Sorry For not updating sooner, I should let you know I can only update on the weekends...

Chapter 5: Thoughts

Shikamaru opened his screen door and entered his home. It was a tough first day and it was hard to believe everything that happened...Did. Shikamaru walked past his dad, who was lying on the kitchen floor in a deep sleep.

He turned a corner and walked up the stairs and into his room. He shut the door behind him and collapsed straight onto his bed. He laid in an awkward position on top of his book bag.

Remember that huge "Sigh" at the beginning of the day?

This one was bigger.

'Ino and Sai? How when?' The questions just pounded into his head. 'Was it a bluff? This is troublesome' He concluded as he drifted off to a long anticipated nap.

Shikamaru walked throughout the halls, where was he? He felt a piece of paper in his hand, he looked at it, ENGLISH it read, ROOM 234.

Shikamaru noticed the doors on the left of him as he continued down the hall. He turned a corner. Darkness, He turned around again, Darkness. Then light came from that darkness. Ino walked towards him, "Ino" He said. No response. She drew closer, "Ino?" He said again with much desperation in his voice. She was in arms reach now and kept walking. "Sai?" She passed directly threw him, as if nothing was there.

Devastation? Jealousy? Anger? Love?

All of the above.

"Who am I?" The darkness swallowed him. "Who am I to her? Another kid doing her favors? Another kid bewildered by her beauty? Or just a lazy nobody?"

The darkness swallowed him completely.

He got up slowly rubbing his head, " Kingdom Hearts much"

Shikamaru didn't want to get up. He wanted to go back to sleep, but with that dream still fresh in his mind, was that such a good idea? Shikamaru slowly got out of bed, he was sweating... He looked around his room. He noticed his year book that lay at the base of his dresser. 'Must not have noticed' He thought as he slowly walked towards it, working out the sores left by the book bag.

He picked it up, it was on his classes page. Choji, Naruto, Kiba, Were those his friends? He had no chance with Ino. Did he? Sai was known not to last with a girl for more than two weeks. But after that would it really matter? The only time he ever spoke with her was when he returned her back pack.

Shikamaru was still standing over his eighth grade yearbook. He flipped threw all the pages and went directly to the signatures. The three musketeers... And Steve had all signed the first page. On the next page was a small good bye from Hinata, and a "..." From Neji. These were his friends, no one more. Shikamaru wasn't even popular, why did he bother?

He loved her, that's why.

For him to only have fallen asleep once through all of this, this girl meant a lot. Shikamaru sighed and looked at his clock, 6:45. That troublesome practice had ended at around five.

'An hour and forty five minutes?"

Shikamaru truly was in love.

He woke up to an annoying radio system the next day. It was 6:30. " I can't move" He said, struggling to even keep his eyes open. At 6:45 he got up slowly and got dressed in a stained white T-Shirt and ripped old jeans.

It was the same bus ride. Except a fainted Hinata sat next to an unreasonably hyperactive Naruto. The came to an abrupt halt in front of the massive building. Naruto, out of the corner of his eye noticed a fainted Hinata. He picked up a magically placed bucket of cold water and splashed it on her. And due to the fact that this is an anime she dried off within a few minutes.

Homoroom began as Shikamaru took his seat, one away from Ino.

"GOOD MORNING CLASS!" Gai said unreasonably gay... In a happy way... Well both actually.

"I will now hand back your grades on yesterday's quiz!" Gai yelled.

" Quiz?" Shikamaru heard Sakura ask.

Gai grinned as he ran quickly around the room handing out the papers. The top said "ABOUT U"

" What the- how's this a quiz?" Shikamaru yelled looking at his 64

" We don't accept negative attitudes here Mr. Nara" Gai said facing Shikamaru

Sweat drop Shikamaru looked over his paper, It was marked wrong on, favorite things to do, which was sleep.

Least favorite things: Homoroom... 'Wait did I really write that?' Shikamaru thought looking rather dumb founded.

"Shikamaru" Came a whisper a few seats down. He turned and there was Ino leaning over what Shikamaru noticed to be Random Ki- Er Steve...

"Huh?" He said rudely, looking dull. " What did you get?" She said holding her hundred up to her smiling face. Shikamaru lifted up his sixty four and gave off a sarcastic grin.

Good thing homeroom isn't a graded class...