The Last Chip Chapter 7: Wedded Bliss and Pain, a naruto fanfic

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This is set up as multiple different days throughout their lives. Thus, each chapter represents a new step in their relationship. Yes, they are now 'boyfriend's', and are still best friends so I use those terms interchangeably with this pair.

This Chapter contains YAOI- ChoShikaCho! The first is one of my favorite Yaoi lemons I have ever written, leave a review to tell me how it compares to my others ;)

*Sorry it took sooo long, but I redid chapter 6 and it does take me forever to write decent lemons, and this chapter has 2!* This is also the longest chapter I have ever written for a non-oneshot story!

The Last Chip

Chapter 7: Wedded Bliss and Pain

A young chuunin opened the paper door in front of him and entered the room with a package in his arms. With a sigh, Shikamaru laid out the silk wedding kimono on the chair, before moving over to look out the window of the back room in the Garden-of-Happiness. The clouds floated over head, carefree over the land they pass. It had been a year since he had met Kukiko, his world turned upside down with changes.

Today, in just under two hours, he would be married, tied for the rest of his life.

Arms wrapped around his waist, locking him in place, "You know Shikamaru, if I were the enemy you would be dead"

"Good thing you're not my enemy then" He turned in the embrace and wrapped his own arms around the short brunette's shoulders. Her hair was down and hanging loosely down her back, and parted on the side. She wore s simple black t-shirt with tan cropped pants, something that could easily be removed as to not mess her hair, once it was complete, when she was dressing for the ceremony.

"Are you happy about getting hitched?" Her face turned up to his with a blinding smile.

"I don't think I have ever been this happy in my life." He returned her smile and placed a kiss on her forehead.

She grimaced, at Shikamaru's concerned look she grabbed his hand and brought it to her womb, "Baby Nara might grow up to be a Taijutsu specialist!" Kukiko laughed as Shikamaru blanched.

"I can accept that, as long as there isn't a green jumpsuit in sight." He nodded.

"I'll leave you to get ready, see you at the end of the aisle!" she kissed him quickly on the cheek before bouncing out of the room. Shikamaru chuckled as he once more turned to the window to watch the clouds.

"Hey Shikamaru" a seductive voice purred from the door way followed by the sound of wood sliding against wood as the door was closed

"Choji" Shikamaru frowned, "What are you doing here?" The larger man said nothing but proceeded to eat his potato chips as he looked at the window with his best friend.

"I just though you would like one more tryst with your paramour before you tie the knot" he chuckled at Shikamaru's blush as he offered the shadow ninja the snacks. Not commenting, Shikamaru took a chip and continued to watch the clouds pass over head, he leaned into his lover, allowing himself to soak up the familiar heat before he was wed. On the biggest day of his life, he wanted, no, he needed this man by his side to relax his nerves.

"You know, it's funny. I can take down a member of the Akatsuki with little fear and full confidence in my plan. But, when it comes to this, although I am very happy, I'm scared out of my mind" Shikamaru confessed.

"Don't worry, Shika. It will work out" Choji wrapped his free arm around the smaller man's waist

"There is only one chip left; take it" Shikamaru softly commanded, licking his bottom lip and looking to the taller ninja.

Knowing this was the last time he would see his best friend and lover before he was married; Choji took the chip gently between his fingers and placed it on his tongue, chewed and swallowed. He looked down and into the soft black eyes, teasingly slow he inserted and sucked each finger free of the bar-b-que flavoring, twirling his tongue around each tip and moaning slightly at the taste. After all the flavoring was removed from his own digits he grasped his lovers writs, bringing his hand to his mouth, the sucked and nipped and licked the appendages. He watched in satisfaction as Shikamaru's eyes clouded over in lust.

With a moan, Choji released his lover's wrist and wrapped his arm around the Nara heir and pulled him close. He drew the raven into a kiss that was so intense, Shikamaru's toes curled at the sensation. Moving instinctively with his boyfriend, he parted his lips and allowed their tongues to duel in a battle for domination.

Shikamaru pushed the larger ninja against the wall as he took control of the kiss. His tongue swept over every inch of Choji's mouth. Tasting him and remembering him this way for all time. He clasped Choji's t-shirt, pulling him closer so he could deepen the kiss. He broke the kiss, only briefly; just long enough to tear the 'Food' proclaiming shirt over auburn locks. The shadow manipulator's hands traveled over all the newly exposed skin frantically. The smoothness of the skin contrasted under weapon callused palms, only blemished by raised and puckered scars from battle.

With frantic fever, Shikamaru broke the kiss to trail hot kisses along his paramour's jaw and neck, licking and nipping across Choji's collar bone. He smirked when the Akimichi's head fell back at his actions, with his breath coming in large open mouth pants.

"Hhhh, Shikamaru" Choji moaned as Shikamaru sucked his pulse point hard enough to leave a purple mark.

Shikamaru pulled back to look at his lover, lust clouding his eyes. He placed a finger at the base of Choji's throat, slowly training it down his sternum, over his full tattooed abdomen, and hooked it in the waistband of plain gray shorts.

"Never forget, Shika," he said with a voice husky with passion as Shikamaru pulled the shorts and underlying boxers down roughly exposing Choji's ridged flesh to the open air, "You belong to me"

"Always" Shikamaru said pressed his lips to his chest before dropping to his knees and pressing soft, yet possessive, kisses over his thighs as both his callused hands gripped the base of his torrid length.

Choji looked down at the amazing man kneeling before him. His cheeked were flushed as he held the Akimichi's erection in both hands with his mouth moving toward it. He was amazed someone this wonderful would ever want to be with him physically, love him emotionally and be one with his soul.

Shikamaru pressed his lips against the engorged head, depositing hot, open mouth kisses along the head and shaft. He worshiped his lover's manhood with his lips and tongue, his mouth sucking and licking from the base to the head and back again over the velvet skin. His cheeks grazing the course hair of his lover's thick thighs as he worshiped one side and then the next.

