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Beautiful Disaster

Chapter nine - Names: Sasuke and Temari

Sakura sat side by side with Sasuke as he eat take out. She wanted to know what happen between him and Ino, hell, she convinced herself she NEEDED to know, "So...Ino was with you last night." Sasuke kept his eyes on his food not even glancing at her, "What...happen? I mean you couldn't of talked to her that much. You hardly talk to me!" She chuckled, she really hoped he didn't talk to much to her. When it came to Sasuke, there was still a bit of rival with the two. "You were with her last night..."

"Hm. We all spend the night at Hinata's. It wasn't as fun as I thought-" "Did she tell you anything?"

"...no. Nothing why? Did you tell her anything to not tell us? Sasuke you know I'm here if you ever need someone to talk to. I understand you..." Sasuke rolled his eyes, she understood him? "Heh...well if it makes you feel any better," he could sense the tension in the air as he set his plate to the side, "she did almost all the talking." he slowly stood up and headed toward the door, "I have some things to do." Sakura watched his back as he left.

"Almost all the talking...? So you told her things?" She glanced at his food with a sigh, it was half touched. She got up and started to tidy up the house before she left.

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Shikamaru frowned staring down at the four pony tailed blonde, "Whats that?" she slowly walked toward him tossing him the paper, "A week ago you dropped this. I read it." she smirked as Shikamaru stared at the paper. "This isn't-" he paused and opened it up fast. His eyebrow twitched, "What happen to the writing...?" Temari shrugged, "Its not my job to keep the words on that damn paper."

"What did it say?"

"Something about you being in love with 'someone'."

"Being in love?...I hate that word..."

"Huh? Speak up lazy ass. I cant hear you when your mumbling."

"What else do you remember?"

"Hell if I know! Its your letter! You should know what you wrote!"

"Ehh..."

Shikamaru hated to argue and with Temari especially. She didn't care who you were she was going to tell you off here and there, when ever she felt like it. He squinted at the paper before having it snatched out of his hands, "He-" "Now! Since SHIKAMARU, wanted to go on a date with you. What do you think about tonight?" Kiba crumbled up the paper in his hand as he swung his other arm over Shikamaru's shoulder smiling like a fool. "I want him to ask me." Kiba nudged Shikamaru and whispered into his ear that this was his only chance. "Ino..."

Shikamaru rolled his eyes then brought his lazy gaze to the girl standing in front of them. She wasn't very lady like was she? Not like Ino anyways...you could tell she didn't care weather people thought she was hot or not. She was a real ninja who knew what to do and how to do it, "Troublesome." was the only word that came to mind about her. "Temari...would you want to go to dinner tonight." she smirked crossing her arms over her chest, "Dinner. After that then what?" Shikamaru frowned, she was worse then Ino. When he told Ino he was taking her to dinner she didn't ask about the after date!

"What ever you would like to do! Shikamaru picks out the first part and you pick the second!" Kiba still having his arm over Shikamaru's shoulders said, "And make it something 'troublesome'." Shikamaru frowned hard, he HATED things that were anything CLOSE to troublesome. "Alright then. Pick me up in Konoha square." with that she left. Shikamaru flung Kiba off him. He felt as if he wanted to strangle him, "Heyyy....dont give me that look. I'm only helping you with your girl problem."

"Troublesome? Something troublesome!? You know I hate to even lift a finger and you tell her-"

"Look, Ino's troublesome right? I just figured you liked your girls like that." Kiba grinned, "Anyways I gotta get back to Hinata. Go get ready for your little date and call me when its over. Speared the news." Shikamaru watched as he slammed the front door. "Tonight....tonight!?! I have to see Ino tonight! Damn it." he mumbled under his breath.

Shikamaru walked home thinking if he should stop by Ino's house now or not. If she knew he was going on a date with Temari, what would she think? Would she think he was really over her and last night he was just toying with her? But last night was something, she had to have felt it. If she didn't then she must be blonde. He laughed. Today was going to be one of the busiest days of his life.

As he walked down the street he saw Sasuke walking down the same path. He eyed him for a minute before frowning. He had everything a girl would want in a guy. Shikamaru compare to Sasuke he was...nothing. Being a Nara meant you had no looks, thought everything was troublesome, hated to talk things out, but you had a brain and a shadow technique. He sighed and looked toward the ground, Ino was sure to go back to Sasuke. Her stupid little crush was bound to come back one day even though he hated to admit it. As they passed each other Sasuke stared hard at Shikamaru. It made him feel really small.

