Time
Community/challenge: 7snogs - 3. Embrace
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Title: Time
Fandom/characters: Naruto/Shikamaru, Kiba
Rating: PG
Warnings/notes: n/a
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It wasn't often that they ever got to see each other after they left the academy. Shikamaru was in a different cell, and eventually he moved onto become a chuunin.
The missions were more and more, while time together was less and less.
It was not to say that Kiba did not love spending time with his cell he was assigned, because he did really love them too. Though, it was Shikamaru, Naruto, and Chouji he'd grown up with. They'd called themselves the Super Team, unstoppable--it was them he missed the most. Naruto he saw constantly, since the two were loud enough to hold a shouting conversation over the whole of Konoha. Chouji he ran into at the store, since he was sent to do the shopping in Tsume's and Hana's attempt to keep him out of the house for as long as possible. Shikamaru... well, he saw him once in a blue moon.
So when they had time between missions and training, Kiba would run up behind Shikamaru, and toss his arms around the other, hoping that he was taller instead of them being equal height so he could just pick Shikamaru up as a surprise. Sometimes he'd fall, but lately the lazy ninja had been able to tell when he was coming, and braced himself. Kiba took a few waddling steps at those times, picking Shikamaru up off the ground a few inches as he did so.
They'd talk or train or whatever until Shikamaru had to go again, or maybe Kiba, though it was the first more often than not. Kiba'd call him back as he strolled off, and as Shikamaru turned around, maybe Kiba would finally have the courage to run over and give him a quick kiss instead of his normal blink and pouting wave goodbye.
Rinse, and repeat. Eventually, Kiba knew the recipe would change and he'd be sent out to buy something else at a different store or he just might not need to shout across Konoha. Eventually, he knew he would do something other than wave stupidly and they'd try to make time.