The Hokage and the Charming Knight
by Masked Lover

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto. I just write bad fanfics.

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"Jiraya look!" The watching scarecrow motioned to the couple that slept side by side.

Jiraya took his turn at the telescope.

Naruto threw his arm protectively over the ink haired man, his left eye leering at the pair of perverts, the right eye closed.

Jiraya closed the telescope.

"Seeds don't grow if you bother them, Kakashi."

Kakashi sighed mock-dreamily, "Young Love."

He moved into a great thinking position on the roof top, and muttered through his mouth piece.

"But the seeds haven't been planted. What a shame."

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The Knight left the kingdom with his own task, not caring if he could never come back to the castle.

He raised the eye-shield of his metal helm and looked forward at the darkened sky, the moon's crescent hanging with a weak smile.

The stars blinked at him confused that the knight continued to walk up the winding road

Despite the sun refusing to rise.

He stepped into the open, dirt road.

The path was treacherous, but he had only one way to go.

Forward.

A princess was crying somewhere and he was charged to find him

Before he fell a deep sleep

Or under a evil jutsu.

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To take the heartache away

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Shikamaru awoke to find the windows drawn wide open, the sky was blue.

He found himself looking into blue eyes.

"Good morning, I brought food."

Naruto looked at Shikamaru.

"Murh." Shikamaru rolled onto the forgotten dinner and kicked up a storm, "Gyahh!' He felt the mayonnaise grease on his skin.

He rubbed his eyes, Naruto was still there.

"I gotta piss."

Naruto shrugged and went back to putting is souvenirs in boxes.

"Oi, Naruto," Shikamaru looked at the funny looking objects. He felt bad for forcing Naruto to leave, Naruto was probably forcing himself to be optimistic about them leaving a happy, sunny beach to go back to a rainy city. Shikamaru wanted to run away as long as possible as well.

Shikamaru proceeded to go to the washroom and rummage through his stuff.

He poked his head out to see Naruto standing and waiting for something.

"Can I borrow your toothbrush, Naruto?"

"Go straight ahead."

Shikamaru proceed to coat the bristles with nasty, chalk paste.

"Do you like me, Shikamaru?"

The toothpaste was all over, Shikamaru's hand. "Shiiiit!"

His eyes were even wider and he saw Naruto's expression.

Shikamaru's face was painted pink, the pink seeped into his pale Japanese composition, wilting his stance with it's sagging colour.

"Na-Na-Naruto!" He gulped.

Naruto's eyes seemed to lock onto the deep-deep target of his soul.

The firm ruler's hand on his own shoulder, soft lips parting his own. Shikamaru gasped.

His tongue invaded, pressing forward into defenseless Shikamaru.

Zeroing in, a buzz, gold on black, his body buzzing over strands of black strands that fell and parted wild for the foraging fingers that were crazy.

I want to love you, Naruto breathed air for Shikamaru through his actions, into the depths of his flames, burning the wise jounin crispy--his insides frozen and defrosting.

Waking up just like children in the morning.

"Na-AH!"

The words that Shikamaru hung onto desperately, repeating over, as he hung onto Naruto frantically. Something inside him was being pressed open, pushing out like a green shoot. A happy direction. His shivered, he was being torn, he tore at Naruto for shattering his shell. Wild and naked, smearing the toothpaste, a burst of blue-white into Naruto's sunny blonde hair.

Alive, like a resurrected kite in the wind cutting the clouds.

He faded.

The pink tongue receded, tasting of sloppy flavours, sake, sushi, leaving the taste of fruity mangoes, strawberries, sunlight--Naruto's essence in his mouth.

Shikamaru shut his mouth.

He looked at Naruto.

Naruto knew he had to have his first real kiss with Shikamaru before they had an indirect one.

That would make life more fair.

"Good morning."

Naruto's face was bloody red.

"Good morning--" He lingered, hovered over Shikamaru. Toothpastey hair and torn tousled T-Shirt. He nodded, finding his footing, "--Shikamaru."

He wanted to say, like an excited child, "do you remember last night?"

He couldn't sleep.

He looked at the sky.

He watched it turn red

and then the colour of Shikamaru.

The blue sky widened.

Then clouds came apparent.

And the world moved forward.

Dogs barking.

