remind you, we left Ino and Shikamaru, Naruto and Hinata on each other's arms sleeping... Hmm... How will Ino react to what she'll see? Did hinata Hear what Naruto said? why am I asking you all these questions? I dunno... Im just acting like the baka I am... anyway... Read! o

Disclaimer : Of course, the naruto series is not mine... if it was... hinata would appear more frequently and theyed get engaged in the series (you gotta love both of em) well... Naruto, Hinata-san, Ino, Sakura, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Kakashi and some other minor/major characters are NOT mine i tell you!!! (but i wish they were... TT)

How can I tell you? - Chapter 7 Reget your words...

----------- 5:00

The morning sun's rays Reached its way on Ino's Eyes. She woke up, with her eyes still closed. She had a strange feeling something was warm beside her. She took up a very familiar scent, she was still too sleepy to notice whom it belonged to. It was not sooner that she felt a warm thing touch her on the back, it was a warmth that tingled her skin. She got the strengh to open her eyes at last and who did she see? She Opened her eyes wide as she saw Shikamaru whose hand had found its way on her back. For some reason, She didnt know what to do. She would have punched his face there, but something inside stopped her. But one things for sure... She never felt this feeling with Sasuke, ever... She slowly took Shikamaru's hand away from her back and sat up. She took a look and shikamaru's sleeping face and blushed. He looked so Simple still during his sleep. Ol' shikamaru, whose I.Q. was on the brink of a genius, Her bestfriend and teammate. What was he doing there next to her?

"The sun rose early today..." she quietly said as she stood up.

She didnt notice, but shikamaru had been awake for some time now.

"Ino, Youre awake, ne?" he said as he went on his 'Lazy' Position.

"What were you doing next to me when I was asleep?"

Shikamaru was surprized at her question, he was expecting a punch on the face for doing this.

"I dunno..." he said.

Ino blushed for a while then she faced away from the lazy chuunin, who was still lying on his bed. Ino, sat on the chair next to the mirror, and started to fix the morning tangles on her head. Shikamaru, on the meanwhile, was staring at her blankly as she took the tangles off her hair.

Her... hair... He thought, dazing into Her hair as It shined in the morning sun. He realized that he DID fall in love with his father's bestfriend's daughter... he stopped staring when Ino finished brushing her hair and stood up.

"hey... I-Ino... There's something I got to t-tell ya..."

Ino looked at Shikamaru with a fair smile.

"what is it?"

Shikamaru gulped. He knew what was happening to him... His heart was saying "do It!" while his mind, said "hey... if you do that.... you'd be answered with a ' I love Sasuke, Not you' answer"

"I-Its nothing..."

Ino blinked in confusion,

"well... okay.... um... Ja ne shika.."

Shikamaru raised a hand.

"Ja.."

Then, when ino was out of sight. He slopped down on the bed, thinking of what to do with his confused self.

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Hinata had woke up moments ago. She brushed her hair and said 'Hi' to the Morning sun. She smiled as Naruto mumbled something about ramen. It was very typical of naruto....to think of things like ramen... Then something had flashed in her mind... Sakura's box! She hadnt opened it since she left Konoha.... She Searched for it on her knapsack. She found it and slowly took the lid off the box... It was a Naruto doll... huh? Naruto doll? It really looked like naruto. Ah... oh yes... she remembered that sakura had learned to sew dolls from her mom. She was so excited soon after that Sakura had practically turned all her comrades into dolls.

'Heh... It does look like naruto...' She thought to herself and giggled.

Then she heard a small yawn... Naruto's awake! Hinata quickly put the doll into the box and put it into her bag.

"hey... Good morning Hinata-chan.... uh... what's that?"

Hinata sweatdropped.

"Its' nothing! Its nothing! really!" she said nervously to the blonde Jonin.

" that'd better not be ramen...," Naruto mumbled as he yawned himself to the door, "hey, See you later at the gate Hinata..."

Hinata Blushed for a while...

"umm... okay...na-naruto..."

----------------- 5:30 am

Ino, Hinata, and Shikamaru had come late, guess who's even more late...Naruto...

"Geez, Sakura warned me once about Naruto's Cocky attitude of being late...but this is stupid..." Ino said as she tapped her foot.

"hey Naruto! Why were you late? hinata said you woke up just about the same time as her, how come you got to be late?" Ino asked.

Naruto Put his Hand over his head, giving the group his 'closed-eye smile'

"hey... I had to eat some breakfast... I went to the Ramen shop to buy Ramen..."

Hinata sighed, so did shikamaru.

"Well... Youre lucky Tenma isnt here yet dobe... or else you'd get a BIG BAD report to Tsunade..." Shikamaru joked at the blonde Jonin

"hey... I ate 13 bowls of ramen... It had to take time...!"

Hinata Laughed.

"hehe.. Come on... maybe we could wait in the carrage...?"

Ino smiled.

"good idea Hinata... I dont want my Hair to get all tangled by all this wind..."

Hinata and Ino went into one of the carrages.

"Hey... Shika..."

"eh..?

