This is a sequel to hot desert nights. This story is labbed family ties
Family Ties
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"stupid sun." shikamaru mubbled pulling the banket over his head. The sun beams shown threw the cracks in the window covers.
About an hour later he crawled from bed , he trudged slowly toward the bathroom.
Opening the door so time later he walked from a steamy shower. He rubbed his hair with a towel to dry it a little. Walking to his dresser he looked threw the drawers. Black pants, fishnet shirt ,black pants , fish net shirt…so boring but he found it to troublesome to always wear new things. He had no reason to wear something flashy anyway he would just destroy it at work anyway.
He walked back toward the bed. Grabing his hair-tye from the nightstand he looked at the picture that was proped away from a viewing point on the bed. Ino and him on wedding day. She looks nice. He thought to himself. He looked to himself, hmm… why am I not even watching the camara?he shook the thought away.
He started to tie his hair up. Snap it broke. "damn." He putting his stinging finger in his mouth. Then taking it out he shock of the sting from where it had snapped him. Opening the nightstand drawer was another picture.
He smiled looking at it. It was him and Temari a few years ago. It was a party, they where sitting on a couch togather, a cup of what looked like coca cola in each of their hands. What a night. Kiba had spiked the drinks. Now that they had become older most drank a lot at the parties.
He laughed. Picking it up he turned it over.
Shika,
Great night. Let's do it again sometime soon.
It was signed Temari in fancy lettering. They did do more party's togather. They spent a lot of time togather. But he was told he had to marry ino.
Putting the picture away he thought of the day he told Temari about the wedding that was to happen. It couldn't be helped. That was the only day he though he ever saw her cry.
Not long after the wedding he decided to take as many missions as possible, he was gone most days home maybe once a week if even that. He took any sand mission he could get. Temari stayed in touch. Things between them grew till…
"daddy!" a small girl squealed running in and jumping on the the bed. " Daddy, Daddy come watch me!" she smiled insanely jumping up and down messing up the covers.
"ok."
"yay!" she squealed again grabbing his hand and pulling him down the stairs, through the kitchen, to the patio, till they reached the backyard.
"ok , ok watch me!" she held her hands out in front of her mouth. She blew strongly. "looky, looky." She ran over to where he was standing. "see.." she held her hands out lifting them upward.
In her hands was a small bird made from fire. " I can make him dance to." She threw her hands up. The small flaming creature went into the air. She crossed her fingers a few times then holding her index finger in the air she made swirling motions. "can you see it daddy?"
"yes sweetie." He smiled slightly and watched amused as the small child danced like a ribbon girl.finally after a few minutes the bird then flew into her open palm, closing it the bird was extinguished.
" you like? I name him pookie." She looked up eyes beady and craving attention, from her father who she rarely saw but so longed to be with.
"mines better." The boy was leaning against the house wall not to far from where shika stood.
"nut un!" she protested placing her hands on her hips. " mine is." Her tounge poked slowly between her lips. "nunn." She taunted him.
" yes so.Uncle taught me himself!" he was refering to uncle Chouji , shikamaru's best friend and a long time partner. But after he got married they rarely did missions togather.
"uncle isnt that good!" she protested still hands perched on the hips.
"yes so ill prove it!" he began hand signals.
"tran-ki-yo chee!" the boy's body doubled in size.
"now your just fat!" the girl giggled.
"im not fat!" the boy screamed raising a fist. " hu" the boy heavyed out a heavy breath as he slammed his fist into the ground creating a huge crackto the point where the girl was standing.
"ahh-," the girl scramed as she fell down the hole. Shika grabbed her hand and pulled her up at the last second.
"no more!" he said placing Taranie back to the ground. " you are family no killing each other. You learn from each other and learn how to grow by the helping of one another!" he looked down on the two. The kids watched the ground. They hated being scolded. " got it?" he pointed a finger to the pair.
"yes daddy." The girl then hugged his leg she reached now just to his mid thigh. She was short for the age of six. But her brother Chomaru was large for his age of eight coming well to the middle of shika's chest.
" im going inside. Just practice and be good." He turned to walk threw the door.
"ok." The chimmed togather.
"good." He walked into the kitchen. Ino was sitting in a chair face down on the table sobbing.
" a… shika…" she lefted her head slightly and whipped her eyes with a towel. " I didn't want you to see me like this." She stood from the chair and walking to the sink she picked up a dish proceeding to wash it.
" Ino what is it." He placed a hand on her shoulder.
She stood silently scrubbing. He noticed what she was wearing. Lose pants and a baggy shirt. Completely opposite from her normal wear. She seemed exasperated. Her hair was a mess pulled away from her face and slightly greasey.
