Lucky number seven! Shika is ooc, but only for a little bit.
Kita stared in excitement; her feet danced on their own, she had a mission, an extremely long one! She was to try and convince Cloud to ally with Leaf. "Kita, pay attention!" Shikamaru snapped at her and she grinned at him.
"Okay!" She said saluting him, he shook his head, he was assigning her the mission because Naruto was busy.
Shikamaru handed her the paperwork, she would go with Kiba and be allowed to select one of her genin to come, a test to see if they could become chunin. "Now you have one rest stop in the Oto, Sasuke has taken over and gained stability, Naruto is reluctant to ally with them, so don't mention the war well there." He said and she nodded.
"Shikamaru-kun, I haven't heard of any missions you get lately." She said and he turned red. "What, tell me?" She demanded.
He turned away from her and stared out the window of his small office. Desk took up most of the area. "Being the strategist, Naruto keeps me busy here and he's worried of information being tortured out of me, so I don't have any." He said and there was a heavy silence. "Since when did you add kun to me name?" He asked turning around and Kita squirmed under his glare.
"You never noticed when I'm very happy I call everyone kun even if I usually don't." She said shrugging. "You made me very happy!" She said and grinned. "Even more so now." She added.
"What?" Shikamaru asked leaning against his desk yawning.
Kita paused then shrugged. "You don't have missions, that means you're here." She said and he glared.
"Yes you prove you're the stronger ninja." He snapped and she paused, that wasn't what she meant. "Just go and chose your stupid genin, try choosing one of mine, they're getting antsy." He snapped and she left silently.
"Stupid troublesome woman." He muttered and there was a knock. "Come in." He snapped and looked up, there was Kiba. Shikamaru scowled, he had enough of Kita and now her long lost twin was there.
"Hey Shikamaru, Ino-chan told me you had a missions for me." Kiba said eagerly. "Is it with Kita-chan, cause I just passed her in the hallway. She was scowling." He added
"Kiba you talk to much, I'm glad Kita is scowling." Shikamaru said and Kiba looked confused, he face read 'Why?' "She said she was glad I didn't have missions." Shikamaru said angrily.
Kiba chuckled and Shikamaru glared at him, shoving some papers to his chest. "I'm sorry Kita probably worries about you when you're away." Kiba said and made a kissy face. Shikamaru blushed, before scowling.
"Kita doesn't care about me, and I don't care about her." Shikamaru said harshly. It was lie too.
"So I can have a go at her?' Kiba asked and Shikamaru gaped at him mouth open.
"She's not a ride Kiba…But I don't care." He said and Kiba chuckled.
"Well this mission should be fun." Kiba said and left.
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Kita shuffled her feet. Choose a genin to take, Amida, Hoshi, Ishi, Eri, Yoshi or Ronnin. Amida was too reckless to be considered for chunin, Hoshi too dependent, Ishi to half-hearted, Eri a maybe, Yoshi a maybe, and Ronnin is too lazy, impossible, annoying and killable to be considered.
"Shikamaru was made chunin." She muttered to herself, Ronnin was like a mini-Shikamaru with weirder hair. He was definitely fast, more so then even Lee, though she doubted he was stronger. "I might kill him though." She muttered, that be bad especially since Naruto mentioned her name was on the ANBU waiting list.
"Hey Kita-chan!" Lee said and she waved. He jogged in place babbling about his new training program.
"What do you know about Shikamaru's miniature Ronnin?" She asked absently and Lee stopped, eyes suddenly sad.
"He's faster them me!" He said eyes overflowing with tears. Kita was embraced in an awkward wet hug. "Good kid though, not enough youth, one month with Gai-sensei would fix that though. He avoids me and sensei!" Lee sobbed.
"It's Shikamaru's influence." Kita said trying to comfort, but Lee cried harder. "Oh don't do that dad!" She said and Lee looked up.
"Beloved daughter you so infrequently call me dad!" He said and smiled, the hug got tighter, Kita didn't like physical affection, especially in public. Like now as they were in the middle of a street, but as long as Lee stopped the crying thing.
Lee released her and Kita have him a smile. "So Sakura say yes yet?" She asked nudging him and Lee shook his head.
"Back to Ronnin, he's a good kid." Lee said and Kita faltered, maybe she had picked on him, she had been rather mad at Shikamaru.
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Then again Lee though everyone was a good kid. "Ugh this'll take forever, is this some kind of sick punishment, what troublesome woman." Ronnin said walking behind Kita and Kiba who rode Akamaru.
"Shut up before I kill you." Kita snapped and Kiba chuckled.
"Come on Kita-chan he's just trying to act like his sensei." Kiba said and Ronnin snorted. "Oh do you disagree?" Kiba asked laughing more.
"I don't try to act like anyone, yeah Shikamaru-sensei is a genius, but its coincidence that both of us are smart enough not to enjoy exhorting effort." Ronnin stated and Kita turned around.
"Shut your stupid mouth, Shikamaru is an ass, and you his freaking blonde clone gone awry!" She screamed and turned back around walking incredibly fast. She was ahead of Ronnin and Kiba quickly.
Ronnin paused to be sure she was out of hearing range then groaned. "What bite her?" He asked Kiba who sighed.
"Besides the love bug?" He asked and Ronnin made a face. "Yeah. Kita has the hots for your sensei." Kiba continued even though Ronnin looked about ready to puke.
Ronnin shuddered. "Troublesome. Like she has a chance, all Shikamaru-sensei does is complain about her." He pointed out and Kiba raised a brow. "What?" Ronnin asked.
Kiba ruffled Ronnin's hair and stared off for a moment. "Trust me your sensei returns Kita's feeling more then he leads on." He said and Ronnin shook his head. "Trust me, I'm going to make Shikamaru sweat over this mission with out doing anything." Kiba bragged.
"Come on you slow jerks, aren't you ashamed a girl is going faster then you." Kita yelled from ahead. "Except you Aka-kun, you have Kiba to carry around." She added.
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Shikamaru paced, it was about three in the morning and he was awake, pacing. "Kiba wouldn't anything bad." Shikamaru muttered to himself.
"Kita wouldn't let him right?" He added
"They were dating."
"Ronnin is around."
"Ronnin sleeps through hurricanes."
"Kita said she loves me."
"She said that seven years ago."
"She's hinted she does."
"She's mad at you."
Shikamaru slammed down onto his bed, arguing with himself over this was ridiculous. "What if she gets hurt?" He said and stood, he was pacing again.
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Ino and Choji sipped coffee, they were in The Yamanka flower shop, trying to calm Shikamaru down, he had knocked on their doors just as the sun rose and they went here to talk. "He's pacing again." Ino said stoically.
"Yep." Choji replied.
"It'd be good if we knew what the problem was about?" Ino said
"Yep." Choji repeated.
"He lost sleep over it so I'm guessing Kita or family problems." Ino said
"Yep." Choji retorted.
"He isn't telling us so it's Kita." Ino finished and sipped her coffee.
"Yep." Choji said and sipped his own coffee.
I've neglected Ino and Choji! :O