Pairings: ShikaIno
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Words: 1,409

Info: Shikamaru Nara and Ino Yamanaka (and other) are seventeen. For all of you Sasuke fans, he returned a year ago after defeating Itachi and has lightened up just a tad. Orochimaru was defeated. The scene is somewhere on a hill in Konoha (first person point-of-view, Nara Shikamaru's thoughts).

A/N: I don't own Naruto or any of the characters!

It's Worth It

Nara Shikamaru a.k.a. Konoha's biggest bum, are two names I am known for. Yes I am lazy, life is just too troublesome and I feel no need to deal with it, especially early in the morning when my blonde teammate, Yamanaka Ino, always comes to my house to wake me up or bother me.

Heh, my blonde teammate, how she is so blind to the world in front of her. It just makes my life more of a bothersome. Why you may ask? Well it's because of these stupid feelings I have for her. Yes I Shikamaru have feelings for Ino Yamanaka. Why? I don't know why I do, I just know they are and they irritate me.

The butterflies in the pit of my stomach flutter when ever I speak to her, this really gets on my nerves. Sometimes my cheeks turn the color of a light pink, a very light pink that she doesn't notice thank Kami. When she uses her Shintenshin no Jutsu and I have to watch over her body sometimes my heart races like crazy and I start to talk to myself, I've been lucky that she never returns to her body when I am. With an IQ of 200 you would think I would be smarter than to have feelings for a girl crazy about The Great Uchiha.

Uchiha Sasuke, that bastard, what's so special about him? Most of the girls in Konoha have a 'thing' for him; he's even got his own fangirls. Ino says it's because he's hot and mysterious, everything I'm not. I don't know what else there is that makes Sasuke so special, but she can't get her head out of the clouds.

I don't know why she even likes him, he isn't there for her every time she cries because of him, saying how she isn't pretty enough for him and why he has to be on the same team as big-forehead meaning Haruno Sakura. She cries for him over and over again for stupid reasons. I say she's just wasting her time, but I do not dare to tell her that, the result of that would be a bother. Her tears have covered my shoulder many times and I do it for nothing, just helping my teammate drown out her sorrows.

I've tried many times to tell her that I feel this way, but every time I start something always goes wrong and I end up saying something rather stupid. Our teammate Akimichi Chouji sees these feelings I have for her, just why she can't see it? It would make things less troublesome if she did.

I sigh while I am sitting on my favorite hill in Konoha watching the clouds pass by. The sun is right in the middle of the sky getting ready to set. I have to say the scene is rather beautiful. With the blood red and dark orange sky and the bright sun, it makes things a less stressful.

My thoughts return to Ino. That bothersome girl, she's what I would look for in a girl I guess you could say and it helps that I've known her since we were younger. She makes my life a less boring one in some ways.

Maybe it's her bright smile or her cocky smirk that she does during her battles or maybe it's her bossy ways. It could also be her blue eyes that sparkle whenever she wins or when she's happy or when she feels triumphant. Whatever the reason is for my feelings I could care less. I know that the feelings are there and I don't know if they will ever leave, I might be cursed to have them till I am buried in the dirt lying in my coffin, that will be my luck.

"Such a bothersome," I mutter under my breath. My life is just a bother. From going on missions to hearing Ino complain to my mother's bitching.

"Shika?" I hear a voice question. I know right away that it is Ino and don't bother to open my eyes.

"Hn?" I reply. I hear her take light steps towards me.

"What are you doing out here?" she asks.

I open my eyes and look up at the sky and answer her question, "I was looking at the clouds." I sigh then add, "is there something you wanted?" I make it sound that I am a little irritated, which I am a bit.

She sits down beside me and hugs her legs to her chest. "What's so interesting about the clouds Nara Shikamaru, you always waste your time out here," she mumbles.

"Their shapes I guess," I answer. I turn my head to look at her. She has old trails of where tears must've run down the sides of her cheeks and her eyes are slightly red and puffy. "Ino?"

She stares out in the distance then quietly says, "he was with big-forehead today." She sniffs then looks at me. "Shika tell me the truth, am I pretty?"

Oh great, how troublesome. I look up at the sky. This was more difficult then I thought. I think of the right words to say, but it's me we're talking about. "How troublesome," I mumble.

She looks at me with her blue eyes. "Well? Am I?" she asks.

I close my eyes. Why must my life be so difficult? "Yamanaka Ino, tell me why you always ask this question when you already know its answer? Don't you always brag about how you look?" She stays silent then I add sighing, "in my eyes…you are the prettiest girl I've lain eyes on." Was that what she wanted to hear? I sigh once more and I open my eyes.

She has her cocky smirk on her cute face. "Of course I am Nara Shikamaru," she brags then looks at me while she adds, "thanks."

I just nod then look back at the sky; it's getting darker. I put my hands behind my head to use them to support it.

Ino lies down and stares up at the sky as well. "This is actually quite nice," she remarks. She lifts her head up and rested it upon my stomach.

I feel my cheeks turn hot and I know I am blushing once again. I keep my eyes at the sky enjoying the silence, but once it is broken I don't mind.

"You know Shika you're kind of sweet in your own kind of way," she announces. "And….I like that."

I gulp, why? I don't know. She just continues. "You're kind of cute too." She giggles then looks moves so she is sitting up again. In my head I am saying 'go on'. "You know what, maybe I'm not made for Sasuke no maybe he's not for me, why didn't I notice that sooner." She smiles and stares down at me. "Why didn't you tell me?" she asks.

I look at her with a confused look. What is she talking about? Her cocky smirk returns. "Don't play dumb Nara Shikamaru, I know you like me." She gets close to my face. "And you will be cursed."

My eyes widened a bit. I must have said that out loud, the whole thing about her eyes, her smile, her smirk, and all of that nonsense. "How much did you hear?" I ask.

"Only a little bit, the very ending before you said 'such a bothersome'," she informs.

Well at least I don't have to tell her. I would probably sound like Hyuuga Hinata when she stutters trying to talk to Naruto. I stay quiet and look at her.

She smiles and closes her eyes. "Well Shika looks like you're going to be my first date so when should it be!" she said almost too cheerful.

Again I gulp. How troublesome, why me? She grabs my hand and pulls me off the ground to stand up, I barley move, but decide it would be smarter that I do. I sigh tiredly.

She glares at me. "Shika you're not going home yet!" she declared. "You're going to walk me home first," she said in a quieter and softer voice.

I look at her. That's not going to be a big problem, we live right next to each other. I just didn't know she was going to grab my hand, which she did. I blush a bit, but follow her lead. Told you my life was troublesome, but it's worth it.

There's my second drabble! As you've noticed I'm been doing fluff, well my angst ones are taking some time to type and think about, so I'll start by doing some fluff for you fluff lovers out there. My next drabble might be for you NejiTen fans.

I'll take idea requests as long as they stay in the couples I like together because I can't see them all mixed around, sorry. If you want me to do your OC you created I can put her with Gaara, just give me info on your character, and please no yaoi and yuri.

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