The larger man's breathing hitched as the Nara heir took his thick appendage into his mouth, encasing the member in moist, warmth and sucked him hard. He slide his mouth and lips up and down, hallowing his cheeks, while his rough hands clasped the thick shaft, twisting them as they moved up and down over the area that his mouth wasn't covering.

Arrows of passion shot through Choji's body as the shadow manipulator pulled him deeper into his mouth. Every few strokes, his teeth would lightly graze the sensitive shaft, adding to the intensity of fast rhythm Shikamaru had began to set up. His large hands slipped onto the back of Shikamaru's head, guiding his movements as he descended farther on his length. Choji watched his lover, his manhood filling his mouth and he moaned.

The raven haired man sucked once more on the thick shaft before releasing it. Lifting the corded appendage, he pressed his mouth to the soft sack below, drawing them into his mouth while his hands stimulated the length. Running his tongue over them, he moaned around them, while the vibrations shot up his lover's spine.

"Shika," Choji's breathing hitched as Shikamaru replied with a drawn out hum around his sack, "I want to cum inside you"

The genius removed himself, unwillingly, and lifted himself back up to draw Choji into a passionate kiss. He nipped at the swollen lips, demanding entrance. His tongue swept across his partners, tasting him, relishing the feel, dominating his mouth. He moaned into the kiss as he deepened it.

Choji flipped their positions, pushing Shikamaru's back into to wall and took control of the kiss. He deepened it by lifting his smaller lover higher. In an attempt to get as close to his paramour as possible, Shikamaru broke the kiss, momentarily as lifted his black shirt over his head and threw it across the room. They both moaned as their naked chests touched. Both men began to thrust lightly against their partner as they resumed kissing between shallow breaths. Hands roamed over expanses of skin, nails lightly scraping, leaving red lines of possessiveness in their wake.

Hooking his thumbs in his waistband, Shikamaru removed his green pants and arched his body in an effort to touch Choji's, but he needed more. With a small hop, Shikamaru had his legs wrapped around his lover's waist. He let out a gasp as his back hit the wall and their groins met harshly.

Frantically, they thrust against one another, realizing their time together was growing short. Choji placed three fingers to Shikamaru's lips. Nipping each tip, the genius soothed the appendages with his tongue, lathing each digit until it was coated in slick saliva. With a small moan he released the fingers; Choji's eyes had darkened even further with desire.

The auburn haired man moved his slickened fingers to his lover's entrance. Although saliva was not the best of lubricants, his first finger slid with relative ease into the tight ring of muscle. Moving the digit forward and back, Choji inserted it deeper each time. He added a second, stretching his fingers, making the muscles more pliant, to relax the young Nara, Choji peppered his shoulders, collarbone and neck with feather light kisses and light nips, earning him slight moans and small shivers from the man before him.

Determining Shikamaru was prepared enough, after all he was years from a virgin, one large hand grabbed the thin hip, lifting Shikamaru, while the other guided his erect and pulsating member to the now stretched passage. Slowly, he inserted himself, pushing past he loosened ring of muscle. Once he was full nestled inside the Nara, he paused, giving his smaller lover time to adjust.

Once Shikamaru rocked his hips and moaned, Choji began to move. Slowly at first, he moved with long, and deep thrusts, watching his teammates face for even the slightest sign of discomfort. Finding none he increased the velocity of his thrusts.

"Ah, Cho!" Shikamaru yelled in a breathless voice as stars appeared before his eyes, and jolts of white hot passion shot through his body turning his blood to lava when Choji struck his prostate. Maintaining the angle the Akimichi continued to thrust to strike the gland with each thrust.

As their bodies rocked as one, Shikamaru's head fell back and his eyes screwed shut. His mouth hung open to get enough oxygen to full his body. Each breath was raspy and his throat constricted as he approached the precipice of ecstasy. His fingers thread through auburn locks as Choji rested his forehead against the quaking shoulder of his lover.

Each sound of sweat slicked skin slapping against sweat slicked skin was punctuated by the moans and gasps of the two men moving in synchronicity in the wooden room. Choji grasped Shikamaru's hips tighter when he felt his breath quicken and he dangled near the edge of his climax. He was close too. He sped his thrusts, pumping and snapping his hips harder into the lithe body of the genius. With his forehead resting against his shoulder, Choji was able to watch his own length disappear into his lover as the other's member rubbed against his damp skin, leaving a train of his early essence with each stroke against the lush curvature of his swirl marked abdomen.

"So close," Shikamaru moaned as his end approached. Choji grasped his member and stroked in time with his thrusts.

"Cum for me, Shika" he moaned out as his thighs and abdomen tightened to a near painful state as his whole body concentrated on his motions, the need to be in his lover, with his lover for all time was crushing down on him. Only his most precious person before him and pleasure existed.

Shikamaru's muscles tightened, his toes curled and the rocked to meet every frenzied thrust of his paramour's pelvis and hand working simultaneously to bring him to the edge.

"CHO" Shikamaru screamed as he bit down on his lover's neck hard and he came apart at the seams, his length shooting jets of his passion against his lover's creamy skin, his body trembling wildly with the intensity of his passion. With a few more furor thrusts, Choji filled his lover with his seed as he moaned his climax as well.

Slowly, their heart beats returned to their natural rhythm, their fevered skin cooled and their bones returned. Choji pulled his flaccid member from his lover and Shikamaru removed his legs from the larger mans hips. The Akimichi bent over and grasped Shikamaru's black shirt and wiped both of them clean before dropping it once more on the floor. Placing a quick kiss on Shikamaru's lips he began to get dressed.

"You need to get read. Kukiko would kill you if she saw you at the altar looking thoroughly ravished." Choji chuckled as he looked over his lover, his skin was flushed, and his hair was sweaty with some tendrils falling from his ponytail. Truth be told, to Choji, this was when he looked the best.

"That woman is more troublesome than my mom" he said with a sigh. In truth, he cared for her, and couldn't wait to be a dad, but she was a bossy little woman who liked to have her way and make everything as perfect as possible. Her heart was at least in the right place.

