Hiya! Thanks for the reviews. Here's chapter five. There's a little moment between Tammie and Shikamaru. Enjoy.
Troublesome Girl
Chapter Five:
Tammie had jumped from the kitchen window into the complex pool underneath. She hadn't changed she was in a matching set of emerald green bra and panties. He watched awed, she was standing in the centre of the pool focusing her chakra and making the water swirl around her in intricate patterns.
"Tammie?" he called. She didn't look surprised to see him as he thought she would instead she waved her hand telling him to come in.
"I'm not sure I trust you" he said while climbing out of the window.
"I'm not really asking you to trust me" she replied mischievously. Taking a deep breath he stepped onto the water surface and out to Tammie. The scenery around them changed, she was using genjutsu. They were back at the glade were they first met, he looked at her in surprise as her appearance had changed she was in the skirt and t-shirt she had been wearing on that day and he was in his training gear.
He saw himself being pushed into the lake by Tammie and they watched the battle between Tammie and Asuma.
"He cheated" Tammie informed him with a sly grin.
Shikamaru smirked "Yeah sure, whatever helps you sleep at night"
"Dance with me" she said blue eyes glittering with mischief. He came closer and she put her arms around his neck. A slow tune played over the rippling water and he closed his hands around her waist. They revolved slowly on the spot swaying to the music, Shikamaru found himself, surprisingly, enjoying the dance.
"What the hell do you two think you're doing?!" boomed Asuma from the open window. Tammie took her hands off Shikamaru's neck and he let go of her waist in surprise and losing his balance toppled into the water. He swam to the side and put his clothes back on but Tammie stood on the water, hands on hips.
"Teaching" she replied tartly. "He was standing on the water wasn't he?!"
Asuma huffed and said "Get in here and put some clothes on!" Tammie sighed and climbed back through the open window while shikamaru watched amazed at her athletic ability, the drop was steep and it looked harder to get back up than it was to get down. She stopped before closing the window and winked. With a smile he jumped over the fence and headed home.
The next day Tammie was put under house arrest as a mock mission, team 10 had to keep her from getting out of the house. The team thought it would be easy but soon realised that they underestimated the kuniochi; she was out in the first few minutes of the test. It took them all day to track her down again; she was carried back to the house on Chouji's shoulders and Asuma shook his head wondering what her mother would say if she were here.
He pulled the genine apart, as Tammie had taken it upon herself to make the mission more interesting by pelting the genine with rocks and attacking them with clones. Chouji was trying in desperation to overpower the girl, Shikamaru was trying to disperse the clones and Ino was dodging rocks screaming like a banshee. He sighed and sent them home; he then went to visit the old memorial stone near the training grounds and rubbed his hand over the name of Tammie's mother and father.
Asuma watched in horror as the devil fox sent the building next to him tumbling to the ground. He was still just a genine but his parents were out there he couldn't just leave them. He and Iruka had run to scene of the battle, before he could stop him Iruka had rushed out onto the battle field screaming his parent's names. The devil fox turned and snapped its jaws closed over the torso of a Shinobi.
"No!! Mum!!" he screamed in terror as his mother's blood sprinkled over the ground. He fell to the floor sobbing. Two sets of hands closed around his shoulders and two of Asuma's class mates pulled him out of the way of a falling tree.
Days later Asuma had attended his mother's funeral, he cried and sobbed but the pain in his chest would not subside. She would never wipe away his tears or kiss him goodnight again. A cold hand clasped him shoulder and turned him, "Stop that crying!" Sarutobi pleaded, crying tears of his own. Losing his temper finally Asuma screamed at him.
"You could have saved her! It's your fault she's dead! I wish she had lived and you had died! I hate you! I hate you!" he screamed in agony. Then he ran as fast as his legs could carry him. Away from the coffin, away from the pain and away from the heartless prick he was ashamed to call his father.
He thought nothing would ever be the same again, but he was wrong. The same two hands, warm and soft touched his shoulders. They would always to be there, his two best friends. From that day forward they were there for each other, through the good times and the bad, to support each other through the things they couldn't face alone or the things they couldn't face at all.
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