Chapter Four.
This one is kinda sad..
Sorta.
Chyahh...

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Chapter Four

Not Meant to Be

Shikamaru stared blankly into Sorano's eyes. "Y-you love me?"

Sorano put a sad look on her face and looked down. She slammed her hand onto the top of her head and pulled her long hair. "You're so stupid, Sorano. Why would you do something like that?" she rudely asked herself aloud.

"Sorano, you aren't stupid. Don't say that." He put a hand under her chin to make her look at him. "I was just surprised that you told me you love me."

Sorano looked up at Shikamaru with sad eyes and sighed.

Shikamaru continued, "But.. I have to tell you something also."

Sorano lessened the sad look in her eyes. "What?"

"Sorano, I love you, too."

Sorano's sad look totally vanished. "W-what?"

"I love you, Sorano." He leaned down and gently pressed his lips against hers. Sorano serenated the tender kiss.

They stood there with an audience of four for what seemed like ten minutes. As they both slowly pulled away, they smiled sweetly at each other.

Sorano snapped into reality. "Wait, Shikamaru. You can't love me. I can't love you. We're too far away from each other. I live in the Wind Country. You live in the Fire Country." As Sorano kept thinking, she fell to the ground and felt the sharp pain of not being with Shikamaru. She let out a small yelp and cried like no other time before. The physical and mental pain built up inside of her and was let out by the hot tears coming down her face.

Shikamaru knelt beside Sorano. He rubbed her back with his right hand and lifted her damp face with his left. "Sorano, we'll be alright. We can make it through all of that. It'll be troublesome but we can do it. I'll come visit you everyday. No matter how long it takes me."

Sorano looked at Shikamaru. She thought it was ironic that, at this point, they practically switched personalities completely. She was so positive and he was so.. not. Now he was the one being positive about the painful situation and she was being negative about the whole thing. "Shikamaru, do you really think that you'll get up every single day and come visit someone like me? And I'm sure you'll be too busy with missions and everything."

"Well.. I don't know what to do. The only thing I do know is that I want to be with you."

"Shikamaru, I want to be with you too. I just don't see how this is gonna work though."

"It can't work if you aren't willing to make it work."

"Shikamaru.. I.. I can't."

Shikamaru put a disappointed look on his face. He put his hands on his face to wipe the sadness away. He stood up and looked down at Sorano. "I give up on you, Sorano. I'm sorry. But you don't want to try. I guess this is where it ends. I'm gonna miss you. Even though its been two hours. I feel like we were meant to be. But-" his thoughts were interrupted by Sorano.

"Shikamaru," she stood up and looked into his eyes, "I want to make this work. I just don't know what effect it would put on our lives though."

"That doesn't really matter. As long as we're together, everything's fine."

"But.." Sorano put her head down.

"Hey, Sorano!" someone called from a distance.

As Sorano turned her head to see who it was, she realized it was Temari calling her.

"Temari.." Sorano called back unenthusiastically.

Tamari ran up to Sorano and Shikamaru. "Sorano, its about time to set out to leave."

Sorano looked up at Temari. "Oh, okay. I'm sorry, Shikamaru. Goodbye."

Sorano walked away from Shikamaru and joined Temari heading down the road away from Konoha Village. As she walked farther away the more he missed her and the more she missed him.

They thought about each other the rest of the day. By the way, Naruto did go to the hospital and his nose wasn't broken surprisingly and Jiraiya, Sakura, and he headed to the Sound Village to do research on Orochimaru.

Sorano and Shikamaru always kept the hope that they would see each other sometime soon.

Mhm..
The end.
Of that chapter.
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