Shikamaru sat up from his sleeping area and lazily nudged Naruto and Kiba awake with his foot. After a few whispered words, Naruto went off to get sandwiches, and Kiba attempted to wake up Shino and Neji, while Shikamaru tapped you awake.
"nghh… let me sleep…" you mumbled, irritated. You curled up closer to the wall, only to feel shikamaru's hand lift up your top slightly, letting in the cold air. With a yelp, you sat up, wide awake, and pulled your top down. "You perv!" you glared at him accusingly.
With a shrug, he turned around and sat next to Kiba, who was trying to contain his laughter. Shino remained emotionless, and Neji shook his heads, mumbling words. You caught a few of them, "…immature… childish… privacy…"
Yeah, what an immature way to wake someone up! Doesn't Shikamaru know anything about invading a girl's privacy?! You mentally yelled. With a glare at the genius, you hoped down from the bed and pulled out your jumper from your backpack, which you hastily put on and zipped up.
You turned to look at the dog lover, and with a glare, told him, "Shut up, Kiba! It's not funny!" shooting Shikamaru daggers, you added, "It's quite an invasion of privacy, actually," before sliding the compartment door open and leaving the boys.
You grumpily walked down the hall, passing compartments filled with kids, elderly, and teens. Some people were still sleeping, and others already eating. With a sigh, you continued to walk, your head down and your jumped pulled tightly around you.
Suddenly, you gasped aloud, feeling yourself walk into someone. You look up quickly, and start to apologise. "Oh my gosh! I am so sor-"
You freeze, the features of the person before you dawning onto you. The male had raven black hair, naturally spiked up. His eyes, a cold but alluring shade of black, made contact with your (insert eye colour) and awed orbs.
"Tch, so you're gonna walk into someone and not apologise?" he scoffed down at you.
"I-I'm truly sorry… I should watch where I'm going," you said quickly, easily sensing that he was not someone to mess with. Although his cold and rude attitude tempted you to piss him off, you tried to hold back, for you were in a public place, after all.
"Hmph…" the boy walked off, not saying another word to you.
Jerk, not even bothering to say anything nice! You thought, your mood slowly growing grumpier and grumpier. No matter how hot that guy may have been, you disliked anyone with such a douchey attitude. As you stalked back towards the compartment, you heard Naruto's voice calling you. Turning around, you see the boy coming towards you, his hands filled with six sandwich boxes. You took your time walking towards him and when you were close enough, took three of the boxes, not saying any form of greetings towards him.
"(y/n)-chan, you ok?" asked Naruto, casually. "You seem a little more quiet than usual. Did something happen back at the compartment?" he asked, a tinge of concern mixed with curiosity in his tone. You shook your head, not wanting to talk about it. Sure, it wasn't a big thing, Shikamaru lifting up your top. After all, he hadn't looked underneath… had he? No, he wouldn't have.
Dismissing the thought, you reached the compartment and slid the door open. You silently handed the boxes to Kiba and Neji, keeping one for yourself. Naruto gave one to Shikamaru, who looked at you with a tinge of worry, and one to Shino, who took it with a polite nod of his head.
"Hey, (y/n), I'm sorry about what I did before. But you needed to wake up. We'll be arriving at our station soon. Then it's a short taxi ride to HQ, and my job is done…" he explained, after finishing his sandwich. Everyone was silent, looking at you for your reaction, for you had looked quite agitated before leaving them. Only Naruto looked confused, for he had been getting breakfast, but he decided to keep his mouth shut for the time being. You nodded, your anger and embarrassment only draining a small amount. You were still angry at him, but you didn't want to cause such a fuss.
The rest of the train ride was just the six of you sitting down and making small talk. It seemed as if the ride would never end, but eventually, it did.
"So… do you actually know what the plan is?" you asked Neji, who sat on your left. Shikamaru was sitting on your right. You guys had had to split up, for none of the taxis would accept six passengers in one vehicle. Most to your displeasure, you were forced to sit next to Shikamaru, in a very small and squishy taxi. You had tried to argue you're way out, using excuses such as "I want to play with Akamaru!" and "I've talked to Shikamaru the most, so I want to talk to someone else!" but they all insisted you sit with Shikamaru.
So here you were, stuck in between Shikamaru, who you were slowly forgiving, and Neji, who as usual, wasn't making much talk. Neji leaned forward and whispered the destination's address into the driver's ear, who nodded and revved up the engine.
"No. all we were told is to take you over to my place," Shikamaru said, and you noticed that he seemed to be trying to keep his voice even. It took you a while to register that by 'my place' Shikamaru meant Headquarters. After all, you weren't supposed to speak so freely of HQ. You nodded understandingly, even though you did not understand why they weren't informed of the plan.
Back on the train, when Shikamaru had said 'a short taxi ride', you hadn't expected it to mean just below three minutes. You were expecting 10 minutes at the least.
The taxi pulled up to a very simple looking house. It had cream coloured walls and very normal looking windows and front door. On the front lawn was a well nurtured cherry blossom, which grew over a fountain. The water fountain had a statue of Buddha, meditating, and water pouring out under Him.
Confused, you wordlessly followed Neji out the left side of the taxi, and the taxi drew off. "Umm… are you sure we're at the right address? This house seems… normal." You asked the boys, as Kiba, Shino and Naruto got out of the taxi behind them.
