The Orange Enigma, Chapter Three!
A Possible Solution to the Unsolvable Naruto!
Words in italic are thoughts.
Words in bold and italic are Kyuubi's thoughts.
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"AND LET THAT BE A WARNING TO YOU IMMATURE BRATS! NEVER BE LATE AGAIN!" Shizune stepped into the office, careful to not draw the drunken Hokage's eye.
Over time she had developed a certain level of immunity to Tsunade, although she was always wary of her. Especially when she was drunk. She watched as her teacher took yet another swig from her sake, only pausing to glare at Naruto and Shikamaru for the hundredth time.
"But-but obaa-san! We caaaaaaame!" Naruto whined. Shizune sighed. That kid never learned. Tonton wriggled a bit in her arms. "Shh Tonton." Shikamaru was pretty motionless, just staring ahead at some spot about a foot above Tsunade's head.
Shizune secretly enjoyed watching the Hokage berate others, it was really funny! Especially when it was Naruto as they always had the most animated discussions! She giggled a bit as a memory of their former meeting came into mind. Tonton squirmed as her arms tightened momentarily. "Sorry Tonton!"
"Shizuuune? You're hew aready?" Tsunade slurred. At least now she seemed to have calmed down a bit. "Hai Tsunade-sensei!" Tsunade slumped forward onto her desk. "I need more sake, this isn't strong enough. And do something about the brats. Their presence is annoying."
"WHAT?!!!!!!!! YOU OLD HAG! I'M NOT A BRAT!" Naruto practically screeched. The Nara standing right next to him jumped slightly; apparently he had been asleep with his eyes open! Shizune giggled again before rushing at the brats. Sometimes her job was so much fun!
"Wha?" Naruto collided with Shikamaru as Shizune pushed them not so gently out of the office. Within seconds, thanks to the full impact collision, both were on the floor of the hallway, looking up at the cheery Shizune.
Shikamaru rubbed his head. He could feel a bump already starting to form. Shizune gave them a creepy grin before stalking off in the direction of the kitchens. Even the pig had seemed to smirk at them.
He closed his eyes; the floor wasn't too bad a place to sleep. He'd slept in worse circumstances on missions before anyways. "Shika! Shika!" "Eh?" Shikamaru opened his eyes slightly, just enough to see Naruto's angelic face hovering above him. "You can't sleep here!" "Why not?" " You'll get stepped on!" Shikamaru was amused to see that Naruto didn't add the 'duh' that he had seen coming. He bothered smirking before letting his eyelids flutter shut.
"Ugh. Fine, be that way!" Shikamaru knew that at that moment, Naruto was probably pouting with those cute soft lips of his. Cute? I'm surprising myself with this. They do look cute though. And soft… He felt himself drift off to sleep.
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The idiot, falling asleep on me like that! He's the one that's 'troublesome'! Well that's love for you, Kit. Nah shut it Fox! Never. Naruto growled inside his own head. That stupid fox was so irritating.
He had to think of something, and fast too before Shizune came back or Tsunade came out of her office. He couldn't just leave his crush lying there, just waiting to be stepped on or rudely woken up or perhaps even to become a victim of a Jounin prank!
Gently, he picked up the Nara, thanking the heavens that Shikamaru wasn't all that heavy. He managed to balance Shikamaru so that he was lying partly across his shoulder and the rest of him was in Naruto's arms.
It was a bit difficult, opening some of the doors leading out of the Hokage building without the use of his arms but he managed. Now for where to go… They couldn't go to the park as it looked as if was about to rain. And hard too, if Naruto's instincts were right.
Naruto sighed. There was no way he was going to go all the way to the Nara residence. It was on the other side of the village and his chances of getting there while carrying Shikamaru, no matter how light he was, before the rain started were pretty slim. And anyways, Nara Yoshino was one scary lady. Even Kyuubi was wary of her and that was saying something!
Naruto understood quite easily why Shikamaru would say that women were troublesome, never mind the fact that he was apparently attracted to men. With a mother like that, who wouldn't think women were troublesome?
He shook his head; he had to figure out a place to go. If he took Shika took his own apartment then at the very least they would be dry. Sadly though, the landlord had turned off his electricity, water, and heating because of a recent argument they had had over the rent. It's still dry. Well, the fox was right there. And it was relatively close too.
He jumped up to the nearest rooftop; going through the streets would be too difficult for him as the majority of the villagers hated him. Some of them might even try to attack Shikamaru just because he was seen with Naruto! He could never let that happen. No one deserved to be treated like he was, no one, and especially not Shikamaru.
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(A/N Time skip!!! This is when they just got to the apartment and are standing outside)