One Week by Bare-Naked Ladies

A/U: Wow, two updates in one day! I came into a bit of free-time and don't know what to do with it! You know where you can listen to the song.

"How's it coming with Sakura?" Chouji asked between placing bites of Bar-B-Q in his mouth.

Shikamaru sighed, extinguishing his cigarette. "It's been one week since she looked at me, cocked her head to the side, and said she's angry. Five days since she laughed at me, saying 'get that together come back and see me.' Three days since the living room, I realized it's all me fault, but couldn't tell her. Yesterday, she would've forgiven me, but it'll still be two days till I say I'm sorry."

"Wow, that's tough."

Shikamaru shrugged.

"Time to do what we always do then."

"What's that?"

"Talk randomness."

Shikamaru gave him the annoyed look. "You start."

Chouji grinned ear to ear, watching Shikamaru straighten up a bit. "Hold it now and watch the hoodwink as I make you stop and think."

"You'll think you're looking at aqua man, I summon fish to the dish, although I like the chalet Swiss. I like the sushi cause its never touched the frying pan, hot like wasabe when I bust rhymes, big like Lean Rimes, because I'm all about values."

"Bert Kaemferts got the mad hits, you must try to match wits, gonna make a break and take a fake."

"I'd like a stinkin' achin' shake."

"I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavors."

"Gotta see the show, cause then you'll know, the vertigo is gonna grow, cause it's so dangerous you'll have to sign a waiver."

"Feel better now?" Chouji asked, grabbing another piece of beef.

"Talking randomness is too much work."

"Give it two days."

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Ino handed the cup of coffee to Sakura and sank into the lovable chair beside her. "How's it going with Shikamaru?"

"Long or short?"

"Whichever is juicier!"

"Ino!"

"Sorry."

"It's been one week since he looked at me, threw his arms in the air and said I'm crazy. Five days since he tackled me, I've still got the rug burns on both my knees. It's been three days since the afternoon; he realized it's not my fault not a moment too soon. Yesterday he would've forgiven me, and now I sit back and wait till he say's he's sorry."

"What are you going to do about it?"

"Wait for him to apologize."

"And in the mean time?"

Sakura grinned that evil look she usually got on coffee dates. "Chikety china, the Chinese chicken, you have a drumstick and your brain stops ticken'."

"Watchin' x-files with no lights on, were dans la maison. I hope the smokin' man's in this one, like Harrison Ford I'm getting frantic, like Sting I'm tantic, like Snickers, guaranteed to satisfy. Like Kurasawa I make mad films."

"You don't make films, but if you did they'd have a samurai. Gonna get a better set of clubs, gonna find the kind with ting nubs just so my icons aren't always flying off the backswing."

"Gotta get in tune with Sailor moon, cause that cartoon has got he boom anime babes that make me think the wrong thing."

"You did not just say that, Ino!"

"Oh yes I did!"

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"Ino, why are you dragging me all over town?"

"Zip it, Chouji! If Sakura and Shikamaru hear us behind this alley they'll kill us."

Chouji peered around the corner, eyeing the Shikamaru on Sakura's doorstep. He was just about to knock on the door.

Sakura opened the door and immediately blurted something out. "It's been one week since I looked at you, dropped my arms to the side, and said I'm sorry."

Shikamaru gave a small smile in reply. "Five days since I laughed at you and said you did just what I thought you were gonna do."

"Three days since the living room, we realized we're both to blame, but what could we do?"

"Yesterday you just smiled at me, cause it was still two days till we say we're sorry."

Sakura was on the verge of laughter. "How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad?"

"I try hard not to smile though I feel bad. I'm the kinda guy who laughs at a funeral."

"Can't understand what I mean? Well, soon you will. I have a tendency to wear my mind on my sleeve."

"I have a history of taking off my shirt."

"Please, I'm the one who always takes it off!"

"You see that?" Ino asked, nudging Chouji in the ribs.

"They're kissing!"

"Exactly!"

"I don't see what that has to do with anything, Ino."

Ino sighed, giving him a glance. "Don't you ever wonder how they do it?"

"Do what?"

"How do they go through these weird arguments and make amends just like that! One week ago they were so ticked at each other they wouldn't speak. Now, they are living together! Why can't we be like that?"

"I have no idea, Ino, no idea what so ever."

As he walked away, he didn't miss the last mutter of Ino's. "I have to ask Sakura how she does it."

A/U: I LOVE THE BARE-NAKED LADIES! They are one of the best ninety bands of all times and I really hope they make a comeback like a lot of ninety artists are. They sing the theme-song for the Big Bang Theory, which is a little sad, but oh-well. Seriously, they rock, their song Testing…1, 2, 3 is like the best, and Falling For The First Time. Sorry, enough obsessing, I'm bored.