"how come Tenma is late, but he was the one who said 5 o'clock?"

"dont ask me... ask him..."

Shikamaru pointed to someone who was behind Naruto. Naruto when he looked... It was tenma.

"hey.... youre creepy, ya know?"

Tenma laughed.

"hey... I'm not the one who got here last..."

"so... were to take a carrage right?" Naruto asked the brown eyed man,

Tenma crossed his arms.

"no... the other one is mine... You have to come with the girls on their carrage..."

Shikamaru thought... this is so troublesome, geez.

"Oi! Shika! You comin along or what?" Naruto said as he Hung on the carrage's door.

Ino and Hinata tried to calm Naruto down.

"Hey! Baka! if this Carrage falls apart, Im gonna rip your head off!" Ino warned.

"Naruto, just come in...please?"

Naruto looked at hinata, sighed and came in.

"grr... Oooookayyyy.... geez..."

Meanwhile, Tenma and Shikamaru were laughing their heads off at the sight.

"hahaha... Shikamaru... Naruto looks like he could work as a clown..."

Shikamaru looked at tenma laughing.

"hah... dont underestimate that guy... if i'd be asked... I wont even bother fighting him... He's hard-headed, that Naruto..." Shikamaru said.

Tenma laughed for a moment then stopped.

"Well... We'd better go now... go to your carrage..."

Shikamaru nodded laughingly and ran to the carrage.

Nara Shikamaru.... The shadow master of Konohagure.... this's lame... Someone thought,

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Shikamaru went inside the carrage and closed the door, after that, they heard horses running outside...

"were... not leaving... It seems tenma went before us..." Naruto commented.

They felt the carrage move.

"hey...! we're moving!" Hinata excitingly said,

Hinata was beside Naruto (no doubt), that left Ino and Shikamaru together on the same side. They werent looking at each other at all, both of them had their eyes fixed on the windows.

"what's wrong with them?" Naruto whispered to Hinata.

Hinata looked at Naruto, slightly blushing.

"Umm.... Ino and Shikamaru?"

Naruto nodded.

"yeah... they seem odd..." He said to her.

"well... It seems so... they didnt talk to each other the whole day..."

Then Shikamaru sneezed.

"excuse me..." Shikamaru appologzed.

It wasnt because Naruto and Hinata were talking about them... It was Ino's Scent... A mixed flavor of all the sweet scents of the flowers she always tended at her mother's shop. It was sweet, just like he always expected.

"Hey shika..."

Shikamaru snapped back into reality...

"Ino... what is it?"

Ino looked at shikamaru with a stern face.

"Is there something on my head I dont know?"

Shikamaru declined.

"no... I dont see anything Ino..." he said, "why?"

Ino gave him a glare.

"hmm... youve been staring at me... what's your problem, shika?" Ino asked,

Ino had been blushing with a pale pink on her cheeks. With this conversation, all Naruto and Hinata could do was watch the show...

"dunno..." he said annoyingly, then he looked on the window, "maybe It's just that i became allergic to your perfume... geez..."

Ino looked unconvinced...

"I didnt use any perfume...!"

Shikamaru raised an Eyebrow and then became silent. Hinata looked at them and sweatdropped.

"this trip will be pretty exciting... Right naruto-kun?" she said happily to Naruto, Forgetting her 'Shy' self.

Naruto looked at her Smiling face and blushed a deep color of scarlet. hey... keep your cool Naruto... This isnt the first time you saw Hinata smile...! his thoughts were stopped when he felt a presence...

"There's someone with us..."

Shikamaru felt it too and looked seriously at naruto,

"probrobly sand-nins..." Shikamaru said.

"STOP THE CARRAGE!" Naruto ordered the driver, "STOP THE CARRAGE DAMMIT!"

The carrage's driver did stop, and then Naruto and Shikamaru Burst out of the door.

"Hinata... stay here... Ino, Guard her!" Shikamaru said.

"okay!" Ino said as she grabbed some shurikens and put herself in a defence- like position, "Dont worry, Hinata... we'll be okay..."

Naruto and Shikamaru was feeling the presence come closer and closer. It was surely sand-nins... Naruto's attention was put on the south (where they came from), where he saw shadows, three basically...

"Do you see that Shika?"

Shikamaru agreed.

"I recognize the scarlet haired boy anyday..."

It was Gaara, his puppeteer brother, and Temari.

"Oi! GAARAAAAAAAAA!"

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"hey... Gaara, look.... Its the noisy Konoha ninja again..." temari said to gaara

Gaara looked.

"it is the noisy boy... and look... he brought the shadow-controlling guy with him..." the pupetteer boy said

"It doest matter... we have to go to wind country..."

Temari raised an eyebrow,

"hey... we can hitch a ride with them, " She said pointing to Naruto's carrage, "It seems theyre going our way... what do you say gaara?"

gaara looked at temari, and walked towards Naruto's group

"hmph... lets go..."

Gaara was quite far from temari and her other brother, when she decieded to sidecomment like always.