"let me give you a break…" he pushed her to the side gently pulling the dish from her hand he slowly lowered it under the water.
"no." she grabbed it back.
"don't be so stubborn, you need a break." He took the dish back.
"let me do it." Jerking it from him she turned to the sink. Her face was a little red now and sweat was starting to form.
He backed down letting her have what she wanted. " mommy!" Chomaru came in screaming holding his arm with the opposite hand.
"what is it baby?" She turned around quickly. The plat shattered into chunks on the floor as she swept Chomaru up in her arms setting him on the counter. She removed him hand and placing a wet towel over his arm she turned to shika.
" idiot." Taranie said walking in the door slamming shut behind her.
"what is it?" shika asked.
Ino lifted the rag slowly. Chomaru's arm was burnt severly.
" Taranie!" shika shouted.
"don't. " ino became louder drowning out shika's yell.
"what" shika turned to her angry and confused.
"how did this happen?" she looked down at Chomaru. " how?"
" I wanted to play with it." He looked from his mother's gaze.
" I was playing with pookie and Chomaru wanted to play so I gave pookie to him but it didn't work." Taranie said filling in the gaps Chomaru had left in his story.
"why would you try to play with fire?" shikamaru looked to his son in concern.
"Aunt hina's kids can do the same things. I wanted to play with fire" he looked up. " I just wanted to." A few tears came from his eyes.
"sweetie," ino hugged him.
"mommy why cant I play with fire like Taranie?" his eyes where wide and alert ready to soak up anything he could learn so he could play with pookie too.
"baby, everyone is made diffrently, He just has it that way. You arent like your sister and your sister isn't like you. People arent ment to be the same." She pulled away from the hug.
"but im like uncle." He cocked his head sideways.
"a… sweetie" she looked to shika for help. He gave none ignoring her pleading eyes. " you and uncle are special like aunt hina's kids. Do you understand?"
" you're a bad person mommy " Taranie breathed under her breath as she walked off. She was only six but she was a spit fire and very much a loner, but she had brains and skill to get things done, she even learned all her jutsu's on her own and was the top in her class.
" I get it , God made me special and uncle special and made us so we can help each other right."
"that's right sweetie." Ino then wrapped his arm before sending him off to play.
When she was done she sat down at the table face in her palms , she was also sweating again and her face was tinted a pink
" you ok?" he asked placing his hands on her shoulders..
" I didn't think she would find out so soon."
"well she is his child after all. Smart and quick."
"its not what you think." She turned to face him. " I was drunk, very drunk, it just sorta happened." She shook her head. " it was before we where married those few months."
He looked at her somewhat shocked.
" I was an accident, I didn't know till I went to the docter for stomach pains, my mom found out and then I become engaged. To you. Sasuke decided he wouldn't accept what had happened, he said it was a good time, but he didn't want to commit." She shook her head, " I really thought better of him till that."
" I didn't know, much, but I assumed as much when out of no where I became engaged, and you had a "pre-mature" that was advergae size." He watched her more intently she began to sweat more the pink on her face was now a pale red.
"but Chomaru wasn't an accident, that one we knew what we were doing, he takes responsibility for it. That's why he is always helping him do jutsu's. he promised to help out when ever I needed it."
"did you love him?"
"who sasuke?"
"no, chouji."
"yes." She paused. " I do love him, more than words can say, after we became engaged , I told chouji what had happened, he said he would marry me and treat it as him own.But the wedding couldn't be stopped. My mother wouldn't allow it, she said it would look bad." Ino was breathing deep shallow breaths.
" un." Shika knew that it was chouji. Chouji told him that ino was having his kid. So when Chomaru was born it was giving an Akimichi Clan name, to honor this.
"I still see him a lot," she looked away. " like you and temari …" she trailed off the sentence. Before pauseing. The room was silent for a long while. " do you love her?"
"yes."
"would you have marryed her if I wouldn't have been in the picture?" she looked to the ground ashamed.
"yes." A tear rolled down her cheek hitting the ground softly. " but I don't regret marrying you either."
Ino looked up. " really?"
" I care about you too. Just the level of love is different for you guys."
"ok." Ino smiled using the back of the chair to pull herself up. Once to her feet.she began to walk to the sink. She swayed a little. The red was heavy on her cheeks now along with her forhead.
"ill be back" shika said kissing her on the cheek before walking out of the house.
The breeze calmly rushed across him. It felt nice he thought to himself, just like temari's gentle kisses after she gets worn out. (wink wink)
"hah" he breathed out heavyly. Glad that's over . I wonder when I will see Temari again…I miss her…he breathed out heavy again.
