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Chapter 3: Mothers can be so troublesome.

Yoshino Nara is a very fierce and fearful woman, who believes that her words are the law of the house. Just a single word of her mouth is a command to the world, which do nothing but follow it to the letter. No matter how troublesome it would to be complete, if not followed she will rain down hell upon all that stand in her way. The worst parts about these little facts were that she was my mother. I had come down from my room for breakfast, only instead of a good meal. I was getting yelled at by my mother because she knows about Hinata being here.

" Can you not be so loud, the whole village might have heard you " I said not in the best mood.

" Oh, no. You're not getting out of this one mister, clearly there is something going on right now. You either tell me or will I have to force it out of you " She said wielding a frying pan in her hand.

I stuttered at the sight of her weapon of choice, it was just a losing battle now. Even with me trying to plan ahead two hundred moves in advance, she would always beat me. I decided to not hide anything from her.

" I was helping out a classmate that was in need of saving. You know that I am not the type of guy to bring a woman back to the house. She was hurt and you know my code of Chivalry " I groaned to her.

Yoshino looked at me like I had grown three heads, and then turned back to her kitchen. She was setting a plate for me at the table, while I looked over to Hinata. She had stuck close to the wall like a fly, while I and my mother had talked about our feelings. To many it would seem like yelling but it was the way our family worked. My mother had dropped off a bowl of white rice and broiled salmon for me, herself and Hinata.

Hinata had found her way into a seat, while I just waited for them to start eating. Before I have finally relaxed and picked up my chop sticks. Slowly taking a bite out of the food that was in the bowl, thinking that this problem was behind us now.

" So you two are not going out with each other!? "

I swallowed the food in my mouth rather quickly, causing me to choke on it the large chunk of rice. I started to hit my chest a few times, until the food had finally gone down my throat. When I wasn't in danger of dying anymore, I looked at my mother with a shocked expression on my face.

" You can't really be serious. We are not together, I was helping her out. That's all, jeez you are so troublesome "

" I am just curious, you bringing home a nice young girl. That doesn't talk about her hair and clothing all day, like someone we know "

" Hinata can you tell my mother that we are nothing to each other? "

Hinata feared for her life at this moment, as Yoshino was forcing her to tread on thin ice. Maybe this was too much for her; I might need to speak to her afterwards. It wasn't until she had picked her head up from the table and stared at my mother with some confidence that I never knew she had.

" Ms. Yoshino. Shikamaru had come to my rescue, I am very grateful that he was there. I might have been seriously injured or far worst. If I was going to be truthful, I have someone else that I want to impress. This is why I am trying hard to train myself " she said to Yoshino

I was rather shocked to hear her speak like that to my mother; usually I would just shut up. Yet, she was holding her own ground. I just went back into my mind, thinking of the person that she was speaking about. Naruto was always on her mind, little people knew of that fact but I knew the truth. She was infatuated with him for some reason, then again. I didn't care for it, it was there problem after all. The sound of laughter had brought me out of my deep thinking as I recognized it as my mothers.

" I like you, Hinata. You can stand up for yourself, and very determined to grow stronger. I figured Shikamaru didn't have a girl with him, he is rather lazy. Anyway! I was thinking that you and my son would make a cutest couple " she said with a bright smile on her face.

" Mother! " I replied to her, while my face had turned a bright shade of pink.

Looking over a Hinata, she had looked down towards the table again. Hiding her own blushing face from us, it wasn't a big deal. Well maybe not for me but everyone had their ways with dealing with denial. I started to eat out of my bowl again, this time hopefully the food would go down without interruptions.

Most of the morning had gone by rather quickly after breakfast. Hinata and Yoshino had started to wash the dishes, while I watched the both of them from the table. It looked so odd but at the same time it was just natural. I smiled towards the both of them, while they were putting away the dishes into the cabinets. Hinata had turned around and saw me smiling; I noticed that she was looking at me. I just looked away from her, as I felt my cheeks turn red from embarrassment.

" So tell me, are you going to keep Hinata here forever? Her father might be worried that she isn't home yet " She said moving around the kitchen, finally finishing up with her work in this room anyway.

" Yeah you're right, I really don't want to start a conflict between the Nara and Hyuuga Clan " I said to her with groan

" Good boy, now scurry along now " she said teasingly to me.

I rolled my eyes at her and got up from the table, stretching my body out to do the next troubling task. Delivering Hinata back to the compound should be a simple task right? I had walked out of the kitchen first, while Hinata followed behind me. When she had reached the door, she had turned around to Yoshino and bowed respectfully to her.

" Thank you for having me. I hope to repay the favor in the near future "

" No problem Dear, just don't hurt yourself again "

After Hinata had said those words, we had taken our leave from my home. I was walking with her to make sure that she was fine, since the idea of her getting hurt again on my watch was unfavorable. The walk was pretty dull; we didn't have much to say to each other now that she was going home. It wasn't that it mattered to me; I was just going to go back to my regular life. Train with my team, go watch the clouds from my favorite spots and pay shoji against Azuma. It wasn't much but it was all I did around here, I just wanted a normal life after all. A wife that handles the cooking, I would bring the money home, have two kids a boy and a girl. Then simply grow old with my wife until it was my time to go, what a life.

I looked over a Hinata, focusing on her features and how she carried herself. He saw how hard she always trained herself, always improving, and yet. She looks as fragile as a doll, to many she would look to pose no threat to anyone. The only time he had watched her fight was at the Chunin exams against her cousin Neji. Speaking of him, I wondered if he would try to harm Hinata again. Did he even care for her? He remembered that he was bound to protect her as the lower branch of the Hyuuga clan. Maybe he just wanted to get rid of her to take over for himself…Neji didn't seem like that type of guy.

We were around the corner of the Hyuuga compound when Hinata had stopped me in my tracks. I looked back at her with a bored expression on my face. On her side, she had given me a sad smile as I wondered what was going through her mind. Would this truly change us? I hope it doesn't or else this would just get a lot more troublesome for me.

" Shikamaru, I just wanted to say thank you for everything. You save me and your mother being kind enough to let me stay. I know that I said this enough times, but I really am grateful " she said honestly.

" Don't worry about it, remember my code of chivalry. It was only natural that I help you, just don't make a habit of it okay? " I said with my usual blunt tone.

I turned around to start my travel back home now; dropping her off was the end of this exchange. I heard her footsteps as she had walked away to her compound, finally this day was going my way. Maybe instead of going home, I should go watch some clouds and catch a nice nap. Now that sounds like a plan that I would gladly do.

…

As Shikamaru was walking away, a lone figure had watched the whole exchange. Her flowing blonde hair, fashion sense and overall good looks had made a appearance. She smiled at Shikamaru's back as many idea's had formed in her head.

" Hmm, Shikamaru and Hinata together? I would have never have guessed with him being so lazy. If he was hiding this from me, then I think it's time that I spread the word to the whole village. That will show you to hide secrets from me! AHAHAHAHA " she Laughed loudly to herself.

" What are you evilly laughing about now, Pig "

" Ah Forehead, I didn't expect to see you here "

" Well you were laughing really loud, so I came to check it out. Maybe you have finally gone crazy. "

" No, but you will soon as I tell you this juicy tale " she said trying to draw her in.

" Oh really now, do tell " she said with a smirk on her lips.