He made his way inside but couldn't help but wonder why he had gave him the death glare. "...proberly PMS'ing like he always does. Troublesome guy."

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"See ya tonight Ino!"

"Ya. See ya."

Ino smiled and waved good bye to her friend, Tenten. On the way to her house all she could talk about was a party that she wanted them to go to. Ino had to admit it sounded like so much fun but she wouldn't miss the chance to see Shikamaru again. As she suspected, her feelings came back. She wanted to be with him every second of the day, hold him, inhale his scent, kiss him...but that was only what she wanted, it wasn't promising. Knowing him he'd turn everything upside down. "This sucks..." she started to get annoyed with her feelings and thoughts. She tried to push them out but was doing a lousy job of it, "YOU SUCK!" "...what?"

She looked up. To her surprise, Sasuke stood there with a what-the-hell look on his face. "Eh? Oh nothing." "You were with Sakura last night?" "Ya. She stopped by your house right?" he shrugged and everything got quiet. "Well I should be on my way. See you around?" "Whatever." he walked passed her, hands in pockets and head down. Gezz...he was flat with words. His conversations were a flat 2 minutes. "Sasuke!" he stopped but didn't turn around, "Want to get together for lunch or something later? That is...if your not busy. I can bring Sakura along." "Heh,"

There was a long pause before he answered, "Lunch time I'm training so no thanks." "Hm." she smiled, turned on one foot and started home. He always looked so...lonely? Was that the word? No more like...depressed. Maybe he needed the night out. If Shikamaru didn't show up, maybe she could get him to go out with her. She doubted it but it was worth a try. Then again...she didn't think he'd really like it...around all those social sort of people.

"I'm home!" "INO!" a rather large person flung his body in front of her throwing his hands on her shoulders, "Have you seen Shikamaru?!" She shook her head, her vision was blurry due to the fact that the person got in her face so quick, "What? Chouji! No I haven't! What are you doing in my house!?" "Hes been seen walking around with Temari!" "..." Ino stared at him for a while. "What are you talking about? Are you insane?! He just saw me last night! Whats your deal!" she shoved him to the side, "Shikamaru? With...oh my god, I think you need to see a doctor." She marched straight up to her room leaving the dear bob in a funk.

He knew it was true. He saw Shikamaru ask Temari on a date but was it his place to tell Ino? He shook his head, "Its not my place to tell her..." he slowly walked out of the house. He really liked and though alot about Ino and Shikamaru. Seeing as he grew up with the two, he had a connection with both of them. He never meant any harm to any of them but ever since they had been dating they always brought him in the middle. Well, more Ino then Shikamaru. He never liked to side with any of them but a lot of the time he found his self siding with Ino, ONLY because Shikamaru was neglecting her and he knew it.

He tried hard to find out why but Shikamaru would feed him this story of training. Everyone who knew him knew he didn't train. He'd go cloud watching and just SAY he was training, but everyone bought the training stuff because, to tell you the truth, he really was getting better. "Yo Chouji." Shikamaru was now walking side by side with Chouji. "Oh. Hey." "Hey."

"How you been?"

"...nothing special. Did you just come back from Ino's?"

"Ya."

"Did she...did she mention me?"

"No..but I did."

"What?"

"Why did you ask Temari out on a date?"

Shikamaru froze, "What?" "Shikamaru..." he sighed, "It was all Kiba's fault. I don't even really want to go. Dates aren't my thing. I rather cloud watch then do any dating." it was true, Chouji had to admit, Shikamaru wasn't the romantic type at all. "What about Ino?" "Don't you think I've thought about that? The thought of her finding out about it has been playing over and over in my brain." "Don't go tonight. Ino said you stopped by her place last night. Or, no, you were WITH her last night." Chouji winked and gave Shikamaru a tiny shove. "No, I want with her like that. We just...kind of were...well I saw her."

"I'm hungry." Shikamaru raised his eye brow, "Alright...lets go grab something to eat."

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Er short chapter? Not really a cliff hanger but theres more to come! So...stay tuned! Plus I'm working on another story! Lol, so many storys...I should just finish one. ANYWAYS Review.

Shikaino