He watched night sky from a park bench. Head tossed over the benched back. Are clouds the only decent thing in this world?
"hey can I join you?" it was chouji..
"yah.. go for it." He didn't look up but he knew something was wrong with chouji.
" shikamaru I have something to-." Shika interrupted stoping him mid sentence.
"I talked with her about it. Im gonna let her know if anything happens you are to take care of her. I don't want her left alone and stuck like she is now … with someone she doesn't love… ok?"
"shika that's not what im talking about…."
Shika looked up . chouji was sitting next to him on the bench. "hn."
"its that she is pregnant again…" chouji hung his head.
"o-." shika settle back into a comfertable position. " no one else will know they will think its mine till they grow up more and have none of my talents…" ( flash )
"daddy how do you do that?"
"its my jutsu…. You want to try…."
"yes, yes, yes, show me!" Taranie shouted excitedly she watched closely as her dad showed her.
"got it?" he showed her one more time to be safe.
"ok. My turn." She did the hand symbols and tried desperately to change the tree in the backyards shadow. After an annoying ten minutes she gave up. " ill try again another time."
He watched her try and fail everyday. He couldn't seem to help her figure it out. One night he was watching her practice in pure fustration she yelled then lundged at the tree fire shot from her hand leaving a hole threw the tree and burning a hole in the fence on the other side of it.
(end flash)
" they know now, the kids do I mean, or atleast Taranie knows. Chomaru for now thinks God just made him and uncle alike."
"that's good." He looked at shika. " how did Taranie know?"
"did you forget who's kid she is? She has his brains." Shika chuckled. " and his attitude."
"do you think she will inherit-?"
"she might inherit the eyes though it's a small chance, because she's female but she seems stronger than I ever remember sasuke to be even when he was a few years older than she is now."
"so are you and ino going to ever let them meet?"
"no." he paused.
"she doesn't need the trouble. Neither do her mother and i. To troublesome." Shika sighed, " he didn't want her then but he might want her when he see's what she has become." Sigh. " I should get back."
"yah I guess."
" you want come too. You can see Chomaru. He is slightly injured but you can encourage him he will get better faster."
"I don't think it's a good idea." Chouji stood up to walk away.
"ino would really like it if you came, she needs support right now."
"she needs her husband. Not me."
"she needs someone she loves to care for her in away I can't." he put an arm on chouji's shoulder. " its fine. Im with someone else and ino knows about it. She needs you."
Chouji seemed weak and somewhat sappy at the moment but by the time the guys had reached the house everything was fine.
"ino!" shika yelled in the door.
No answer.
"hmm….hold on." Shika walked around some, when he reached the kitchen he found ino on the floor. She was red faced, more than before. Her skin felt cold. Sweat droplets surrounded the small stress lines in her face. " chouji get in here."
Shikamru and chouji then carried her to the bedroom and sat her gentlely on the bed. With a wet wash rag on her head. Shika hoped she would cool down. all the house work and kids, and missions had taken a toll on her body.
Chouji decided he would come over more often to watch over her and help her not be so stressed.
Meanwhile months began to pass. Without a mission to sand. Shika became loney waiting for the time when he could see her again
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"miss congrats." The doctor came in. Temaro was sitting on the hospital bed, dressed in gown and all.
"what does that mean?" she asked confused.
"well the x-rays show when you where injured on the last mission nothing was broken but you are pregnant. So I wanted to be the first to say con-." She grabbed him by the collar ripping him forward.
"what do you mean im pregnant!" she screamed at the top of her lungs in his face.
"miss can you let go." He said reluctantly gulping. "ill tell you."
"fine." She shoved him away.
"when a guy injects his-"
"no. no. the part where im pregnant!" she threw her hands in the air. " I cant e pregnant I just cant be." She paced the room mummbling to herself.
"well miss you are full of a happy bouncey little girl. It was hard to pin point her because she keeps disapearing."
"disapearing? What the heck are you talking about?" she looked at him funny.
"well she doesn't actually leave your stomach but she apears to not be there when we checked the second time. Like she is playing hide and go seek in the dark with herself."
"or her shadow." Temari rubbed her stomach gentlely watching it. "shikamaru."
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Ok this was written for raex18 who said I should add to the first one. Here is the add on. I plan to write one more chapter after this but for now here you guys go….
And sorry temari wasn't in it much I wanted to show what was going on that shika would cheat on his wife in the first one where it didn't say much. Ok. Hope you enjoyed please review.