"I'm going to go so you can get right on that." He chucked, "I love you so much, Shikamaru"

"I love you, too, Choji"

With one more chaste kiss, the Akimichi walked out the door, leaving his lover behind to get ready for the wedding alone.

A young chuunin stood in the center of a large garden at an arch decorated in fragrant flowers, a single white rose in hand. There were a few chairs set up in rows in the garden, in them were the closest family and friends of the soon to be newlyweds. At the altar would be some of the closest people to each of the pair exchanging vows. To the left of Shikamaru stood Inuzuka Kiba, dressed in a deep red kimono that matched his tattoos, he stared off into space, still a little uncomfortable with the whole situation. Next to Kiba stood Hyuuga Neji, clad in a dark gray silk kimono, smirking at his daughter, Hitomi, as she slept peacefully in her mother's arms. To his left was Hatake Kakashi, dressed in black, his face still covered by his mask and a patch rested over his left eye, he appeared to be smirking at his God-Children, Uchimaki Tsuki and Komaru, who were making faces while bouncing on Sasuke's and their other God-Father, Sabaku no Gaara's, laps respectively.

Shikamaru smirked as closed his eyes and allowed his other senses to take control. The scent of the lavender, cherry blossoms and roses wafted through the air on the slight breeze. A stink quartet played light and romantic classical music, feeling the air with the feeling of love, relaxing the slightly nervous Nara.

"Are you sure about this, son?" Hunter green clad Shikaku asked Shikamaru, drawing him from his musings.

"I have never been surer about anything in my life." He said matter of factly.

Placing his hand on his son's shoulder, he gave a reassuring squeeze before nodding and sitting down in the front row next to his wife just in time for the music to change, signaling the procession of the others to join the men at the altar.

The doors open in the back revealing Akimichi Kanna. Her red eyes sparkled and her round face framed by loose brown tendrils falling gently from the curls nested on top of her head. She simply glowed. Her body wrapped in a soft green kimono with pale yellow obi, accentuating her teal swirls and her voluptuous figure and her 8th month swollen womb. She carried a single yellow rose. On her way up the aisle she smiled at Tenchi, upon making her way to the altar she smiled softly at Shikamaru before moving over.

Once Kanna was standing, Yamanaka Ino began her way up the aisle. Her large clear blue eyes shone with happiness. Her flaxen blond hair was twisted up in a chignon, with her fringe still hanging over her face. A deep purple kimono with pink obi wrapped around her body, hugging her womanly curves. She carried a pink rose in her hands. She winked at her boyfriend, Genma and walked the rest of the way up the aisle, her eyes never again leaving Shikamaru.

With Ino in place, Nara Kukiko left the door way with the rice paper doors sliding closed behind her. Her brown hair was tied up in braids and twisted into an elegant design. Her swollen womb was emphasized in her silver kimono with a red wine obi resting against her baby bump. Kukiko's due date was three days ago but she hadn't shown signs of labor; she was to be induced in four days. The flower she carried was a burgundy red rose. She smiled as she walked up the aisle, when she got to the end she winked and stuck her tongue out the corner of her mouth at Kiba then hugged Shikamaru.

Uchimaki Naruto, who was standing in the arch to preside over the wedding chucked softly at the brazen girls actions. His ocean blue eyes shone with mirth from under his Hokage Hat. Shikamaru looked at him and then at the young Nara woman who was currently making faces at the Inuzuka behind him, she was glowing with her pregnancy, looking radiant in the silver that gave her large brown eyes an added sparkle of mischief. When the music changed once more all eyes directed down the aisle.

The rice paper doors slid open revealing a sight that took Shikamaru's breath away.

Choji stood clad in the same black kimono as Shikamaru. His auburn hair hung loosely down his back but still managed to frame his round face and emphasize his red swirled cheeks, and his eyes sparkling with happiness and his skin glowing with joy, his eyes never leaving his Nara lover.

A soft breeze blew in the garden, rustling the cherry blossoms, adding to the melody the strings of the quartet were making, a few petals blew loose and fluttered around Choji on his way to his lover, in a way that could be termed planned or cliché, but that didn't matter to the Nara. To him it was magic and only served to amplify the beauty of the moment, Choji walking toward him, with a smile on his face carrying a white rose. Shikamaru's heart was near busting with happiness.

When Choji finally arrived at the arch he grabbed Shikamaru's one hand. He placed the rose he had carried in the delicate fold of the Nara's dark kimono, and then waited patiently as Shikamaru did the same to him. They clasped hands and turned to look at Naruto, who was all smiles remembering his wedding day.

"Dearly Beloved, we are gathered here today…" Naruto had started but the Nara had tuned him out. His eyes raked across his lover's face. A smirk played across the shadow manipulator's lips as he noticed a large purple bruise standing out proudly on the Akimichi's neck, loudly proclaiming who he belonged to. He was full of love for the man standing beside him; he knew he would never move on if something happened to him, nor would he want to. Choji was his best friend turned lover, the one who always had his back, regardless of the circumstances, the one he could always trust with his own life. He was Shikamaru's soul.

Feeling Shikamaru's gaze, Choji turned his attention from the words of the Hokage, to his lover. He smiled pure sunshine at his soon to be husband. In truth, the wedding did not matter much, it was only a way to protect the children they were going to raise together so the clan's could not take one of the children away if something happened to their biological father. Choji had married Shikamaru in his heart six years prior to this moment.

'I love you' Shikamaru mouthed to his soon to be husband

'I love you' Choji mouthed back and turned his head back to the Hokage.

"But that is enough about our younger days; this is about who Shikamaru and Choji are today and how they are committing their lives together for eternity. In light of the fact, the pair has elected to write their own vows. Shikamaru," Naruto looked at the Nara, giving a nod signaling it was time for him to speak.

