Title: Boxers
Rating: K+
Disclaimer: see first chapter
Authors Note: Taste the Rainbow
"Would you like to explain this?" Her father asked holding the offending object up in one hand.
"What……" Ino trailed off, not exactly sure how to respond. But she was sure that dealing with her over reactive father was bound to cause one massive headache.
"Where did these come from?" Inoshi asked his daughter.
"Ummm….." was Ino's well thought out reply.
"Is there something you need to tell me?" He asked.
"Well you see-" Ino began.
"Does your mother know about this?" He cut her off.
"Actually she does," she began to explain. However Ino stopped when she saw her father turn an alarming shade of red.
"And she didn't tell me?" He sounded less angry and more dumbfounded. And sat down heavily on his daughters desk chair.
Ino, still not sure how this all started looked at her father with a worried expression on her face, "Mom didn't think you would care."
"She didn't think I would care?" He sounded insulted, "You're my little girl, how could I not care?"
Highly confused now Ino tried to carry on, "It's not a big deal, we use his house all the time."
Inoshi's eyes widened until they threatened to fall off his face, "How did you mother find out?"
"She was here the whole time."
Mouth no hanging open, Inoshi was completely out of things to say. His innocent baby girl was no longer so….well innocent.
However it was that moment when the matriarch of the Yamanaka house strolled by the open door to her daughter's room and saw her husband sitting dejectedly on the desk chair.
Popping her head into the room she asked, "Something wrong honey?"
Inoshi just lifted up his arm and a pair of boxer shorts with the name 'Nara' scrawled on the waistband in permanent marker.
"Ino, I thought I told you to give those back to Shikamaru after I washed them," she scolded.
Ino looked a little sheepish, "I've been sleeping in them."
"Ino," her mother said warningly.
"They're comfy! And a lot lighter than anything I have to sleep in. It's hot at night."
"Sweetie, if you want to sleep in boxer shorts, I'll buy you some. Don't steal your teammates when they use our shower."
"Shower?" Inoshi questioned.
"Yes dear," Mom Yamanaka said, "Shikamaru used our shower last week after a mission. The one at his house was broken."
"I've used theirs a ton of times," Ino said.
"Oh," he said softly. That actually made a lot of sense.
"What you all up in arms about?" Inoshi's wife asked him.
He blushed bright red, "Well you see…." and trailed off.
Everyone was quiet for a moment. Until what was implied finally clicked in Ino's head.
"DADDY!"
-fin