Thanks for the reviews everyone. The reason i did this pairing is because i think it is a underrated one and Chouji is great character with a lot of depth but sadly gets overlooked.
Later after visiting hours ended and Ino had to go the Hokage came to check on Chouji.
She read his chart and sighed "I swear every time I turn around I patching one you rookie eight back together. But i have to admit you guys never fail to amaze me. You sir should be dead, last time i saw an Akimichi us those fancy pills of yours, all that was left was a smoldering skeleton and about five hundred broken stone nin. At least we think it five hundred, your great uncle didn't leave us much to work with.."
Chouji nodded, he remembered the stories his father use to tell him about great uncle Ryonga. Rival hidden villages called him the "mountain that walked as a man" cause they claimed facing him was more akin to facing a force of nature.
Tsunade continued, "But I believe you will make a full recovery, there were a few anomalies in your chakra and muscle systems that i want to study but i don't believe they be of any concern."
Chouji bowed his head as best his could from his bed position, "I am sorry we failed the mission Hokage-sama."
Tsunade snorted and her face darken "The traitor Sasuke made his choice, he decided power was more important then his friends and village. The official has been changed to reflect the change of the nine to eight and Sasuke is a missing nin Anyway, if you eight can manage not to get killed maybe we will get another generation of senin. But now get some rest, you will recover but it will take time."
With that Tsunade turned off the lights and left Chouji to sleep. But the only thing Chouji did in the dark was think. People often saw him eating and think he was self absorbed with eating, but nothing can farther from the truth. He was very sensitive and observant of things, it came from years of years of being picked on and laughed at, eventually he managed to build a wall by eating to store energy for his clan techniques but sometimes you can't chew enough to drown the harshness of children.
He figured that is one of the things that him and Shika had in common and forged their friendship, they were both much deeper then they appear. Chouji yawned and before dozing off he thought how great it will be to get back to some serious cloud watching.
Chouji poked at his breakfast, he couldn't figure out if it was food or if his breakfast accidentally got switched with something from the Konoah R&D lab and if some ninja in a lab coat is running his eggs through a spectrum analyzer jutsu. Chouji tried a bite and decided to pass and wait until lunch.
"Yo", in walked Shika. "To troublesome to eat?"
Chouji smiled, "Smiled I just came back from the brink of death, don't feel like being sent back by some bad impression of food."
Shika chuckled as he flopped down in a chair and lean back in it. Chouji always wondered no matter the style of chair Shika found a way to lean back in it. He noticed Shika's dad shared the ability, Chouji wondered if it is the Nara bloodlimit.
"It was troublesome fighting that sound chick without you, not everyone can plow through curse seal opponents like you.. Your showboating cause me to be in debt to that sand woman. You owe me big."
Chouji laughed he knew this was Shika's roundabout way of saying he was proud of him and he was glad to see Chouji was alright.
"But you know what are the most troublesome, women. There is no jutsu more deadly then a woman on a mission."
Chouji smiled Shika was genius in many things information gathering and analyzing was the least of them and Chouji wasn't surprised he knew what happened yesterday.
"So you heard, I think she was just being emotional, the whole Sasuke thing and me almost dying. Give her a few days and she will back to pounding me on the head for eating to much. It meant nothing."
Shika frowned and his voice got slightly deeper (the only way to tell he is getting angry)."It goes beyond troublesome when you put down yourself, pisses me off. You enough power to level a forest but none of the strength to believe in yourself. You have a good and noble heart Chouji and any girl would be damn lucky to be able to claim it.
Chouji sighed and looked at the ceiling." Maybe you are right."
Shika caught sight of the clock on the wall "I got a meeting, I will see you later."
As Shika left Chouji stomach started growling, and he knew it will be an eternity until lunch."