"Cho, from the moment I met you, I knew you would be special in my life, although just how special I didn't know. Quickly, you became my best friend and my closest confidant, the one I knew I would gladly give my life a thousand times over for. You have been there for me, and helped me cope with my guilt when nobody else could, I can't live without you. You are the first person I think of when I wake, the last I think of before I sleep, and you are always waiting for me in my dreams. If I live to be a hundred and every day we lay outside watching the clouds and eating chips for the rest of my life, I will be the happiest man on the planet. I vow myself to you, with all that I am and all I will become, to be a father to your children and your partner in life and to carry you when you cannot stand and lean on you when I am in need. I love you, more than anything." Shikamaru ended, Choji was tearing up.

Naruto cleared his throat, "Choji" he pulled he looked over at his own lover from under his hat, showing the tear that had puddle in his eye.

"Shika, the day we met I was excluded from a game with the other children, because I was *clears throat* chubby. After they rejected me, you stopped playing with them and came to sit by me and we watched the clouds roll by and ate chips. I knew that day you would be special to my life, and from that day you have had my undying loyalty, friendship and love. I remember all of our firsts. Our first kiss was during a day we skipped at the academy when Kiba and Naruto were cuddled up sleeping, our first deeper kiss when we became a part of Team Asuma, the first time we confessed our love was in the hospital after the battle with the Sound Ninja 4, and *blushes* other firsts that mark our history together. You were my first friend, my first kiss, my first love, my first everything and I want you to be my only. I vow myself to you, with all that I am and all that I will become, to be a father to your children and your partner in life and to carry you when you cannot stand and lean on you when I am in need. I once said that I would never give up the last chip for anyone, but that isn't true. I love you, Nara Shikamaru, more than the last chip." A tear slid down his cheek and he turned back to Naruto, indicating he was finished. Shikamaru's wiped the stray tear with the pad of his thumb.

The blonde Hokage continued. "Take the rings, please" Kiba and Kukiko handed Shikamaru and Choji the rings they had been holding for them, "Shikamaru, repeat after me please. Two flames, one light"

"Two flames, one light"

"Akimichi Choji, I offer you this ring as a sign of life, and myself as your husband."

"Let us walk together always, and let us always walk towards the light, guided by the Will of Fire"

"Let us walk together always, and let us always walk towards the light, guided by the Will of Fire" Shikamaru slid the solid yellow gold band onto the larger man's finger.

"Choji, now you, repeat after me please. Two flames, one light" Naruto recited.

"Two flames, one light"

"Nara Shikamaru, I offer you this ring as a sign of life, and myself as your husband."

"Let us walk together always, and let us always walk towards the light, guided by the Will of Fire"

"Let us walk together always, and let us always walk towards the light, guided by the Will of Fire" Choji slid the solid yellow gold band onto the shadow wielder's finger.

Naruto stepped back, revealing a small table with a bowl and bottle on it. He indicated for the pair to join him with a nod of his head.

"The sake ceremony is meant to represent many things. Both will pour sake into the bowl. The sake representing their individual life, their past, the sake poured into the bowl shows how they are no longer two people but a unit, forsaking their individual identity for one another. Each will hold the bowl for the other to drink from before drinking themselves. This represents how Shikamaru and Choji shall take care of one another by putting their husband's needs before their own."Naruto explained the meaning of the ceremony as Shikamaru poured a small amount of sake from the bottle into the bowl before handing it to Choji to add some to the bowl as well. Clasping his hands around the bowl, Shikamaru brought it to his husband's lips for him to drink then took a drink from the dish himself. He handed the bowl to Choji. The larger ninja held the bowl to Shikamaru's lips for him to drink before he took a drink himself then placing the bowl back on the table. (1)

The pair clasped hands as they, and the Hokage, moved back to their original positions.

"With the completion of the sake ceremony, I now pronounce you married." Choji leaned in for the kiss before a tan hand stopped his lips. "Hey, I didn't say you could kiss him yet, there is something else I want to say." Choji blushed and the rest of the congregation chucked, except Shikamaru who muttered 'troublesome' under his breath.

"You guys are two of the first people to except me, and I never knew how else to truly show it, so consider this my 'Thank You', you may now kiss your husband" With that the newlyweds looked at Naruto a moment, and smiled at him, before their lips met in the middle in a chaste kiss since there were children around.

"Ah come on! I know you can do better than that!" Kukiko heckled before the pair broke apart and smirked at her, Choji blushed slightly.

"It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you, Nara Shikamaru and Akimichi Choji!" The pair thread their fingers together as they walked down the aisle to cheers from friends and family. They had decided to keep their own last names, because it was easier for clan duties. They were married, what their last name was didn't matter as long as they were together.

After everyone had exited the garden, in favor of food or taking pictures, the chairs and arch were removed from the garden. Once everyone returned from dinner the small party would reconvene in the garden. Candles hung from the sakura trees and lit the path ways on the ground and hung from hooks around the space, bathing it in a soft glow. The string quartet was still in place with a DJ setting up behind them, ready to take over after the first dance. The newlyweds would not be there for long before they left, however the party would continue on into the night.

The first to return were the Hokage with his husband and children, they escorted Tsunade as well as Yuuhi Kurenai and her daughter, Shiori, who was Shikamaru's God-Daughter and the only heir left behind with the passing of Ausuma-sensei. Soon, the Nara clan and Akimichi clan elders and the parents of the couple appeared with the clan elders and head of the Yamanaka clan. The head of the Aburame, Shibi escorted the head of the Inuzuka, Hana. The dates and children of those in the wedding party arrived as well and the other sensei's and ninja in the village. Life is too short, especially for a ninja, so they attend as many parties as they can to celebrate love.

The DJ called attention to the door as those in attendance mingled about. Party music began to pump through the system as he announced Akimichi Kanna escorted by Hatake Kakashi; they moved into the edge of the large clearing and waited. Yamanaka Ino was escorted by Hyuuga Neji; they entered arm and arm and moved to the clearing. The next pair announced was Nara Kukiko was escorted by Inuzuka Kiba. Kiba did the 'Funky Chicken' while the pregnant Kukiko stuck to a tamer entrance, the water sprinkler, much to the delight of the guests.

