A/N: I'm back! With insect bites that itch so much! Okay, even though time in Philippines (where my vacation was at) went really slow, I was busy visiting my relatives and sleeping so I only wrote like half of this chapter (sorry!).

And sorry for not updating when I got back (Dec. 31). I got caught up with schoolwork and DevianART. And my sister won't let me continue my fan fics (or DevianART) because I'm not doing so well in school (even though I'm getting one C, 2 B's, and the rest are A's) so I'm typing it in my family's laptop (that still doesn't have internet) and then connect to the internet and mailing it then putting it in some word document and yeah put it on fan fiction. So I'm updating a little slower since I'm doing it secretly. But I will update this becuase I love this story.

So you people voted for Shikamaru and Ino (3votes). Next will be Neji and Ten-Ten with two votes (well one commented that the NejiTen was short so I counted it as a vote). After will be Sasuke and Sakura with two votes (I wanted NejiTen to be first). And Naruto and Hinata with one vote.

Disclaimer: We all know I don't own Naruto or else I wouldn't have time to write this!

Chapter 11

Ville Lumiere

"Bye Anne-Marie," Ino said, as she walked away from a regular looking house, where Anne-Marie was waving good-bye.

"Bye," Anne-Marie said, smiling.

'I should do something to help Shikamaru and Ino be together,' Anne-Marie thought in her head.

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"So do you want to come up with a plan to help you and Ino get together?"

"I already have a plan."

"What is it?"

"It's to troublesome here, I'll explain it later."

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"You're sick? How can you be sick?" Ino yelled furiously to the phone.

It was the next day after Anne-Marie decided she'll match Shikamaru and Ino, but with Shikamaru's help. They came up with a plan. And it all starts with Anne-Marie pretending to be sick so she can't go shopping with Ino.

"I'm sorry, I don't know how I got sick even if it's hot outside," Anne-Marie said, trying her best sick voice. "Still, can you pick a few things up for me? My parents aren't home so they can't."

"All right," Ino said, still sounding mad. "What is it?"

"Go to the shoe store we went to yesterday and buy those shoes we both wanted."

"Lucky! I wanted those shoes!" Ino complained.

"Well you can borrow them if you like," Anne-Marie lied hastily because she hated lying and because that wasn't part of the dialogue she wrote down. "And the cashier will tell you were else to go. I told all the stores that you'll be picking them up for me."

"Okay, but am I going to pay for all this?"

'No duh, it's basically yours,' Anne-Marie said in her head.

"Just ask your auntie for it because I told her about it to and she knows I'll pay her back," Anne-Marie said to Ino.

"Okay feel better. Bye," Ino said.

"Bye," Anne-Marie replied.

After Anne-Marie hanged up the phone, she picked it back up and dialed a number.

"Shikamaru?" Anne-Marie asked through the phone.

"What?" Shikamaru's voice asked, sounding irritated. "I was sleeping!"

"Phase 1 is done," Anne-Marie said, proudly. "Ready to do phase 2?"

"It's troublesome, but I'll do it."

"Hey Shikamaru?"

"What?"

"Why do you always say troublesome?"

"…"

"…"

"It's troublesome." Anne-Marie sweat dropped at this answer.

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"These shoes are really great," Ino praised the shoes, as she walked out of the shoe store.

Right now Ino just bought the shoes for Anne-Marie. Ino open the folded piece of appear the cashier gave her from Anne-Marie and read it.

"Go to a dress store and get whatever dress you want, but make it formal like," Ino read. She then gave a confused look at the paper. "Why one I want?"

Ino thought about that for a moment, only to shrug it off and headed towards a dress store.

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"Shika-kun, what's wrong?" Temari asked, trying her best to sound cute so he would tell her.

Right now Shikamaru was at Temari's house. Since Shikamaru barely came inside Temari's house (he'd usually wait outside) anyone would thing it's because of bad news.

"It's troublesome," Shikamaru answered.

"Well everything is troublesome to you so this will be good news?" Temari guessed, batting her eyelashes.

"It's not good news Temari," Shikamaru sighed and he turned away from her and rubbed his temples. His voice went into a mumble. "This is going to be troublesome."

"…Shika-kun?"

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"Go to the salon and get your hair done," Ino read the paper. Her face was as confused as it could ever be. "Why do I have to get my hair done?"

Again she shrugged it off and went towards the salon.

'Free hairstyle, cool,'

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"I bet it was all cause of that stupid Ino girl!" Temari yelled furiously as she chopped some vegetables to release her anger.

Right now Temari was cooking just so she could chop something with a knife and pretended it was Ino.

Needless to say Shikamaru broke up with Temari and Temari was furious. She now blames Ino because "Temari is to sexy or hot to be let go" (or at least that's what Temari claims about herself.