"What, you expect Konoha to build a massive building on land and not get strange looks?" reasoned Kiba. "We are an undercover agency, after all…"
You walked up to the front door, and peered through the window next to it. "No one's inside…"
"Idiot, you think we wouldn't have a mean of access?" said Shikamaru, sounding annoyed. It seemed like something had been, or was, bothering him. He pulled out a key and used it to unlock the door.
"A regular key is what you use to open the door? Seriously?" you raised an eyebrow.
After unlocking the door, he whirled on you. "(y/n), can I have a word with you? In private?" he added, as everyone froze on their way in. you nodded nervously, yet curiously, and moved aside to allow the others room to get in.
You followed Shikamaru around the corner of the house, and he turned to look at you, while unzipping his jumper. Although you didn't have a crush on him, you couldn't help but blush. He was good looking, but he just wasn't your type. "So, what did you want to talk about?" you asked, desperate to finish the conversation and get inside to see HQ.
"Why are you being so… cold? I apologised to you on the train, but you're still ignoring me. You asked Neji about the plan, and I know you never talked to him much. You even try to avoid sitting next to me. I'm not stupid, ok? I am part of the intelligence department at HQ, so don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about," he said, in a rush. His voice was tinged with sadness, which was easily detected. What you didn't detect, though, was a pinch of anger to top it all off.
"Shikamaru, I didn't mean to off-" you started, before he silenced you with a pained look.
W-Why is he looking at me like that… I couldn't have offended him too much, could I?
"Offend me? You think that would offend me? It didn't offend me. It hurt me." He said, looking at you with unusually wide eyes. "(y/n), I've known you since we were still infants. Since before I was part of the Agency. I even thought I had a crush on you." You felt blood rush to your cheeks. "Oh, grow up! We all had crushes at some point…" he averted eye contact with you, and continued. "The point is, can't you just accept my apology? I look at you almost like a brother looks at a sister. We only started to drift apart last year because you wanted to go to college. And finally, I get to see you again, and you decide to ignore me?" his voice had changed from pained to angry.
It was silent for a minute, and you tried to sort out your emotions. You were sad, because you felt guilty you had treated him like that, and maybe you were harsh on him. But at the same time, you were furious. He had invaded your privacy, and even shrugged it off. You had walked out, and he hadn't even followed you, he just let you leave. And then, finally, he had apologised.
"Excuse me, but I wasn't the one pulling a pervy trick on someone of the opposite sex and then shrugged it off! Like what the hell man?! You even let me walk out of the compartment! What type of so-called-friend does that! I mean, you just let me walk off like it wasn't a big deal!" you finished your very small rant, and gasped for air.
Shikamaru looked at you with pained eyes, but a straight face. "Is this how it's going to be? Fine. Sure. Ok then. Be happy, you can go now." He said, waving a dismissive hand and turning his back to you.
Starring at him with an opened mouth, you retort, "After what I've just said, you're just going to allow me walk off like that? Are you freakin' kidding me?" you throw your hands up in exasperation. "ugh, forget about it!" you yell, kicking up some dirt at him. He didn't flinch.
Agitated, you storm back to the front of the house and swung the door open, letting it slam shut.
"(y/n)? What's wrong?" asked Neji, who was sitting in a chair. All the other guys who had arrived with you were also scattered around the room. "And where's Shikamaru?"
Teeth gritted, you reply, "He can go burn in hell for all I care right now." You could almost feel the sound in the room drop down to dead silence.
"Hey, are you okay? Do you want to tal-"
"No! okay- can we just get to Tsunade already!" you half yelled, clenching you fists in frustration. The last thing you needed was peace and quiet to leave you to your thoughts about the recent events. They all got to their feet briskly, besides Shino, who said he'd wait for Shikamaru. You followed Neji, who seemed to be the calmest of the bunch, to a pair of ancient-looking doors. Just as he was about to open the doors, a ping was heard, and a lady walked out, her blonde tied in two low pony tails, over her shoulder. Her breasts were far larger than the average woman's, and she walked with purpose and authority.
"Neji, about time you arrived!" she said in an angry tone. Neji apologized and bowed respectfully. The woman's eyes skimmed over the small group before her. "Ah, (y/n), it's been a while!" she declared with a smile, her anger seeming to have subsided. "Come, we have much to discuss!"
heyoo! sorry i haven't updated in a while... I've had a lot of stuff to do so i'm very sorry!
anyways, do you guys like the story? i know the first chapter was really messed up with its spelling and grammar (i've edited it like 3 times since uploading) but there hasn't been much reviews.. I've received a guest review (Thanks, Tsuki!) and thats all, but i guess i can't complain bc it's only been a few days... sorry guys, I've been stressed lately so i might rant alot (i'll try to refrain from it though) and make stupid mistakes so yeah...
anyways, this is the second chapter, all good and yeah.
well, i think it's all good..
i hope you guys enjoy it, and please please please review! reviews make me happy and they encourage me to write :)
btw, SASUKE WILL ENTER IN THE NEXT CHAPTER! I REPEAT: SASUKE WILL ENTER IN THE NEXT CHAPTER!
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