"Shikamaru… the kyuubi isn't dead… It's sealed inside me…"
After Sakura and Sai discovered his secret, Naruto decided to reveal it to everyone else. He figured Shikamaru would be the best to start with; the genius might help him figure out how to tell the others.
"I know," he responded emotionlessly. Naruto was agape, but this was Shikamaru; he supposed the genius was bound to figure it out.
A happy tear rolled down his eye. "You… you knew, and you're okay s-still being around me?" Naruto stared with sparkling, oversized anime eyes of joy.
"No." Naruto's face froze for a second. "I'm terrified. It was just too troublesome trying to avoid you."
A/N: Okay, I was inspired by an author who is following my main series right now to start up a little crackfic collection. Just some shorts with a little joke to hopefully get some laughs. Not to be taken seriously (Shikamaru would not hate Naruto!). I was trying to write a fic shorter than the other author, but I failed by 47 words. Damn, better luck next time.