"Hey Temari!" Kankuro, (her younger brother) greeted happily and unaware of her older sister's angriness. "So you're cooking dinner? It's only 6."

"I WANT TO BE ALONE!" Temari yelled, as she threw a knife near Kankuro, who quickly went out the door.

"I'll get Shikamaru back know matter what," Temari said, picking up the knife she threw at her brother. "And I'll make that… that pig Ino pay for taking him away for me!"

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"Wear the dress and shoes you bought and after go to the Effie Tower at 7 and wait for someone with red roses," Ino read, getting confused by every word she read.

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"This is so troublesome," Shikamaru said, tying his tie.

Right now Shikamaru and Anne-Marie were in Shikamaru's living room. Anne-Marie was sitting on Shikamaru's couch, giving a reassuring smile while Shikamaru was looking at himself in the mirror.

"Don't worry," Anne-Marie said, trying to reassure Shikamaru. She then glanced at the clock and saw it was 6:30. "It's six thirty! You better go to the Effie Tower!"

"Troublesome," Shikamaru said, as he grabbed a bouquet of red roses and headed towards the door.

"It'll all be okay!" Anne-Marie yelled reassuring so Shikamaru to hear. When she heard the door closed, she sighed. "I hope."

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"Who is this guy with the red roses and when is he going to come?" Ino asked, looking at her watch. "It's …6:45."

Ino was right now in the Effie Tower, dressed and everything. She was wearing a pretty teal blue halter dress up to her knees. She was wearing teal flats. Her hair was put up in some fancy way that was too hard to explain (A/N: I couldn't think of some hairstyle).

"Ino, is that you?" a voice asked from behind.

'That voice,' Ino said, her eyes widen in shock.

She turned around and saw who she thought it was: Shikamaru.

Now Shikamaru was looking… sort of funny. He was wearing a suit and regular Vans slip-ons. He had a 'this is to troublesome' look on his face and he was holding… a dozen red roses.

"Shikamaru…" Ino said, smiling as she hugged him, which was a total shock to Shikamaru.

'Troublesome, troublesome, she is troublesome,' Shikamaru said in his head.

'He's the one,' Ino thought, smiling as she took a deep breath in. '…Wait, what about…'

"Temari," Ino said under her breath.

"What?" Shikamaru asked, confused.

"Temari!" Ino repeated, her voice now stern and… madder. "That girl that you were dating while trying to sweet talk me!"

"I broke up with her," Shikamaru said.

"…Broke up?"

"Listen," Shikamaru said, putting his finger on Ino's lips to show that she needed to shut up. "I know when we first met we didn't get along and then we got along and you found out I had a girlfriend. But when I was with you I forgot all about Temari."

"…And?"

"And I broke up with her to be with you."

"…You're not the romantic type are you?"

"Tell me after we go around "Ville Lumiere"," Shikamaru said, smirking a bit and trying to do his best French accent at the end. (A/N: Ville Lumiere means City of Lights. I read in my French book that Paris was called that sometimes).

Shikamaru grabbed Ino's hand and lead her somewhere, while Ino was blushing and looking dazed with a dumb lovely dovey smile on her face.

'British might have the cutest accents ever but Shikamaru's French accent could beat them,' Ino thought in her head, as she pulled the bouquet of roses closer to her and inhaling the scent.

It was a different scent of roses. Her family owning a flower shop and her working at it she knew the scent of roses and probably every flower. But this scent was special. The scent of roses were mixed in with Shikamaru's scent, which Ino couldn't explained how it smelled but it made her feel comforted, safe, and it always made her heart feel all bright and special.

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(A/N: I wished I've been to Paris, but I haven't so for the next parts, I'm making up)

Now Ino never seen Paris at night since she was always sleeping and that she always wanted the windows closed at nights since she was used to it. And even though she did see it once when her auntie and uncle were driving her from the airport to their house but Ino was sleepy so she didn't see anything.

But now, Ino saw on how amazing it all was. It was so beautiful. Lights came from mostly everywhere. The structure of the buildings were so old but yet so great. It made Ino think that she was back in time like one of those old movies.

Shikamaru usually just talked about what the things that they were visiting (usually saying how troublesome some were) but after that they just talked about regular stuff. But it wasn't like when they were in the grass two weeks ago, but more like it was an awkward thing as in if two people just met each other.

When it was around eight, Shikamaru stopped at a place that Ino couldn't pronounce or even want to try to pronounce it. But she could tell that it looked expensive. It was like three stories high and was highly decorated with fairy lights and other fancy lights… and that was just from the outside!

"Why are we stopping here?" Ino asked.

'I don't think I could even walk inside a place that looks this rich,' Ino thought in her head.

"This is where we're eating," Shikamaru said, grabbing Ino by the hand again and going inside the restaurant.

