Beware

Hotaru fixed breakfast, it was day two with Shikamaru. Her parents went to work early, she wants to talk to them but she knows only actions can prove them wrong. She sat alone slowly eating, it was only 11:21am the lazy young man said to meet up at noon. Today she sported a shorter black shorts and a loose light blue sweatshirt and black ankle boots. It was a cloudy day, hopefully it might not rain though. She sat Indian style on the floor pillow instead of the traditional proper knee way. She hummed a song until a crack of thunder made her drop her chop sticks.

"i wonder if we will meet up today..." she questioned out loud starting to weigh her options. She glanced at the clock, it might not rain by noon, with high hopes maybe its just a thunderstorm. As she cleaned up she had fifteen minutes to make it to the park. It wouldn't be a simple jog, so concentrating her chakra to her feet she sped off.

Just as she made it to the village, a shuriken landed at her feet causing her to halt. Shikamaru walked up toward her, "I was just headed your way to speak on this weather..." she was about to question how did he know of her whereabouts but then again he helped the hokage, her files were there stating where she lived. Shikamaru glanced upward and saw heavy clouds forming and lighting starting to crackle. "What a drag..."

Hotaru felt a drop land on her nose and using her huge eyes looked at the shinobi in front of her. "Well would you like to come to my house seeing its close and its about to rain?" with a shrug of the lazy shoulders, they sped off just as the rain began to given the village a shower. Looking up with her eyes, she felt a presence following; the lonely owl that visited every night. He wanted shelter too.

The two shinobi sat on the couch looking at the owl as it perched cleaning itself and ruffling out the water. While Hotaru smiled, Shikamaru had a straight face and concentrated look analyzing. Why does he have to be so smart and logical all the time, geez, take a break! Hotaru lifted her arm and the owl flocked and landed peacefully. The rain came down harder, Shikamaru finally relaxed stretched his arms out on the couch and tilted his head back with a yawn.

"Lets play a game..." her voice stammered a little.

"A game...why?" he mumbled back.

"This weather isn't too cheerful...c'mon..." Hotaru began to think and looked out the window, "Eye spy something yellow."

Shikamaru slowly looked up and looked around the house and began naming items; with each item he called out the curly bounced left and right instead of up and down. He had called out all the yellow items in the house, it wasn't that many. "Are you joking around right now?"

Hotaru batted her eyes and bashfully smiled shaking her head no. She looked at the owl who gave its questioning response and soon it took flight; upstairs and out of her open window. The quiet shinobi studied the girl, What is going on between her and that weird owl? The owl flew back downstairs soaking wet and in its beak was a yellow flower. "B-but how? This is a joke!"

Her huge eyes looked up into his low lazy ones. "Its no jutsu, no genjutsu or kekkei genkai, I just have these huge eyes and see really well...so well but only to a certain distance. I use to think with these eyes I'd be the perfect ninja but you know how that story goes." Shikamaru studied her as she spoke, he questioned her skills because their little battle yesterday wasn't nothing and she did make it to be a chuunin. He didn't remember her fighting at all or who she even went against. He rarely even remembered her being in Iruka-Sensei class.

Hotaru soon felt a warmth near her, she looked over and noses were nearly touching. She jumped back falling on the floor making the owl rotate its neck to hear the thud. "Man, you have some creepy eyes." after staring he just stretched back into a comfortable position. Those eyes, they really are creepy but I'm sure they help in missions, especially because there is no use of chakra. I'm curious to see her truly fight when she remembers, if she ever does...

"Ready?" Shikamaru snapped out of his thoughts hearing her soft voice.

She stood at the door, it was still dark outside but the weather had calmed down. She heard him yawn but continued to converse with the owl. The moment she turned around he was sleep. Sleep, on her couch when this could have been a training day. She wanted to go flick him on his nose but she just shrugged it off and decided to make lunch. It was a dreary day and she wouldn't mind sleeping too, but she just wasn't that lazy. 2:07PM

The aroma of fresh noodles tickled the sleepyhead's nose. The fidgeting was heard and Hotaru looked up from cleaning. Shikamaru let out a huge yawn and slightly smiled, "Smells good."

As they sat and ate the endless bowel of noodles, the owl fled as the sun slowly came out over the Leaf Village. They held conversation, well Hotaru talked the most as Shikamaru kept his slightly mute composure and thought more than spoke. Finally he spoke more than few words, "You are an exceptional shinobi, a quiet one. Your eyes allow you to see far with no chakra. You are a chuunin so you have skill. Though your parents don't want you out on missions, you just need to accept that but we have a week together. I shall find you a position in the village and also test your skills."

2:56PM those words had her heart racing, a smile grew wide showing her white teeth. She stood up and with one huge jump leeched onto the spiky haired boy. As he fought and griped about not liking to be touched, she could only wait to train. She let go and dashed toward the door, "LETS GO!"

CLINK!

Shuriken struck her firmly placed kunai. The rules were no jutsu until a kunai is dropped. Shikamaru was curious on what skill she had. Standing still she felt the presence of the boy coming near and from the sky; she dodged and tried to trip him but he leaped out the way. A punch slipped grazing her left cheek nearly making her stumble but she dug the weapon into a tree, angled her body upward and kicked Shikamaru's knee making him fall first.

"Hn," was all he could say watching her breathe heavily jerking the kunai out the bark.

The entire time, she focused, not saying a word. She sped left and right as he stood still trying to catch her movements. Suddenly she sprung behind a tree but slightly stumbled; the kunai dropped. "Damn..." she whispered, his shadow caught her; the fun was over.

The kunoichi was released and sat on the ground, smiling. Though she had lost, she had fun in the process and she think she did well because she saw the male break a sweat unlike last time. As she picked up her weapon she sang a song to herself that only she could hear. She walked over to the taller figure and kept the smile on her face, "I'm pretty good huh?"

"Yeah, something like that." He murmured.

Her mood slightly sank but that wouldn't change her outlook. She stuck her tongue out and his facial expression never changed. "Well what now?" she asked.

"It looks like its getting late...tomorrow same time and here?" She nodded to his question then he disappeared.

I plan on talking to Lady Tsunade in the morning... Shikamaru made sure to try and wake up in the morning early enough for this.

OKAY! R&R "] i hope i'm doing okay so far, and the beginning will be over the next chapter so that chapters will be longer. and i still need THREE academy OC's