Sorry this took so long. Writers block hurts my brain.

Meet Our Relationship, chapter 2

Shikamaru sighed heartily, eyes glazing over slightly. Sleep was so close. He wanted to rest, he really did. There was just so much noise! He growled and sat up, glaring at the two of his team mates who insisted on squabbling five feet away from him. "Would you both shut up?" He requested in a long voice of woe. "I thought we got together to train, not argue."

"You're the one who's sleeping on the grass, Shikamaru!" Ino pointed an incriminating finger at the boy. "You promised to help us get better!"

He stared to the side flatly, "I laid down because you two were taking too long to stretch." he muttered, eyes resting on a bouncing blonde blob over the bushes. He knew Ino was yelling at him, knew Chouji was complaining, and he knew that was Naruto. He opted for Naruto.

"Hey!"

The orange and yellow blonde turned a curious face in their direction. "Hey you guys!" Naruto waved enthusiastically. True to his character, he gravitated towards the attention he was getting, making Shikamaru smirk at a plan well executed. "It's vacation time for us! Why's your team all together?" he wondered, cocking his head to the side and scratching at his ear.

Sasuke hovered behind his new boyfriend, an uneasy feeling already beginning to rise in his stomach. She was slyly drawing near him. Ino. She was almost as bad as Sakura. With not but only his safety in mind, the Uchiha inched towards Naruto's back. If worse came to worse, he would use Naruto as a human shield; she hated Naruto.

"Hi Sasuke!" Ino batted her eyelashes in a flirtatious display of affection.

"Hn." Sasuke stepped away in a display of 'get the hell away from me'.

Chouji gave a jubilant wave to the two, "You two came at a great time. Wanna go get lunch together?"

Naruto's eyes brightened, "Ramen stand is right there!"

"Sure!" Chouji turned to Ino and spat out quickly, "At least someone around here is sane." He tottered down the hill at a steady pace.

Shikamaru sighed and forced his tired bones to standing. "Thanks. They were starting to drive me up a wall." he glanced Ino, knowing she was oblivious to anything he said about her at the time.

Currently, she was heading a snail-paced chase after Sasuke. One step closer to him, and he retreated one and a half. She would sidle up a bit more, and he would step away. Slowly they were doing laps around Naruto until Shikamaru finally guffawed. "Eh... so troublesome."

Naruto chuckled nervously and wondered exactly what Shikamaru was talking about. "Yeah, so uh... lunch?"

"It's eleven."

"That's okay! My treat!" Naruto grinned widely, "It's a good day." he explained, confused as to slightly suspicious body language he had received from his lover.

The shadow nin shifted and watched keenly what he hadn't noticed before. "Uchiha, you're awfully touchy feely today." he noted, staring at the hand on Naruto's hip.

Sasuke retreated another step from the long blonde haired minion, now directly in front of Naruto in his second lap of escape.

"Shut up, Nara. Get your team mate off-!" He stopped short and nearly counter attacked when Ino suddenly grabbed his hand.

"Sasuke! Let's go get lunch together!" she pulled her hair tie out and pulled a seductive pose, "Come on!"

He quickly grabbed Naruto with a free hand and shoved him in front of the girl. "Naruto is getting lunch with me." he held the struggling blonde in place.

"What?"

"Naruto. Lunch. Me."

"So? You two always have lunch together! Today he and Shikamaru can sit together!" She glared at Naruto, then attempted to get around her obstruction.

"No, you don't get it." Naruto pointed over his shoulder at the aggravated boy behind him. "We're together."

"I can see that. But it's MY TURN." she grabbed the front of Naruto's orange jump suit threateningly.

"No, seriously, you don't get it!" Naruto waved his hands in panic, leaning back as far as he could without head butting the person he had been set about to shield. "We're together."

Shikamaru was the first to grasp the vague statement. "You and Sasuke?"

Naruto nodded and tried to escape from the grip of death Ino was attempting to strangle his jumpsuit with.

Sasuke shot Nara a distinct glare that stated, 'Wanna make somethin' of it?'

There was a long silence, wherein Ino stared at Shikamaru for some sort of explanation. "Sasuke's got a boyfriend." he stated, pointing at Naruto. "And I doubt beating him up would make the love of your life entirely happy, ya know?"

Ino turned red. Then purple.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE'S GOT A BOYFRIEND!"

Naruto grinned wide, "Believe it!" A Gai-like pose with two thumbs up greeted her blindingly.

"ARG!" Ino brought a fist down on Naruto's head, the boy smashing to the ground and instantly began a complaining moan.

Sasuke, now unprotected, glanced to the side thoughtfully. "You can be mad at him all you want. I'm the one that asked him out." he murmured broodingly.

"Ow! Teme! Why didn't you do anything!"

Sasuke stared down at the blonde, "You're a ninja. Dobe. Learn to defend yourself." he turned and walked down the hill after Chouji. "I'm hungry."

Ino turned, eyes glazed over in disbelief and horror. "Sasuke's gay...?" she stumbled away from her team mate and the blonde nemesis, jaw slacked and feet dragging. "Gaaay!"

Shikamaru crossed his arms and watched her go. "Well... that's one way to get rid of her..." He mused, tossing his hands behind his head and looking up at the sky. "So uh... you and Sasuke...?"

Naruto could only whimper as the lump on his head grew another centimeter. "Ow... Yeah... We've been dating... kinda... but then last night we... uh... I went to his house." he finished awkwardly, still rubbing his head. "She really took that bad. I hope the rest of those crazy girls aren't like her." he finally turned a curious eye on Shikamaru, wondering how his fellow shinobi was going to react.

"Congrats. You two have beat each other up long enough... it's about time you admitted it." he muttered, eyes lazy and demeanor bored once again. "I'm kinda hungry now that you're buying." He smirked, "And I plan to empty your pockets in return for your mooching in the past."

Naruto pulled a squinty eyed pout and started down the hill. "Whatever. Sasuke'll pay anyway." he muttered, finding his saved seat by Sasuke to be his favorite seat out of the entire Ichiraku bar stool selection. He flopped down and grinned broadly to his boyfriend, "She left!"

"Thank the gods." Sasuke muttered darkly. "You may want to start preparing with a jutsu. I can only imagine Sakura's response." he snorted, glancing at Shikamaru.

The shadow nin ordered with a simple Miso, then flopped forward on the counter with a sigh. "Today has been to busy... so troublesome."

Chouji raised a fork to the bowl he had already received. "The day has barely begun!" he declared jovially.

Sasuke dimmed sadly. "Don't say that."

Hmm… I wasn't too happy with this chapter. I'm sorry. Just didn't come out as I had planned. The next chapter will be better, I promise!