Author Notes: Not even one review? Geez... I knew this fic was bad! Just not this bad... :S anyways, I had the second chapter ready since I uploaded the first one so... here it is. Dunno if there'll be a third chapter tough...

WARNING: I'm from Portugal so I warn you from the start: THERE MIGHT BE SOME GRAMAR ERRORS AND SPELLING ERRORS ON THE FIC. It wasn't Beta read so if you find some errors don't flame me for that because I warned you!

WARNING NUMBER 2: MAJOR FLUFFYNESS AHEAD! Read at own risk! But don't say that I dind't warned you!

Disclaimer: Aghhhh! I think Ino just stole my Shikamaru! Not fair! Then I own Shino! Don't touch himmmm! He's mineeeeeeeee! (no, now really... I own nothing... sadly... )

Chapter Two: And she will never be lonely

I drove for miles and miles

And wound up at your door

"Kuso..." Now was Shikamaru's turn to curse. He had, once more, lost to Sasuke... why did she loved him? That was definitly a mistery for him... the guy didn't even talked to her for crying out loud! He might be a statue and it still wouldn't make a diference!

He was walking home. Had his arms behind his neck and carried the same bored expression he always did. He stoped for a moment and closed his eyes, lifted his head up to the rain and let it fell on him for a while.

It did felt nice. "Kuso..." How did it come to this? She was just an anoying litle girl! She always had been... and sudenly she's all grown up, really smart, really beautifull... damn...

An image of Ino passed trough his eyes. First a smiling Ino, then an angry Ino, then a really angry Ino! But there she was then... crying... for him... like it had been for some months now...

Was she really in that deep?

He opened his eyes. He should be getting home. He was wet and was already feeling like a cold was coming so he looked around trying to see where he was. Wait a minute... this wasn't his house...

It sure was a familiar one, but not his. It was her's...

How the hell did he get here? He thought he was walking home.

I've had you so many times but somehow

I want more

"Kuso! How troublesome..." was his reply to the damned toughts. She was so deep in his mind that he had to end up at her house. He looked up and saw that the light in her room was still on. He smiled.

I sure hope she's not crying over him... damn... that sure would be troublesome... Why was he thinking of her anyway? He would never be more than a friend for her... just a good old friend...

But would he be happy for just being a friend? No way! He sure wanted more... he wanted to feel her arms around him once more...

Flashback

A very small Ino was running around with some flowers in her hand. She was laughing real hard.

Shikamaru was lying lazyly on the shadow of a tree, looking at the cloud, as always.

"Hi there Shika!"

He looked at her and nodded.

"Hello."

"Are you watching the clouds again?"

She sat next to him and looked up.

"Yes. They're the only thing that's not troublesome..."

Ino looked at Shikamaru.

"Am I... troublesome?"

He laughed a bit. She sure was annoying...

"Yeah you are."

Ino frowned and got up. "You are a meanie! I'm telling father!"

She got up and went to her father crying, or at least pretending to be crying. She came back moments later and sat next to him again.

"What did your father said?"

She looked angry.

"He... he said that you wouldn't do that cause you're a nice guy! Not fair!"

He chuckled. "I guess your fake crying didn't worked out!"

She bonked him the head but laughed a bit too. "Yey Shika!"

Didn't this girl ever learned that silence was a blessing?

"Wanna catch some flowers with me?"

"No... that would be troublesome..."

She got up and slammed her foot down. She then placed her litle hands on her hips and frowned.

"You are comming with me Mister! And that's final!"

She then grabed him by his arm and pulled him out of the tree shadow, into the wilds! She nagged him so much that he had no other choice but colect the flowers with the litle hyper blondie. At the end of the day, they had three baskets full of flowers.

She was so happy.

"Thank you so much Shika! I really liked your help!"

Then, she did the unthinkable... She hugged him, real hard!

End of Flashback

He looked up once more. The lights were now out. He turned away and walked home trying to think of something other than her. Wich, mind you, was hard...

Very hard...

No wait, very VERY hard.

"How troublesome..."

I don't mind spending everyday

Out on your corner in the pouring rain

Today was a very special day. It was the Hokage's birthday so Konoha was having a festival. Everybody was out on the streets enjoying themselves, eating candy and popcorn and dancing to the music.