Lastly, the DJ announced the new couple and slowly the party music faded into the background. They didn't dance in or link arms, instead they held hands, Shikamaru rubbing the back of his head with the other one. They took their spot at the center of the clearing; the quartet began playing a slow and sweet melody. As was a growing custom, the newlyweds embraced one another and began moving to the music. They did not spin in circles, or even move their feet, they stayed stationary, holding each other close and swaying in time with their foreheads touching and eyes closed. Like this, they were locked in their own world where they didn't have to worry about clan business or ninja wars, here it was just them.

They continued to hold on to one another, oblivious to the DJ who just announced that the members of the wedding party were to join them in their dance. The song ended, yet they kept swaying. It wasn't until the guests clapped that they were roused from though positions.

The DJ then invited everyone to dance the next slow song with the couple. Choji and Shikamaru, this time moved to the music of the strings as the dance floor filled with others. Ino was wrapped in Genma's arms, Sakura and Sai moved as one, Shino and Tenten swayed in the corner, Gaara learned how to dance a slow dance from Lee-although he would rather watch. Kankuro pushed his sister around the dance floor while Kakashi and Anko read a familiar orange book as they swayed. Shibi extended a hand to Hana, Kanna swayed with Tenchi and Kiba held his girlfriend Kukiko, joking about her belly being between them. Shikaku and his wife danced beside Choza and his wife, while Inoichi danced with his nearby.

Neji and Hinata danced with Hitomi being held by each while Kurenai taught Shiori how to move. Naruto and Sasuke each held a kid on a hip and wrapped an arm around each other, forming a circle around them and their children.

When the music ended, the string quartet packed up their instruments and the DJ began to play music with more of a party feel, all the younger ninja's and non-ninja's began to dance in frantic fashion.

Choji and Shikamaru walked around to all the guests, thanking them for coming and listening to advice before they bowed out for the night, with one more hug to Shiori, Kukiko and Kanna they left through the rice paper door and headed toward their honeymoon destination-their bedroom, in their home between their clan compounds

The pair walked calmly to their home, hands linked and simply enjoying the night. The moment they entered their home and closed the door Shikamaru slammed his husband against the wall and kissed him hard, his hands grabbing frantically at Choji's kimono pulling it from his voluminous body as he ground their groins together, working them both to fully erect.

Choji returned the kiss with equal fever, his large hands pushing the kimono down his husband's toned smooth shoulders. His moan drew Shikamaru from his passion-induced frenzy.

"Shit, Cho. This is our first night together as an officially married couple, we should take it slow." He looked his lover in the eyes, not breaking the contact as he shed the rest of his kimono and hung it over the back of the loveseat, his husband doing the same thing. Once they were each gloriously naked, Shikamaru took Choji's hand and lead him through the apartment to their bedroom. The moon light streaming through the window illuminated their path as well as their pale bodies as they walked; unembarrassed by their nudity in the presence of the man they loved.

When they were in their bedroom, each moved to opposite sides of the futon and looked at one another. Both rested one knee on the futon before adding the second, meeting in the middle in a passionate kiss. Arms embraced their lover, holding them where they had always belonged. Their bodies molded together as they managed to lie down without separating their beings or their mouths.

Choji released the kiss, drawing in a shaky breath before dipping his head once more caressing Shikamaru's lips with his own. He nearly moaned into it, it was war and yielding with more love than even the heavens possessed. He pushed himself closer, moving instinctively he licked Shikamaru's lower lip, asking for entrance, which was always readily available to him. His tongue swept across his husbands, tasting him truly for the first time since their tryst in the morning.

Shikamaru's fingers played across his lovers back, massaging the hard sinew covered in smooth pale skin, the occasional scar changing the texture and making the larger man's muscle jump involuntarily. He deepened the kiss, taking control and tasted the inside of Choji's mouth. He buried his fingers in the auburn locks, drawing his husband closer and wrapping a leg around his strong hips, clashing their groins together.

Moaning at the sensations, Choji took control of the kiss once more, exploring Shikamaru's mouth with a passionate vigor and passion filled intensity they would, indeed, consume them both at the height of their ecstasy. He pulled back once more, gasping for air.

Gently, Shikamaru unwrapped his leg and propped himself up on an elbow and allowing his other hand brush against the exposed curved side of the Akimichi. Most people saw Choji as the f-word, much of that was attributed to the style of clothes he wore and his clan's fighting style. However, this was not the case, although he was larger than the average ninja, he did not have fat rolls, his skin was taunt over the muscle and the layer of solid chakra stores. Every inch of him possessed potential energy, waiting for the right moment to be unleashed on the battle field.

In one word, his lover was beautiful and most people didn't know it, because they were too fixated on what they think they saw, meaning there was far less competition for his affection than say Naruto had with people interested in Sasuke. At every turn it seemed some tart was trying to take the raven Uchimaki from his home and husband, Shikamaru was glad he wouldn't have to worry about it due to shallowness, not that he would ever have to worry about Choji's fidelity.

The young Nara sighed blissfully as he continued to look over his husband. The moon lit skin beckoned him. He kissed the exposed flesh from neck to collarbone and back, his tongue leaving hot and moist trails in its wake.

Choji's spine tingled as if thousands of beads were massaged against it. He tried to pull Shikamaru closer to him but was denied. He settled for untying the genius' hair and thrusting his large fingers in the soft raven locks. He gasped softly as his husband's fingers danced down his abdomen and over each thigh with ghost like caresses.

"Shika" Choji moaned as his mind began to unravel with the most delicate of touches.

The shadow wielder's hand slipped across the delicate skin of the Akimichi's hips until he wrapped his large hand around the hot, pulsating organ at the apex of Choji's thighs.

Choji grasped onto Shikamaru's back and held on. Air fled his lungs, leaving him gasping for breath. It was nothing new to him how his lover could set his body aflame with their more innocent of intimate activities; petting drove him wild.