(A/N: Again I made this place up… I'm bad at describing places)

Ino gasped in amazement when they went inside the restaurant. The whole thing was lit by tables that had candlelight and a huge fancy chandelier in the middle of the room and even that was candlelit. The room was huge with a lot of tables that were made of white marble and the top covered with white tablecloth.

"Do you have a reservation?" Some lady asked Shikamaru and Ino, although looking at something else, apparently bored.

"Yes, it's under Shikamaru Nara," Shikamaru replied, sounding bored like the lady.

"Oh!" the lady said, now looking at the two, sounding surprised. "Yes, Mr. Nara, we'll tell them that you're here. Please go up stairs. Do you want me to hold her back?"

'Who's the "her" to hold back? Who are them? And where did that lady get her earrings? There really nice,' Ino thought in her head.

"No, it's okay," Shikamaru, said, shaking his head. "We'll be going up now."

"Yes, Mr. Nara," the lady said.

"Troublesome." Ino heard Shikamaru mumble, as he grabbed her hand (yet again) and lead her towards the stairs.

Now there was an elevator but it was going to the second floor already. But the stairs were beautiful. It was like some kind of cream marble stairs that looked very elegant for some reason.

"Why did that lady look like you were important?" Ino asked.

Ino decided to ask Shikamaru about all the questions that flooded through her mind, with this one as the first.

"My father owns this restaurant," Shikamaru answered, like it was nothing.

'WHAT THE HHEEELLL?' Ino yelled in her mind, obviously shocked. 'No wonder he lives in a big house!'

"…Ino, are you okay?" Shikamaru asked, looking at Ino funny.

"Yeah!" Ino said quickly. "Um… Where's the bathroom?"

"Straight, to the hallway and the right door," Shikamaru said, leading Ino to the right of the second floor. "Meet me at the third floor and tell a worker you're with me."

"Thanks," Ino said, blushing a bit because Shikamaru was practically hugging him.

As Ino headed towards the hallway, Shikamaru smiled.

"I knew she'd had to go to the bathroom."

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"It gets better by every floor, and the first floor was nice," Ino mumbled to herself.

Ino glanced at the people (a lot of people) that were eating happily. The food looked mixed. If Ino saw Italian food in one table, she'll see Chinese food next to that one, and then Indian, Japanese, American, and more.

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"This is troublesome," Shikamaru said, walking outside.

"Do you want us to put back the instruments, Mr. Nara?" a guy that worked in the restaurant asked.

"No, I'm doing this for a troublesome girl."

"…"

"It's simple love math. A double troublesome equals good for me."

"…"

"Love is troublesome."

"…Okay then, Mr. Nara."

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"Dang, even the bathrooms were nice," Ino mumbled, as she was going up the stairs again, but this time to the third floor.

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"Mr. Nara, the pianist and violinist has arrived," the same worker guy said to Shikamaru, who was just sitting down at a stool.

"Okay," Shikamaru said, now grabbing something from the ground.

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"Please follow me Ms. Ino," a waitresses said to Ino, who was following her, cautiously.

'What if this is a trap?' Ino questioned. 'What if they're going to throw me off the third floor window? What happens if that stupid ugly Temari is here? Then I would whop her booty!'

"Here you go, Ms. Ino," the waitresses said, opening a glass door that lead to… outside?

Ino walked through the door and looked around in shock. The freaking balcony was great! It was, again, made of white marble (which was shocking that it wouldn't fall) There were fairy lights around mostly everywhere. The stars looked magnificent that Ino wished she could just sleep in them. There was a grand piano and a violinist, and a guitarist that was… Shikamaru?

"Shikamaru?" Ino asked, confused, as she stepped closer to see that the guy sitting with the acoustic guitar was actually Shikamaru.

"Ino, I know I'm no Sasuke who sings like a so called angel or whatever. And I'm no Sasuke who apparently doesn't cheat on anyone. But I can't be Sasuke, I could only be me and I wrote this song for you," Shikamaru said.

Ino looked at Shikamaru as if he just morphed into a girl.

'What is he talking about?' Ino thought in her head. 'Did he overhear me when I said he should have been more like Sasuke that time on the plane? Since when did he write songs!?'

Ino's thoughts of confusion stopped for a moment as she heard the piano play an amazing melody as Shikamaru reached up for a microphone that was on a stand and was up to his level since he was sitting on a stool.

(A/N: This song is called Our Eyes. It's from Teddy Geiger. I wish I could give you a link to find the song like on youtube or something, but I'm in the process of creating it right now. Try searching for it…I don't know. You can't get the CD (which is called Snow Blankets The Night) because you can only get the CD or just this song on iTunes. When I made the AMV on YouTube, I'll tell you because this song is really good).

