Viper á la king
Teyashi: So far, so good. For this story, I will now have a vote from my loyal fans: Lemon or no? (For those who don't know, a 'lemon' is a graphic description of sex.) There will be lime regardless. (Lime: Graphic making out.) Vote via review and polls open…now. But let's keep this Rollin'.
Tsunade: Teyashi-san does not own Naruto.
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Shikamaru's day had been as normal as ever, with plenty of naps. His evening, however, just took a turn for the odd. He had been called to the Hokage's office about 'an important matter that could not be disclosed in public.' And to think all he thought he'd be doing this evening was playing Go at the local sake house. As he went in he was ushered directly to the Hokage's office by two Anbu guards. 'Whoa, this must be really big.'
As he walked in, he noticed nothing looked askew for a ground-breaking announcement. It was as if the Hokage was purposely trying to avoid moving anything. "Ah, Shikamaru, you arrived." Tsunade said.
"Hokage-sama, why did you call me here?" Shikamaru asked.
"Earlier today I had a meeting with the council. Upon returning, I saw that my sake drawer was a bottle short. Then I noticed the vent cover was unscrewed. This leads me to believe someone broke in while I was away. I called you here as you have the proper detail-orientated mindset to figure out just why someone would break in, steal sake, and leave without taking anything else." Tsunade responded.
"That's it? They took nothing else?"
"No, just one bottle of sake."
Shikamaru then began to search the Hokage's office back to front and upside down. After about an hour or so, he started to flick through the files. "Some of these files are backwards. Obviously however broke in wanted info, not items. You sake was just consolation. The only files touched seem to be jounin and chunin. No genin, anbu, or anything else." Now things made less sense. 'Why would someone look up those groups? They're not that important and… wait, what's this?' He had come upon Ranmaru Hattori's file. 'On anti-depressants, sounds like a bundle of laughs. Oddly, she looks just like… I have a sudden feeling Ranmaru won't be so depressed anymore.'
He figured he should look through more files than jump to likely conclusions. 'That's all of the Chunin, now jounin. Only one backwards folder here.' He pulled it out and said "Apparently our intruder only wanted to know about this jounin," Shikamaru said opening the file.
"Wait, Shikamaru…" Tsunade started.
"This has to be some kind of serious organization error," Shika said in disbelief, "Sasuke was a genin, not a jounin, when he left." He flipped one paper more and stood agape.
Shika calmly pulled out a paper from the folder, set the folder down on the desk and walked up to the Hokage. "What…in the hell…is this?" Shika asked, gritting his teeth. He showed Tsunade the paper, it was marked 'Operation: Snake Eater.'
"Shikamaru, it was out of my hands. I had to adhere to the council's wishes. I didn't want you to find out this way." Tsunade confessed.
"They all almost died. All of them. Because you let a council of old men dice with everyone's lives with no experience in the battlefield or of tactics at all." Shikamaru said bitterly.
"Shikamaru…"
"One last thing. Did Sasuke agree to this or was he forced?"
"He was willing and he volunteered."
"Thank you, Hokage-sama. I'm not mad at you. I just need time to think." Then Shikamaru left for home. It had been suddenly a long day and he was quite tired.
The Next Day
Dreams are funny things. You can get valuable information from the most nonsensical dreams. For example, you could realize that you killed someone because they stood a chance of taking your man, like Tayuya found out while sleeping in a bush. This morning, however, Tayuya woke up refreshed, comfortable, and not as embarrassed about having dreams of riding a certain chunin like a bucking bronco.
As she woke up Tayuya went down stairs to eat breakfast. Opening the refrigerator, she pulled out the bottle of sake from the fire tower raid. "Well, it's three o'clock somewhere," and chugged the whole thing. When she got to the bathroom to freshen up, she took inventory of the medicine cabinet. 'Meds: Trash, Razor blades: Trash, Used tooth brush: Trash…' and it was with that thought when she noticed she hadn't showered in over three weeks. Now, Tayuya isn't overly sensitive when cleanliness is concerned, but almost a month is still far too long in her book.
Meanwhile, Shikamaru was not so relaxed. He was woken up at the ungodly hour of eight o'clock (Ungodly in his book.) Apparently he had a mission.
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Teyashi: Sorry for lack of ShikaTayu so far but they will meet very soon. But now, Mr. Smiley.
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