Akimichi Choji pushed his smaller lover so he was on his back, breaking the strokes to his groin. He took control and kissed his way down his husband's muscled chest and toned core.

The larger man kissed the delicate skin on the inside of the Nara's hip before he nuzzled the jet brown curls in which nested his husband's arousal. Choji gently kissed the tip of the other's member before his tongue swirled around the top, licking a pearl of his essence, tasting the salty bitterness of his seed. Shikamaru's hands slither into the auburn spikes, holding his lover to him.

After licking his lips, Choji descends on his husband's length, sucking it hard into his mouth. Once hand holds his hips down as the other rubs his thigh gently before joining his mouth on the aching length. With a loud moan from Shikamaru, Choji sucked harder, removing his mouth from the stiff manhood in favor of kissing down the throbbing vein on the underside of his rock hard shaft. Choji pumped him harder while taking one of his testicles into his mouth.

The guiding hand pulls at his locks, singling to stop. The Nara pulled his husband up to meet his mouth in a dance of passion before releasing it and pushing his husband onto his back.

Kissing down Choji's abdomen, Shikamaru paused at his husband's navel. His now loose tresses grazed along the sensitive flesh, as he lapped at the depression. Goosebumps broke out over the soft flesh and Choji inhaled a shaky breath as his muscles twitched with each hot breath across his the trace amounts of saliva on his stomach creating a delicate contradiction across his skin between hot and cold, wet and dry.

Shikamaru lowered his face to the thick, quivering member standing out from the thick patch of auburn curls. Kissing the tip before licking it, the Nara licked up his lover's length, coating it before drawing the head into his mouth, gently scraping the slit as he pulled his mouth off. With a lick of his lips, he took as much of his husband's manhood into his mouth as he could, set up a rhythm as he moved up and down.

Choji moaned loudly as he watched he man moving between his legs. The flame moon light playing across his pale skin as his lips wrapped around Choji's aching length. His dark eyes wide open staring into the eyes of the one he was pleasuring. He hollowed his cheeks, sucking harder, running his tongue along the thick vein on the underside of the member.

The Akimichi's hand grasped Shikamaru's hair harder, guiding him, urging him to continue. His legs fell to the sides, wantonly, begging for more he thrust shallowly into the orifice around his length. A strong callused hand pressed his hips down to keep him from moving, while another hand cupped his testicles slowly massaging the sack gently. The lazy ninja could feel the sack tighten signaling his husband's impending release.

"Annhhh…Shika!" Choji moaned and screamed as he came apart at the seams. His thick release slid with ease down his lover's throat.

The Nara could not help but smirk as he looked at the larger man below him. His skin was flushed and covered with a gossamer layer of sweat. Slowly he crawled up his lover's body, placing soft kisses along the soft flesh. He licked each dark, flat nipple before blowing on them causing their pebbling.

Choji's breath was still coming in pants when Shikamaru finally managed to kiss him again. It was slow and passionate, giving and loving. He pulled away and placed three fingers on his husband's lower lip. He takes the appendages into his mouth, rolling his tongue around them. He moans with wonton desire that shot straight to the Nara's quivering member.

Shikamaru pulled his fingers from the warm mouth and placed them near his entrance. He circled the tight ring of muscle with my middle finger before sliding it into him. He traces his tongue down his chest with nips to leave tiny marks as he plunges the second finger into him. A look of discomfort paired with ecstasy anticipation crossed the Akimichi's face as Shikamaru began to scissor him, stretching him, adding a third finger. Choji wiggled uncomfortable as the genius expanded the space between his digits to further loosen the muscles.

"Ahh-nn-ah, Shika!" Choji shouted into the bedroom as the Nara struck his prostate gland. His muscles started pulsing around the fingers, pulling them in to the passage. Shikamaru began to move them in and out of his husband with speed and force as sweat covered Choji's skin and his erection leaked drops of pearly essence once more.

The sight was erotic and Shikamaru's erection tightened to the point of pain watching his lover take his fingers and moan with wonton abandon. Choji always was loud in bed, hence the need for their own house, their father's may have understood their love, but that did not mean they wanted to hear it.

Shikamaru removed his fingers from his husband, who whimpered at the loss.

"You ready to consummate our marriage?" Shikamaru smiled as he placed himself between his husband's thighs and bent down to kiss him gently on the lips.

"Hell yes, Shika, take me" Choji chuckled and returned the kiss as he wrapped his legs around his husband's narrow waist and guided his member into his awaiting body.

The music blared on into the night, a plethora of party beats passed through the DJ's speakers. The older members left, some taking other's children to watch for the night as their parents celebrated and partied. By now the only ones left at the reception were seven of the other ten members of the Konoha 11 (Neji and Hinata were never ones for parties and Ino left with her boyfriend to celebrate her friend's wedding in private), the Sand Siblings, Sai, Sasuke, Kukiko, Kanna and Tenchi.

"KANNA!" Tenchi screamed, causing the music to stop. The Akimichi female was kneeling in a puddle of fluid, grasping her stomach. Sakura immediately left her boyfriend's arms to examine the pregnant woman. Before she even touched the female, the smell of heated stagnant water hit her nose, signaling the puddle of fluid was the amniotic fluid.

"Her water broke, she is going into labor, we need to get her to the hospital" She commanded.

"Naruto, Sasuke, go get Shikamaru and Choji. They want to be there through labor and delivery. Tell them to bring Kanna's bag" Kukiko added to the order as she wobbled out the door following Kanna, Tenchi and Sakura with Kiba by her side.

The rest of the party broke up, heading to their own homes and awaited the news that the Akimichi had a new heir.

The newlyweds moved together in a fluid rhythm. Moans and 'I love you's' filled the room, each taking deep breaths of the passion laden air. Their movements became disjointed as they fell into the abyss of ecstasy together. Falling bone-less-ly on top of his husband, Shikamaru pressed his cheek against his chest, waiting for their hearts to beat normally.