The only things that was bothering them was the rain... the nonstop rain that had been going for almost a week now. It was, in Shikamaru's language, troublesome! But that didn't kept them from having fun.

Even Ino was happy. Shikamaru watched her from afar. She had a bright smile on her face. It seemed as tough she had forgoten what had happened yesterday. He let himself smile a bit.

Choji, who was talking with Ino, saw Shikamaru.

"Hey! Shikamaru! Come here man!"

"How troublesome..." but he went anyway.

"What were doing there by your own?" asked his chubby friend.

"Ahh... I was just thinking." He looked up. The sky was gray and there were no clouds. He frowned a bit. It seemed like forever since he last went cloud gazing. It was troublesome...

"Shikamaru! You can't just stand there in the rain! Didn't you brought an umbrela? You can't stay in the rain you know! Just get over here." Ino pulled Shikamaru's arm and got him close to her. There he was under her umbrela so he was safe from the rain.

Choji laughed at the two. Shikamaru couldn't help but notice that the bossy Ino was back. Just the way he liked her. So he smiled a litle.

Ino looked at Choji. "What?"

"Nothing! You just look cute together, that's all...!"

Ino's eyes widened. Shikamaru looked bored (doesn't he always?).

"Shikamaru! Get into Choji's umbrela! Now!"

Ino pushed Shikamaru into Choji's umbrela and left with a blush on her face...

"Hey Shika... She was blushing!" Choji had a very big grin on his face.

Now was Shikamaru's turn to blush... "Wanna go grab something to eat?" but he always knew how to distract Choji...

Look for the girl with the broken smile

Ask her if she wants to stay a while

Ino was still blushing a litle, and gigling! She smiled and felt a litle warm inside, altough she didn't knew why...

She walked up to Sakura, who was waving at her. "Hi forhead girl!"

Sakura smiled. It was nice to know that Ino was still the same... even after she saw her with Sasuke... (A/N: Sakura knew cause she saw the flowers that Ino dropped on the floor)

"Hello Ino pig!"

The girls smiled. Just as Ino was about to say that she saw her with Sasuke, he came out of nowhere and kissed Sakura in front of Ino. Ino blushed a litle, so did Sakura.

Ino mumbled some sort of excuse and left them alone. She ran out of the festival and went into the Hokage monument. She always felt safe there.

She didn't realised that she bumped into Shikamaru while running, blinded by tears. When she arrived at the monument she knealed down and started crying again.

Why was she feeling like this? She tought she was over Sasuke now! That he didn't mean a thing to her. But he had to kiss her right there...

"Kuso..."

"I'm gonna have to wash your mouth with soap if you keep that up! And that would be troublesome..."

Ino looked up and smiled a bit. "Shikamaru... how did you know I was here?"

He sat down next to her, like he had done the day before, and sighed.

"You always come here. It's your favorite spot..."

She smiled. It was true...

"Plus, I saw you running up here...!"

He just had to come after her... she was crying again... probabily because of the Uchiha bastard again. Damn him!

"You saw them again?"

She nodded. He frowned. There he was again... just being a friend... he needed more... but how would he do that if the bastard was still in her heart?

"But I don't know why I'm like this... I mean... I look at him but I don't feel what I'm suposed to feel you know? The butterflys and the warm feeling deep down! You know!"

Shikamaru leaned back on the rock.

"You're going crazy..."

She laughed and hit him in the arm playfully. But then she became sad again.

"I think... I think I'm just lonely... I was looking for someone to depend on... someone who could love me! And Sasuke was just the guy... he's hot and misteryous... but I don't know... agh you're right! I'm going crazy!"

She rested her head against her knees. "Crazy of lonelyness..." she mumbled...

He looked at her. She was defeated...

"Ino. You're not lonely... I'm here for you..."

She looked back up at him. "Promise?"

"Hai."

She smiled real hard and huged him!

He was surprised! I mean, very surprised! He realy didn't saw that one coming! Her arms felt so soft... and her hair smelled so nice... he huged her back.

"I promise Ino... you'll never be lonely."

Why did he fell in love with her...? Shouldn't he know better? He has an IQ of 200 for crying out loud... and still... 'How troublesome...'

And She will be loved

She will be loved

TBC...

Author Notes: And we have another one down! Aweeeee! I really love these two bakas...:') ah well, leave a review will ya? That really brightens my day! thanks!

Arigatou for reading!

Pandora