"that gaara can be a pain... but I gotta hand it to him... he'll soften up once ya beat him..."

The puppeteer boy agreed.

"I know, that bastard helped a lot in contolling gaara's temper..."

Gaara looked at them...

"Hey... You people coming? or I'll ask the sand to bring you here instead..."

Temari smiled

"yea.. okay gaara..." she said as they ran towards Naruto's carrage group.

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"hey, gaara... long time no see eh?" naruto greeted as he offered to shake his hands.

Gaara looked sternly at Naruto and his (what he calls) 'pathetic' group.

"I dont shake hands with the man I call my rival..."

Naruto took his hands down.

"heh... youre more like the old sasuke than the old gaara now... hehehe"

Temari and Shikamaru were having a fair share of greetings too.

"Hey Shika... How are ya?" Temari said.

Shikamaru blushed a little and looked away.

"things okay..."

"I was expecting that..." she laughed.

Meanwhile, on the Carrage, Hinata was busy Pinning Ino inside. Ino wants to Kill temari as usual for being such a jerk (because she's taking Shika away from her... thats why... :;;).

THAT TEMARI'S GONNA GET IT IF SHE SAYS ANOTHER WORD TO SHIKA- hey... what the hell am I saying?! Ino thought as she flushed and put her palms on her cheeks, hiding her extremely red face. Hinata only giggled at how Ino reacted to herself...

"hinata... could I ask you something?"

Hinata looked at Ino, smiling.

"yes, I-Ino-chan?"

"I-I-If you found out that Naruto loved someone else... what would you do?"

Hinata thought for a while.

"well, I love him so much that if he loved someone else, I'll just accept it if it makes him happy..."

"oh... okay... thanks Hinata..."

Hinata just smiled and jumped out off the carrage. Then Ino Sat down on the sidechairs, Thinking...

I... I... I... I Love you Shikamaru... I cant tell you... You said once to me that you have an interest in temari... I think Hinata is right... I'd rather...j-just... l-let...Yo-you... go...

Then she noticed, tears. She was crying.

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"so Shikamaru... where are you guys going?" Temari asked.

Shikamaru crossed his arms.

"to Wind village, we have a mission there...why?"

Temari giggled loudly,

"heh... just our luck... we're goin to Wind village ourselves, can we hitch a ride?"

Temari slapped her hands together.

"Hey... Dobe!" Shikamaru said to get Naruto's attention.

Naruto did get his attention.

"Oi... Shika! what?" the blonde asked as he rubbed his head.

Shikarmaru crossed his arms again.

"they're goin to Wind village... wanna let them hitch a ride?"

"yah... sure... the more the merrier!" Naruto gleefully said to Shikamaru.

However hinata noticed a problem...

"N-Naruto... we have a problem..."

Naruto looked at hinata.

"Eh? what problem?"

"the driver... he's gone..."

Shikamaru ran there to see.

"geez... He ran on us... now what? Neither one of us knows how to handle a horse..." he said as he slopped down to the floor.

the puppeteer boy smiled.

"hah... leave that to me... I Know how to handle em..."

Temari looked worried after that remark.

"oh no... He's gonna give me the shivers again... his driving is like hell..."

"bleah... comeon... we gotta get to wind village...."

The nins went in one by one. Gaara sat at the top of the carrage, he wanted to be outside, not hearing any possible laughter, while the puppeteer boy was driving. Temari sat on the edge of one side next to Shikamaru, Shikamaru had stayed next to Ino for one reason... Naruto and Hinata's other space was where their bags were...

"Hey tem..." naruto started,

temari looked at naruto.

"what is it....? uh... naruto?"

"I just wanna ask how come you want to get to Wind village too."

Temari held a grin.

"heh... we ran away from Suna... It stinks..."

Shikamaru looked at Temari.

"That's why all of you dont wear your Kunai anymore..." He said.

"yeah... theyve been recently treating gaara like he wasnt even part- human...which was worse than before... we count take it, so we left..."

Naruto put his thumb and pointer finger on his chin.

"so thats why..."

Shikamaru then looked at Ino, he saw her blue eyes surrounded by nothing but red. was she crying?

"Hey Ino... what's with you? youre eyes are all red..." Shikamaru said pointing her eyes.

Ino wiped some tears off her.

"I-It's nothing shikamaru... just leave me alone..." she said to Shikamaru,

what Did I do? I did nothing... right? Shikamaru thought to himself.

Then the carrage continued to be 'crazily driven' (in temari's words) by the puppeteer boy, as it ran on it fastest towards wind village.

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Hey! Its done...! jeez, took me three days... first reason: I lost my Isp, I had to get money to buy another one... TT. second ; jeez, I cant even remember what the puppeteer boy's name was when i was writing this... hmmm.. and lastly... I had not much inspiration, but I got it back when I had found a great way to make this fic sweet for InoShika fans, so expect a lot more InoShika for the moment... (just to make this fic longer... ;; )

if you can, please do tell me the name of that 'puppeteer boy' geez... I dont like this... TT

heheh... Continue to review and Read my future chapters too. ja ne!