I noticed a lot of errors regarding pronouns in my last chapter.. hopefully you can all read through typos!
CHAPTER 28 - Decided
"Well, where should I even start?" Nagato asked the boys hypothetically, who all seemed totally intrigued by the Zaku situation. "It all started sophomore year, and everyone knows Kin throws the largest parties, so it was never missed. Didn't matter how cold it was, the girl would still pop in with some booty shorts. Anyway, by this time, she still had a major crush on Shikamaru, and figured having Zaku around, she would use him to make Shikamaru jealous."
"Could already tell how that probably failed," Kankuro commented. "The guy's oblivious."
Kiba rolled his eyes. "Tell me about it."
"Mhm," Nagato noised, continuing to tell the story. "Also, a key detail, Shikamaru and Tayuya were still dating during this time."
"Jeesh, the girl must be that much of a brat to be so determined on getting a boy who's taken," Kankuro said.
"Yeah, and so at one particular party," Nagato took a sip of water from his bottle. "Kin pops up, wearing practically nothing and performs a whole lap dance on top of Zaku while people watched. And guess who she saw making out in the corner of the room? Tayuya and Shikamaru. And let me tell you, I have never seen a girl shout so loud."
Deidara laughed. "Here, let me show you guys a reenactment," he would stand up, swaying his hips. "SHIKAMARU, HOW CAN YOU DATE THAT SLUT?! DON'T YOU KNOW SHE'S ONLY USING YOU! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M THE ONE IN LOVE WITH YOU? I DON'T EVEN LIKE ZAKU, I LOVE YOU!"
"Damn! What happened after she said that shit?" Kankuro asked them.
Both Deidara and Nagato shrugged. Deidara then sat back down on the couch, about to answer Kankuro's question. "Pretty sure Tayuya dragged Shikamaru off, not wanting him to believe that. But damn, Tayuya is such a hoe."
"No worries, that's all in the past," Nagato told the middle child. "Besides, Temari's a whole babe! And she's nice, well, sometimes."
Sasori nodded, agreeing. "Yes, your sister is beautiful! I just wouldn't really want to be on her bad side."
"You're tellin' me," Kankuro told them. "You guys should of seen her back in our old school when some random pipsqueak slapped her ass."
All the boys in the room shuddered.
Shikamaru and Temari walked up the stairs to the girls' dorm room. As Temari put her hand on the handle, she figured it was already unlocked, but knocked politely in case someone inside was changing.
"Come in!" She heard Ino shout, in which she welcomed her and Shikamaru inside.
Shikamaru closed the door behind him, sitting on Hinata's bed, which was the nearest one to the door. He then pulled Temari onto his lap, casually letting her sit on top of him. For the rest of the girls, Ino and Sakura were seated on Sakura's bed, Ten Ten was on her spinny desk chair, while Hinata sat on a bean-bag chair between her bed and Sakura's bed.
"Aww, you two are so cute." Ino looked up from her phone, eyeballing the position of Temari and Shikamaru.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah-" Shikamaru waved a hand at her, shrugging her off. His hands immediately met his ears as Ino's pitchy scream abrupt out of nowhere.
Ten Ten jumped. "Woah, woah! Why are you screaming?!"
"Look at her neck!" Ino stood up, pointing to Temari's neck.
Temari grew confused for a second, until she remembered that Shikamaru had given her love bites earlier before. She then figured the bites may have formed bruises. She then quickly covered her neck by wrapping her hand around it.
"N-No! There's nothing there!" Temari exclaimed, waving her other hand around.
"Oh, yes there was!" Ino gripped Temari's wrist, ripping her hand off of her neck. "She has hickeys!"
Shikamaru facepalmed. "Alright, alright! Jeez, can y'all leave her alone? You're acting like we're not together."
"Oh, we know you two are together. It's just you guys have been dating for like, what? Not even a month? And you already reached that base?" Sakura jumped in, putting her hands on her hips.
