The Magnificent Sasuke?

Summery- Choji's in love and Ino abuses Mr. Fluff.

Ino smiled as she pulled back her purple flower spattered comforter and crawled into her bed. With a soft yawn, she nuzzled her head into her fuzzy pillow. After wiggling her body a bit to get comfy, she closed her eyes in preparation for her favorite pastime and what pastime might that be? Why dreaming of Uchiha Sasuke of course!

Ino's smile grew larger as she thought of her future life with the handsome Uchiha survivor. They would live in a big house with two beautiful children, a boy that looked almost exactly like Sasuke, a girl who look a lot like her. Sasuke would finally lighten up under her cheerful influence, becoming the perfect attentive husband and shower her with gifts…..

"Daddy's home! Daddy's home!" , a pretty little girl with unruly black hair runs by Ino, practically knocking her over, running to her father still clothed in his Jounin vest.

"OooF!" the young man catches the ecstatic girl with a bewildered look that seems to say " what did I do to deserve a child like this, " but Ino can see a hint of a smile on his lips .But as soon as he sniffs the air the smile turns into a grimace," cooking again I see," and then a smirk " so what is it today, burnt stir fry or overcooked eel?"

"Hey!" Ino's soft smile turns into a look of annoyance, " I can cook very well thank you very much! There must be something wrong with the oven. "

"Hn, you mean one we just bought last month." Walking to her husband , Ino lifts her hand in a attempt to smack him , but he easily catches it, using said hand to pull her into his arms, a well thought out move he knows will cause her anger to melt away. She sighs fury forgotten, " I missed you Shika, whenever you go on such dangerous missions I get so worried…"

"Ino come on, you don't have to. I always come back. " , Shikamaru closes his eyes hoping she's not going to start crying like he thinks she is, unfortunately his prediction is correct. "SHIKA YOU COULD HAVE DIED! YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DIE! NOT WHILE I STILL LOVE YOU!"

"…"

"Shika, I said I love you."

Some mumbling

"If I say I love you you're supposed to say it back!"

"I did!"

"Well you're supposed to say it loud enough for me to hear it!"

Mumbling about a half an octave louder.

"Nara Shikamaru you tell me you love me or you're sleeping on the couch for a week! And not the nice one in the living room, the lumpy one in the den!"

"Ok, ok, I love you. You are so troublesome"

Ino raises her hand in preparation for a slap, when she notices his big grin, she drops down her arm and nuzzles him instead and he nuzzles back , "I really do love you Ino ." Another nuzzle from Ino, "Say it again Shika." "I love you Nara InOW!"

Both Ino and Shikamaru look down at their daughter who has, in her irritation of not being the center of attention for a WHOLE FIVE MINUTES, bit her father's leg hard. Shikamaru rubs his leg, but continues to smile "Of course, I love you more Shikatana. "

"Ahhhh!", Ino sat straight up in her bed sending her stuffed bear, Mr. Fluff, into a flower tessellated wall. Seeing what she had done, she leapt up to save said bear. Scooping him up, she began to hug him apologetically as she remembered just where she had gotten Mr. Fluff. Shikamaru had given him to her on her 8th birthday and she had loved the bear ever since. For a moment Ino thought she could smell Shikamaru's strong woodsy scent on the bear, she sighed breathing it in deeply.

Her eyes snapped open as she realized what she was doing and the bear went splat against the wall again. Ino picked Mr. Fluff up and cuddled him "Sorry Mr. Fluff, it's not your fault that Shikamaru's a jerk. " A kinda cute jerk, if Ino's dream was any indication of what the Nara boy was going to look like in the future well…he might just end up being kinda hot…

Ahhhh! What was she thinking! Shikamaru wasn't hot! He would never ever be hot! And what the hell was she doing dreaming about him! Maybe you had a dream about him because you like him. Yeah maybe she had a dream about him because she…WHAT! HELL NO! He must have learned some sort of new jutsu and was using it against her! Yes that was it! Damn that Shikamaru!

"I'm going to kill Nara Shikamaru! ", she threw Mr. Fluff against the wall for emphasis and then ran over to give him a sorry snuggle.

Poor Mr. Fluff….

"And then she gave me these chips! For free! They're pineapple and guacamole. They just came out and I've wanted to try them all week. And she gave me them for free! I think I'm in love!"

Shikamaru raised an eyebrow at his exuberant best friend, "You just met her two days ago."

"Yes but she's pretty, and she gave me free chips and…they're good."

"…." Shika rubbed the back of his neck thinking,"Hey Choji?"

"Hmmm""

"Do you really like her?"

Choji looked a bit indignant, "Course I do, I just said I did."

"Yeah but…" Shikamaru continued to rub the back of his neck trying to ignore the flush that was rising to his cheeks," if you didn't want to like her…you could make yourself stop right? I mean if you really didn't want to like her, there must be some way to make yourself stop right?"

Now Choji was even more confused, "What do you mean?"

Shika thought of the way Ino's soft body had felt against his, how that one troublesome lemon lock of hair had tickled his cheek." Nothing, never mind."

"Nara Shikamaru!"

Both boy's eyes widened, they knew that voice. Shikamaru cringed as he saw Ino stomping towards him, her hands clenched firmly to her sides and her face stormy. Choji cowered along side him.

"You asshole!"

"Ow! Ino, what the hell are you…"

"Stay out of my dreams!"

"What! Ouch! What are you talking abo.."

"You jerk!"

"But I didn't do anythOW!"

"I love you Nara InOW!"

Ino's hand dropped and her face grew pale as she stared at the now very bruised and slightly bloody Chuunin…then she to ran away.

Choji looked at Shika more confused then he had ever been in his whole potato chip filled life. "What just happened here?"

"I have no idea…"

"Huh…I usually don't have any idea why Ino does anything anyway."

"Yeah..."

Choji looked at Shika, who was now rubbing his new black eye, sympathetically, so he offered the one thing that always made him feel better. "You want some chips?"

"Uh, yeah sure, "the pineapple headed Nara took out a couple chips, put some in his mouth and chewed thoughtfully. "Hey, these are pretty good."