Butterflies
"Me? I'm nobody. I'm not skilled like Uchiha-san. I am not passionate like Haruno-san. I am not smart like Nara-san. I'm not as strong as Chouji-san. I'm not as collected as Aburame-san. Or as pretty as Yamanaka-san. I'm not as confident as Inuzuka-san. If anything, I'm like Hyuuga-san, socially awkward. Oh wait, no, she's just shy. The socially awkward one is me." OC! Team 7 remix!
Deleted Scene 1 – Shika-Tema
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"Troublesome." He mutters, wondering how he let this happen. He's lying in the Namiki compound's front yard, just watching the clouds. Life should be simple, watch clouds, play shogi. Simple. So why do females always seem to complicate things?
The current source of his frustration? Temari.
She decided, probably because his mother suggested it, to join him. To 'spend quality time'. You'd think that means she'd lie down close to him so they could talk, but far enough away for there to be to 'personal bubble invasion'. You'd think that she, being a foreign kunoichi and just as much against this arrangement, would try to keep a comfortable distance while they figure each other out.
You'd think wrong.
The first thing that went wrong was her deciding that he's warmer than the grass they lie on. So she lies next to him. Barely a centimetre separating them, kind of 'next to'.
The second thing is that, as is his custom, his hands are behind his head. This, of course, means that his elbows stick out slightly. Somehow this translates to 'free pillow' in girl-speak. So, his bicep got kidnapped and held for ransom. The price? He isn't sure, there's still no ransom note. He just knows from dealing with Aya that you don't interrupt 'cuddle time' when a girl's in the mood. And ESPECIALLY not a girl that happens to be a kunoichi!
The third thing, and this is working up to the real problem, is that he hears light snores. The blonde had the audacity to fall asleep on his arm! While, in itself, not a big problem, he's used to Aya. You don't wake Aya when she's sleeping, not if you like your life.
So the real problem? Shikamaru has to pee. He has to pee, and Temari isn't showing any sign that she's going to wake up anytime soon, and he doesn't want to wake her because so far she's proven herself to be every bit the kunoichi Aya is. He likes his life, even though it's troublesome sometimes. So, logically, he figures that if he moves, he'll wake her, she'll get upset, and she'll kill him. Not a nice outcome.
And then... things get worse. Temari shifts. Towards him. The side of her face is now comfortably on his shoulder, her breath (which isn't unpleasant, thank Kami-sama) is warm against his cheek and neck. And her leg tucks up onto him. Her knee now rests right on his bladder. It doesn't hurt, per se. But the added weight on an already overflowing bladder that is SCREAMING at him to empty itself, isn't helping at all.
He gently nudges the knee lower. Luckily the leg obliges, and her leg is now tucked between his legs.
"Troublesome." He mutters once again. He just can't seem to understand how females can be so consistently troublesome and yet the human race hasn't died out. That means that millions upon millions of males find something 'not troublesome' about said females, so much so that they consider relationships.
For the life of him, he can't figure out what. Even as his hand idly ghosts over her back. Even as his eyes study her angelic face. Even as he wonders about the trust it takes for her to feel comfortable enough to fall asleep in his arms. He can't process it. It's illogical. It makes no sense. And he fears for the day it starts to make sense.
He hears a camera shutter. Once. Twice. Going on ten times now. The giggling that follows isn't comforting at all. His mother. And his little sister. He identifies the words 'cute' and 'develop' one time too many. He narrows his eyes, starts trying to drown out the insanity that his life has suddenly become. He tries watching the clouds, to ignore that he hears giggling; now more than two sources of said giggling.
Why can't he be a cloud? Just floating on by, oblivious to the troublesome females of the human race.
"Troublesome." He mutters again. As if things weren't bad enough, her hand snakes up onto his chest. It lays there. Unmoving. Just, there, on his chest. He sighs. 'Female' and 'logic' have never had any relationship, not to him. They're emotional, and irrational, and...
"Nn... Shika...maru..." He blushes. She's dreaming about him? Why would she dream about him?
He really needs to pee.
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End Deleted Scene 1
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A/N: As things currently stand! Review count is:
Butterflies - 122
Butterflies: Orange and Pink - 4
The Butterfly Effect - 5
Total: 131!
This is important because that means we're 69 reviews short of the next hundred mark! That's right! All reviews on all Butterflies' spin-offs and the sequel count in the total.