"Very impressive, Temari." Ten Ten sarcastically clapped her hands together.
Temari was very embarrassed, but nonetheless she decided to take the action on keeping her cool. "Alright, fine. You caught me. But can we actually talk about the situation now? It's kind of serious."
"You're right, sorry." Ten Ten apologized.
'Well, that was easy.' Shikamaru thought to himself.
Ino walked backed to her bed, folding her legs next to Sakura. "Alright, so what's the situation?" Ino asked the other blonde.
Temari sighed. "Today at lunch, Kankuro texted me saying Kin randomly went up to him and invited him to a party, meanwhile hinting that 'his friends' should go too."
"What?" The girls all said in unison.
"Yep, and I know what you guys are thinking. We should just not go-" Temari then got caught off by Sakura.
The pink-haired girl spoke of her opposition instantly. "No, we need to go," Sakura told her. "It's clear on why she wants us to go, it's because of Shikamaru. And who knows what else can happen if we don't? Kin is just going to keep bothering us until she gets her way, it's how she is every year."
Temari smiled at the girl. "I'm glad we're on the same boat."
"Huh? So you're saying we're actually going to go to this party?" Sakura asked her, expecting to explain herself more but surprisingly didn't have to. Like she thought before, Temari really is different.
Shikamaru blinked. "Yeah? Did you not just say-"
"Yes, yes, I know, I know," Sakura clarified. "It's just I was expecting myself to have to explain myself more on why we had to."
"No worries, I can read situations, no problem." Temari smirked.
"Well, looks like it's official. We're going to the party." Ten Ten stretched up from her seat.
Hinata then gave her two-cents. "Wait, so if we're all aware that Kin may do something there to try to get close to Shikamaru, wouldn't it be smart to try to be on a look out for him?"
"Yeah, well, looks like I'm not drinking at this party." Shikamaru said, snuggling closer to his girlfriend.
"Oh honey," Ino crossed her arms. "Girls can spike drinks too, you know? I've seen it happen before."
"Well damn, looks like I'm gonna just not piss all of that night."
Temari rolled her eyes. "Oh, you'll get to drink. It's just that we need to know our limits," she caressed Shikamaru blindly on his cheek. "Besides doesn't that girl got like a lot of rooms in her house? There's ought to be a nice bathroom we can all just lounge in until the party dies down."
"You think we haven't tried that?" Sakura told her, causing a face of disbelief.
Temari blinked, looking around to see everyone's face nodding or in complete disturbance.
"Now wait," Deidara raised his hands up. "You haven't told us what was going on with Kin, so speak up, my man."
Kankuro straightened his arched posture, stretching backward as the floor forced him to sit in such a terrible back position. "She went up to me during lunch, inviting me to a party, then really hinted that she wanted 'my friends and my sister's friends' to come along too."
"Oh hell no, we have to go." Nagato demanded.
"What?! Why would we?" Kankuro asked him in surprise, not expecting that answer at all.
Sasori kindly jumped in. "Well, if we don't, Kin really is just going to keep bothering your sister and Shikamaru."
"Yeah? And so what if we do go to the party? I feel like that annoying bitch is still going to keep coming at us regardless." Kankuro said almost angrily.
"True, she may. But I feel like she would be willing to lay off a bit, knowing that Shikamaru and the rest of you guys aren't totally avoiding it. With someone like her, I feel as if she craves attention more than anything." Sasori explained to him, putting it as kindly as he can.
Kiba noticed Sasori's uneasiness, in which he smiled to Kankuro and contributed to the conversation. "Sasori is right, we'll explain to the rest of the gang, and I'm sure they'll understand."
Kankuro still was a bit uncomfortable over the whole idea, he definitely would have had to talk to Temari about it first. That was, until his phone buzzed and made a vibration noise on the table. He would reach over to grab it, seeing the notification.
"Nevermind, looks like we are going to the party." Kankuro told them.