And Jiraya

And Kakashi.

And the kids ran on the beach.

And he had breakfast and came back with souvenirs.

And Shikamaru slept on

He wanted to shake him and say, "it's tomorrow!" With a smile

But he couldn't.

Because that would ruin his cool and then he had to do that so he had ruined his cool, when he grasped onto Shikamaru and opened up his lips and his big mouth and those stupid words pushing Shikamaru down and making his moan and not be his friend anymore.

"I like you, Naruto."

Naruto smile exploded.

"Now go, I have to go to the washroom."

"Shika---" The door closed on his face. "--maru?"

Naruto pressed his forehead against the white door, his heart pounding.

He clenched his fist.

His eyes softened.

He won.

Take that Sasuke.

Take that.

He listened to the sink run, the splashing of Shikamaru's face hitting the cold water because the tap was broken. The flush of the toilet. Shikamaru shaking his hands with a shifting sound, and the squirting of liquid soap.

He let go of Shikamaru for a second, pulling back and returning to his own lonely, selfish thoughts.

He went back to packing his souvenirs, opening the door and proceeded to the mail-nins across the street dumbly.

"To Konoha, Naruto Uzumaki." He muttered in a crest-fallen voice.

"Fill this out sir," the might as well be faceless mail-nin spoke in an authoritarian voice.

Naruto pulled his words onto the page with boredom.

The nin looked at the information.

"This will be confidential, that you for your patronage, Sir."

He walked out the door dejectedly, putting his wallet in his pocket and proceeded across the street.

"NARUTO!!!" Shikamaru was nearly falling out the window, he leaned low and perilously. He met with Naruto's eyes. He gulped, and then bellowed the words with all his strength forgetting his wallet and the money that it would cost and his mission at hand:

"DO YOU WANT TO GO TO THE FESTIVAL?"

Naruto looked up at the building. At Shikamaru in danger and himself not really caring besides the fact that the world was a great place to be visiting at the moment and he really, really didn't want to go home.

Time had stopped.

The street paused to look up at Shikamaru that struggled to keep his bottom-half from following his top-half out the window.

"Mommy, he's jumping."

The mother ushered her son away with a motherly pull.

"Don't look, honey."

Naruto was the sun, he wanted to dance in the street. He wanted the street to dance with him. His life was musical, intense and he felt the beat of the footstep passing by to his own heart beat.

Shikamaru was inspiring and he was half tempted to run away with him--away, way far, way gone of of human sight.

"UMN!" He nodded, stunned, "I mean, I mean-YES! Shikamaru!"

He raised his arms, "YES!"

"Don't call my name!"

The window shut once again.

Harsh.

Life was hard.

Naruto smiled.

Half sighing.

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O The mouldy Registration Hall O

Shikamaru said good-bye to the last of his money.

"You're paying for everything else," he muttered to Naruto.

"Put it on my bill," Naruto honestly didn't care.

"It's gonna be a big bill."

"Good, we deserve a vacation--"

Shikamaru elbowed the Hokage viciously--"--I deserve a vacation."

Naruto winced, "yes sir." With a smile of course.

"Oh," he watched Shikamaru run away from him, "did you sleep good last night."

Shikamaru looked back, walking faster. His face betrayed him.

"Who can fall asleep beside you when your heart is beating so fast," Shikamaru shouted embarrassed, "NAAh?"

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TBC

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Author's Note:

Yep a short and passionate chapter! I'll need to go back to edit all chapters for consistency soon, so do not be alarmed!

Did you like it? Naruto is a pushy uke, Shikamaru is a lazy seme.

If Naruto is the sun, Sasuke is the Moon, Shikamaru is the ---------, what?

XD Thank you for the for reviews. I work hard and I hope to meet the most of your expectatations, you ten subscribers.

You can thank your own reviews, shout outs to Shikamaru-Naruto13, Kandie and Bezeerc. PirateCaptainBo, about Hinata being pregnant, I can't imagine Sasuke seeing her as anything as something of being a person that he cares for slightly and mostly for giving him children. Yes, I see Sasuke has two sides like a good bad guy. Mu ha ha.

As for kissama, yes. How can Naruto forget! He can't let this one get away! So yeah, let's cheer Naruto on in getting his seme! Right?

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