"See Teme, I told you Shikamaru was the seme!" The pair on the futon spun to look at the door. Choji turned a vibrant shade of red. Shikamaru's first reaction was to flip out that someone saw his beautiful spouse, but after realizing who it was that walked in on them, the out of character possessive streak that Choji brought out in him, vanished. Choji was neither of their type, he wasn't blonde with electric blue eyes and raw power nor was he a well trained bastard with a chicken's ass on his head.

"It switches. About 55" Shikamaru replied as he pulled the cover over himself and his blushing husband. Switchers mean there is no role, both are seme and uke in the bedroom, depending on the night, however Shikamaru is seme about 55% of the time.

"Seriously! What the hell, I'm only 10!" Naruto exclaimed, his ass took a beating most nights of the month, not that he minded, but he only topped 10% of the time.

"As much as I would love to continue to talk about our sex lives, I would love to get back to my honeymoon. Kindly show yourselves out, not all of us enjoy being caught or watched"

"I just like to show everyone he is mine, besides you leave so many marks on him, we don't have to see you having sex. I saw that hickey this at the altar, it was huge!" Naruto pouted as he wrapped an arm around the raven's waist.

"Would you two focus? Kukiko sent us, Kanna went into labor and she said you would want to be there. Don't forget her bag. Let's go home, Dobe, we have the house to ourselves and I think the table and video camera have missed us." Wrapping an arm around his husband's shoulders, Sasuke guided them out the door.

"Remind me never to eat at their house again." Choji said, still slightly shell shocked from being caught and the realization he would soon be a father.

"Dually noted, come on let's get ready and head over"

"Where the fuck are they!" the fiery little brunette paced the waiting room.

"Calm down Kiks, you are making me seasick! They are on their honeymoon, maybe they were allowed to finish before they were interrupted." Kiba grasped her wrist and pulled her into his lap, and locked his arms around her.

"They need to hurry up"

"She only went into labor about a half hour ago! It sometimes takes a bitch hours in labor before she has the first pup, Hana says it's the same with humans, so they have plenty of time"

"But the baby is early, Kiba, what if she doesn't make it or what if something is wrong with the baby? Tenchi would kill Choji if something happens to Kanna"

"Don't worry, Choji-kun isn't in any danger, Kanna is going to be just fine, thank you very much" Sakura added as she entered the room after hearing the tail end of the conversation.

"This whole thing is giving me a headache" Sakura walked over to her, her hand glowing light green as she grasped Kukiko's arm.

"Right now, I'm more concerned with you, Kukiko-chan, your blood pressure is elevated. The headache is a symptom of preeclampsia, we have to get you prepped; you have to have the baby tonight. We are going to give you some medicine to speed up your labor, and then we are taking the baby by cesarean section." Kiba turned pale, "you wait here and fill in the fathers when they get here" She lead the brunette away, leaving Kiba in the waiting room, alone to wait.

In ten minutes, and an argument between the nursing staff and Kiba later, Shikamaru and Choji arrived in the waiting room, looking flustered, sweaty and were each marked with multiple bruises on their necks. Both were wearing the simple black pants, sandals and black shirt issued for chuunin without the vest. It had been quick to change into.

"Took you long enough" Kiba nearly growled in his throat

"Where is Kukiko, I'm assuming Tenchi is in with Kanna" Choji pointed out.

"They took her back to prep for surgery, she is in early preeclampsia. So help me Shikamaru, if anything happens to her I will tear you apart"

"Why aren't you with her?"

"Because, I'm only the boyfriend, I'm not the baby's father; damn nurses won't let me back there"

"She is strong, she will make it through, preeclampsia is not that rare in a first time pregnancy, but it is troublesome. " Shikamaru added, "Why don't you go get some coffee, it will probably be a long night, we will let you know any changes that happen" Kiba stomped off, intent on doing something.

"By the morning we will be parents, Shika" Choji said with a smile, happiness radiating off of him. He couldn't wait to be a dad. He wrapped an arm around his husband and pulled him in closer to rest his head on his shoulder. They had baby-sat Shiori multiple and the Uchimaki children, they knew they would be good parents.

Kiba returned with the coffee, and the three sat in silence. Soon Choza and his wife entered followed by Shikaku and his wife. Time continued to drag on slowly, each minute feeling like an hour, each hour feeling like it would never end.

"Kukiko-chan is now in recovery, she came though it wonderfully." Kiba sighed in happiness, "The baby is fine, but will be in an islet for 24 hours. This is nothing out of the ordinary; we do it with all c-section babies because they are jaundiced. You can see her in the nursery window. Kanna-chan is still in labor, but she is 7 centimeters dilated and making progress." Sakura smiled at them. "Congratulations Shikamaru" she walked out of the room.

Joy radiated through the waiting space, the adults went to see the new baby Nara while the three young chuunin waited to be admitted to Kukiko and Kanna's rooms. Within the hour only one was allowed to see Kukiko, the three unanimously agreed it should be Kiba. Well, actually, he told them he would kill them if he couldn't see her and Choji decided to wait for news on Kanna, so they let him.

Tenchi came bounding into the room, with more bounce than a man of his musculature should be able to. "She delivered a little baby boy, he is quiet but they said he is healthy. Sakura-san told me it was alright for you to come see her." They got up and followed him through the hall and into the muted beige toned room.

"Hey Kanna-chan" Choji bent over and kissed her forehead, looking at the swaddled baby in her arms. "How are you feeling?"

"Tired but I'm feeling well. Would you like to hold your son?" She offered the nameless baby up to his father, who took him gently into his arms.

Choji's gaze never left his baby's face, until a small hand reached out of the blanket. He yawned and dozed off in his father's loving embrace. His chubby cheeks possessed purple swirls and his head was crowned in brown wisps. The proud papa took his son's offered pudgy hand and kissed it gently. He looked up at his husband, tears of pride glistening in his eyes.

"Would you like to hold your son, Shika?" With a smile and nod, he gently pulled the infant into his arms, a single finger stroking the delicate cheek with tenderness.