Naruto, Sasuke, and Neji came into the girls' dorm, smelling completely foul.
"Ew! Gross!" Ten Ten grabbed a nearby pillow from Sakura's bed to cover her nose with.
Along that, Ino reached a bottle of perfume and sprayed it all over the room. Sakura and Hinata repeated the same action as Ten Ten, while the couple sitting on Hinata's bed simply used their shirts.
"Damn, you guys are mean." Sasuke commented, and immediately walked across the hall to take a quick shower and a change of clothes. Neji also did the same deed, except walking into the girls' vacant bathroom instead. He closed the door behind him, and the rest of the people in the room all heard water running.
Naruto then laid down on Hinata's bed next to the couple. "Ahh! So what's up you guys?"
"YOU IDIOT!" Sakura glared at the guy, who was sprawled out on the bed.
Shikamaru wrapped an arm tighter around Temari, with all the intentions of protecting both of them from the terrible stench coming from Naruto's body. "Goodness gracious, man. You ever heard of a shower?"
"Oh come on, I don't smell that bad!" Naruto sat up, smelling his armpits. "See! I don't smelling anything. Here Hinata, come smell-"
Hinata looked terrified. Although she liked the guy a lot, she was totally against wanting to smell any more of his stench. Sakura then came to the rescue, punching a solid blow to Naruto's face, causing him to land back on the bed.
"I DON'T THINK SHE WANTS TO SMELL THAT SHIT," Sakura shouted at him. "GO TAKE A SHOWER, YOU SMELL AS BAD AS CHOJI ON LEG DAY."
"Yeah, seriously man." Shikamara said, agreeing.
Choji, who was also just with the three guys, then stepped slightly into the room as well. As if things couldn't get even worse for the gang.
"Hey guys, what's up? I heard my name. Also, it smells like cherry blossoms in here." Choji greeted them, smiling while Ino desperately sprayed the perfume into the air, seeing that it was almost running out of liquid.
Choji looked around the room, noticing everyone had their noses plugged. "My bad, maybe I should of taken a bath first," he then saw Temari sitting on Shikamaru's lap. He gave her a welcoming smile, raising his hand out to her. "You must be Temari! I don't think we really formally met, nice to meet you."
Temari still had her nose plugged, but nevertheless shook the big guy's hand. "N-Nice to meet you."
The perfume would no longer spray, in which Ino would throw it into the trash. "ALRIGHT! I'm going into the guy's room. Probably doesn't smell any better, but at this point, nothing smells worse than in here."
"You got that right." Ten Ten said, who was squatting down to insert a plug-in air freshener into the wall.
"So, we're going to the party?" Choji asked them.
"Mhm," Ino nodded. "We just need to make sure we're not getting totally wasted. Remember what happened to Hinata last time she had her first drink?"
Hinata blushed. "S-Sorry."
"No worries," Shikamaru smiled at her. "Listen, I'll keep close to Temari. It's just I know how Kin is, her jealousy gets the worst in her. Meaning..."
The gang listened in.
"There is no doubt, I will keep an eye on Temari. But that doesn't exactly mean I'll be right by her side the whole time in the party."
The room went silent, with hesitant nods. Temari, however, looked concerned. She eyeballed Shikamaru with worrying eyes, another one of Shikamaru's weakness, in which he purposely tried to avoid eye contact while he felt her stare.
Sasuke leaned against the wall near the door frame, crossing his arms. "We got it, and quite honesly that sounds like the best bet. We just need someone to stick close to her the whole time."
"I'll do it," Choji volunteered, smiling down at Temari who immediately looked up at him.
Temari smiled back. 'Damn, what a nice kid. Not sure how he ended up being best buds with this lazy ass,' she thought, staring at her yawning boyfriend.
"Good, just make sure if you are drinking, that it's drinkable," Sasuke confirmed. "The rest of us will keep a watch, while still having some sort of fun, alright?"
"Right." They all said in unison.