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Here's the new chapter of When she smiles. Please, enjoy and review?
Chapter 8
One month. One month with no sign of Temari. Shikamaru was beginning to think that he was losing his mind. That woman was driving his 200 IQ mind nuts!
His parents and friends knew that he was nervous and turning in circles like a bear in a cage, but they were unable to make him calm down.
Tsunade was surprised by the huge amount of missions he accepted, and especially by the fact that many of them were boring and easy missions that no one wanted to do. The chuunin accepted to take care of the apprentices, picking all the trash out of the lake, delivering packages and rescuing rebellious cats, everything that could make time pass.
One day, Tsunade exploded.
"You're just drowning your deception in work! You're forbidden to do missions for two weeks. And I don't want to hear a word! You're dismissed."
Shikamaru walked out of the office, mumbling something about 'troublesome woman'.
"What did you say?" asked the Hokage on a dangerous tone.
The young man decided to run before his life was in danger.
Shikamaru hanged out in the streets of his home village, Konoha. He was bored, annoyed and still denying that he was nervous about Temari's answer.
'Why would I be nervous anyway? She's just a colleague, nothing more.'
Yeah, it was obvious that she was only a colleague. Temari was everything, including a colleague. She was much more than just a fellow ninja to Shikamaru.
"Shikamaru?"
The young man stopped and saw Chouji in front of him, eating a bag of chips, and looking worried.
"Chouji?"
'Thanks Chouji for being there for me...'
The two friends ended up on the their favorite spot, watching the clouds. Chouji was still eating some snacks and Shikamaru enjoyed (not really) listening to him.
"So, what happened?" asked the overweight ninja between two chips.
"I talked about marriage with Temari."
"And...?"
"She ran off."
"..."
"..."
"I don't understand."
"...me either."
"What did you exactly say?"
"I said that if we planned to marry one day, it wasn't a good idea to slap me every time on the head when she doesn't agree with me."
'I'll never understand woman...'
'It's true that she has that bad habit since the beginning...'thought Chouji. "That's all?"
"Yes."
Chouji put a new handful chips in his mouth. What could he answer to that? He and Ino were already engaged and it wasn't him who came up with the proposition. It was Ino, as always, who had taken the first step...Except with the kiss, but that was another story. In any case, he was unable to give any piece of advice to his best friend, even if he wanted to.
"Maybe you should change your ideas. What if you came with me and Ino on a mission, like in the old days?"
"Tsunade-baa-chan forbade me to go on missions for two weeks."
Chouji understood that by using the nickname that Naruto loved to use on the Hokage, that he was pissed off by the order.
"Maybe...a barbecue?" he proposed hesitantly.
"Dammit! I wish that she would show up again and stopped hiding like a coward! I'm sick of her attitude! I'm turning in circles here and she doesn't even come to tell me directly that she refuses to become my wife!"
"And what if she wants to become your wife?"
"Huh?"
Shikamaru stared at his friend, not understanding what he just said.
'What is he talking about? If she wanted to become my wife, she wouldn't have run off, wouldn't she?'
"Let me explain. Maybe, when you brought the subject, she was startled and ran off for that reason. Knowing that her behavior was rude, she doesn't dare to come see you."
"Temari isn't that type of woman. She would have come back the next day and smacked her fan on my head and telling me that I dream too much." sighed the Genius. "Why can't life be easier?"