"Akimichi-san" Choji looked away from the beauty of his husband and baby to the woman in the hospital bed, "I would like permission to leave Konoha, Tenchi-kun has been offered a great job in Suna, I wish to marry him and follow him where ever he shall go" Because she was a part of the clan, the permission of the clan head was needed before they moved.

He nodded and smiled, "may the two of you have everlasting joy and happiness, and you have my permission to do anything you wish. I owe you both so much for my heir."

"Aw, Shikamaru-kun, you are a natural" Sakura walked in to the room, "it is time for me to take the baby to the nursery so he can be near his sister, I also need his name for his Birth Certificate."

"Akimichi Chomaru" He smiled when his husband's head snapped up to look at him. "I'm naming him after the greatest friend I have ever known, in hopes that he will be what his name sake is for me, for someone else" Shikamaru just smiled, calmed by the answer.

"That is fitting" Sakura said, filling in the name as Shikamaru laid Chomaru into the basinet. "We are moving Kukiko-chan; she is on her way from the recovery room she will be here momentarily. Oh, Strike that, I hear her now," she ushered everyone in the room back so the bed could take the empty spot in the room.

After her bed was locked in place, Sakura began to leave, taking the baby with her.

"Hey, Sakura-chan" Choji called after her, "may Kukiko-chan see Chomaru before you take him away."

The medic nodded and rolled the basinet for the two brunettes to see.

"Aw! Choji, Shikamaru, Kanna! He is so beautiful!" she exclaimed, as she extended a hand to gently run over the length of his body. Due to her incision, she was unable to turn her body to touch him with both hands. Sakura began to wheel him out once more, "I'm going to take him to his sister now. Congratulations guys" she called behind her as she disappeared down the hall.

"Have you seen your daughter yet, Shikamaru?" Kukiko asked, her voice was groggy with the pain medication she had pushed the button for dripped into her IV.

"Not yet"

"Go see her! You have already met her brother; she will think you don't love her as much as him!" She exclaimed weakly as she closed her eyes.

"Dude, apparently she came out screaming, the nurses were telling me back in the recovery they have never heard a baby so loud. Congratulations, she has her mother's lungs" Kiba laughed

"Troublesome. Come on, Cho, let's go meet our daughter" He grabbed his husbands hand and let him to the nursery room window.

Chomaru lay awake, looking to the side at his sister; his eyes were expressive and curious. His basinet had his name resting on it.

Next to him was a sleeping baby in a clear rectangle with a bright light shining on her, the sign read 'Baby Nara' she was awake and looking over at her brother. Her cheeks were a little puffy, but not overly so. Here head was full of raven locks with a light streak in the middle; she possessed her mother's cheekbones and lips.

"I never wanted a daughter, especially one so beautiful. We are going to be beating men away with a stick, what a drag" Shikamaru huffed.

"I don't think her brother will let anyone near her, you forget she is to be a part of the Ino-Shika-Cho, next generation. Ino-chan's baby won't be too much younger than them, and she told us yesterday Sakura-chan told her it was a girl. The only boys she will be around are Chomaru and her sensei, at least until she is Jōnin." Choji chuckled pulling his husband's back to his chest and wrapped his arms around the shadow manipulator. "What shall her name be?" Choji asked pulling a bag of chips from his pocket.

"Nara Shikaji, after the greatest friend I have ever known, in hopes that she will be what her name sake is for me, for someone else" He smiled as he pulled the last chip from the bag and placed it on his husband's lip, signaling for him to take it.

After eating the crisp he kissed his husband's lips chastely "I love you Shikamaru."

"I love you, too, Choji"

They continued to watch their children watch each other, through all the visits from friends and family congratulating them, they remained in their embrace. Ready to take on whatever their future would hold for them, together.

Epilogue: Twelve years later

"Ah, Shikamaru-kun, Choji-kun, it is nice to see you again" The man with olive skin, brunette hair and a long scar across his nose greeted.

"You too, Iruka-sensei" Choji greeted while Shikamaru nodded

"I's assuming you are wondering why you are here this week" the pair nodded. "Well, where shall I begin? Today, during recess, a few of the other students were playing 'ninja' and wouldn't let Chomaru play due to his size. So, Shikaji, decided to sit out too in favor of cloud watching and chip eating with her brother."

"So what is the problem with our children?" Choji asked, remembering the days of the same torment and how Shikamaru was there for him.

"Well, you see, one of the students told your daughter that if she continued to eat chips like Chomaru, she would get f-f-f…*clears throat* large. Shikaji jumped on top her here and started to punch until Chomaru pulled her off.

One of the male students then stood up for her and said told the now beaten girl that Shikaji wouldn't get…large, she was too sexy to be…large, and he asked her on a date. Chomaru declared no one would ever be good enough for her and then jumped on top of him and began to punch the boy until his sister pulled him off."

"I assure you, we have not raised our kids to act on their temper" Choji added, slightly appalled by his children's behavior

"The behavior is the real problem however; it is what happened after I feel you need to figure out how to handle. Shikaji pulled Chomaru into a kiss, and one far more *blushes* passionate than a peck on the lips."

"What a drag" Shikamaru ran his free hand through his raven locks, knowing they couldn't be together due to clan responsibilities, it was easier with him and his husband since they were both male, but this was too troublesome.

"And they cycle begins again" Choji chucked at his husband's reaction, pulling him out of the room leaving a puzzled Iruka-sensei behind.

A/N: Thank you everyone who has read and reviewed and who will read and review! I am so sorry it has taken so long to finish it, but I did :) This story took on a life of its own and I am relatively happy with it. There are too few Shikamaru and Choji stories, but I feel they make a plausible pair that is very enjoyable to read, thus I created a story of my own for them, which is a few separate one short like chapters then a short story.

(1): I made the sake ceremony up to represent the lighting of the unity candle and the cutting of the cake in a western wedding tradition. In this the candles represent how two become one and the cake was meant to represent how the couple will take care of one another. I think one of the most disrespectful things that can be done at a wedding is smashing the cake in the face of the spouse.