You seem so afraid
Afraid you'll regret Regret getting closer and connected to me
And I feel like that to but I'm scared,
Scared you'll leave while you still feel you can
So I'll just wait and see
So I'll just wait and see, and see

Let our eyes say words we'll leave unspoken
While were trying to be careful
And words can be so confusing while were trying to be careful
But not to careful

'SHIKAMARU CAN PLAY THE GUITAR!' Ino screamed in her head like a fan girl.

Although Shikamaru started to play the guitar like in the 'Let Our eyes say words we'll leave unspoken' part, Ino was in shock the whole time. Ino only knew that he played the piano because he heard him play in his house.

Fear, it has its place
Folded in squares squarely
Tucked in the back pockets of all minds
And yes it's reckless to laugh
Pointless to decide
Just let your world collide with mine
Let's not wait and see

Let our eyes say words we'll leave unspoken
While were trying to be careful
And words can be so confusing while were trying to be careful
But not too careful

What's the average number of times people feel this way in a lifetime
Lets not waste more time

'So this song is all about feel doubtful about your feelings towards someone and even though you want to be with the person, you try not to get yourself hurt like the careful part. But now it shows that one person is going to take that risk because they feel a certain way,' Ino thought in her head, while listening to the interlude of the song, which was like the rest of the song: wonderful. 'And he said this song he wrote was about me…'

"Shikamaru?" Ino said, doubtful and hesitating.

"Sh," Shikamaru said, as he started to reach for the microphone again.

"Shikamaru," Ino said again, after the song ended.

"Yeah?" Shikamaru asked, like this was some normal conversation and like he didn't play a song that made Ino melt throughout it.

Let our eyes say words we'll leave unspoken
While were trying to be careful
And words can be so confusing while were trying to be careful
Not too careful
Not too careful

"Was that song really about me?"

"Yeah," Shikamaru said, looking at the floor so she wouldn't see his blush.

'I knew this was to troublesome to do,' Shikamaru thought.

Ino wiped a tear that was coming out of her eye as she was smiling and her legs trembled a bit.

"Why are you crying?" Shikamaru asked, confused.

Ino didn't answer, but embraced him in a hug as she wiped more tears from her eyes, and although she wasn't even looking at Shikamaru since they were in a hug, she began to speak.

"Thank you," Ino whispered after she sniffled a bit. "I never had a song written about me and this is how I would image it, but better because it's you who's singing to me."

"You're… you're too troublesome, Ino," Shikamaru said.

"I know."

"I like troublesome girls."

"I know."

Shikamaru pushed Ino so she could look at him and he smiled at the confused blonde looking up at him. He grabbed a rose from the bouquet that Ino was still holding and reached for his pants pocket to reveal a white box.

"Ino Yamaka, will you give me the honor of being my girlfriend," Shikamaru asked, as he opened the white box to reveal a golden heart charm.

'…The charm I wanted since my auntie bought me a charm bracelet,' Ino thought.

"Yes," Ino said, smiling and tearing up again.

She kissed him in the lips, as Shikamaru wiped away the tear from her face.

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"INO! WHERE HAVE YOU'VE BEEN? I've been trying to call you!" Sakura yelled into Ino's ear.

It's now almost midnight, and Ino just came back to auntie's house to find out that Sakura called nonstop at the house. But since Ino was to dazed and happy to remember it must be really early in LA, she didn't really care what Sakura had to say because she had something to say.

"I've been with Shikamaru," Ino said, dreamily. "You never guess what happen Sakura, it's been the most amazing night of my life."

"Ino—" Sakura tried to say.

"First my friend told me to buy all these stuff…" Ino continued.

"INO!" Sakura said, getting angry.

"And then I met Shikamaru at the Effie Tower and we went to his father's restaurant…" Ino said, either ignoring Sakura or not noticing Sakura's voice.

"INO! TEN-TEN'S IN THE HOSPITAL AND SHE'S CLOSE TO DYING!" Sakura's voice yelled through the phone.

"Sakura, just because you don't want me to continue my story, doesn't mean you have to make up mean lies about Ten-Ten," Ino said to the phone, sternly.

"I'm not lying," Sakura's voice choked, as Ino could tell she was starting to cry. "When she was fighting with someone, the person hit her to hard or something… she's in the hospital and the nurse I was talking to said that she had a better chance of dying then living. She's been in the hospital since 7 pm for you're time."

"…Ten-Ten," Ino said, shocked, as she dropped her phone.

For the probably third time of this night, Ino cried. But for the first two it was in joy, now it was in sorrow. Her best friend could be dead and all she could think about is that when it was 7, Ino was starting to have the time of her life while Ten-Ten was probably spitting up blood.

A/N: …I never thought I'd write that kind of ending. Anyways, what will happen to Ten-Ten!

Next chapter: Neji reflects on how this all happens and starts to think about his relationship with Ten-Ten.

Thanks to Yin's Crescent who suggested that a person from another team will be really jealous of Gai's team victories so they do something bad to Ten-Ten.

Please review but no flames!