Wow, I never realized the 19/16 Shikamaru age on my chapters. I fixed it and hopefully everyone will forgive me of my stupidity but you have to realize some of these fanfics I put on here at like 1 in the morning XD So sorry about that and enjoy the rest of my fanfic.

Once In A Lifetime

Shikamaru rushed to Ino's side seeing the fallen blonde on the ground. He lifted her up onto the leathery-white couch. He kneeled to the floor looking at her. He brushed her blond locks away from her porcelain face and saw that it was red -a very cherry red- around her whole face but mostly her cheeks.

'Troublesome girl.' He thought getting up from his kneeling position.

Just as he got up the lights flickered and a loud thunder was heard echoing the whole house. The lights soon gave way and went out, all that he could see was bit of lightning flashing through the dark pitch-black sky. As Shikamaru sighed, he walked his way back to Ino and quickly gripped her into his arms once again.

As Shikamaru found his way to the front door he decided against the shoes and just opened the door trying to make sure Ino doesn't fall at the same time. Shikamaru finally opened the door muttering 'troublesome' under his breath every twenty seconds.

After he stepped outside onto the wet pavement, he noticed her face had now gone pale and her body felt very cold. He quickly ran toward the hospital and went straight to where Tsunade was usually around.

"Tsunade, we have a fallen blonde." Shikamaru said holding out the blonde in his arms,

"Hm?" She lifted her head from her papers, drool coming out of her glossy pink lips, sake bottles all over the place.

"Oh, Shikamaru-sama. What is it now?"

"Ino." He extended his arms once again and Tsunade stood up wiping the drool from her face , "What happened?"

"I'm not sure myself, but I think it was something she either ate or maybe lack of water." He suggested.

Tsunade's eyes lifted to Shikamaru's face,

"WHAT?! I didn't do anything! Troublesome…."

"Shikamaru put her onto the bed in room ten. I'll be there in a second." Tsunade said leaving them to go find some more sake…most likely….

Shikamaru just nodded still holding the blonde protectively and walking starting toward room ten. He glanced down every now and then to make sure she was still ok, as he walked a got a few stares from a couple of people. Now let's take a minute to see what they are thinking!

'Oohh! Cute couple, a little rough now are we?' O.O - Shikamaru

'Hmm, the blonde princess and a genius…. GREAT! STORYLINE FOR THE NEXT BOOK!' I'll give you three guess to see who this is…

(A/N DON'T KNOW WHO IT IS? GOSH PEOPLE! XD its Jiraiya….Pervy Sage….)

Shikamaru sighed and just walked on to the room, as he entered he noticed that there were things already there for her, IV needle, monitor thingy, (A/N Can't figure out what the name of it is…) and so on.

Shikamaru just set her down on the soft white bed and brushed away her long bangs from her face again. Shikamaru's stomach was doing flip-flops as he touched her feathery pale face. 'She looks so beautiful…'

He shook his head of the thoughts as the door opened as the Godaime walked in, her green jacket swaying as she walked, her black stilettos clicking from the marble tile flooring. She looked at Ino then back at Shikamaru then back again.

"Leave, I will see what is wrong with your girlfriend…"

Shikamaru nodded shrugging off the 'girlfriend' comment and left to let the Godaime do her work.

Shikamaru walked down the white hallway of the hospital, 'Why do I seem to be getting flustered whenever I see or touch her?'

The now troubled 19-year-old man sat down on one of the hospitals chairs -very uncomfortable by the way- and sat, waiting for many an hour…

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